Some of you may recall the news that there is a new GED (General Educational Development) test in town.

The GED Testing Service, a non-profit, administered the old GED and decided what content was included. The GED was well known as a decent replacement for a high school diploma for any student who dropped out of high school before graduating. Students could go to school, catch up on their education, study and most could successfully pass the GED. This would help them find jobs, better jobs, get into college, and generally move their lives forward.

But then, in 2014 the GED was privatized and is now owned by Pearson, a […]

Hey there everyone, my name is Eric. As some of you may already know, I am your dedicated “Events” guy, charged with improving this side of the product and making ASAP that much easier for our users. We’ve been rethinking Events and just released an update with several improvements I want to call your attention to.

Some of the features we’ve recently added originated as client suggestions, while other ideas evolved as developers and I redesigned the look and layout of your screen. Let’s check out some of the changes.

One of our most recent improvements is a redesign of our Event Detail page. You’ll notice a few things have been […]

SUNNYVALE, CA — Administrative Software Applications (ASA) announced today the promotion of its Chief Technical Officer Travis Prowell to the position of Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.

Citing strong revenue and account growth that surpassed the company’s first quarter 2014 goals, Chief Executive Officer Joel Meyer presented the new management structure at a recent company-wide meeting.  Meyer, at the helm filling both functions since 2004, will increasingly focus on expanding strategic business partnerships and new revenue streams. Prowell will direct all corporate departments and the day-to-day operations of its enterprise registration and management software platform, ASAP.

“Continuing this rate of growth requires that we work on more independent tracks,” Meyer said. “The […]

For the past several months we’ve been working on a number of improvements to your student registration forms (the ones your student’s complete when registering for a class or creating a new account), and tonight we’re making them available to your customers. Here’s what you need to know:

What are the improvements?

The biggest improvement (for those of you who offer classes to children) is that the new forms allow us to make a parent the primary account holder for a child’s account, rather than the child being the primary account holder as is currently the case.

You’ll now be able to search for a parent’s name via student search (just check the new Show Parents […]

As many of you have heard by now, a serious security vulnerability was recently discovered that allowed attackers to access decrypted HTTPS traffic and as a result access secure information in an unencrypted format. The vulnerability is known as the “Heartbleed” bug.

First and foremost, none of the ASAP systems were affected by this bug and no ASAP data was ever compromised directly through this vulnerability. ASAP systems do not in fact use the code libraries (OpenSSL) that contained this particular bug.

But because of the extensive nature of the vulnerability we are strongly suggesting our users, especially those with administrative rights, to change their ASAP system passwords. While ASAP was never […]