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April 2018  -  Making all things new!

Coming Up This Month...
In April, most of our schools will be releasing mid-quarter reports. Here are some items that may need to be addressed:

  • Closing input for 3rd quarter report cards
  • Confirming the date range in the system for the 4th mid-quarter report
  • Opening up teacher input for mid-quarter reports
  • Closing mid-quarter reports when teachers have finished importing grades

By early May, the steps for the Summer Transition process will appear at the top of your Home screen. Some of these steps involve:

  • Creating staff accounts for any new teachers
  • Moving students forward to their new grade and homeroom
  • Creating courses and filling GradeBooks 
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For Trimester Schools...

Opening up teacher input for 3rd Mid-Trimester Report will require:

  • Confirming the mid-trimester dates in 'Grades' then 'Report Card Input Controls'
  • Changing input for mid-trimester from 'Not Yet' to 'Allow Input' in 'Report Card Input Controls'
  • Having teachers go through the mid-trimester report card input process
  • Closing the input process by changing 'Allow Input' to 'Input Complete'

By early May, the steps for the Summer Transition process will appear at the top of your Home screen. Some of these steps involve:

  • Creating staff accounts for any new teachers
  • Moving students forward to their new grade and homeroom
  • Creating courses and filling GradeBooks 

Read more...

 
What's New...

Registration is an important time of the year for schools and we want to help with that process.  We have added a verification report to help track when parents saved their parent information.

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DID YOU KNOW...

...For Administrators

With a principal's request, we can give the Monitor icon to a non-administrator on the staff list, such as a volunteer, to help out with tracking attendance in the school's front office.

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...For Teachers

With permission from the Principal, teachers can edit ReportCard grades for the whole year without needing to go through the import process. This method is helpful because it won't create added confusion for all teachers when only one teacher needs to make a change.

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...For Parents

When viewing a ReportCard online, you can click the words ‘Comments’ and ‘Attendance’ to see all of the comments and attendance from the beginning of the year up to the current date.

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Helpful FAQs for this Month!

+   How can an administrator view and/or print a tax report for a specific family?

+ How do I set up a Tuition account for next year?

+ How do I print labels in the Reports section?
             

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Video Tutorial of the Month

Watch this video tutorial to learn how to view/edit the student history report in Narrative.

Watch now in
MP4 format or in YouTube! 

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