[ISLMA-Share] emailing overdue notices in Destiny

[Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association]

Thank you everyone!  We have finally gotten permission to do this and I am
very excited to give it a try.  I will keep you posted

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Here are the steps:
>
> 1. go to library reports
> 2. select current checkouts/fines under circulation
> 3. scroll to bottom, go to set up a new report or notice
> 4. select which checked out/overdue materials you would like included
> 5. under format, *select email to homerooms*
> 6. select continue
> 7. this will bring you to the limit page where you can select the patron
> types (staff, students, faculty) you want the overdue notice to go to. you
> can also choose the graduation year***
> 8. continue to final page
> 9.here you can choose to send to all homerooms or choose only certain
> homerooms***
> 10. click on save setup
> 11. you will be prompted to save your report "save as"
> 12. here you can also schedule your report:
>         option to choose: do not schedule: if you want to manually go in
> an run the report
>         OR choose daily or weekly: which will automatically send out the
> overdues as scheduled
>
> *** depending on how big your school is and how many overdues you will be
> sending out at once, you may want to limit who you are sending out the
> overdues to at a given time (given report).  Destiny has a limit that it
> can handle -- I think it's about 70 emails. So, we have a report for each
> grade (6th, 7th, 8th -- chosen by graduating year) because a lot of times
> we have more than 70 overdues at one time.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone help me set up my overdue notices to email the students?  We
>> have 1:1 iPads and I think this would make things so much easier than
>> printing out reports.
>>
>> --
>> Betsy Yager
>> Library Media Specialist
>> Anne Sullivan School
>> Prospect Heights Dist. 23
>> (847) 870-5591
>>
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-- 
Betsy Yager
Library Media Specialist
Anne Sullivan School
Prospect Heights Dist. 23
(847) 870-5591

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