2025

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.

• [ ] 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.
• [ ] Term and School Calendar overhaul: we plan to integrate these into a seamless calendar with a user-friendly interface.
• [ ] SMS: we’ll add the ability to send bulk text messages through our communications feature.
• [ ] Advanced Enrollment: We plan to develop a more robust enrollment system that includes features such as secondary forms (e.g., Interest Forms or supplemental information requests) and applicant login functionality, allowing applicants to save progress and access their application at any time.
• [ ] Initial Mobile App

Features planned for the rest of 2025 and beyond:

• [ ] Mobile App for Guardians and Staff, forming the basis for the following features:
  • [ ] 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.
  • [ ] Classroom Feed: teachers will be able to post pictures and announcements for guardians to view.
• [ ] 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!

Features we completed Q1 & Q2, 2025:

• [x] Quick Emails: send an email from anywhere in your Spark platform.
• [x] Form Payments: you will be able to attach a payment request to a form, or send a quick payment request that is unattached to a form or invoice.
• [x] Form Requests: you’ll be able to send form requests to Spark users and attach submissions to student, guardian, or staff profiles.
• [x] New Help Docs: our main site will receive the addition of a complete library of help pages with step-by-step instructions and FAQ’s to answer your questions.
• [x] Guardian File Uploading: guardians will be able to upload important files via their Guardian Portal. Files will be attached to guardian and student information sections.