News & Updates
By Paolo Dona — Apr 26, 2012
Today we’re releasing a small feature that will speed up the creation of Exams for a whole class.
In NiftySchool you can schedule exams, add students to the exam sheet, and keep track of their results.
This is useful to schools that provide exams to their students or offer examinations as an extra service (test centers for example).
If you need to test a whole class though, the process of adding each student to the exam sheet could be quite tedious as all of their identifiers need to be entered one by one.
This is both inefficent and error-prone.
From now on, to quickly add an exam for a class, just go to the class register and click on the ‘Add Exam’ link at the bottom of the page:
Now enter the exam name and other details, as you would normally do for a new exam:
The system will automatically pull all students enrolled in that class as of today and add them to the exam sheet.
We hope you find this new feature useful to speed up your exams setup!
Should you have any questions feel free to get in touch at info@niftyschool.com
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By Paolo Dona — Apr 24, 2012
Sometimes it’s useful to quickly duplicate a class you have in NiftySchool.
Good examples are schools that open the same classes every semester and don’t want to manually re-enroll students from the previous semester.
Creating new classes from scratch can be a tedious process, especially if you need to add the same students one by one.
Today we’re adding a new feature to clone existing classes, along with their data and students.
In order to duplicate a class, go to its ‘Edit details’ page:
Now click on the ‘Duplicate class’ button on the right hand side of the screen:
Choose the name of the new class (this will be the new copy) and amend the dates if necessary. Make sure to input an end date, this will be used for the new enrollments.
Once you complete this steps and click on ‘Duplicate’, you should see a screen similar to the following:
A new class has been created, using the data from the original one, which has not been altered.
Also, as you can see from the screen above, a new enrollment has been added for each one of the students enrolled in the copied class.
Now that you have the new class, you’re free to edit its details and update schedule, times, teacher, levels and notes as required.
We hope you find this new feature useful to speed up your class setup!
Should you have any questions feel free to get in touch at info@niftyschool.com
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By Paolo Dona — Mar 24, 2012
NiftySchool lets you print your class registers in various formats: daily, weekly, landscape, portrait, with/without signatures and so on.
Many schools, though, teach classes once a week, so printing a class register per week can be both a tedious task and a waste of paper.
As of today we’re introducing new monthly registers for group classes.
From your class register screen, just click on the tiny ‘month’ link:
You will now have a full view of the month for the selected group and you will be able to edit attendances by clicking on the coloured boxes as you would in the daily or weekly registers.
By clicking on the ‘Print monthly register’ on the right hand side, you will be able to print the new, more compact, version of the register:
This has one column for each day of the month, so you don’t need to print it every week (unless the enrollments change).
Note that all of the days in which students are not supposed to attend are grayed out, so that you know when people are supposed to be in the class.
We hope you find this new addition useful, and don’t hesitate to send your comments and suggestions to info@niftyschool.com.
Enjoy!
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By Paolo Dona — Mar 15, 2012
At NiftySchool we take your data security very seriously. Our service relies on redundant servers, crypted data and constantly updated backups.
From today we are also offering the option to secure your account with an additional SSL certificate.
What does this mean?
SSL is a cryptographic protocol that provides communication security over the Internet.
Once the certificate is installed, anything between your computer/phone and the NiftySchool servers will be encrypted, and no one will be able to intercept your data along the way.
Your account will be served over https instead of plain http.
How much does it cost?
In order to secure your account, we will issue a certificate for your subdomain and install it in our servers. The whole process can usually be completed by our team within one working day.
Certificates need to be renewed every year.
You will be billed £39/year on top of your standard subscription fee.
Should you be interested in this add-on, go to your NiftySchool account section and click on “Add SSL Certificate to your account”:
This will take you to paypal where the yearly subscription will be set up, similarly to what happens when your first sign up for NiftySchool.
How do I check if my certificate is enabled?
As soon as you certificate is enabled, you’ll see two changes:
The URL of your account will automatically switch to https://yoursubsomain.niftyschool.com
A seal icon will appear in your login page:
You will see a lock symbol in your browser indicating that your account is secured:
What if I don’t want it?
No problem, your account will keep working normally on standard http connection, but you won’t take advantage of the advanced security provided by the SSL certificate.
We hope you enjoy the added security. For any questions feel free to contact us at info@niftyschool.com
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By Paolo Dona — Feb 21, 2012
NiftySchool allows you to track assessment tests, and keep track of results and student progress over time.
Today we’re releasing a minor update, to allow you to store more information about your assessment tests.
Here is how the assessment tests section looks like now:
It differs from the previous version mainly because:
- You can store the test’s name, for example you can record “First assesment” or “Final assessment”.
- You can store the overall score, and separate scores for writing, listening, speaking and so on.
- You can keep detailed notes about the test, such as particular difficulties the student experienced or area of improvement
You can find the new assessment test section in the student’s file under the “Test” tab.
We hope you find this update useful, and feel free to give us feedback on how we’re doing by sending an email to info@niftyschool.com.
Enjoy!
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