New Release – Jan 25, 2021

new release for quickschools

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.

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