Category: New Features / Releases

Announcement of New Features

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 – 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.

New Instant Triggers for Zapier

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Our QuickSchools Integrations on Zapier is undergoing a big change. The new version 2.0.0 introduces support for Zapier Instant Triggers, where changes in QuickSchools can immediately trigger a zap. There are also several improvements to the available Searches and Actions.

The new version will unfortunately deprecate several of the existing functions. Schools on the existing version 1.3.4 will have until Jan 1, 2025 to upgrade to the new version. Zaps would need to be recreated using the upgraded methods.

Support for the QuickSchools Integrations on Zapier (version 1.3.4) will end on Jan 1, 2025

Summary of Improvements in Version 2.0.0

Here is a summary of improvements:

  1. New Triggers and Actions:
    1. Triggers
      1. New Student Record (INSTANT)
      2. New Teacher Record (INSTANT)
      3. New Parent Record (INSTANT)
      4. Updated Student Record (INSTANT)
      5. Updated Teacher Record (INSTANT)
      6. Updated Parent Record (INSTANT)
      7. Updated Student Custom Fields (INSTANT)
      8. Updated Parent Custom Fields (INSTANT)
      9. Updated Teacher Custom Fields (INSTANT)
    2. Actions
      1. Create Parent Record
      2. Link Siblings
      3. Re-activate Student Record
  2. Ability to add optional fields in the response for specific Triggers and Actions
  3. Modified deduplication key to ensure that updated records will trigger the zap
  4. Modified search parameters – ability to search either by ID or by keyword
  5. Option to select name format (Full Name or Complex Name) when creating Student/Teacher
  6. Refined Dynamic Dropdowns, Input Fields and Output Fields for all of Actions, Triggers, and Searches

Summary of Deprecated Functions in Version 1.3.4

If you’re using any of these functions, we recommend upgrading them to the latest version:

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New Release – Jan 24, 2024

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We’re thrilled to unveil the latest update to our software. Key improvements include:

General Improvements

  • Extensive improvements to our API for Zapier
  • Improvements for Email Deliverability

Master Scheduler

  • Support Frequency more than the number of days
  • Enhanced Support for Import Duplicate Course Requests

We’ve been steadily improving our APIs for Zapier over the last several weeks. A new upgrade to our Zapier App is on the horizon. Stay tuned for further details.

We’d like to thank you for choosing QuickSchools. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us if you have any suggestions or comments. We value your feedback and appreciate your continued support.