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What's included: Button (Action): A custom button “Generate Transcript” is available at the Program Enrollment object. This button will initiate the RIO Docs (S-Docs) process to generate the transcript. Transcript Template: Customize by changing the images and static text. When the transcript generation is initiated, the process will automaticall
Info If you have previously installed this, and have already made your own customizations, do not use the vanilla RIO Ready installer . You will need to deploy your custom components and codes. For this functionality's components, see here . To quickly setup the Student Request functionality , please follow the following steps: Step 1: Define Suppor
In Digital Experience, you have the option to use a Salesforce standard login or a RIO Ready custom login. Why/when do you use the RIO Ready custom login? Use Case 1: We don't want logins for all students in our database: You have a huge number of students in your legacy database that were brought over to RIO Education. You do not want to activate D
Description When releasing grade through a Course Connection or Course Offerings , you may receive an error message that contains the following content "GPA: value outside of valid range on numeric field". Full error message is as per image below: Resolution The error message above is caused by the GPA calculation process. EDA's GPA field in the Pro
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here. These are the minimum data required to import Financial Aid/Disbursement Data records. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data, in which more fields can be included in the extract. Funding Allocation Details Standard Fields Required Not
What do you need to do when you have new information to add on? For example: I have a new Term [1]. I have a new Program [2]. I have a new version of the Program and etc [3]. I have additional Courses to offer under an existing Term [4]. Please see below for the guidelines based on the different scenarios: Scenario Record to Create Available Wizar
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here . Transactional data is the data that changes overtime, for example: Student data - The student's data gets created whenever there is a new enrollment. Program Enrollment data - The students' Program Enrollment data gets created whenever the students enroll into Progra
Update/ Component Description Updated the Allow Reports settings for the following objects: Program Applications . Program Enrollments . Session . Payments . Created the following Report Types: Course Connection . Course Offerings with Course Connections. Courses . Program Enrollments with Course Connections. Program Enrollments with PE Pathways . P
Description How to merge Accounts, Contacts, and Person Accounts in RIO Education? Resolution The best practice is to use Salesforce Duplicate/Matching rule. Below is a detailed outline on how to merge Accounts, Contacts, and Person Accounts. Notes: While selecting the Master (surviving) record, please select the Contact with associated Portal/Expe
To quickly setup the transcript generation functionality , please follow the following steps: Pre-requisite: Ensure that you have already installed RIO Ready - Community Transcript here . Step 1: S-Docs Login to Salesforce and go to Setup. From Setup, click on Object Manager. In the Quick Find box, enter Installed Packages. Search for S-Docs. If you
RIO Ready: Student Request - Grievance Form A grievance or complaint may be made against any of the institution's decisions, actions, or processes that may include concerns over such matters as application procedures, including education agents, discrimination, harassment, etc. Fred (Student) had a bad experience with the agent who is handling his a
This functionality is intended to give you a head start on setting up a channel for students to raise their requests within RIO Education through the Digital Experience. A student files a request via the Student Community, for example, 'Generic Grievance'. A case is created in Salesforce Service Cloud and assigned to a Student Service Personnel (SSP
RIO Education has a standard student/faculty Digital Experience. It has all the relevant community pages to hold the relevant components of RIO Education - this includes components for both student and faculty. To obtain this, select 'RIO Ready - RIO Education Community' and install it from here . For a Community setup guide, see here . In RIO Rea
RIO Education is a native Salesforce Student Information System (SIS, SMS, SRS) listed on the AppExchange. See it here. To be listed on the AppExchange, RIO Education has to pass the Salesforce's security review process. The security review ensures that RIO Education is ready to run on the world's leading platform, Salesforce. This article outlines
Transactional data refers to the information that is generated as a result of transactions or events. In RIO Education context, these transactions can include: Student details . Program Enrollment details . Course Enrollment (Course Connection) details . Result details . Although there are a handful of student information systems (SIS) available, t
Important If you have previously installed this, and have already made your own customizations, do not use the vanilla RIO Ready installer . You will need to deploy your custom components and codes. For this functionality's components, see here . To quickly setup the Student Id generation functionality , please follow the following steps: Prerequisi
RIO Ready: Student Request - Approved Absence Form The request for approval of absence is a form used to document the approval or denial of a verified absence from classes. Fred (Student) was sick for a week due to COVID. Fred goes into the Student Community and sends a request for approval of absence to the institution for further action; so that h
RIO Ready: Student Request - Appeal of Results This is an official request that the students can file to appeal for the results that they have obtained for their Courses, and to re-review the results. Fiona has obtained her result/grade for the Course 'Manage Meeting' and she is not confident with it. She can login to the Student Community and file
Description How to set up faculty users? Resolution There are different steps to set up faculty users depending on the user licenses that they are on. Below are the steps outlined based on different user licenses. Lightning Platform License The flow of the creation will be: Create a User > Create a Contact > Associate the Contact to User
Common Outbound Notifications RIO Education supports a series of common outbound notifications. The notifications can sent out through different channels however, some of them requires further customizations and integrations. RIO Education only supports standard notifications out-of-the-box (OOTB), even though WhatsApp/SMS/Email options are define
RIO Ready: Student Request - Credit Transfer Students can apply to transfer their credits from previous studies towards the current related Course(s) to reduce the number of Courses required to complete the enrolled Program of study. Fiona has done SPA1001 Spanish Language in her previous institution. She can login to the Student Community and apply
Training Session 1 - Master Data Management Who: IT Team, Registrar Team. What: In this session, we will cover the foundation setup of RIO and how the institution's data will look in RIO. For example, this is a standard Master Data Setup using our fictional RIO University as an example . Duration: 1 hour. Preparation (Before): Take a look at the s
In RIO Education, the Fee Lines are not linked to (nor store) any accounting details e.g. Revenue GL, Expense GL, etc. This is because RIO Education can be integrated to different accounting systems out there and they may have different structures or specifications, so the availability of these information may differ. However, you can adopt one of t
The role of Salesforce Administrator covers the following: Manage Users Reset password. Freeze user. Troubleshoot user login issue. Create new users for: Internal users. Faculty users. Student users - usually created through self-registration but can be created manually as well (if required). Manage permission sets and permission set groups for new
RIO Ready: Student Request - Extension of Assessment Form This is a formal request for delaying the completion or submission of an assessment task after the deadline. Fred (Student) was sick for a week due to COVID and could not finish his assignment on time. Fred goes into the Student Community and files a formal request to extend the deadline of t
Below is the suggested sequence of creating Fees and linking them to Programs and Courses. The purpose of the sequence outlined below is to reduce and hopefully prevent any mishaps when generating student fees. For example, if you miss a step in preparing the fees, you may encounter errors while generating the student fees, or have issues with the c
RIO Ready: Student Request - Application for RPL This is an application to request a formal assessment to assess the competency of a student that may have been acquired through formal or informal learning, which later on can be converted into credits and put towards a qualification. If Fiona has taken a Course to handle infants, she can apply for RP
To implement Program Disciplines , there are a few areas to set up. Read the following to setup the Program Disciplines accordingly: Program Discipline Data Before the Program Disciplines are available for the students to enroll into, the relevant data must be ready. These data are: Program Discipline Data This is the data that is created under the
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here . These are the minimum data required to import Contact (Faculty) records. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data, in which more fields can be included in the extract. Personal Details Standard Fields Required Notes Salutation First
Overview Grade Points can be defined in the Grade Settings record. Certain educational institutions award their students with Grade Points that are in double-digit values. As an example, "HD - High Distinction" below: Grade Range Grade Points Grade Result Grade Value 85 - 100 10 Pass HD - High Distinction 75 - 84.9 9 Pass D - Distinction 65 - 74.9
Master Data Template Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Import Template Use the standard master data import file template. There are currently 2 versions. Due to changes to the structure of several objects from v3.12 onwards , you can utilize a previous version from here (pre 3.12 master data template) .To access the template for v3.12 onwa
The RIO Ready Student Application functionality is intended to give you a head start on setting up a channel for students to apply for their Programs within RIO Education through the Digital Experience. This provides: Custom Screen Flow: A custom flow has been setup to allow student to submit their applications. This flow will create a Program Appli
RIO Education has a set of standard ready-to-use reports as part of the product. However, RIO Ready provides you with even more variations of reports for you to use and further customize. Each of these additional reports are grouped under a series of additional report folders. The additional report folders are: RIO EDU - Admissions & Recruitment
Overview Data migration is one of the biggest and most complex tasks in the SIS implementation. While the migration is performed at the greatest possible effort, the result/outcome of the migration may not be necessary 100% on point. As you/we are dealing with different legacy systems, it is quite impossible to capture and understand all possible l
RIO Ready: Student Request - Special Consideration Form This is an application for special consideration, that may be submitted to the institution to take unexpected or extenuating circumstances into consideration during the marking of an assessment. Fred (Student) had a low assessment mark/grade due to a health condition which prevented him from gi
RIO Ready: Student Request - Documentation Request This is an official request that students can file to request for documentation from the institution. Fred would like to request for his official transcript for Bachelor of Business Administration. The information captured from this form are: Field Notes Program of Study The student's related Prog
To quickly setup the Student Application functionality , please follow the following steps. This will enable students to make a Program Application on their Student Portal. Step 1: Activating the Flow Login to Salesforce and go to “Setup”. From Setup, click on Home. In the Quick Find box, enter Flows. Click on Flows. Click on REDU Program Applicat
Transcript generation is an important feature for all education providers and it should be a standard module in a SIS. For RIO Education, most of the new users will be using the S-Docs app (unless the users already have their own template generation app). The transcript generation can be initiated through 2 main options: Individual generation: Allow
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here. These are the minimum data required to import Student Fee records. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data, in which more fields can be included in the extract. Student Fee Main Details Standard Fields Required Notes Program Enrollment
RIO Ready: Student Request - Variation of Enrollment This is an official request that the students can file to apply for variation of enrollment e.g. deferral, withdrawal, etc. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Fred will need to defer his studies to a later date. He can login to the Student Community and file a formal request to the institution to de
This RIO Ready custom functionality, Student ID Generation, provides the capability to generate student IDs/student numbers. This generates student IDs when the Contact Type is updated to “Student” (and the Student ID was initially blank before updating the Contact Type). Suggestion You can setup a custom automation to update the Contact Type value
Different Fee Methods result in different Student Fee structures. Different Fee Methods also have different ways of triggering the generation of Student Fees . Below is a table that simplifies the details that you should know. Note: For information on setting up Fees for Courses, see here instead: Setting up Fees for Courses . Fee Method This is to
RIO Education is a native Salesforce Student Information System (SIS, SMS). It does not perform any callouts to external/3rd party services, hence, by default, RIO Education does not utilize any keys/certificates . This also means that we do not store or manage any customer-related keys/certificates. If you are using any external/3rd party services
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here . These are the minimum data required to import Course Enrollment records. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data in which, more fields can be included in the extract. Standard Fields Required Notes Student (the student that this Program Enro
Overview If the Forms in your instance are built out of Salesforce's flow screen, you can utilize the "pause" feature. This feature provides you the ability to "save and continue later" in your Forms. To use this feature, there are a few things that you will need to take note of. Things to note Look and feel When you pause the Flow / Form, the save
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here . These are the minimum data required to import Program Enrollment records. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data in which, more fields can be included in the extract. Standard Fields Required Notes Student (the student that this Program Enr
Description How to continue Courses ? Use Case A Course that spans for 2 Terms or consist of 2 parts where the students have to do it for 2 Terms or 2 parts in order to complete the whole Course. For example: BUS1012 Innovation Business is a 2-part Course. Each part is offered in different Terms. So, if Fred the student is interested in completing t
RIO Education follows a standard admission/application process. Below is a diagram outlining the high-level flow of how the admission/application is represented in the data model. The process begins with the creation of a Contact and Program Application. The Contact will be designated as the "Applicant" in the “Contact Type” picklist field. Once
Fee Schedule Term is the key for Student Fee generation. Without it, the Student Fee will not be generated OR generated with errors. Lets take a look at the table below where it simplifies the outcome of each use cases: Fee Method This is to determine how the Student Fee is going to be generated. Program Course & Term - Course Fixed Term Outcome
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here . These are the minimum data required to import Course Enrollment results. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data in which, more fields can be included in the extract. Standard Fields Required Notes Student (the student that this Program Enro
Important For recommended formats in extracting data, check out this article here . These are the minimum data required to import Contact (Applicant/Student) records. Of course, different customers may track different amount of data, in which more fields can be included in the extract. Personal Details Standard Fields Required Notes Salutation First