Release Date 27-09-2021

on SCL 5 we will Introduce SCL Billing System along with some possible automation and online payments for Tutions and School bus

• Introducing new SCL Updates branch “Stable” will only receive SCL updates twice a year and it will be the default update branch for every school unless this changed from system settings
• Transportation Management
  • Flagship
  • Drivers
  • Vehicles
  • Destinations
  • Routes
• Billing
  • Tuition Fees
  • Courses Fees
  • Installments Template
  • Create Payment
    • Ability to get predefined Tuition, Transportation & courses fees along with Installment templates and academic year
    • Ability to override the predefined price for only Tuition & Transportation fees
    • Apply Discount on Tuitions or/and Transportation based on fixed amount or percentage
    • Ability to Create Mass Payment per School grade
    • Once a Transportation Payment has been successfully created the student will be automatically enrolled in the selected route
    • Payment duplication protection, when selecting the same item and student for the same academic year the payment will be disabled and dimmed
  • Create Invoice
  • Settings & Configurations
  • Payment Gateways
    • Cash
    • Bank (Transfer/Deposit)
    • Payment Terminal (POS Terminal)
    • Kashier (Online Payment)
      • Credit/Debit Cards
      • Bank Installments
      • Digital Wallets
  • Transactions Management
  • Invoice Management
    • Allow to Change Status
    • Allow to Add/Delete Transactions
    • Automatically set the invoice to Paid when full payment received
    • Allow to customize or edit invoice items
    • Transactions History
    • Print Invoice
    • Sum Of Installments
    • Ability to modify Invoice Student, Invoice Number, Academic Year or Due Date
    • Private Notes only for Billing
    • Traffic Light Summary to show Total Over, Unpaid & Paid Transactions for all invoices
  • Parent can see all created invoices and they are able to online pay the invoice or print it
  • Notifications
    • Notify Parent with Created Invoice (Push Notification, SMS, Email)
    • Notify Parent with Paid Invoice (Push Notification, SMS, Email)
    • Notify Parent with Created Transaction (Push Notification, SMS, Email)
  • Ability to Set certain Payment Gateway as Default for Parent
  • Introducing all Billing features in SCL latest Mobile Application update
  • Invoice Reminders
    • Automatically notify parent with an invoice before overdue by SCL PM, SMS or/and Email
    • Automatically notify parent with an invoice after invoice overdue by SCL PM, SMS or/and Email
    • Ability to configure & control the Reminders which are 3 different messages templates.
    • Ability to control the notification message platform
  • Automatically Suspend Accounts
    • Automatically Suspend Parent or/and Student account and notify parent only
    • Automatically Unsuspended Parent or/and Student account if has been detected that is been suspended automatically and notify parent only
• Virtual Classrooms
  • Add support to any Third-party Virtual meeting such as Zoom, Google Talk, Microsoft Teams, and any other platforms supporting invitation by URL, features are supported for these services
    • Notifying Students
    • Taking Automated Class Attendance
    • Logging who join only if the user joined from SCL not directly from external
    • Session must be manually terminated by the teacher in both SCL & External platform to be completely offline for all students
  • Waiting room (Users can now request to join)
  • Active talker more visible
  • Showing User Profile picture
  • Webcam is Draggable
  • Notification when speaking and microphone is muted
  • Ability to Share Audio with screen sharing
  • Ability to switch microphone input and audio output
  • One-click poll with Smart Slides
  • Prompt users to type in a poll response
  • Poll results appear in Chat
  • Improved Raise Hand
  • Administrator can control Server Settings from Settings » System Settings » Virtual Classrooms
    • Webcam sharing
    • Screen sharing
    • Mirror Webcam
    • Automatically Join Audio
    • Automatically Share Webcam
    • Skip Audio Test
  • Recording Playback now has many improvements
    • Notes now saved to recording
    • can full-screen presentation
    • Ability to adjust playback speed
    • Can search in presentation slides
    • Polls result if published will be shown on the chat
  • Uploading a new presentation is no longer blocking the main presentation for teachers
  • Assign individual users whiteboard privileges
  • Breakout room Improvements
  • Connectivity status icon
  • Randomly select a user
  • Global event is now can host over 250 participants (Experimental)
  • Ability to select Guest Policy on any type of Virtual Classrooms and ability to change the default of it from System Settings » Virtual Classrooms
• Students Information System
  • Added Student Private notes show to admin only and capable to handle up to 16MB of data
    • Any applicant enrollment will copy applicant notes to student notes
    • All admission applicants notes which have been enrolled previously before this update has their student notes copied to the SIS module
  • Added Invoices Tab for students who have a created invoices
  • Added Student Applicant if the student was enrolled from SCL Admission
  • Ability to Manage and update student bus which only has a created payment for it
• Introducing a reworked Account Suspension where System Administrator can control a single or multiple of the following to be disabled on account suspended
  • Gradebook
  • Progress Report
  • Private Storage
  • Reportcard
  • Skills Assessments
  • Virtual Classrooms
  • Reports
• Ability for the teacher to group message both users group Parent & student in the same message
• Admission Improvements
  • Admission Send Group Message
    • Improve Admission Status to be multiple selections
    • Added Applicant Status to the Admission Newsletter Filteration
    • Added Applicant Academic Year to the Admission Newsletter Filteration
    • Added School Grades to the Admission Newsletter Filteration
  • Displaying assessment status in Applicant Edit
  • Ability to change assessment status from Applicant but you need to set the current phase to assessment to be able to modify it
• Interactive Assignment Improvement
  • Added Similarity to Fill the Blank answer to be adjustable from 0-100%
  • Added Student answer submission date & time when hovering over the student answers in FTB, MCQ & MRQ
• Teacher Interactive Assignments UI/UX & Search has been improved

• Fixed Export assignments report wasn't showing properly the previous quarters assignments
• Fixed Export Gradebook to CSV to check all quarters currently instead of current only before to export as CSV
• Fixed Manage Assignment doesn't update Quarter of assignment if Due date has been changed to different Quarter/Term timeframe
• Increase Applicant private notes maximum size from 64Kb to 16Mb
• Homeroom Attendance become responsive on a low scale portrait resolution devices
• Improved Export to CSV to works better with empty fields
• Gradebook can now be exported at any time even if there a missing grades
• Fixed Arabic messages preview in Private Messages
• Improved Homeroom Attendance on taking student attendance is scroll back to last clicked student
• Fixed Arabic/English message display in Mobile Application
• Fixed Arabic files names wasn't uploaded correctly to Virtual Classroom now any Arabic files will be renamed to English name 'Document and number of File Position'
• Fixed when Including from Private storage to Virtual Classroom will now include all files even in the subdirectories recursively
• Fixed rare issue in report card can't view old report card if grade level has been changed to the new school division
• Fixed Arabic writing in messages
• Fixed issue with Fill the blank wasn't showing properly the dots input as security render engine was blocking it
• Improvement Actions UX in SCL CRUD
• Added new Reportcard template for K12 which is Detailed and have Grade & GPA Columns for each subject
• Fixed issue where report card of previous year showing blank after the grade changed to a different school division
• Fixed issue where skills assessments of previous year showing blank after the grade changed to a different school division
• UX Improvements in Behaviour Incidents list has been rewritten to use the latest SCL CRUD
• Added Suspend parent account individually, and renamed suspend the account in parent users context to suspend parent & children accounts
• Fixed issue if in Admission custom form control in drop-menu get separated with space after the comma
• Added German & French to SCL Text Editor Special Characters
• Fixed Duplicated messages to parents in Newsletter
• Fixed duplicated Group messages for both students and parent
• Fixed HOD Grades ordering to be ordered by first division priority then division name then grade priority and grade name
• Fixed Assignments, Year Settings & Current Groups to be showing correctly when getting back in Academic Year
• UX Improvement for Year settings to show school divisions correctly according to their priority then name and also academic year become dropdown instead of text input
• Fixed Year promoting to avoid deletion of sharing user to users or admin to school grades
• Fixed in admission the enrolled students didn't hide from the applicants
• Fixed in Attendance Daily job sometimes get blocked by a bug in the Job lock
• Fixed Exporting issue where it was in some cases limited to 1000 rows
• Fixed UI in Admission Enroll when the applicant has a sibling
• Fixed Users Groups Landing

SCL Post Patches are Updates within the same major update which could introduce hotfix, minor features, or a security issue

Release Date: 05 October 2021

• New Transportation Reports
  • Routes List
  • Students Routes