Helping Children with Learning Disabilities: Tips on How to Cope

September 12, 2022September 20, 2023 Elya Nadzri2 Comments

tips on how to cope with helping children with learning disabilities

All children need love and attention. For kids with learning disabilities, positive reinforcement such as words of encouragement and support can help them feel a strong sense of self-worth and have the determination to keep going even when things get tough. Learning disabilities emotionally affect the child and produces a ripple effect on family, friends, teachers, and peers at school. Children with learning disabilities often absorb what others unthinkingly say about them, even when it was not said to them. They are most likely to believe themselves to be “behind” or “different.” It is always important to speak kindly, and hopefully, with these tips, we can help them build self-confidence and find success at school, and in life.

New Release – September 12, 2022

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 Azroy KandanLeave a comment

Today’s release focuses on improvements to our Lunch Ordering app plus improvements to our Importer via SFTP and DropBox.

Here is a list of the latest QuickSchools improvements:

Master Scheduler Improvements

Bug Fix when moving one section within a linked group in Step 4
Bug Fix when overriding the Target Section Size in Step 4

Lunch Ordering App

Order History for Users
Late Fee / Lunch Mark-Up
Ability to Cancel Order
Ability to Undo Cancelled Order
Ability for Admin to Bulk Cancel Meal
Configure Meal Type for Parents vs. Teachers

General (Functional) Improvements

Improve Summary Reports support for “Courses & Sections”
Improve Framework for Schedule Tasks
Improve Cache for Roles and Permissions

General Bug Fixes

Update Authentication to Schoology
Fix Private Messaging linked to Students with Revoked access

Beta Improvements / Fixes

Miscellaneous Improvements to the SFTP Importer (Beta)
New Importer Support via DropBox (Beta)

Roundup: All About Report Cards

September 8, 2022June 14, 2023 Tamiya Eliah M. Runas1 Comment

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.

Sept Webinar: Customizing Effective Report Cards

September 6, 2022June 13, 2023 Eruani Zainuddin1 Comment

When it comes to report cards, we know how tempting it is to go into one of two states – debilitating procrastination or ball of pent-up stress. There’s actually a third option that will make your life easier. Let QuickSchools help you produce amazing report cards that will properly communicate student growth and achievements over the course of the term!

Ordering Lunch Online (for Parents)

September 4, 2022November 7, 2024 Azroy Kandan1 Comment

This article describes how parents can use the new Lunch Ordering App (with Shopping Cart) to submit and pay for orders online on the QuickSchools Parent Portal.

The summary of steps are as follows:

Go to the “Lunch Ordering” menu
Select a Student
Select Meal(s)
Click on the Shopping Cart to Check out
Click “Pay Now” and follow the checkout process
Enter Credit Card information (or select a previously saved credit card)
Confirm credit card details

Select a Student

The Lunch Ordering screen will list all students you have access to on the Parent Portal:

Click on a student to begin the process.

Select Meal(s)

This screen shows all the available meals to be purchased. Simply click on a the checkbox to add a meal to the shopping cart:

Top 4 Tips on How Teachers Can Build Realistic Optimism this Year

September 3, 2022September 20, 2023 Elya Nadzri3 Comments

As human beings, we tend to give more importance to negative experiences than to positive or neutral experiences. You are not alone, it’s our nature to fixate on bad news, a phenomenon known to psychologists as negativity bias. Sometimes we can’t help but focus on the negative even when they are insignificant compared to other positive instances.

Schools have been under enormous pressure to ensure that education for the students had as little disruption as possible when the Covid-19 outbreak began. Now that schools have been operating normally again, it is more important now than ever for school leaders to ensure the welfare of their students.

Mini Release – Lunch Order Reports

September 2, 2022June 14, 2023 Azroy Kandan1 Comment

Our new Lunch Ordering App, which now supports Online Payments via our new Shopping Cart (Beta), is getting a lot of traction with our schools. So to help schools using this app, we’ve added a new Summary Report:

To enable these reports, just configure the Lunch Ordering App in your QuickSchools App Store, and add the appropriate users / roles to “Who can run Lunch Ordering Summary Reports”:

We’re still in the process of adding more Lunch Ordering fields to the Report Creator. So if you have additional requirements when it comes to reporting, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to turn things around for you.

Mini Release – August 29, 2022

August 29, 2022September 28, 2023 Azroy KandanLeave a comment

Today’s release aims to address a few bugs introduced in the last release, plus a few improvements to the Lunch Ordering App:

improvements to lunch ordering app — Lunch Ordering App now displays available meals in List format (instead of dropdown)