Welcome to 2022. And here is the first release of the year. We continue to make improvements to the Orchestra Master Scheduler, as well as the the Learn LMS module, PLUS, general improvements to our Student Information System.

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Support for Triple Periods
• Option to clear sections for a particular course
• Re-add support for Teams in Weekly Schedule (Private Beta)
• Bug fix Schedule PDF for invalid/orphaned section enrollments
• Bug fix Step 2 Course Request report for students with “No course requests”
• Bug fix Step 6 Finalize Sections when SIS is enabled

LMS Improvements

• New option to “Return” an assignment (see above)
• Reminder to save Assignment
• Online Testing Framework Improvement (Alpha)

General (Functional) Improvements

• New Semester Setup is enabled by default for new Trial Accounts
• Ability to archive Academic Year (see below)
• Support long descriptions for letter grade in Gradebook (see below)
• Track history of emails sent from Gradebook (see below)
• Show amount due for Fee Tracking in main Student Updates in Student and Parent Portals
• New Payment Notes when making payment from Student/Parent Portals
• Support Primary Payer in Report Creator

General Bug Fixes and System Improvements

• Reposition the “Hide Announcements” button
• API improvements for Mobile to support Class Discussions and Student Message Board
• Bug accessing assignment when gradebook column is deleted while linked to a Scale Score.
• Bug fix when enabling student name format without changing the format
• Bug fix Error when adding subjects from the “Subject Setup” menu
• Bug fix Subject Import by Subject ID 
• Bug fix Summary Report accessing Student Profile Images
• Bug fix Summary Report accessing deleted Custom Attendance Codes

Other Private Beta Improvements

• Ability to disable comments for Class Discussions from Student and Parent Portal
• Show Capacity when editing courses from the Student record
• Support Mandatory Payment Notes when making payment from Student/Parent Portals

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As we approach the end of the calendar year, our engineering team is focusing on general framework and infrastructure improvements, as well as miscellaneous bug fixes. We’re also continuing to make improvements to Alpha and Beta features for next year, like our Learning Management System (LMS), the Dashboard and Audit Trail.

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Hide Courses that are not offered in Step 4
• Fix loading of Days and Frequency and Weekly Schedule is configured
• Hide SIS-related fields when SIS is disabled

LMS Framework Improvements (Alpha)

• My Workspace Chat
• Online Testing

General (Functional) Improvements

• Integrate Final Grade from the Standards-Based Gradebook (SBG) to Transcripts
• Ability to bulk sync Gradebook with Report Cards prior to locking (see below)
• Improve support for Scale Score in Gradebook Templates (see below)
• New Date Filter when Bulk Print Gradebook PDF (see below)
• New Search for Teacher Documents
• Show latest submission when reviewing/grading Assignments
• Label for Sign-In / Sign-Out App
• Support Capacity in Subject Importer
• Remove white space from Student Number when calling Student API Resource
• Support sync grades from Odysseyware / Ignitia based on Academic Semester Start/End Dates
• Automatically update student full name when format is changed 
• Reduce logo size in footer

General Bug Fixes and System Improvements

• Fix Attendance Taken for Homeroom when Alternate Homeroom Teacher is enabled
• Fix limit on student list in Montessori App
• Properly delete subject enrollments where student is permanently deleted
• Improvements to EMail Messaging via MailGun
• Improve security for generated PDFs
• Add Support for Start Date for Announcements

Other Private Beta Improvements

• Improve KPI widget for Dashboard
• Hide Attendance from Restricted Dates
• Self-Enrollment Improvements
  • Improve how limits are handled
  • Option to Hide Self-Enrollment limits in instructions
• Limit Enrollment by Capacity from Students listing
• New importer for student usernames and passwords

Bulk Sync Gradebook with Report Cards

If you need to run reports on Report Cards prior to locking/publishing, and you have a hard time getting all your teachers to Submit Grades from Gradebook, we have a new feature that allows admins to pull the grades from all Gradebooks into the Report Cards. Check out the new “Sync Grades” button, available when you “Manage” Report Cards:

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This release primarily focuses on framework improvements for our Alpha and Beta features. This includes our Learning Management System (LMS), our Dashboard capability, and Audit Trail. We will be making more framework and system improvements towards the end of the calendar year.

We’ve also taken this opportunity to improve the Orchestra Master Scheduler, and include a few miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements. Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools upgrades:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Support remove Caseload during Import
• Fix Teacher Caseload when copying to a new Enrollment Period in Step 1
• Improve Save Point functionality for large schools
• Refresh screen after Restore Save Point
• Fix table misalignment in Step 4
• New “Next Course” algorithm in Step 5
• Fix loading sections in Step 5 for large schools

LMS Framework Improvements (Alpha)

• My Workspace Chat
• Online Testing

School Dashboard (Beta)

• New KPI Widget
• Auto-load Dashboard Screen
• Miscellaneous Dashboard improvements

General (Functional) Improvements

• Support Synchronize to Canvas based on start/end dates for active term
• Improve performance for Google Classroom Integration
• Improve Support Pre-Enrollment in API Resource for Zapier
• Rename “Reference Number” to “Access Code” in Online Forms
• New reportable fields for Health App in Report Creator
• General Improvements to the Students screen
• Improve client-side logging

Other Private Beta Improvements

• Audit Trail Improvements
• Filter Transcripts by Grade Level

School Dashboard

We started developing the School Dashboard a couple of years ago. This dashboard is based on the Report Creator framework. However, this initiative never really got off the ground due to competing priorities. We’re currently restarting this initiative by introducing a few minor improvements. 

You can now specify ONE of your Dashboards as the primary dashboard, so that when user access the “Dashboard Home” menu, the primary dashboard will load up automatically:

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In this release, we made some improvements to the overall usability of the QuickSchools application (see “UI (User Flow) Improvements” below). We’ll be making more of these improvements in upcoming Sprints, in addition to our usual feature improvements, security updates and bug fixes.

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Support Copying Frequency when importing settings from previous enrollment period
• Hide the “Activate” button for non-SIS configuration
• Optimize Step 4 “Clean-Up” function
• Improve Summary Report support for Bell Schedule for multiple Enrollment Periods

UI (User Flow) Improvements

• New icon to minimize the top menu
• New Bulk Action icons for tables
• Sortable indicator when mousing over table header
• Ability to crop images when uploading student profile images

General (Functional) Improvements

• Add support for Categories to Fee Tracking Invoices – (See below)
• Support check marks when using Likert in Report Cards (Image above)
• Re-label Attendance Sub-menus
• Improve payment flow from Student/Parent Portal
• Improve performance when bulk sync transactions with Stripe
• Zoom Security Enhancements
• Miscellaneous security improvements to internal log files
• Mobile API Support for Student Message Board and Parent Message Board

Minor Bug Fixes

• Fix homeroom name when taking attendance by alternate homeroom teacher
• Fix Billing Address on Account page
• Bug Fix delete student with duplicate course requests
• Bug Fix Add/Edit Sections
• Bug Fix login via active session
• Bug Fix sorting of grade levels in Attendance Settings
• Bug Fix exclude students dropped by sections in Mass Messaging
• Bug Fix graphing for Report Creator

Private Beta Improvements

• Expanded access for students and parents to access Student Documents
• Override Start/End Dates for Attendance by Grade Level
• Bug Fix display correct Unallocated Amount in new Unallocated Amount screen

Some highlights below:

UI (User Flow) Improvements

We’ve made a few general improvements to our UI framework, which will hopefully improve the general experience for all our users.

There’s a new icon where you can minimize the top menu:

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Although we had a release last week, today’s release is to consolidate framework changes we’ve been making on our new Orchestra Master Scheduler. We also took this opportunity to piggy back some minor improvements.

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Weekly Schedule now supports Scheduling Algorithms
• Reinstate support for Optimize to Weekly Schedule
• Fix Distribution Algorithm across all periods for Weekly Schedule
• Show Semester and Days in Step 5
• Bug fix when importing Course Requests without Teacher ID

Other Improvements

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Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Copy Constraints from Step 3 for new Enrollment Periods
• Copy Schedule from Step 4 for new Enrollment Periods
• Support Optional Teacher for Course Requests
• Fix Delete Student with Course Request
• Import Teacher Caseload in Step 1
• Bug Fix for Weekly Schedule when Frequency and Days is not configured in Step 1
• Ability to bulk delete Course Request via Import in Step 2
• Save Pagination Settings in Step 4
• Ability to bulk delete Course Request by Import Date in Step 6
• “External ID” and “Caseload” are now reportable in Report Creator

Online Form Improvements

• Display Email Address in list of Online Form Submissions
• Ability to search Online Form Submissions by Email Address
• Disallow Applicants from creating multiple submissions with the same email address
• Allow Applicants to retrieve forgotten Reference Number
• Allow Administrators to upload Documents to Online Forms, regardless of Submission Status

General Improvements

• Allow parents to enter “Notes” when paying online (Beta) – (See below)
• Ability for teachers to configure default attendance (Beta) – (See below)
• Retain Google Classroom Mappings when activating a new academic term
• Ability to export transactions from Lunchroom App
• Support Announcement by Subscription Plan
• Fix Calculation of Totals in Lunch Ordering App for Parents
• Fix Timezone Bug for Homeroom-based Attendance Notifications
• Fix Disabling the Student Portal when the modules is disabled
• Fix overlapping video tutorial on page footer
• Bug fix for Custom PDF Templates
• Bug Fix Report Cards for students who are unenrolled in the middle of the year
• Restrict upload of certain file types
• “Class ID” and “Has Graduated” are now reportable in Report Creator
• New data definitions for Summary Reports
• API Improvements for Temperature App on Mobile
• API Improvements to Students Resources so support Pre-Enrollment
• General Framework Improvements

Some highlights below:

Notes for Online Payments from Parents

When parents make payment online, we can enable a new “Notes for School” text field:

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Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Support Caseload Limit in Step 1: “Configure Teachers” (See below)
• Bug Fix Weekly Schedule when “Days” is left blank in Step 1: “Configure Courses”
• Ability to adjust target from Step 2: “Course Requests by Course”
• Bug Fix calculation of Number of Sections in Step 2: “Course Requests by Course”
• Show Teacher Availability in Step 4: “Schedule”
• Display total when showing Breakdown by Department in Step 5: “Load Students”
• Cosmetic improvements to Step 5: “Load Students”
• Bulk Send Section PDF in Step 6
• General refinements to the Weekly Schedule feature
• Bug fix remove course requests when students are deleted in bulk

General Improvements

• Ability to customize general PDF templates (Private Beta)
• Ability to customize general email templates (Private Beta)
• Improve Semester Activation function to include the following options (See below):
  • Do not copy subject
  • Copy subject without teachers
  • Copy subject without student enrollments
• Migrate Subject Custom Fields when activating a new semester (See below)
• Support Custom Fields when importing Subjects
• Support Read-Only access to general Report Cards for non-administrators
• Support multiple active Report Cards when submitting grades from Gradebook
• Support separate First and Last name for Submitter in Online Forms (See below)
• General Improvements and API Support for the Temperature App
• Bug Fix Class Discussions dropdown filter for Semester
• Bug Fix BCC when sending Email Templates from the Admissions module
• Bug Fix “All Not-Yet-Taken” setting for Attendance Notification Dashboard (Private Beta)
• Minor Bug Fix for Daily Period Zero Attendance
• Server Security Updates

Some highlights below:

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