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New Release – July 10, 2024

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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

  • Bug Fix Display of Section Limits when limit is set to zero in Course Catalog
  • Show Rooms assignments for Courses based on Departments in Step 1

General Improvements

  • Auto-map Courses to Schoology when a new semester is activated
  • Increase timeout for archiving old Homework when a new semester is created
  • Increase timeout for XML BackUps
  • Fix display in Student Listing when Nickname is not provided
  • Bug fix display of configured PDF Template for Report Cards and Transcripts
  • Bug fix search for “Your Students” listing

Beta Improvements

  • New Data Monitor Framework (v1)
  • Refactor Migrate to Next Year (for Courses & Sections)
  • Framework Improvements for Anonymization (on-going)
  • Support “Weight Type” and “Excluded from GPA” for Course Importer
  • Support multiple Graduation Tracks
  • Improve Security for Support Agents (Google Authenticator)

New Release – June 20, 2024

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

The full list of improvements is included below:

Master Scheduler Improvements

  • New Enhanced Room Management module (Beta)
  • Refactor Year-Long and Next Course Functionality
  • Auto-Drop Section Enrollments when Student is deactivated
  • Auto-Delete Section Enrollments when Student is deleted
Enhances Room Management for Orchestra Master Scheduler
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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 – May 7, 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 include:

Master Scheduler Improvements

  • New “Configure Rooms” screen (Step 1)
  • New “Room Availability” widget (Step 4) – See below
  • New “Room Report” PDF (Step 4)
  • New Filter for “Students with Mismatched Teacher Assignments” (Step 5)
  • Refactor Daily Schedule Support for Period Assignment and Period Length
  • Cosmetic improvements to “Section Details” (Step 4)
  • Cosmetic improvements to “Load” function (Step 5)
  • Bug Fix for Installation on New Accounts
  • Bug Fix set Next Enrollment Period
  • Bug Fix adding Course Requests with Student Tags (Step 2)
  • Bug Fix Constraints for Courses without Departments (Step 3)
  • Bug Fix Constraints for Rooms without Departments (Step 3)

Beta Improvements

  • New Grade Notification for Standard-Based Gradebook (Beta) – See below
  • Improve Export from Report Creator via SFTP (Beta)
  • Miscellaneous Improvements to Parent Teacher Conference (Beta)
  • Consolidate Name Format for Students, Teachers and Parents (Beta)
  • New Mobile App Notifications module (Beta)

Notifications for Standards-Based Gradebook

In the “School Profile” screen, there is a new alert called “SB Gradebook – Grade Alert” which you can enable for your school:

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New Release – Apr 19, 2024

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

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler Improvements

  • Improve Support for Year-Long courses in Multi-Semester Enrollment Periods
  • Improve Support for Section Limits by Department
  • Sort Semester and Enrollment Period dropdowns in reverse chronological order
  • Replace “Subject Area” filter with “Department” Filter (Step 2) 
  • New Custom Algorithm – Assign by Grade Level (Step 5)
  • Track original Add Date when Section Enrollments are reassigned/dropped (Step 5)
  • Option to hide empty periods in Student Schedule PDF
  • Support Room name in Teacher Roster PDF
  • Hide Course Tags by default (Step 1)
  • Hide “Mark Latest Schedule for Export” by default (Step 6)
  • New option to ignore Teacher Assignment when Importing Course Request via SFTP
  • Bug Fix Ignore hidden course requests when importing via SFTP
  • Bug Fix Refresh when Import Settings from Previous Enrollment Period

General Improvements

  • General Improvements to School-Wide Alerts and Alert Preferences
  • Add Mobile Notification to Low Grade Alerts
  • Improve Sender Info when sending emails via QuickSchools
  • Support Subject-Based Grading Scale in Report Cards
  • Bug Fix Submitted Online Tests
  • Bug Fix Copy Multiple Gradebook Columns
  • Bug Fix Schoology Integration to handle allowed thruput
  • Bug Fix Bulk Download Online Forms

Other Beta Improvements

  • New Importer for Community Service App
  • General Security Improvements

New Release – Mar 25, 2024

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Today’s QuickSchools release mostly contains bug fixes and refinements, except for one new feature – Export from Report Creator via SFTP. 

Full list of improvements are below:

General Improvements

  • Refine email notifications from no-reply@quickschools.com
  • Discipline Incident PDF
  • Miscellaneous Bug Fixes to Master Scheduler

Other Beta Improvements

  • Export from Report Creator via SFTP (Beta)
  • Improve Framework for scheduled SFTP Imports
  • Hide Course Section Limits when Orchestra Master Schedule is not installed
  • Bug Fix Search Unified Parent for Group School
  • API Improvements for Engage CRM

Export from Report Creator via SFTP (Beta)

This feature is currently in private beta, and works with the Report Creator App. We will be making additional improvements to this app in the coming weeks. For right now, here’s what it does:

Create a SFTP Connection

There will be a new menu where you can create / edit SFTP connections:

Click on “Add New Connection” to create a new SFTP Host:

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New Release – Mar 5, 2024

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We’re back to a normal flow for engineering improvements. Today’s QuickSchools release focuses on the Gradebook, with some minor improvements to the Master Scheduler, Attendance and API. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Master Scheduler

  • Relabel Step 4 button to “Import External IDs”
  • Relabel the “Lock Sections” checkbox in Step 2 to be more descriptive
  • Bug Fix “Bulk Course Requests” in Step 2 for locked course requests in previous Enrollment Periods
  • Bug Fix Advanced Search in Step 5 for Students with unassigned duplicate course requests

Gradebook Improvements

  • Low Grade Alert for Gradebook (see below)
  • Gradebook expanded option to share or copy columns between different subjects
  • Bug Fix Minimum Score from Admin Column
  • Option to submit grades from ALL gradebooks to Report Cards (Beta)
  • Option to bulk show/hide Gradebook in “Manage Subject Availability” (Beta)

Other Beta Improvements

  • API Improvements for Engage CRM and Mobile
  • Option to Bulk Set Attendance for Subject-Based roster
  • Report Creator support for Total Attendance by Period
  • Bug Fix Teacher Listing when a school is removed from a Group School

Low Grade Alert

We have a new Alert for the Gradebook, allowing you to notify parents of low grades. This feature currently works only for the default Grading Scale. Here’s how it works:

  • Enable the School-wide Alert under “School Profile”
  • Configure the low grades under “Grading Setup”
  • Notification for teachers when saving the Gradebook
  • Notification for Parents
  • Opting out of alerts for Parents

Enable the School-wide Alert

Under “Settings” > “School Profile”, there is a setting under “School-wide Alert Settings” for “Gradebook – Low Grade Alert”:

Enable the School-wide Alert

The alert is disabled by default. You can opt parents in or out by default. Parents can still opt in/out individually once the feature is enabled.

NOTE: This first version currently supports Email Alerts only. In the near future, we’ll be adding support for this alert to the “Home by QuickSchools” Mobile App

Configure the Low Grades

Under “Grading Setup”, there is a new setting called “Low Grade Alerts” where you can configure the Letter Grades and Codes that warrant an alert:

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New Release – Feb 16, 2024

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quickschools software release feb 16th 2024

Our focus for the past few weeks has been on the New Policy for Sender Email. And so the QuickSchools release for today is limited to improvements our API for Zapier and Engage, plus some general bug fixes and improvements to our general Student Information System: 

General Bug Fixes / Improvements

  • Bug Fix Gradebook Comments with Special Characters from Canvas
  • Bug Fix Private Messaging when called incorrectly from the browser
  • Improve experience when choosing “Other Balance” for Online Payments

Beta Improvements

  • API Improvements for Engage CRM and Zapier (WebHooks)
  • New Report Creator calculations for Section Attendance

New Zapier Integration App

We’ve been focusing on adding WebHook support to our Zapier Integration App over the past several releases. We finally introduced Instant Triggers in v2.0.0 earlier this month. With this latest release, v2.0.1 will now support district-wide webhooks. You can export more documentation on our Zapier Integration App in the coming weeks.