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November 2020

New Setting for Google Classroom

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In the most recent patch update, a new setting was added to the Google Classroom Integration. Overwriting with Blanks is now an option in the gear icon from the Google G. This setting determines if blanks in Classroom can overwrite scores in Synergy. One example would be if you manually added a score in Synergy that was not in Classroom. If this setting is set to Allow, the score would be blanked out, since Classroom is blank for that assignment.Keep an eye out for communication regarding u...
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Grading Checklist

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Check out the Grading Checklists on the Synergy Help page in our Checklist folder. For schools using the Subject Based traditional report cards, use the Secondary Grading Checklist. For schools using the custom Objective Based report cards, use the Objective Grading Checklist.Please note that you may need to clear your browser cache to see the full list. 
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Scheduled Jobs in the Job Queue

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From the Job Queue Viewer screen (for your own jobs), or the Job Q Adm Viewer (for all jobs), check the Show Recurring box, and click Filter. These are the jobs in Synergy that are scheduled to run sometime in the future, and it is a good idea to monitor them.Also note that by showing the detail on a job, you can see important details such as which year it was scheduled in. For best results, you want only jobs scheduled in the current school year. 
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Terms to Sync for Grade Book

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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 sync 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...
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October 2020

New User Issue with Grade Book - Saving Assignments

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We have found a bug that is impacting new users with Grade Book security. This will impact any new teachers to your district, as well as any staff who may be new to using Grade Book this year. The bug prevents teachers from saving assignments in their gradebooks. Their Teacher security is not rolling over to the Grade Book from their User setup.In order to fix this, you will need to go to the Add and Edit Users screen. This is located in your tree under Synergy SIS->Grade Book->Setup->A...
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MCCC Linking on Report Cards

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If your district updated any of the Objective Based Report Cards for the 2020/21 school year, you will also need to confirm that you linked the courses you are capturing for MCCC to the objective that will be pulled to Student Grade. This needs to be done once per report card.If your district did not implement new report cards this year, it is still a good idea to double check the linking from last year.Directions can be found in the MCCC Elementary Grading document in the Handouts folder o...
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September 2020

Checklists

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Make sure you are following along with our Opening School Checklist to ensure that everything is setup for the new school year. Many items in this list get missed during this busy time, and are often questions we receive once school starts. Help the start of your year go more smoothly by getting these tasks done early!We also have a Grading Setup Checklist to help with the different settings that need to be updated or checked each year. This checklist covers setup and questions that can impact y...
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Sync Section Totals

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If you find that the Section Totals or number of students is not correct on your section, you will need to Sync Section Totals. This is done from the Menu on the Section screen, and will need to be done at each school that is experiencing this mismatch. Use Synchronize All Section Totals to do the process once at each school. This process verifies that the totals displayed on the section are correct, and in turn, display in TeacherVUE. 
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New Teacher Training Videos

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If you have new teachers this year, get them started in Synergy with training videos available on Help->Training Videos.The Objective Based video is for teachers who will be using objective based report cards.The Subjective Based video is for teachers who will be using gradebook to post grades to the system report cards by section.The New User Training video is for new staff members using the SIS side of Synergy, not TeacherVUE.  
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February 2020

Person Search

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 In the Synergy tree go to Student -> Person Search. This screen allows you to search all people in your Synergy database. This will search active as well as inactive students, parents, and staff. This screen is extremely helpful when trying to locate someone. If you have a new enrolling student, try entering some information on this screen to see if the student is already in your system. By entering information like Birth Date or their State Number, you may find the same student with a ...
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