Student Information System We’ve heard that those who work for small higher education institutions live by a certain mantra: “Recruit. Retain. Solicit.” Sound familiar? Sounds easy enough — but not when it’s a task that needs to be completed for each of your hundreds or even thousands of students. Almost every higher education institution uses software to store its data. You wouldn’t accept an applicant’s information without having a place to put it, and accepting applications is just the beginning of the cycle — once students are accepted, you need to ensure that you store their information in a secure place, keep it up to date, and share it with all your institution’s offices so it can be used easily and efficiently throughout each student’s entire lifecycle. Blackbaud’s solution for small colleges — Blackbaud Student Information System — makes it easier for you and your staff to overcome your daily challenges so your institution stands apart from the rest. There are many benefits of Blackbaud Student Information System:
Your admissions office can: - Easily import data from external sources
- Identify your best prospective students, how many applicants you have, and next steps to move each applicant through the process
- Accept inquiries and applications online with our NetInquiry and Online Application solutions
- Capture information needed for admissions, such as education history, activities, test scores, interview notes, and more
- Track detailed relationships of applicants and students to assist in the recruiting process
- Perform any type of demographic analysis (ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.)
- Communicate application status via letters, emails, or your website
- Standardize, simplify, and expedite the process with communication and checklist management features
- Keep financial aid information, including qualification and grant amounts, in one central location, simplifying the student billing process
Your registrar’s office can: - Easily create grade reports and transcripts that reflect your institution’s style with several different formatting options
- Enjoy flexible scheduling options to handle your unique needs
- Easily register students for classes online and offline
- See where students stand on credits and requirements with degree tracking and audit functionality
- Create grade point averages according to your institution’s policies
- Perform institutional research with easy-to-use query and reporting tools
- Simplify the production of campus directories and specialized lists with easy-to-use query and reporting tools
- Track multiple address/contact methods, allowing you to send mail to the appropriate place at the appropriate time
Plus, you can do even more with:
With The Raiser’s Edge, your advancement office can: - Get a complete view of constituent relationships by recording every interaction you have with prospects and donors
- Build better relationships, especially with alumni: store extensive information including interests, activities, and more
- Access and create detailed or summary reports to keep donors, staff, and board members informed
- Give donors the option of electronic, hassle-free giving both online and offline
- Implement a recurring giving program that requires little-to-no ongoing staff involvement
- Enforce consistency — business rules set guidelines for how data is entered and used
- View up-to-the-minute results for fundraising campaigns, including graphical representations of performance measures
- Access your most important tasks, reports, and analysis tools through customized dashboard and home page
- Easily drill through to financial systems to identify how donor dollars were allocated
With The Financial Edge and Student Billing, your financial and billing office can: - Provide a clear audit trail, making it easier for auditors to verify your financial statements
- Forecast and budget with both internal and external reporting support and internal controls
- Instantly verify to donors how gifts are spent and determine how funds are divided among programs
- Link gift records in The Raiser’s Edge to account balances in The Financial Edge for a tight audit trail and simple, straightforward reconciliation
- Track and report at the project level with Project, Grant & Endowment Management module
- Eliminate duplicate entry of student information with Registrar’s module integration
- Choose from a large collection of predefined reports to manage daily tuition operations
- Easily calculate and present dunning, finance, and late charges based on your institution’s policies
- Assign specific fees and charges individually or collectively, based on specific requests, financial needs, or your institution’s policies
- Automatically generate fees and apply to statements based on your institution’s policies
- Support multiple tuition plans, such as full-time versus part-time tuition and credit-based tuition
- Distribute responsibility for student charges among multiple records
- Accommodate payment plans and financial aid for each student
Manage your website with Online Campus Community: - Allow all community members permission-based access to all areas of your website
- Create multiple “communities” or “portals” as part of your website — student, prospective students, faculty, alumni, etc.
- Easily update content in real time with simple development tools through a web-based interface, eliminating the burden on IT staff and allowing for immediate updates
- Automate online donation processing, profile updates, event registrations, polling, and surveys
- Deliver targeted content based on each visitors’ unique interests
- Create and publish poll and survey questions so you can gauge constituent feedback and understand supporter preferences
- Display event calendars and host event registrations online to allow supporters to register and pay for single or multiple events in one transaction
- Allow constituents to securely update all biographical information online
- Delegate responsibility for a certain group of constituents to one person (for example, allow a class agent to manage communication with a particular graduating class and solicit support on behalf of the school)
- Use online communications to increase frequency of contact with students and alumni; allow them to control which newsletters they receive
- Create donation forms with fund designations and dynamic giving levels based on a constituent’s profile and giving history
- Assign alumni a lifetime email address that can automatically forward messages to another email account they specify — a great way to capture email addresses and help ensure you can always reach alumni
- Allow alumni to share life events in a searchable directory with their peers
- Create searchable directories for different groups — student directory, faculty directory, alumni directory, etc.
With Faculty Portal, your faculty can: - Streamline the grading process with electronic grade books to track all grades and calculate term grades based on your own grading methods
- Enter assignments, syllabi, and other documents, indicating when they should be made available for students to view online
- Keep students up to date on their progress online
- View class-based statistics to analyze class performance on individual assignments
- Email all students in a class or individually
- View student contact and schedule information
- View important campus announcements
- Work from school or home simply by accessing the Internet and logging in
With Student Portal, your students can: - Access campus information online to stay better informed of upcoming events, important campus announcements, and class information throughout the year
- Check grades, assignments, grade reports, transcripts, schedules, etc. conveniently online
- View and print online grade reports and transcripts in an easy-to-open PDF format
- Enter course requests and/or enrollment for the following school year online
- Access up-to-date billing statements online
- Email faculty with a single click
- Customizable home page for students to setup based on their preferences
- Update profile information online
- View a degree audit report online
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