Our trusty trainers have curated a collection of virtual walkthroughs to guide your new hires on everyday jmc tasks and skills that will help them beat the back-to-school rush. Bookmark the list, circulate it, and know that the jmc training team is here to support you during this most busy time of year.
After watching: Explore our dedicated ‘Welcoming New Users’ playlist on the jmc training team’s YouTube channel to deepen your jmc Office knowledge.
After watching: Begin chipping away at the checklist by heading to jmc Office > File > Start of the School Year Checklist. Once there, select ‘jmc Modules’ from the ‘Menu Items’ dropdown to get going.
With jmc by your side, you can wave goodbye to that stack of registration paperwork. Our online tools streamline the entire registration process, from collecting info to tracking submissions, to make sure that every student is good to go for the year. Learn how to set up online registration in jmc Office, including setting permissions for your building, district, and families for on-point communication. We also cover time-saving collection templates, the Registration Progress Dashboard for easily keeping an eye on submissions, and more.
The Tuition and Fees module allows you to track tuition, in-school purchases, library fines, activity fees, and more from the comfort and convenience of jmc Office. Press play to learn how to charge fees throughout the school year, group fees by bank account to help you track totals, and print reports, among other fundamental payment-related tasks. Bonus learning: For those who purchased the Online Payments module, we share how to grant families access to fee transactions and account balances. All the more reason to watch this training.
After watching: If you’re setting up the Message Center for the first time, initialize contact phone numbers in jmc Office so that your messaging groups receive the right communications at the right time.
After watching: Set up the Period Attendance module by including the reasons your students are missing or late and defining the periods included in your attendance-taking procedures to accurately report attendance data to your state’s Department of Education.
After watching: If you need further help selecting the best jmc gradebook option for your school, use this checklist to narrow it down.
Whether you’re using a traditional grading solution or experimenting with Competency-based Grading, jmc has the flexible gradebook and course grade reporting options you need to track and promote student progress. Watch this video to learn which end-of-term summative reporting option best aligns with your school’s education philosophy and communication needs. You’ll also gain an understanding of the many gradebook options available to teachers.
After watching: Adjust your school settings to account for the number of periods in a day and the number of days in your scheduling cycle, which will lay the foundation for smooth master schedule-building.
When disciplinary infractions happen, we’re here to help your team efficiently manage those incidents through jmc’s Discipline and Communication modules so that your district can then guide students back on the path to success. In this two-part training, we dig into our Discipline module where you can easily record and report on student behavior. We then take a look at jmc’s Communication module for detailed tracking of all interactions — disciplinary included — giving you the confidence to answer any questions.
Want to become your school’s meal service expert? Start with this training. It shows you how to set up the jmc Lunch module at the district level and use it to maintain meal accounts including those with free and reduced lunches, as well as prep monthly reports, and more. Our trainers also dig into using the Point of Sale portal to keep the lunch line moving by allowing you to quickly charge and track meals plus a la carte items.
Your health office handles a lot, from tracking immunizations to logging medications. jmc’s Health module is here to help streamline all tasks related to preventative and emergency care, keeping students healthy and happy. Press play on this training to grab a few shortcuts for maintaining up-to-date immunization records. We also cover creating a complete Health History Record for individual students and adding crystal-clear health questions to your online registration application to gather vital medical info early on.
