Tagging is a new feature in Studentbase which makes managing your students much easier.

A tag is a lot like a “keyword”.  Tags help you find students with something in common. Some common tags include things like:

• auto-pay
• leadership
• referral source
• on vacation
• tournament on 11/15/2010
• instructor
• eligible for upgrade
• and so on.

If you’ve ever said to yourself, “I wish Studentbase had a field for that”, this is your solution. You can assign up to 20 tags per student. And it’s super-easy to do:

Just enter tags when you create or edit a student. You’ll see the field for tags at the bottom, right above the “Submit” button.

Here’s a closer look:

Just enter your tags separated by commas and submit. It’s that simple. Once your tags are entered, you’ll see them appear in a list below their name. Like so:

You can easily edit a student’s tags by clicking the “edit tags” link. It takes you to this edit page:

You’ll see all the tags for this student and you can add or remove tags from here. Easy, right?

Once you enter all your tags they automatically appear in the bottom of the sidebar (which we also revamped). We even added some common searches to get you started: active students, inactive students, all students, birthday this month, birthday next month, enrolled this month, went inactive this month and missed two weeks of class.

All you do is click a tag button and the list of all the students with that tag pops up. Nothing could be easier! Want to see all your upcoming tournament attendees? Bam! Want to see all your auto-pay people? Bam! Want to see all your students who are tagged as an instructor? Bam! Tagging makes sifting and sorting your students incredibly easy.

We hope you like tagging. It’s a major feature release. We’re currently working on tagging for all your leads, too!