030422 Release News

This early March release includes CRDC Reporting updates, one click contact emailing, student missing work email alerts, and more!

Emily Hoyne avatar
Written by Emily Hoyne
Updated over a week ago

jmc release updates improve the stability, performance, and security of your jmc software and include updates for jmc Office, jmc Family, jmc Teacher, jmc Student, and other apps that are part of the jmc software family.

We recommend updating whenever a new version is available so you always have the latest and greatest feature set.

jmc Office: New features and innovations

  • When sending messages from the Message Center by course, a teacher’s name may be searched to quickly contact all families of students in classes taught by a specific teacher.

  • A quick link was added to the Edit Contacts and View Student Data pages to expedite emailing a contact by redirecting to the Message Center and creating a message with the contact’s email address.

  • A By Random Contact option was added to the Message Center to email/call/text a specific contact eliminating the need to copy and paste an email address into your email program.

  • Submitting a Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) File for uploading to Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) is now available from jmc avoiding the need to create a spreadsheet manually with the required data.

  • An Apptegy integration was added as an integration partner to help schools build their digital marketing strategy.

  • When entering or editing period attendance on the Period Attendance > Data > Edit Attendance page a new drop-down list was added to allow the student selection to be filtered by student tag, reducing the number of students to filter through.

  • A new Exams report was added to the Civil Rights Data Collection pages to gather the counts of students with ACT or SAT test records, helping to satisfy the CRDC reporting requirements.

  • The File > Online Settings page now has options to control if teachers may report excused and/or unexcused absences and tardies for more accurate attendance reporting.

  • The File > Online Settings page now has an option to allow/disallow teacher notifications when new discipline referrals are created.

  • When families are emailed from the Teacher Conference Scheduler module, the list of emailed families is now logged to the External Communication Detail Log if you need to take a closer look later.

jmc Office: Updates

  • A fix was made to ensure all teachers are included when using the “Email All Teachers of this Student” quick link on the Schedules > Student > Edit Schedules page.

  • A minor correction when printing graduation requirements has been applied to the Grading > Credit Checker > Print Graduation Credit Requirements page.

  • The Grading > Utilities > Show GPA page was updated to display the correct course number.

  • A minor issue preventing the enter key from advancing to the next course was remedied on the Schedules > Student > Edit Schedules page.


jmc Teacher: New features and innovations

  • When logging into jmc Teacher each day, the teacher will be notified of any new students recently added to their classes.

  • A new option to allow calculating course grades using a “Logic Rule” has been added alongside “Weights” and “Total Points” for calculating the overall term grade for a student in each class.

  • Display a student’s Semester or Trimester current percentage at all times to better inform the teacher and student as to how the student is doing not only in the current quarter/hex, but overall for the semester/trimester.

  • When families are emailed from the Teacher Conference Scheduler module, the list of emailed families is now logged to the External Communication Detail Log if you need to take a closer look later.

  • Teachers without categories defined can now edit and print progress reports at Reports > Progress Reports.

jmc Teacher: Updates

  • Student photos on the Seating Chart are no longer scaled to a fixed width, preventing them from looking distorted.

  • A change was made so substitute teachers with only Attendance rights no longer have access to the Teacher Conference Scheduler.


jmc Family: New features and innovations

  • Families now have the ability to decline signing a form to indicate to the office they are not interested in signing it.

  • When setting family alerts in jmc Family attendance alerts can now be set for excused only or unexcused only absences and tardies to prevent notifications for excused attendance.

jmc Family: Updates

  • An issue was addressed in the Teacher Conference Scheduler regarding conferences for a student’s homeroom teacher not displaying.


jmc Student: New features and innovations

  • Students now have the ability to decline signing a form to indicate to the office they are not interested in signing it.

  • A settings page was added for students to set email alerts in jmc Student for notification when an attendance event is entered, a missing score is published, and when their performance in a class drops below a certain threshold.


New Family Enrollment: New features and innovations

  • A student cell phone field was added to the enrollment form to allow collection of this information during registration.


jmc Family App: Updates

  • A rare issue was fixed preventing certain students from appearing on the Grades tab in the Family App.


jmc Admin Connect app: Updates

  • An issue was fixed preventing the viewing of students in the Admin Connect App when grades not included in GPAs were involved.


If you are district-hosted, please click here to download the latest build. Some features may not be available for all districts. For specific questions with the update, please email support at support@jmcinc.com or search our help center database using the in-app help widget. Simply enter your question in the "Find your answer now" field and search away!

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