Announcing Aspen 4.0

FOLLETT SOFTWARE COMPANY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

ASPEN 4.0 HAS ARRIVED
     

 

  

ASPEN 4.0 IS A COMMUNITY DRIVEN RELEASE

Aspen users are part of a dedicated user community. We are pleased to announce that the latest enhancements to the Aspen Student Information System were chosen by our advisory council, which consists of new and existing users. We are proud that our customers' wants and needs drive the development of our product.

Introduction to Aspen 4.0

Date: Friday, February 17, 2012
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Learn more

  

PREPARE FOR YOUR ASPEN 4.0 UPGRADE

For Follett-Hosted Districts: Updates will begin at 4 pm EST and end at 10 pm EST on the date provided in the announcement email you received. Aspen will be inaccessible during the upgrade.

For Self-Hosted Districts: Starting Friday, February 17, self-hosted districts may login to Pando and use the Schedule Upgrade workflow to request a date for installing the upgrade on your servers.
   

ASPEN 4.O HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

FIND OUT WHAT ASPEN 4.0 MEANS TO YOU

CORE FUNCTIONALITY

  
Improved Help Functionality: Add custom fields and templates via a rich text editor. This is especially helpful for any user-defined fields you've added.

Make better decisions: New functionality allows you to run analytics and create Quick Charts for any table in the system.
 

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

  

Allow students and parents to report bullying incidents: The new bullying workflow allows parents or students to report bullying incidents from the Family and Student portals. Users can submit anonymous reports, and an investigation checklist workflow supports and follows the investigation through to resolution.

Demote/Promote a student mid-year: The Aspen 4.0 release allows students to be demoted or promoted mid-year while retaining appropriate grade levels.

Customize your Pages layout: New layout options for Pages include drag-and-drop widgets for easier addition and deletion of widgets.

Create Student Groups: Non-academic student groups, like clubs or sports, can now have a Page listing group events. You can even separate class sections into different pages. The possibilities for student engagement and collaboration are endless.

TEACHERS

   Easier ways for teachers to communicate assignments: Teachers can now add public and private comments on individual assignment scores and better manage their own notes on assignments, while providing students with valuable feedback to impact student learning. New emailing functionality allows you to easily send emails with attachments to students and/or parents, as well as see parent names and the student(s) associated with each parent contact.

Extend assignment options: Assignment descriptions now use a rich text editor, allowing formatting and hyperlinks to be added with each assignment. You can also add an attachment for students to download.
 

NURSES

   Automate student health care: Health view users can auto-populate visit type, complaint, treatment and action for scheduled medical visits.Aspen 4.0 now allows users to inventory and dispense non-prescription (PRN) medication.
 

RELEASE NOTES

  

For more information, please see the  4.0 release notes.

  • Release notes for all users.  Click here

  • Release notes for users of the Health View.  Click here

  • Release notes for users of the Family and Student Portals.  Click here

  • Release notes for schedulers.  Click here

  • Release notes for school administrators.  Click here

  • Release notes for users of the Special Education view.  Click here

  • Release notes for users of the staff view and teacher gradebook.  Click here

  • Release notes for Aspen System Adminstrators.  Click here