TracCloudWhatsNew
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This page highlights some of the recent changes made to the TracCloud platform, and how you can utilize them on your own instance. A list of past changes and a full changelog can be found in the tabs above.
If you have any questions about these changes, feel free to reach out to us on our helpdesk.
Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions allows you to create a prompt that appears for students when they're logging in or booking an appointment. The prompt will contain a custom message, which the student will have to agree to before continuing. While Terms/Conditions are of course the typical use-case, this feature can also be used for any purpose where a student would need to agree to a statement before having full access to the system.
1. Creating a new Term/Condition
Navigate to Other > Listings > Terms and Conditions. This will take you to the Terms and Conditions listing, where you can view or edit and previous entries. To create a new Term/Condition, click the hamburger icon and select New Terms and Conditions.
If your SysAdmin account doesn't have access to these options, jump to step 2 and apply those same changes to your SysAdmin group.
This will take you to the Terms and Conditions entry screen.
- Name
- This will be the title of this Term/Condition. This will be displayed across the top of the prompt when shown to students.
- This will be the title of this Term/Condition. This will be displayed across the top of the prompt when shown to students.
- Responses
- This will display a list of students who have accepted these terms/conditions and the date of acceptance.
- This will display a list of students who have accepted these terms/conditions and the date of acceptance.
- Text Entry Area
- This is where you can write out the text of this Term/Condition that students will need to agree to before continuing. If you wish to add custom field inputs to be answered by the student, this can be entered as {#custom:field_name#}. See example screenshots below. More information on custom fields can be found here.
- Linked to Student List
- Only display these terms/conditions to students on the specified list.
- Only display these terms/conditions to students on the specified list.
- Linked to Section / Subject
- Terms and Conditions can be assigned to a specific subject, section, or all courses, depending on if this term/condition needs to be specific to a certain subject. If selected, an additional entry field will appear where you can choose the section/subject. This will only work with sections that students are registered for; non-enrolled courses will not trigger the terms/conditions to appear.
- Terms and Conditions can be assigned to a specific subject, section, or all courses, depending on if this term/condition needs to be specific to a certain subject. If selected, an additional entry field will appear where you can choose the section/subject. This will only work with sections that students are registered for; non-enrolled courses will not trigger the terms/conditions to appear.
- Profile / Center
- This is where you can assign this Term/Condition to a specific profile or center.
- This is where you can assign this Term/Condition to a specific profile or center.
- Valid For
- This option allows you to determine how long the Term/Condition agreement is valid for. There are three options.
- 1. Life – Never resets. Once Confirmed, the student will not see the Terms and Conditions again unless this option is changed.
- 2. Term – Resets after each semester. When next semester term switches over, the students will be asked again to agree to the Terms and Conditions once again.
- 3. Days - This option allows you set a custom length (e.g., 30 days, 90 days, etc).
- Displayed When
- This option determines where the student will see the Terms and Conditions prompt.
- 1. None - Inactive. This will deactivate this Term/Condition, and will no longer be displayed to students.
- 2. Student Main Menu - This will display as soon as the student logs into their account. Students will not be able to continue until the Terms/Conditions prompt has been confirmed.
- 3. Student Kiosk Login - This prompt will appear when a student attempts to login for a visit via a Kiosk, at which time they will be presented with the Terms and Conditions.
- 4. Student Booking Appointment - This prompt appears when a student selects an available time from the "Schedule an Appointment" widget on their dashboard. The Terms and Conditions must be confirmed before they can book an appointment.
- Accept Button Label
- This allows you to customize the name of the confirm button (e.g., "I agree").
- This allows you to customize the name of the confirm button (e.g., "I agree").
- Require Initials
- This requires the student to enter their initials before confirming, as a form of e-signature.
- This requires the student to enter their initials before confirming, as a form of e-signature.
- Allow Enter Notes
- This provides students the ability to enter in a note when filling out the Terms and Conditions.
- This provides students the ability to enter in a note when filling out the Terms and Conditions.
- Notes Instructions
- This is additional instructional text that will appear just above the notes field described above.
2. Group Settings
If you need to allow another set of staff members in your TracCloud instance to access/modify Terms and Conditions, you will need to apply a change to their permission group. Specifically, the Terms and Conditions option will need to be added to Table Access as seen below. This can either be set to View and Edit for full access, or View Only, if you don't want these users making any changes.
Other > Other Options > Groups > [The group you want to edit] > Admin / Modules > Table Access
3. Example Configuration
The screenshot below shows an example of how Terms and Conditions can be configured, and how it displays to students.
Here's how that prompt looks to a student when logging into their account.
After the student agrees, the record of this agreement will appear in their Time Line as seen below.
4. Allowing Students to View Accepted Terms and Conditions
In order for students to be able to view terms and conditions that they've previously accepted, a system preference needs to be enabled. Go to Other > Other Options > Preferences > System Preferences > General Appointment Settings > Check "Allow students to view accepted Terms and Conditions on dashboard" > Save. Once enabled, students will see this button on their main menu next to the calendar URL. Clicking it will open a list of terms and conditions they've accepted, where they can see their response and the terms themselves by clicking on the arrow button.
2021-12-21 | KIOSK Queue Mode
A Queue mode can now be accessed from a Kiosk or Log Listing page, allowing you to view students who are currently waiting to be seen. An example use-case for this is a student-facing queue where users can see where they are in line. This can be accessed by clicking the Computer icon from any Log Listing view as a staff member. The information visible is determined by your Log In/Out Preferences.
Students Listing
Student data is one of the most important parts of your Trac System, on top of being the record that all their visits, appointments, documents, and more are assigned to, you also have the student's information directly. You can run reports on visits grouped by student majors, or send emails to students of a certain class, cohort, or any other field you have available. This article goes over some of the ways you can search for these records.
The Students Listing itself (found by clicking 'Students' in the Navigation Bar) contains all student records uploaded to your Trac System. From this page, we're able to manage student data in bulk, creating lists, sending emails, or submitting SAGE referrals, or we can open a specific student record and manage just one student profile at a time.
Each column of information displayed has a clickable header that will sort the listing accordingly. Clicking once sorts ascending, a second click will sort descending.
Using the Search Bar on this screen, we can easily perform quick searches to find specific students. Right clicking in the search bar (shown below) will provide a list of available student fields to search, click any of these to auto-fill the search bar.
Example Searches:
- Find a student by a single value, such as ID. Specifying 'Students.ID=' actually isn't required for ID or Name searches, but it works well as an example.
- Students.ID=1931
- Students.ID=1931
- ...or name. Names should be formatted as 'Last, First' or 'First M Last'. 'First Last' will also work if middle names are not being imported.
- Day, Rob
- Day, Rob
- Search multiple fields at once, separate your searches by a space.
- Students.Major=Mathematics Students.Class=Sophomore
- Students.Major=Mathematics Students.Class=Sophomore
- When performing multiple searches where at least one field contains a space, make sure to surround the contents you're searching for with quotation marks.
- Students.Major="Chemical Engineering" Students.Status=Active
- Students.Major="Chemical Engineering" Students.Status=Active
- Search in Custom Fields. It's recommended to use the right-click menu to select these, as it will always auto-fill the correct field name.
- #sql:InState#=Yes
- #sql:InState#=Yes
- Date searches such as this are required to be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD
- Students.BirthDate=1993-07-16
- Students.BirthDate=1993-07-16
Students Search
The Student Listing also has a unique Search utility found in the hamburger menu . This utility has the ability to search related tables to find relevant students. This includes the ability to run searches such as "students who have had appointments in the last 7 days" or "students who have ongoing referrals."
- Search Type
- This can be set to New Search, Search Selection, Remove found from Selection, or Add found to Selection, depending on the desired effect of this search.
- General Info tab
- This tab is where you can search for basic information about the student. ID, Status, Name, etc.
- Appointments
- This tab allows you to search for students by appointment information. For example, "students who had an appointment from 02/10 to 02/20 with a status of Missed."
- Visits
- This tab allows you to search for students by visit info. For example, "students who visited more than 2 times from 02/10 to 02/20 where the subject was MAT100."
- Registration
- This tab allows you to search for students by registration info. For example, "students who are actively enrolled in more than one math course."
- Documents
- This allows you to search for students by documents. "Students who have a document of a certain filename uploaded in the last month."
- Surveys
- Students who have received or responded to a survey in a certain time period. Requires SurveyTrac.
- SAGE Referrals
- Students who have ongoing or completed referrals of a specific type in a specified date range. Requires SAGE.
- Resources
- This tab allows you to search for students by their resource usage, whether they have certain items checked out or overdue.
Hamburger Menu
Every listing page in the Trac System features a hamburger menu with utilities to search for or interact with your list of records. Some of these options are specific to a certain listing/record-type, others are shared. The following list includes definitions for the hamburger menu options available on this listing, and how they can be utilized.
- List All
- This option will show all records on the current listing. Some listings have an additional toggle for only showing "Active" records, such as Students and Registrations, which will still override a "List All" search if checked.
- This option will show all records on the current listing. Some listings have an additional toggle for only showing "Active" records, such as Students and Registrations, which will still override a "List All" search if checked.
- Search
- This utility will open a pop-up window unique to each Listing it's present on, allowing you to search your records by a number of different fields. In the case of the Student Listing, you could use this to search related records, such as 'Students who have at least 2 Visits in the Learning Center' or 'Students with a recent Document upload in their timeline.'
- Power Search
- This option provides a simple but powerful search utility to find the records you need. String together multiple searches, adding or removing results for each. Use Search Symbols to include ranges of data, and Save Searches for later use if needed. The search term 'blankornull' can be used to find all records with a value of nothing ("") or null ().
- Search by Term Enrollment
- Allows you to search based on the students' enrollment in a specific term or multiple terms. The example search below would show students who are enrolled in a 2023SP registration AND are not enrolled in a 2023FA registration.
- Allows you to search based on the students' enrollment in a specific term or multiple terms. The example search below would show students who are enrolled in a 2023SP registration AND are not enrolled in a 2023FA registration.
- Lists
- See Student Lists and Watch Lists for more information.
- See Student Lists and Watch Lists for more information.
- Saved Searches
- See Saved Searches for more information.
- See Saved Searches for more information.
- Find/Merge Duplicates
- These utilities can be used to cleanup duplicate records in your Trac System. We highly recommend reaching out to Redrock Support directly for assistance in cleaning up this data.
- These utilities can be used to cleanup duplicate records in your Trac System. We highly recommend reaching out to Redrock Support directly for assistance in cleaning up this data.
- Find by Values
- This utility can be used to search one field for multiple values. If you have a spreadsheet containing a list of student IDs, this is an easy way to pull up the same list of students in TracCloud by copying the ID column into this search field.
- Change Field Values
- This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
- This utility allows you to make modifications in to your records in bulk. Similar to the Merge Duplicates utility, we highly recommend coordinating with Redrock Support directly on this setting.
- Selected...
- The Selection Tool offers several options to filter and manage your records. More information on this feature can be found in its own dedicated article here.
- The Selection Tool offers several options to filter and manage your records. More information on this feature can be found in its own dedicated article here.
- Views
- See Views for more information.
- See Views for more information.
- Send Survey
- Allows you to send a survey to the current user list. More information.
- Allows you to send a survey to the current user list. More information.
- Register In
- Allows you to quickly enroll a student in a new registration. Depending on your import configuration, manually recreated registrations may be deactivated during your auto-import.
- Allows you to quickly enroll a student in a new registration. Depending on your import configuration, manually recreated registrations may be deactivated during your auto-import.
- Assign Success Plan
- Allows you to assign a new Success Plan to the current student list. More information.
- Allows you to assign a new Success Plan to the current student list. More information.
- Create Referral
- Allows you to create a batch referral through SAGE. More information.
- Allows you to create a batch referral through SAGE. More information.
- Create Task
- Allows you to send a task to the current student list. More information.
- Allows you to send a task to the current student list. More information.
- Toggle Photos
- Enable or disable student photos on the Student Listing.
- Enable or disable student photos on the Student Listing.
- Create Chart
- Based on the data currently being viewed a chart can be generated to visually illustrate the relationships in the data.
- Based on the data currently being viewed a chart can be generated to visually illustrate the relationships in the data.
- Export CSV
- Export current listing contents to a CSV file.
- Export current listing contents to a CSV file.
- Send Email
- Allows you to send an email directly to a list of users.
- Allows you to send an email directly to a list of users.
- Send Email to Faculty
- This email utility allows you to email faculty linked to student registrations. The faculty recipients can be determined by subject, status, and grade. One email will be sent per linked registration, so if there are 3 students listed enrolled in MAT100 with Dave Smith, Dave Smith will receive 3 emails. Faculty recipients can also be filtered by scheduled day/time if section schedule is being imported.
- Show these <records>
- This utility takes your selection of records, finds the related records, and takes you to that listing with the resulting records. For example, on the Registration listing, you can "Show these Students" to display the student records for the registrations that you were viewing.
- This utility takes your selection of records, finds the related records, and takes you to that listing with the resulting records. For example, on the Registration listing, you can "Show these Students" to display the student records for the registrations that you were viewing.
- Allows you to print the contents of the current listing, by extension this also allows you to export the current list as a PDF file.
- Allows you to print the contents of the current listing, by extension this also allows you to export the current list as a PDF file.
- New <Record>
- Allows you to create a new record based on your selected listing.
- Allows you to create a new record based on your selected listing.
See Also