The Importance of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation in Higher Education

Higher education is an important step in students' careers and personal development. To suit the needs of a changing society and economy, the educational system has evolved over time. Continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) has received considerable attention in higher education in recent years. CCE is a comprehensive evaluation method that goes beyond standard exams and grading.

It entails a variety of evaluation techniques and strategies that provide students with continuous feedback and support throughout their academic path.

10 ways Hostel Management Software improves institution’s efficiency

The traditional hostel management software system is getting new faces as HEIs modernize the educational system with the passage of time. No more are educational institutions managing their hostel facilities manually in a labor-intensive environment. This has resulted in poor resource utilization and impacted the overall efficiency of academic institutions.

The system of managing and administering housing, mess, and other facilities in institutions is ineffective as it is attributed to the following problems:

How AI-driven solutions transform student lifecycle management in higher education

Student Lifecycle Management may sound tedious, but with an AI-Driven solution, it can be made more effortless than a procedure. It’s rightly the time when the higher education leaders are overtaxed to achieve strategic goals from funding to government compliance to return on their investment. In such a pressurized environment, they need a clear path that offers better visibility and actionable insights on their students' progress, programs, teaching and learning activities, and metrics aligned with their institution’s strategy in each of these areas.

9 college admission mistakes to avoid by admission director during goal setting

The important aspect of education that ties an institution in knots is the way educators set goals. But that’s when they mostly go wrong—college admissions mistakes are common. Most educational institutions struggle to set and achieve admission goals to improve the quality of the lives of students.

9 ways to increase college admissions and enrolment

Striking your college admissions target is not a breeze to the admissions teams. With a multitude of options available, the tech-hungry generation is difficult to be convinced. The Inside Higher Ed Survey of 2020 confirms that 69% of community college admissions officials and 55% of private college admissions officials are worried about hitting their enrollment goals.

6 warning signs that your student recruitment CRM is outdated

When colleges and universities began stepping up recruitment of students, administrators knew they needed Student recruitment CRM software. Unfortunately, it’s not always that obvious. In the best of times, student recruitment is going to be a stressful thing for everyone that they get afraid if their enrollment targets aren’t achieved. 

The blog details some signs to indicate it’s time for college or university to upgrade to a student recruitment CRM software.
 

Student Engagement in the Online Learning - What Works and Why

We know you like your students the most. We know you are often finding ways to create for student engagement in the online learning environment. After all, with student engagement and nurturing comes institutional excellence and success. 

Such being their stance, how do you engage your students during their online courses? How do you foster a sense of community, allowing them to communicate and collaborate effectively?

12 Ways Creatrix helps in enhancing the student experience?

Do you agree with this?

There can’t be dropping out midway. A journey not until the end is incomplete. This very well applies to student lifecycle management. With the Creatrix Student Information System, we manage the entire student’s lifecycle from the pre-admissions to graduation, enhancing the student experience at every step. This blog in detail discusses how we do it in Creatrix. Let’s dive into details.

Creatrix. Let’s dive into details.

Why should higher education institutions focus on Education 4.0?

Education 4.0: The impact of today’s education has a very long tale. Tablets and smartphone supportive classrooms, online assessments, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data are all the infiltration of technology.

Thanks to those innovative minds and to the needs of the fourth industrial revolution, Education 4.0 is here— the fourth Education revolution, replacing the clumsy old procedures of conventional education. 

How Creatrix supports Student Flexibility?

Today’s students expose a shift in attitudes about education. They expect greater student flexibility in achieving their goals and demand quality education as a service.

To keep up to the pace, Higher Education Institutions are becoming more agile and quick to attain the long-term success of the institution and to attract students. At Creatrix Campus, we know technology is critical to achieving the same.

The A - Z of the new National Education Policy NEP 2020

The much speculated and much-awaited The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) has finally been approved by the Union Cabinet on May 29, 2020. It is a major overhaul with some massive amendments and reforms in schools and higher education than its previous one in the year 1986.

6 best ways to improve students’ learning experiences with a course catalog software

How to improve the student experience on campus with course catalog software?

Course Catalog allows students to browse and search for various programs and courses of study. It is an online catalog management system that comes in handy to familiarize students with the university structure and study program offerings. It displays information on graduate and undergraduate programs, course requirements, elective options, and academic policies.

Parent Connect

10 ways school mobile apps can help parents monitor their child’s education

The school mobile app is a powerful communication tool for parents to establish communication with teachers, students and the principal. The significant use of the school mobile app is for helping parents monitor their child's academic performance. In the digital age, parents are in a position to attend to their children because of the hectic schedule. Here are ten important features of a school app to facilitate parental involvement.

A new way to foster adaptive teaching online

Adaptive teaching is aimed at achieving successful instructional outcomes in classrooms by adopting different learning strategies to different student groups. Traditional teaching methods in higher education are adding a burden on students. Engaging with the study materials and resources creates a learning problem for students. It means that students that learning will be tedious and boring. Very few learners can link pedagogical methods to outcomes. 

Top 5 strategies to improve charter schools enrollment

Charter schools enrollment forever remains a big challenge. Formed to improve education with parental involvement and innovative learning practices, the charter schools have year-round admissions for scholars and a lot more initiatives to improve the academic outcomes of students. However, many of the Charter Schools are still struggling to recruit students and achieve enrollment goals.

5 common admission mistakes that affect colleges

The admission process in higher education is daunting for administrators. But here's a secret to accelerate admissions and increase student enrollment in colleges and universities. Many educators wish they had more students and achieve their goals and targets. Instructors want their college and campus to engage with connected minds with a robust student admission system because students learn in a collaborative environment.

How to easily customize multiple stages during the busy student admission period?

Admission season is coming up and with that comes a whole a lot of additional stress for the admin staff especially if they have to do all the processes manually. This post will discuss some of the cool features of Creatrix Campus Student Admission System which will reduce the workload of administrators to a great extent and keep them smiling right through the admission season.

15 ways universities can enhance educational experience with multi campus solutions

Colleges and universities can improve its functioning for better academic performance across the institution with fully automated campus management solutions. Manage your academic and administrative processes at your fingertips and improve the quality of the education. This software has a wide range of features for students, faculty and staff to facilitate admission, attendance, courses, examination, placement, etc.

How personalized mobile learning can enhance student engagement and achievement?

Mobile learning is one of the revolutionary innovation in education. As with any technological development, mobility has transformed education in a short period of time and makes a huge impact particularly in the lives of students. Schools, colleges and higher education institutions are taking the big leap forward to leverage the latest mobile technology and provide equal learning experience to students. This incredible technology opens the door into a new world of adaptive and personalized mobile learning for students using the cloud platform. 

5 ways libraries can improve student success

A recent study conducted in the U.S. showed students with strong digital media excelled on assessments more than students with ill-equipped and staffed libraries. The results of the study established a positive synchronization between student assessments and digital media centers in colleges and higher education institutions. These results reveal how libraries help students to significantly score higher grades in assessments. Here are the five great ways for students to achieve standards:

1. Cataloguing

7 easy ways to turbo charge academic performance in schools

Schools have the onerous responsibility of shaping the lives of students to become responsible citizens of tomorrow. In a fully automated age, technology provides unlimited opportunities for students to improve their academic performance and choose their career path. Many schools perform poorly each year and struggle to take their institution to the next level.

Mobile app allows school bus scheduling quickly and easily

Sometimes students arrive home late on the school bus. Wondering where the bus is will be a problem for the administrators and parents. They didn’t have that information. There is now a mobile app that allows schools to track the student’s bus rides in real-time.

Route-based Scheduling

Automate your admission process and find the best students for your institution

Today’s admission processes are built around automated and highly sophisticated technologies to serve the diverse needs of colleges, universities, and higher education. College admission software makes it easy to configure and customize according to the requirements of students, faculty, and staff. Many of the applicants are unaware of their status and admission information could not be tracked.

Education Cloud

10 smart ways for faculty to use mobile apps in the classroom

Faculty may not have an aide. Mobile technology can be a great tool to support instruction. It helps instructors to mark attendance, create assignments, assign grades, track discipline, upload multimedia, generate reports, send notifications, store lessons and interact with students via chat, discussion forums and social media.

10 strategies for engaging students with intelligent social learning

Social learning platforms are becoming ever more popular in today's tech-savvy educational institutions around the world. Schools and Colleges can leverage the wealth of academic resources to benefit the community of users including students, teachers and staff from anywhere. Social learning is highly relevant for today's classroom management system and offers a number of advantages to the entire community across the campus, and beyond.

5 tips to prevent student attrition and dropouts in colleges

The big, pervasive problem today in colleges and universities is the growing number of students fail to complete their studies for various reasons. Nearly half of Americans drop out of college before earning their degree. Such situations are not entirely out of the student’s hands. The key contributing factors that are catalysts to student attrition and dropouts can be easily addressed.  

5 proven reasons to implement behavior management system in the classroom

There are times when you just want to persist with students involved in disciplinary infractions in the classroom. Even though teachers experience greater stress and difficulties, institutions don’t make a compromise on bad behavior. When an institution reinforces the classroom atmosphere with an effective behavior management system, it makes a positive impact on students and teachers.

5 things to think when selecting a student management system

Students are the most valuable assets for educational institutions. There is a fast-emerging trend to embrace cutting-edge technologies to increase the student success rate. Here are five things to think about when selecting a student data management system:

1. Cloud Automation

10 classroom strategies to motivate students

Educators find motivated students are easier to teach as they make quick progress to academic goals. When technology is integrated with learning, students who are interested in learning do, in fact, learn more. . If cutting-edge technologies and tools are adopted by school management, will it keep students interest in in the classroom? So how to motivate and empower students? Here are ten tried and tested classroom management strategies for K-12 schools that have been identified as critical to enhance motivation and improve student outcomes.

10 ways mobile apps can transform education and improve student experience

Mobile is ubiquitous and has permeated every aspect of our life today enabling us to do things when we need it - quicker, better and save even more time. It spans the whole life experience and the education industry is no exception. Its impact can be deeply felt as mobile is preparing the third great wave revolution in the education industry.

Enhance education through technology

Higher education cloud: Five principles to transform the student experience

Institutions of higher education are increasingly adopting new IT models to support student services and enhance learning. When education is faced with acute constraints in the budget, resources, and enrollments, today’s reality in higher learning is that academic processes are relying on paper-based and manual provisioning processes. Here are the five key principles to transform student experience with the adoption of cloud and mobile services.

1. Prepare for the next wave of cloud and mobile computing

Developing a custom Learning Management System (LMS) to drive student success

We are living in a new age of education where every student has different set of needs and technology has personalized learning, where each school thinks and operates differently. No two educational system functions in the same way. There are some products in the market which offers solution to manage the learning needs of institutions.There are various categories of students, some might be slow learner, some quick and some need more tutoring and few needs practical experience and so on.

Digital learning in K-12 schools improves student's achievement

Technology calls for change in the educational ecosystem which will lead to significant improvement in the productivity of the students. Blending technology with teaching and learning in a classroom using digital tools such as laptops, mobile phones and touch pads not only goes high-tech with digital classroom management, but also provides better communication and interaction between students, which increase their level of interest and curiosity to learn and ask questions.

How cloud and mobile solution can effectively manage attendance and improve student success

Cloud-based attendance management system can provide a wide range of benefits to have the potential to improve student retention and success rate. Attendance process need not run manually. Students, faculty and staff don’t have to present themselves to log in their attendance. Using cutting-edge education technologies like RFID, smart cards, biometrics and mobile devices, it is easier to clock attendance accurately and authenticate entry to the campus. This attendance tracking system increases student attendance and help to improve student retention and graduation rate.

10 tips to tackle students skipping classes and boost performance

High schools and colleges are trying hard to suppress students skipping rates to boost performance and improve education standards. The management is trying hard to tackle truancy by imposing strict penalties on students skipping classes. Suspensions can only count as the time missed from classroom instructions. Parents also face a blitz on attendance and they are trying to keep students in school.

How online education system can improve student achievement

Technology had a positive impact in every industry and helped improve efficiency and productivity, while reducing manual work.  Educational technology can transform schools and higher education infusing with virtual classrooms, digital tools, cloud computing, RFID, Biometrics, barcode scanning, mobile devices, E-learning, m-learning, big data and analytics.

Behavior Management System: Discipline strategies for classrooms

Managing a classroom is one of the toughest challenges within colleges for faculty and they spend a lot of time to achieve control over students’ behavior. Creating an effective behavior management system in the classroom will help teachers to educate kids to improve their behavior.

Improve children's learning with technology

While technology is not only important for education, it helps education institutions to improve student’s learning and engagement. Educators need to harness the power of mobile and cloud technologies to connect campuses, students, teachers, administrators and parents with the ability to create, access and use data. We need to see forward a lot of changes in faculty and learning needs, several engagement strategies using new types of global tools.

Reduce student dropout rates with effective discipline & behavior management system

Currently there is a global education crisis on student dropout rates in schools and higher education institutions. But there is also another crisis which is garnering lot of attention, and that is the teacher dropout rates! It is true that teachers are fleeing the scene, because teachers are finding it hard to juggle between fewer resources, student growth rates, technology challenges, and ever-changing student behavior.  One of the important reasons for this is the huge gap between the backgrounds of the teachers and the students they teach.

Mobile Campus: Engage students at every step of the lifecycle

There are various stages in the lifecycle of a student which starts even before they actually step into the campus. Currently, all colleges, universities and higher education institutions are focused on building more meaningful relationships with the students which start during the recruitment process and go all the way even after graduation.

Data mining student discipline records for improving behavior

Data mining techniques provides a personalized education to individual students based on the educational data.  For example, the discipline aspect of data mining can offer comprehensive analysis of student behavior, while the predictive analysis can help the school, college or university to take a positive approach to disciplining students, even before a student is involved in behavior issues. The early identification of student incidents at risk as well as maintain continuous intervention is the key to effective discipline management.

Enhance student discipline in schools with Creatrix Campus

Creatrix Campus has introduced a great new capability to enable schools, be it small or large, to capture ongoing discipline incidents with our Discipline Management software. The discipline software simplifies the difficult and time-consuming task of tracking student discipline and enables school administrators to track monitor complete disciplinary history of students seamlessly, with mobile access to details at the scene of the incident.

5 ways to improve student services and boost college student success

Student services play a key role in student retention, satisfaction and success of any educational establishment. If a college, university or higher education doesn’t provide satisfactory services, it is likely to experience a sharp fall in student recruitment, retention, and reputation. Students from various countries live and study in educational institutions in broad-ranging subjects.

Creatrix Campus Student Lifecycle Management Solution

Creatrix Campus student lifecycle management system supports student services for the full lifecycle from student recruitment and admission to graduation, alumni and beyond. With easy access to information through document process automation, Creatrix Campus accelerates the decision-making process and strategic planning, while improving communication and collaboration.