2025

Features to be completed by the end of 2025:

• [x] Transcripts: build and customize a transcript for a student, automatically pulling in school, student, and grade information from Spark, or adding your own.
• [x] Report Center: access grade and attendance reports and transcripts in one location in the Admin navigation.
• [x] Advanced Enrollment:
  • [x] Multi-step application.
  • [x] Applicant login, allowing progress saving.
  • [x] Automatic prefilling of returning applicant data.
  • [ ] Custom data mapping to profiles.
• [ ] Wave Integration: integrate your Wave accounting program with Spark’s billing.

Features for 2026 and beyond:

• [ ] Class Schedule: map out your school’s class schedule.
• [ ] Live Grades: enable live grade updates on guardian portals.
• [ ] Mobile App for Guardians and Staff, forming the basis for the following features:
  • [ ] Classroom Feed: teachers will be able to post pictures and announcements for guardians to view.
  • [ ] Student Check-in System: guardians will be able to check their student in or out quickly and easily using the app, reducing your time and effort to take attendance.
• [ ] Student Portal Overhaul & Portfolios: we plan to give students more ownership of their education through allowing them to record samples of their work in a portfolio and creating their own goals.
• [ ] Email Upgrades: create email templates for specific tasks, plus brand your emails with your school’s colors and themes.
• [ ] Course Marketplace: share your courses with other schools in the Spark network, or sell courses for a profit!
• [ ] Voucher Management: manage ESAs and other educational vouchers in the Billing feature.
• [ ] Integrations: We plan to enable priority integrations with other apps and programs used by our schools.

Features planned to be complete by the end of August, 2025:

Right now, we are rounding out our program to provide almost anything a teacher and student would need to manage their education, always keeping flexibility and ease-of-use as our goal.

• [x] Mastery Grade Scale: we will enable the Spark gradebook to support mastery grading systems as well as traditional. We’re also adding a traditional points-based grade scale.