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Moving Students From FACTS Application to Enrollment
We often receive calls about moving students from the FACTS Application to Enrollment stage. This outline provides a step-by-step guide to moving students, and also shows the additional steps necessary if you use FACTS Incidental Billing instead of Student Billing….
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Top Security for All Schools
Mike Walters is the chief information officer at Nelnet Business Solutions — FACTS’ parent company. His 27 years of experience include various roles in IT and processing for life insurance companies. Throughout his career, he’s had one goal: keeping data…
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Update Your Contacts in FACTS
It’s that time of year to make sure your contacts and school enrollment size are updated in the FACTS Tuition Management and Grant & Aid Assessment systems. To update your enrollment size, please contact your account manager or account management…
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Life Hack: When the Enrollment/Marketing Team is Just You
While some schools may have an entire team focused on enrollment or marketing, many institutions lack the resources to staff a multi-personnel enrollment, marketing, or admissions office. So, if your team consists of one person (maybe that person is you!),…
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Cybersecurity While Traveling
Summer is finally here and vacation season is in full-swing. We all know that proper planning helps make for a perfect vacation. And, with these simple cybersecurity tips, you too can have a marvelous, relaxed getaway. Planning Your Vacation: Avoid…
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5 Tips to Rock Recruitment Emails
You have an emailing platform and you’re ready to start sending mass emails to help grow your student enrollment — but not sure how to write the message? Start with these five tips to help get you on your way….
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Sneak Peek of FACTS Elevate
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the FACTS Elevate conference (formerly the RenWeb Power Conference). At the conference, schools have been able to meet with FACTS experts, learn about industry best practices, and — perhaps most importantly — connect…
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End of Year Progression
While students are running off to summer break, teachers are preparing their FACTS Student Information System (SIS) database for next school year. Fear not! We’re here to help you wrap up 2018-2019 and get things ready for the next school…
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Prevent “Juice Jacking”
Have you ever noticed how quickly your phone needs to be recharged? When you’re traveling and see your “low battery” phone light turn on, it’s easy to turn to charging kiosks or public USB charging ports. However, as helpful as…
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Powered by School Site
Our school’s website was in desperate need of a face lift. It lacked the basic video capabilities and reliable analytic feedback required to effectively gauge our marketing efforts. That all changed when we inquired with School Site. Not only has…
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Incomplete Applications and Pending Agreements
FACTS Grant & Aid Incomplete Applications Unsure why an application is marked incomplete? In the FACTS Grant & Aid dashboard, hover on “Grant & Aid,” then click on “Dashboard” from the drop down to see the information that’s missing. …
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The Grant Management Tool
Grant Management is a great tool for tracking funds and award decisions for FACTS Grant & Aid users. It allows the award information to be used in reports, tracks award data from year to year, and gives the ability to…
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