Tag: QSupdates

New Release – May 28, 2024

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Today’s QuickSchools release focuses on the Orchestra Master Scheduler, with a few beta improvements to the Student Information System. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler Improvements

  • Improved Room Management in Step 1 and 4
  • New importer for Rooms (District Settings)
  • Support Semester Dropdown for Course Requests in Student record
  • Course Request Importer supports Semester (Step 2)
  • New Constraint for Consecutive Sections for Teachers (Step 4)
  • Miscellaneous / Cosmetic improvements to Room Selection (Step 4)
  • Bug Fix Room PDF Report when No Department is assigned to Room
  • Bug Fix Schedule Board PDF Report when No Department assigned to Teacher
  • Bug Fix Unlock Course Requests in Step 5
  • Bug Fix Finalize Sections in Step 6 for multiple-term Enrollment Periods

General Improvements

  • Improve Indicator for manually edited values in Report Cards
  • Improve support for Graduation Date in Transcripts

Beta Improvements

  • Improve support for Complex Names (i.e. separate First / Last names)
  • Support “<Nick Name> <Last Name>” Format for Students
  • Support Scheduled Mobile Notifications for Class by QuickSchools
  • Improve Notifications from Standards-Based Gradebook

New Release – Dec 5, 2023

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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

Sign-In / Sign-Out App (2022)

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The QuickSchools Sign-In/Sign-Out App has undergone quite a few improvements over the years. Schools are using this app to:

  • Track the exact date and time when students sign-in and sign-out of school
  • Allow students to sign themselves in
  • Allow parents to sign in their children
  • Track the total time a student is in the school (usually for billing or compliance purposes)

You can find this app on our app store:

Sign-In/Sign-Out App on the QuickSchools App Store
Sign-In/Sign-Out App on the QuickSchools App Store

We’d like to take this opportunity to discuss some recent improvements since our last review was from 2020, as well as a few potential improvements moving forward:

To find out more about existing features, please check out our previous post here:

Sign-In Sign-Out App Review

History Tab on the Student record

Teachers and staff can now view the sign-in/sign-out history for a student directly from the student tab. This makes it easier for users to review all data pertaining to a student in one location. 

View Sign-In/Out History from the Student record
View Sign-In/Out History from the Student record

NOTE: This is a welcome improvement because most apps require you to view information about the app from the app itself (and not from the student record).

Summary from Student Portal

This new feature is designed primarily for adult education. It allows students to track the amount of time they’ve completed at school, as a prerequisite for completing their course:

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