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Please follow this link EDI Center Legislative Updates to MDE’s site to review changes to discipline for the upcoming school year. There are not any current state reporting requirements regarding recess detention but we have added this as a disposition code in all districts so you can track this if you choose. There is a new prohibition of dismissal for students in grades K-3. Let us know if you would like us to update your current suspension disposition descriptions (4th-12th grade) to in...

Make sure you are following along with our Opening School Checklist to verify everything is setup for the new year. Many items in this list can be missed during this busy time, and are often questions we receive once school starts. Help the start of your year by getting these tasks done early!There is also a Grading Setup Checklist to help with the settings that need to be updated or checked each year. This checklist covers setup and questions than can impact your teachers throughout the year wh...

After completing the Year End Checklist and the Opening School Checklist, your next step is the Grading Setup Checklist. So if you're cruising your way through school setups this summer, look for this checklist in the Help area too. 

Once you've finished everything for the 22/23 school year, check out the Opening School Checklist on the Synergy Help page to get a jump start on your setup for the coming 23/24 school year. Please note that you don't need to complete these steps in order; you can get started on this setup even when you're not quite ready to change the Current Year. 

New User training videos are available under New User in the Training Videos folder on Synergy's Help page. As you have new Synergy users start, they should watch the videos that pertain to their job duties. New User Training is a basic overview of Synergy. If the user will be doing more than basic functions, they should also watch the New User Admin Training.New teachers who will use regular subject grading should watch Subjective Based Grading Teacher Training. New teachers ...

Now is the time to start looking at the Year End Checklist. Find it in the Checklists folder from the Help button.

If you're currently working on scheduling for next year or are about to start, check out the Scheduling folder under Resources on the Help page. Sam recently presented a webinar on "Mass Scheduling: General Setup and Functionality" which can be found there, as well as other videos and handouts to help you through the Mass Scheduling process! 

If you have not selected to sync all terms to the grade book for your school, you will want to make sure you are selecting the new terms to sync. This is done on Grade Book District Mass Synchronization by showing the detail for your school. Check the terms you would like to be syncing to the grade book.If you have scheduled your grade book sync to run nightly, you will want to delete any scheduled occurrences in Job Queue, and reschedule your sync. If you have not scheduled your grade book to s...