Wisdomwhere
Wisdomwhere: your whole PD program, in one place.
Wisdomwhere empowers you to take full control of each step of your professional development program from a single web-based application — for organizations that run events, conferences, seminars, workshops or any training-related service.
What it is
In just two weeks you could get rid of paper, google forms and spreadsheets.What customers tell us the first year feels like
Wisdomwhere is Solutionwhere’s highly flexible event registration and professional development program management system, designed for educational organizations. You can create custom criteria for registrations, accept online and offline payments, let teachers register themselves and instructors manage their own courses, and simplify compliance and waitlist management — all inside one web-based platform.
It helps you build and manage PD programs based on content or job description — literacy, provisional status, support staff, math, elementary — and those programs can be as structured or as free-form as a department or an individual educator requires.
By consolidating information, structuring data collection and streamlining reporting, Wisdomwhere reclaims hundreds of hours of administrative time and reduces the PD management workload. It has a nationwide track record across more than 33 states.
Beyond the catalog
Wisdomwhere was designed to manage structured catalog-based events — classes, workshops, online events and conferences — and to handle everything that happens outside the catalog too.
Outside events
Staff attending an outside conference, taking a college course or reading a professional book submit a custom form specific to that activity type.
Unlimited approval chains
That form routes for approval to one or more people based on event type, cost or job description — as simple or as involved as you need.
Unstructured activities
Mentoring, classroom visits and other delivery strategies you define count toward a program alongside formal sessions.
Milestones and alerts
Wisdomwhere monitors the milestones your organization defines and alerts supervisors and staff about overall program activity.
In detail
The Wisdomwhere catalog
- Classes, workshops, online events and conference breakout sessions in one catalog.
- Programs built around content or job description — literacy, provisional status, support staff, math.
- Structured or free-form, including unstructured activities like reading a book or a classroom visit.
- Instructors manage their own courses; locations and presenters are maintained once and reused.
- Custom data collection on registration, defined by you rather than by us.
Registration and approval
- Group and team registration, plus proxy registration for the office that signs people up.
- Class size and waitlist management, with configurable confirmation and reminder emails.
- Auto attendance with a code, sign-in sheets, name badges and mailing labels.
- External event approval: staff request a conference or a college course on a form specific to that activity type.
- Routed to one or more approvers based on event type, cost or job description.
- Milestone alerts to supervisors and staff about overall program activity.
Credits and records
- Credit types you define, tracked on the event and awarded on completion.
- Certification tracking and post-graduate credit alongside your own catalog.
- Printable certificates and official transcripts staff produce themselves.
- Post-event evaluations collected automatically, so you know whether it worked.
- Central PD Registry: a consortium or statewide record of credits earned wherever they were earned, feeding your certification or HR system.
- Central PD Approval System: sponsors submit events, approvers dialogue with them in the system, approved events post to the shared catalog in real time.
Money, and sharing across sites
- Credit cards, e-check, purchase orders, checks and cash.
- Grants and coupon codes to fund or fully discount a registration, with expiry dates and the ability to deactivate at any time.
- Peer 2 Peer: form a consortium with partner sites and open any session to them.
- A partner's attendee sees the event on their own site's transcript.
- Custom reporting tool, plus an API and data uploads to legacy systems.
- Accurate statistics fast — the thing customers have told us for years is what keeps them.
Features
The full list, so you can check the one thing you came here to check.
- Event registration
- Group and team registration
- Class size and waitlist management
- Auto attendance with code
- Credit card processing
- Custom reporting tool
- Printable certificates
- Attendance sign-in sheets
- Post event evaluations
- Name badges
- Mailing labels
- Customizable branding
- API for use with other software
- Configurable confirmation and reminder emails
- Marketing emails
- External event approval and verification
- LDAP single sign-on
- Central Authentication Service (CAS) integration
- Proxy registration
- Flexible payment options
- Peer registration with Wisdomwhere partner sites
- Ad hoc approval workflows
Please call us for a live demonstration.
Tell us which part of your PD process you want to fix, and we will show you that.