Most of our customers start on QuickSchools on their own with a little help from support from time to time.
But onboarding into a new school management software can be quite intimidating if not at least a little confusing at times. Even the most experienced school admins might find themselves frustrated if the new product do not have the same menus or options that they are used to in previous systems.
I just want to start taking attendance!! Where are my classes? How come my students are not showing up??
For schools which are on the small side and fairly new, starting on QuickSchools could not be any easier. You can add students, teachers and subjects on the fly and using the ready templates available, you’re firing on all cylinders on Minute 3 of your journey. 😉
However, if you are a school with a few hundred students and more and have established many core processes to manage your day-to-day operations, things might need a little bit more organization in order for you to experience QuickSchools more smoothly. We recognize there is a need for a more structured approach to the onboarding process and we want to help!
We have since established a highly collaborative process to onboarding for schools who need it. We work with you to discuss your objectives so that we can prioritize the areas that should come first, second and so on.
We will use a common checklist that contains all the documentation and the timeline that starts from kick off through training and going live. What is great about this approach is the clarity that it brings you and to the team at QuickSchools right from the start. Any questions are dealt with at the beginning and in a very timely fashion so that we are both always 2 steps ahead during the implementation phase.
The line items that we review look a little bit like this:
| THE BIG CHECKLIST!! |
| School logo |
| Add Teachers/Staff Will the school need to separate teachers and staff as a category? |
| Configure Settings A lot goes on here once you start exploring options. |
| Enable Features Always exciting to see the features come to life! |
| Configure Access Never granular enough! 😉 |
| Add Students/Parents Will you be using student id numbers, naming convention, access? The list goes on… |
| Add Subjects Have more than one section in a grade? We support that! |
| Add Enrollment (subject enrollment) And here’s where it all comes together. |
| Additional Setup/Customizations |
| Report Cards So many to choose from and of course, we customize to you! |
| Transcripts Ditto for transcripts. |
| Scheduling Easy straightforward scheduling for elementary right through complex master scheduling can be implemented in QuickSchools! |
| Advanced Config. More configuration. This one is usually for the most complex of schools. We do have many obscure capabilities that we deliberately hide from the stock account as we think that will just confuse the bulk of users most unnecessarily. |
| Other (See Notes) |
| Historical Data/Additonal Imports This is probably the most costly part of onboarding whereby we assign an engineer to work exclusively on your data sheets and importing those in. |
| Attendance How do you like it? Daily? By period or subject? Any other rules. This is when we find out. |
| Gradebook The centerpiece in many SIS is the gradebook. Ours have plenty to offer from grading scales edits through fancy formula customizations. |
| Fee Tracking Another area that could and maybe should be a standalone software on its own! |
| Others Yes, we have a place for the catch-all others. 🙂 |
| Training |
| Session 1 – Admin We recommend working with a team of 3-5 people who can then help all other users use QuickSchools more effectively. |
| Session 2 – Teachers Here’s when we do a direct training for the rest of the team. |
| Project Management |
| Frequent, regular touch base We work with the person in charge at the school to track the progress of how things are going on a weekly basis. Progress, issues are highlighted at these meetings. |
In closing, if you think your school will require a more programmatic approach as you onboard with QuickSchools, let us know and we can craft a plan out for you. Prices start at a super affordable $2,000 for the base case.