Despite our previously planned outage on Dec 27, we unfortunately need some additional time to complete some server upgrades. QuickSchools will be offline this Friday, on Jan 1, 2021, starting at 1 am US Eastern Time. The QuickSchools service will be offline for approximately 2 hours.
We hope all users will take this time for a well-deserved break, and enjoy a good start to the 2021 calendar year. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our support staff via email or chat.
We have a planned outage this Sunday, on Dec 27, 2020. We will be updating our hardware infrastructure to improve general performance and availability. This update requires that some of our servers be taken offline.
The outage will begin at 3:00 am US Eastern time (or 12 am US Pacific Time), and will last up to 3 hours. If we’re able to complete the update earlier, the QuickSchools service will be brought back online immediately.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our support staff via email or chat.
We have a new app in Private Beta that was released earlier this month. The Google Drive Integration app allows schools to backup files in QuickSchools by copying them to Google Drive:
Since this app is in Private Beta, you’ll need to request access from our support team. Once beta access is granted, the app will appear under your “App Store” > “My Apps” menu. Click on “Configure” to configure access to the app:
Read More »In a recent release (back on November 10, 2020), QuickSchools introduced a new feature to allow teachers to email parents and/or students directly from the Gradebook. This is just one of the many ways teachers can engage parents/students (in addition to Mass Messaging, Class Discussions and Homework / Assignments). Notice the new mail icon on the top right corner of the Gradebook:
Clicking on the mail icon will allow you to compose an email message:
Read More »In case you missed, we had our second QuickSchools webinar yesterday, as part of our new Webinar Series. Our topic was on how to produce professional looking transcripts.
In preparation for this webinar, we published several new articles to help explain some of the functionality, as well as announce 4 new templates:
Thank you to those who were able to attend. We appreciate your participation, and hope you can give us feedback on how we can improve our product and services.
Our next webinar will likely be in February. We’re considering many different topics like Admissions or Online Forms. If there’s a particular area you’d like to learn more about, or if you’re interested in attending our webinar in general, feel free to leave us a comment, and chat with our awesome support team.
If you have a bunch of links that you’d like to share with students or parents (or even other teachers/staff) via their QuickSchools portal, then the Links App should come in handy. Here’s what links can look like on the Parent Portal:
Essentially, you can create a link along with a description, to help provide context to parents/students about what the link is for. To enable this feature, you’ll need to install the “Links” app in the QuickSchools App Store:
Read More »If you’re using GSuite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education or GAFE), you may be having trouble connecting your Google Classroom account with QuickSchools, if Google Cloud Platform is not enabled. For example, when creating a project, if the connection is unresponsive, you may see a red icon on the top right:
Clicking on the icon will show you error notifications. If you receive the “Google Cloud Platform service has been disabled” error, you’ll need to enable it:
Read More »For those using the Schoology Integration app in QuickSchools, if you have both a Final Grade and Semester Grade in Schoology, there is a way to configure which final grade to pull into the QuickSchools Gradebook. This setting is under “STEP 7: SYNCHRONIZE GRADES”, under the “Synchronize Now” section:
If you don’t see this setting, be sure to include the appropriate user(s) to “Teachers that can manually synchronize Gradebooks” when configuring the app:
Read More »The Test Drive feature within QuickSchools creates test data in order for you to quickly evaluate the major modules, like Attendance, Gradebook, Report Cards and Scheduling. Just click on one of the “Test Drive” buttons on the “Getting Started” page:
Test Data includes 6 students, 2 courses and 12 grade levels (which can be customized):
Read More »So it’s the end of term, and your report cards are locked and published. How can you get the report cards generated in your QuickSchools account into the hands of your parents / students, especially if they’re not using the Parent Portal or Student Portal?
We introduced the ability to bulk email report cards back in October 2018. So we thought we’d highlight it again here, since it’s quite a useful tool. All you have to do is, from the main Report Cards listing, select all the report cards you want to email out, and then select “Email Report Card” from the menu:
The system will prompt you for confirmation, so you don’t send it out accidentally:
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