Hide Columns in Gradebook
We have a new feature in our QuickSchools Gradebook, where you can now hide columns based on a date range. This is helpful if you have a Semester-based Gradebook, but you want to hide Quarter 1 grades as you’re putting in assessments for Quarter 2. To access the setting, first click on the Gears icon on your Gradebook:
Then enter the Start date and End date for columns to be hidden under the “Hide Columns” section: Read more…
Gradebook History / Versioning
We have a new app in the QuickSchools App Store for Gradebook History or Versioning. Basically, with this app installed, every time you save a gradebook, all columns and grades are saved and stored as a separate version. You can then go back and review what was saved and when it was saved. Finally, you can also allow your teachers to restore their gradebook from one of these previous save points:
When configuring the app, you basically have these 2 options: Read more…
Enhanced Online Forms
This past summer, we’ve made some tremendous improvements to our Online Forms module. Many thanks to some of our new public school districts for their insight into further improving this module. We’ll be featuring these new improvements on our blog in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned.
But as a preview, we’d like to briefly highlight some of these new changes:
We’re Back!
It’s been over a year since our last QuickSchools blog post. Despite the silence, we’ve been hard at work, partnering with public school districts in California to expand our offering. After more than 2 years of development, we’re now ready to share the knowledge and functionality that we’ve built with the rest of our customer base – That means YOU!
In the coming months, you can expect new and expanded modules to our core offering. This includes improvements to our Gradebook and Transcripts module, just to name a few. We’ll also release new apps to our App Store. Some examples of upcoming modules / apps are listed below:
- Counselor Notes
- Community Service
- Special Education
- Tests and Assessments
- Expanded Health / Medical
- Phone Surveys
- College Letters
- Work Permits
- Section-based Master Scheduler and Attendance
- Course Requests
However, one major improvement that we’re excited to share is our enhanced District / Group School setup. You can now link several schools together into a district configuration, and then allow data to be shared/transferred between schools. We’ll write a separate article with more information on this.
Here’s a summary of the improvements with the new District / Group School setup: Read more…
Announcing the New Support Site!
For many years, this blog has functioned as our living and breathing support documentation site- with each new feature we roll out, we’ve always done a blog post with a quick tutorial on how to configure things and get started. However, because of our constant development and improvements, at times valuable information gets buried in the stacks. Not ideal.
To help solve this, we built a new solution – a comprehensive, consolidated site designed to do one thing only: make it easy to find and access information about everything QuickSchools & Apps.
So, without further ado, we’re unveiling the new Support Site….
support.quickschools.com
Go check it out! In addition, you can find a link to it located in your account:
Now, here are some tips on using this new platform …
Advanced Student Filtering
We’ve introduced a number of improvements for filtering (searching) for students in the Students module. Currently, we have the following search options:
- Search for Active and Deactivated (deleted, left/graduated, expelled) Students
- Locked/Remembered Search
and now, we also have…
- Search for Students by Custom Report – If you use the Report Creator app, you can build a Custom Report and filter for students on this report.
Here’s a screenshot of the expanded student filtering options in the Students module (screen):
Also, some modules (screens) have different access to the different types of advanced filtering. Here’s a breakdown of filtering options by module:
| Active and Unenrolled Students Search | Locked/Saved Search | Search by Custom Report |
|---|---|---|
| Students | Students | Students |
| Transcripts | Transcripts | Transcripts |
| Report Cards | Report Cards | |
| Teachers | ||
| Discipline |
Of course, please feel free to try out some of these out. And if you have any questions at all, just let us know – we’d love to help out.
2015 Year in Review
2015 has come to a close, and what a memorable year it has been. We appreciate all the feedback and support that you’ve provided us this past year, to help us evolve QuickSchools into what it has become today. And we’ll continue to make improvements with your help.
Here are some highlights on a few improvements made this year:
Students Module
Mass Parent Messaging
- We’ve transition Email Messaging to Mail Gun, with proper sent statuses (like Delivered, Sent or Bounced).
- Now supports messages by subject / course
- New Caller ID feature
Private Messaging
Gradebook
- You can hide specific subject Gradebooks from the student record
- Copy Gradebook
- Export / Print Gradebook
- Mass Print Gradebook Progress Reports
- D’s and F’s (and Missing Assignments) Report
- Gradebook Auto-Fill
