product:changelog:4.6

Release Date 14-02-2021

This update is mainly focusing on Student's Academic Performance & Analyzing

  • Huge speed improvement on using JIT Compilation which gets application load time 10x faster
  • Introducing Additional Users Groups (Multi-User Roles) where teachers can have multiple roles and have additional Administrative User group in the teacher account
  • Introducing New Reporting Widgets System
    • Creating Visual Subjects Score Comparison based on current Gradebook for both Student & Parent Dashboard
  • Creating New Notification System for better Users engagement and is currently support the following
    • Notification will alert any new event with audio and popup without the need for a page refresh
    • The Following event are currently supported in the Web Notification System
      • Return Assignment
      • Posting Marking Feedback
      • Student Submitting Assignment
      • New Created Virtual Classroom
      • Interactive Assignment
      • New Behaviour Incident Created
      • Interactive assignment copied to you from another teacher
    • Notification Center to manage all received Notifications
    • Seen Notifications will be deleted after 3 days
    • Any type of Notification is older than 21 days will be deleted
  • Interactive Assignment
    • Ability to create Individual Assignment (Supporting Both Interactive & Non-InteractiveAssignment)
      • Edit Assignment now can Include/Exclude Students from certain assignments
      • Score boxes won't show for excluded students, will require to be included first from Edit Assignment
      • On Creating a new Assignment you will have Individual Assignment selection
    • True & False Question Options will now get created using Teacher language preference
    • Interactive Assignment will not accept any of Assignment, Questions or Answers Deletion or Creating new Question or Answer if the Assignment get at least 1 submission from a student
    • Fill The Blank has Validation Layer will prevent Teacher to publish assignment if the Answer is not detected in the Question's body
    • Marking Feedback only appears if the Interactive Assignment has Show results
    • Fully Integration with SEB to help to take Interactive Assignment on Safe Exam Browser which blocked any background applications during taking an exam or quiz
    • Added 'Mark as Missing Assignment' for Non-Autocorrect Assignment
    • Added Non-Autocorrect Assignment Scoring Assist, which will allow mixing non autocorrect assignment questions with autocorrect questions type and get scored
    • Added Interactive Assignment Preview (Experimental)
    • Added ability to copy student answer into marking feedback if the question type is text
    • Added Pagination Student Interactive Assignment (Required to be enabled from grading settings)
  • Mobile Application
    • Added Multi Languages Interface & supporting Right to Left and Left to right texts
      • English
      • French
      • German
      • Spanish
      • Arabic
    • Improved Calendar UX
    • Added Delete Confirmation on Private Messages
  • Now you can Disable Private Message Deletion for all users from System Settings > Security > Disable Private Message Deletion
  • Gradebook (Next theme) has been Improved & Updated
    • Improved the loading speed and improve the rendering speed when scrolling between assignments and students
    • Edit Assignment has become now again on Assignment title instead of the student score
    • Realtime Editing score has been added to the Next theme Earned, Average & Total Grades without the need to refresh/reload the Gradebook page
    • Gradebook is now detecting if the assignment background is light colors it will use Black color for Text and if is Dark color the text color will be White
    • Shrinking the Columns & rows width and height for more results showing without scrolling
  • Experimental Update
    • Added categories for grading values
    • Added Houses Management & ability for a student to have a selected house from SCL SIS
  • Introducing New National report card template (Combined Gradebook & Skills Assessments) with ability to include skills assessments in the report card
  • Removed Last 5 Unread Messages from Student Dashboard
  • UX retouch on Student & Parent Dashboard
  • AbsencesList pop-in become responsive
  • Fixed Problem where Admission doesn't Enroll when Student Native Name is missing
  • Correcting the auto code generating for admission
  • Replacing SCL Image Library for Profile picture to have new width, height 512px without losing the image quality
  • Fixed Student Documents was throwing access denied on downloading files
  • Fixed Student Assignment was returning incorrect date & time
  • Changed Logout in Dropdown User action to be separated item instead of a small icon
  • Changed Answers Option from Answer 1 to 4 to be A, B, C & D
  • Fixed issue where upcoming Birthday wasn't excluding the students who are transferred out
  • Fixed Student Avatar was showing in incorrect height
  • Assignment Creation has minor UI improvement
  • Fixed issue with Student Interactive assignment in some cases answers don't show at all if is include HTML characters
  • Interactive Assignment Link will auto-detect if they are no submissions will redirect you to Assignment Builder but if there a student submission it will redirect you to Student Submissions
  • Arabic Font has been changed from Mada to Tajawal Font
  • Fixed Class Attendance Report wasn't showing the duplicated Student
  • Fixed Issue with Skills Assessment was showing on Mobile Application to the student only if report card is open
  • Fixed Virtual Classroom didn't appear properly in Parent User Interface (Mobile Application Only)
  • Fixed Copying Interactive Assignment wasn't copying the Question Assets
  • Updated the Homeroom, Dashboard & Interactive Assignment Left Menu icon
  • Supporting backward compatibility between the new and previous Recording playback deletion
  • Adding Security layer to Fill the blank that even if there a misconfiguration with fill the blank that will never show the correct answer until the teacher sort out the issue
  • Fixed issue with Class Attendance when deleting a record it creates a new record with an empty type
  • Fixed Assignments was getting assignments that belong to deleted grading category
  • Fixed Review Skills Assessments UI on mobile and become responsive
  • Fixed major issue with Portfolio report was always caching the previous month on Months filtration
  • Fixed the issue with score always show after assignment submission even if show results is disabled
  • Fixed issue in a rare case a user can save an unrecognized SCL UI language
  • Improved UX when moving Shared folder in Private Storage it will unlink the previous Storage Sharing
  • Fixed SCL Services Submitting Progressing InteractiveAssignments wasn't working correctly
  • Dropping API V1 & V2 which mean old mobile application using prior V3 will no longer be supported or working anymore
  • Fixed Gradebook Grading Categories wasn't sorting by Priority then Category Name
  • Fixed Grading Values which has a black color when is empty, and all-black colors have been removed from the previous SCL gradebooks
  • Fixed Permission for cannot downloading the ASC Timetables Export data
  • Correct Student names were showing all reported students names when parent open their children incident
  • Fixed Interactive Assignment a student can submit an empty text answer
  • Added to assignment text editor ability to change font type and size
  • Increasing maximum accepted length in skills assessment alias from 2 characters to 8 characters

Post Updates

  • Added 'Mark all notifications as seen' inside Open Notification
  • Fixed Issue where Login as Student always appear even if a student doesn't have an account created or the account is disabled
  • Now Private storage materials are excluded from Virtual Classroom Recording which will save a lot of recording file size
  • Update SCL mailer which causes some issues in the latest update in sending HTML emails
  • Changed Notification deletion for unseen to be 1 day instead of 3 days and for unseen 14 days instead of 21 days