We’ve had several mini-releases since our major release on September 12, which focused on improvements to Email Messaging and Alerts. Today’s release however focuses primarily on our Lunch Ordering / Shopping Cart feature plus improvements to our Importer via SFTP.
Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:
Master Scheduler Improvements
- Show Day information on “Course Requests” tab on student record
Lunch Ordering App
- Admin can Edit Lunch Orders
- Ability to sort Meal Types
- When credit is used up, users can pay for Balance Owing via Shopping Cart
- Hide inactive students from Parent Portal
- Show shopping cart icon on main menu (See above)
- General improvements to Shopping Cart experience
- Bug Fix for orders submitted on weekends
General Bug Fixes
- Update Integration Schoology
Beta Improvements / Fixes
- Audit Trail support for Student Tags
- Miscellaneous improvements to Scheduled Summary Reports (See below)
- Miscellaneous Improvements to the SFTP Importer (Beta)
- Support Transfer of Documents when transferring students (Group School)
- Fix Admissions Embed Code for Group School
Scheduled Summary Reports
We recently added support to schedule Summary Emails to be emailed to users. This feature has since been refined. This feature is available when clicking on the “View/Edit Scheduled Reports” link under “Reports” > “Summary Reports”:
From here, you can view completed as well as pending reports:
Clicking the “Schedule Report” button allows you to schedule a report to be emailed out:
You can specify a report as well as multiple recipients. You also specify the frequency of the report. In addition to the attached report, the email to the recipient will also contain information about the report being sent:
NOTE: With this new release, if the report is empty, an email will NOT be sent to the recipient. However, you can use the “Notify when complete” section, to receive an email notification even when the report is empty. Here’s what the notification email looks like:
Finally, you can view the status of completed tasks directly on screen, by clicking on the “View” link from the list of scheduled reports:
Do let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for improvement.