Release Date 07-07-2023

SCL 5.8 focuses on making SCL fully localization

• Added new Timezone adjusting settings to System Settings > General.
• Added Messages History to Teachers is available for Group Messages Only (Document and Video have been published to this feature)
  • The teacher can view all messages sent via Group Messages.
  • Ability to Duplicate Messages
  • Display Attachment Files Names
  • Showing the Total Number of sent Messages and the number of messages has been seen out of it
  • Ability when you click on seen messages to display all messages in the outbox related to the selected queue
• Added Support to Voice Clip (Voice Messages) in Private & Group Messages, supported in the mobile app as playback only.
• Added New Features to Interactive Assignment Marking Feedback
  • Ability for two-way comments on the teacher marking feedback
  • Ability to Delete any of the comment
  • Ability for the user to know the comment when it has been seen
  • Receive Instantly Notification on any added comments
• Course Selection, Add & Drop Selection has a new feature called required where a specific column is optional and doesn't require selection
• Full Localization of SCL with the last piece which is SCL Backend, the following are the fully covered and localized modules just as a references
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Dashboard
  • Users & Groups
  • Automation
  • Admission
  • Behaviour
  • Billing
  • Books
  • Class List
  • Courses
  • Games Center
  • Stickers
  • Grading
  • Newsletter
  • Progress Report
  • Registrar
  • Report cards
  • Reports
  • School
  • Scope & Sequence
  • Settings
  • Skills Assessments
  • Students
  • TimeTables
  • Transportations
  • Virtual Classrooms
  • About
• Added New Features for Parent & Student to select their second language
• Added New Features for Parents & Students to select their Classroom this helpful for preset teachers' group
• Photos Where Admins or Homeroom Teachers can share in-school photos with their Students & Parents
  • Easy Way to Upload Photos by Classroom, you required to enable Photos in Classroom first from School > Classrooms
  • Ability to add Description, Keywords and Mention who in the picture for a more personalize Gallery for Students and Parents
  • Tracking Number of Views
  • Tracking Number of Likes
  • Ability for any users who have access to the photo to Like a Picture
  • Notify Students and their parents when there is mention of students in the uploaded picture
  • Added Notification Settings Control for Moments Notification can be turned off
• Added new features and Improvements to the Virtual Classroom
  • New reworked White Board
    • This release features a new and elegant whiteboard that supports fluid drawing, erasing, resizing, and moving of objects within the presentation area. It fully supports multi-user whiteboard capabilities, so you can collaborate directly with students for one-on-one tutoring, group collaboration, and visual assessment. The whiteboard is designed for drawing, and your strokes and annotations will look fluid and hand-drawn.
    • You can also give students the ability to download a snapshot PDF of your presentation with all whiteboard annotations at any time during your presentation. If you interactively solve some problems with students, for example, you can enable them to download the work for later review.
  • Breakout Rooms That Give Back
    • Students can collaborate in breakout rooms with shared notes and, using the multi-user whiteboard, the new whiteboard.
    • When you set up breakout rooms, you can have Virtual Classrooms automatically capture both the shared notes and whiteboard and bring them back to the main room when breakout sessions end.
    • After the breakout room session ends, you’ll see the captured content appear under the ‘+’ menu. Here, the last state of the whiteboard for both “room 1” and “room 2” is now available for presentation in the main room.
    • It’s now easier to move multiple students between breakout rooms, all in one dialogue.
  • Upload custom webcam background
  • Enable/Disable dark mode
  • Emoji picker
  • Accessibility
    • Automatic Closed Captioning
    • For users that have chosen the automatic transcription option, a ‘cc’ icon will appear next to their name when Virtual Classroom detects audio.
    • When one (or more) users have enabled automatic transcriptions, all users will have a ‘CC’ button at the bottom.
• Text Similarity (Rework)
  • No required at least 500 characters to be triggered
  • UI is now cleaner and simplified for a better User Experience
  • Now Text Similarity has been optimized to get real-time results within milliseconds for the longest answers data and much higher accuracy
  • Text Similarity now will not trigger unless the assignment end date is in the past and the student has the assignment as submitted
  • Text Similarity now will get results in standalone services which will help with SCL's next upcoming update to start sending notifications to teachers when a text similarity founds
• Added Moments & Voice Message playback features to SCL Mobile Application
• Added Support to App Gallery and Their Push Notification

• Improved Pages Meta Titles
• Improving Admission colours and changing it from a yellow old legacy style to the brand colour
• Improving Automation Tasks Generator colours to the brand colour
• UX Improvements on Composing new messages to minimalise the unneeded inputs
• Optimizing Locales and reducing any duplicated meaning to reduce the loading time
• Fixed editing reportcard score will update the PDF reportcard as well
• Displaying Grade name & Class Name in the Behaviour Students List
• Improvement on SCL CRUD to be more specific in saving the CRUD of each table with a unique name to avoid any over-collapsing between modules which rarely can be caused
• Improved UX, Display in Messages Queue the user account name and group name in the Group column instead of the string User
• Fixed issue with Messages Queue where message body doesn't correctly load when a message is duplicated
• UI/UX Improvements on Admin Dashboard
• Fixed Reportcard was still accessible even if parent/student accounts are suspended and have Suspension Policy enabled on Reportcard
• Optimizing SCL Automatically Background Tasks
• Localizing Datatables
• Localizing Dates Picker
• Fixed CRUD View wasn't working correctly with HTML Readonly with Froala Text Editor
• Fixed Export CSV doesn't have correct permission with HOD check
• Fixed Export CSV current quarter wasn't selected then it affected the earned grade column
• Terminology improvements for the following
  • Grade level to Educational Level
  • Quarter Name to Academic Period Name
• Total rework on error logging now we can have deep information about the crashes and how are caused and locate it easier which will help us massively reduce errors for the upcoming year
• UX Improvement Assignment Topic has now been generated automatically from Assignment Name
• Linking Religion and Student Name native in Students System to be synced with Admission Forms Control
• Fixed Calendar in Mobile API wasn't showing correctly
• Fixed School Calendar Show Scope & Sequence
• Added Settings Control for Browser Push Notification from Notification Tab in System Settings
• Improved UI/UX of Text Similarity Results
• Keep and maintain database size by emptying shuffling with Year Promoting
• Fixed Courses Selection Review and Add & Drop Selection Review to have Users Groups Grades filtration applied to them
• Improved Private Storage Security and Permissions Management for Admins and Teachers, now you can disallow Teachers to delete files
• Improved UX of Private Storage Renaming, no longer required to click on the save button
• Fully Support of all emojis instead of partial support of emojis

• Improved SCL Licensing query.
• Fixed Edit Applicant Custom Form Control wasn't displaying.
• Improved Timezone to cover the Login area & user logs correctly.
• Fixed Edit Applicant Localization for Forms and Documents Tab.
• Upload centre for Moments now relies on a separate list of teachers, distinct from the Homeroom Teacher list.
• Fixed Student codes to be generated accurately throughout the enrollment process.
• Web Browser Push notification will no longer be available to Mobile users since they can use Push Notification in the SCL Native Mobile App instead.
• Improvement of Marking Assignment's height and width responsivity.
• Ability to Disable Recording Voice Clip in Private Messages.
• UX Improved when reading a message will scroll to the latest reply.
• The Delete Button in the Messages queue now retracts the private messages before deleting the queue item, which is currently soft deleted.
• Added to Admission Group Messages, Enrolled Applicant option which helps the school to communicate with the latest enrolled students from Admission.

• Introducing the inclusion of a Student Pseudonym feature, accessible through Settings > System Settings. This functionality empowers educators and administrators to opt for utilizing Student Pseudonyms instead of their actual names for internal purposes. In cases where a student hasn't set a pseudonym, the system will seamlessly default to using the student's real name.
• Enhancements to the user experience have been made in the applicant search feature. When an applicant has been enrolled, their status will be indicated by a solid green icon, eliminating the need to display the enrollment icon separately.
• Security Improvements on School Subjects and Teachers Groups

• Enhance the statistics of the Messages Queue by presenting a table that shows users who have accessed the message with the ability to export to Excel or print them.
• Fixed Private Storage access denied on Delete.
• Added Student Email, Transfer Reason in Transfer Out Report, and Fixed Academic Year to show the academic year of transfer out instead of the last enrollment.
• Improved Messages Retract ACL and Localization.