Case Study in Accreditation Management System - AACS

AACS is an association of state associations—forty state, regional, and international associations working together to provide legislative oversight and to promote high quality Christian education programs. AACS is the primary accrediting agency for 89 schools. This number has doubled since 2016 and continues to grow at a rate of an additional 10% every year.

Growth Leads to Complexity

Growth can be exciting and it also equates to more work. Every new school under the AACS umbrella involves oversight and interaction with the administrative staff. Processing more applications and annual reports adds coordination complexity and attention to detail on a new scale.

Growth created the need for:

• Collecting, reviewing, and filing annual reports
• Providing resources to support schools that are working through the self-study process
• Collection of self-study reports
• Assemblance of teams for site visits
• Creation of reports from teams that conducted site visits
• Documenting school responses to the reports and developing action plans
• Ongoing communication with schools, team leaders, and teams

With growth, manual processing activity became more overwhelming and inefficient for AACS. And, hiring additional staff to handle the growth isn’t a practical long term solution. The need for transitioning the complexity of functioning as the accreditor for a growing number of schools into an automated and customized online system became much more apparent.

Best In Class Software - Uniquely Configured

With EDvera AMS, AACS received market-leading workflow automation and document management software, along with a human touch. The highly collaborative implementation process streamlines and simplifies the management of large volumes of documents and the complex processes associated with approvals, compliance audits, and reporting.

Collaborative Process/ RESULTS

Throughout development of the dedicated AACS portal, the EDvera implementation team guides AACS staff to identify and detail all documents, processes, reports, and users/roles/permissions, while actively reviewing and confirming set-up and configuration work according to a jointly developed project plan. This is a partnership every step of the way.

AACS is confident that the implementation of EDvera will:

• Achieve time and cost savings through improved efficiency that minimizes confusion for applicants and reduces submission errors
• Elevate professionalism of the accreditation process to enhance the experience for schools and visiting teams
• Reduce the overall time it takes to award accreditation with collaborative review tools and automated notifications

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