There’s a new App in the App Store! The “Student ID Card” App will allow schools to produce ID Cards for all their students in QuickSchools:
Once the App is installed, school administrators will see a new Action on the student record called “Print Student ID Card”:
Read More »Classes are underway. Things are (finally) settling down…
First and foremost, if you’re a part of the QuickSchools community, we’d like to thank you for your trust in us. We’re honored to be given the opportunity to partner with you.
Teaching is hard, and we like to think of ways to help out as best we can. As part of this effort, we’re continuing with our monthly webinar series. The September webinar will focus on the Gradebook module. We’ll show you how to leverage the Gradebook so you can easily monitor student progress and provide optimal feedback.
QuickSchools’ Mastering the Gradebook webinar was developed with teachers in mind. It is suitable for all levels of users. We’ll go through a brief overview of basic Gradebook activities, before moving on to intermediate and advanced topics. Key discussion points include:
This webinar is interactive. Post questions and answer polls during the 30-minute presentation session, and discuss topic further during the follow-up, 30-minute Q&A session.
QuickSchools’ Mastering the Gradebook webinar is scheduled for Thursday, September 23rd at 11 AM (PDT) / 2 PM (EDT). Register by logging onto your QuickSchools account. You’ll see the registration link on the Teachers’ Lounge page.
See you there!
Since our last release on August 9, we made several patches to our Orchestra Master Scheduler. And now that the new Weekly Schedule feature is more robust, we’re back BIG-TIME to our regular 3-week Sprints. This release includes ground work for our upcoming Learning Management System (LMS).
Check out the complete list of our latest QuickSchools improvements:
We’ve made some pretty big changes to the Master Scheduler in recent weeks. In one of our recent patches, we introduce a “Department” configuration in the “Scheduling Algorithm” in Step 5:
Read More »With classes resuming, schools may be required to track Covid-19 proof of vaccinations from students and parents. One of the ways to do this in QuickSchools is via the Online Forms app. Here we discuss one sample implementation for collecting a Covid-19 Proof of Vaccination via the Parent Portal. This process can easily be extended to students and teachers too.
Here we have a simple Online Form Packet with a single custom Online Form with Custom Fields (which incidentally has better Cross-Browser Compatibility):
Here’s how we configured the Online Form with just a few simple fields. We also added a “Section Break” at the bottom, to add instructions about uploading their Proof of Vaccination:
By clicking the “Configure” link, we also mapped the Name field to the Student Name, so that when accessed from the Student or Parent Portal, the student name field will be automatically filled:
Read More »Thanks to everyone who attended the webinar on Getting Ready for the New Academic Year with QuickSchools. We hope that you found the webinar to be helpful.
We sent a follow-up email to all registrants. However, if you missed the session or would simply like a copy of the recording, please let us know by filling in the survey included in the follow-up email. Our team will send you a link to the recording once it’s available.
If you’d like a copy of the presentation slides, we have that here for download:
Even though the dust has barely settled, we’re already planning for our next webinar on Gradebook. Keep a look out for a detailed announcement in early September. Until then, stay safe!
This release is a special 2-week accelerated Sprint for the Orchestra Master Scheduler, covering the main areas:
Here is a complete list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:
We have a new capability that allows schools to easily create a weekly bell schedule:
When importing or adding courses, you can specify frequency and days of the week:
Read More »Schools are re-opening!
We’re all ramping up – getting ready for the exciting post-pandemic academic year ahead. If you’re a part of the QuickSchools community, first and foremost, we’d like to thank you for your trust in us. Educating young minds is a commendable and daunting endeavor. We’ll continue to do our best to support your IT needs. As part of our services, we’re offering a free, live webinar to make sure that you’ll put your best foot forward for the 2021-2022 academic year.
The Getting Ready with QuickSchools webinar will take you through the important steps of setting up your account for the upcoming school year. This webinar will be useful to principals and school administrators who are new to QuickSchools or in need of a quick, refresher course in setting up the software. We’ll go through the following workflow:
This webinar is interactive. Post questions and answer polls during the 30-minute presentation session, and discuss topic further during the follow-up, 30-minute Q&A session.
The Getting Ready with QuickSchools webinar is scheduled for August 19th, with two possible time slots for you to choose from – 10 AM (PDT) / 1 PM (EDT) or 1 PM (PDT) / 4 PM (EDT). If you’re interested, you can register by logging onto your QuickSchools account. The registration link is available on the Teachers’ Lounge page.
We look forward to seeing you!
Our recent release for QuickSchools includes two key improvements to the QuickSchools Library App:
When adding a new book to your catalog, there’s a new “Scan ISBN” button that allows you to quickly scan the ISBN barcode.
QuickSchools will then search the Google library, and pull details for the book, which you can use to create the book record in your QuickSchools Library App:
Note that books pulled from Google will also contain an image of the book.
When adding a book, you now have the option to generate a Barcode by clicking on the “Generate” button:
Read More »We’ve made several improvements to our Orchestra Master Scheduler for this release. But we’ve also included a few general improvements related to Admissions, Report Creator, the Library App, our API (and Zapier), Google Drive Integration, and much more.
Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:
We recently released a new feature related to the Online Payment modules on June 6 (with improvements on July 6). Schools in the United States that subscribe to QuickSchools can now collect payments from students and payments via ACH Bank Transfer.
| This feature is in BETA: If you would want this enabled for your school, please contact our Support Team. |
To enable this feature, go to the “Settings” page, and enable the setting under the “School Fees Tracking” module:
There are separate settings for Credit Card vs. ACH Bank Transfer. And you can decide whether to absorb the transaction fee, or to charge a convenience fee to the payer.
Once you’ve connected your account to Stripe, Student make payments directly from their Student Portal:
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