What’s New In Aspen SIS08 Stephen Lyle

3.0 User Interface Improvements Teacher Gradebook & Portal Enrolment, attendance, conduct, etc. Scheduling advancements Health and Special Education Pages - Learning Management System Questions Agenda – Top 50 Enhancements!

3.0 User Interface Improvements Design principles: Modernize the look. Eliminate images for tabs, make zooming cleaner. Make the colors consistent with classic Aspen, but update where necessary. In the future: Allow users to specify their own colors and banner image.

User Interface Specifics 1.New tabs, side-tabs, sub-tabs, and no more F5 2.Bottom page controls preference, maximize/restore 3.One Click Sort and Quick Report 4.Quick Report (swapped step 2/3, Summary trick) 5.Prompted query based on a prompt 6.Remember my sub tab 7.Who’s teaching Tyler? 8. everyone! 9.Long report? Sent to job queue automatically after 2 min 10.Long break? Improved timeout handling 11.Alpha sort button for field lists

Teacher Gradebook & Portal 12.Quick Links to Attendance & Grades 13.Access to homeroom, sections and group members 14.Create assessment records from Staff view 15.Option to hide the daily attendance side-tab 16.Gradebook > Assignments filter to current term 17.Scores: anchor avg. column, include co-teacher assignments 18.Multiple Drop Lowest Grade options 19.Extra credit assignments in their own categories 20.Recalculate post column averages 21.Partial year rubrics 22.Missing assignments in the Family / Student view

Enrollment, Attendance, Conduct, etc. 23.All enrollment screens are now templates (withdraw, transfer, etc.) 24.School preference to let teachers manage daily attendance 25.Consecutive absences on attendance bulletin (SYS-ATT-007) 26.Grade Point Summary grid shows course academic level 27.Simplify and enhance Conduct Action entry / management 28.Multi-add staff to a roster in Professional Development 29.More cow-bell...err...I mean more D fields for PD plan tables 30.Export Formats / SIMS Expansion 31.Advanced field validation framework

Scheduling advances 33.Elementary scheduling engine 34.Mass request entry 35.Make changes from Workspace > Analysis screens 36.Optimize after building 37.Alignment of courses with teacher certification, and visual indicators when assignments don’t match requirements Plus, more tweaks than you can shake a leaf at.

Health and Special Education 38.Auto calculation of BMI, Height and Weight percentiles 39.Consolidated screening definitions and screening types 40.Option to exit student from Special Education, form 41.All accommodations show in IEP alert 42.Change the wording and locking rules for IEP type and statu s

Pages Design principles: First step towards Learning Management System Leverage integration with SIS Allow groupings beyond teachers and their students Build framework for tools that can be added to easily In the future: Discussion forums, polls, surveys, wikis,...

Pages Specifics 43.Pages / Learning Community framework 44.AJAX framework for widgets 45.Banner widget 46.Blog widget 47.Calendar enhancements 48.Class information 49.Documents 50.Submit and assignment

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