Feature Plan - District and School Management : Aeries Software

Key Expectations

What are the “Must Haves” in order for our customers to consider District and School management to be vastly improved in Next Gen?

All settings/options should be in one place instead of spreading on multiple pages/areas. Related options/settings should be grouped together. Probably using tabs / links to connect them
Only applicable options should be visible. Ex: don’t show any Period Att options if a school is Elem Daily Att
Advanced settings such as Third Parties, Portal, Mobile App, Portal Account Management, Security for External Connections, OneRoster, Online Enrollment, LDAP should be in a separate area
Options/Settings search should help users find an option easier
Information/Impact of an option should be clearly stated on the page Option/Setting text should be stated in a positive way
Permissions to update options/settings should be assigned to a section of options, not all or nothing.

School Options and District Options will be on 2 separate pages
Related options will be grouped together
Some of the Advanced/Technical options will be moved to a separate area
An Option Filter will be available to make it easier to search
Information/Impact of an option will be clearly stated on the page
Some option sections will require special permissions to update
School Contact can be linked to Staff
District/School can have multiple locations/addresses, but one will be the primary/default location/address
Most options will have an effective year to handle longitudinal database

District Settings on 1 page with tabs for related areas:

District Settings page with global filter on the word "email"

School Settings page with tabs for related areas

District and School Options will be easier to configure in Aeries NextGen.
Having the options in one place along with the grouping of related options and the Option Filter will allow users to configure quickly a feature.
Also, the requirement of special permissions to update these option sections would allow district to lock down some highly impacted options.