How to configure the Basic General Settings?

Address
The first three column form the complete address of the institute.

Institution type

Specify the institution type when setting up your institution. The institution type can be set to:

• K-12 – Refers to educational institutions that cover kindergarten all the way to class/grade 12 (primary and secondary education).  

If the option K-12 is selected, the term ‘Class’ will be used throughout Fedena’s interface to indicate ‘a year of education’. ‘A year of education’ can be, Grade 7, Class 7, Standard 7, or Form 7, depending on your country's educational system.

• Higher Education – Refers to educational institutions such as universities and colleges that offer education beyond secondary education. For example, a two or three-year degree of a chosen subject. 

If the option Higher Education is selected, the term ‘Course’ will be used throughout Fedena’s interface to indicate ‘the study of a particular topic in an institution. Examples of courses are Zoology, Business Administration, and so on.

If the institution type is not specified, by default the term ‘Course’ will be used throughout Fedena.

Student Attendance Type
This can be daily basis or subject wise as provided in dropdown

Start day of the week

Set any weekday as the first day of the week based on your institution’s academic calendar. The change is reflected in the Calendar module, in the Timetable module when settings weekdays for a batch, as well as when creating a timetable.

Date format

Set the date format to determine how dates will be displayed throughout Fedena. The available date formats are:

• DMY – Date/Month/Year 
• MDY – Month/Date/Year 
• YMD – Year/Month/Date

Dates are displayed in either predefined long formats or short formats.

Note: Time is also consistently displayed in 12 hour format (HH:MM AM/PM) throughout Fedena. For example, 11:30 AM. 

Date separator

Set the date separator to determine how dates will be displayed throughout Fedena. The available date separators are:

• / (forward slash) 
• - (hyphen)

Financial start and end date
Here we set financial year start date and end date from the dropdown calendar.

Starting receipt number

Enter the starting receipt number from which the receipt number will be incremented automatically. The receipt number is printed on all financial transaction receipts.

Language

The admin can set the default language of the application here.

Time Zone

The time zone of the area can be set here

Country

The admin can set the default country here

Currency type
This enable user to enter the type of currency on which transactions happens in that institute.

Upload logo
The logo of the institute can be uploaded by this option. The size of the logo must be 500KB max, 150x110px.

Include Grading Systems

You can select which all grading formats are needed for the report generation for the examinations conducted

Select theme

The admin can set the Fedena theme colour. 

Select font

Select the font to be applied to the your Fedena interface. Six fonts are currently available.

Enable auto increment
Auto increment of student admission number and employee number can be done by checking this box.

Enable password change at first time login

User can change the password the first time they login, if this option is enabled.

Enable roll number for students

Select the checkbox if you are going to assign roll numbers to students. If you select this checkbox but do not assign student roll numbers, roll number columns throughout Fedena will be remain blank. So if you decide not to assign student roll numbers, we recommend not to select the checkbox.

Enable Azure SSO

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) Single Sign-On (SSO) will allow Fedena users to log in to Fedena using their Microsoft account credentials, without using a Fedena username and password.

Enable Google SSO