How Smart Schools Use Their SIS to Lead All Year Long

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How Smart Schools Use Their SIS to Lead All Year Long

Remember the last time you prepped for a new school year? Calendars overflowing with back-to-back meetings. Inboxes are buzzing with enrollment questions. Half-finished forms are piling up, and data cleanup tabs are multiplying like gremlins. While students enjoy their break, leadership teams are deep in the real work. Preparing for the new academic year is laborious. It’s setting the stage for a better, smoother school experience. One that stays steady through every semester, every schedule change, and every unexpected curveball. Let’s walk through how smart schools use their Student Information System (SIS), like QuickSchools, to lead all year long and help make this season less daunting.

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Building a Holistic Student Profile: Why Emotional and Behavioral Data Matters

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Why Emotional and Behavioral Data Matters

When educators think about student data, academic performance is usually the first thing that comes to mind: grades, test scores, and attendance. Sometimes, we forget that students are more than their academic metrics. They bring emotions, behaviors, challenges, and strengths into the classroom every day. To truly support their success, we must look beyond the report card and build a holistic student profile that includes emotional and behavioral data.

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New Release – July 9, 2025

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This QuickSchools release focuses on improvements to the Online Forms App as well as the Library App, along with general improvements to our Student Information System (SIS) and new UI for the Orchestra Master Scheduler. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Online Forms App

  • New “My Submissions” menu (See above) – BETA

Library App Improvements

  • Support Custom Book Status (See below)
  • Improve how ISBN can be scanned
  • Improve support for deleted books
  • Miscellaneous Cosmetic UI Improvements
  • Bug Fix display borrower when student is deleted

General Improvements / Bug Fixes

  • Improve how Primary Payers are assigned (See below)
  • Ability to Search and Sort Email Messaging History
  • Support for Fixed Starting Period for courses in Orchestra Master Scheduler
  • Miscellaneous UI Improvements to Orchestra Master Scheduler (NEO)
  • Miscellaneous UI Improvements to My WorkSpace (Learn)
  • Improve Custom Calculation (Java Snippet) Support for Report Cards
  • Improve Payment Flow for Online Form Submissions
  • Improve Support for Deleted/Inactive Stripe connection
  • Improve Support for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
  • Bug Fix Admissions for new Trial Accounts

Custom Book Status for Library App

The Library App has been in our App Store for quite some time now. And now that we’ve built a stronger customer base, we’re making the module more robust. 

One of the key improvements here is the ability to create your own custom Book Status. This setting is available under “Library” > “Configure”:

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A Guide to Set Up Effective Financial Literacy Programs

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Financial literacy is one of the most critical skill sets a person can have today. With these skills, they can better manage their finances, put their money towards future-forward programs, and even understand how to invest their funds. Schools need to teach their students fundamental financial literacy to graduate and move on to university or the workforce with a clear understanding of compound savings, interest rates, taking out loans, repayments, and how taxes work. 

Creating a financial literacy program can fundamentally improve every student’s future outlook, but building it can be challenging. Some concepts will remain the same; others change yearly as new tax laws or technologies take the stage. 

There’s a lot to think about when creating and setting up an effective financial literacy program. This guide will help you understand what you need to get started.

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New Release – June 17, 2025

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This QuickSchools release focuses on improvements to the Online Forms App as well as the new UI for the Orchestra Master Scheduler. 

Full list of improvements are below:

Online Forms App

  • New UI for Form Packets Listing (See above)
  • Refine “Submissions by Form” screen
  • New Search function for Form Packets
  • Payment Instructions now supports Rich Text
  • Email History for Auto-Email on Status Change
  • Improve how Custom Fields are displayed in Submissions Listing
  • Improve Search Submissions by Custom Fields
  • Option to upload files via Custom Fields and make them mandatory (See below)

Courses & Sections

  • Improve Semester Activation
  • Improve Support for Term Grades in Gradebook

General Improvements / Bug Fixes

  • Improve Support for Transcripts in Summary Reports
  • Improve new UI for Orchestra Master Scheduler
  • Text Messaging for Applicants (Beta)
  • Bug Fix Teacher Directory on Parent Portal for Students not linked to Homeroom or Subject
  • Bug fix “Add missing students” for Section Attendance

Custom Field for File Upload

We have introduced a new Custom Field type called “File Upload”. And in some modules, like the Online Forms, you can make the field “Required”:

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