Why REM Sleep Might Be the Missing Link in Student Success

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REM Sleep Might Be the Missing Link in Student Success

When deadlines are fast-approaching, exams are right around the corner, or Netflix drops a new season of an anticipated show, sleep is the first thing we sacrifice. Whether you’re a student burning the midnight oil or a teacher pushing through grading marathons, sleep often becomes the first to go. But the thing is, if you were training for a marathon, you’d never skip recovery days. If you hit the gym, you’d know that rest is part of muscle growth. So why don’t we treat our brains the same way? Learning is mental training. Let’s see how and why REM sleep might be the missing link in student success.

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Engaging History Lessons: 8 Innovative Methods to Teach History

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For many students, history can feel like a dull subject—something to just get through rather than something to enjoy. When lessons lack engagement, it’s easy for students to lose interest and struggle to see the value of learning about the past. 

However, history is an essential part of education, offering important lessons that help us understand the world today. If we want students to connect with this subject, we need to rethink how it’s taught. 

In this blog, we’ll explore different approaches to teaching history that not only make the subject more exciting but also help students get a deeper understanding of the past. 

Whether you’re a teacher looking to refresh your lessons or simply curious about new ways to teach, these methods will offer fresh ideas to make history come alive.

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K-12 Student Information System for Small Schools: What Do You Actually Need?

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K-12 Student Information System for Small Schools

Running a small school is a big job. You’ve got fewer hands on deck, tighter budgets, and a whole lot of responsibility packed into each staff role. When it comes to managing students—whether it’s tracking attendance, grades, report cards, or parent communication—you need software that works for you, not more platforms that drain your time. This is where a K-12 Student Information System (SIS) can help, but knowing what your small school actually needs is key.

An SIS built for small schools makes all the difference. Let’s dive in to see what features you need to look for in your new software.

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Simplify School Billing with QuickSchools – Join Our June Webinar

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Thank you to everyone who attended our April webinar on Working with the New Orchestra Interface. We’re excited to introduce the latest enhancements designed to make scheduling easier, faster, and more flexible. Please contact our support team if you have further questions about Orchestra.

Learn about Collecting & Managing Student Fees at QuickSchools Webinar

As we resume our 2025 webinar series, we’ll be hosting a webinar on Collecting and Tracking Student Fees. This webinar will focus on our Fee Tracking module – one of our most in-demand modules.

The Fee Tracking module makes it easy for schools to charge tuition and other fees, track payments, and manage invoices and receipts – all in one place. It also helps simplify the process of handling charges and payments for families, making school billing more efficient.

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New Release – May 21, 2025

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This QuickSchools release focuses on improvements to the Online Forms App, Security as well as the new UI for the Orchestra Master Scheduler. The full list of improvements is below:

Online Forms App

  • Improve Auto-Email and Email Notification on Status Change
  • Improve Report Creator support for Submission Payments
  • Improve Payment Flow
  • Include Fee Structure when “Copy & Archive” Form Packet
  • Show Submission Payment Details in Bulk Processor
  • Bug Fix Duplicate record in Submissions list

Security Improvements

  • Improve IP Blocking
  • Minor improvements to login Captcha (Beta)
  • Bug Fix 2FA for Group School

General Improvements / Bug Fixes

  • Improve Performance for Report Creator
  • Improve the new UI for Orchestra Master Scheduler

We have some additional improvements to Group School coming soon.

How a School Management System Helps Schools Prepare for Next Year 

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How a School Management System Helps Schools Prepare for Next Year 

Summer isn’t just for vacations and relaxation, it’s also the perfect time for schools to get a head start on the next academic year. While students daydream about beach trips and late mornings, administrators are already deep into planning mode. The good news? A robust School Management System (SMS) can make the transition from one school year to the next much smoother. Instead of scrambling at the last minute, schools can take advantage of their SMS to handle enrollment, scheduling, data cleanup, and forecasting. Make the most of your SMS and discover how it helps schools prepare and ensure a smooth start next fall. 

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How a Student Management System Simplifies End-of-Year Reporting

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How a Student Management System Simplifies End-of-Year Reporting

As the school year winds down, educators and administrators often feel like they’re sprinting toward the finish line. Students are checking out, staff are racing to meet deadlines, and leadership teams are buried under a mountain of forms, reports, and compliance checklists. And while final grades and report cards are the most visible part of the year-end rush, they’re just the tip of the iceberg. A modern Student Management System (SMS) like QuickSchools doesn’t just make end-of-the-year reporting easier; it makes it smarter. With the ability to centralize information, automate routine tasks, and generate both standard and custom reports, your SMS becomes the engine behind a smooth and strategic wrap-up to the school year.

Let’s explore how your SMS can turn the reporting season from a dreaded chore into an opportunity to optimize, reflect, and plan for the future.

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New Release – May 7, 2025

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It’s been a while since our last QuickSchools release. We continue to focus on security and our new UI for Orchestra Master Scheduler (from last month), along with miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. 

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Code has a new 4-digit Prefix

Full list of improvements are below:

Security Improvements

  • Ability for School Admin to disable 2FA for all Students and all Parents (See below)
  • Enhance the Change Password functionality (Expire Session, Email Notification)
  • Improve “Login from new Device” Email
  • Miscellaneous Fixes for Google Authenticator
  • Miscellaneous Improvements to 2FA (2FA Prefix – See above)
  • Verification Code for purchasing Utility Credits and Change Password (Beta)
  • Captcha on Login (Beta)

General Improvements / Bug Fixes

  • Ability to disconnect Canvas Integration
  • Improve Listing of Users from Canvas
  • Improve Schoology Auto-Enrollment of Students
  • Improve Clever SFTP App
  • Improve ability to connect/reconnect with Stripe
  • Separate Attendance Roster based on Subject Abbreviation
  • Bug Fix Auto-Fill for Online Forms
  • Bug Fix Print Student Profile
  • Bug Fix Teacher Directory for Student/Parent Portals
  • Bug Fix “Add Missing Students” for Section Attendance
  • Bug Fix removal of GPA values in Transcripts
  • Bug Fix clear Admin Column for Report Cards

Beta / System Improvements

  • Sign-In/Sign-Out App for Teachers
  • Custom Ability to edit uploaded Student Documents
  • Improve Attendance Dashboard
  • Improve Course Importer (depends on District Settings)
  • Improve Semester Activation with Courses & Sections
  • Improvements for new Master Scheduler UI
  • Improvements to Email Framework
  • Transfer Grades for Chronos Transcripts for Inactive Students 
  • Exclude “Excluded from Grading” from Graduation Status Report

Disable 2FA for Students and Parent

School Administrators now have the option to completely disable two-factor authentication (2FA) for all Students and Parents:

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