Recent updates
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Copy School
Updated onArticleThe Copy School screen is used to copy data from one school to an existing school or new school. For example, once the district has the initial setup done for one of the high schools, the Copy School feature can then be used to create a new high school that will have a similar setup. After the copy is complete, modifications can be made to the new high school's setup as needed. In addition, after the calendar dates and marking period dates have been set up in one school for the upcoming school year, this data can be copied to other schools instead of setting up the dates in each school from scratch.
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Run Lottery
Updated onArticleRunning the lottery places students randomly into their selected choice program based on the priority ranking chart, taking into consideration the student's ranking of programs on the application.
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Birthday Report
Updated onArticleThe Birthday Report is a great tool for teachers and administrators to track students’ birthdays. The birthday report lists all of the upcoming birthdays, which can also be broken down by a specified Month.
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Seating Charts
Updated onArticleThe Seating Charts screen allows administrative users to create their own seating charts for buses, exams, and more. Once created, these charts can be shared with other admin users, or admin profiles, but the original user maintains editing rights. There are several sections present: first users establish the Room Layouts, then create Seating Charts. All charts shared with the user or their profile will display in the Shared Charts section for use. Note: The administrative Seating Charts screen does not contain attendance functionality.
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Attended Hours Report
Updated onArticleThe Attended Hours Report allows users to review students' hours scheduled, hours attended and hourly attendance percentage broken down by program and section, as well as a specified timeframe.
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Change Requests Set Up
Updated onArticleThe Change Requests screen allows the district and schools to determine what student information can be changed by users in Focus and whether the change needs approval before being updated in the system. In Setup > System Preferences, the district can set up a disclaimer to display when parents access the Child Info screen. In Users > Profiles, the district or schools set the disclaimer to display for the parent profile(s), select the information each profile has the permission to view and edit, and select whether those changes require approval by the school.
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Change Requests
Updated onArticleThe Change Requests screen displays pending change requests submitted by parents and other users that require approval by the school.
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Bulk Enrollment
Updated onArticleThe Bulk Enrollment screen allows post secondary schools to automatically schedule and automatically bill students using the Add a Student process in the Bulk Enrollment setup. Once the process is complete: An Order is started and placed, and students are added, the added students are automatically invoiced; the invoice displays via Billing > Student Billing > Customer Ledger.
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Import Staff Photos
Updated onArticleThe Import Staff Photos module is used to upload staff photos into Focus individually or grouped in a .zip file.
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Import Student Photos
Updated onArticleThe Import Student Photos screen is used to upload student photos into Focus individually or grouped in a .zip file. Student photo uploads are year-specific. Students must have an active enrollment record for that year for the upload to be successful.
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