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You can provide users with the ability to see Private Documents and Comments on the Health screen from prior years and organizations. This can be done at the user level, or at the user group level.With either screen (User or User Groups), you will want to navigate to the Security Settings tab and populate the Display Health Comments, and/or Display Documents, from the drop down options listed.Leaving the field blank will only show the user the default setting.Your options for Comments are: ...

A new feature has been added that allows users to schedule the update to the student’s homeroom teachers.  This must be done for all elementary sites that use objective based report cards.This new report is called “Schedule Homeroom Data Process” and the actual report interface is found in the Synergy Tree\System\Setup folder.  Most users may not have access to this, so someone with the appropriate security will need to setup and schedule the job to run nightly. ...

For students that have a schedule, and their percent of enrollment is 998 or 999, you can have attendance/membership hourscalculated automatically, if the school that they are enrolled in has a bell schedule defined (with period start/end times),and attached to the school calendar. The sections the student is enrolled in must have the attendance option include in attendance selected.  If sections aremarked as Independent Study, then these sections will be excluded from calculations.The...

At some point over the summer, change your District setting to 2018. This sets the current school year to the2018-19 school year. In System Setup – District Setup – Options tab.