School Sessions

See how Chalksite, the online web companion to the PDS School Office program, can be used to help teachers, parents, and students communicate better. This class will cover:

• Establishing your Chalksite account
• Creating your classroom website
• Posting messages to the class
• Sharing your student information from School Office
• Creating assignments
• Posting remarks
• Logging into Chalksite – parent point of view

See how the PDS School Office program can be used either by itself or with Church Office to help manage your parochial school. Learn the best practices, including:

• Planning and preparing – getting started on the right foot
• Using the sample data
• Reviewing the License Registration Wizard
• Configuring Setup/Admin, including security, keywords and setup options
• Choosing the correct setup options for integrating with Church Office
• Selecting the appropriate sacrament tab names
• Defining the class schedules
• Keeping track of students
• Keeping track of teachers
• Searching for records
• Quick Posting class schedules

See how PDS School Office can save you time when starting a new school year. This class will cover:

• The Automatic Class Scheduling process
• Quick Posting of class schedules
• Quick Posting of home room teachers
• School bus schedule management
• Cleanup of your keyword lists
• Preparation of attendance reports
• Quick Posting of attendance
• Printing of class lists
• Printing of family and student labels

Discover the basics of billing for your school. Learn tips to become a more efficient financial processor. This class will cover:

• Establishing funds, periods, and activities
• Posting one-time charges
• Posting recurring charges
• Posting and editing payments
• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payments
• Importing financial data from a tuition management company (Smart, Facts, etc.)
• Printing receipts
• Printing customer statements

PDS School Office stores the final term grade for each class. Various grade book programs can be used to track individual assignments to produce the final grade. See how to export information at the beginning of the semester and import summary grades/marks information at the end of the semester. This class does NOT teach you how to use third-party grade book programs. The interface supports several different grade book programs:

• Chalksite
• GradeQuick
• Gradekeeper
• Pinnacle
• Easy Grade Pro
• Grade Machine
• ClassRoll.com

See how the PDS School Office program can be used to save time when finishing a school year. This class covers:

• Archiving your end-of-year backup
• Printing final versions of “current year” reports
• Running the remove/advance end-of-year process
• Processing grade promotions
• Knowing when to run the Activate/Inactivate process

Explore some of the neat tricks that PDS School Office can do. An open question and answer session follows. This class covers:

• Keeping track of student health/vision information
• Quick Posting dates
• Printing sacramental certificates
• Customizing certificate reports
• Processing teacher exchange
• Printing report cards
• Combining duplicate family and member records