There are many benefits to using dynamic pricing in higher education, which we will explore in this blog post. So, if you're a vice-chancellor or student experience consultant looking to improve your institution's pricing strategy, read on!

One benefit of dynamic pricing is that it helps avoid drastic price changes. This is because institutions can set a minimum and maximum price for each course or program. By doing so, they can ensure that they don't land an enrollment at the expense of their profit margin - or brand. 

Another advantage of dynamic pricing is that it allows institutions to offer discounts to loyal customers. This is because when prices drop, institutions can position the lower price as a promotional sale. In reality, it may simply result from dynamic pricing favouring a student due to their historical buying behaviours. 

Finally, dynamic pricing also has the potential to attract new students. When prices are low, potential students who may have been priced out of a course or program may now be able to afford it. As a result, institutions can increase their intake and diversity without sacrificing quality or profitability. 

While attracting new students and offering discounts to loyal ones is all well and good, institutions mustn't do so at the expense of their profit margins. Dynamic pricing allows institutions to adjust prices up or down as needed to maintain a healthy bottom line. This means that they can respond quickly and efficiently to changes in demand without jeopardising their financial stability - or damaging their reputation by appearing too expensive or too cheap. 

The shift to online learning has brought about many new challenges for educators and students alike, but one of the biggest concerns is student engagement. In a virtual classroom, it can be difficult to create the same level of interaction and connection as in a traditional in-person setting. However, with the right strategies and tools, it is possible to enhance student engagement and create a more dynamic and engaging virtual learning experience.

Students need to learn how to use technology safely and responsibly, and this includes learning how to access information on the internet. This course will teach students how to search for information online, evaluate websites, and avoid scams and phishing attacks.

Any business, whether it’s big or small, has to make purchases from vendors from time to time as all supplies cannot be managed in-house. When the purchase frequency and the number of suppliers increase, it can become difficult to manage orders and keep track of payments, leading to poor vendor relationships. 

To handle this, Zoho Books has introduced the Vendor Portal, which lets vendors access their transactions with you, communicate, review orders, and much more. It’s secure and super convenient for your vendors—they can skip the lengthy clarifying emails and get direct access to the transaction information they need.

Discuss orders, comment on invoices, and work together to process your purchases. Any time your vendor wants to send you a quick update, they can hit the Send Email button from the portal home page and message you right away.

Your vendors will be able to view all the transactions you’ve created for them, add comments and upload images of invoices they’ve created so you can verify and convert them to transactions. All the transactions and statements of accounts can be downloaded or printed for their use.

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Ideas come in all shapes and sizes—be it an extra fold to help your paper plane fly a few inches further, or an equation that changes the way we understand the world today—but can often be hard to explain with just words. Using shapes as design building blocks in your presentation is a great way to illustrate your thoughts. With a little creativity, you can leverage the simplicity of shapes to engage your audience’s attention and help them conceptualize your ideas.

Here are six ways you can use shapes in your presentations with Zoho Show:

1. Combine shapes to recreate icons and common objects

Perform Boolean operations such as union, intersect, subtract, and difference with several individual shapes to create any shape you’re looking for.

2. Use edit points to tailor basic shapes to your needs

Edit points in Zoho Show not only allow you to modify the default edit points on a shape, but also to add your own edit points. What’s more, you can use the edit points to change a shape even after applying Boolean operations like we saw in the first step. This way, you can truly customize shapes for your needs.

3. Include smart elements to liven up your presentation

Add a little sizzle to your slide deck with customizable animated meters, indicators, timers, clocks, or more to your presentation, then set them to perform on cue.

4. Add a personal touch with freehand sketches

Not only does Zoho Show’s scribble tool allow you to sketch shapes quickly or doodle on slides, it also recognizes common shapes and patterns. Just enable shape recognition mode to neaten up your freehand sketches.

5. Get creative and push the limits of how you use shapes in presentations

Group multiple shapes or objects together to rotate, flip, move, or resize them simultaneously as though they were a single shape or object by grouping them together. You can also add fills or effects to change the properties of all the shapes in a group at once.

6. Use Show’s intuitive tools to speed up your creative process

The continuous drawing mode in Zoho Show lets you draw the same shape multiple times without the frustration of having to choose which one every time. Also, shapes automatically adapt to the color palette used in your presentation’s theme, so you can try out different themes without needing to manually re-color anything.

Zoho Show can help your ideas take shape. Try it now!

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This article originally appeared on BusinessLive.co.za