As the school year wraps up and summer camps begin, we’re wishing you a successful and energizing season. We also want to highlight our June webinars—designed to give school leaders actionable insights to plan smarter across both enrollment and financial aid. If you work in a K–12 private or independent school, these sessions are for you.
Inside Admissions: A Conversation with Schools on Data-Driven Enrollment Trends Date: June 16 | 🕛 12:00 p.m. CT Join us for a candid conversation with admissions leaders and hear directly from your peers about the real challenges and opportunities they're navigating from across the country as they share what’s working (and what’s not) in today’s enrollment landscape.
Meet the New SSS: Built for Accuracy, Backed by Experts Date: June 18 | 🕛 12:00 p.m. CT Discover how the reimagined SSS platform helps schools make fair, consistent award decisions faster—using trusted data sources and proven practices, plus improved tools for communicating with families. 🔗 Register here
Important Feature Updates
Want to help shape TADS to better fit your school needs? School administrators can now submit suggestions, review our release notes, and preview our upcoming product roadmap! To access this important information, simply click into the Rocketship and Lightbulb icons in the upper right corner of the TADS or Educate websites.
New Releases feature: No more missed updates—seamless communication and improved user experience. The "New Releases" tool ensures that users receive timely updates on new product releases, enhancements, and bug fixes directly within the platform.
Suggest a Feature: Have a feature suggestion? We’re listening. Our "Suggest a Feature" tool lets you share your suggestions, vote on ideas, and track updates—all in one place. Help shape the future of our products by letting us know what matters most to you.
Here’s a preview of our new navigation bars:
TADS Navigation Menu
Educate Naviation Menu
TADS & Educate Feature Releases
We've been hard at work creating the features and tools you rely on throughout the school year! Below is a brief overview of what we've been working on the past few months. For more details and the latest updates easily click the Rocketship icon in right corner of your TADS or Educate account.
TADS:
April – Families save time with fewer clicks! In tuition agreements, the system will automatically select payment plan options when only one due date/payment method/plan is available. In Classic Financial Aid, families can also now upload multiple documents at once.
May – The 2026-2027 school year is now available for configuration! For ease of use, we added the TADS Suite ID to the Charge Reconciliation Report, and restored the document requirement links on our Admissions > Documents and Enrollment > Documents pages.
June and beyond – Be sure to keep an eye on our roadmap below! We are working hard on improvements and new features.
Educate:
April – We improved the Finalized Grades page for Standards-Based Grading so users can finalize them for all students in one session. We also made Admin UI Improvements to improve the user experience.
May – The first phase of our Renaissance Learning integration, which will allow schools to send rosters from Educate, is complete. We’ve also improved the Results module by adding more information that is helpful when generating report cards.
June and beyond – Be sure to keep an eye on our roadmap! We are working hard on improvements and new features.
Product Roadmap Updates
We take pride in our commitment to build tools that make your schools more efficient, your data more actionable, and streamline your day-to-day operations. Guided by your feedback, each upcoming and completed enhancement has been designed to support the everyday needs of your school operations.
You can easily find our complete roadmaps by accessing the Rocketship or Lightbulb icons in your TADS or Educate navigation menus and then clicking into the “Roadmap” tab.
TADS Product Roadmap
Educate Product Roadmap
Portal Pointers
Closing Out Yearly Billing Accounts in TADS
As the school year ends, we recommend reviewing your family billing accounts and resolving any open balances or unapplied payments/credits. The following tips and reports will help:
Check the Invoice Aging Report for families who have past-due balances. At this point, you may wish to follow up with those families directly to agree on a catch-up plan.
If a family has a balance you would like to write off, you can add a credit, called something like “Write-off”, to zero out their balance. Optionally, you can Deactivate their billing account after adding a credit to prevent further billing activity. The steps are similar to the process you follow when a Student has Withdrawn mid-year.
Managing Your Admin Account Settings in TADS
As a school administrator, you have access to set your own email notification preferences in your TADS account settings so you can be automatically notified of important updates taking place. More information on editing your notification preferences is available here!
Administrators with the Admin Manager role in TADS can add or remove access for other admins, as well as designate primary support ticket contacts for each module. Any admins set as a “Primary” contact will get an email each time we submit a ticket request on behalf of a family. If none of the “Primary” admins reply to a ticket, we will add the backup, non-primary contacts to that ticket’s communications.
Start and End Your New School Year Right With Educate
Many schools will also be Generating Report Cards over the next few weeks. Reach out if you need assistance!
Reminders
Juneteenth
VenturEd Solutions will be closed on Thursday, June 19th, in observance of Juneteenth. We take this time to commemorate the emancipation of individuals across our nation. Our staff will resume regular support on Friday, June 20th.
Independence Day
VenturEd Solutions will be closed on Friday, July 4th, in celebration of Independence Day. We take this time to celebrate the freedoms that we all enjoy together now and for future generations. We will resume regular support on Monday, July 7th.
Labor Day
VenturEd Solutions will be closed on Monday, September 1st, in observation of Labor Day. We encourage you to take pride in the hard work and achievements you made this year and take a moment of rest that you’ve certainly earned. Our operations will resume regular support on Tuesday, September 2nd.
Need Additional Support?
Support Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT
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