New to Online Admission and Reenrollment forms

Mary Enloe:

Hello!  Our school is new to the Online Admission and Reenrollment forms.  We have some sample forms and I have created a form in testing, but we would like to have some forms created and in use for this next 2017-18 school year.

I am looking for information on the Best Practices for creating and using Admission and Reenrollment forms (and even the best use for Common forms).  I am also looking for guidelines and examples from schools on how these forms should be designed and what data to gather in each type of form.

The form I created is a reenrollment type form that I wanted to use year round as a Student Update form when any information (address, phone, etc) changes for the student and/or parents.  Is this feasible?  We would also like to create a Parent/Student Agreement form that would be used to  “agree” to various statements (Have read the Student/Parent handbook – Agree with the Computer Usage policy – Media Authorization Release, etc) that we gather this data in Attributes.

Again, I would appreciate any information that anyone could give me.

Thanks, Mary Enloe – St. Dominic High School

 

We have used forms for reenrollment also.  This year adding the registration deposit.  Has anyone found that ACH transactions can be accepted or just cc?

 

Hi Mary


We are in our second year using the OnProducts fully throught out the school. I would use the true contract (we collect a $600.00) form for your enrollment and reenrollment  (we start with $600.00 and it escales every two weeks up to $900.00) purposes that will suit-up with Smart Tuition or even if you are not going to be intergrated with Smart Tuition.  It is best to keep the other information (handbook acknowledement, profile informatiom, etc) on a school form.  This way the contracts are true contracts that can either be considered a deposit or an enrollment/reenrollment fee.  We do not include any additional information (such as a truth and lending agreement).  The contract is very specific and lays out the terms, payment options, legal acceptance, refund policy, etc.  Our attorneys have reviewed the contracts, so we know that they can stand up in court.  We accept all credit cards, including check cards.  The form does allow Electronic funds transfer, but we do not allow those.  As mentioned before we use school forms to collect all of the data questions as it relates to acknowledments, policy, etc.  This is working fairly well, although you will have to chase down the families that do not complete the forms timely.