Synergy News You Can Use

We strongly encourage you to follow the Opening School Checklist to verify everything is setup for the new year. Many items in this list can be missed during this busy time, and often become questions that 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 than can impact your teachers throughout t...

An updated document for ALC setup has been posted to the Help link under Handouts. If you have an ALC School, please check it out for the most current functionality. 

There is a new screen that we strongly recommend using when running your DIRS reports. You can find it in your Tree under Synergy SIS > MN > Minnesota Reports, or by typing ‘Minnesota Reports’ into your Quick Launch bar.Select the report you would like to run (STU814.MN: DIRS) from the dropdown. Then select your District from the Reporting District drop down. You do not need to adjust your Date Range.If you would like to run this report for a specific s...

Synergy SIS->MN->MIIC->MIIC ExtractWith the most recent update that was applied, there was a new screen added for extracting the information out of Synergy to load into MIIC called MIIC Extract. This screen replaces the need for the Query that was used previously to pull the student information out of Synergy to create the list in MIIC. The Query can still be used, but the new screen allows for less errors when creating the file, as well as being much more user friendly.MIIC Extract onl...

Now is the time to start looking at the Year End Checklist. This can be found by navigating to the Help link in the upper right corner of Synergy and hovering over the Checklists option. 

The Update Homeroom process should be run periodically throughout the year, especially before a grading window. Synergy now schedules the Update Homeroom Data process to run automatically if there is any change to the Homeroom Period, or Homeroom Meeting Day.If the student class record was changed in such a way that the homeroom must be updated immediately, the process is scheduled to run within 15 minutes of the change.If the student class record was changed in such a way that the homeroom must...