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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...

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...