Here’s a list of the latest improvements for the New Release: Sprint E16 in QuickSchools:
- Parent Messaging Improvements
- “Parent Messaging” menu renamed to just “Messaging”
- Display Student Nickname when selecting Students from dropdown
- Sending by subject now shows Subject Set Code (or Abbreviation)
- Private Messaging Improvements
- Display Student Nickname when selecting Students from dropdown
- Axiom Integration App Improvements
- Extracts will be zipped before transfer via SFTP
- Gradebook Improvements
- New Submit to Report Cards Function (Beta)
- Mobile App Framework Improvement
- Additional support for Gradebook API Calls
- Fix Log-In Error for Teacher
- Miscellaneous Bug Fixes / Improvements
- Typo in Google Classrooms module
- Default Codeset for Interventions
- Rename “Allocate” to “Apply” when referencing splitting of payment between siblings
- Bug downloading attachments from Lesson Plans tab of Student record
Messaging Improvements
We’ve made some minor improvements to the Messaging module in this New Release: Sprint E16 (previously Parent Messaging) for larger schools that have multiple sections for a single course. When selecting a subject/course from the dropdown, we now display the Subject Abbreviation, so you can easily differentiate between sections with the same subject name:

Also, for schools that rely on the student’s nickname, the Student dropdown now includes the Nickname:

Private Messaging Improvements
As with the Parent Messaging improvements, we’ve also included the students nickname in the dropdown for students:

Rename “Allocate” to “Apply”
Finally a quick mention about renaming the term “Allocate”, which will be used exclusively when referring to the financial process of allocating a payment to a charge/invoice. As such, when creating a payment/charge that applies to multiple students within a family, we’ll be using the “Apply” instead:

Note that if you’ve enabled payment allocation, this term remains.
[…] is actually a new “Submit to Report Cards” function that was introduced in September 2019 as a beta feature, and later refined. You can enable this feature by configuring the Gradebook […]