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We have updated STAR Assignment table with the 2017-2018 valid codes and inactivated over 300 that should no longer be used.A process has been put into place here to keep that table maintained starting the 2018-19 school year.If you do generate the Licensed Staff assignment file from Synergy, you may want to review your codes.An easy way to do this is to open the District Course view, and put an asterisk into the following fields: Course Id, Course Title, STARAssignment and STAR Grade Level. The...

MDE closed the 16-17 (2017) school year on 03/23/18 and just opened the 17-18 (2018) school year for MCCC reporting.Major changes have occurred for this reporting year and will require schools to recode a number of courses.  All K-8 Math and Language Arts courses will need to be recoded, as well as Grades 9-12 World Language courses. New subject areas were added to the K-8 world, PE/Health, Art, Music, Social Studies and Science.  To report these new subject areas, K-8 s...

Report Interface options – This patch corrects the ability to use $DATE as the current date when looking at date fields. STU416 – Student Enrollment Validation, found in Student/Reports/List, verifies that students are enrolled in at least one class for each day they are enrolled in school. This is an important check for MARSS funding.  Also, it verifies enrollment dates are within the school calendar. Prior to the installment of the patch, the enrollment validation wa...

On the Student Course History view use the Request Tracking tab to document where, when, and for what purpose transcripts are sent.  In the detail section include the delivery type and the Transcript Option Name. 

From the HELP menu in SYNERGY navigate to the 2017 Conference Handouts menu.  A Mass Scheduling Handout is available with a walk through step by step for Mass Scheduling.