New Features

We like to keep you up to date with the new features in MINTclass and you can see these on this page.

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Changing Form/Tutor Group - May 2021
You can now change your Form/Tutor Group yourself by simply open the Staff Card (click on your name in the top left-hand corner of MINTclass).


For more information click HERE
Bulk Copy Plans V2 - 24th March 2021
We have just updated the Bulk Copy Plan - You can now copy ANY plan to ANY lesson.  We really hope this helps.

For more information click HERE
Enhancement to Cortex
As an Admin user, you can now Manage all groups in school from within Cortex.

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For more information click HERE
New Release  5.8 November 2020
Our lovely development team have added some more useful updates for you.  Full release notes can be found HERE.

Highlights include:

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Print Student Grades

Bulk Copy seating plans

Bulk download plans by student


COVID-19 Enhancements
With this new build, we have also included a couple of new features that we hope will assist schools with identifying students who may have sat 'near' someone who has had a positive COVID-19 test and also assist with replicating plans.

Print all plans for a Student
You can now download all plans for an individual student in the same way you could for a teacher, year, subject etc.


For more information click HERE

Bulk Copy Plans

Anyone with admin access to MINTclass can also copy a plan to all lessons in a day saving teachers time and ensuring plans remain the same lesson after lesson.



For more information click HERE

Exciting  New Module coming soon
MINTclass is releasing a totally new innovative module to cover Detentions.  Interested?

You can create detentions, assign students, create seating plans, record attendance, comprehensive reporting and much more.

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Want to see it in action - why not book a demo.
New Release 5.6 July 2019
Our lovely developers have added some more useful updates for you.  Full release notes can be found HERE.

Highlights include:
More reports in the Writeback module
Bulk change result sets
Bulk delete room templates
Remove On Report flag
Automatically revoke access to MINTclass for staff who have left

Bulk Change Result Sets

There is a new ‘Bulk change result sets’ button in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

 

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When you click on this you will see the new Bulk Change Result Sets screen.

 

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For more information click HERE
Bulk Delete Room Templates

Select the template you wish to delete by clicking in the tick box just to the left of each template.

 

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For more information click HERE
Remove 'On Report' Flag

If you do not want to use the ‘On Report’ alert in MINTclass you can now switch this off.  Log in as an admin user and navigate to Cortex - Misc - School Settings.

 

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For more information click HERE
New Release 5.5 May 2019
We have added another batch of additions and improvements to MINTclass.  Full release notes can be found HERE.

Highlights Include:
See On Report students
Print all reports in the write-back module
Bulk Make Master templates
Email staff when conduct events are logged
On Report Flag
Any student marked in SIMs as ‘on report’ will now have the banner ‘ON REPORT’ under their picture.

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More information can be found HERE
Print Conduct Reports
Printing reports
Select any report and the print button will be visible in the top right-hand corner of the screen.  Click on PRINT to print the report.
 
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More information can be found HERE
Bulk assign Master Templates
Log into MINTclass as an admin user and navigate to Cortex - Misc
Now click on the new Manage Templates button

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More information can be found HERE
Conduct Notifications
Sometimes it's important that certain members of staff are notified when a particular conduct event is created.  We have added staff email notifications to the Write Back module.

You need the Writeback module to access this.  If you would like further information on the Writeback module please email sales@tucasi.com or click HERE.

Log in as an Admin user and navigate to Cortex Configuration and then click on the new Conduct Notification button.

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More information can be found HERE
New Release 5.4 March 2019
We have made a number of updates to MINTclass.  Full release notes can be found HERE

We have also added the ability to link to documents within Teacher planner

We hope you find these additions and updates useful and watch out for another release soon.
Printing Class Card
We have, after receiving many requests, added the ability to print that screen.  Simply open the class card and then click on the Print button in the top right-hand corner.   You can still download the entire class card to Excel.

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This will open the Print screen in a new window allowing you to continue using MINTclass. When you are ready to print, click on the PRINT button in the top right-hand corner of the print screen.

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For more information click - HERE

Printing Individual Student SEN information
You can now print an individual students Strategy from within MINTclass. Click on the student name to open the student profile then click on the Strategies Tab.

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Next, click on the new PRINT button in the top right-hand corner of the student profile.  This will open the Strategy print screen in a new tab so you can continue to use MINTclass.

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For more information click - HERE


Additonal Behaviour Reports
Additions to Behaviour Reports - March 2019
We are constantly adding to our Behaviour and Achievement reporting repository and after receiving a number of requests for ‘date range' filter, Achievement or Behaviour only filter we have added these to this build.  There are more to come so keep an eye out for further releases this year.

You need the Writeback module to access this.  If you would like further information on the Writeback module please email sales@tucasi.com or click here.

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For more information click - HERE
CORTEX - Student Search
Type the name of the student in the Name field and click on Search

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As you can see you can type all or part of the student name to allow you to restrict your results more thoroughly.

For more information click - HERE
Additional Stratagies
You will now see these additional features when you click on the Edit Strategy icon for a student.

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This is how it may look from within Seatplanner.

 
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For more information click - HERE

School Defined Colour Tagging
Go to Cortex Configuration Colour Tagging Setup

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Click in the Global tick box next to each colour you wish to set at School Level then simply type the name for the colour.

For more information click - HERE