ESL Version

English as a Second Language is a huge global industry with intense competition between countries and between schools.
SAS is designed to give your school a critical edge over your competition by optimizing critical areas of your school's operations:
  1. SAS allows agents to view your course availability on-line and register students immediately.
  2. Effective marketing to agents and past students via email and letters will greatly increase your profits.
  3. SAS handles record keeping and accounts receivable operations: registration, payment plans, payments, attendance, marks, transcripts, etc.
  4. SAS ensures compliance with government requirements and industry best practices.
  5. Produce a wide variety of reports to help you monitor and manage your business.



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.
  • 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.

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
  • 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
 
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.

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
  • 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
 
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.

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
  • 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
 
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.

Accounting
  • Income Report
  • Outstanding Accounting Events
  • Unearned Revenue Report
  • Federal Tax Receipts
  • Add a Bank
  • Edit a Bank
  • Bank Deposit Report
 
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.

Inventory
  • Add Item
  • Edit Item
  • Add a Supplier
  • Edit a Supplier
  • Add Transaction
  • Inventory Historical Report
  • Inventory Projection Report
 
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.

Staff Information
  • Add Staff Information
  • Edit Staff Information
  • Adjust Security Access
  • Adjust Group Access
  • Staff Reports
  • Display Staff Summary
  • Add Correspondence
  • Edit Correspondence
  • Send Correspondence
 
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.

Contacts
  • Add a Contact
  • Edit a Contact
  • List or Communicate
  • Add Correspondence
  • Edit Correspondence
  • Add Group
  • Edit Group
 
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.

Agent Information
  • Add Agent Information
  • Edit Agent Information
  • Display Agent Summary
  • Add Correspondence
  • Edit Correspondence
  • Send Correspondence
 
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.

Homestay Information
  • Register Student for Homestay
  • Edit Student Registration
  • Match Student with Host
  • Add Homestay Company/Host
  • Edit Homestay Company/Host
  • Add Correspondence
  • Edit Correspondence
  • Send Correspondence
 
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.

Campuses
  • Add Campus Information
  • Edit Campus Information
 
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.

MIS Reports-- Case Study
  • Income Report
  • Planned Payment Installments
  • Anticipated Revenue Report
  • Unearned Revenue Report
  • Inquiry Tracking Reports
  • Program Availability Report
  • Admission Rep Reports
  • Outstanding Student Events
  • Outstanding Accounting Events
  • Placement Report
  • Annual Accreditation Report
  • Report Generator
 
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.

System Options
  • Change School Options
  • Change Financial Options
  • Change Calendar Options
  • Change the Menu
  • Configure User-Defined Fields
  • Add a Source
  • Edit a Source
  • Add a Country/Nationality
  • Edit a Country/Nationality
  • Change Mark Mapping
 
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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