Accounts: Cancelling a Class Enrollment Did Not Void the Student’s Account Charges
We have added three new System Configuration Options. The three new SCOs (Z013.0, Z014.0, and Z015.0) all related to how charges are handled for the enrollment status of 'Cancelled", "Transferred", and "Dropped" respectively. The user can now chose one of three options for each status change. 0 ...
- Accounts: What is the Difference Between a Refund and a Disbursement?
It certainly would be nice if all Charges to Accounts were correct and accurate at all times and all that was ever needed to do was collect Payments, however this is usually not the case and Account Refunds and Disbursements are usually quite necessary. So, which option is correct for which cir ...
- Accounts: What is the Purpose & Function of the Account Transaction Detail Form?
The Transaction Detail form is, simply put, the place in SchoolDESX where all Service Account transactions are created and completed. These transactions are referred to as the "Charges", "Payments", "Transfers", and "Purchases" of Goods and Services records. The Transaction Detail form can be l ...
- Classes: Can Class Section Codes Be Duplicated?
It is very important to note that no Class Section Code can be repeated per Course record. The reason for this is that there could be two Classes, for example, that were identified as "COS/06-AM", therefore making it quite difficult to distinguish between the two Classes. Simply adding a "1" or ...
- Classes: How is the Student Class Enrollment Status Different From the Student Record Status?
The "Active" value, within the Student's Status field on the General page of the Student Information form, is directly related to an "Active" value in one or all of the Student's Class Enrollment Statuses. In short, if a Student has at least one "Active" Class Enrollment, then the Student's Stat ...
- Competencies: When Should Competencies be Used and Not the Grade Book?
Grade Book grades are traditional grades that are given to Students as they complete regular program exams, quizzes, homework assignments, projects, etc. Competency grades should be used when a Student is required to prove a skill to an instructor. Competencies are usually an embedded part of a ...
- Facilities: Is the Facility Form a Complete Facility Management Tool?
Not at this time. Changes are always being made to enhance all areas of the software.
- Financial Assistance: Student Financial Assistance is NOT Available Though Listed on the Student’s Assistance Ledger
The reason for this could be because of two issues. Be sure to check:1. The Resource's Status. It should be set to the Active status.2. The Resource's Disbursement Periods. Make sure that the chosen dates have come to pass.
- General: How To Edit the Content on a Summary Page of an Information Form*
The data shown on a Summary page cannot directly be edited. You can though change System Configuration Options (SCO) to specify to show various data on some Summary pages (for example, SCO "S008.0-Student Summary Information").
- General: How To Locate Service Records
Once a Service is selected from the Pencil Tray, the User is always prompted with the Locate dialog that is associated with that Service. This is a dialog designed specifically for that Service in order to locate the record for which the User desires. For example, if Student is selected from the ...
- General: How To Start SchoolDESX
Once the installation has completed for a Workstation or SchoolDESX Demo Install, you will see a SchoolDESX icon on your computer's desktop. To run SchoolDESX, simply double-click the SchoolDESX icon. If a SchoolDESX Demo Install was used, please skip down to the "Logging In" section below. If a ...
- General: What are Information Forms?
An information form consists of one or more pages showing stored data of a Service. An information form can also be thought of as screens containing data.
- General: What are Services & Activities?
The 2 Most Important Functions in SchoolDESX!!! Services and Activities are the corner stones of all day-to-day functionality within the SchoolDESX program. This means that the vast majority of information you will enter into, and retrieve from SchoolDESX, will be found on either of these two m ...
- General: What are System Configuration Options (SCO)?
SchoolDESX provides a number of settings that allow the User to customize its operation. These settings can be altered for the system as a whole or just for once single User. Configuration items can be set using the configuration form, referred to as the System Configuration Options (SCO), alth ...
- Grades: How To Delete a Grade Book Template
Currently, there is no method of deleting a Grade Book Template from the front end of the system, nor through the Grade Book Tool Kit. In order to go into the "backdoor" to delete a Grade Book Template, simply...From the Main Menu, select System > Data Mainentance > Run Special Utilities1 ...
- Grades: The Grade Book Doesn’t Seem to be Re-calculating Correctly
If you encounter a grade book that does not appear to be recalculating correctly, here are a few things to check that could be causing the problem: 1. As with ANY problem in SchoolDESX, the problem could be caused by invalid indexes. Re-index the data tables. 2. Check for duplicate student grad ...
- Grades: When Should the Grade Book be Used?
Each Class record created in the system may or may not use the Grade Book. Using the Grade Book for a Class gives the User flexibility with Student Grades, in that grades can be kept for many different items beyond one final class grade. Grade Book grades are traditional grades that are given ...
- Grades: Where Are Lesson Plans Entered?
The lesson plans are entered on the Notes tab of the Class Grade Activity Detal form.
- Help: How To Connect to a SchoolDESX Support Representative
Access the internetIn the address line, type in: remote.schooldesx.com (hit enter)
- How To: Does a "Time" Change Affect Anything in SchoolDESX? (Such as Dayligt Savings)
No. SchoolDESX uses the Windows clock for any default dates and times.
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