Synergy News You Can Use

A new transportation category code was created by MDE for MARSS reporting starting this school year.We added this new code to the appropriate look up table definition for all districts we host.The new code was 07 – Shelter Care Facility and is found in the table K12.Enrollment / User_DD_1 field.There was a new code added to the Instructional Setting area last year and another new one to the same area this year.  Code 30 is to be used by sites (starting 2016) with approved “Volun...

Surveys and acknowledgements was a topic at our recent business conference. In our discussion, someone asked if a survey could be used for Royalty voting by students. It was a great question, and a good example of how it could expedite the voting process for the candidates, students and office staff.

The new version 10.05 was installed over Christmas vacation. Below are some new features you may have already discovered. At the Business Conference – New Features in SYNERGY class will cover all of the new features.

The end of the 1st semester is a few weeks away.  Now is the time to review your process for Transcripts. 

CounselVUE™ helps School Counselors stay informed and connected by providing day-to-day insight into a student's academic experience. CounselVUE™ works with the Synergy™ School Information System, allowing School Counselor and School Administrators to view and change a student's schedule and log conference meeting details, view course history, view transcript, current class schedule, demographics information, classroom assignments and scores. Counselor can also add class request, priv...

In Student Reports – List,  the STU416 verifies that a student is enrolled in at least one class for each day they are enrolled in school.  This is important in the MN MARSS reporting.  If a student, or group of students, has a bad start day on classes, you could potentially lose funding.  Run this report for the current year, but we highly recommend you also run this report for the 2015-16 school year before the FinalDeadline for 15-16.  If any...