Latest News 2025
Term 1 - Need to Know - Training and Support for ICON Administration Staff and Leaders
20 January 2025
The ICON Training and Knowledge Consulting Team will provide support, training, and refresher workshops, as well as appropriate online support materials to help administration staff and leaders in ICON schools perform critical activities during Term 1.
Key activities, training, and support resources are outlined in the Term 1 - Need to Know document.
New principals and administrative staff at ICON schools can register for training which is listed on OPL, or contact the training team for alternative arrangements via email: icontrainingadmin@macs.vic.edu.au.
Refresher workshops and online resources for key term 1 activities are available. Term 1 Training & Refresher workshops are outlined here.
The Admin Duty Planner outlines key activities by term for admin staff in ICON schools.
Access Quick Reference Guides, training manuals, presentations, and other ICON application reference material via the ICON School Resources Google Drive or relevant support pages https://www.icon.cecv.catholic.edu.au/application-support.
eSIS – Upgrade January 6-7, 2025
20 January 2025
The latest eSIS upgrade incorporated several enhancements and bug fixes. Detailed information on these improvements can be found in Release Notes V 71.43.
Enhancements
Medical Incidents (Sick Bay) Module in SynClient & Synweb
The upgrade included enhanced functionality for recording medical incidents, ensuring better compliance with the MACS Medical Management Plan, Administration of Medication, and First Aid policies.
New features include:
Recording parent contact when a student is in the Sick Bay.
Documenting the administration of medication in the Sick Bay.
Conducting and recording a Head Injury Assessment in the Sick Bay.
Emailing incident reports to parents from Medical Maintenance.
Pre-filling the correct fields in Absence Event creation when signing a student out of the Sick Bay.
Resources: Links to updated Medical incident instructional materials will be provided as soon as they are available.
Other enhancements include:
Finance Past Postings Fix
Reversal of Bounced Payments (Finance): Prevent staff from editing a closed posting to enter reversed bounced payments and enable them to record it in a different posting.