Dear School Staff,
A warm welcome to the Rise community. We hope that you are having a good day.

The countdown has started. Only 5 days left till the upskilling course on the new billing module. [Updated on 30 Oct 2025]
So far, 9 of our leading schools have joined. We hope to see you there too.
We look forward to welcoming you to these exciting courses if you are able to join.

An exciting update on the upskillment courses and new modules [Updated on 30 Oct 2025]
Excited to share with Bursars. We would like to invite Bursars to the 2 upcoming upskillment courses on the new financial modules.

• The upskillment on "A new billing module: contract mngt + debit orders" will take place at 13h45-15h15 on 04 Nov, 05 Nov, 06 Nov, 20 Nov. Save up to 70% of the time spent on monthly invoicing, reporting and tracking unpaid accounts with this new module.
• The upskillment on "Mapping rules in the Bank stream" will take place at 13h45-15h515 on 17 Nov, 18 Nov, 19 Nov, 27 Nov. Save 50-60 hours on transaction allocation per month with this new module.

Join these empowering courses, to gain valuable long-term head start on the financial front and be able to start using the new modules upon upskilling completion, to get more school fees in, save time and resources.

For more details on the upskilling courses and new modules, please check out this brief article. The early bird special is valid till the end of this week, Friday, the 24th of Oct.

If you would like to attend, please email anna.toma@risebiz.co.za. We look forward to welcoming you to the courses.

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An update on the Voters' roll report
Voters roll has been enabled for schools and can be accessed under School Tab -> Tools.
The report can be obtained without having to select the Grade filters. Untick the fields you do not need under the Settings. [Updated on 18 Sep 2025].

1. School -> Learner data [updated on 14 August 2025]
Please note that an additional filter Learner has been added, to improve the search function of learners.
Currently search can be done by SURNAME, CEMIS NUMBER, CODE.
An update will be done this evening once no users use the system by 15 August, to include a search function by NAME AND SURNAME. Search by CEMIS NUMBER and CODE will remain in effect too.
It can be viewed under the Grade filter in Learner Data.
If you have any queries or experiencing any issues, please email our support team on info@risebiz.co.za
2. POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR [updated on 14 August 2025]
Positive behaviour function is finally LIVE. Go to School -> BEHAVIOUR
A few schools requested this function - and we did. We are excited to share it with you.

Incidents were renamed as Learner Behaviour Records
Transgressions were renamed as Behaviour Benchmarks.

A function for Positive points have been added. Now schools can track positive behaviour with Positive Points,
in addition to tracking negative points. Please see a detailed WIKI article on the new additions.
The Rise Team had an informative webinar on positive discipline in collaboration with Mr Pereira, Principal at Star of the Sea Convent School,
shared on their school's experience of using positive discipline at their school. Watch it here by clicking on this link
Thank you Mr Pereira for your valuable insights and feedback on the positive discipline.

We have created an import template that will allow you to do all required import for this module in one go.

3. MORE HELPFUL IMPORT TOOLS FOR EVENTS AND SCHOOL STAFF
Please note that the Rise team has also created import tools, to help you save time, for importing Events for the Rise Communicator app and School Staff.

We are NOT attaching templates as it might trigger a spam filter. 
However, we are happy to email you import templates if you require them. 
Please email anna.toma@risebiz.co.za to request it.

4. Exciting upcoming developments on the financial side of the system.

Last but not the least, the Dev Team has been working hard for a while on some crucial innovative new functions on the financial side of the system, 
to empower Bursars, Principals and Admin Officers, as well as other stakeholders. 

More news to follow soon. Please watch this space for exciting updates.

Please feel free to get in touch on 0741946905 or info@risebiz.co.za if you have any queries, questions or suggestions.