Eduframe

A Powerful Student Information System (SIS) for Continuing Education, Purpose-Built for Canvas LMS

Would you like to further streamline the administrative processes within your institution, save time of staff and offer learners a seamless user experience across your educational systems? Discover why Eduframe is the ultimate Continuing Education Storefront & SIS for Canvas LMS.

Why is a Student Information System (SIS) indispensable in Continuing Education?

In today’s educational landscape, learners expect a seamless and swift online experience. In continuing education, this is even more important, because learners often combine their program with a (fulltime) job and their busy social lives. However, many institutions still rely on separate technical solutions, leading to a fragmented learning experience.

To accommodate this requirement, it is essential to use the right technology to support both the learning experience and administrative processes. Two systems that play a key role in this are the Learning Management System (LMS) and the Student Information System (SIS). Although these systems are complementary, they each have unique functions and benefits. We’ll explain the differences between an LMS and an SIS and how the combination of Canvas LMS and our SIS, Eduframe, provides an efficient and integrated solution, especially suitable for Continuing Education.

What Are the Differences Between Canvas LMS and a SIS like Eduframe?

An LMS, such as Canvas, is specifically designed for managing the actual learning activities. The LMS provides teachers with the tools to create course materials, organize learning activities, provide feedback, and track students’ progress. Students can access learning materials, submit assignments, and collaborate with peers through the LMS.

A SIS, like Eduframe, focuses primarily on the administrative and organizational aspects of education and offers storefront functionality for displaying your course offerings on the institution’s website. The SIS manages student enrollments, course schedules, payments, and reports.

While the LMS focuses on the content and interaction of the learning process, the SIS provides the administrative backbone needed to ensure everything runs smoothly.

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Simplifying The Enrollment Process in CE for Staff & Students

In continuing education in particular, enrollments, payments, and reporting are often complex. Take dealing with multiple enrollment scenarios as an example:

A student can take a course as an individual, paying for it personally.
A student can enroll in a course on behalf of a company, which then covers the enrollment fees.
A company can enroll multiple employees in one or more courses, paying for them in one invoice, while each employee still needs individual access to the LMS.
Custom agreements can be made with companies for long-term access to modules or learning materials, for instance, in corporate education.

By integrating a SIS with Canvas LMS, many of these administrative processes are automated or simplified, making it easier to respond to changing market needs.

Students also gain immediate access to relevant educational materials upon registration thanks to Single Sign-On (SSO), without requiring manual intervention, enhancing their learning experience.

Fig. 1: Reviewing a registration is optional. Thanks to Single Sign-On (SSO), participants can immediately access course materials after registering.

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What Are The Benefits of Integrating Eduframe SIS and Canvas LMS?

Let’s take a closer look at the synergy between Canvas LMS and the Eduframe SIS to discover the benefits for educational institutions:

Data exchange for a seamless experience

Conceptual representation of the data that is exchanged between Eduframe (SIS) and Canvas (LMS) and the interaction that administrative staff members and students have with both systems.

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One account, access to both systems

The student can log in to both Canvas and Eduframe with the same account. This means that the user does not have to remember any additional account details and it is very easy to switch between the two environments.

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Courses are synchronized between Eduframe and Canvas

Using course templates can save administrative staff a lot of time. The updated course information within Eduframe is directly synchronized with your institution's website and Canvas, so you only have to keep track of the administration in one place.

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Scheduled meetings, gatherings and appointments are automatically synced to Canvas LMS

Meeting templates make it easy to schedule the required teaching materials for a course edition. Think of meetings, rooms or technical items. This information is also synced with Canvas LMS.

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Up-to-Date Course Offerings & Immersive Storefront

Integrating a storefront for continuing education, and creating a seamless shopping cart experience with your university’s website is more than just a convenience—it’s a strategic move. Eduframe allows you to sync your course catalog to your institution’s website directly, serving a growing audience.

Efficient Course Planning

In Eduframe, new courses and course editions can be created based on templates. Lectures, assessments, and meetings can be bulk-scheduled for each course edition, and necessary educational resources can be assigned. This information is then automatically synced with Canvas LMS, preventing duplicate work.

Automated Invoicing

Eduframe offers extensive options for managing payments and invoicing, with this data automatically linked to enrollments and course progress in Canvas LMS.

Reporting and Analysis

Through the integration of Eduframe with Canvas LMS, educational institutions can track student progress and generate detailed reports on enrollments, payments, and learning outcomes.

Enhance the Learner Experience

Automatic Access

When a student enrolls via Eduframe, they are automatically registered in Canvas LMS, ensuring instant access to their courses without additional administrative steps. With Single Sign-On (SSO), students can use one account for both systems.

Synchronization of Course Data

Course information, such as schedules and deadlines, is synced between Eduframe and Canvas LMS (via GradePush LTI), so students always have up-to-date information. They can also easily sync meetings or important dates with their personal calendar apps.

Access to Lifelong Learning

Through Eduframe, students can browse the institution’s full course catalog and enroll in follow-up courses. Eduframe also provides insight into which courses can be stacked to form a complete (accredited) program. Finally, students can easily download certificates from completed modules to demonstrate their development.

Eduframe: The #1 Continuing Education SIS for Canvas LMS

Would you like to experience how simple course management can be with Eduframe? We’d be happy to show you how Eduframe works for you during a free demo. We can also discuss how the integration between a SIS and Canvas LMS can optimize workflows within your educational institution.

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