Welcome back! This is the first release of 2021. Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:
Master Scheduler
- Bulk Create Block Sections (based on Lecture-Lab combinations)
- Bulk Remove Block Sections
- Ability to adjust target limit for Step 5 Load
- Bug fixes related to running Step 4 with orphaned sections
Google Classroom Synchronization
- Improved support for teachers to synchronize individual courses
- Bug fixes related to Timezone and Scale Score Formulas.
Other General Improvements
- Automated emails for Online Form Submissions when status is changed
- Automated emails for Online Payments
- Improve Notification features for Assignments and Submissions
- Improve support for shared addresses in Admissions module
- Improve support when taking attendance from the Attendance Calendar on the Student record
- New Importer for Subjects/Sections-Based Attendance
- Extend timeout for large Stock Take in Library App
- Bug fix when a school within a group is suspended and archived
- Bug fix for Temperature App
- Miscellaneous improvements to Summary Reports related to Attendance
- Internal monitoring framework improvements
Automated Emails for Online Forms
If you’ve installed the Online Forms App, there is a new feature to allow you to automatically send out an email when the status of a submission changes. Check out the new Mail icon on the Submissions page (similar to the Mail icon for Gradebook):
When you click on it, you’ll be able to customize an email that gets sent whenever a submission is changed to that status:
Automated Emails for Online Payments
We’ve added a new automated email for Online Payments (part of our Fees Tracking module), where a receipt is automatically sent to the payer. This feature can be enabled from the “Settings” > “Turn Features On / Off” screen. Just configure the “Fees Tracking” module, and configure the setting below:
Do let us know if you have any questions about these improvements, either by leaving a comment here, or by chatting with us online. As always, we welcome your feedback. We look forward to hearing from you.