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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This release is a special 2-week accelerated Sprint for the Orchestra Master Scheduler, covering the main areas:

• Weekly Schedules (with varying Section Frequency)
• Tracking Schedule Changes (after Finalization)
• Managing Bulk Changes to Student Enrollments

Here is a complete list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• New Max Sections for Teacher-Course Configuration (Private Beta)
• Course-Teacher Importer supports Max Sections (Private Beta)

• New shortcut for Weekly Bell Schedule (Private Beta)
• New Days and Frequency Settings for Courses (for Weekly Schedules)
• New Support for Multi-Day Sections in Step 4 and Step 5 (for Weekly Schedules)
• Run Step 4 based on Department Filter
• Update Step 4 Course Details with Frequency, Days and Max Sections for Teachers
• PDF Schedule for Teachers based on Next Enrollment Period
• Option to Copy Latest Schedule to QuickSchools
• Support Tracking Schedule Data for Export
• Summary Report Support for Copied/Exported Schedule Data
• Report Creator Support for Copied/Exported Schedule Data
• Report Creator Support for Students with Conflicts
• Improvements and Bug Fixes when Configuring Teachers
• General Improvements to Semester Setup for Orchestra Master Scheduler 

General Improvements

• Bulk Student Importer supports Reactivating Students (Beta)
• Bulk Student Importer supports Deletion of Students (Beta)
• Improve capacity for sending out Section PDF in bulk

Weekly Schedules (Beta)

We have a new capability that allows schools to easily create a weekly bell schedule:

When importing or adding courses, you can specify frequency and days of the week:

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We’ve made several improvements to our Orchestra Master Scheduler for this release. But we’ve also included a few general improvements related to Admissions, Report Creator, the Library App, our API (and Zapier), Google Drive Integration, and much more.

Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:

Master Scheduler Improvements

• Term-Length is now optional when importing Courses. Defaults to Semester-long
• Limit for Departments are now optional
• Bug fix when searching for Courses without Departments
• Bug fixes related to performance improvements when setting Next Enrollment Period
• Show configured Courses for Teachers in Step 1 “Configure Teachers”
• Show Min, Max and Target Section Sizes in Step 2 “Course Requests by Course”
• New Step 4 Filter by Department
• Miscellaneous Improvements to Step 4 and Step 4 Pagination
• Rename Block Sections to Teams
• Bulk Create Lab-Lecture Teams (previously Block Sections) by Period
• New Step 5 Advanced Filter for Student Conflicts
• Ability to hide periods without sections in Section Assignments PDF
• Support separate Course Code and Course Name in Section Assignments PDF
• Miscellaneous Bug fixes to Section Assignments PDF
• Option to use “no-reply@quickschools.com” when emailing Section Assignments PDF
• New Teacher Invitation Emails for Orchestra Only Plan
• Ability to enable Section Attendance within Orchestra

Improvements related to Admissions

• Bulk Email Applicants from Template
• Improve Configuration Area for Inquiry and Application Status Codes
• Bug Fix Enrollment when student name has apostrophe
• Framework Improvements to support Portal for Applicants (Alpha)

Other General Improvements

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