Best Practices
Practical guidance, frameworks, and recommendations to help your school get the most from every Faria product.
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Data Management
Best practices for maintaining clean, consistent, and compliant data across your school's platforms.
- Managing a Mid-Year System Transition Without Disrupting Operations
- What Schools Should Know About GDPR, PDPA, and Cross-Border Data Compliance
- Access Control Best Practices: Giving the Right People the Right Permissions
- When a Staff Member Leaves: A Data Offboarding Checklist for School Admins
- Data Management Best-practices
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School Operations
Practical guidance on running efficient, well-connected school systems - regardless of which Faria products you use.
- Who Should Own Your School's Systems? Defining Roles Before Go-Live
- Running Effective Staff Training That Actually Sticks
- Introducing Your School Community to Faria Platforms
- Establishing Login Expectations for Your School Community
- How to Build a School-Wide Change Management Plan for New Technology
- How to Communicate System Changes to Parents, Staff, and Students
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ManageBac+
Tips, configurations, and best practices for getting the most from your ManageBac+ setup.
- Why Your ManageBac+ Reports Don't Match: The Most Common Data Mismatches We Fix
- ManageBac+ at the Start of a New Year: The 10 Things Support Always Gets Asked About
- Planning Template: New Student Onboarding Aid for ManageBac+
- Managing Student Records Day-to-Day in ManageBac+: A Front Office Guide
- How to Keep Your ManageBac+ Data Clean Across the Academic Year
- Which CAS Management Model Is Right for Your School?
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OpenApply
Guidance on optimising your admissions workflows and data management within OpenApply.
- Planner Template: OpenApply Applicant Communication Checklist
- The OpenApply Pipeline Mistakes That Slow Down Admissions Season
- Why Applicant Families Aren't Completing Forms: What Support Sees and How to Fix It
- Managing the Enquiry Inbox in OpenApply: How Front Office Staff Can Keep Applications Moving
- Getting Your OpenApply Setup Ready Before Admissions Season Opens
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SchoolsBuddy
Best practices for managing activities, enrichment, and student engagement through SchoolsBuddy.
- SchoolsBuddy Activity Setup: The Configuration Steps Most Schools Miss
- SchoolsBuddy Seasons and Rollover: What to Do and When, From the Support Desk
- Managing Parent Queries About SchoolsBuddy: A Front Office FAQ and Response Guide
- How to Use SchoolsBuddy to Manage Consent and Compliance for Off-Site Activities
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Atlas
Recommendations for building and sustaining curriculum maps that stay useful year after year.
- Planning Template: New Teacher Atlas Onboarding Checklist
- Standards Alignment in Atlas: The Common Mistakes and How to Get It Right
- The Atlas Setup Decisions That Cause the Most Confusion Down the Line
- What the Front Office Needs to Know About Atlas: A Non-Academic Admin's Guide
- How to Structure Your Curriculum Maps So They Stay Useful Year After Year