Secure Internet Access
SAS was built as an Internet application, thus all elements can be made available in a totally
secure manner to all stakeholders.
Schools that allow inquiries, students, instructors and admin staff access SAS anywhere, anytime
save a great deal of time and thus money, significantly increasing profits.
- Marketing & Sales
- On-line inquiries that are entered directly into SAS, reducing staff input time.
- Automatic responses to on-line inquiries - emails are sent that include information on the programs of interest.
- Email and letter campaigns to contacts, for instance, attendees at open houses.
- Students can
- Register on line.
- Update their contact information - address, email, etc.
- Check on upcoming courses.
- View their attendance, marks, transcripts, pay history, etc.
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- Agents can
- Check course availability on-line.
- Register students directly into your school and pay by credit card.
- Check on students' attendance & marks from their offices.
- Staff
- Instructors can enter marks/attendance from home.
- Managers can run reports anywhere in the world.
- Admin staff can do some work from home, accommodating today's parental demands and
commuting challenges.
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Registration
- Add Basic Information
- Edit Basic Information
- Register in a Program
- Edit a Program Registration
- Register in a Semester
- Edit a Semester Registration
- Register in a Course
- Edit a Course Registration
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- Adjust Courses in a Program
- Add Transfer Credit
- Edit Transfer Credit
- Set up a Payment Plan
- Edit a Payment Plan
- Add More Payment Plan Installments
- Record a Payment
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There are several components to Student Information:
- Basic information such as address, birth date, etc. that doesn't
change often. This
information is entered only once, regardless of how many programs the student takes.
- Program information with associated data about semesters, courses,
marks and attendance.
- Accounting information about each program, including payments,
payment plans, student loans, balance owing, etc.
Students may use a public interface to register for courses, produce
transcripts, check on progress, view upcoming course offerings, etc.
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Student Administration
- Display Basic Information
- Set up a Payment Plan
- Edit a Payment Plan
- Add More Payment Plan Installments
- Record a Payment
- Display a Payment Receipt
- Display a Balance Owing Invoice
- Create Letter of Acceptance
- Display Student Schedules
- Display Students in a Program
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- Add/Edit/Display Attendance
- Add/Edit/Display Marks
- Display a Student Transcript
- Display Attendance/Marks Record
- Add/Display Progress Report
- Outstanding Events Reports
- Student Loan Follow-up
- Add Correspondence
- Edit Correspondence
- Send Correspondence
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Once a student is registered, all information about progress and payments is maintained.
Letters of Acceptance follow the preferred format for
Canada Immigration and Citizenship.
Progress reports are available in formats specified by funding
sources such as HRDC and Student Loans.
There are four built-in styles of transcripts which can be customized.
Communication with students and alumni is critical so you can create
stock emails and letters to send to many students or create a message to send to
a single student.
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Program Administration
- Add a New Program
- Edit Program Information
- Add a New Course
- Edit Course Information
- Add a New Semester
- Edit Semester Information
- Attendance Sheets
- Add/Edit/Display Attendance
- Add/Edit/Display Marks
- Display Students in a Program
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- Program Marks/Attendance Summary
- Program Follow-up Results
- List of Starts
- Program Availability Report
- Display Full Course Information
- Display Courses in a Program
- PCTIA Program Info Form
- Display Transcripts
- Text/Supplies Outstanding
- Class Attendance Sheet
- Course Choices
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Program information is maintained in this module.
Attendance sheets can be produced for manual tracking of attendance or
instructors can input attendance directly into the system.
Attendance
and marks can be entered for entire classes, similar to a spreadsheet. Calculations are handled
automatically and Course data is rolled up to the Semester and Program levels.
There are a variety of reports for management oversight and planning
as well as forms for submission to PCTIA.
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Accounting
- Income Report
- Outstanding Accounting Events
- Unearned Revenue Report
- Federal Tax Receipts
- Add a Bank
- Edit a Bank
- Bank Deposit Report
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The System handles all Accounts Receivable functions for student fees and produces
Income Reports as well as reports required by PCTIA, such as Unearned Revenue.
Yearly income tax receipts are calculated by the System and then merged to a
Word document
to print the tri-part forms.
Reminder reports help staff to manage their time and supervisors to monitor
workload.
If your school has multiple banks, you may indicate where each payment
is being deposited and then produce reports.
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Inventory
- Add Item
- Edit Item
- Add a Supplier
- Edit a Supplier
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- Add Transaction
- Inventory Historical Report
- Inventory Projection Report
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If your school maintains a stock of texts and supplies, you can associate
these with both sources and with courses.
Historical reports show what inventory you have used over a period of
time and how well staff have maintained minimum levels.
Projection reports help anticipate how many of each item you will need in
the future based on course enrollment.
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Staff Information
- Add Staff Information
- Edit Staff Information
- Adjust Security Access
- Adjust Group Access
- Staff Reports
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- Display Staff Summary
- Add Correspondence
- Edit Correspondence
- Send Correspondence
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Staff who are using the System require passwords as well as authorization for
menu items. Staff only see menu options they are authorized to see. In addition, program
coordinators and instructors are limited to the programs and courses with which they are
associated.
You may also create and send emails and letters to staff.
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Contacts
- Add a Contact
- Edit a Contact
- List or Communicate
- Add Correspondence
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- Edit Correspondence
- Add Group
- Edit Group
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This module enables you to enter, track, and correspond with media, employers,
practicum hosts, government representatives, etc.
You may assign contacts to groups such as Funding Sources which
feed dropdown lists elsewhere in the system.
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Agent Information
- Add Agent Information
- Edit Agent Information
- Display Agent Summary
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- Add Correspondence
- Edit Correspondence
- Send Correspondence
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Agents are important to the success of many schools. International students are
associated with their agents and the program calculates the amount owing to agents.
There is also a correspondence routine so you can communicate with all your
agents at once, either by email or letter.
Agents may also be given access to parts of the system to register students,
check on progress, etc.
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Homestay Information
- Register Student for Homestay
- Edit Student Registration
- Match Student with Host
- Add Homestay Company/Host
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- Edit Homestay Company/Host
- Add Correspondence
- Edit Correspondence
- Send Correspondence
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Whether you have a third party company handle homestay or in-house staff,
this module helps store and retrieve the necessary information.
You may also allow students to apply for homestay on-line and do their
own matches to find compatible host families.
Host families can apply on-line and maintain their records, including
dates when rooms are available.
In short, you can offer a homestay service that virtually runs
itself.
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Campuses
- Add Campus Information
- Edit Campus Information
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Managing multiple campuses and sharing information among them are strong
features of the System.
By associating programs with campuses, reports can be produced for
each campus as well as the whole school.
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MIS Reports-- Case Study
- Income Report
- Planned Payment Installments
- Anticipated Revenue Report
- Unearned Revenue Report
- Inquiry Tracking Reports
- Program Availability Report
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- Admission Rep Reports
- Outstanding Student Events
- Outstanding Accounting Events
- Placement Report
- Annual Accreditation Report
- Report Generator
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Up-to-the-minute information is available to management at any time,
facilitating timely, well-considered strategic decisions.
Accredited schools can produce their Annual Accreditation Report with just a
few keystrokes.
The Report Generator allows you to create and save custom reports on all the
data in the System and is a very powerful management tool. You can also produce labels, emails
and letters for special criteria.
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System Options
- Change School Options
- Change Financial Options
- Change Calendar Options
- Change the Menu
- Configure User-Defined Fields
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- Add a Source
- Edit a Source
- Add a Country/Nationality
- Edit a Country/Nationality
- Change Mark Mapping
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You control a great deal about the System, including images,
background and text colours, and a myriad of behaviours related to financials and
calendar information.
You can control and change many things without the intervention of the
System developers, such as marketing sources and mapping of letter grades to percentage marks
and Grade Point Averages for automatic inclusion on transcripts.
All modules have an abundance of User-defined Fields that you can use to
customize the data kept in the System. These fields can even be included in outputs from
the Report Generator.
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