5 Things you need to know about the new version of the Web portal:

• Giving each page a unique web address for easy bookmark each time you visit a page
• The ability to set up Google Analytics (under Miscellaneous Website Settings)
• Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing can easily find and index each page on your school site
• Option to invoke the advanced editor to format the text in the text area for each content including multi-content, newsletter, surveys, etc)
• A check box that allows a Member/s with a password submit News/Announcements to the Approval Queue under Miscellaneous Website Settings. It also gives you an option in a form of a check box that allows you to choose whether this will be shown to members or not.

With the exact same LOOK and FEEL as the current web portal, rSchoolToday is more concerned of the user’s familiarity of the current tools but with added and enhanced features.
To know more about the new version of rSchoolToday Web Site portals, Please feel free to give us a call at 612-701-6211 or email us.

Sibley-Ocheyedan an addition to the rSchoolToday Athletic Scheduler Users

Mark Gunderson, Athletic Director for the MOC-Floyd Valley Community School District and  member of the Siouxland Conference Schools in IA commented that ”Rschooltoday has been one of the best things to come along in my 12 years as AD.  It is a big time saver for an athletic director and makes communication with officials, game workers and parents very easy”. He is very satisifed with the Atheltic Scheduler and wishes that it had been around 20 years ago.

Currently the Siouxland Conference is using the rSchoolToday Athletic Scheduler that makes it easy for the conference to share school activities since the activities are shown in all the member schools calendars.

One of the latest addition in using the rSchoolToday Athletic Scheduler is the Sibley-Ocheyedan Community School District which is a member of the Siouxland conference. Now the whole conference is using the Athletic Scheduler.

The Athletic Scheduler has been a very convenient way for them to share information such as player’s information, Team Scores, rosters and the likes.

This also lets other Athletic directors in the same conference view schedules in progress from their log-in. One of the best features of the Athletic Scheduler that would benefit the Athletic Director, School administration, teachers, game officials, students and parents is the “Notify me” feature. This allows them to receive changes in schedule sent directly to their e-mail inboxes. Since all of the member schools are using the Athletic Scheduler it is easy for them to receive instant notification of schedule conflicts across the whole conference. This also helps them in scheduling online agendas and minute archives for the whole conference.

It’s the perfect All School Calendar no need for multiple calendars in the school.

Would you want your conference to have the same convenience as the Siouxland conference?

For more information on how the Athletic Scheduler can help you and your conference. Visit our website or to schedule a demo for your school call us at 612-7017211

This new feature powered by rSchoolToday, is perfect for schools and school districts for anyone in the any department that needs to collect data electronically.

E-forms would be very beneficial and cost effective since it eliminates the cost for printing, storing and distributing forms. Also one of the big factors is that, it is much faster to fill out since it is automatically formatted. This allows schools to focus more on other departments. This also lets the school to have more accuracy in routing and processing forms that lessens the common problems which arise from using traditional forms.

As a benefit this would help you and your schools in forms like permission slips, school surveys, school registration forms, submitting school articles, technical support requests and maintenance requests for a minimal cost and unlimited number of forms you allowing you and your school to save countless hours of staff time plus many thousand of dollars of budgeted expenses.

For more information about this new and exciting product give us a call at 612-701-6211 or visit our website and start a new and convenient way of starting a paperless environment in no time!

Union Highschool Keeping up using the rSchoolToday’s Athletic Scheduler

In keeping with Union High Schools’ vision to provide an education that will meet tomorrow’s challenges, it just signed up for rSchoolToday’s Athletic/Activity Scheduler.

With its hectic schedule for Athletics and Activities at the beginning of the school year,

Union High School started the year out right!

The Scheduler provides convenience for staff and coaches alike, and creates a worry free environment for the Athletics and Activities Departments day to day tasks.

No need for any technical skills to learn the program. Since it is web-based, staff and coaches can easily access the Scheduler through their own personal computers or laptops.

Additionally, all game, officials, and workers contracts are electronic; no more printing and mailing or faxing! Documents can be e-mailed or converted to an ordinary file document.

The Scheduler also allows the school to keep track of student records such as eligibility, awards, rosters, scores, and important announcements.

The Athletic/Activity Scheduler holds endless possibilities for organization and efficiency.

If you would like to know more about the Athletic/Activity Scheduler, please visit our web-site at www.rSchoolToday.com, or contact us at 612-701-6211 for our weekly webinars. We would welcome any questions regarding the rSchoolToday’s Athletic/Activity Scheduler

Families of Hamilton High School in Wisconsin had high praises for rSchoolToday’s Athletic Scheduler

In a recent comment by Michael Gosz, Athletic/Actvities Director for Hamilton High School, he stated that using rSchoolToday’s Athletic Scheduler has had a tremendous response.

They have received many compliments from families saying how easy and convenient it is for them to look up schedules.

He also said that rSchoolToday’s Athletic scheduler much more “user friendly” than the previous program they were using, which was Schedule Star ( “Light years better than Schedule Star”)

rSchoolToday’s Athletic/Activity Scheduler’s versatitlity and outstanding features consistently improve efficiency in communications and scheduling for both schools and parents.

Geoff Gross, Mitchell School District’s Athletic Director recently was amazed of the benefits of purchasing rSchoolToday’s Athletic Scheduler, Facilities Scheduler and Bus Transportation Request.
Handling all the the duties for the school district which has 2,400 students has been a tough job. It’s been keeping him a while toggling all scheduling for the schools besides his AD duties.

When he came to know that these three applications works hand in hand with each application he really liked the idea.

The Athletic Scheduling automatically updates the facilities calendar by location.

Athletics notifies parents of all calendar changes.  Thus, the Bus Transportation Requests automatically get sent to the transportation company as part of the athletic scheduling for sports calendar.

The most convenient part of this is that there are no multiple entries which means an update to each application resolves any conflict with any activities across departments.

For more stories about rSchoolToday’s products visit our website or call 612-701-6211 for a free consultation today.

Bus Transportation Software Moves To The Head Of  The Class in Washington

Kennewick Washington has chosen rSchool Today for Their Bus Transportation Software Program because of rSchooToday’s extensive benefit to their school that provides them with a web based driven system and effortless need for runarounds to process requests, approvals, dispatch and assignments for their vehicles and drivers.

The District consider saving a lot of hours and money to spend on just one request allowing them to have the information  handy by just one click on any computer with web access.

Other features that the district liked about the Transportation Request is that it includes real time access for any staff or coaches, setting up multiple pick-ups and drop-off for school trips, setting up multiple transportation companies and giving these bus companies their own log-in to assign drivers and buses to trips that the school gives them as well as unlimited user access and the fact that there is no limitations for the user.

rSchoolToday has other applications that connects to Bus Transportation application. One in particular is their Athletic scheduling application that sends information to the bus transportation requests making it easier for staff to check if there would be any conflict in terms of scheduling and organizing trips.

Many other school districts with similar school size of 13,000 students have already purchased the product based on favorable comments from existing rSchoolToday users.

If you are interested in learning more about this exciting program, give us a call today at 612-701-6211 and schedule a demo on how this could work for you and your school, or visit our website for more details!

We look forward for you taking a new step in giving your school the convenience that it needs through our Bus Transportation Request program.

Gladbrook- Reinbeck Community School District in Iowa believes that rSchoolToday’s Athletic Scheduler is a good refresher.

They also like the fact that the entire Central Iowa Metro League (CIML) conference is using the Athletic Scheduler since it would be easy for them to update and intelligently share notes, activities, game schedules, players information to one another on behalf of their school. They can now use electronic game contracts, which allows them to have a digital filing cabinet to keep paperless game and official contracts.

Aside from the Athletic Scheduler, Gladbrook also use rSchoolToday’s Facilities Scheduler providing them a web view of all activities in all buildings and locations within the district.

This enables their Elementary, Jr. High and High School to all have their own admin privileges which they can also add in the the Facilities Scheduler.

Some features of the Facilities Scheduler includes contracts, notifications, invoicing, receivable, tracking client information, complete reporting, accepting secure payment via check, cash or credit card in no time.

We can provide these and many other school administrative programs that is fit to tailor your needs.

The Athletic and Facilities Scheduler is indeed a pride of rSchooltoday. You can get more information by visiting our website or call us today at 612- 701 -6211 for consultation to learn more about our programs.

Robbinsdale Public School District selects rSchoolToday for their Bus Transportation Program. rSchoolToday, a powerful integrated web application for K12 schools that offers Web Site products which are designed to empower non-technical staff towards pervasive publishing, and to reduce the time and costs associated with sharing and gathering information amongst the school community.

 Robbinsdale Public school located in New Hope, MN which has 12,500 students, 150 buses, vans and 120 drivers chose rSchoolToday’s rTransportation Request. This software aims to provide a smooth runaround for receiving and entering requests without the worry of having multiple data entry.

 Kelly Stano, Transportation Secretary for Robbinsdale attests that before using rTransportation, they use to have a log sheet per day, assign to driver in red at least 3 days in advance for scheduling, and fill out a 4 part Trip Ticket form which needs to be sent to different personnel for approval and documentation. Because of this, orders use to take 5 days to approve, no auto assignment; dispatch log had to be put out so drivers could see 2 weeks in advance. These along with all the hustle and bustle of scheduling Athletics, activity clubs, special ed, and special order buses trips for their students.  This has become a struggle to them since they usually schedule 3,000 trips a year. 

One of the main benefits of using rTransporation is that Open tickets are not approved unless they are “coded” properly with an account code.

Kelly likes the fact that she can access everything at home; she sometimes gets calls at 6:00AM and can take care of a situation right away by accessing the application from her home computer.

She can also contract buses from within the district or charter companies from outside. And the fact is Mileage for state reporting is easier now!

Kelly easily runs monthly reports for Sandy regarding special ed usage. State reports are now easier to complete.

Full & part time billing is easy to invoice. By just adding the budget code and simply creating the final amount.

Now it’s easy to get invoices either inside or outside of the school district. It’s just one click away by emailing the documents to the client or school.

 This application also is convenient to their bus drivers since once every 2 weeks they can print dispatch log which the drivers use to sign up.

Request trips are made easy now that only Admin can request trip 1-2 days in advance, or day of trip.

Admin override is great!

Robbinsdale Public school started using rTransportation request in Sept, but didn’t go live until December. Wish they would’ve just trusted the system and started in Sept.

If you  wish to know more about the rSchooltoday Transportation Request, please feel free to give us a call at 612-701-6211 or visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you!

It’s that time of year again to pull out the summer wardrobe.  Are you looking to buy a new outfit for that wedding, graduation party, or special event? By shopping at American Eagle Outfitters, Kohls, Macys, Mens Warehouse, Old Navy, & TJ Maxx, your school can receive a commission for that purchase. 

School Resource Services is working with Kardmerchant to get your school fantastic merchant gift cards that everyone uses everywhere!
Kardmerchant has developed a relationship with several merchants that allows your organization an opportunity to sell gift cards, and your organizations will receive a commission for every gift card sold. This program will not require your organization to do any selling, order processing, fund collections or product distribution.  The program is simple.

• Host a Gift Card  icon on your web page
• Your member clicks on the icon
• They are then transferred to an order form hosted on a page at Kardmerchant. This page will have the look and feel of your organization.

• The user will have the option to select from several gift cards.   Some places are:

American Eagle, Applebee’s, Brunswick Zone, Champps Restaurant, Chili’s, Darden Restaurants, Finishline,   Kohl’s, Macys, Men’s Warehouse, Old Country Buffet, Old Navy, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Regal Cinema, Macaroni Grill, TGI Fridays, TJ Maxx, and more!

 After selecting cards the user will go through a web order and be asked for a credit card for payment.

• Kardmerchant will confirm the order and send an email to the customer.
• The customer’s credit card will be billed for the amount of the order (plus expedited shipping if requested).
• Kardmerchant will ship the gift cards directly to the member within two business days.
• At the end of every month your organization will receive a check from Kardmerchant based on the commissions earned.

This program is designed to be a long term partnership that will earn your organization funds every month. Since these merchants are those used regularly by your members you are not asking them to purchase items your members will not use.  We are confident that this program will be a valuable addition to your membership program.
To sign your school or organization up, call 612-701-6211 or email mbaker@schoolresourceservices.com today!