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Month: February 2018

Student Delight – Success Mantra for an Educational Institution

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

University, School, College, or Training Institute includes thousands of students, multiple campuses, and programs as their main stakeholders. Along with all these, parents, the secondary clients, who may not be affected directly but are a useful asset to spread positive word of mouth. Like every other company, an educational institution would also want their clients to feel delighted and a good brand name to be established in the community. 

Students are considered the biggest stakeholders of any educational institution and in today’s times, institutions must opt for digital transformation that can help strive day to day needs. 

It is high time to decipher the old manual interventions. We can start by finding what a student wants. His needs and wants can be – Good quality of education and exposure, smooth transition and flow of all processes during the complete student life cycle, and finally a good job offer

Automation and streamlining of all the processes with the respect to students can address this concern. A student information system can be the best solution to it. Let’s discuss how it can help educational institutions in the best way. 

A Student Information System can ease out student life cycle in the following ways:

  • Easy Teaching and Learning 

In modern times, students only want to focus on their education instead of getting engaged in other administrative and academic activities. A student information system can help them with inefficient learning, providing an easier version of study from faculty and other modes. Easy accessibility to study material anywhere and anytime using the portal or mobile application. 

  • Simple Process for Assignment Management 

Assignments also play an important role in any student’s progress, and it becomes quite difficult to manage the completely hectic process of approval, submission, and a lot of others in manual intervention. A highly configured SIS makes the whole assignment process easy and convenient. It provides faculty with a lot of different assignments to students and it even helps students to submit the assignments on the given deadline. The best part is notifying students and faculty members of the due dates. 

  • Flexible Attendance Process 

Attendance tracking is also one of the major elements in any educational institution which becomes a bit difficult and lengthy to analyze in a manual process. A Student Information System provides systematic attendance management with biometric integration and a system through which attendance tracking is easy for faculty members, students, and even parents. 

  • Quick Fee and Payment processing 

The fee and payment process is one of the most important methods of any institution, there are multiple fee structures, various departments, and n-numbers of students; it becomes difficult to manage it manually. It’s an art to keep track of everything and be able to access the exact details whenever there is a need. A student information system helps in managing each fee-related transaction and manages all the tasks effectively and efficiently making it a simple, convenient, and easy process. It avails e-payments from their portals, quick, and easy.  

  • Easy result Generation and announcement 

Students always get anxious on their result declaration day, it even becomes difficult when they need to stand in a long queue to check their results. An SIS having the best examination management system provides the completion of all the examination-related tasks from hall ticket distribution to result in declaration using the portal and message notifications. 

  • Grievance Management 

There are multitudes of tasks associated with different stakeholders like faculty, staff, admin, and students. There are various situations in which students find something dissatisfied with the given studies, and academic and administrative tasks. So institutions must adopt technologies like SIS like Grievance Management System that can help students submit their grievances, complaints, dissatisfaction, feedback, and any other related query. 

  • Administration Management

An education institution involves various administrative tasks like a library, hostel, transport, and many more. Manual intervention of these tasks takes huge time, long queues, long involvement, and more. Automation of these tasks through a Student Information System provides a systematic flow of information providing all the information accessible through a single system to faculty, students, parents, and higher authorities. 

  • Placements

Placement is the only term that students worry about the most, they always want a university or institution that can help them in finding a job and getting perfectly placed there. A Student Information System helps educational institutions and students apply and find a job. 

  • Upcoming Events Information

Students always find it difficult to remember the time, dates, and initial details for any event. Notifications on the notice board and regular manual circulation are not enough to keep the exact information in the brain. It eases it out, a student information system helps educational institutions by providing easy notifications to students as and when needed through the mobile application and the portal easing out all the things for modern students.  

Conclusion 

So which method are you ever using to delight your students? A Student Information System can become a perfect choice for your institution that not only will delight your students but also become a success mantra bringing more systematic, efficient, and effective management to the institution. Want to know more? Let’s discuss it now! Just Request Demo and one of our experts will get back to you in a while.  

How To Choose The Right Training Management System For Your Institute

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Training institutes in the past decade have been noticed to be evolving with a greater pace. These institutes have also become more streamlined along with time. Management of training institutions is also as important as school management or university management.

There are many advanced automation software packages that help in management of training institution from prospecting of student to completion along with record maintenance of employees, batches, students, etc. Processes such as enquiries, ad campaigns, applications, admin management etc. can also be managed with such type of software.

Academia ERP is one of the more evolved training management system that helps simplify and automate any training institute’s functions. It helps in streamlining various day to day functions which are too time consuming and clerical in nature, but with Academia these can be managed in an efficient manner. Software packages like Academia TMS are also capable to automate much of the tedious process, like report generation which helps in better decision making and affects overall productivity.

How to choose a right ERP solution for management of your Training Institute:

1. Know the requirements of your institution:

It is fore most important to know& understand the need of the institute which depends on the no. of students, no. of batches, fee structure, departments and other specifications if any required. This could help to sort the 1st level Training Management System (TMS) for your institution.

2. Selection Process:

Once your requirements are listed, according to that you can research the market and create list of TMS packages for your institute. There must be plenty software packages that may fit in the criteria.

3. Carefully sort the option and short list these accordingly:

From all the options available, it may not be necessary that all suit your requirement, features, reports and other needs. On the basis of aforesaid mentioned shortlist, the software and take them to further level. Once these are shortlisted it can be sent to the top management for better assessment.

4. Close evaluation by the top management:

Demonstrations of the shortlisted Training Management Software can be taken by the top-level management and further decisions can be taken based on multiple factors, for example the UI, the flow of the processes, interface and customization etc.

5. Undergo Review of the Software:

Once every other little detail has been identified and managed, the last thing to assess is the review of the software chosen. Get to know about the support, the teams offer to its past clients, the service and software ratings etc. if everything matches your expectation you can finally freeze your decision on the considered TMS.

6. Implementation:

The final step is to understand the process and timeline of the implementation process if it suits you or not.

6 Steps To Perform Student Enrollment Management In Higher Ed

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Enrollment management refers to the ability of institutions of higher education to exert more systematic influence over the number and characteristics of new students, as well as influence the persistence of students to continue their enrollment from the time of their matriculation to their graduation. The emergence of enrollment management as a new administrative structure within institutions of higher education originated in North America, but it has also been employed in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

The Concept

Enrollment management can be viewed as a synergistic organizational concept that can be used to link several administrative functions within a college or university in order to optimize institutional enrollment goals. Examples of this approach can be found among the financial strategies of many college campuses, where important linkages have emerged between senior enrollment managers and chief financial administrators. Both private and public colleges use some of their tuition income to fund campus-based scholarships for students. Tuition revenue accounts for millions of dollars, and campus-based financial aid has become a large expenditure at most four-year institutions. Enrollment management efforts have therefore become closely linked to budgeting and campus financial planning. Successful enrollment management strategies and practices must also consider the growing importance of university and college rankings. For many institutions of higher education, enrollment management has come to involve a combination of student enrollment strategy, budgeting strategy, and institutional positioning strategy.

Roadmap

1.  Set goals for enrollments

Setting up realistic goals and working in that very same direction to achieve them is the first necessity of systematic enrollment management for an institute. It is a crucial step since it involves market analysis and calculation of the expected rate of growth.

2.  Resource requirements

To identify the need for the required resources according to the set goals is the next step in the roadmap for enrollment management.

3.  Campaigning and recruiting plan

It is important to create a target focused marketing plan for move in the right direction and reach the set goals. The right kind marketing mix may help you get to the right target audience which would ultimately help us meet enrollment management goals.

4.  A strong follow-up on your marketing and recruitment activities

Tracking your activities is a must in the process of enrollment management to get the results. Following steps can be followed to keep on a regular check on these activities:

1) Identify which metrics to track.
2) Know how to track the metrics you identified.
3) Guide your decisions with the data you collect.
4) Monitor the effect of your efforts and adjusting accordingly.

Having a solid set of marketing and recruitment metrics you can track allows you to benchmark your efforts from year to year and make crucial decisions on allocating resources and strategies.

5.  Systematic communications within the process to develop and implement the right strategy.

With the seemingly chaotic mix of print, e-mail, Web, and social media, there may not seem to be much “flow” with recruitment communications. As with student qualification, though, building a communications flow remains a bountiful recruitment strategy if it is handled strategically.

First, you still must think through the communications at various enrollment stages—inquiry, applicant, admit, deposit. Regardless of where a student enters the flow, progressing them to the next enrollment stage remains the goal.

Second, focus your electronic communications wisely. Having a Web site that engages students is paramount. You want to invite communication in addition to delivering information. Give students opportunities to provide their e-mail addresses or even opt in to text messaging. Do the same with social media but be careful not to go overboard. You are better covering fewer social media outlets well rather than spreading yourself too thin.

Finally, get parents and guardians involved in the flow. According to our E-Expectations research, 60 percent are involved with the college research process. Target them with communications and make them ambassadors for your campus.

6.  Award financial aid so students get what they need and expect to enroll

The ability to afford a college education has emerged as the biggest roadblock to attending college. Perhaps nothing will turn away a prospective student faster than a feeling that they cannot afford your institution. You must address this concern immediately and accurately.

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