Whether you need to assign a lab fee to everyone taking biology or a locker fee to everyone in basketball, jmc makes it easy to do in bulk. What could take an hour to do by individual students, bulk loading charges, or credits to a group of students all at once takes mere minutes.
Let's assign a charge or credit in jmc Office. Proceed to Tuition/Fees > Data > Bulk Load Charges/Credits to assign a charge or credit to a group of students.
Step One: Select a radio button from the "Type" box to identify a "Charge" or "Credit" to bulk load.
Step Two: Select a radio button from the "Bulk Load by" box to bulk load by "Grade", "Courses Containing Fees", "Activity", or "Course Sections" to indicate which students will receive the charge or credit.
Grade: all students in a single grade level
Courses Containing Fees: select students taking any course having a fee assigned to it
Activity: select all students in an activity
Course Sections: select students taking specific course sections
Step Three: Select the appropriate "Grade," "Activity" or "Course Section" from the drop-down list to filter which students to enter the charge or credit details for.
Step Four: Select the fee from the "Fees" list box to charge or credit to the selected students.
Helpful Tip: Control-click multiple fees to select more than one fee to charge or credit to the selected students.
Step Five: Enter the date to stamp the fee charge or credit within the "Charge Date" field.
Step Six (optional): Enter a due date in the "Due Date" field as an excellent reference for families and to help ensure prompt payment.
Step Seven (optional): Enter an additional comment in the "Comment" field to further detail the charge or credit.
Step Eight: Click the "Load Charges" button to charge or credit the selected fees to each of the selected students.
Helpful Tip: After the process completes, a message will inform you of how many charges or credits were made.