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:
Master Scheduler Improvements
- Term-Length is now optional when importing Courses. Defaults to Semester-long
- Limit for Departments are now optional
- Bug fix when searching for Courses without Departments
- Bug fixes related to performance improvements when setting Next Enrollment Period
- Show configured Courses for Teachers in Step 1 “Configure Teachers”
- Show Min, Max and Target Section Sizes in Step 2 “Course Requests by Course”
- New Step 4 Filter by Department
- Miscellaneous Improvements to Step 4 and Step 4 Pagination
- Rename Block Sections to Teams
- Bulk Create Lab-Lecture Teams (previously Block Sections) by Period
- New Step 5 Advanced Filter for Student Conflicts
- Ability to hide periods without sections in Section Assignments PDF
- Support separate Course Code and Course Name in Section Assignments PDF
- Miscellaneous Bug fixes to Section Assignments PDF
- Option to use “no-reply@quickschools.com” when emailing Section Assignments PDF
- New Teacher Invitation Emails for Orchestra Only Plan
- Ability to enable Section Attendance within Orchestra
Improvements related to Admissions
- Bulk Email Applicants from Template
- Improve Configuration Area for Inquiry and Application Status Codes
- Bug Fix Enrollment when student name has apostrophe
- Framework Improvements to support Portal for Applicants (Alpha)
Other General Improvements
- Bulk Invite Teacher
- New Importer for Teacher Roles
- Report Creator support for recently updated/saved Student records
- New Report Creator Date Filter for “within Past X Days”
- New Barcode label for Books (for Library App)
- New ISBN Look-Up (for Library App)
- Improve Billing History Section
- Option to Skip Existing File when backing up Documents to Google Drive
- API (Zapier) Support for Student Tags
- API Support for separate student first, middle and last names
- Framework Improvements to support Online Testing (Alpha)
- Improve Support for Custom Fields column in Global Subject Setup
- Bug fix when storing Period Zero attendance without Period 1 attendance
- Bug fixes when inviting and re-inviting students to the Student Portal
Improvements to Teachers Listing
For schools that are importing teachers via Excel, there is now a “Bulk Invite Teachers” option to invite several teachers at once:
Also on this screen is a new “Assign Role From Excel” button, that allows you to assign roles to teachers from an Excel file.
Improvements to the Report Creator
We’ve introduced a new field on the Student record called “Updated Date”, which records the date when the student record was last saved:
We’ve also introduced a new Date Filter for “is within past”, which can be used to filter records where the date occurred within the past so-many days. Here’s an example report that shows a list of student records that were last saved in the past 20 days.
We’ll be posting more information about these improvements in separate articles. Be on the look-out for those.
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