Happy New Year, everyone!

So here’s the first QuickSchools release for 2020:

• Group School Improvements
  • Support for Invitations to Admissions Inquiry
  • Bug Fix when uploading files to the IEP App
• Fee Tracking Improvements
  • Improve Screens for Payment Allocation
  • Bug Fixes related to Payment Allocation for Student Billing
• General UI Improvements
  • Improve to Semester Activation (See below)
  • Improve Email Messaging from Report Creator
  • Improve Subject Enrollment Screen from Student record
  • Add Classes from the “Classes and Homerooms” screen
• Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
  • Set Homework assign Date when posting from Lesson Plans (See below)
  • Increase character limit for Text Messaging (See below)
  • Search Report Cards by Student Tags
  • Gradebook Progress Report bug fix when using non-numeric Legend
  • Save attachment to Email Messaging History
  • Master Scheduler Step 4 bug fix to properly incorporate Breaks
  • Fix Time Stamp when sending alert for Recalculate Transcripts
  • Fixed billing on App Store
  • General Improvements to Android and iOS Apps

We also took the opportunity to run some server upgrades over the Christmas break. We should see some improvements to general performance and stability. We’ll continue to improve our services, in the coming weeks.

Improved Semester Activation

When activating a new empty academic term, you now have an additional option to copy the data forward WITHOUT activating the semester. This process is done in the background. The new screen has been reconfigured as follows:

Posting Homework from Lesson Plans

When posting Homework assignments from the Lesson Plans module, you now have the ability to set the Assigned Date and Due Date:

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The next Sprint E23 will be the last sprint of 2019, and will run an extra week with a scheduled deployment on Dec 30, 2019. But for now, QuickSchools is happy to announce our latest Sprint E22 release.

Here’s a list of the latest improvements of Sprint E22:

• Enable Enrollment Date by Default
  • Field is available when adding a new student record
  • Field is also available in Report Creator
• Transcript Improvements (See below)
  • Improvement to Hiding Grades from Semester In Progress
  • Sorting Subjects Alphabetically
  • Email Notification for “Recalculate Fields”
• Canvas and Schoology Improvements
  • Ability to Search Students when mapping
  • Ability to Search Courses when mapping
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
  • Gradebook fix related to Term Grades deployed in E21
  • Report Card PDF bug fix for Hebrew
  • Semester Activation Improvements (BETA)
  • Performance Improvement when taking attendance for larger schools.
  • Fee Tracking fix when applying Standard Charge for first time
  • Library fix for teachers checking out books
  • Parent Login bug fix
  • Email Messaging History bug fix
  • App Store Billing bug fix
  • Remarks when deactivating students bug fix

Transcript Improvements

At the request of many schools, our Transcripts module has been updated to include the following new improvements:

Improvement to Hiding Grades from Semester In Progress

This feature has been available for quite some time now. We’ve enhanced the way the “Hide current years/semester in progress” feature behaves, in order to more predictably control the behaviour of generated Transcripts, especially as new academic terms are added and activated. This setting appears as a checkbox under “Transcripts Configuration”:

Sorting subjects alphabetically

Also under “Transcripts Configuration”, we’ve created a new setting to “Sort sort courses alphabetically“. As the name suggests, with this setting enabled, all courses in the Transcripts module will be automatically sorted based on the name of the course.

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Here’s a list of the latest improvements in QuickSchools:

• Gradebook PDF support for Summary by Weight Factor (See Below)
  • Custom Template for Gradebook PDF
  • Custom Template for Gradebook Progress Report PDF
• New Final Grades option for Gradebook Formula (See Below)
• Attendance Improvements
  • Attendance PDF now supports specific academic terms (See Below)
  • Bug fix when taking attendance for large schools
  • Improve Attendance Pie Chart
• Google Classroom
  • Draft Grades in Google Classroom is synchronized as blank/empty grade
• Updated Data Dictionary for Report Creator now includes support for:
  • Graphing for Lesson Plans
  • Graphing for Number of Gradebook Columns
  • Clean-Up Attendance-related Fields
  • Filtering for Gradebook Public Comments
  • Filtering for Fee Tracking Transaction Date
• Miscellaneous Bug Fixes / Improvements
  • Gradebook PDF displays multiple teachers for shared subjects
  • Emailing from Report Creator no longer in Beta (See Below)
  • Restrict administrator from deactivating own record
  • Library tab on Student record
  • Library bug fix for inactive students
  • Improvements to WYSIWYG Editor for Email Messaging (Beta)
  • Improve Delete function for Admissions
  • Remove deprecated Merge Student function
  • Canvas Integration connection bug fix
  • Scheduler bug fix for deleted periods
  • Enrollment bug fix for Group Schools
  • Login Bug Fix

Gradebook PDF support for Summary by Weight Factor

We’ve had several schools request that the generated Gradebook PDF categorize all the assessments into groups, based on the Weight Factors in the Final Grade formula. This new improvement aims to address that need. However, since the majority of our schools are fine using our existing Gradebook PDFs, this new feature is only available by request.

How it works

First off, let’s get on the same page on how Weight Factors are set up in the Final Grade formula in a Gradebook. Here’s a sample Final Grade formula:

Notice that there are 2 weight factors worth 60% and 40% respectively. Each weight factor can contain ONE OR MORE Gradebook categories. We now have custom templates that display assignments based on Weight Factor (examples below).

Gradebook PDF supports Summary by Weight Factor

Here’s a sample of the Gradebook PDF available on the Student record (when you go to the “Gradebook” tab). This PDF displays all subjects for a particular student:

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