Welcome back! This is the first release of 2021. Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:

Master Scheduler

• Bulk Create Block Sections (based on Lecture-Lab combinations)
• Bulk Remove Block Sections
• Ability to adjust target limit for Step 5 Load
• Bug fixes related to running Step 4 with orphaned sections

Google Classroom Synchronization

• Improved support for teachers to synchronize individual courses
• Bug fixes related to Timezone and Scale Score Formulas.

Other General Improvements

• Automated emails for Online Form Submissions when status is changed
• Automated emails for Online Payments
• Improve Notification features for Assignments and Submissions
• Improve support for shared addresses in Admissions module
• Improve support when taking attendance from the Attendance Calendar on the Student record
• New Importer for Subjects/Sections-Based Attendance
• Extend timeout for large Stock Take in Library App
• Bug fix when a school within a group is suspended and archived
• Bug fix for Temperature App
• Miscellaneous improvements to Summary Reports related to Attendance
• Internal monitoring framework improvements

Automated Emails for Online Forms

If you’ve installed the Online Forms App, there is a new feature to allow you to automatically send out an email when the status of a submission changes. Check out the new Mail icon on the Submissions page (similar to the Mail icon for Gradebook):

When you click on it, you’ll be able to customize an email that gets sent whenever a submission is changed to that status:

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This is the 17th and last release of 2020. Most schools will be on break right now. We’re looking forward to a bright 2021, with awesome new features and improvements. As always, your feedback is important to us, so let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see in a future release.

But for now, here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:

Master Scheduler

• Fix Department Constraints
• Enhance ways for setting up Course Offering
• New function to Lock All Sections in Step 5
• Show Periods that have been restricted via Constraints
• Set Student Portal Course Requests as INACTIVE by default, when an enrollment period is activated.
• Improve wording of certain phrases

COMING SOON: Temperature App

• Store student temperatures
• Customize Health Screening questions
• Works with externally scanner

Other General Improvements

• Administrator can charge credit cards from Family Billing (See below)
• Increase size limit for files uploads not related to email messaging
• Bug fix when uploading multiple files with the same name
• Improvement to District/Group School, to support more data to be copied over when students / teachers are transferred between schools. 
• Improve support for Name Formats when enrolling student from Online Forms 
• Report Creator Support for Subject ID (used for data exports)
• Report Summary Support for Gradebook Total Marks Possible
• Improve support for adding/updating subject attendance from the student record
• Support links in template descriptions for Transcripts
• Fix labelling support for Homework
• Fix App Store error when loading reviews linked to a deleted user.
• Various improvements to server infrastructure
• Various improvements to the test environment
• Security login improvement (login counter and timeout)

Charging Credit Cards via Family Billing

In a previous release, we introduced the ability for administrators to charge credit cards that were entered via the Student and Parent Portals. However, this feature was only available for schools using Student Billing. We’ve now extended this functionality to also support Family Billing:

This feature can be enabled when you configure the Fee Tracking module as an administrator:

Temperature App

In response to the year of Covid-19, we are preparing a new Temperature App, that will allow schools to quickly record and track student temperature readings, along with responses to health screening questions that can be customized. Here’s a preview of what the app looks like:

When taking a student temperature, you can use the Custom Fields widget to create screening questions:

More details for this app will be announced soon. Do enjoy the rest of your December Break!

See You Next Year!

QuickSchools is introducing a new status for Daily Attendance, called Half Day Attendance. So when taking daily attendance, you’ll see an additional option for “Half Day”.

NOTE: This feature is in Private Beta. Please request access by contacting QuickSchools Support.

Where do these changes apply?

The new Half Day status only applied to Daily Attendance. So anywhere you expect to be able to add / edit Daily Attendance, you should now see an option for Half Day.

Student Attendance tab

There is a new legend (and color) for Half-Day Attendance:

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As the new year approaches, we will be making improvements to our Master Scheduler module, in addition to refinements to our Learning Management (LMS) offering. Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:

LMS: Assignments and Live Stream modules (Beta)

• Ability to rename zoom meetings
• Notification on Assignment Submissions by Students
• Notification on Discussion of Submissions with Students
• Improve Alerts when publishing Assignments
• Bug fix for Assignment Due Date related to changes in Time Zone
• Warning when submitting assignments with no attachments

Google Classroom

• Improve Google Classroom Sync from Gradebook
• Support Gradebook Sync by Default User
• Bug Fix when marks are removed from Google Classroom and resynchronized
• Improve run time

Master Scheduler

• Enable “Semester Management” within the “Master Scheduler” menu
• Expand support for assigning teachers to courses
• Expand support for assigning courses to placeholder teachers
• Miscellaneous refinements Master Scheduler screens
• Enable Course Catalog Importer (previously in Beta)

Other General Improvements

• Google Drive Integration (Private Beta)
• Sort students in Merit app PDF
• Bug fix to Gradebook Formula with no marks
• Improve tracking of subscription payments via check
• Roll-Out Gradebook Scale Scores (previously in Beta) – See Below
• Roll-Out Gradebook formula date range (previously in Beta) – See Below
• Bug fix when viewing District-Wide students (for Group Schools)
• Support Leave Date when importing Students
• Support Sort Order when importing Grade Levels
• Support update by Subject ID when importing Subjects
• Support additional fields when transferring students (for Group School)
  • Lives with Student
  • Emergency contact
  • Authorized for Pickup
  • Student Tags
• Support End Date for recurring tasks
• Extend timeout when recalculating penalties in Library App
• Bug fix when refreshing transactions after exporting to QuickBooks
• Bug fix when exporting Family Billing go QuickBooks
• Advanced Search for QuickBooks Integration App – See Below

Gradebook Scale Score and Formula Date Range

These Gradebook features were previously in Private Beta, but is now available to all schools. You can enable this feature when you configure the “Report Cards / Gradebook” module under “Settings” > “Turn Features On / Off”:

When adding / editing a column, if Scale Score is enable, you will see a new section to scale up the weightage of the column:

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Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:

LMS: Assignments and Live Stream modules (Beta)

• Use Teacher Email Address (instead of User Name) for Zoom Integration
• Improve warning when Zoom Authentication expires
• Subject Selector for Assignments list on Student Portal
• Ability to chat with teacher after submitting an assignment
• Bug fix on Class Discussions when user is deleted
• Upgrade Homework Submission History

Other General Improvements

• New ability to email parents from Gradebook
• Filter mass messaging by relationship
• Email History for Email Latest Receipt
• Admin can charge Credit Cards for Parents and Students
• Ability for teachers to synchronize their own gradebooks with Google Classroom (Beta)
• Disallow second Check Payment when first Check Payment is pending
• New support for monthly tasks
• Ability to change the default trial period
• Disallow inactive students from borrowing or renewing books in Library App
• Bug fix when synchronizing Google Classroom gradebooks
• Bug fix on Fee Tracking Paid Amounts for Group Schools
• Bug fix on Fee Tracking Payment Allocations
• Bug fix auto-locking report card session when creating a new session
• Bug fix to allow conflicts for Staff
• Bug fix to exclude homework linked to deleted semesters
• Bug fix to Library App when recalculating penalties

Subject Selector for Assignments

We’ve added a new Subject Selector on the Student Portal, to make it easier to find Assignments:

Chat on Assignment

We’ve added the ability for teachers and students to chat directly on an assignment (similar to Class Discussions):

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