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False Bay College, South Africa – The First TVET College In South Africa to Implement Student Information System

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Education institutions around the world are adopting digital transformation to overcome challenges and adapt to digital infrastructure. Technologies like ERP/SIS and others are helping with digital transformation and removing old processes that restrict growth and achievements.  

False Bay College from South Africa also moved ahead adopting Academia SIS as their advanced tech companion to achieve digital transformation. With the ongoing enhancements in technology, institutions need to be agile to keep up with the ever-changing demands and needs of the education sector. A modern, fit-for-purpose Student Information System should not only support the attainment of the College’s strategic goals but also be flexible (configurable) enough to accommodate changing needs of the businesses with time and support new or changing strategic objectives/direction. 

In 2021, False Bay Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College broke new ground. It was the first TVET College in South Africa to implement Academia Student Information System (SIS) and go live for applications and registrations. It has been an accomplishment as all project meetings, workshops, and training were delivered remotely during the pandemic and global lockdown. 

While this was no easy feat, it illustrates the pioneering journey that also Bay TVET College undertook to adopt a robust SIS and replace its existing systems. 

“We wanted a customizable solution as per the needs of our vocational & occupational programs. Academia ERP was the system of choice as it provided us with rich functionalities and customization as per the College SIS requirements. We are very satisfied with the implementation and post-implementation services provided by Academia that helped us achieve automation and digital transformation”.

Mark Cramer 

Acting Deputy Principal, False Bay College

Muizenberg, South Africa

Challenges Faced & their Solution with Academia

  • Mismanaged Enquiry & Admission Management

The admission season is one of the busiest times of the year for all stakeholders in the institution. In COVID-19 it became a lot more difficult for institutions across the world to manage admissions. False Bay also witnessed difficulty in managing the enquiries & applications in moving ahead with the admission process. 

Solution:

Academia proved to be a true solution to solve this issue. It automated the complete enquiry and application process. It streamlined and processed more than a hundred thousand applications. This helped institutions efficiently manage the entire admission process during the COVID-19 period.

  • Improper Communication

Effective communication is the key to success for modern educational institutions. It is crucial to create a clear chain of communication among all the stakeholders, departments, and locations. False Bay faced gaps in communication in various processes throughout the organization.

Solution:

With the advancement in technology, institutions need to create a crystal clear line of communication among stakeholders. Academia provided a robust solution for this – a feature-rich mobile application and an easy-to-use portal! 

Using Academia, it became so easy for False Bay to create a smooth communication channel with facilities like easy notifications on mobile apps, SMS, emails, and more to circulate any information among stakeholders. The students and faculty members also get it easier to connect from anywhere and anytime according to their needs.

  • Manual Intervention among Multiple Locations

There are various branches of False Bay college in South Africa. It was difficult to manage all the departments altogether manually. There were a lot of files, documents, and multitudes of data and information that they had to exchange regularly. 

Solution:

To this, Academia offered a robust feature, i.e., Multi-centre Capability. All the data associated with all the departments, campuses, and locations remain centralized in a single system that can be accessed according to the authorities. 

It also provided a facility for students, as a TVET student, students can remain active in multiple campuses, batches, and courses at a time.

  • Problem in managing data with legacy system

The False Bay college was using a legacy system that lacked various features like multi-center capability, effective data management, and more. The administrators and higher authorities were unable to organize and track huge amounts of data associated with students.

Solution:

Academia provided efficient management of all the data associated with each student. It also generated and transferred data of approx. one million students easily leading to bringing a level of transparency and accountability.

Major Benefits with Academia

  • Efficient & streamlined enrollment and admission processes
  • Chatbot integration benefiting students with a rich conversational experience
  • Various efficient module-leading automation, for example, task management to generate minutes of meeting (MoM) and details related to any task.
  • Separate portal for faculty members to reduce the workload of administrators and faculty members.
  • A specific module to track inward and outward courier services.

Features that Attracted the Most

  • Interoperability with integrations like Sage X3, LMS (Moodle), Chatbot, Koha, and a lot more.
  • Multi-center capability provided a balance and connectivity between all the campuses around different locations.
  • Boost in enquiry and admission during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Academia ERP/SIS – A Feature-rich ERP/SIS Platform for Advanced Institutions

Being the core of multiple institutions from across the world. Academia is proud to provide automation and digital transformation to institutions for more than a decade. 

Just like Academia found solutions to major problems for False Bay College South Africa, it is helping various other institutions, providing them with configurable solutions according to the number of students, the number of campus locations, and various other aspects. 

Your institute can also become the next one to overcome all the hurdles through a digital transformation! Reach out to us to discuss your major challenges and how Academia can help efficiently solve them!

Strategies for Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning System in Ghana’s Public Universities

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Educational institutions on a global scale are taking a major turn towards digital transformation and institutions are getting more systematic, aligned, and effective using technologies like ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning, SIS – Students Information System, and more. 

Ghana’s education system is also changing rapidly, and public institutions here are choosing ERP/SIS for overall management and growth. When it comes to the education ERP system, it’s often known as SIS (Student Information System).

If your institution is considering an ERP/SIS system as supportive software for managing all the academic & administrative tools, you are on the right track. 

An SIS system can efficiently help educational institutions by making all the academic and administrative solutions easier for all the stakeholders, like student management, and faculty management, and even helping parents with the best prospects. But with all these, Ghana’s universities must learn about strategies for implementing an ERP that will help the institution’s overall management. 

Strategies for Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning System

Choose the right ERP/SIS platform 

Multiple vendors provide ERP services to educational institutions globally. Institutions in Ghana must choose the right platform & vendor that can effectively provide all the needs and requirements. The right ERP system can help save time in institutional tasks, eliminate tonnes of paperwork, and collates everything in a central place accessible to all stakeholders, like principals, teaching, administrative staff, parents, students, and more. 

Smooth & clear communication between ERP vendors and administration 

Communication is considered one of the most vital parts of educational institutions. It needs to be effective in any form.

Various things need to be discussed while implementing an ERP system in your institution, so it is a must that the ERP vendor you choose must assign you a team that can communicate and connect with your administrators and faculty members. The ERP team should also understand your needs & requirements and explain all the functionalities and features like student management software, admission management, fee management, and any other that can help you in the long run. 

Analyze & research 

Institutions in Ghana are on an ultimate digital transformation journey, they need to analyze & perform proper research before implementing an education ERP/SIS system. You have to analyze & research each & everything that can become more efficient after ERP implementation. You can study details from your institutions like

  • Inquiry & admission 
  • Fee management and accounting operations 
  • Program & course management 
  • Examination management 
  • And a lot more… 

Understand the product from demonstration & templates 

An Education ERP can help educational institutions in the best prospects until and unless all the stakeholders here know the complete functionalities of the software being used. The ERP vendor you choose must provide you with a comprehensive demonstration & tour of the product along with customizable templates according to your needs. 

2-3 rounds of detailed product demonstration can help in the effective implementation of ERP concerning the needs & requirements of the institution.

Carefully manage the data migration 

While implementing a new and modern ERP, you must be exceptionally careful in transferring or migrating important data from a legacy or a manual system. Firstly you will need to differentiate and select your necessary data that needs to be migrated in any case, keeping aside the unnecessary information or data. 

While migrating the data, your staff and administrators need to be attentive along with the ERP migration team. To understand it better, let’s say, your institution owns data for 12K stakeholders. So this huge data will need to be migrated using some integrations like MS tools or any other tool. For this, it becomes too crucial that the ERP you choose must have all the capabilities to migrate the data along with having interoperability features with other systems. 

How does Academia ERP help Ghana Universities/Institutions?

Among n-numbers of ERP vendors across the world, Academia ERP stands out to be different and exceptionally helpful for educational institutions across the world. Looking into Ghana’s digital transformation journey, we are a part of various universities/institutions in Ghana. 

Being one of the core ERP presenters in the world, we follow an institution-centric approach that focuses on accomplishing the customizable needs of all stakeholders. We have a tremendous implementation process with a highly qualified team that supports all the pre-implementation & post-implementation processes. It also provides integration with all the pre-built connectors/plug-ins, Web services API, and integration platforms along with having a multi-center capability feature supporting multiple academy locations of an institution.  

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Ten Ways to Increase Student Engagement During Admissions

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

For the last few years, educational institutions have started opting for technologies that play a supporting role in overall academic and administrative management. Among all other important tasks, admissions, recruitment, and enrollment are the most crucial. Institutions must opt for student engagement activities that boost admissions to the best prospects. 

Reaching the targeted student enrollment rate is not that easy. It involves new-age learning activities that are less time-consuming. According to a survey by InsideHigherEd of colleges and universities, 60% of admissions officials from community colleges and 55% of admissions officials from private bachelors colleges are concerned to complete goals for student admissions. 

Let’s have a look at ten ways to increase student engagement during admissions:

  • Efficient communication and enquiry processes 

Admissions in any education entity involve various tasks, and the first one to it is the enquiry process. It needs to be efficient with an error-free communication process. An effective communication process needs to be engaging, easy, attractive, and collaborative. 

The enquiry process needs to be quick and easy. The modern generation of students needs paced solutions. Text or video feedback are engaging ways of communicating with learners and establishing peer collaboration networks. Institutions need to understand that solutions like an ERP/SIS can automate the enquiry process making communication seamless and error-free. 

  • Involve pre-enrollment activities 

After successful enquiry completion, institutions must give a major focus on pre-enrollment activities. It directly helps in converting inquiries into admissions.  The  advanced generation of students demands pre-enrollment activities like

  • Opt technologies like portal and mobile applications to communicate with students 
  • Avail Self serve application forms 
  • Collaborate more with best-fit applicants
  • Focus on solving all the queries related to students


 

  • Effective pre-admission processes 

It is also one of the major steps of the whole admission process. Many universities and higher education institutions gear up in the pre-admission process to align the process systematically. But institutions must organize the students’ potential enquiries from different sources and take action instantly to convert the students into prospective students. 

The pre-admission process needs to be designed attractively and engagingly which should help in enhancing student engagement activities. 

  • Use social media to attract students 

Today’s generation is full of mobile phones, websites, and social media. They just demand easier and trending solutions for all their needs. Modern education leaders need to use social media to connect and coordinate with students. Using the power of social media, it will become easier to announce, notify, and welcome new students to the institution. 

  • Keep an up-to-date website 

A website is considered the online address of an entity. Educational institutions must have an up-to-date website with all the necessary features and functionalities. It should remain updated with all the latest information, news, and updates available to the institution. The most necessary element to this is, that in the highly competitive age, institutions need to keep the website SEO friendly and updated according to keyword search rankings. 

  • Utilization of a responsive mobile application 

Today’s advanced generation needs every information, notification, and update on their mobile phone. Institutions must use a responsive mobile application that can avail faculty, parents, and students to check, upload, and any information online. 

Also, Read Benefits of Mobile ERP Applications in the Education World
  • Reduce response time using automation 

It is beneficial for education leaders to attain automation in their institutions. Automation can result in reduced response time. It can keep all the academic and administrative tasks aligned and reduce response time for all the operations boosting overall productivity in the institution. 

  • Use of analytics dashboards

Universities, colleges, schools, and training centers involve a huge amount of data and information that needs to be stored, managed, and organized to be accessed anytime. Manual intervention in institutions makes this process a bit complicated and sometimes creates situations of data breaches. 

Automation is the best solution to this. Technologies like ERP/SIS can help education institutions with efficient analytics and dashboard. It can secure all the data and information systematically. It also provides many opportunities for better data gathering and analysis that can help faculty members and students in longer prospects. 

  • Enhance credibility in all operations 

In the new age of learning, there is huge competition among educational institutions. So to make a place in the ecosystem, it is a must that institutions should leverage technology and ways that can enhance credibility in all operations. Various technologies can improve all the operations and enhance productivity in the institution, some of them can be ERP, SIS, and LMS. It depends on educational institutions to choose the best and work accordingly for them.

  • Use multi-center capabilities for managing multiple campuses 

It is often seen that educational institutions find it difficult to manage admission operations on multiple campuses. It involves a multitude of data and information that needs to be shared effectively and efficiently. To manage student engagement and seamless data management, institutions must use the multi-center functionality features included in ERP software. It provides the benefit to manage various institutions using just one single software. 

How does Academia help institutions boost admissions and student retention efficiently?

Academia is the best solution for educational institutions, it can be your sole learning solution with all the major institution management functionalities and features. 

For Boosting Admissions: 

Academia empowers you with the feature of running different campaigns on social media, websites, and other platforms to attract new students. The easy online admission process and program selection also play a vital role here.

For Student Retention:

Academia’s powerful analytics comes to the rescue here. Analytics and reporting are powerful tools for analyzing the student retention rate. Graphs and reports can help education management to bring transparency and make the best decision for increasing the student retention rate.

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How Data Analytics Improves the Efficiency of Educational Institutes?

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

The education ecosystem includes various small and medium entities like universities, colleges, schools, and training centers. It involves a huge amount of data and information that needs to be stored, managed, and organized in a way to be accessed anytime. Manual intervention in institutions makes this process a bit complicated and sometimes creates situations for breaches of confidential data. 

So how can you solve this in the modern era of education and technology? Education analytics can become the perfect solution to this. Using analytics institutions can attain a lot of opportunities for better data gathering and analysis that can help faculty members and students in the long run. 

Want to know how it is possible? Let’s discuss it in more detail:

What is the role of analytics and reporting dashboards in an educational institution?

Modern educational institutions need to understand analytics so they can attain advanced outcomes that can significantly transform the way of teaching, learning, and managing the whole institutional objectives. 

Analytics and reporting dashboards can effectively attain and engage current and prospective students, increasing student enrollment, and improving student retention and completion rates. It can help institutions achieve intended outcomes with pace and perception. 

How can analytics improve academic and administrative efficiency in an institution?

Analytics and reporting are becoming increasingly helpful for educational institutions to attain positive outcomes, it can effectively manage all the academic and administrative operations of an institution. Let’s discuss it in greater detail:

 

Academic Management Using Analytics 

  • Efficient admission process 

Admissions are considered one of the most important sessions which includes enquiry, registrations, enrollment, and various other tasks. Analytics can lead to proper and effective management tracking every information related to their data, finding efficient patterns, and shifting the admission process to go smoothly. 

  • Program and courses management 

Managing programs and courses in an institution is also vital, institutions must opt for tools and technologies that can help in selecting programs and courses using data analytics. Selection of the right course within the right time along with all the data makes students more focused. This improves students in the subject and indicates to whom and when specific learning content should be delivered. 

  • Effective management of fee operations 

Fee management is also one of the crucial tasks that include multiple bill payments, transactions, and more. In modern education institutions, it is important to accelerate online payments and create a systematic fee payment procedure. Data analytics with an ERP can facilitate complete fee management having multiple features including online payments, mobile notifications, and access to all other features. It can differentiate between generating receipts, canceling the transaction, creating receipts for backdating, and more. 

  • Advanced attendance management 

Attendance is considered one of the most necessary tasks for any educational institution, but with manual intervention, this process becomes critical and sometimes creates chaos and confusion among faculty members, students, and even higher authorities. An ERP integrated with data analytics can provide complete data management of attendance along with biometric integration of each student’s attendance. Graphic presentation of attendance becomes easier for all students and faculty members creating a systematic loop of daily attendance. 

  • Enhanced data security 

Data security is often the most important concern for any educational institution. Institutions should opt for tools and techniques that can provide enhanced security. What is better than an education ERP? It deals with complete data security having data analytics and system usage analysis to track all the data and information from any resource. It gives security to students and faculty members in providing and managing confidential information related to any subject matter in the institution. 

  • Complete student lifecycle management 

Students are the ultimate stakeholders of any institution and almost every operation in the institution remains associated with students. Right from admission to alumni of the student, multiple tasks need to be performed by the institution along with providing a better user experience to students. Using analytics, institutions can attain a robust student lifecycle management providing perfect catchup to exact details of students. Students also get the authority to have quick responses to their requests whether it is related to admission enquiry, examination, or any other query.

Administrative management using analytics 

  • Hostel management 

The hostel is often a section that needs separate care and involvement from the institutional authorities. Having a perfect system that can trigger automation of all the basic operations like the number of students in the hostel, the number of amenities, availability, and attendance of students, and related things. Analytics used effectively can make all these simpler and more organized. 

  • Transport management 

Another crucial activity in an educational institution is transportation! It involves a huge amount of manpower, money, and resources. Institutions need to understand that using automation they can make this process more aligned and systematic. GPS trackers and cameras are added to the analytics through which counting of each student, their bills, their attendance, and all other things can be measured and analyzed. With all these, tracking and maintenance of drivers and helpers’ activity add to the feather with students’ safety. 

  • Library management 

Libraries dole out a vital role in the education industry. It can be called the brain system of any stakeholder in the institute. With the enhancement in the digital content, it is initial to manage the catalog of the educational institutions with a scalable and reliable library management system having feature-rich analytics and reporting dashboard. It will support each requirement related to the library and its management virtually. 

How can analytics bring a differentiation to your institution?

With the emerging EdTech trends, analytics is playing a vital role in the educational ecosystem. It can help institutions achieve automation and digital transformation by opting for software like an ERP/SIS. 

Analytics can simply create differentiation in your institution creating a data log of each activity whether it is for students, faculty members, parents, or higher authorities. It can be considered a breakthrough point of success for your institution. 

Conclusion

Hope you liked the article and got to understand how data analytics improves the efficiency of educational institutes? Want to know more about analytics and reporting dashboards, contact us now, and one of the experts will get connected to you to help you with the best. 

6 Reasons to Use Admission Management System in the Next Academic Session

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Make the admission process simple, seamless, and efficient with an automated admission management system

Though the admission season remains for a limited period it takes a toll on academic staff and creates a lot of challenges. It becomes more difficult when institutions do all the administrative work manually. It takes a significant amount of time and effort from admission form sales to student registration. Considering the current situation when the COVID-19 pandemic caused a screeching halt in the entire world. now achieving the admission targets will become even tougher. Without the implementation of an online admission management system, institutes will have no other option than to wait for reopening.

With the help of the admission management system, all these problems cease to null and the admission process becomes super simple, and effective and reduces the paperwork significantly.

  • Social Distancing & Safety

The impact of the corona is going to stay for a while. We all have to find a way to live with it by keeping each other and ourselves safe and sound. Social distancing is one of the best ways to render the spread of viruses. But we can’t stop working. Can we? That’s why educational institutions should have methods to maintain institutional continuity.

Academia Student Information System offers a holistic admission management system that allows institutions to kick in online admission so that students don’t have to come to institutions or talk to someone. They can simply go to the website and apply for admission and keep the track of their application via the applicant portal. The admin responsible for managing the student admission process can work on the software anytime anywhere.

  • Productive hours bank

With the smart usage of technology, it becomes quite easy to manage all of the work in an effective time frame. Today, we live in an era where time is the essence of everything. With the admission management system, the staff gets to save a significant amount of time that can be utilized in other productive hours.

Academia ERP offers inquiry management, campaign management, and other record management features. You can easily manage every step of the process and keep track of it. It also offers Y-O-Y tracking by which you can compare your target from previous years and analyze what works for you. It helps you to generate online reports without any fuss and that reduces time investment in manual tasks and gains productive hours that can be used in other fruitful work.

  • Paper-less Solution

Nobody likes to go through piles of paperwork. Not only is it time-consuming but it is mundane and tedious. In the fast-paced work environment, there is no place for sloth movement. Nowadays everyone is going digital to ensure less paperwork and more productive work.

Academia ensures the 360-digital transformation of educational institutions. From e-receipt of fees, invoices, and administrative reports, complete automation of day-to-day activities. The records of fees are easily shareable with students and parents. Scholarship and sponsorship candidates can check the details on their portal and the fee is easily transferable online.

  • Seamless admission tracking 

Manual admission requires endless phone calls by parents and students for all kinds of questions looking for updates and information for admission processes, updates on the application status, registration date, updates, and more. It creates hassles for students, parents, and admissions officers.

However, with the Education ERP system communication with parents and students becomes super convenient. With Academia Applicant Portal, they can check the application status, fee requisite, offer letter, and all the updates. Once the application is accepted, the application portal turns into a student portal and students/parents can check all the information, of course, attendance, fee, scholarship, etc.

  • Superior parents experience 

Nowadays, both parents are working professionals. They have a scarcity of time and resources. They don’t want to come to the institute, stand in the long queue, fill out the form and wait for updates. They expect today’s educational institutions to be advanced and agile.

Using admission management can help schools and higher education to fulfill their expectations. Administrators can send automated SMS/email via the software. With the use of Apps and Parent Portal, they can do all the processes from the comfort of their workplace or home. The Education ERP makes sure that admission can be done anytime from anywhere, without any complexity.

  • Multiple academy control

Many institutions have multiple academies at various locations. And it becomes difficult to align the admission process, reports, and records in all the academies. It also creates a non-uniform experience for students and parents and thereby decreases the brand value or experience of the institution.

With an online admission process, you can control all the academies from one platform irrespective of their location. You can easily link them together, and access the information whenever you want. It also helps to understand the performance of each institution, compare them with each other, and analyze where improvements are required. It brings a smoother workflow across all the locations and helps in institutional development.

In the end

To sum up, the admissions management system is a necessity not a luxury anymore. Schools and Higher Education Institutions have to empower their admission process with automation and bring seamless and efficacious administrative processes.

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Benefits of Academia Institute Management: Module Guide 101

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

A smart way to accelerate academic operations and introduce efficiency is by shifting to automation. A good education ERP not only offers 360-degree automation but also brings about a digital transformation in the institute ensuring a competitive edge.

With 20+ modules and configurable features, Academia by Serosoft is an award-winning college management system that is helping thousands of educators and students across 10 countries.

These series outline in detail the key modules offered by Academia that effectively automate the administrative processes in an institution.

Campus Setup

This feature particularly manages the setup and information related to the college administration. The module can create as well as simultaneously manage several academic departments. Being customizable, it’s terminologies, underlying features and labels can be changed or modified based on the institute’s needs. In the case of institutions managing several campuses, the campus setup can also efficiently separate set of terminologies for each one of them.

Additionally, the module also configures and maps biometric device details for its various classes, labs and program rooms. One of the most notable features is the provision offered to download documents in bulk for applicants, students as well as the faculty.

It is capable of controlling the entire campus management process on a single platform. Academia also provides mobile applications for students and a responsive faculty portal for teachers to manage their tasks via mobile/tablet.

Pre-admission/Admission Management

As the name suggests, this module primarily creates and manages admission applications for the institution. It lets students apply through the online application form facility on the institute’s website along with managing the application form sale and generating an offer letter.

A major manual task that this module digitizes is converting inquiries into applications and applications into admissions. All of this while storing precise information and records of every student registration. It also comes with a feature to create and manage various enquiry and application reports. Some of them include statistical reports for applications & admissions including target achieved, conversion percentage and YOY increase. Pre-admission and admission management module also generates a detailed report of applicants at each stage of the process with their respective statuses and ranks.

In a nutshell, this module manages all aspects surrounding admissions including campaigns, registrations, online forms, and inquiries. The online application portal helps parents and students with numerous queries related to the processes and relieves the prospective students from multiple inquiry visits to the college.

Program & Course Management

One of the most vital modules for any institution, this one creates and manages the plethora of programs & courses offered by different departments in a college. Managing them includes defining the credits, hours and sections for the programs as well as setting up limits for programs being offered within a semester. It also maps programs & courses with respect to the sessions, i.e. programs offered within a session and with respect to courses, i.e programs offered within a course.

A program & course management module offers features to define student advisors and program coordinators. It also lays out the period name and underlying terms according to the specific duration, reporting cycle and program intake of an academic year.

Its features simplify, centralize and organize the management system. With a single database system and integration of departments, it allows information to flow seamlessly. This lets decision-makers to monitor, control processes and efficiently manage with 24*7 access to data.

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What Makes College Management System Software Beneficial for Institutes?

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Higher education is no longer confined to the four walls of a classroom. It is moving beyond the limitations of time and geographical boundaries. Along with students, institutions are also advancing on various fronts. They have empowered themselves with advanced technologies, the latest software, superior facilities and so on to attract more and more students and increase retention rates.

With the advent of the digital revolution, the higher education sector is rapidly advancing and exploring newer realms.  Nowadays, institutions are increasingly installing college management software to handle all administrative processes digitally.  From admission campaigns to course completion and even placement management is handled through this digital solution. 

What is a College Management System software?

It is an enterprise resource planning software that comes with SaaS(cloud-based ) or on-premise or hybrid technology. It is a feature-rich solution to manage college administration processes. It consists of multiple modules that efficiently take care of various departments in the institution. This comprehensive suite is built on cutting-edge technology streamlines the complete student life-cycle.

Here are the modules that Academia College ERP offers:


  • Campus Setup
  • Program Management
  • Admission Management
  • Course Management
  • Academic Registration
  • Time Table Management
  • Front Desk Management
  • Exam Management
  • Fee Management
  • HR Management

Recommended reading: Importance of Library Management System in Education Industry

What are the major benefits of college management system software?

In layman terms, it simplifies, centralizes and organizes the management system. With a single database system and integration of department and makes the seamless information flow. It allows decision-makers and admin staff to monitor, control processes and assist in record management with 24*7 access to data.

Here are the key benefits of college ERP

  • Apt Workflow

With a smooth departmental connection and a single database, staff members can exchange information in real-time. It reduces the delay in departmental work and makes it faster. Automation of these processes leads to efficient and productive management. This software helps students to view their updates, faculty members to manage their timetable, calendar, and schedule lectures, and administrative staff to keep a track of all processes.

  • Excellent Control

Record management in higher education is a complex process. Since it has multiple courses, programs and thousands of students, it is very challenging to keep every single piece of information handy. With cutting-edge technology, diverse reporting and flexible configuration; the college management system makes it very smooth and simple to manage endless records. And, anyone in the higher power such as registrar, dean or director can track the administrative process anytime he or she wants to and that too with detailed reporting. 

Recommended reading: How Educational Institutions Save Time and Money with Education ERP

  • Agile Decision Making

College admins go through endless documents on a daily basis. The management and decision-makers often need to check files manually and that consumes a lot of their time. Digitization helps collate and analyze these documents in less time using comprehensive analytics. Faster decisions lead to faster actions and thereby increase the credibility of the institution.

Academia ERP is a cloud-based college management system software that offers efficient campus management while addressing every single requirement of the institute. 

Take a free demo, talk to our expert and check out what latest features it has to offer. 

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How does ERP Software works for an Educational Institute?

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

ERP or Enterprise resource planning is initially used by companies such as retail, accounting, corporate governance, corporate law, etc. Big enterprises started using ERP first and now due to its positive impact on the overall productivity and increased ROI (Return on Investment), Mid Size/small companies are also started implementing ERP for the management of the organization.

ERP in the education industry is best known as the Student Information System or Education ERP. Education Institutes use ERP to manage and monitor all kinds of administrative activities. It assists in admissions, examinations, class & course management, time-table management, employee management, human resource, and many more.

What is Education ERP software?

What Education ERP can do will be better understood when you’ll understand what Education ERP is. Education ERP consists of multiple modules for departments. From admission campaign to student registration, from class management to course management, from student attendance to employee timesheet.

Everything within the campus of the institute can be managed by Education ERP. It is also known as the Campus Management System.

Education ERP also comes with integration to deal with other processes such as online payment, payroll management, learning management system, library management, and more.

Learn more about ERP in education

How does ERP Software Work for an Educational Institute?

Here are the following ways in which ERP software work for an educational institute.

1.    Admission Management

All education administrative process starts with admission. It can be selection processes, admission campaign, admission examination, etc. ERP software for an Educational Institute has a separate module to take care of all the details and processes related to admission. After the setup,  it can also manage inquiry details, inquiry follow-ups, targeted numbers of admission details, details of expenses whether the target achieved or not, etc.

2.    Examination Management

Examinations are conducted in three steps. Pre-examination processes, execution and, post-examination reporting. Student Information System can integrate all these processes. It makes it easier to collect, arrange and distribute all the information related to examinations. Room allocation, exam-center arrangement, teacher/faculty allocation and everything else can be recorded and executed via this.

It also helps in the grading system, marking, and mark sheets distribution to students. Here are the advantages of School ERP in the examination.

3.    Course and Classroom Management

After student enrolment there comes the course and classroom management. With this module, educational institutes can keep records of course they offer, which course is assigned to which student and teachers, records of multiple courses assigned to single students is also possible with.

Some Education ERP also provides provision for distance learning course management where you can manage resources related to books and other stationery details.

4.    Student Management

Student management is keeping detailed information of all the students. Their fee and bill payment record, enrolled course details, their personal details, hostel details, assessment details, attendance details, co-curricular activities and more. Teachers and students can also access this information via their respective portal.

5.    Employee Management

Just like student management, employee management keeps the details of employees. Teachers can create and maintain time-table, they can fill-in and view their details and duty they are allotted to. Their activity record is also recorded in this module.

6.    Fee & Bill Payment Management

Educational institutes handle multiple fee & bill payment processes. Thousand of book purchase details, students’ fee, examination fee, other activities payment and many more. It complex and one mistake can lead to multiple errors in the balance sheet.

Education ERP is designed to manage this process as well. It comes with integrated accounting software such as Tally to manage all accounting related tasks.

Here the benefits of Fee & Payment Management:

https://www.academiaerp.com/7-benefits-of-using-a-student-fee-management-system/

Conclusion

ERP in education is designed to smooth the academic processes in institutions. It is freeing teachers from mundane tasks and enabling them to focus on their passion for education. Not only educators, but also students, and their parents are getting benefits with Education ERP implementation in institutes. It gives them transparent and more active participation in academic activity.

What do you think, is ERP good for the education sector? Will it change education as we know it?

Top Functionalities of ERP Modules for Educational Institutions

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions serve various functions utilizing different ERP modules to accomplish institutional goals. According to the nature of the business, modules for ERP solutions solve various departmental needs. Since we at Academia ERP provide ERP solutions for educational institutions, we will keep the scope of this blog post specific to education sector. We will discuss ERP modules for educational institutions.

An ERP for educational institutions comes with multitude of functions fundamental to the type of institution it is being used for, per se, University, a single Higher Education institute such as a college, School or Group of Schools. These solutions are also evolving with time as technology is advancing. If you are looking to implement a solution for your institute then we are listing major modules you should keep an eye for.

Major ERP modules for Educational Institutions are:

  • Campus Management
  • Admission Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Enquiries Management
  • Student Management
  • Fee and Billing Management
  • Subject Management
  • Class Management
  • Timetable Management
  • Examination Management
  • Certificate and Document Management
  • Control Panel
  • Business Analytics
  • Human Resource Management
  • Reporting

The above modules are major ones, a full-fledged Education ERP such as Academia ERP comes with 16 modules and is capable of handling the complete student life cycle management – right from admission to course completions till graduation for higher education. It is capable of managing all the departments in your institute with analytics and reporting for centralized monitoring for group of institutes.

Now, since you know about the available modules in education ERP, let’s also learn about the functionality of these modules.

Here are the top functionalities of Education ERP Modules:

  1. Streamlines Admission Process:

Admission process in educational institutions usually involves these steps: inquiry, form sale, form submission, application, document submission, shortlisting, examination, counselling and whatnot. When it comes to higher education institutions, such as college or university the admission process gets more complex. An education ERP solution helps institutions to integrate all the above processes in one module. It simplifies the process for institutes and life of academic staff.

  1. Trouble-free Program and Course Management:

Higher educational institutions run many programs and courses, simultaneously managing enrolments in these courses. Keeping a manual record of all the programs and courses with student enrolment records can become cumbersome. Using a system such as Academia College ERP software can help to easily manage different programs offered by your institute and enrol or remove pupils as per your requirements.

  1. Efficient Examination Management:

Conducting exams is a task in itself, there are many pre-examination and post-examination operations involved such as finalizing examination schedule, setting up exam centre, staff allocation, assessment scheme setup, exam execution, results declaration and distribution, and much more. The examination module in education ERP comes with a complete set of features to make examination process more efficient. Academia ERP also enables you to control the type of marking you want to use. It can also provide a relative grading system to improve the overall result of your institute.

  1. Easily Govern Institute Administration:

With ERP implementation in your institution, it becomes easy to control hostel, transportation, inventory and other administration activities involved. It provides you access to every minute details related to administrations activities and ancillary units fundamental to functioning of educational institutions such as hostels, transportation, inventory etc. For example, with hostel management module you insert the physical design of your hostel like no. rooms, floor, bed, etc. transportation module provides you real-time geo location information of your institute’s vehicles.

  1. Delight Faculties and Students:

With efficient management of student records, admissions, program and courses, examination, administration activities etc. Faculties or teaching staff save a lot of time to focus their time, energy and creativity on academic activities. With the adoption of new technology teachers become innovative with their teaching methods, students are more involved in class, thus, increasing productivity of the institute overall.

  1. Accurate Finance and Accounts Management:

The fee and bill payments module of education ERP lets you manage all the activities related to finance and accounting, such as, fee and bill payment, employee payrolls, scholarships, and sponsorship. This is gives you the power and control to manage the financial records from one centralized system. You can generate all kinds of associated reports such as receipts, bills, outstanding payments, account settlements, etc.

Conclusion

An ERP solution for educational institutions has many capabilities. The technology is the future of education management. We would encourage you to explore the technology in-depth and give it a try.

Do you think you can give it a try for your institute? A free demo can give you an in-depth understanding of the functionalities.

5 Reasons Why You Should Use Admission Management System

Posted on by Hemant Mahajan

It is the season of admissions. And you be an administrator at a school, college, or university, we are sure you are piled under admission enquiries. We understand these are chaotic times for you that eat up a large chunk of your time. But don’t forget this is also the most crucial and profitable time of the year for your institute.

Are you aware of the fact that there are software programs to take care of the admission process, and they can run them smoothly and effectively?

You came here to know whether your institution needs an Admission Management System or not.

Let us help you to figure out via these questions.

  • Are you facing a decrement in the application and admission rate?
  • Is it difficult for you to track the details of all the inquiries on a real-time basis?
  • Are you missing the target of admission?
  • Are applicants from your institute choosing other institutes?
  • Do you want to increase the efficiency of your institution?

You might find them unrelated to your problems but they are highly relevant for an effective admission process. You will need to go through the statistics and deep analytics to answer these questions.

If you do enough research and ponder these questions you will find, that many institutes are already adapted to automation in the admissions department. They are getting various benefits after automation.

What are the major benefits of an admission management system?

1. Manage Admission Inquiry Online

Pre-admission is the beginning step of the admission process, it turns the inquiry into an application if it runs smoothly. If an institution doesn’t have a proper management process to resolve the query of applicants, the admission rate will go down.

However, with an Admission Management System, this can be simplified. It helps in the opening, closing, and reopening of the inquiries, therefore, helps increment the resolution rate.

2. Easy payment processing

Admissions require various types of payment processes such as form fees, registration fees, enrollment fees, etc. It is a tough task to maintain records of all the payments. Also, it is prone to human error. Admission Management System can help in streamlining payment processes which will be error-free and less time taking.

3. Applicant Status Setting

After applying for admission, students and their parents get eager to check the application status.

They have to call or even come to the institution over and over for updates, which is quite inconvenient for them.

Admission Management System provides features by which applicants can check their application status. Some education ERP, for example, Academia, provides an applicant portal exclusively for applicants, they can it use to check application status, upload and download documents, fee payment, etc. anytime they want.

4. Improved Communication

Have you ever noticed that applicants lost interest in your institution because of a communication gap?

With the help of a student management system, you can avoid this from happening. It provides a chatbot or other communication functionalities that improve communication between applicants and institutions.

5. Uniformity in admission across multiple academies

Do you have multiple academies or are you part of a group of institutes?

How do you manage the admissions process in all these academies altogether?

It might seem impossible but a student management system can manage all the processes in a very smooth way. All admission inquiries, payments, bills, etc for multiple academies can be managed through this system.

Bottom Line

The way of managing academic processes is changing, people are attracted to an advanced, efficient management system with quicker processing time. An institute integrated with updated education technology performs better thereby increasing the students’ satisfaction and admission rate.

Admission Management System can make academic processes in your institute super easy and efficient. Are you ready for the advancement? Book a demo here