Education Cloud Winter ‘25 Release Announcement
Today we are proud to announce the Winter ‘25 Release for Education Cloud, which includes innovations across the recruitment and admissions, student success, advancement and alumni relations, and academic operations applications. This release, we continue to focus on strengthening our existing Education Cloud functionality and build on themes such as AI and Data, and degree planning with Einstein for intelligent course and pathway recommendations.
Please see the detailed resources below including brand new release feature demos. We look forward to sharing these ongoing innovations and invite you to share your feedback.
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- Unify Data with Data Cloud for Education
- Bring data from disparate systems throughout your institution together in a central location and put it to work for your learners. Use new education-specific data model objects within Data Cloud to harmonize the data.
Recruitment and Admissions Innovations
The Winter ‘25 release is packed with valuable innovations for recruitment teams and applicants. With Education Cloud, staff can manage the entire prospective student funnel and applicants can easily collect recommendations in one place.
- Recruitment Inquiry and Opportunity Management
- Make it easy for prospective students to raise inquiries, connect with recruiters, and get their questions answered on your existing website. Keep prospective students engaged with automated campaigns, seamlessly forecast potential student revenue, and automatically assign staff to support students throughout their journey.
- Recommender Experience
- Applicants can now easily nominate recommenders directly from their application, collect recommendations, and save time with automated reminders that do the heavy lifting instead of manual, one-off email nudges. This is a huge Education Cloud differentiator and value add to applicants who are often busy managing multiple applications and recommendations at once.
Student Success Innovations
Keep a pulse on wellbeing trends, deliver faster support, and help learners reach their goals with actionable insights for advisors and students.
- Pulse Checks and Watchlists
- Establish a regular cadence of pulse checks to proactively capture student wellbeing. Visualize pulse check responses over time to assess which students require additional support, and add them to watchlists for ongoing tracking.
- Einstein Student Summaries
- Save time and scale personalized student support with AI-generated summaries of key advising details like alerts, pulse check responses and more! Take the busy work out of preparing for appointments with student information at your fingertips.
- Expanded Degree Planning Functionality
- Streamline the degree planning experience with pre-built pathway templates for learners. Offer multiple pathway templates for the same program or create recommended pathways for learners to customize in a way that best suits their objectives. And with the intelligent program comparison engine, students can compare degree options with ease to make informed program decisions.
Advancement and Alumni Relations
Advance the institution’s mission through comprehensive relationship management, fundraising, and engagement.
- Einstein Mentoring Summaries
- Get a comprehensive view of the information you need to facilitate well-suited mentoring pairings with Einstein-generated summaries of mentor and mentee skills, experience, and relationships. Einstein Mentoring Summaries brings the power of generative AI to the existing Mentor Comparison screen flow.
- Einstein and Data Cloud for Education: Alumni Metrics
- Understand the full picture of alumni and supporter engagement through the power of Alumni Metrics, which brings together their information from across the institution. This feature combines Education Cloud, Data Cloud, calculated insights, and generative AI to show relationship officers descriptions and ratings of an alumnus’ personal impact based on their experience, communication, volunteerism, philanthropic history, and participation in activities that are relevant to your institution.
- Fundraising
- Updates to Fundraising make it easy to manage and track donor information. Create outreach source codes in bulk, sync person account addresses with the primary contact point address, generate donor briefs, and enhance the tracking of pledges.
Additional Resources:
@Vanessa Wright, I was trying to view the Advancement Datasheet and received an Access Denied (please see screenshot). Can this link be updated, or can you direct me to where we can download this datasheet?
Thank you!
