Monthly Mentions... MAY

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  • Coming Up This Month...

    • Opening up teacher input for 4th Quarter Report will require:
      • Confirming the quarter dates in 'Grades' then 'Report Card Input Controls'
      • Changing input for the mid-quarter report from 'Allow Input' to 'Input Complete'
      • Changing input for the 4th quarter report cards from 'Not Yet' to 'Allow Input'
      • Having teachers go through the quarter report card input process
      • Closing the input process by changing 'Allow Input' to 'Input Complete'
    • Summer Transition! On your Home screen, we have posted the Summer Transition steps. Here are explanations of what your school will need to complete before the end of the summer:
      • Creating a statement to appear on report cards declaring that the student will be moving forward to the next grade level
      • Marking any students who will not be moving forward as 'Not Promoted'
      • Creating any new Homeroom teacher accounts
      • Establishing the Homeroom teacher changes for next year
      • Moving the students forward to their new homerooms and grade levels
      • Assigning courses to teachers and filling those courses with students
    • HelpDesk is dedicated to helping make the Summer Transition an easy process and allow you more time to enjoy your summer break. Please contact HelpDesk to set up a time when you will be ready to go through the steps. Once these steps have been completed, please notify HelpDesk so that they can move your school forward to the new school year.
    • On the Summer Transition steps, there are a few details to note:
      • After each step is a blue question mark, which are links. When you click one, the system will pull up an FAQ which will provide more information about that step.
      • After some of the steps are links to a video tutorial. When you click one, the system will pull up an FAQ/video tutorial which will provide more information about that step.
      • There is a button underneath the Summer Transition title, which will allow you to 'hide' these steps. This is helpful if you have already completed the steps or will not start on the steps until later this summer.
      • The last and final step to ensure that your system is ready to operate for the 2012-2013 school year is to have HelpDesk move your forward. This requires you to contact HelpDesk so that we can verify everything has been completed and confirm with you that your school is ready to move forward.

  • Did You Know...for Administrators

  • Did You Know...for Teachers

  • Did You Know...for Parents

    • Your file upload capacity has been increased! Each parent account was previously allowed to upload 10 files and now that has been increased to 25 files!
    • With the file upload feature, you can send forms as attachments with our secure eMessaging. The ability for parents to attach files to an FDmail eMessage is permissioned by the administrators at the school.
    • There are several FAQs to help you upload and attach files to your FDmail eMessages. Here are links to those FAQs:
    • If your school doesn't currently allow parents to upload and attach files, please make sure to contact your school administrators to let them know you are interested in this feature. FastDirect offers secure messaging and files uploaded to your 'Private' folder will be contained within the SSL encrypted database, which is a much more secure option then sending attachments in emails.

  • What's New...

  • Trimester Schedules

    • Opening up teacher input for 3rd Trimester Report will require:
      • Confirming the 3rd trimester dates in 'Grades' then 'Report Card Input Controls'
      • Changing input for the 3rd trimester from 'Not Yet' to 'Allow Input'
      • Having teachers go through the trimester report card input process
      • Closing the input process by changing 'Allow Input' to 'Input Complete'
    • Summer Transition! On your Home screen, we have posted the Summer Transition steps. Here are explanations of what your school will need to complete before the end of the summer:
      • Creating a statement to appear on report cards declaring that the student will be moving forward to the next grade level
      • Marking any students who will not be moving forward as 'Not Promoted'
      • Creating any new Homeroom teacher accounts
      • Establishing the Homeroom teacher changes for next year
      • Moving the students forward to their new homerooms and grade levels
      • Assigning courses to teachers and filling those courses with students
    • HelpDesk is dedicated to helping make the Summer Transition an easy process and allow you more time to enjoy your summer break. Please contact HelpDesk to set up a time when you will be ready to go through the steps. Once these steps have been completed, please notify HelpDesk so that they can move your school forward to the new school year.
    • On the Summer Transition steps, there are a few details to note:
      • After each step is a blue question mark, which are links. When you click one, the system will pull up an FAQ which will provide more information about that step.
      • After some of the steps are links to a video tutorial. When you click one, the system will pull up an FAQ/video tutorial which will provide more information about that step.
      • There is a button underneath the Summer Transition title, which will allow you to 'hide' these steps. This is helpful if you have already completed the steps or will not start on the steps until later this summer.
      • The last and final step to ensure that your system is ready to operate for the 2012-2013 school year is to have HelpDesk move your forward. This requires you to contact HelpDesk so that we can verify everything has been completed and confirm with you that your school is ready to move forward.

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