On April 1, TADS and ImageTrend signed a purchase agreement for the Cornerstone SMS software. As of May 1st, 2014, TADS took over day-to-day operations, support and development. We’ll be moving Cornerstone to a new state-of-the-art hosting environment this summer and updating [...]
Updates and Developments
Online Agreement & Consent Signatures
We have rolled out a great new option for the many consent forms within TADS: The option to require users to sign their names with fingers if on a touch-enabled device (iPad or other tablets, phones, Windows 8 PCs) or on a mouse if no touch device [...]
Major Product Announcement from TADS
Just a heads up: A major software and service announcement from TADS is imminent. We’re really excited and look forward to expanding our offerings for schools of all sizes [...]
Visa Cards Now Accepted for Tuition, New Flexible Options
With changes in legislation effective earlier this year, we are now able to accept Visa cards for tuition payments. We do have a number of schools currently live with this Visa, and will be contacting other schools to work through implementation. In addition, we have recently introduced a [...]
Heartbleed Bug in the News
We’ve had lots of calls from parents and administrators today regarding the Heartbleed bug. Our application domain (https://secure.tads.com) does not use the affected software and as such users and information were never at risk.
The www.tads.com domain did use the buggy software [...]
TILA for Tuition Agreements
Just a quick note — as a service to our organizations and schools, a Truth in Lending Disclosure Statement (TILA) pdf is available for parents and guardians during tuition agreement setup.
The TILA document is pretty straightforward and covers the required information outlined in this post by Schwartz Hannum [...]
New Languages for Financial Aid
Some great news on our languages front: Chinese, Korean, Haitian Creole and Polish have been enabled for financial aid users. Admissions/Enrollment and Tuition Management may see these languages as well if there is enough demand. Have a wonderful day [...]
Financial Aid Formula Review
To ensure your school is using the full power of TADS Financial Aid, we recommend that schools and organizations conduct periodic formula review sessions with our team. These review sessions should be completed when we have most of your aid applications in the system, as working with actual [...]