• 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
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