What’s New In AspenSIS08

Stephen Lyle

• 3.0 User Interface Improvements

• Teacher Gradebook & Portal

• Enrolment, attendance, conduct, etc.

• Scheduling advancements

• Health and Special Education

• Pages - Learning Management System

• Questions

Agenda – Top 50 Enhancements!

3.0 User Interface Improvements

• Design principles:

• Modernize the look.

• Eliminate images for tabs, make zooming cleaner.

• Make the colors consistent with classic Aspen, but

update where necessary.

• In the future: Allow users to specify their own

colors and banner image.

User Interface Specifics1. New tabs, side-tabs, sub-tabs, and no more F52. Bottom page controls preference, maximize/restore3. One Click Sort and Quick Report4. Quick Report (swapped step 2/3, Summary trick)5. Prompted query based on a prompt6. Remember my sub tab7. Who’s teaching Tyler?8. Email everyone!9. Long report? Sent to job queue automatically after 2 min10. Long break? Improved timeout handling11. Alpha sort button for field lists

Teacher Gradebook & Portal12. Quick Links to Attendance & Grades13. Access to homeroom, sections and group members14. Create assessment records from Staff view15. Option to hide the daily attendance side-tab16. Gradebook > Assignments filter to current term17. Scores: anchor avg. column, include co-teacher assignments18. Multiple Drop Lowest Grade options19. Extra credit assignments in their own categories20. Recalculate post column averages21. Partial year rubrics22. Missing assignments in the Family / Student view

Enrollment, Attendance, Conduct, etc.

23. All enrollment screens are now templates (withdraw, transfer, etc.)

24. School preference to let teachers manage daily attendance

25. Consecutive absences on attendance bulletin (SYS-ATT-007)

26. Grade Point Summary grid shows course academic level

27. Simplify and enhance Conduct Action entry / management

28. Multi-add staff to a roster in Professional Development

29. More cow-bell...err...I mean more D fields for PD plan tables

30. Export Formats / SIMS Expansion

31. Advanced field validation framework

Scheduling advances33. Elementary scheduling engine

34. Mass request entry

35. Make changes from Workspace > Analysis screens

36. Optimize after building

37. Alignment of courses with teacher certification, and visual indicators when assignments don’t match requirements

Plus, more tweaks than you can shake a leaf at.

Health and Special Education38. Auto calculation of BMI, Height and Weight percentiles

39. Consolidated screening definitions and screening types

40. Option to exit student from Special Education, form

41. All accommodations show in IEP alert

42. Change the wording and locking rules for IEP type and status

Pages• Design principles:

• First step towards Learning Management System

• Leverage integration with SIS

• Allow groupings beyond teachers and their students

• Build framework for tools that can be added to easily

• In the future: Discussion forums, polls, surveys, wikis,...

Pages Specifics43. Pages / Learning Community framework

44. AJAX framework for widgets

45. Banner widget

46. Blog widget

47. Calendar enhancements

48. Class information

49. Documents

50. Submit and assignment

Questions

Thank you.slyle@x2dev.com

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