For school administrators who are new to QuickSchools, there is an area under “Settings” that gives you access to features regardless of the subscription plan you’re on. This area can be accessed by clicking on “Edit Overall Settings”:
Here’s what the screen looks like:
Read More »Our Webinar Series continues next month on the topic of Google Classroom Integration. QuickSchools will be hosting 2 webinars, one for Administrators and one for Teachers. The webinar for Administrators will be held first, and is already available for sign up. Link is available when you’re logged into QuickSchools:
We will write up separate articles on what each webinar will cover. If you’re interested, please do sign up. We look forward to seeing you there!
Happy February everyone! We’ve made several improvements to our Master Scheduler, as well as to the Live Stream and Online Forms modules. Look forward to more LMS-related improvements in upcoming releases.
Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:
Once an applicant submits an online form, there will be a button to “Start New Application”:
This option allows the system to reference the previously submitted data, so that when the applicant is filling in a particular form for the new application, there will be an option to “Copy from Previous Submission”:
Read More »If you’re using the Master Scheduler in QuickSchools, the Alternate Bell Schedule can be used to reformat the main Bell Schedule into a weekly schedule. This includes displaying classes that meet at different times throughout the week. Here’s an example:
In this example, Math, Science and English meet 3 times a week, while the remaining classes meet only twice a week. In order to produce a weekly schedule like this, you’ll need to configure a main Bell Schedule that contains all distinct periods, in this case 7 classes that meet twice a week (designated as “A” periods), and 3 classes that meet 3 times a week (designated as “B” periods):
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Welcome back! This is the first release of 2021. Here are the latest improvements in QuickSchools:
If you’ve installed the Online Forms App, there is a new feature to allow you to automatically send out an email when the status of a submission changes. Check out the new Mail icon on the Submissions page (similar to the Mail icon for Gradebook):
When you click on it, you’ll be able to customize an email that gets sent whenever a submission is changed to that status:
Read More »In case you haven’t noticed, QuickSchools will be offering it’s first Webinar for Teachers in just a couple of weeks, as part of our new Webinar Series
This webinar will focus on tools/modules related to Online Learning, which include:
Read More »With the release of the new Assignments module (which is an improvement over the previous Homework module), we’ve expanded the flow for handling assignments over the portals in QuickSchools. Here’s a rough summary:
Teachers can now post assignments in real-time, or schedule an assignment to be published at a specific date / time in the future. This means that teachers can plan out and configure assignments for the entire academic term, and the system will publish them automatically:
When creating an assignment, teachers can specify if the assignment requires a submission, and whether the assignment will be graded. For graded assignments, a column in the Gradebook can be created and linked automatically.
Students can very easily view all upcoming assignments. You can filter Assignments by subject and sorted by the column headers:
With 2021 now in full swing, it’s important to understand how teachers can utilize QuickSchools to communicate and engage with students effectively. Here we highlight a few sample scenarios, how teachers can communicate with students.
The “Class Discussion” feature (part of the “Homework” and “Assignments” modules) is a great way to discuss topics online. Only students enrolled into the class are able to post messages for any given subject:
As a teacher, you can also post a new discussion thread to multiple subjects at the same time using the “Also post to subjects” box. Simply select one or more subjects from the dropdown:
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