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# RIO Education

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> RIO Education is a cloud-based SIS for Higher Education, Continuing Studies and Vocational Learning organizations. Built on Salesforce, our SIS has all the features you expect in a student information management system and more. Connect your campus and improve the student, faculty and staff experience with our scalable and flexible solution.

RIO Education modules provide the framework to manage all your institution’s most important data. The flexibility of our solution means that institutions can configure each module to meet the needs of their unique business processes:

- Master Data Management - Manage the building blocks of your institution: campuses, courses, departments, grading systems, faculty members and facilities. 

- Term Management - Set up your terms and semesters according to your academic calendar. Link course offerings and fees to your terms to make student billing automation a breeze.

- Admission/Application - Create a streamlined application process for your prospect to increase submissions. Manage your program, scholarship and housing applications. Create review processes, so your admissions committee can evaluate and even grade applications.

- Student Management - Once an applicant is accepted, program enrollment records are automatically created. Manage their program and course enrollment, transfer credits and more.

- Program Management - Set up program plans so students and advisors can track completion progress and manage degree audits. Use our Discipline feature to manage majors, minors, concentrations and tracks. Our program management tools allow for flexible pathways.

- Fee/Billing Management - Automate your student billing process and manage tuition and non-tuition fees. Use our Funding capability to manage scholarships, grants and financial aid. Combine with RIO Connect to integrate with Financial Aid systems like PowerFAIDS and Campus Ivy. 

- Session Management - Develop your institution’s course schedule with our Session Template Builder. Assign faculty, teaching assistants, classrooms, labs and other locations. Our drag and drop features ease the registration process.

- Faculty Administration - Set faculty availability and qualifications. Manage contracts, rates and timesheets.
Student Community - Our self-service student portal is configurable. Students can register for classes, request official transcripts, download invoices and unofficial transcripts, pay fees, join extracurricular groups and activities, manage their appointments, see their personal calendar, and much more. 

- Assessment \& Grade Management - Faculty can login to their portal accounts to enter grades, see their calendar, rosters, timesheets, and more. Creating assessment rubrics is and managing grades is now a streamlined process. RIO Administrators can see assessment and grade results in real time.

- RIO Connect - Our integration tool manages connections with third-party systems.

- RIO Compliance - Our compliance extension package manages IPEDS and National Student Clearinghouse reporting and 1098T Tax Forms.
> 
> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## About the vendor

- **Company**: WDCi Group
- **Location**: Caloundra, Australia
- **Founded**: 2008

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$1,800.00
- **Pricing model**: Per User
- **Pricing Details**: Want to know more about RIO Education and our pricing? Contact RIO Education for more details and to request a free demo.

Our pricing is in addition to your Salesforce licenses and is:
- RIO Admin @ $1,00/user/year
- RIO Faculty @ $250/faculty/year
- RIO Student @$1.50/student/year
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: Basque, English, French, Spanish
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more

## Features

- Activity Dashboard
- Admissions Management
- Alerts/Notifications
- Assessment Management
- Attendance Management
- Calendar Management
- Class Registration
- Class Scheduling
- Classroom Management
- Communication Management
- Discipline Management
- Document Management
- Faculty/Staff Management
- Fee Collection
- Financial Aid Management
- For Higher Education
- Gradebook
- Mobile App
- Online Payments
- Performance Metrics

## Integrations (5 total)

- Box
- Brightspace
- Microsoft 365
- Moodle
- Xero

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Chat

## Category

- [Student Information Systems (SIS)](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4228/student-information-system/software)

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## Links

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## This page is available in the following languages

| Locale | URL |
| en | <https://www.softwareadvice.com/student-information-system/rio-education-profile/> |
| en-AU | <https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/326104/rio-education> |
| en-GB | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/326104/rio-education> |
| en-IE | <https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/326104/rio-education> |
| en-NZ | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/326104/rio-education> |

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