Make Payment Plans Part of Your School Marketing
How to Go From “Top Three” to “Final Choice”: Tips for Working with Potential School Families Why do families send their students to private schools? Smaller class sizes with more instructor-student interaction? Improved student safety? Higher academic standards and better…
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February SIS Reminders
As we settle into the second semester, we receive questions about progress reports, duplicate people in the SIS, and what to do if a parent has a hard time logging into their FACTS account. Included below are tips, HubHelp links,…
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Assisting Spanish-Speaking Families
Families have had to make many adjustments over the last year – and navigating online learning is just one of them. Imagine being a parent managing your child’s school information online in a language in which you are not fluent….
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FACTS Partners with Xceed Anywhere to Offer Summer Learning Options
Cognia-accredited school is in position to support FACTS schools through summer virtual learning program As FACTS schools seek alternative options for their students who need summer school instruction, Xceed Anywhere, a private virtual school for students in grades 6-12, known…
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FACTS SIS January Updates
The New Year has arrived, and this is the time when schools need information about the new student onboarding process, Application & Enrollment, and semester-end processes. This article outlines tips and best practices that will be useful at this point…
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Building a School Software Ecosystem
Schools globally demonstrated extraordinary agility in 2020. For many, the impacts of COVID-19 highlighted that the systems and software they use to run their school is, in many senses, holding them back. School shutdowns and a move to remote learning…
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Your 2021-22 Financial Aid Strategy
Megan Fangmeyer, product manager for FACTS Grant & Aid Assessment, recently hosted a webinar on how schools should refine their financial aid strategies for the upcoming school year. Megan has worked at FACTS for 11 years and spends most of…
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November SIS Reminders
As we near the end of the semester, we’re highlighting some of the FACTS SIS resources available to help you be more effective in your role at school. HubHelp Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to FACTS SIS, the…
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Becoming a Cashless Business Office
In March 2020, school business offices had their workflows and procedures well documented and communicated with families. But when COVID-19 hit, new processes had to be created and institutions needed to adapt quickly to meet student needs under a contactless…
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Why Don’t We Just Do a Billboard?
Educating Your Staff on Effective Marketing A billboard may not be the most effective way to advertise your school in 2020. I’d argue that the only successful billboard is one that has a big arrow pointing down to show families…
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The Partnership Between Leadership and Enrollment
Enrollment directors are responsible for bringing in the majority of revenue for our schools, but they aren’t always invited into leadership circles or involved in decision making. How would you characterize the relationship between enrollment and leadership at your school? Great? Getting there? Nonexistent? Unfortunately, sometimes leadership doesn’t fully understand that enrollment and marketing are…
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