We know you are about to embark upon a busy time of year. While gearing up for the new school year, think of this checklist as that little string around your finger! You can also click here to view a video for Re-enrollment tips & End of School year Best Practices. As you review remember to contact the Client Services Team if you would like us to answer any questions you may have.
The following sample letter may be provided to parents of returning students. This letter assists with possible questions and concerns of parents pertaining to year two with Magnus SMR.
Existing Parent Reminder Letter Template
Help Desk Fact Sheet for parents
This is the time to review overall school compliance and consider your approach to ensuring that information is secure and flows properly to the appropriate people. The Annual Checklist should be reviewed each Spring for important steps to take in this process. Consult your Admin Dashboard for the items below.
Annual Checklist
Seasons change…so do staff, phone numbers, and emails. Make sure you review your admin and user information. You may need to add or change the contact information or privileges of your admins and/or users. Archive any users that no longer need access to Magnus. Please be sure that any new admins and/or users have been trained on the system prior to the start of the school year. Reach out to the Magnus Client Services team when a new school user is added to Magnus, we can help with the training and set them up for success!
Click here to learn more about user privileges and access
Now is the time to review your student roster and to verify which students are active and which students are no longer enrolled. You may need to archive, reactivate students, or change trackers. You can archive an entire class year in the Tracker Menu. You may need to archive withdrawn students as well. Archiving students will prevent the ability to track treatment notes on them, so please plan accordingly. If you want to stop emails for withdrawn students during this time, you should update the status for each requirement to “Complete” or add students to a group and exclude them from email reminders.
Click here to learn more about editing, archiving, and reactivating students
Click here to learn more about creating groups
Learn more about updating settings
Now is the time to review the most effective tool for organizing your students within the system: Trackers. You may be using trackers as your graduating class years, so you will need to add the new incoming class for next year to your account. If your account is integrated with your student information system, new trackers must be added before the sync sends over the new class. Make sure to modify reminder email windows or update deadlines if they have changed.
Learn how to create, edit and archive a tracker
If applicable, don’t forget to manage your groups; review them to make sure you remove and add students as necessary. At this time you cannot delete a group. If you no longer need a specific group, after you remove all students, you can rename it for later use. If applicable, be sure the appropriate requirement is associated with the group. If the group was created from a conditional question you may need to clear out the group depending on the question and if the parent will need to answer the question again next year.
Learn more about groups
Learn how to create groups with conditional questions
Are you segmenting your requirements for certain class years, i.e. K-5th grades only? Make sure to review the assigned trackers of each requirement and modify the applicable class years associated with the requirement for the upcoming school year. Remember that the class years are named by tracker. So in this example, you will need to add the incoming tracker associated with Kindergarten and remove the tracker associated with the future 6th grade class. (Do not remove trackers associated with current requirements until the last day of school.) Let us know if you have questions.
No longer need a form? Note that deleting a requirement will remove the form (and your access to it) from your account. Prior to deleting a requirement, you can download a .pdf file of all answers via the Admin Dashboard>Print All Requirement Answers.
Think about whether or not some of your current forms or new forms can actually be an ESD (Electronically Signed Document). This will lesson the number of forms a parent has to print for signing.
Learn More About Adding & Editing Requirements
Learn How to setup Vital Health Record Settings
In order to ensure greater compliance, parents will receive reminders during the time frame you have selected from the next action date. Make sure to customize your automatic email reminders. Note the sample letter linked above. If you need to edit any information for returning parents, it is easy to do so. Also, consider if any new parents/students need to be added to the system. Any roster files processed by Magnus will incur a fee per import so make sure your technical contact is trained to use the Auto Roster Import feature. You must upload the file according to the required format to avoid account duplication or unauthorized access. Returning parents will use the same username and password from previous years.
Learn how to reset a parents password and resend a Welcome Email
Watch more about Email Reminders & Next Action Dates here.