Overview

Closing out the current school year and preparing for the upcoming year involves two aspects - District and HSS.  During the month of June, Heartland School Solutions (HSS) makes system preparations for the upcoming year by archiving the “last school year” on www2, migrating the “current” school year from www to www2, and deploying the “upcoming” school year to www.  We have created a checklist for your District to utilize and also outlined the protocol of both the District and HSS.

District Protocol: Pre-End of Year

• Review the 'End of Year' date specified by your District.

• Verify no outstanding applications exist. (Reports | Search Applications: Not Retrieved By App Processing System)
• If outstanding applications exist, retrieve them via Franklin/MSA Client integration (Franklin/MSA Client | Utilities | Online Applications Synchronize | Import Applications)

Note: Once the 'End of Year' date for your District has taken effect, all parents attempting to use the website after this date (and before July 1) will be presented with a message letting them know they can no longer submit online applications for the current school year. 

HSS Protocol: Pre-End of Year

On or about June 1^st, HSS will prepare to perform the End of Year processes on MySchoolApps website and databases.

• All data from the “prior year” school year (www2) will be archived and removed from the database and will not be accessible by your District.

• All data from the “current” school year will be migrated from www.myschoolapps.com to www2.myschoolapps.com and will remain accessible to your District for the remainder of the “current” school year and throughout the “upcoming” school year.

• The database and website for the “upcoming” school year is deployed with the following changes”

  • MySchoolApps.com will be updated with the new Income Eligibility Guidelines.

  • The MySchoolApps Website will be upgraded to the newest version.

  • Should an issue arise, changes can be made prior to Go-Live.

• Applicants will automatically be redirected to www2 for the remainder of the “current” school year where they may either enter an application (if your District’s EOY date has not yet occurred) or receive the District Not Ready message.

• On July 1, all traffic will be automatically directed to www.myschoolapps.com to begin accepting applications for the “upcoming” school year.

District Protocol: Post-End of Year

• You must establish your Auto Start Date.
• If your End of Year Date is other than July 1, you may adjust that date.

 View details to establish the Auto Start Date and End of Year Date.

1. From the District tab, select Settings.

You may also access District Settings from Setup → Application Settings→Misc Setup: District Miscellaneous Setup.

2. Select Misc Setup from the screen.

3. Locate the District Miscellaneous Setup section and edit the Auto Start Date. Edit the End of Year Date if it varies from the June 1 default. Then, click Update.

By default, when the application is not active the 'District Not Ready' displays the information established in Contact Info.

• Review and adjust MySchoolApps settings (Setup | Application Settings) 

• Make any adjustments to Custom Strings (Setup | Custom Strings Languages) - modify specific wording to meet your District's needs, activate languages, add translations.