Blackbaud Education Management Solutions

St. John's School uses Blackbaud's K-12 On solutions campus-wide to communicate better with our constituents, manage our data better, and do our jobs more efficiently. From our teachers using their course pages as teaching and learning tools with their students to the Admissions Office effectively managing prospective student data, the On products have become critical for our success as a school.

We use the ON suite schoolwide for student and family management; I believe teachers use it exclusively for grade books, assignments, report cards, etc. It is how our website is created and updated, to the best of my knowledge. We also update alumni directory information there and use the communications functions for our regular newsletters, push pages for news, solicitations, event invitations, etc. We also use it for online giving.

The ON products are used by all constituents in all departments across campus except in the Business Office and Development Office:

1. We use onCampus, onRecord, onMessage, and onBoard for the usual uses.
   
2. We also use ConnectRE to send the data from Core to Raiser's Edge and eventually to Student Billing in Financial Edge through the Integration.
3. Our booster clubs use Community groups to communicate information regarding activities and events
4. We are about to launch an "Alumni" portal so that alumni can log in to view resources, sign up for events, and share relevant alumni information

The ON products have solved the problem of inconsistent and inefficient data entry. We used to enter demographic information for students and families in 6 different software databases from 5 different vendors. Now, all of our demographic information can be entered once, ensuring accuracy, and our constituents can log in directly to update their own information. As a result, our staff can focus more on best practices instead of rote data entry. Furthermore, with all of our school functions housed under a single, cohesive platform, I am able to provide better support for all departments across campus.

Our school uses Blackbaud K-12 "ON" across the organization. We use "ON" for our website, email communications, teacher websites, grading, registrar, scheduling, School Information System (SIS), Admissions, and we integrate with Smart Tuition for student billing. It has been wonderful for our teachers, who find the platform easier than FAWeb for grading. Our parents and students log into the school website far more frequently than they did before because the site is user-friendly and contains valuable information (upcoming assignments, easy access to grades, upcoming events, robust calendar). Student billing and collections, which used take up a lot of time for one of our employees, is now a non-issue, freeing that employee to do different things. We use less paper than we used to. We communicate better with our families.

We use Blackbaud K-12's "ON" Solutions to manage all of our candidate, applicant, and student information. With onBoard, we are able to manage the admissions process with interactive checklists that parents are able to follow in order to complete the application process all the way through to online enrollment. We manage all of our current student and family information in onRecord and onCampus permits us the ability to group students into classes, activities, athletics, and other types of groups to help facilitate learning, service, sportsmanship, and growth as a community.

We manage our website content and materials as well as a private portal for current families, faculty, and staff using the onMessage system. This allows us to create content once and publish it to multiple locations at one time. We also use the onMessage system to send out our weekly email publications. We use this solution throughout the entire school as our primary database of record which is used to populate other connected services.

We use On products primarily in the Advancement Offices and the Admissions offices. Although, our registrar uses it as do our Upper and Lower School admin assistants.

We use Blackbaud K-12 ON across all departments from the Admissions Office, to Registrar (Academics), and Financial Aid it supports our institution's operational needs. As an independent school, it is imperative that we have a system that can process information in a way that allows us to communicate effectively and help us make better and more informed decisions.

It is used across the entire school by all departments. It serves as the core database for all departments, and provides our educational solutions for grading, advising, teaching and learning. We also use it for communication including web site content/design.

We use the ON products across the entire campus. From onBoard in the Admissions Office to onRecord and onCampus in the Academics area; and onMessage in the Communications, we are an ON engaged environment. We also leverage RE and FE NXT products which are integrated with the ON applications.

The school's Nurse's and Dean's offices also use the ON products in their daily operations.

Our entire school uses K-12, from faculty to staff, administrators to security. We can manage our student records in one program. Our faculty is able to have all assignments online, able to be graded/assessed and parents are able to view the grade book. Our report cards are able to be visible to parents and necessary staff/faculty. We are able to add visitors to a calendar that is then visible to security and faculty/staff.

Blackbaud K-12 “ON” Solutions is being used across multiple departments and audiences. Our teachers use it to manage classrooms, take attendance, communicate with families and other teacher-specific items. Our administration uses it to set-up courses, set-up groups, and send mass communications. Families and students are using it to manage calendars, receive assignments and communications from teachers and coaches.

We currently use all of Blackbaud's K-12 onProducts. It provides a seamless user experience from a data perspective across our JK-12 school. Information is also collected and then utilized from the moment the constituent is an inquiry to a student, and eventually an alum. We also leverage many of the available SSOs and ecosystem partners to provide our users with a similar experience with synchronous data.

We use the ON Solutions throughout the entire school, as our Learning Management System (LMS), our Student Information System (SIS), our enrollment and re-enrollment system, our main communication tool with our constituents (faculty, staff, alumni, and parents), and the Content Management System (CMS) for our external facing website. It is the central hub and main location for users to find the information they need and perform their daily tasks, such as attendance, communication, grading, etc.

Our entire school uses four components of the ON Suite - onBoard, onRecord, OnCampus and onMessage. Prior to selecting WhippleHill, we were using about five different products - an SMS an LMS, a database for grades and transcripts a hand-coded website and various spreadsheets and databases dedicated to different tasks. Now all of those tasks can be done within the ON Suite. We still use FACTS for tuition management because our Diocesan school system requires it.

Across all four school divisions. Though the upper grades use it more than the preschool.

We utilize OnCampus, OnRecord and onMessage to manage communications, student learning and student information. The software is used by the academic offices, the communication office and the advancement office. The onProducts feature a sound user interface for parents, students and teachers. The ability to use onMessage to create our own web presence has been instrumental in how we market our school to the public and to our own constituents.

The suite of ON products allows The Lexington School to provide a consistent parent and student experience for prospective families, through the admission process, into their first year at TLS, and as they move to higher grade levels. It is our front-end website for prospective families, the online portal for admission, and the integrated and seamless parent portal for all of the years families are part of our community.

Chatham Hall uses this pretty much throughout the entire school: students, teachers, admin, parents, all make use of Blackbaud K-12. Students and parents make use of it all year as our matriculation forms, scheduling requests, enrollment info,and all coursework is presented in an easily manageable format.