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Extract Report on fee Defaulter Details using Fedena 3.0

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014

Fedena 3.0 is loaded with the amazing report generating feature that lets you extract different types of report. Today, as you go through the article, you will come to know how you can extract reports on details of students who are fee defaulters in each batch of a particular course.

How to extract fee defaulter details report

Go to ‘Reports’ through ‘Data and Reports’ that you reach on clicking the main menu. Once you go to ‘Reports’, select ‘Fees Defaulters Details’ in it.

‘Fees Defaulters Details’ will help you know about the students who are fee defaulters from each course and the corresponding batches in each of the courses.

‘Name’ is the course name which when clicked will take you to the batches with students who are due with payment of fees.

You will find the batches (as marked in the above screenshot). Click on any of the batch to go to the page with all the ‘Batch Fee Collection’ names.

Click on any of the name and see who all are the students under the particular ‘Batch Fee Collection’ name.

Select any student’s name to go his/her profile for further details. The ‘Balance’ mentioned in each of the stage of the report is the total amount due from the respective course or batch or fee collection name or any particular student. If required, you can export all the reports in CSV format as well.

Classroom: The ‘More teaching, less tech-ing’ free app by Google Apps for Education

May 8, 2014January 21, 2015

We are no strangers to the revolution that Google has brought in education. Educational contents, innovative tools and budget devices; Google has been playing a huge role in boosting classroom productivity. Google’s latest launch- Classroom is the new addition to Google Apps for Education. What it does? Well, this collection of web apps is perfect for teachers to create and manage any kind of assignments, communicate with class and provide feedback to students.

Google’s Classroom, still in preview, brings together Google Drive, Google Docs and Gmail to help teachers with their management of assignments and communication with students. And its not just a help to teachers alone; students too, can make the most of it in organizing and completing their assignments and initiate proper communication with teachers.

This new, free tool from Google will allow you to:

Create and manage classroom assignments using Google Drive, Docs and Gmail. The best part about Classroom is that it helps you to keep a watch on who all have completed the assignments and offer the students, some effective feedback!
Stay updated and well organised on assignments, particularly if you are a student in due of an assignment page. The tool help teachers to create separate Drive folders for each assignment for each of the student.
Develop proper communication in the class, encourage comments and questions from students in real time.

Google expects Classroom to be available in all schools using Google Apps for Education by September. And it won’t contain any form of ads. Nor does it uses any student data or user content for advertisement purposes. Interested education professionals are given a chance to try it out for which they need to apply for a preview of the tool!This latest education effort by Google will surely be something to watch out for.

Blind Spot: EdTech of the Month

May 7, 2014January 21, 2015

Every week Foradian brings to you the story behind one and many EdTech startups and ideas that are changing the education industry worldwide. From elearning apps to math games, these interesting EdTech ideas are a part of Foradian’s Edtech Revolution series by means of which we celebrate the innovation in education industry.

Read the story of Blind Spot, which was featured on Edtech Revolution earlier this month and is our EdTech of the Month. This amazing app helps you build on your blind spots with creativity. Read the whole story here: http://foradian.com/post/84315517990/blind-spot-a-powerful-platform-for-creative

Extract a Report on Former Students Using Fedena 3.0

May 5, 2014January 21, 2015

Last week, we talked how easily you can generate a report on former employees. Today, we talk about how you can generate report on the former students of your institution. Generating any report has become very easy with the new version of Fedena 3.0 which is loaded with exciting features. Read on to find out how you can extract a report on the former students with all necessary details related to each of them.

You can find the ‘Former students details’ in ‘Reports’ as you navigate through ‘Data and Reports’ in the main menu.

Select ‘Former students details’ and go to the page of former student details to generate the report.

Choose the time limit for which you want to generate the report. It will generate the report of all students who have left the institution within the selected time period.

The report will show the details of all the students who had left the institution within the time period you have selected. You can see the ‘Batch name’ and ‘Course name’ of the students as well as the ‘Gender’, ‘Admission Date’ and ‘Leaving date’. If you want, you can go to individual student’s profile by selecting the respective student’s name.

You can see the date of leaving for each of the student as well. Moreover, extract the report in CSV format if you need.

Fedena 3.0 can Generate Report on Former Employees

April 28, 2014May 8, 2014

Now, you can extract a report on all the former employees of your institution. This is possible with the help of the Reports feature in the brand new version Fedena 3.0. This amazing feature allows you to generate report on various activities in your institution including a report on all former employees too. Read on and find out how you can get details about former employees using the Former Employee report option.

To extract Former Employee report, you need to go to ‘Former Employees Details’ in ‘Reports’ which can be reached by navigating through ‘Data and Reports’ in main menu.

Selecting ‘Former Employees Details’ will take you to the former employee details page where you can generate the report.

To generate the report, you have to first select the date limit for which you want the report. Once you select the date limit, you will get the report for the respective time period.

The former employee report is generated for the respective time period. You get all details about how many male employees are in the list and how many females. If you want to know more about the particular former employee, you can go his /her profile by selecting either ‘Name’ or ‘Employee ID’.

Extract the report in CSV format too!

Inspire Your Students to Develop the Habit of Reading

April 24, 2014March 13, 2015

Reading is always considered to be a divine habit and is equally beneficial to students for their learning. Reading is not just about reading lines or a passage loudly; instead it involves proper understanding of words and to relate them to the overall meaning of the passage. Cultivating the habit of reading from early age is beneficial as this could help them in their studies as well. Some students develop this habit naturally and love to spend their leisure time with books. On the other hand, some don’t develop it naturally and have to be compelled to sit with books. As a teacher, you can play an eminent role in motivating your students to develop this habit. But forcing them to sit in front of books won’t be the solution. You have to encourage them to start loving books, not just sit with them. Some tips are shared below to help you out.

One of the best way to encourage those kids for whom reading is quite a boring task is by letting them read graphic novels. Graphic novels include lot of pictures and catchy dialogues that attract young kids and you can use this as a bait to develop the habit of reading.

Let your students select their own books to read. It is often seen that things that are mandatory are less attractive to them. Plus, encourage them to share books with other classmates. Let them choose from a collection of books that is appropriate of their age and help them enjoy the book they want to read.

Start the habit of discussing about the books that students are reading in class once they finish. This one way will help you to know the level of understanding in your students when they read a book- whether they are able to grasp the idea and thought correctly. Moreover, this also develops the habit of storytelling too!

As a teacher, promote the habit of reading among parents as well. It has been seen that children tend to learn things from their parents and if parents read books at home, talk about it with their children will be a natural booster for the kids to start reading. Not all parents know the benefits of reading at home, but if they are made aware of the good that they can do to their children, they will surely be motivated to practice the habit at home.

If your student loves non-fiction, encourage them to read a lot of books on Nature, Space Science, History and others that are appropriate for their age.

When you motivate your students to take up reading seriously, make sure you are not being a tormentor who is forcing them to gulp down knowledge like a glass of milk. Reading for them should be fun and an enriching experience. At no point should it be some kind of pressure for them.

Generate Report on Exam Schedule using Fedena 3.0

April 21, 2014May 8, 2014

The new version of Fedena 3.0 offers you many new features including the report generating feature. With the help of this feature, you can extract various types of reports. If you are looking forward to generate a report on the different exams in your institution, then the Exam Schedule report is the solution. The Exam Schedule report lets you know details about all the exams related to each batch and course in your institution. To know more, read through the article.

Get access to ‘Reports’ by navigating through ‘Data and Reports’ in the main menu. Click on ‘Reports’ and go to ‘Exam Schedule Details’ in it.

Select ‘Exam Schedule Details’ and see complete details of exam schedule.

You get the entire report for exam schedule of different batches. You can also see the exam schedule of any particular course for which you need to use ‘Select course’ option.

Selecting the course will ask you to select the batches also for which you want to see the exam schedule.

Clicking the ‘Batch name’ in any of the rows of the table would take you to the list of all the students who are enrolled in the particular batch. You can go to individual student’s profile by selecting the respective student’s name.

All the reports can be extracted in CSV format as well.

Generate Employee Subject Association Report Easily with Fedena 3.0

April 14, 2014May 8, 2014

Generating a report that have in details, everything related to teachers and the subjects that they are associated with in different batches in your institution is such a blessing, when you need it and don’t have the time to prepare manually. The new version of Fedena 3.0 is loaded with amazing report generating feature that help extracting various types of reports. Today, we talk about how you can generate a report to know about the association of employees and subjects as well as batches. The article below will describe in details how report can be generated.

Login to your Fedena account and click on the ‘Data and Reports’ tab on selecting the main menu. Select ‘Reports’ in ‘Data and Reports’ where you will find the different reports. Click on ‘Employee Subject Association Details’. See the screenshot below:

Select ‘Employee Subject Association Details’ to generate the report and see the employee and subject association for all the batches in your institution.

The report show details of the employees and the subjects that he/she is associated or teaches in a particular batch. The associated batch of the particular employee or teacher is also mentioned. In case you want the report in CSV format, you can get it using the ‘Export as CSV’.

Moreover, to get details about the particular employee, you can click on the name which will take you directly to the employee profile.

Thus, you have the complete report on all employees teaching various subjects in different batches.

The Best Word Cloud Tools for a Classroom

April 10, 2014January 21, 2015

A smart classroom requires a smarter teacher who can make the most of technologies to facilitate education. Word cloud tools is one amazing digital tool that every teacher should utilize in their classrooms. Word clouds are very helpful in enhancing the learning process of students with the attracting visuals created using words. In fact, it has been said that word clouds are one of the best tools for improving vocabulary. Even highlighting classwork or students assignments are other effective ways word clouds can be used in a class. These are some of the few advantages of word clouds in a classroom that you must know before you start using it. But, most importantly, know about the tools that lets you generate word clouds which you can find as you go through this article.

ABCYA: One of the best and practical word cloud tool for the kids! Kids can easily operate the tool which requires them to type tests in a box that is given and a click on the arrow button will generate the word cloud. The word cloud appearance can be changed according to preference with just the graphical buttons that are available above the cloud. Saving and printing is so easy with the tool!

Wordle: Provide any text and get the word cloud of it. The best part of the tool is that it highlight words that are mentioned more frequently in the text. Fonts, colors and layouts can be changed as per requirements. There is the Wordle gallery where you can save the images and print them when needed.

Tagul: Generate some beautiful word cloud using the free tool named ‘Tagul’ which requires you to sign up to use it. The main brain behind this tool is a technology enthusiast and entrepreneur named Alex from Russia.

WordSift: A very easy to use word cloud tool created at Stanford, ‘WordSift’ just requires you to put your text in a box and click ‘Sift’ to generate the cloud.

Word It Out: Another very easy to use word cloud tools that deserves a try is the ‘Word It Out’. It offers you an outstanding feature that allows you to create word clouds from documents and website URLs as well.

Generate reports on hostel easily with Fedena 3.0

April 7, 2014May 8, 2014

If you are thinking of generating a report on hostel activities in your institution, then the new version of Fedena 3.0 has an amazing solution to it with its new report generating feature. With the help of this feature, you can generate report on all hostel activities like the number of rooms available in each hostel, rooms occupied by students and so on. If you want to know more, then read this article that describes everything in relation to generating report on hostel in detail.

How to Generate the Hostel Reports

Login to your Fedena account and go to ‘Hostel’ in ‘Quick Links’ in the main menu.Once you go to ‘Hostel’, you will find the ‘report’ option.

Select ‘Report’ and go to the hostel reports page.

Here, you can see the different hostels you have created in your school; what is the type of the hostel- is it meant for boys or girls; total rooms available in each hostel; the available rooms out of the total rooms; the number of occupied rooms as well as the warden-in-charge of the hostel. You can click on the number of ‘Total rooms’, ‘Available rooms’ and ‘Occupied rooms’ to see the details of each. Click on the number of ‘Total rooms’ of the respective hostel you want to see.

You can even click on each ‘Room number’ to know the details of the room.

You can do the same with ‘Available rooms’ and ‘Occupied rooms’. In case you want to see the students who are occupying rooms, you should select the ‘Occupied rooms’ of the particular hostel and select the ‘Room number’.

You get details of all the students who occupy the room. You can click on the particular student to go to their profile. You can also know about the warden by selecting the warden’s name.

Get all the reports in CSV format as well.

Check out the Book Movement Report by Fedena

April 5, 2014May 8, 2014

Fedena 3.0 is all packed up with new features which includes report generation as well. Today, we will talk about the book movement report that helps you generate report on students who are issued books from the library and who are to return their books by the due date. Read the article and know how you can get a report on movement of books in the library.

How to Extract the Report

Login to your Fedena account and go to ‘Library’ in ‘Academics’ that you can find in main menu. Click on ‘Library’ and you will find the option ‘Movement Log’.

Click on ‘Movement Log’ and go to the page to know who have been issued books and who all are supposed to return their books on the due dates.

You can search for students involved in book movement by using two options- either using ‘Due Date’ or ‘Issue Date’. Whatever option you choose, you need to select a date as well for which you want the report. If you want to see students with books issued on a particular date, select ‘Issue date’ and the particular date to get the report.

You can extract the report in CSV format.

In case, you want to know about the students who are supposed to return their books on a particular due date, select the date and get the report.

In this case too, you can extract the report in CSV format.

5 Google Tools to use in Learning

April 3, 2014January 21, 2015

How many times do you use the Google search tool in a day when you have to look for some information? Google search is free of cost and is perhaps the first and last choice when we need to search for information. You may not be knowing but there are other free Google tools as well that are highly user-friendly. Some of the Google tools can be of great use to students and teachers and help them in learning. Read and know what are the tools that can be used in classroom for learning. These tools are absolutely free!

Google Forms: Use the Google Forms to conduct surveys in class for some assessment of projects or for anything else. Polling in class can become easy with the forms which also allows you to export your data to spreadsheets and do all your calculations and analyzing your data.

Audio comments: Google Drive documents allows you to record comments and share it with others. This is a great tool for teachers as well as students for they can record their comments on projects or other works and share it with each other. Audio comments are often very helpful to understand sound phrases and various other things that might get lost in written conversations between teachers and students.

Image Search: The Image Search option by Google is an excellent image directory where you can search any image without writing description for the photo. Instead, take a photo or upload one to search something similar to it, particularly when at times, you might not remember the name of the object that you are looking for. Students looking for pictures for their projects can make the most of the Image Search tool by Google.

Google Moderator: This tool is excellent when it comes to create a communication between students or teacher and student. Perfect for asking questions or giving out suggestions or even sharing ideas. If you ask any question, users can answer your question via Youtube as well. Students can make the optimum usage of the tool in carrying out classroom projects where a lot of ideas are to be shared and some question-answer sessions needed to share experiences and views.

Research tool: Students making presentations for classroom project can use the Research tool that helps to store information in the presentation or the document in Google Drive from the web. All it does is that it adds a sidebar to the document where you can search for information from the web. Besides, you can expect suggestions on your work too! The preview option lets you preview all searches you have made; insert images or any other clips to your document. The ‘cite’ option lets you mention websites from where you get information. Perfect for writing research papers.