Let's get better together! We're looking for you to suggest and vote on your most-requested features. With your help, we want to turn today's good product into next school year's great product!

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Planned

Add ability to specify 2 or more explicit days in a single availability day/time field

Mary Hurst 7 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 4 years ago 2

Right now, an asterisk (*) can be used to signify that an availability time span applies to all days in the rotation (week).  Otherwise, it takes multiple entries to cover multiple days:

  • Mon 3:00 PM
  • Tue 3:00 PM
  • Thu 3:00 PM
  • Fri 3:00 PM

It would be nice if there were a way to specify multiple days in a single entry.  Something like this:

  • [Mon,Tue,Thu,Fri] 3:00 PM

This would reduce the number of availability entries that users have to enter.

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Completed

Allow AM and PM preschool to be separated out without specifying multiple Student Rotations

Jonathan (Founder) 7 years ago updated 4 years ago 4

Right now, the only feasible way to separate out AM and PM preschool is to specify multiple Student Rotations, which is overkill when the same days of the week are used.


Improve how the scheduler handles situations like this to avoid unnecessarily cascading multiple Student Rotations.

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Under review

Add a new "Minimize Bonus Overtime" optimization preference

MHurst 7 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 7 years ago 1

The whole "can optionally dismiss at" thing causes problems....not horrible problems but I'm curious if there's a parameter I can set as important that has to do with matching session lengths for kids...


First, most of these kids are very little and have to be escorted back to class so they will not likely actually get dismissed early.

I cannot bill for the extra time. I'm also really not supposed to take them more than their service time (due to LRE, of course).

I'd have to put in the kids' billing in individual sessions instead of in groups which takes longer than group billing. If I bill the group, it'll overbill for the kids who need less time.

It's a bit of an audit nightmare.

Thoughts??

Thanks so much!

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Under review

Add ability to specify a "Prefer Not" availability entry for the therapist

Jonathan (Founder) 8 years ago updated 8 years ago 1

Many times, a therapist is asked to keep certain blocks free. However, it may be negotiable depending on the size of a caseload.


This request is to add another element to the availability entry dropdown. Along with "Must Not", this would also add a new "Prefer Not" field.

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Under review

Add an option to "view" a read-only version of the caseload

tcolbert 8 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 8 years ago 1

This is useful when you wish to view your caseload details, without interrupting the in-progress candidate schedules.

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Completed

Set default for service minutes to "rotation" instead of quarter

tashachaney 8 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 7 years ago 2

In my experience, most SLP's write their service minutes either weekly or monthly, not quarterly. It would have saved a lot of clicks if "rotation" was the default.

Answer
Jonathan (Founder) 7 years ago

I'm pleased to announce that this feature request has been completed, and will roll out to the servers later today.


An overwhelming 74% of sessions in last year's caseload data used "Rotation".  Only 10% used "Quarter".


Thanks for the tip!

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Completed

Allow ability to search by student, teacher and time

Jennifer Kay-Williams 8 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 7 years ago 4
Answer
Jonathan (Founder) 7 years ago

Since SLP Scheduler is designed to run within a browser on any device, this feature is already provided by your browser. More information can be found here: How do I search within my caseload?


Hopefully, you'll need to do less searching to start with, with the implementation of the following feature: Simplify caseload entry when multiple students have same availability restrictions

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Under review

Add a memo/comment field for every teacher

kesebzda 5 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 4 years ago 1

Add a "memo" or "comment" field for every teacher, that would allow miscellaneous notes of any type (including numbers). This could contain room numbers, building names, hallway locations, or even grade-level reminders (all of which might leverage numbers).

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Completed

Reduce scrolling in Caseload Editor

kesebzda 5 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 4 years ago 2

I would love to have tabs at the top or on the side of the "edit caseload" page (ex. one for each of the subheadings like buildings, teachers, teachers, class schedules, etc.). It is so much to scroll through up and down the way it is now and would make it faster for me to make changes, especially at the beginning of the year.

Answer
Jonathan (Founder) 4 years ago

This feature has been completed, and is now live on slpscheduler.com.  The new version of the Caseload Editor now contains a tabbed interface, with sections for each logical area.  The need for scrolling is much reduced.

Please let us know what you think!

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Completed

Add CSV/Excel/spreadsheet result format

tcolbert 6 years ago updated by Jonathan (Founder) 3 years ago 4 1 duplicate

I am wondering if there is a way to generate a report listing of student, teachers, and scheduled times into a CSV program or similar.