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Itty Bitty Timesavers
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...
Student Billing Reconciliation Redux
Greetings faithful blog readers! We recently held a customer round table regarding the fabulous topic of reconciling Student Billing to General Ledger. This was the first of many sessions we hope to hold discussing popular topics in Student Billing. Our...
New Student Billing Best Practices Guide
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...
NetClassroom Parent Videos
Norm Dunkin from Landmark Christian School created several short videos to help parents and students get acquainted with NetClassroom. He was kind enough to share them on our NetClassroom forum . Take a look!
Ensure Your Attendance Cycle Days are Correct After Labor Day
If school is out on Labor Day, ensure your attendance days will be correct when you return by skipping Labor Day on the Configuration scheduling calendar. When you add a date on the Scheduling Calendar tab of the Academic Year, you are prompted to add...
Tips from a Troubleshooter: Using Billing Cycles to Go Back to the Future
Once upon a time, end of year procedures involved copying your products and billing items. The Copy utility was great, it had a lot of cool features, and it would make your life a lot easier if it was correctly used. Think of it as the DeLorean of processes...
Tips from a Troubleshooter: Restricting Applications Using Applications Restrictions
As Anthony mentioned in a comment on my last blog post , Application Restrictions are key to effectively using Financial Aid and a fantastic answer when you need to make sure certain transactions pay for only certain charges. These transactions could...
Get FAWeb Ready Ahead of Time
I hate to bring it up too early, but the end of summer is fast approaching and before you know it, students and teachers will be crowding the halls on the first day of school. Teachers will be using FAWeb to set up their Gradebooks to track assignment...
Tips from a Troubleshooter: Aiding (But Not Financially) with Financial Aid
I'm calling an emergency posting of Tips from a Troubleshooter, because I know a lot of you are awarding financial aid to students right now. I'll return to my series on Student Billing 6 vs. Student Billing 7 soon, I promise. The Financial Aid...
Integration Insight: New Features Part 1
Integration maps fields and relationships between two databases. The synchronization process looks at the database with the most recent update on these linked records. If the records in both programs were updated since the last synchronization, the most...
New Year's Resolutions
Now that we're into the New Year, you've already made your resolutions and are working toward achieving them. As you work toward personal goals, don't forget to make resolutions to improve your database and keep it happily chugging along throughout...
Happy to Help – Attention FAWeb & NC Users on Windows Server 2008
Are you on Windows Server 2008 ? If yes, and you are about to update your Faculty Access for the Web or NetClassroom to version 7.77 or install these programs for the first time, you need to hit pause before going forward. When you upgraded to Windows...
Student Billing State-of-Mind: Reconciliation Recommendation
I wanted to share a great reconciliation tip with you guys. In Student Billing 7, all credits and payments need to be applied to charges to ensure statements are correct. So the question is how can you tell if there's activity that needs to be applied...
Happy to Help – Top 5 Places to Use F1 in Student Billing
I had such a fun time writing my first top 5 for my (borderline freakish) love of the F1 key, I decided to create a special edition focused only on Student Billing . We all know billing students can become complicated and stressful with deadlines, complicated...
Scheduling Teachers, Meeting Times, and Rooms
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...
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