Today’s QuickSchools release focuses on the Orchestra Master Scheduler, with a few beta improvements to the Student Information System. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Improved Room Management in Step 1 and 4
• New importer for Rooms (District Settings)
• Support Semester Dropdown for Course Requests in Student record
• Course Request Importer supports Semester (Step 2)
• New Constraint for Consecutive Sections for Teachers (Step 4)
• Miscellaneous / Cosmetic improvements to Room Selection (Step 4)
• Bug Fix Room PDF Report when No Department is assigned to Room
• Bug Fix Schedule Board PDF Report when No Department assigned to Teacher
• Bug Fix Unlock Course Requests in Step 5
• Bug Fix Finalize Sections in Step 6 for multiple-term Enrollment Periods

General Improvements

• Improve Indicator for manually edited values in Report Cards
• Improve support for Graduation Date in Transcripts

Beta Improvements

• Improve support for Complex Names (i.e. separate First / Last names)
• Support “<Nick Name> <Last Name>” Format for Students
• Support Scheduled Mobile Notifications for Class by QuickSchools
• Improve Notifications from Standards-Based Gradebook