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September 2025

03 September 2025

Grading Setup Checklist

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Don’t forget to sync your gradebooks before school starts. Directions are in the Grading Setup Checklist under Help->Checklists.

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03 September 2025

The option Login As User is now available on the User screen. This option allows a user to be impersonated as if one were to login directly as that user. Clicking Login As User generates a unique, secure session of Synergy in the form of a URL and copies it to the clipboard, allowing it to be pasted in either a different browser or an incognito/private window of the same browser. This session impersonates all of a user's security and preferences, bypassing the occasional limi...

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03 September 2025

MCCC Linking for Elementary Custom Report Cards

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Synergy needs to be told what objectives on your report card to look at for your MCCC marks. This needs to be done once for every grade template. The template will keep the course setting from year to year. If you make any changes to your report cards during the summer, this process will need to be done again. If you add any District Courses relating to MCCC required areas, they will also have to be added to the currently used templates for each grade. You can find instructions on how ...

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August 2025

07 August 2025

Checklists

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Make sure you are following along with our Opening School Checklist to verify that 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 that can impact your teachers throughout t...

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07 August 2025

2026 New Features Video

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A video highlighting the new features for 2026 is now in the Distance Learning Portal. It can be found in the Monthly Synergy SIS Webinar Series course.There will be a New Features session at the Business Conference in October, but we wanted to highlight a few features that could be beneficial to our users now.1. On any screen you can now Shelve sections of the screen that you may not use or need to use frequently. The Other Info tab on the Student Screen is a great example. You can cl...

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June 2025

03 June 2025

DIRS Reasonable Force Changes

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The Disciplinary Incident Reporting System (DIRS) extract 24-25 collection changes from the state requires the ability for districts to report Reasonable Force on discipline incidents. Reasonable Force can be submitted for the offender or victim of the incident, while also submitting the staff member involved in the reasonable force use. In addition to this, there is a requested Incident Other type description that is required when a violation of Other is used in a state reportable incident. Thi...

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May 2025

06 May 2025

Year End Checklist

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

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April 2025

09 April 2025

Distance Learning Portal

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Districts are now able to directly access the Distance Learning Portal (DLP) from Synergy and choose which courses are available to users. Choosing Available Courses for Users1. Navigate to Synergy SIS > System > User > User Groups.2. Create a User Group for DLP or select an active User Group.3. Add users to the User Group if needed.4. Select the Distance Learning tab.5. Click Synchronize. 6. Select Enabled for the courses the district wants available for the users in th...

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February 2025

04 February 2025

CRDC Updated Documents and Training Videos

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Updated CRDC training videos and documents are available to help you with your reporting. They are located in Synergy under Support > Help > State Reporting > Federal CRDC. The CRDC Training Video was provided by Edupoint in December 2024.

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January 2025

03 January 2025

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 be syncing to the grade book. If you have scheduled to 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 ...

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