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Grade Book AutoSave Debuts as a School Favorite

Posted on 15. May, 2012 by Mark Sargent, Product Owner.

Where did AutoSave in Grade Book originate? Early in December 2011, we created a usability test to identify areas where we could improve the Grade Book. Here are the results of that test by the numbers: 4 Questions 52 Participants 552 Notes 57 Seconds was the Average Time to complete the test 25% of all [...]

How to Track Who Logs Into Your Site

Posted on 14. May, 2012 by Jonathan Wilkinson, Account Manager.

Know what percentage of community members by role are logging in Tracking logins can be done using an Advanced List and a simple Excel Formula. Step 1: Create an Advanced list NOTE: you need to be a Platform Manager to create Advanced Lists. Go to Lists > select the “Add” drop down and select “Create Advanced List.” Select the following [...]

How to Wake Up Boring Photo Rotations

Posted on 08. May, 2012 by Whitney Donnelly, Account Manager.

Get the most out of WhippleHill’s Photo Rotations How do you get attention and increase interest? Mix up your image style and keep photos fresh! 1. Use a variety of image types to tell your story. Close-up detail, scenic, architectural, faces, small groups, ground/sky perspective, action/motion. http://www.ihahs.com 2. Include descriptions and links in the caption [...]

WhippleHill User Conference FAQs, Everything You Need to Know About UC12

Posted on 07. May, 2012 by mauraw.

UC12, our 10th annual User Conference, just weeks away Three days, three types of sessions, UC12 “Learning Let Loose” promises to be our best conference yet! Wondering who should come? What you’ll learn? Where to register? Read on! We’ve got the answers to your 2012 User Conference FAQs. Who should come? We offer planned Best Practice [...]

Make Life Easier with an Admissions Dashboard Portal

Posted on 07. May, 2012 by Brenda Noiseux.

Want an easier way to view your Admissions numbers? As the Admissions cycle comes to a close, offices scramble to pull together numbers to review the details of the year. Make your life a little easier for the upcoming cycle. Incorporate an Admissions Dashboard for your metrics into your Podium site. Create an Admissions Dashboard [...]

Satisfy Lunch Menu Curiosity with an iCal Feed

Posted on 30. Apr, 2012 by Becky Gardzina, Account Manager.

What’s for lunch? How many times do you get asked that question at your school? The Field School feeds the community this important information through a calendar event, “lunch offerings,” also enabling the iCal feed. A lunch menu and iCal feed – almost as good together as peanut butter and jelly, or macaroni and cheese! The [...]

Four Steps to Posting Exceptional Content on Your Site

Posted on 24. Apr, 2012 by Jess Creach, Account Manager.

Are you prepared to post exceptional content daily? On every campus I’ve visited, cool things happen each day. Class projects, field trips, spirit assemblies…these are the events that capture the excitement and uniqueness of your community. Just think about how incredible your message could be if your site included more testimonials, videos and photos about [...]

How Should We Rethink Electronic Signatures for Schools?

Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by Brenda Noiseux.

How important are signatures? Signatures. Every day someone asks us to sign a new form. Online, our accounts are set-up with clear warnings to verify our identities. In terms of Admissions, most schools ask for verification statements on the application using a text box for the applicant to type a name and date. As we tackle [...]

Why Your School’s Privacy Policy is Too Important to Overlook

Posted on 17. Apr, 2012 by Jessica Cady, Account Manager.

Did you forget something…your privacy policy? Fresh and updated content on the front end of your site. Check. Organized portals and data behind the password. Check. Did you overlook the importance of having a privacy policy on your site.? If you did, you aren’t alone. But, because your school keeps sensitive and personal information about [...]

Phasing in Foreign Characters for Assignments

Posted on 16. Apr, 2012 by Jackie Christensen, Product Manager.

Good News for World Language Teachers who use Foreign Characters! We’re taking a first step to end foreign character frustration. We began testing an update to the Assignment HTML Editor settings that adds support for foreign characters. This means that letters from the Hebrew, Chinese and Greek alphabets will no longer appear as question [...]

How You Created the Enter/Tab Key Shortcut in Grade Book

Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by Mark Sargent, Product Owner.

Slow Starter Enhancements can have just as much of an Impact A few years ago, Holy Innocents contacted Support and asked for the ability to use the “Enter Key” to move down the columns within the Grade Book. From that conversation, a case was created in Netsuite and an Enhancement request was born. Making an Enter [...]

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