Release Date 20-01-2023

SCL 5.6 will bring stability and will focus more on adding more features to Admission & Creating significant new part, which is Automation with some other Student Information System Updates

• Admission (New Features)
  • Age Calculation will now show months & days
  • Added New Columns for Applicants Display
    • Assessments Scheduled Date
    • Parent Interview Scheduled Date
    • Payment Scheduled Date
  • On clicking Finish during Applying to admission, the finish button will be disabled to disallow users with a slow connection to duplicate the action
  • Improved Admission when submitted and then clicked on back, will start a new empty form to reduce any user action duplication
  • Added New Form Control Types
    • Date
    • File (1 File per Form, maximum size 2 MB per file)
  • Added next-generation Documents Manager to Applicants
  • On Enrolling the Student, all Applicant Documents will be now copied to Student Documents in (Students Information System)
  • Admission Status changer is now can be updated on the fly instead of the popup hassle
  • Admission form validation security has been increased to always get server-side validation as an additional layer to client-side validation
• Added a notification action control to Notification Settings for “Modified Medical History.”
• New Security Layer (Power Level), which will prevent other users group with lower power levels from doing the following actions with users groups has higher power
  • Maximum allowed modification User group power is the power that the User inherited from the group settings
  • Cannot edit/delete/copy User groups with higher power
  • Hide User Groups with lower power
  • Cannot log in as a User with higher power
  • Cannot Logout Users from all devices with higher power
  • Cannot Change user password with higher power
  • Cannot Edit User with higher power
  • Cannot Delete Users with higher power
  • Only Show User group selection & additional group selection with lower or equal power to user power
• Introducing a rework of Student Documents
  • Improved UX/UI
  • Ability to see most files by clicking on them instead of previously just downloading files
  • quicker to upload and delete files by seeing upload progress
• Created a new Pie chart showing in both parent & Student interface the total spent time reading
• Mobile Application (Updates)
  • Support Opening links in Weekly Bulletin entries
  • Huge rework on Authentication & Logout for server-side to minimize any logic error, especially with Administrator Two-Factor Authentication
  • Huge rework on Push Notification registration and handling for better results
• Added to Behaviour Incident Last Updated has been made by who and when
• Added Thumbnail to Student file answer
• Reports (New Reports)
  • Added New Report Category, Private Storage
  • Added Private Storage overview report
    • Filter Teachers who uploaded files with or without date range
    • Knowing the number of Uploaded
      • URL
      • PDF
      • Documents such as Word, PPT, Excel, or any other office-related file
      • Images
  • Added Admission Applicants to Form Generator
  • Added Admission Applicants to Form Publisher
  • Added Created Assignments Summary under School reports, another report showing created assignments but by school subjects, grade level, and summary of jobs in each grading category
  • Added New Private Storage - Reading Report (Drill Down)
    • First Level displaying duration time per School Division
    • Second Level displaying duration time per School Grade of the selected school division
    • Third Level displaying duration time per Subject of the selected grade
    • Fourth Level displaying duration time per Student of the selected Subject
    • Fifth Level displaying duration time per Files of the selected Student and Subject
    • Sixth Level displaying duration time per page number of the selected Student and file
  • Added Grading Categories Report to show each Subject assigned grading categories and Grading weight
• Added 'Classrooms Shuffling Mode' which can be controlled from under Settings > System Settings > Security > Others
  • Grade name & Classroom name will not be displayed on the parent and student dashboard
  • Private messages users search will be disabled during this mode is activated
• Added Charts to Student Information System, which include Gradebook Chart & Reading Chart
• Added Forms to Student Information System for quick Exporting of the generated Students' form
• Added Forms to Applicant Management for quick Exporting of the generated Admissions form
• Added new feature Insight, which can be found inside Gradebook and has the following features for each Student listed in gradebook
  • Student Grade, which is weighted according to grading categories with a progress bar
  • Average Student score, which is based on assignments' average scores regardless of Grading categories weight with progress bar
  • Student Probability of passing which is based on assignments median regardless of Grading categories weight with progress bar
• Added new feature, Automation, which will let you build your automation tasks to be generated and notify users on a daily or weekly basis
  • Ability to create up to 3 tasks
  • Build your own rules and conditions for each task; the task source is currently based on insight only, but sooner, a lot of sources will be added to it
  • Ability to Toggle the status of every task
  • Public automation tasks require users to subscribe to it under Profile > Automation
  • Automation Timer where you can set up on which days and times you prefer the task to start to notify the users
  • Ability to modify the displaying columns of automation output
  • Added 1 task for students under 60% of their earned grade as premade task example, which can be edited or deleted
  • Display a warning table for each unseen task of the same day on the user dashboard
• Weekly Bulletin (New Features)
  • Added Overlapped Assignments scan on new assignment creation when you have the Weekly bulletin checked
  • Improved Weekly Bulletin privacy to only display for students who have the assignment assigned to them only (Individual Assignments)
  • Automatically Copy any text from the first teacher group row to other teacher groups in the same row if a teacher has more than one teacher group in the same Subject and grade level
  • Display subjects that have entries interferer with the selected teacher group as a way to insight the teacher with the student workload

• Fixed Duplicated assignments showing in the gradebook when subject grading categories are set to custom
• Fixed Newline in assignment description to display correctly in Weekly Bulletin
• Security Improvement by trimming all user inputs to SCL, even from register and logins, to reduce the incorrect login attempts
• Fixed Weekly Bulletin empty categories to be hidden
• UX Improvement on Review Assignment Submission to set it as read-only in the event of the assignment still progressing
• Fixed Interactive Assignment image answer to be raw and not rounded in Teacher Assignment review
• Fixed images don't show in answers for student assignment review
• UI/UX Improvement on Users Groups ACL Tables
• Optimizing Students Documents ACL to be all together in a single row selection
• Improved our Storage, Messages Attachments, and Student & Admission Documents security always to be accessed within the SCL Authentication layer and moving Thumbnails to separated folders
• Admission print is no longer required admission status to be changed from Pending status
• ACL Optimizing: removed Admission Status changer and only depend on the Edit flag of Applicants
• Fixed Assignment listing was still showing in black in dark mode
• Major fix in the general comment was not saving student comments correctly
• Fixed Student's picture to get student picture load first and override student avatar if the student picture is set
• Improvement on more than 13 modules to display dark skin correctly
• UI Improvement, Fixed avatar position on the profile page
• Fixed sending HTML emails was encoded
• Fixed SCL HTML Emails, and now using validated HTML with CKEditor styling
• UX Improvement on Gradebook Chart Widget to only be displayed when there is a recorded assignment
• Fixed new lines in Weekly Bulletin
• Added support for URL to become hyperlinked in Weekly Bulletin (Web & Mobile)
• Fixed RTL text direction in Weekly Bulletin
• UI/UX Improvements on student review submission marking feedback & file answer
• Fixed showing reportcard status inverted in Grading> Subject
• Fixed credit/sessions number increase steps to any
• Improved admission scheduler to never sent to the email in past dates and also fixed payment email template was incorrect
• Fixed Missing Grading categories logic was incorrect, especially when fetching the HOD; it was using the legacy logic of bringing teacher's teachers group, which can be relatable to current HOD logic
• Fixed issue with View Interactive assignment as a student is not loading the answers as a text question
• Fixed readonly in WYSIWYG Editor
• Improved API authentication by removing any whitespace in the user email
• Changed Private Note color in SIS for better UX to recognize if this Student has notes
• Added detection if the cookie is not supported and let the User know about it
• Improved UX of left menu vertical scrolling
• UI/UX Improvement on Gradebook
• Fixed issue when the teacher created a virtual classroom for a specific student. It won't let the administrator able to join
• Fixed issue with a notification that is not triggered on the first-page load
• Improved the transparency of the SCL license by adding every restriction to it, which visible to SCL Administrator
• Fixed Issues with Skills Assessments Pagination was using incorrect parameters
• Notification has been improved by preventing any duplicated notification from triggering if it is less than an hour