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Sometimes the little things make the biggest difference. There are lots of shortcuts in The Education Edge, and after all, those fractions of seconds add up to minutes. Let us look at a few of them: Export Preview : Use the preview button to review the...
The Student Billing Best Practices Guide has been a long time running and well worth the wait. It provides your with best practice recommendations to enhance tracking, reporting, and data-entry capabilities in Student Billing, and covers effective methods...
Over the last several months, we've been talking about our new Knowledgebase in our newsletters and on the Web Sitings blog. The new Knowledgebase has arrived! Read more about our new Knowledgebase and leave feedback about it on our Knowledgebase...
Linking records through Integration can be a time-consuming task. It can be difficult to determine if matches are correct in the linking grid because sometimes students and parents happen to have the same names (i.e., Jr. and Sr.). Without opening their...
Course Restrictions define how a course is scheduled from year to year. Without course restrictions, Generate Master Schedule doesn't have a pattern or times restrictions to follow when scheduling classes. As you prepare for next academic year, copying...
I'm actually excited about the NHL playoffs because the Chicago Blackhawks will be heading there for the first time since 2002! That made me think about the folks responsible for scheduling NHL playoff games. They're juggling last minute teams...
There's been quite a buzz about the Wild, Wild, Cards post that our friend Doug wrote in The User's Edge Blog. I encourage you to read it and try wild cards in your queries, especially when grouping students by last names. Another time-saver is...
Happy New Year! I bet many of you have made New Year’s resolutions to be more efficient, and one of the biggest time-saving features for Education Edge users is the ability to let students request or even fully enroll in classes for the coming year. Through...
Here is a great time saver for those of you that need to manage families with multiple children. You can create billing groups to quickly add or update student, individual, and organization records. Manage Billing Groups, the official name of the feature...
I wanted to share with you a little known, and extremely under utilized, feature in Student Billing that can save you hours of charge and payment data entry time. It's called Fast! . Using Fast! allows you to quickly enter a large number of charges...
There's a lot of scheduling going on out there, so it's a good thing you can do lots of scheduling in The Education Edge. After you create classes for next year, you can automatically or manually assign meeting times, teachers, and rooms. Let's...
Don't we just love the idea of knowing our options? I do. I like to know what I can and can't do when I customize a program, a website, or even my grocery list. I like to know what's available to me and then make my choices. So when you find...
Hey blog readers, I've got a great time saver tip for you! Make sure you listen closely, well read closely, especially if you have a large number of students. If you have a new fee or charge that needs to be added to records, what do you do? I am...
Hey Blog readers!! If you enter advance deposits and payments separately, you're gonna love this tip. You can add advance deposits at the same time as payments!! This will not only save you time during advance deposit season (we'll make this a...
How much time do you spend creating new academic years, sessions, and courses every year? Hopefully not as much if you’re using all the great copy features in EE . We recently received valuable feedback from a user who was copying academic years but didn...