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.