New Release – Dec 5, 2023

Our latest QuickSchools release contains primarily improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler and API improvements for Zapier and Engage, with some general improvements to our Email Deliverability and Lunch Orders / Shopping Cart. 

Match Tags on Course Requests against Teachers

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler

  • Optimize Step 5 “Load Students”
  • Expand Tag functionality in Step 5
  • Improve Multi-Semester Support for Schedule PDF
  • Improve Multi-Semester Support in Teachers Schedule
  • Improve Step 6 Add/Drop Notifications
  • Bug Fix Advanced Search for deleted courses

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

  • Bug fix Lunch Ordering for expired Shopping Cart items
  • Improve support for Lunch Orders PDF (without Homerooms)
  • Improvements to Email Deliverability

Beta Improvements

  • Bug Fix Transferring Students for Group Schools
  • Restrict access to accounts based on Geo IP
  • Updated Webhooks API Framework for Zapier
  • API Improvements for Engage CRM

New Release – Nov 14, 2023

Our latest QuickSchools release contains primarily improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler, but also includes API improvements for Zapier and Engage, as well as general improvements to our Student Information System. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler

  • STEP 2: Freeze Number of Sections per Course
  • STEP 5: Scheduling Algorithm Option to Force Conflicts
  • STEP 5: Display Course Request Tags and Teacher Tags
  • STEP 5: Link to View Add/Drop History
  • STEP 5: Improve Tracking of Dropped / Unassigned Section Enrollments (with Drop Reasons)
  • STEP 6: Customize Add/Drop Notifications to Teachers
  • Link to View Add/Drop History from Course Requests tab on the Student record
  • Improve Email Customization for Teacher Schedule

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

  • Export Support Reports to CSV (See below)
  • Student Portal and Parent Portal Home notifications on new grades from Standards-Based Gradebook (See above)
  • Improve Payment Plan module for Student Billing
  • Bug Fix Loading Section Attendance when moving between days
  • But Fix Section Attendance for Inactive Students

Beta Improvements

  • New Webhooks API Framework for Zapier
  • New SFTP Importer for Course-Teacher Configurations
  • Refactor District Settings, Enrollment Periods and CA-related Fields
  • API Improvements for Engage CRM
  • Account Restrictions based on GeoIP Location
  • General Improvements on Email Messaging

Export Summary Report to CSV

The option to export to “Excel” in the Summary Reports has been changed to a simple “Export” button:

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New Release – Oct 23, 2023

Our latest QuickSchools release contains improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler, Email Messaging as well as general improvements to our Student Information System

Master Scheduler

  • Ability to bulk delete Courses in Course Catalog
  • Improve support for multi-semester (i.e. Full Year) Enrollment Periods
  • Miscellaneous UI Improvements to Step1 and Step 5
  • New Rejections for Tag Mismatch

Email / Deliverability

  • Upgrade Integration to MailGun
  • New Option to change Sender for better Deliverability (See below)
  • Bug Fix logging for bad email addresses 

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

  • Payment Plan support for students with multiple Primary Payers
  • Show student nick names in “Classes & Homerooms”
  • Improve how Attendance Roster is Refreshed
  • Cosmetic improvements to Featured App Widget
  • Improve support for White Label
  • Bug Fix Section Attendance for Periods that are Not-A-School-Day
  • Bug Fix Summary Reports for Attendance by Week
  • Bug Fix Generated PDF for Homework / Assignments
  • Bug Fix set Enrollment Date when re-enrolling from Admissions

Beta Improvements

  • Mass Set Section Attendance
  • Option to remove “Now” Indicator for “Courses & Sections”
  • Refactor / Improve Chronos Transcripts

Email Deliverability (Emails going to Spam)

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New Release – Oct 2, 2023

Our latest QuickSchools release contains improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler, the Payment Plan app as well as general improvements to our Student Information System and API Resources:

Master Scheduler

  • New Room Constraints in Step 3
  • Room Assignment in Step 4
  • Updated Room info in Schedule PDF
  • Bug fix in Step 4 when teacher is assigned multiple departments
  • Email History for Add/Drop Notifications in Step 6 (See above)
  • General Improvements to Add/Drop Notifications

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

  • Payment Plan support for manual payments (See below)
  • Improve how periods are displayed in Courses & Sections
  • Ability to configure who can use a specific Attendance Codes
  • Bug Fix Attendance Alerts when default attendance is Not-Yet-Taken
  • Bug Fix Online Lunch Orders for Declined Credit Cards
  • Bug Fix Class Discussions when there are many Pinned messages
  • Miscellaneous Bug fix to Schoology Integration
  • Improve Assignment PDF Support for Foreign Languages

Beta Improvements

  • Gradebook Point Floor
  • Miscellaneous updates to SFTP Importer
  • Bug Fix Clever SFTP Integration when teacher is removed from a class.
  • API Improvements for Engage CRM (Status Color Code)

Manual (Check) Payments for Payment Plan

The Payment Plan App on our App Store now supports Manual Payments. When this option is enabled, you can mark payments manually (instead of automatically charging the credit card on file):

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Mini Release – Sept 19, 2023

We are happy to announce that we’ve just released an update to our 2-Factor Authentication (2FA). QuickSchools now supports 2FA via Google Authenticator. The School Admin will first need to enable 2FA via “Settings” > “Turn Features On / Off” > “Edit Overall Settings” (under the “Security” section:

Once enabled, each user will have the option use Google Authenticator (instead of regular Email) for authentication:

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