Training Resources and On-Demand Webinar Recordings

SchoolAdmin Office Hours

Join us in a virtual classroom to ask how-to questions or learn about new/existing features. Please work with SchoolAdmin Support for all site changes, form builds, new field creation, import templates, integration troubleshooting, and site-specific issues. I cannot display anyone's site during these sessions to maintain privacy and security of your data. Click here to learn what changes Support needs to manage for you. Everything else can be taught within an Office Hours session!
Click here to register for an upcoming session, held every Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.

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Professional Training & Consulting Services

Empower yourself and your team with a customized training and consulting session that's available in a variety of formats based on your needs:

Web-based for 3 hours (half day) or 6 hours (full day or two 3 hour sessions).
Austin-based training at the SchoolAdmin Office in Texas for 1 or 2 days.
On-site training at your school. Click here to learn more!

Email courtneysingle@schooladmin.com for pricing information and a customized training plan.

SchoolAdmin User Community

SchoolAdmin Enrollment Leaders Slack Community

Click here to learn how to join the online community of SchoolAdmin users to ask questions to each other and share ideas!
SchoolAdmin Enrollment Leaders/Slack User Guide

New Features and Updates

Click here to read about new features and updates thanks to your valuable feedback! We announce major features via an alert within the product that you can access by clicking on the Help icon and then click on the back arrow in the upper left of the chat window.

SchoolAdmin Blog

Click here to read thought leadership pieces on how to better manage your admissions and enrollment process.

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Parent Help Center

All parents have access to 24/7 support within the 'Online Parent Help Center' which can be accessed via the 'help' icon in the upper right of the Parent Portal. Best Practice: Link to this page within your email signature so parents can get help when your school is closed for the day or over the weekend. Within this page, parents can find answers to topics such as:

Submitting an Application
Student Checklist
Authentication Codes
Contracts/Registration
Multiple Signatures
And more!

If you have suggestions on additional topics/questions you receive that are not answered in the parent help center, please email courtneysingle@schooladmin.com so I can review your request!

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Webinar Courses and Recording Links

The Child Centric Model (30 Mins)

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In this webinar, we'll discuss the following:

What it means to be a "child-centric" system
Definition of "in workflow" and "out of workflow"
Role Types and Statuses Explained
How Students vs Parents, Siblings and Consultants are stored in the system
Household Management

Introduction to Prospects (30 Mins)
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Learn the difference between a Prospect and an Inquiry and how you should capture this information in the system so it works best for your Admissions workflow. This session will cover the following:

Prospect vs Inquiry
How to add additional information to a prospect record
Reporting on and managing your prospects
Converting prospects to inquiries
Custom admissions statuses

Introduction to Inquiries: Establishing Relationships through Early Engagement (1 Hr)

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In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to engage your potential candidates and manage the inquiry process for a stronger yield. In order to make the most of your first impression, some of the topics we’ll review are:

How to ask compelling questions on your inquiry form to get more students on campus
Checklist management
Communication tracking
Event registration
Bulk actions
Search and Reports
Admissions Report
Dashboard and Funnel

Contact Record Navigation (1 hr)

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The Contact Record is where you'll manage all important details of your prospective and current familie's journey through your admissions and enrollment processes. This course will review the following:

Key Information Area
Student Profile Picture
Communicate, Edit, and Manage Contract menu's
Primary Parent Info area
Summary Tab (Checklists, Related Contacts, Reminders, Recent Activity, Form and Document Submission History).
Personal Tab (How to edit fields and how to customize what fields display in this tab).
Admissions Tab (How to edit fields and how to customize what fields display in this tab).
Households Tab (Household Details, Household Membership, and Parent Portal Access)-History Tab (Track a complete history of status changes, notes, activities and emails).

Household and Relationship Management and Parent Portal Authentication (1 hr)

Learn how to add and edit relationships and related contact information, how to manage household addresses and members within each, and how to manage parent portal access permissions and authentication.

Checklist Management (1 hr)

Learn how to optimize your admissions and/or enrollment checklist! This session will cover the following:

Best practices for naming and creating checklist items
Best practices for checklist explanations and how to customize the font styles.
Checklist item types and views
How to report on complete and incomplete items
How to setup automated communication plans to nudge families through your funnel

Calendars and Event Scheduling: Connecting with Families to Set Yourself Apart (1 hr)

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The key to a strong recruitment program is the ability to convert inquiries into campus visits and set yourself apart from the competition. Campus events allow you to connect with families and help them see their place in the story of the school. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

Create calendars and appointments
Manage scheduling and email options
Link calendars to checklist items
Create reports and directories on calendar events

Introduction to Admissions: Finding the Perfect Match for Matriculation (1 hr)

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Click here for the PPT

In this webinar, you’ll be introduced to the Admissions Process, using your Application Form and Checklist. We’ll explore both as a parent and then as an Admin with some best practices put into place. In addition, we’ll explore the following:

Parent Portal Account Creation and log-in
Form Imports and Duplicate Matching
Bulk Actions within the Admissions List Page
Communication Management
Application Checklist Management
Admissions related Search and Reports
Admissions Report

Admissions Refresh (1 Hr)

This training session is seasonal.

Click here for the help article!

Learn how to update all key areas of the system so your Admissions Process is up to date for the next school year!

Parent Accounts, Authentication and Portal Views (30 Mins)

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Learn how to manage parent accounts, authentication and what parents can/cannot see in the Parent Portal. In this webinar, we'll discuss the following:

Parent Portal Account Creation
How to Reset Parent Passwords
How to Update Parent Portal Email Addresses
How to Send Authentication Codes
How to See if Parents are Authenticated
How to Revoke or Re-Assign Authentication
What statuses are viewable by the parent
Contact Communication Area

Communication Template Creation and Customization (30 Mins)

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Creating a personalized and timely communication flow to engage with your prospects over time is critical to your yield. In this course you'll learn how to do the following:

Create personalized email and letter templates using merge fields and school images
How to send emails individually and in bulk
How to generate PDF's of letters
Create customized name badges for events
How to send text messages
Sent and Failed Email History
Email history within contact records
A brief introduction to automated messages

Communications (1 Hr)

Creating a personalized and timely communication flow to engage with your prospects over time is critical to your yield. In this course you'll learn how to do the following:

Communication Best Practices
Create personalized email and letter templates using merge fields, school images and signatures with links to important pages and media.
How to send emails individually and in bulk
How to generate PDF's of letters
Create customized name badges for events
How to send text messages
Sent and Failed Email History
Email history within contact records
A brief introduction to automated messages

Automated Communication Plans (1 Hr)

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Learn how to setup mission-appropriate communications to engage candidates at the right time to boost enrollment. This training will cover:

Best Practices to create a communication plan
Triggers
Actions
Information-based messages
Interest-based messages

New Admin Training (1 hour)
This training is a great starting point for anyone new to SchoolAdmin! It’ll provide you with a very high level overview of your daily workflow, touching upon each key are of the system, including:

Dashboard
How to track and manage your newest inquiries and applicants
List Page Functionality and Bulk Actions
Admin/Parent Checklist Management
Contact Record Attributes
Search and Reports

The Fab Four Features to Work Smarter, not Harder this Admissions Season (1 hour).
Learn how to disconnect from your desk with personalized automation, while optimizing the parent experience using the following features:

Build an Inquiry Checklist for Engagement Tracking
Admin and Parent Portal Widgets/Landing Pages
Bulk File Upload
Automated Communication Plans

Bulk File Upload (30 Mins)

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Uploading documents such as transcripts in bulk is a huge time-saver. In the Bulk File Upload course, you'll learn how to do the following:

Upload a bulk PDF file
Navigate through a contact matching process for document assignment
Manually assign documents with undetected contact names
Review and confirm matches to assign to checklist

Search and Reports Training: Making the Most of Your Data (1 Hr)

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This webinar will not only cover how to conduct a search and create a report, but you’ll learn how to find contacts in the system and the bulk actions you can perform on these contacts. In order to make the most of your data within SchoolAdmin, you’ll need to know where and how to populate the information that’s most important to you. You’ll gain an understanding of the following search types and their application:

Quick Search
Admissions Funnel and Current Counts within the Dashboard
Contact lists within the Admissions and Enrollment pages
List Page columns and sorting
How to use filter options within the Dashboard and a List Page.
Bulk Action menu's within a List Page
Search criteria defined
How to build an "and" search as well as an "or" search
4 Report Types
Add additional columns to a report and how to navigate the field groupings list
Save a report
How to mark a field as searchable

Review Module Training (1 Hr)

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The SchoolAdmin Review Module allows schools to combine the information collected during a Student’s application process into an easy to read package for readers to score and make recommendations. Input from the readers is collected into a summary list that facilitates the Review Committee's decision-making. This webinar will cover the following:

Setting up the documents for review, the candidate cover sheet, rating criteria, review list columns and filters, and preliminary decision types
Setting up reader-only access and assigning reader access to existing users
How to review a candidate as a reader-only
How to review a candidate as an existing user
Committee review page and decision making
Review searches
How to make status changes after decisions have been made

Enrollment Management: Establishing a Streamlined Process for New and Returning Students (1 hr)

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This training will walk you through the steps needed for your returning students and your new students. Topics include:

How to rollover returning students and how to move new students into Enrollment
Enrollment Communications
Contract Lifecycle
Checklist Management
Tuition and Fee Management
Financial Line Items and Payment History Reports
Enrollment Report
Enrollment Searches
Authentication Codes and Parent Portal Password Reset
Enrollment Statuses Explained
Tuition and Deposit Override Fields
How to view contract fees and fee rules

Rollover and New Student Enrollment (30 Mins)

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Learn how to rollover returning students into Enrollment for the new school year, and how to move your new students into enrollment after decisions were made. This training will also review contract communications for enrolled families, parent authentication and checklist management.

Contract Generation and Management (30 Mins)

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Learn how to preview, generate, and view contracts for new and returning students. This session will also review the different contract states and how to manage contract amounts.

Enrollment Checklist Management (1 Hr)

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Learn how to monitor the completion of enrollment checklist items to get families fully enrolled before the deadline. This session will cover the following:

Contract states
Deposit/Registration Fee completion
FACTS integration
How to create and save custom enrollment searches
Enrollment checklist follow-up communications

Enrollment Reports (30 Mins)

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Learn how to create Enrollment specific reports to capture student and contract statuses, contract amounts, and checklist reports. Additional examples can be shown based on client request.

Enrollment Refresh Process (1 Hr)

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This training will guide you through the Enrollment Refresh tool located in your general settings. You'll learn how to prepare for the upcoming enrollment year by updating items such as communications, contract language, tuition and fees, and more. You'll also use the enrollment process checklist to learn how to rollover your returning students and enroll your new students.