We Appreciate Your Participation! Wrapping Up 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the “Customizing Effective Report Cards” webinar! We hope you found the session helpful as you navigate through the report card season. It was great connecting with all of you, and we enjoyed sharing tips to make your reporting smoother and more meaningful.

As we wrap up our 2024 webinar series, we’d like to thank everyone who’s been along for the ride. Your participation has been incredible. We look forward to bringing you more practical and helpful webinars in 2025! Keep an eye out for our January announcement for next year’s lineup.

If you have any ideas for topics you’d love to see covered, feel free to contact our support team at support@quickschools.com. We love hearing your suggestions. 

How Customizable Report Cards Can Transform School Management and Boost Efficiency

How Customizable Report Cards Can Transform School Management

Report cards are a crucial component of school management, serving as a bridge between teachers, administrators, parents, and students. They provide a comprehensive view of student performance, behavior, and progress. However, traditional methods of report card generation can be time-consuming and inefficient, often creating frustration for both teachers and administrators. With the right tools, schools can transform this process into one that is fast, flexible, and customized to meet their unique needs. Modern Student Information Systems (SIS), like QuickSchools, enable educators to streamline report card generation, making it easier and more effective. By utilizing customizable templates, schools enhance their reporting process to fit specific goals, improving communication and overall management.

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New Release – Aug 21, 2024

Today’s QuickSchools release focuses on a few system / framework improvements around security, performance and maintenance, with general improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler and Student Information System. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler Improvements

  • Step 1 Importer for Period Length
  • Improve Step 4 Indicator for Course and Department Constraint Violations
  • Bug Fix Step 4 for copied Sections from Previous Semester
  • Bug Fix Step 5 Completion Percentage for Unsubmitted Course Requests
  • Bug Fix Step 5 Rejections for manually assigned sections
  • Miscellaneous Bug Fixes and Cosmetic Improvements

General Improvements

  • Report Cards Support for multiple Admin Column Grading Scales
  • Freeze the Students column in “Subject-Based” screen for Report Cards
  • Hide Subject Grade Level for “Courses & Sections”
  • Support Pre-Enrolled Students in “Courses & Sections”
  • CleverSFTP App Support for multiple SFTP Connections (See below)

Beta Improvements

  • New Importer for Student Tags
  • Bulk Print Library Barcodes (30 barcodes per page)
  • Bug Fix Library Books Importer for Site
  • Improve School Dropdown in Chronos Transcripts
  • Improvements to Data Monitor Framework (v3)
  • Improvements to Archiving of Uploaded Homework and Submissions
  • General Improvements to Privacy and Security
  • Mobile Support for Class Discussions

Clever SFTP supports Multiple Connections

The CleverSFTP App on the QuickSchools AppStore now support multiple SFTP hosts. This means that you can schedule the same Clever-spec files to multiple vendors:

You will first need to setup the different SFTP hosts via the SFTP Connections menu:

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Roundup: All About Report Cards

QuickSchools’ Report Cards module helps schools create elegant report cards hassle-free. It pulls data from various other modules – Student Information, Attendance and Gradebook – to ensure data consistency and integrity. On top of that, it offers various templates that can be easily configured and customized to fit your requirements.

There are so many reasons why the Report Cards module is the pride and joy of our company. We have compiled the most relevant articles in this blog post to help you understand how truly amazing this module is.

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The Best Online Report Card System Every School Needs  

A report card is one of the most important documents that students will receive every year. Yet every report card season, though exciting, can be a very time-consuming and difficult period, especially for teachers. Manually entering all the results from different assignments, quizzes, and tests for every single student doesn’t just take time due to having to remember information or trying to recall forgotten scores, or having to go through the endless amount of paper, but is also prone to errors being made even though a calculator is being used. This then leads to rushing to get report cards done by the due date, and most likely a lot of overtime done.   

No wonder report card season is so stressful and teachers are under a lot of pressure! Whilst the end of report card season is rewarding, especially for the students, school administrators need to find ways to help the teachers during this taxing time.  

Not to worry, as QuickSchools is here to help! We have 9 reasons why signing up with QuickSchools will provide you with the best report card system you have ever had!  

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How to Run Reports on Report Cards

Report Cards handle all sorts of averages and compilations of student date that aren’t reflected anywhere else (except for maybe Transcripts). As such, if you want to see information like semester or final averages, report card comments, GPA, or grades for subject specific criteria in a handy summary report, you’ll want to run one of our reports that give you information from your report cards. Here are some quick tips on best practices for keeping your report cards in shipshape for reporting and some tips on how to setup your report cards so you can run reports on them quickly and easily.

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Here is the listing of the Report Card reports that come default with all QuickSchools accounts

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St. Casimir’s School Report Card Template

As discussed in our previous posts about our Report Cards initiative, today we’re sharing one of our private templates. If you like the way it looks, feel free to chat in any time to let us know. We can enable it and help set it up just the way you like!


At St. Casimir’s School Wells, Minnesota, teachers like to give lots of feedback to students through detailed grading criteria. The school uses a quarterly grading system, so their report card is a condensed two-column, four-term report card with plenty of space for lots of grading information. Let’s take a look at a sample!

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Elegant Trimesters

As discussed in our previous posts about our Report Cards initiative, today we’re sharing one of our private templates. If you like the way it looks, feel free to chat in any time to let us know. We can enable it and set it up just the way you like!

The Elegant Trimesters report card template is a recently updated template from the library of private templates. It’s a simple, three-term report card that’s great for elementary schools. Here’s a look at a sample version:

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Designed and built by Azroy, this template was recently restyled with new fonts to match QuickSchools’ updated design. The template is very streamlined both in appearance and in how it works. Nonetheless, it still supports key features:Read More »