Populi
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Features
49 features across 14 categories
Administration(5)
Run what-if scenarios to see how different courses will impact degree completion. Customizeable flags identify struggling students so you can help them get back on track.
Design enrollment agreements that trigger based on student registration. Require signatures before students continue.
Prerequisites, co-requisites, scheduling, and more. Powerful features make online registration a breeze.
Unified student profile across entire platform, for the entire student life-cycle. Never worry about sharing data again.
As students take courses, Populi builds transcripts automatically. You and your students see exactly what they've taken and what remains to complete their degrees.
Admissions(4)
Integrated application fees allow applicants to pay prior to starting or as the final step when they are ready to submit.
Applicants can submit questions directly from the application and your team can use in-app messaging to follow up.
Easy to design and implement online applications. Applicants can stop and continue anytime. Monitor progress and encourage completion from any device.
Request and receive applicant references securely. 100% online.
Alumni(1)
Continue the relationship even after students graduate. Alumni can update their contact info and provide info on current employment.
Automation(1)
Customizable triggers so that, say, a change in status triggers an email or specified communication plan.
Billing(4)
Automated student billing that is clear, so that your students know exactly what is due.
Reconcile for a period and lock transactions. Run summary entries for accounting software or run exports.
Make it easy to pay by offering payment plans, payments from any device, or with opt-in recurring payments automatically drafted.
Tuition schedules trigger based on registraion. Fee rules trigger based on preset conditions. Invoice in bulk or individually.
Communications(3)
Send 50,000 emails free each month. Additional emails at 0.05¢ per recipient.
Send personal or bulk SMS, emails or letters and connect with your leads however they prefer.
Send 5,000 text messages (U.S. and Canadian carriers only) free each month. Additional text messages at 2¢ per text recipient. Additional toll-free texting numbers available for $1 per number per month.
Financial Aid(6)
Schedule disbursements using preset timetables. Built-in Pell tables and aid origination fees. Disburse awards in batches and mark them released in COD.
Information from the FAFSA feeds directly into profiles and aid applications. Review error codes, aid counselings, and MPNs.
Process financial aid without using EdConnect or a bolt-on solution. Connect directly to DoED from a user-friendly interface.
Download documents from your SAIG mailbox, sync awards to COD and resolve responses.
Track Satisfactory Academic Progress and flag students that are in danger of losing aid eligibility.
Still need to use a third party? The financial aid API lets you connect with servicers so you can pull disbursed awards into student accounts.
Fundraising(5)
Maintain regular contact with your supporters using all channels. Mail merge letters and print envelopes.
Set goals and create donation pages for specific fundraising projects. Create appeals and track their effectiveness.
Accept any currency and record gifts-in-kind.
Keep notes, schedule calls and follow up on to-dos on donor profiles. View annual giving and print individual and annual giving statements.
Make it easy for your supporters to donate wherever they are, from any device. Custom donation pages can be embedded on any site. Let your donors set up recurring monthly gifts via credit card or electronic check.
Infrastructure(2)
Transfer 200 GB of data (file downloads, media streaming, etc.) free each month. Additional data transfer at 15¢ per GB per month.
Store up to 2,000 GB of files (documents, pictures, audio, video, etc.) free each month. Additional storage available at 10¢ per GB per month.
Integration(4)
Learning Tools Interoperability integration.
Integrate with your school's systems using SSO.
Integrate with your school's systems with a powerful API.
Connect systems using webhooks for real-time data synchronization.
Learning(6)
Students get secure electronic assignment submission. Faculty get an integrated interface for grading, rubrics, and feedback.
Upload files, video, and audio and use them in assignments, lessons, tests, and discussions. Content streaming is optimized for students' devices and locations.
Full-featured Learning Management System integrated with SIS so you don't have to worry about syncing enrollment and grades.
Build, administer, and grade tests and quizzes. Save hours of busywork with automated grading for tests and discussions.
Help students stay responsible with verified proctoring for online tests and plagiarism checks for all kinds of assignments.
Stream live video lectures with Zoom and BigBlueButton and save recordings to the cloud for students to access at any time.
Recruitment(2)
Get information, answer questions, and follow up with inquiries by text, email, or print. Dashboards, task lists, and simple reports keep your team focused on promising leads.
Accept inquiries from your website or social media and follow up using a web interface. Customizable CSS to match your site.
Reporting(4)
Keep tabs on receivables with a built in aging report that tracks invoices that are 30-60-90-120-121+ days overdue.
Customizeable and save-able reports so that your can keep your team focused on the task at hand.
Create any kind of custom report you want. Standard reports like IPEDS? We built those in for you.
See exactly where your leads are at and help them advance. Study your pipeline to improve your process.
Support(2)
Implementation, data migration, and training included.
From training to technical support to everyday how-tos, customer service is included free for everyone who uses Populi.
Pricing
Standard
- ✓All-in-one solution
- ✓Access for all staff, faculty, and students
- ✓Implementation, data migration, and training
- ✓Terrific customer support and every software update
- ✓File storage (2,000 GB/month free)
- ✓Text messaging (5,000 texts/month free)
- ✓Video streaming
- ✓Unified system
- ✓Recruit module
- ✓Admit module
- ✓Teach module
- ✓Administer module
- ✓Aid module
- ✓Account module
- ✓Advance module
- ✓Connect module
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Integrations
8 known integrations