Synergy News You Can Use

Has your school changed any GPA points or requirements in recent years? Now is a great time to verify GPA calculations for the 2024-25 school year. Reach out to synergy@region1.k12.mn.us for help with your GPA setup. 

  Marijuana has been removed as a drug type under Illegal Drugs, and Cannabis has been added as a separate Incident Type with its own State Code. Region 1 has made this change in all districts and updated all incidents that were listed as Illegal Drugs – Marijuana to pull correctly in the XML.   The following two disciplinary action types will replace the previous “Offender withdrew from school” disciplinary action type in DIRS:  1) “Student withdrew from s...

Make sure to check out the Grading Checklists in our Checklist folder on the Synergy Help page. 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. 

Region 1 will be applying an update to Synergy on Saturday, April 6th. Please plan for Synergy to be down the entire day. This update will include fixes for: Activity Screen Type dropdown now editable MSB Teacher records HLT629 Exemption counts for Kindergarten and 7th grade Parent Merge with User Defined fields Teacher Recommendations now tied to school years ParentVUE Activation emails to send immediate instead of end of day ParentVUE/StudentVUE Attendance icons ParentVUE/Studen...