October 2015 - A Fall to remember!
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Coming
Up This Month...
By
the end of October, most FastDirect schools will be wrapping up the
grading period for 1st quarter. Here are some FastDirect
functions that may need to be addressed:
- Closing input for 1st mid-quarter reports
- Opening up teacher input for 1st quarter
ReportCards
- Closing 1st quarter ReportCards when
teachers have finished importing grades
If
your school started in late August or early September, then you may be
gearing up for mid-quarter reports. Click here to read about the two different ways to
create progress reports.
Review
Your ReportCards! One very important step in
creating report cards is to make sure everything has been set up
correctly. This requires viewing a student's report card to
double check:
- Course names
- Subcategories
- Grade scales/marking codes
- Formatting
- Printing
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For Trimester Schools...
In
October, your school may be gearing up for mid-trimester reports. Click here to read the FAQ explaining the two
different methods for mid-term reports. If your school is using the
import process, then here are the functions that will need to be
addressed:
- Confirming the 1st mid-trimester dates in
'Grades' then 'ReportCard Input Controls'
- Changing input for mid-trimester from
'Not Yet' to 'Allow Input' in 'ReportCard Input Controls'
- Having teachers go through the
mid-trimester ReportCard input process
- Closing the input process by changing
'allow input' to 'input complete'
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more...
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What's New...
FastDirect has developed two new videos to
help let schools know all about us and how we can help! Check out our promotional video and our testimonial video and make sure to share them with
any schools you know that could benefit from using FastDirect!
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Administrators |
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In
Finance, all present-day finance transactions can be edited and/or deleted by the original
author. Also, some previous-day transaction details can be edited as
well.
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more...
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Teachers |
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The
newest grade book printout report - One Line Per Event, Grade Only (No
Averages), will give a list of the events for each course and the grade
for each event but will not include any final averaging. This report
format is especially helpful for primary grades.
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more...
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Parents |
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When
viewing your finance account balances in FastDirect, each balance is a
clickable link. When you click on a specific balance, you will see a
list of all the transactions (deposits & charges) made to that
account.
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more...
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| Video Tutorial of the Month |
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The
video tutorial for Settings gives you an overview of how to customize
FastDirect for your school. The options found in Settings range from
allowing email forwarding to determining the school schedule codes for
homeroom teachers. This is a valuable video tutorial and it is not to
be missed!
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Watch now in MP4 format or in Youtube!
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