We are also a private school. We use Education Edge, Financial Edge and Raiser's Edge. I am the Database Administrator who handles installs, updates, and any global changes to the databases. The day to day tasks are handled by individual departments: The point of entry into our institution is via...

I headed up trying to build steam behind this effort when I was in Blackbaud School Administration Support in 1996-1997 and then when I was moved to Sales in 1998 and was in Toronto monthly, I continued with my efforts to try and coordinate a solution for this. I'd be happy to throw my hat in the...

Mary Ann - we changed fourth grade from one campus to another a few years ago. You are correct about changing the promotion schedule and adding the new grade to the new school. One slightly annoying after effect of this is that your sixth grade will remain a grade available in your Lower School in subsequent...

Wondering if any schools have any suggestions on how to create athletic teams as courses? Especially when you have Winter sports that are in semester 1 and 2.

Hi all, I am the Data Specialist for Raiser's Edge in our Institutional Advancement department. We're a private high school and we also use Education Edge for our Admissions and Registrar needs. Right now I don't really have a counterpart on the Ed Edge side, someone who knows (or will know...

Is anyone successfully exporting record fields out of EE and importing into RE (or vis a versa)? Would love to hear from you.

This has been our experience as well. I really wish there were a way to "lock" core requirements. When I bring this up with support, they suggested just reloading those core courses after registration is closed, which is a partial solution at best.

Hi Dan, We have the same situation here, but with a 10Mb pipe. I think BlackBaud recommends against any WAN style set up, they want us to use a hosted or thin client solution. See BB50293 in the knowledge base. I can say in the real world there are times when we slow to a crawl. Admittedly...

Can anyone tell me why the Cumulative Credit number does not line up with other numbers in the Student Information section of the transcript Header? Example: Student ID: 21111 Total Credits: 19.50 Class of: 2012 I export the transcripts to a pdf, so I can adjust the alignment there, it's just one...

I have been asked by the division head for the average grade given by a teacher in her courses. Has anyone had to do a report like this and how did you do it? I have tried a couple of different things and haven't come up with the report I need.