We are just 7 weeks away from UC13, and starting to get down to the nitty gritty details! Have you been wondering if there are sessions that will interest you? Wonder no more! We have Best Practice sessions planned that will meet specific interests, and those that will speak to a broader audience. Don’t limit yourself – each session will...

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In celebration of the upcoming release of our new Enrollment Management System, onBoard, we were pleased to host this Google Hangout with Aimee Gruber, the Senior Director of Outreach & Business Development at SSATB. Joined by a panel of independent school Admissions professionals, Aimee discussed SSATB’s 2013 State of the Independent School Admission Industry report. Have questions about the report...

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Efficiently managing communications is an added pressure for teachers, and when it comes to our new Official Notes feature, the pressure’s no different. Schools report liking the flexibility of using Official Notes to note anything from academic highlights to disciplinary issues to a student’s record. We’re thrilled that they’re being used in such a widespread manner. But their popularity also...

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We were recently fortunate enough to have Grant Lichtman join us for a Google Hangout entitled “Change in Schools Isn’t Hard, It’s Uncomfortable.” A few months after wrapping up up his Ed Journey, Grant is now in the process of unpacking the ideas & information he gathered on his three-month trip visiting innovative schools across the United States. In the...

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One of the most rewarding parts of building our new products is seeing them implemented in real schools. We recently had the chance to visit The Fessenden School and hear more about their implementation of onCampus and onRecord. As you’ll see in the short video above, their whole school community has already begun to feel more connected, up-to-date, and engaged –...

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In this week’s Idea to Feature, we learn from Mark Sargent, Product Owner for onRecord, how a single UserVoice request proposing separate online sign-up policy statements led to a much more streamlined course request feature. A Streamlined Setup Building off the above request, we not only made it possible to create separate policy statements, but the idea got us thinking...

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The idea of #FollowFriday on Twitter is a good one. Building connection via recommendations from the people you follow makes a lot of sense — it’s one more way to build out your social circle. We thought the concept could work well on our blog, but with a bit of a twist. Instead of running it weekly, we’ll use this...

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Back in December, we shared how “Find Me Now” re-emerged after 30 of you voted to bring it back in UserVoice. As we mentioned at the time, onRecord managers could simply log in and type the name of a student or faculty member into the Find Me Now feature to locate that person. But there was another piece to that...

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Implementing a new Learning Management System (LMS), especially mid-year, is enough to make the average person’s hair turn grey. Stress is a given, but that doesn’t mean that change has to be overwhelming. In fact, there are proven ways to keep the stress levels low, and simultaneously rally the community around your new LMS. In our recent webinar (Rolling out...

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Managing all of your school’s athletic events, across all of your teams, is like piecing together a puzzle with really small pieces. You need to strain your eyes to see if the pieces fit — it’s not an easy task. Not only do you have to schedule dates & times for your teams, but you also have to deal with...

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