Tuesday 10 September 2019

How Student Fee Management Software Can Benefit your Institution

How many times have you lost your cash or cheque while standing in a queue for paying your child's fee? How many times have you faced cheque bounce problem? We at Yoctel understand the difficulty that parents and even students have to face at the time of fee submission. For solving this problem, Yoctel has developed and introduced a web based student fee management software that helps not only the students but parents as well to pay fees online without any hindrance. In this age, where everything is technologically driven, everybody has a question that whether this process can be simplified or not? The answer is yes, the process of fee collection and management can be streamlined and made easier. 

In the era of internet and applications, there is always a scope for things that can be done online including collection of the fees. There are a number of software developed for this sole purpose; but there’s nothing like student fees collection software for schools. Student fee management software is an online fee collection software that enables the administrators to streamline the fee collection. It has a smart fee management module with e-fee payment receipt in parent’s web or mobile app account. Apart from this it is also an integrated net banking solution to collect fee online; with the features of multiple fee reports class and student wise. It helps in saving time & paper and managing your accounts more efficiently as well. It has a feature of automatic fee receipt generation wherein the parents or the students get the fee receipt directly online, without having to go anywhere or stand in long queues. The administrator receives an automatic SMS alert on the mobile device as soon as the payment is made by the students or the parents. 
Student Fees Collection Software for Institutes
Following are some important features of the student fees collection software and the benefits they will provide to the educational institution when implemented:
  • Quick and rapid payments: The payments can be made online rapidly and an online receipt is created immediately, so that there is no hassle of visiting the school/college and stand in queues to collect the fee payment receipt. Along with this secured payment gateways are provided to the students so that the payment can be done easily, quickly and effortlessly, without any chaos.
  • User-friendly Application: The software has a user-friendly interface with a step-by-step instruction on how to manage and make payments through it. It ensures that the process becomes easier not just only for the students but also makes it quite comprehensive for the parents to make the payments.
  •  Account Management: There are number of students in college and therefore the individual accounts of the students need to be properly managed and taken care of. The accounts of the students are created so that all the payments can be easily managed and tracked including admission fee, library and extracurricular activities.
  • Payment Security: It is believed that online payments are unsecured and harmful for making payments and other transactions that is the reason why they are mostly avoided. But, with the fee management software, now the transactions can be secures and made rapid without harming or hindering the transactions.
  • Receiving and Sending Alerts: Most of the time, either intentionally or unintentionally the students somehow fail to submit the fee on time. But, this feature sends a push notifications as well as SMS, E-mail alerts to the students/ parents before the deadlines making it impossible for them to forget or failing to pay the fee.
Conclusion: Student fees collection software for Institutes is an asset for the educational institutions but the entire educational world. The solution is beautifully integrated with many beneficial features. This software completes the lackness in the system by the data fetched from the students as well as parents. The system additionally reduces the use of paper, money and increases the administrative functionality and productivity of the institute.

Also read: Benefits of Student Fee Collection Software For Academic Institutions

Saturday 10 August 2019

How Exam on Air Has Revolutionized the Examination Process?

In today’s time of growing technology and where internet is used at its maximum. As a result, nowadays almost every educational establishment and institutes have started to conduct the school test/exams, competitive examinations online. The whole process of examination is a very long and time consuming process. Yoctel’s - Exam on Air (EOA), online test software is an innovative, sophisticated and user friendly online exam software platform to help the schools/colleges automate their examination process. It caters to pre-examination process along with the post-examination process. From registration of the students, enrollment of students to creating test papers everything is controlled by the clients. It is not just limited to testing platform, but it is much more than that. The examiner/instructor with the help of this software can generate and upload tests. Student’s progress can be tracked and shares with the teachers and parents through a separate parent panel and portal. This platform online test software has a section for the profile pages for students and faculty members, to make it easier for them to stay in touch with each other and have the latest updates for the activities that are happening or might occur. This platform not only caters to entrance or board examinations but also the competitive examinations like NEET, UPSC, etc.

Exam on Air Software to revolutionized the examination process

Apart from uploading tests, you can even generate tests using this software according to your needs and requirements, depending on the type of test/examination it is. Like MCQs, skills based questions, objective, essay type questions as well as personality and employee evaluation tests. The student is provided with all the details and just has to put in those details, take the exam and submit the answers. As soon as the student completed and submits the responses, a smart report is generated immediately, focusing on the number of questions attempted, the number of questions answered incorrectly along with suggestions to clear the concepts and how to improve on those concepts to score better next time.

It is designed in such a way that the students can access and give exams while being at the comfort of their home. It has a user-friendly, modern, clean and responsive interface that is optimized for any device, be it online on web, mobile or tablet. So instead of waiting in long queues to enter the exam hall and circle fill the responses, the students can very easily take the test with few taps and clicks on the mobile and also on web. It provides a huge centralized dashboard and administration to help in easy access and management of the tests, quizzes and assessments. You can create tests, register students, set marking schemes for the test papers and even view the reports and all from a single administration panel.

The admin control has a lot of facilities that may benefit the administrator. Few of them are mentioned below:
  1. Manage the students and their information.
  2. Upload question papers previously made and generate new test papers from it.
  3. Keep the students updated about the date of examination and other exam related queries via email and SMS.
  4. For enhancing the knowledge and understanding of various concepts of the students, you can upload notes in the form of e-books as well as online videos.
  5. The administrator can classify the papers on the basis of subject, chapters, module, sub-module and the difficulty/easiness level.
  6. This software gives the facility of scheduling tests for different users.
Conclusion: The online examination system has its benefit for both students and educational institutes. But it has also revolutionized the examination process. It deals with all the pre-examination preparations like registrations, creating test papers, etc.; along with the post- examination process like keeping track of the student’s progress even after completion of the examination. It not only lets you conduct the school board and entrance exams but also competitive exams like NEET, IIT-JEE, UPSC, etc. It gives you the liberty to mark the paper according to the examiner’s needs; it can also be divided and classified on the basis of different chapters, subjects, difficulty/easy level, etc.