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Newton End of Year Instructions - 2019-2020 School Year

The following document will guide you through the End of Year procedure for Newton.

Warning

Warning

Please read the following document in its entirety before attempting the End of Year procedure.

Note

Microsoft Task Scheduler

MCS Software highly recommends disabling ALL scheduled jobs in the Microsoft Task Scheduler, especially enrollment system updates, prior to running the End of Year process. Please confirm this is complete prior to proceeding further. You should consider re-enabling scheduled jobs when you initiate the Beginning of Year process. For more information, refer to the Beginning of Year documentation.

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  1. From the Utilities tab, locate Advanced in the ribbon. Then, select End of Year.

  2. Establish End of Year criteria. 

    1. Clear Negative Balances - Changes all balances that are negative to a zero balance. The student will start the new year with a zero balance.

    2. Clear Positive Balances - Changes all balances that are positive or greater than zero to a zero balance. The student will start the new year with a zero balance.

    3. Clear district-wide see-manager comments - Clears all See-Manager comments in the District.

    4. Perform housekeeping - This item should remain selected unless the District is instructed to deselect this by an MCS Support Representative. MCS remote authorization will need to be obtained to continue without selecting this option.

  3. When you have completed any changes, you must check the box verifying you have read the end-of-year instructions. Note that there is no undo available once these processes have completed. Click Ok.

  4. You will see a number of processes running run while End of Year attempts to complete.

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  5. Once the End of Year process has completed, a window will appear notifying you if the process was successful. Click Ok to exit the program.

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Tip

The End of Year processes for Newton are now complete and you are ready to start the new school year.
With the continued synchronizations with DataCenter, all newly enrolled students and updates to student accounts will continue to automatically populate the Newton POS system.