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The Anatomy of a DataBlock
When talking about institutional reporting, it’s easy to get lost in a discussion of the data itself. What information should a given report include? How do these metrics correlate (or not) with one another? Which definition of ‘FTE Student’ are we...
Three Steps to Building a Comprehensive Security Strategy
A successful security strategy should include a close look at the broader security environment in which you’re doing your reporting. To make sure you have all your bases covered, we recommend taking the following steps when building a security...
Best Practices for Using Extract Reports
Anyone involved with institutional reporting or sending data to other vendors will tell you that, when it comes to the end results, one report definitely does not fit all. Submitting reports to third parties—be they government agencies, financial...
Cloud vs. Client: Where Do You Want to Keep Your Higher Ed Data?
The abundance of data available to institutions of higher education is staggering. It’s found in ERPs, data warehouses, data marts, and other systems and databases used throughout campus. For years, these data sources were, in fact, on campus (aka,...
Higher Ed: Moving Beyond a Crisis
Now that there is a light at the end of the tunnel that has been the COVID-19 pandemic, there remain many questions and uncertainties within the Higher Education industry. How do we move forward post-COVID-19? Is it back to business as usual, or do...
Evisions CO-OP: Top 10 Most Viewed FormFusion Templates
The Evisions CO-OP User Community is a collaborative place where clients can share ideas, experiences, development, forms, DataBlocks, and reports with their peers. To give you an idea of what fellow FormFusion users are doing and looking at, we...
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Learning: What’s the Balance for Success?
Rounding the corner of a wild year where both instructors and students scrambled, and sometimes struggled, to succeed with remote learning, we now need to look forward to what’s next. Do we go back to in-person learning and teaching? Do we continue...
Success Equals IT Having a Seat at the Executive Table
Would having an information technology representative at the executive table of a higher education institution positively impact the decisions made there? If so, how? To answer these questions, and to address broader issues around data-informed...
Recruiting, Admissions & Marketing: Solving Enrollment Challenges Together
For many colleges and universities, maintaining or increasing enrollment has been an ongoing challenge. (And the recent COVID pandemic did not help the situation.) When enrollment figures are stagnant or down, there is additional scrutiny on...
Cybersecurity Trends and Threats in Higher Education
It is undeniable that the historic events of 2020 created long-lasting changes in work and learning environments across the globe. In higher education, students, faculty, and staff realized that it was possible to successfully work, learn, and...
Higher Ed: Achieving Success Together (Even When We’re Apart)
2020 was a year that will not soon be forgotten. Everyone had to make changes and adjustments – for work, school, and even social engagement. While we’re starting to see things slowly return to some sort of normalcy, there are – and will be –...
Student Success: It’s Time to Think Outside the Box!
The student success pillar of the Educause Top IT Issues of 2021 describes the need to advance student support services to help students attain academic and career success. With the ever-increasing cost of education, you want to be sure you have...
Looking for Data in the Right Body of Water
It is easy to compare data to water. It’s fluid, after all. It’s ever changing, often diluted and cleaned, recycled, and redirected into new channels. It can flow like a river, crash likes ocean waves, or it can sit relatively still in a lake. As...
Student-Centric Higher Education: Why the Urgency?
Institutions of higher education were designed to aid young men and women in their transition from high school graduate to college student, helping them navigate along the way. Administrators would recruit, admit, enroll, guide and pretty much...
Data Sources & Reporting Tools: More Isn’t Better
Higher Education is becoming more competitive each and every year. One area that continues to provide a potential advantage to an institution is data – data provided via reports, with the purpose of enabling timely decisions that will bring the...