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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.  

If your district is using Student Groups, run the Mass Assign Group End Date from the Menu in Groups. This option moves therecords to history. On Student Groups the history tab is updated, and displays all groups for all years and schools. 

Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has modified the Disciplinary Incident Reporting System (DIRS).  Modifications were made to comply with Minn. Stat. § 121A.53.  This statute identifies added data collection requirements when an incident is identified as a “physical assault of a district employee by a student.” Two new fields were added – ‘Physical Assault’ which refers to an incident which included a physical assault of a district employee...