JMC Starting the 13-14 School Year Checklist - New Client - Manual (Page 4)

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Review the reasons for student’s absences and cutoffs for full/half day attendance
in Period Attendance
 Data  Edit Reasons and Cutoffs. Add or delete any
reasons as is necessary and review all checkmarks in the “Include in conversion”
column.
Standards and Benchmarks
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The Standards and Benchmarks module is typically used for elementary (K-5)
report cards. Please contact Sara Freid (email: [email protected]) at JMC to get
the process started if you are interested in utilizing elementary report cards
through JMC.
Health
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We recommend that all Health Professionals view the “Next-Gen Introduction to
Health Module” instructional video.
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Review and add/remove Health History Categories in Health  Data  Health
History Categories. The Health History Categories settings are saved on each
local computer.
Lunch Module
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Please view the “Setting Up Lunch” instructional video. Follow the instructions
given in the video.
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If you use Family Lunch Accounts, create lunch contacts for all new students
using Lunch
 Data  Initialize Family Lunch Contacts. This should not be done
until all primary contacts have been entered in the Attendance module and
attached to each student.
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Adjust lunch contacts for any students who have lunch contacts that are different
than their primary contact in Edit
 Student Data.
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Enter meal prices and (optional) the state and federal reimbursements in Lunch 
Data  Edit Meal Prices.
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For all parents/guardians who applied for free or reduced status, determine free
and reduced status in Lunch
 Data  Determine Free or Reduced Status.
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New Teachers/Office/Administrator/Staff should have a lunch account created for
them. This is done by creating each of them as a new student (in Edit
 Student
Data) and making their grade level “Adult.” This means they are recorded as an
adult. You will need to choose a price group from the pop-up menu. (It usually
doesn’t matter which price group you choose because adults typically pay the
same price no matter what price group they are in). Uncheck their Attend, State
Reporting, Rank, and Honor Roll flags/boxes in the General tab. You can leave
the Active flag/box checked or uncheck it. Since adults are in their own grade
level many schools will leave it checked so they can print labels, send emails, run
reports etc. for the adults entered in JMC. Also, you can only see/edit adults by
choosing the “Adult” grade level in the pop-up menu on the top right corner of the
screen.