I don’t need to tell you that we live in a world of immediacy. You know it even more if you’re actively working with today’s students (no matter the generation). Often, the immediacy mindset transfers into our professional goals. And so, we need the solution, the module, the email, the portal, the [insert anything and…Read more

Each year, like most people, I take some time to reflect on the previous year, think about where I want to go in the new year and what it’s going to take me to be there. While I think about this on both personal and professional fronts, this year I’ve found myself thinking about one…Read more

Technolutions’ Slate Summit is upon us and if it’s your first or fifth time going, it’s sure to be an event full of innovative ideas, excellent networking and many opportunities to take your institution’s instance to the next level. For all of that excitement and opportunity, the Summit can actually be a fairly overwhelming experience…Read more

As commencements are, well, commencing, you may be heading into year 2 or beyond with Slate, which means that you’re about to undertake a big change yourself…Cycle Prep. While your team should focus on enhancing your instance of Slate with perpetual refinements as the tool continues to grow, Cycle Prep affords you a time to shift specific focus to Slate. So update your periods and rounds, archive your emails and events, and as you’re walking through your very own status page, think about updating to the custom portal option for your students. The possibilities are limitless. While you will have several items that you’ll want to check off your list to ensure your system is up-and-running for the next cycle, this time of year also offers the opportunity to rethink and revamp. For instance, if told your team when you first built Slate that you didn’t have to build your Read process a certain way because “that was the way it had already been done,” this is the time to reassess how you built things initially in Slate…Read more