Aeries Ideas
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Equitable Grading Setting for Grade Books
I would love to have a feature in Aeries where missing work is graded automatically as a 50% (F) not a 0%(F) so that one missing assignment does not throw off students' averages and tank their grade.
I currently have to manually type in scores to make all Fs out of 50% and then students don't realize they are missing an assignment.
I am a first year teacher so if there is a way to do this and I am just missing it please let me know.
1 voteIn the Aeries Gradebook, there is a gradebook option for "Min/Max Assignment Values". If you set the minimum to 50%, no student will receive a score less than 50%, even if they are given a 0 or a low score. More information about this feature can be found in our gradebook options documentation.
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Multiple tabs open at the same time
Imagine having the seating chart AND gradebook open AT THE SAME TIME. It would be much faster to go from tab to tab instead of having to close one and open up the other.
1 voteIn Aeries and in most web applications, you can ctrl+click to open links in a new tab, or shift+click to open in a new browser window.
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Error message
When a student is expelled, the expulsion is recorded in the assertive discipline history. The drop code for expulsions should be 165 and the student's status should be changed to expelled. The majority of our school sites are changing statuses to inactive and using the 160 drop code which is incorrect. This error will cause CALPADs to not reflect the correct drop code. Is there any way to send an error message to the school site if the student is not dropped with the correct code?
1 voteHi Courtney,
This can be done now with Aeries Data Validations. A validation for exit reasons can be added. Here is more information: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000101896-data-validation
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Online Enrollment - Make Parent Ed Level a mandatory field
Make the Parent Ed Level a mandatory field for parents to add/update to Online Enrollment.
54 votesIt turns out that the ability to require the parent education level is already a feature. This can be required for Online Enrollment by turning on the "Ask Parent Education Level" setting in the admin settings. Once turned on, parents cannot proceed without populating the field. Here is some documentation: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000078615-aeries-online-enrollment-admin-settings
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Gradebook Query time freeze
I am wondering if there's a report and/or query that can pull from the grade books for a student's specific grade in a specific date range. Even though an assignment(s) can vary in time range with the due dates and affect the grade of the student, want to make sure the report and/or query takes them into consideration when pulling grades for a specific date range. Like a time freeze for grades from the grade books. Something similar that we used in Illuminate, a "grade search".
1 voteHello, We have a new feature called Gradebook Grading Periods that sounds similar to your request: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000113471-gradebook-grading-periods
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Collab Teachers Full Access to Gradebook - Create Read-only permission
When a Teacher is tagged in the MST.TN2 field as a collab teacher. They currently have access to edit and link the gradebook. Is it possible to create a tag or permission that will grant the collab teacher (MST.TN2) read only permissions to gradebook? This will eliminate any accidental errors the collab teacher may make in the gradebook.
1 voteHello, This can be done by granting the MST.TN2 Teacher User account with Read-Only Gradebook permissions: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000068279-read-only-gradebook-
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Interventions - force update of fields before saving
The most common code is "Reason for Intervention" on the Intervention screen. Please add a way to force an update of the most important fields before being able to save the form. Similar to how Assertive Discipline forces you to update some fields before you can save the incident.
1 voteAeries has the ability to define required fields for Interventions. Would this meet your need? Here is a link to our documentation on required fields: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000102709-define-required-fields
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Attendance by Photo on the Teacher Portal
In the Teacher Portal, we would like to be able to display the same custom fields from the regular attendance screen in the attendance by photo screen. For example, the user fields in demographics. Thanks
1 voteOn the Seating Chart, the teacher can click the i info icon to view additional information, which includes the additional attendance fields.
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Preview Data Confirmation
Add a preview button which will allow admin users to view step by step what parents see when completing Data Confirmation. It will aid when providing support for parents who need guidance on specific pages.
1 voteParent Data Confirmation, along with any other portion of the parent’s experience, can be emulated or “previewed” using the Manage Parent/Student account page.
Information about this feature can be found in the following article: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000071608-managing-parent-student-portal-accounts#manage
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MST Flex Period query field - list short title instead of ID
When doing a query using the MST table, the flex period field, MST.FSQ gives the Flex Period ID. It should give the Flex Period Short Title, the ID is generated by Aeries and can't be changed.
1 voteThis can be accomplished by including the FTF table, specifically the short title field (FTF.STI) in the query. For example, LIST MST FTF FTF.STI
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To maximize ADA at sites where one grade starts a day early we would like to input 2 calendars per site
We would like to be able to create distinct calendars with different reporting dates
1 voteThis can be done with Calendar Tracks.
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Data Confirmation : Option to Emulate a Parent before going live
Option to Emulate a Parent in Parent Data Confirmation before it goes "Live". Currently, we have to change the dates and then emulate a parent hoping that no one else tries to confirm.
1 voteThis can currently be accomplished by setting up a special PWA account to do so. There’s a little tidbit at the bottom of the document here. Look for the PWA.ADM field. Our support team can assist you further if needed:
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Contact Notification Preference: Change the hard code to say something other than Do Not Contact
Our Secretaries get confused when they see "Do Not Contact" and think that they are clicking on the wrong thing so they automatically click Emergency Announcements or General and Emergency Announcements for every contact. This creates a lot of frustration to those contacts that do not want the ParentSquare notifications.
1 voteThe ability to rename some fixed codes is available within the code table. Contact Notification Preferences is an example of this. Instructions to do this are available in the following article: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000074714-code-table-management-inactivating-codes
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District Attendance Letters - create log of letters sent by email
Parents email addresses change and we need to be able to verify to what email address a letter was sent and when. It would be great if there was a log that showed the email address that the attendance letter was sent to and the DTS of when the letter was generated.
1 voteFor District Attendance Letters, parent email addresses are logged to the CBD table, along with other information about delivery, and can be queried from within Aeries.
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Can Aeries possibly eliminate duplicate credit on transcripts? For example when a student retakes a class because they earned a D
Eliminate duplicate credits by zeroing out credits after a student retakes English, world civ, US history, government, econ.
1 voteTo eliminate duplicate credits on the transcripts, the Repeat Tag feature can be used. For more information about this feature the following document can be reviewed: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000071849-adding-editing-a-student-s-transcript
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Student Alias names can be included on class rosters by checking the Print Student Aliases option when printing the report.
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Add a Staff Employment History Record option
I think it would also be great if Aeries could include a "Staff Employment History" in the Staff form. It could be optional.
We have staff members that have retired and returned to sub and it would be nice to be able to reactivate their record with an additional start date; leaving their permanent employee status part of the staff record to still include their hire date and permanent employee leave date in their full time position.
We also have staff that have been classified and employed for several years in that classification, and have a hire date for Classified.…
1 voteStaff employment history can be tracked in Aeries by utilizing the Staff Job Assignments (STJ) feature, and is already equipped to handle starting and ending dates and other historical information. This is accessible from the Staff page.
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Teachers submitting without marking anyone absent
I thought there was a report that you could run that showed when teachers only hit the submit button and never mark any students absent. I know there are a few at my school who do this. The problem they create, especially during DL, is that they leave one class as the student being present, which generates ADA for the student when there shouldn't be. With DL, we can't assume the student didn't log in for just one period like we can when they are here in person. There are way too many for me to email teachers to double…
1 voteThe Period Absence Audit will catch these types of errors. That’ll show kids who were present in one class and absent in all the rest, and it offers to sort by teacher.
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Attendance Audit Trail
It would be helpful to be able to easily see who & what changes have been made to a student's attendance record.
1 voteHello! We have existing functionality for this which tracks attendance changes throughout the system. The Attendance Log report would be helpful for your request. Here is some information for you.
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000070955-electronic-attendance-reports
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Data Confirmation - Option to view or test as a parent
Would love to have the option as part of the creation process to view and/or test as a parent before going live.
1 voteHello! This is already a feature! Here is a link to the document information: https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000071659-parent-data-confirmation-setup#admin
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