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Navigating the crowded edtech market can be overwhelming when trying to decide which Student Information System (SIS) is best for an educational institution. To make the decision easier, here's a back-to-basics explanation of the basic features your college SIS should have.

As a CEO or C-suite executive, making the decision between building a student information system from scratch or buying one from an industry expert can have significant implications for your college.
On the one hand, building a student information system from scratch requires time and resources, and sometimes budgets are difficult to forecast accurately. Expenses can quickly add up, and that can be a concern for administrators. 

Edtech has revolutionised student enrolments for colleges. Online student enrolments have become a trend that has been well received by applicants due to the efficiency, effectiveness and ease it brings. The relationship between online registration systems and training providers has proven to be symbiotic too. Choosing the right online registration system or education CRM (Customer Relationship Management) for your college can also lead to increased user engagement and student enrolments. If you haven’t yet acquired an education CRM or haven’t reaped any positive results from your current system, then this blog is for you. Here are five tips for selecting the right online registration system to improve your student enrolment.

Making use of a student management system entails having multiple sources of data. To keep your data and data points secure, there is a need to tighten and adapt security to the ever-changing circumstances of today. Hackers take advantage of the times we live in, often resulting in an explosion of security breaches. To give you an idea, a cyberattack is committed every 39 seconds, equating to on average 840 000 every year.

The Education Sector is in need of Data Streamlining

The needs of students, training providers and decision-making entities have shifted over time. Data management processes across the Vocational Education Training (VET) sector should keep up with these changes but have remained the same, not accommodating new requirements and changes. This has led to consumers of VET data not receiving or having access to the data they need, such as;

Automation, particularly while managing a global pandemic, has grown and become a permanent fixture in the way businesses operate. According to CB Insights, it represents an estimated $337B global market. More learners, particularly since the pandemic, are accessing online learning with RTOs. This number has grown from 21 million learners in 2016 to 92 million learners in 2021. If you think that automation is a stopgap, this should be proof enough that it is much more.

The Medical Benevolence Foundation (MBF) has teamed up with Wisenet, an Adapt IT Holdings Limited division (Adapt IT), to implement the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) that ensures the seamless continuation of education at various nursing schools in Kenya and Malawi amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Collectively the schools enrol 2500 students and offer studies in Nursing and Midwifery.

23 August 2022 – Wisenet has been declared a finalist for the Best SaaS Product for Learning Management or Training category this week in the international business software program, The SaaS Awards.

Cloud-based solutions are becoming increasingly popular across all industries. Since the benefits of cloud computing software yields phenomenal results, more education providers are turning to these solutions to satisfy a variety of needs and processes through the use of college training management systems.

We are so excited and proud to celebrate 25 years in business as a student management system and education CRM for institutions globally. We’ve come a long way since our first application on a floppy disk in 1997 to what we are today, and while we know our hard work steered this path, we also know that it takes two to tango! We could not have done it without our loyal customers who inspire us daily. It’s your faith in us that has made us remain here for so long.