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Roundup: All The New Features @QuickSchools

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There’s something that you should know about us…

We want you to have the best user experience with our software. That’s why we’re continuously improving it. We’ve come a long way, and have made many innovations to date. In case you missed it, here’s a list of major features released just for the past 2 years (from 2021 to May 2022).

Zapier Integration – New Feature

Online Payments with ACH – New Feature

Google Classroom Integration – Expanded Capability

App Store Releases

Also, our developers are busy bees because our philosophy is to release improvements every 2 to 3 weeks. Here’s a catalogue of our Release Notes for 2022.

If you’re interested in learning more about future improvements for the rest of 2022, join us in our upcoming QuickSchools’ Product Roadmap webinar.

This webinar is the perfect chance for you to see a live demo, ask questions, and provide us with feedback or suggestions. Log on to your QuickSchools account and sign up from the Teachers’ Lounge page.

Learn about future improvements and help us shape QuickSchools for you!

Roundup: Discover How to Leverage Admissions and Online Forms for Growth

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QuickSchools is equipped to help you simplify your school’s admission process. You have the option of using our Admissions module for easy setup, or our Online Forms App/module for more customization. In this blog post, we’ll be presenting you with a collection of the most relevant support articles and blog posts for the two modules. We hope that this post will give you an insight into how we can help you increase your student enrollment.

Learn more about QuickSchools’ Admissions and Online Forms module from the articles below:

Admissions

Online Forms App

For an overall comparison between our Admissions module and our Online Forms App/module, please visit: Admissions vs. Online Forms

Thank You for Attending our Webinar on Engaging Students and Parents!

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We would like to thank all those who attended our webinar on Engaging Students and Parents. We hope that you gained a lot of useful information and enjoyed your time with us.

We had fun showing off our Class Discussion feature during the webinar

We sent out a follow-up email along with a survey form to all registrants. We would appreciate it if you could fill-in and return the survey form to us. Your comments and suggestions will help us improve future webinars. If you were unable to attend and/or would like a copy of the recording, please let us know by checking off the appropriate box in the survey form.

The presentation slides are available to all interested parties. Feel free to download a copy by clicking the button below.

Engaging Students and Parents WebinarDownload

If you have further questions, you can reach out to us via our Live Chat Support or email us directly at support@quickschools.com. We also have various how-to guides and answers to FAQs available in our Help Center.

We hope that you will decide to join us in our April webinar – Connecting to Prospective Students and Families. This webinar is scheduled for April 21st, and we will be focusing on our Admissions and Online Forms module. Registration will be opening soon!

Roundup: What You Need to Know About Engaging Students and Parents via QuickSchools

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QuickSchools offers various ways for Teachers to share information and engage with Students and Parents. In this post, we’ll be presenting a roundup of these features to give you an overview of what we have to offer. 

Listed below is a collection of the most relevant blog posts:

Gradebook

Class Discussions

Mass Messaging

Private Messaging

App Store

QuickSchools offers a variety of add-on Apps via our App Store. A few of the most in-demand communication apps include:

Online Assignments App

Miscellaneous Apps

If you’re interested in learning more about the aforementioned features, join us in our upcoming Engaging Students and Parents webinar. You’ll have the chance to see a live demo and ask questions.

Please note that this webinar is geared towards teachers. In addition, all users levels (from beginners to advanced) are welcome. Book a slot for yourself by logging on to your QuickSchools account and signing up from the Teachers’ Lounge page.

We look forward to seeing you!

Online Forms Webinar: The Basics

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As we continue our Webinar Series, this May, we’ll be tackling one of our most comprehensive apps available — The Online Forms. This app allows schools to collect data from any user within QuickSchools, or via a Public URL / Embedded Form.

Online Forms

We’re inviting all School Administrators to attend the first of our 2-part webinar that will be held on the 4th of May, 01:00 PM (EST). This webinar will not only tackle the basic tools or functions when creating and managing an Online Form but will also go over the exporting of data and built-in Online Form Reports.


If you’re interested, click on the Sign-Up button found on our Announcements on the Teacher Home Page and in the Online Forms App to register for the Webinar. See you there!

Registration link available via the Home Page / Online Forms App

Fileroom App

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The Fileroom App is an add-on feature that is available in the QuickSchools App Store. This app allows files to be uploaded and shared between Teachers, Parents, or Students.

With this App, you can do the following:

  • Upload files into a shared, central location
  • Create your own folder structure for storing files
  • A separate Fileroom for teachers and parents
  • Virtual Hard-drive
  • 100 GB of storage

To know more about our Fileroom App, feel free to check out our Support Article linked below:

Fileroom App

If you have any questions or concerns about this app, feel free to contact our Support Team.

Attendance Dashboard (Private Beta)

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We understand how busy a Teacher’s day can get, and how this may lead to them forgetting to take attendance in QuickSchools. To resolve this, we now introduce a new feature — the Attendance Dashboard.

This feature is in BETA: If you would want this enabled for your school, please contact our Support Team.

This new feature would display the periods of a given day where attendance is Not Yet Taken. It is applicable for Homeroom, Period, or Subject-Based Attendance, and allow the Global Attendance Takers to either (1) Take attendance on behalf of the teacher; or (2) Send an Email notifying the teacher of the attendance yet to be taken.

To know more about our Attendance Dashboard feature, please see our Support Guide linked below:

Attendance Dashboard (Private Beta)

Zapier Integration

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Zapier is essentially a GUI interface that allows user to use pre-built, or build your own, integrations to any system that has open APIs. This means that you can readily integrate QuickSchools with any other system, using Zapier as the go-between.

To facilitate this integration, you will need to first establish a link between Zapier and an external system (like QuickSchools). From there, you can create either a Trigger or an Action.

A Trigger is essentially an API call to an external system to search for new/updated records. This would be the event that would initiate a ZAP and facilitate an Action. (Example: Find new students in QuickSchools)

An Action would then be an event performed to PUSH data into an external system. This would essentially add/update the data. (Example: Add a new student into QuickSchools).

Zapier is useful to integrate other systems with QuickSchools, making the process of moving data from an external system to QuickSchools (or vice versa) really easy. The integration is described in more detail in our Support Article linked below:

Zapier Integration Guide

This guide would cover the following required for the integration:

  • Setting up Zapier
  • Setting up API in QuickSchools
  • Creating a Trigger
  • Creating an Action
  • Creating a Zap

If you have any questions or concerns with the setting up your Zapier Integration, feel free to contact us via chat or email us at support@quickschools.com.