Enter Absences Feature is Smarter!
To help you when you’re entering absences in your Jackrabbit database (not the Staff Portal), we moved the Absence Date out of each row in the student grid and placed it above the grid. We also made the system smarter to provide warnings when an absence date may be wrong. For example, a warning is […]
Staff Portal Settings Auto-Marks Skills
This is very exciting! The Staff Portal now automatically marks skills as attained when all subskills are attained. The only thing you need to do to take advantage of this is to make sure your new setting (Update Skill/Level date attained when all Subskills are attained) is set to “yes.” The default for this setting […]
Text Formatting Added to Statements
Statement headers and footers have had text formatting options added to them in Edit Settings>Statements, Statements Email, and Statements Print. This text formatter option works differently than the same option in Email Families because you cannot just type in the text boxes. Instead, the text formatting in Statement headers and footers requires that you click […]
Web Registration Form Update Will Simplify Class Name Display When Selecting Classes for Enrollment
Web Registration for single location organizations will show only the class name after parents have selected that class for enrollment. The class instructor’s name is no longer visible in this view. This helps simplify things for organizations who want to keep instructor information hidden. Customers with multiple locations will continue to see the class name […]
Fuel Awareness by Sharing Experiences
Sharing heartfelt stories is a well-known and used marketing method that is not lost on those promoting Breast Cancer Awareness. I shared a brief version of my story earlier in the month. I asked one of my co-workers to share her thoughts on the importance of promoting awareness of the impact that breast cancer can […]
Changes Make Staff Portal’s Date & Time Entry Easier and Quicker
Staff Portal’s date & time entry has been made much more flexible for users. With these changes, users can manually enter information or can use the calendar icons for to select the date and time templates to quickly and easily chose and enter information in the correct formats.
Staff Portal Settings Auto-Marks Attained Skills
This is very exciting! The Staff Portal now automatically marks skills as attained when all subskills are attained. The only thing you need to do to take advantage of this is to make sure your new setting (Update Skill/Level date attained when all Subskills are attained) is set to “yes.” The default for this setting […]
Future Transfers is Here!
The transfer student feature has been cleaned up and improved to allow Future Transfers! The page has new fields for the Drop Date on the current class, and Enroll Date for the new class. This is very powerful as it allows you to set up the future transfer (drop & enroll) and allows you to […]
Options in Staff Portal Help Staff More Easily Get Work Done In Remote Sessions
Two changes have taken place in the Staff Portal that give users greater flexibility when logged in via a remote staff portal session (not in the application) and make it easier to get work done. Staff members of organizations with multiple locations can use Change Location to switch from one location to another. All staff […]
Marking Eligible for Make-up is Now Easier in Staff Portal
We’re continuing our efforts to make little tweaks that matter! One of our most recent of these efforts shows up in the Staff Portal where we’ve made it easier to record absences and allow makeups when using the All Absent button. A little tweaking to the interface and the ‘Can Makeup?’ checkbox is now more visible! […]