Version 1.76.3 of Web2School has been released. I will perform the upgrade on our systems in the morning on Sunday, March 15th. Here are a list of the new features:
Custom Student Indicators – This feature is used to identify students assigned to specific descriptive categories from the Student Search window. Colors may be assigned to 3 specific descriptive sub-categories from the Setup -> Categories -> Descriptive window and choosing the button called “Select Search Categories”.
Once the categories have been assigned a color, in Student Search, there will now be an option at the bottom of the window called “Show Categories”. Choosing this option will now display 3 additional columns and those students assigned to the category will have the configured color beside their name. An abbreviation may be assigned to the color so that the cursor is passed over the column, only that abbreviation will display, thus protecting the student’s privacy.
Scheduling:
® Block Modify Course Requests – Users now have advanced filter options to assign the course requests to groups of students. User can choose from a list of YOG, Categories, or even pick individual students from filtered list using the Advanced Student Search options.
® Schedule Statistics Details – This new Schedule Builder report takes our original Schedule Statistics Report a step further, providing users with a much requested level of detail concerning schedule builder completion. All students who did not get into a requested course will display under the course name. Optionally, the reason the student did not get assigned to the requested class, such as priority given to another course, will display as well.
® Inactive Courses in Master Schedule – Inactive courses will display highlighted and in italics on the Master Schedule. If your schedule gets moved forward from year to year, this will help you to quickly identify those courses that you may wish to remove from the Master Schedule.
® Master Schedule Department List – When viewing/modifying the Master Schedule, if you choose to Search by Department, the Departments will now display in a dropdown list. Simply click to select the department whose courses you wish to view.
Teacher Desk:
® Default display for Teacher Logins – When teachers login in, the Teacher Desk window will come up by default.
® Elementary Grades on Teacher Desk- Those teachers who have a Grade book and / or Elementary grades can now access both from the Teacher Desk. An Elementary Grades button will display on the left only for those teachers with both, making it simpler to move from one area of the program to the other.
Grade Book:
® Copy/Paste Notes – Term Notes, Progress Report Notes, Assignment Notes, and almost all notes throughout the program may now be copied and pasted. A tiny clipboard will appear in the lower part of the notes window. Click on the clipboard to either copy or paste the notes. If there appears to be a sheet of paper on your clipboard indicates there is data in your copy buffer, perhaps even from an application outside of web2school.
® Maximum Assignment Points Exceeded – Assignments are set up with a specific point value. Teachers may award more points than the maximum if they wish to grant extra credit. A message notifies teachers when a point value exceeding the maximum is entered so that extra points are not inadvertently granted.
Attendance:
® Class Attendance Reports – The daily attendance category now displays along with class attendance category on class attendance reports.
® Daily Attendance Reports – An option now exists to prohibit printing of the Student ID number on Daily Attendance. This helps safeguard the ID number in schools that also use the number for lunch accounts, for example.
Health:
® Nurse Office Visit Modification History –Nurse Office Visit modification history is tracked. A View History button in the student’s Office Visit Information window allows the nurse to view all changes to notes.
Grade Reporting:
® Honor Roll History Report – This new report allows you to print specific honor rolls for a desired grading period. For example, you may report on only those students who made Principal’s List for Term 1, even though is it the end of the school year.
® Report Card Honor Rolls – When printing report cards, there are now options allowing you to, for example, at the end of a year, print the final GPA along with the Term 4 Honor Roll.
Student Guardian: In the Guardian Information window, there is a new option to disable access to a linked student’s data viewed using the browser-based Student Guardian module.
MEDMS Changes – Enhancements have been made to accommodate changing data upload requirements for Infinite Campus.
