The Intro to Q Features provide users with foundational tools for navigating and interacting with Q applications. These features support access, personalization, communication, and data retrieval across the system, ensuring users can efficiently work within their assigned roles and permissions. Applications and tools in this area include Q Home Page, Favorites, Notifications, Locate Students, Preferences, and a variety of supporting utilities such as reports, filters, and messaging tools.
- Q Home Page
- Provides access to applications based on the user’s assigned permissions.
- Favorites
- Allow users to mark frequently accessed applications or reports for quick access from the Main Page and My Favorites widget.
- Home Page Widgets
- Customizable content blocks on the Home Page that provide role-based information and quick links to related applications.
- Notifications
- Alerts users to district-defined events and can be viewed, responded to, or manually created from the Home Page.
- Locate Students
- Allows teachers to record attendance.
- Student Banner
- Provides an at-a-glance view of attendance status.
- Class Banner
- Allows teachers to add students to a roster on the fly and record attendance with entry and exit times, optional attendance codes, and notes.
- Preferences
- Allows the setup of the Drop-In Attendance application.
- Sticky Notes
- Enables users to record attendance for a specified date and period range for individual students or groups of students.
- Shortcuts and Hotkeys
- Allows office clerks and authorized staff to record student attendance, with teachers limited to their scheduled classes.
- Message Editor
- Enables the collection of student attendance time for a set of specified classes.
- Selection Filters
- Enables districts to produce customized letters and or/emails for students that meet a pattern of absences qualifying them as truant based on district-specific rules.
- Reports
- Reports are available under Reports in all Q menu areas and use Report Options, Selections, and Sorts for configuration. Report Sets can be saved at the district, school, or user level, and Analysis reports generate pivot tables.