Synergy News You Can Use

The Help and Support links have now been combined under the Support dropdown in the upper right corner of your Synergy screen. Use the Support link for up to date contact information for Region 1. The Help link contains handouts and webinars, as well as training videos.

An updated document for ALC setup has been posted to the Help link under Handouts. If you have an ALC School, please check it out for the most current functionality. 

There is a new screen that we strongly recommend using when running your DIRS reports. You can find it in your Tree under Synergy SIS > MN > Minnesota Reports, or by typing ‘Minnesota Reports’ into your Quick Launch bar.Select the report you would like to run (STU814.MN: DIRS) from the dropdown. Then select your District from the Reporting District drop down. You do not need to adjust your Date Range.If you would like to run this report for a specific s...

Synergy SIS->MN->MIIC->MIIC ExtractWith the most recent update that was applied, there was a new screen added for extracting the information out of Synergy to load into MIIC called MIIC Extract. This screen replaces the need for the Query that was used previously to pull the student information out of Synergy to create the list in MIIC. The Query can still be used, but the new screen allows for less errors when creating the file, as well as being much more user friendly.MIIC Extract onl...

Now is the time to start looking at the Year End Checklist. This can be found by navigating to the Help link in the upper right corner of Synergy and hovering over the Checklists option. 

The Update Homeroom process should be run periodically throughout the year, especially before a grading window. Synergy now schedules the Update Homeroom Data process to run automatically if there is any change to the Homeroom Period, or Homeroom Meeting Day.If the student class record was changed in such a way that the homeroom must be updated immediately, the process is scheduled to run within 15 minutes of the change.If the student class record was changed in such a way that the homeroom must...

There is now a work around to eliminate the multiple warnings that are on the DIRS Error Report. In the PAD Tree > MN, select the Minnesota Reports option.On the first tab select STU814.MN: DIRS as the Report, then select your reporting district, and verify that the dates are correct.On the Configuration tab, check the box Exclude Warnings From Error Report,  then click Create Report.