Key Features
Providing a seamless experience by integrating with your existing systems to leverage their broad range of functions, yet provides an intuitive interface with highly customizable features to meet your unique needs.
Courses & Curricula
A robust content management system to manage educational offerings with ease. It includes sub-courses, credits and locations, that can be bundled into curricula for specific groups.
Student Registration
Through an intuitive end user experience, students can submit and manage applications and payments for educational services, as well as manage their transcripts and certificates.
Instructor Management
Manage instructor profiles and course assignments — instructors can directly update calendars, process student applications, track attendance, and submit their time and expenses.
Scheduling Engine
A powerful scheduling engine lets you assign instructors and schedule the dates, times, locations, and resources needed to make your educational offerings a success. The configurable engine ensures optimized scheduling to minimize costs and prevent double booking of instructors and locations.
Payment Processing & Financial Management
The platform handles a multitude of payment types, and supports contract and invoice generation as well as related notifications and tracking for individuals and organizations, enabling smooth and accurate financial management for your business.
Reporting
The platform offers an array of reports that provide detailed analysis of course data, student and instructor performance and scheduling data, and financial tracking and management data. This analysis helps users gain the necessary insights needed to effect business and process changes for their organization.
Case Study
At the Teacher’s College of Columbia University, implementing EDge for their Reading and Writing Project enabled their staff to:
Spend roughly 50% less time managing day-to-day operations, allowing them to focus more on their core competencies.
Launch and market their educational offerings 5 times faster than before.
How It Works
Enabling users to do their job through a centralized, easy-to-use interface.
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1Set Up Courses
Review course details that have auto-magically been pulled in from another source system. Assign credits, bundle courses together, set custom pricing, and publish.
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2Set Up Instructors
Each instructor can view global schedules, manage their own calendar, approve course applicants, log time & expenses, and get notified when schedule or courses are updated.
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3Apply For Courses
With their personalized account login, students can browse, apply and pay for courses.They can also view their course history and transcripts, redeem credits, and get notifications for status updates.
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4Process Payment
With their personalized account login, students can browse, apply and pay for courses. They can also view their course history and transcripts, redeem credits, and get notifications for status updates.
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5Schedule Courses
Configure input parameters for our robust, rules-based scheduling engine to generate optimized schedules based on skills, availability, locations, cost, and revenue.
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6Track Performance
Generate real-time reports of key metrics regarding courses, costs, instructors and students, using that insight to tailor educational offerings and increase efficiency.
EDge enables you to make informed, evidence-based decisions to grow your course offerings and make continuous, intelligent upgrades to your technology systems.