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:
THIS IS A BETA FEATURE: To have this feature enabled, please contact our Support Team.
This feature allows you to synchronize your Google Classroom courses in batches. This is ideal for schools will a large number of students and courses.
Some things to note about this feature:
Profiles are dependent on the courses being mapped under STEP 3.
Courses that aren’t mapped in STEP 3, will not be available in the Profile
If a course is unmapped in STEP 3, the course will also be automatically removed from the Profile.
When courses are remapped in STEP 3 at the start of a new semester, the Profile will also need to be updated with the latest mappings. Mappings from the previous term will no longer apply.
To avoid the sync getting timed out, we recommend having a maximum of 35 courses per Profile.
Multiple Profiles can be scheduled to be synced at the same time. However, each profile will be synchronized one at a time.
To know more about our Google Classroom Synchronization Profiles, see our Support Article linked below:
Introduce Send History when sending Email from Templates – See below
Improve performance when emailing attachments from modules (Report Cards, Gradebook, Fee Tracking)
Miscellaneous bug fixes related to attachments
Other General Improvements
NEW: Attendance Dashboard for Not-Yet-Taken (Beta) – See below
Improve how Summary Reports are run for long queries
Live Stream now support recurring meetings
Search Student by Email Address and Phone Number
Ability to Schedule Synchronize with Sync
Ability to disable Chat Box for Online Forms – See below
Fileroom App now supports sharing with Students
Improve Search on Teachers Lounge (Beta)
School Notes for new Self-Enrollment (Beta)
Miscellaneous improvements to Announcements
Miscellaneous improvements to Master Scheduler
Bug fix when managing Live Stream for Teachers
Bug fix when a new document is uploaded to the Student record
Mapping Students in Google Classroom
When mapping students in Google Classroom, the system now displays the email address, so that it’s easier to match students. This is particularly useful when students use their own personal Google Accounts for Google Classroom, and thus may have names in a foreign language:
We recently released a new feature for students to Self-Enroll into courses. Students can review the courses they are enrolled in from within QuickSchools, and directly make changes. Here’s what the students can see from the Student Portal:
When selecting courses, the system can also check for conflicts based on the Simplified Scheduler:
This is an expedited Sprint (only 2 weeks instead of 3). We have a few beta features we’re pushing out, plus some miscellaneous performance enhancements and bug fixes.
New User Field in Interventions (introduced in previous release) is now reportable in Report Creator
Bug fix when deleting students
Timezone Bug fix when importing into Gradebook
Refactor framework for Email Messaging
New internal framework to support student subscription limits
Student Self-Enrollment (Beta)
This is a new feature to allow students to directly enroll into courses from the student portal (without using Course Requests from the Master Scheduler module). If the student is already enrolled into a courses, the student can unenroll from them:
New Self-Enrollment Feature for Students (Beta)
And there’s an “Add Course” button for students to select courses to enroll into:
Use Gradebook Templates to copy columns between subjects
The Gradebook Template allows you to templatize an existing Gradebook, essentially allowing you to copy the columns in the current Gradebook, and insert them into another subject / course. Here we see several saved templates:
Hope everyone is doing well! We’ve made several improvements to our LMS-related features, in particular with our Live Stream capabilities. We also have a few general improvements we’d like to share with you.
We are introducing a new feature in the Google Classroom Integration app, that allows teachers to manage and pull grades from Google Classroom for their own subjects in QuickSchools. When enabled, teachers will see a new “Sync with Google Classroom” button in their Gradebook:
Clicking on the button will initiate a synchronization with Google Classroom. Some things to note about the Google Classroom Integration:
The school admin needs to install and configure the Google Classroom Integration app for the whole school (available in our App Store). If the setup is incomplete, an error message will appear.
When synchronizing the gradebook, the student enrollment may change, depending on how your school administrator configured the auto-enrollment feature.
Some elements from Google Classroom will not transfer over, namely the category, final grade and comments. So teachers can freely update this information in QuickSchools. This data will not be overwritten by subsequent synchronizations.
NOTE FOR ADMINISTRATORS: The feature will require that the School Administrator configure the Google Classroom Integration app as follows:
Reporting on Min, Target and Max Size for Sections
Hide “Debug” function by default.
Fix course search function in Step 4: Schedule for large data sets
Fix installation errors related to missing column
Bug fix for Course Constraints
Bug fix when deleting students (orphaned course requests)
Bug fix for the “Student With Incomplete Schedule” Report
Live Stream
Remove and Auto-Generate Password when creating a Zoom conference
Rename “Conference” to “Live Stream”
Join URL is clickable when viewing a Live Stream
Improve Time Selection widget
General UI improvements
Online Forms
Support dynamic Send Email for Auto-Emails from Status Change in Online Forms
Option to disable “Download Forms” in Online Forms
Support option to copy previous submission (See below)
Improve Payment Options (See below)
Fix Installation / Upgrade Error
Fix “Download Forms” function affected by bad Form Packet name
Other General Improvements
Zapier Integration
Improve Time Selection widget for Assignments
Support Online Payments for Admissions (See below)
Report Creator Support for Interventions
Support Sorting and Renaming of student Documents (See below)
Bug fix for Attendance PDF
Bug fix when submitting Admissions Form when Residential Section is disabled
Copying Previous Online Forms Submission
Once an applicant submits an online form, there will be a button to “Start New Application”:
Start a new Application after completing a Submission
This option allows the system to reference the previously submitted data, so that when the applicant is filling in a particular form for the new application, there will be an option to “Copy from Previous Submission”:
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):
New Status-Based Email Notifications for Online Forms
When you click on it, you’ll be able to customize an email that gets sent whenever a submission is changed to that status:
