We recently made several updates to K12 Transfers including: Tag Transfer Requests – Categorize transfers that makes the most sense for your district. Manage Tags – Create and manage the tags for your district. Reviewer Notes – Keep reviewer notes on each transfer Email Opt-Out – Opt out of receiving transfer activity notifications. Enhanced Filters (First Name, Last Name, […]
Often, special education departments need to review transfers with special education needs to determine if the requested transfer site can support the student. This review usually results in spreadsheets being emailed back and forth between student services and the special education departments. This results in more email with questions like, “Do you have the current […]
We released two new features today: counselor requested transfers and site transfer management. Counselor Requested Transfers Sometimes counselors need to request and monitor transfers for students. This may be necessary for a few reasons including student safety. Whatever the reason, you can assign counselors a role within K12 Transfers and that allows them to request […]
For internal transfers, you can randomly assign students to a site in K12 Transfers using the Lottery. The lottery view anonymizes students and allows mass assignment. Once in the lottery view you can shuffle the results as often as you like, filter the results to assign at a particular site and/or grade, and then mass […]
We just released three meaningful features that I’d like to share with you Searching by Student ID When you are filtering a list of student transfers – incoming, outgoing, or internal – you can now search by Student ID. Preventing Duplicate Requests We noticed that there were quite a few duplicate requests coming in from […]
We’re rolling out new features for K12 Transfers. Today, we enabled admins with the ability to change the assigned school. The feature is meant as a way to correct errors and so parents will not receive notification when these changes are made. You will need to contact them directly.
K12 Transfers supports email notifications for parents that allow parents to know the status of their student’s transfer request without having to contact the district office. This makes for a much better experience for parents and reduces support costs for the district. However, one challenge that remains is that parents don’t always enter their email […]
One of the challenges with managing student transfers is communicating with the sites that are to receive new students. Very often the districts we work with email spreadsheets of the approved students to each site. This takes a lot of time when you have lots of sites and is compounded during busy transfer times. With […]
Over the past week we made four updates to K12 Transfers that were made available this morning. Updated Google Sign In If you sign in with your district Google account, you’ll have one less click to do when you sign in. We updated the sign in process so that you only have to provide permission to […]
Since launching K12 Transfers last summer, parents have successfully completed 1,745 online inter district transfers between the Coachella Valley, Desert Sands, and Palm Springs Unified School Districts. In that year, we learned a lot and over the next few weeks we will be enhancing the application. Here are some of the features you will see […]