Release Date XX-12-2024

SCL 2024.4 will introduce more about Improving UX and add functionalities to many premade features in 2024.3 and new added features to give you ultimate experience also focusing on delivering Administrators tools to help save time and effort.

• Added Selection features to Groups ACL to make selecting permissions quicker and more productive in fewer steps and less time, improving UX overall.
• Added Student New Comer Label to Teacher Gradebook & Class Attendance.
• Added QR Code Expiration for Pickups Pass, Default is 24 hours.
• UX Improvement on SCL Error Pages now it is easy to copy the error code and show the error code to help SCL Support when they screenshot the error.
• Added New Widgets System for new reworked SCL Dashboard
  • Created Multiple Widgets with Charts and UX Improvements
    • Weekly Absences Showing Total Absences & Excused Day as Stacked and clicking on it will refer you to Absences Report.
    • Accounts Status Widget showing the account status of parents, students, and teachers.
    • Admission Pipeline Overview.
    • Admission Over The Year.
    • Users Last Login.
    • Clinic Visit.
    • Created Assignments Overview.
    • Private Storage Overview.
    • Private Messages Overview.
    • Behaviour Overview.
    • Moments Overview.
    • Online Users Overview.
    • Weekly Bulletin Entries Overview.
    • House Points.
    • Created Lessons Plans Overview.
  • All Widgets are cached for 15 Minutes for better performance, except for the “Online Users Widget”, which is only for 90 seconds.
  • Widget Toolbar
    • Ability to delete unwanted widgets.
    • Ability to resize your widgets.
    • Ability to change the chart type of your widgets.
      • Column Chart.
      • Bar Chart.
      • Pie Chart.
      • Donut Chart.
      • Area Chart.
      • Line Chart.
      • Radar Chart.
      • Polar Area Chart.
      • Radial Bar Chart
      • Treemap Chart.
    • Ability to change the position of your widgets.
    • Ability to Reset Widgets to System Defaults.
• Lesson Planner AI Generator is now more accurate and advanced with quicker results.
• New Reports
  • Messages Analytics (Available for Administrators & HOD), Display in-depth Teacher's Private Messages Analytics.
  • School Enrollment Overview, will display Enrolled Students, Newcomer & Transferred out per each educational level.
  • Weekly Bulletin Entries Report.
• The admission upload file size has been increased from 2 Mb to 5 Mb per single file to support iOS standard photo sizes.
• Created Flash Cards for the Learning Center, allowing Teachers and students to filter the topics.
• Added New Email & SMS Template “Applicant - Student Enrollment” to be always sent when enrolling a new student from admission.
• The Admission General Report has a rework on the Charts
  • Admission Status Colors now get their colour from the assigned Status colour; if not, they get a random colour.
  • General Report is now compatible with SCL Dark Mode.
  • Added export support to SVG, PNG & CSV.
  • I dropped a small chart in general statistics to use Dashboard Widgets now.
• Added Tasks Queue, which will help SCL to run the long process in the background and control its speed by the workers.
  • Generate Report Card is now just a single click to generate all of the school report cards and just sit back and see the progress in real-time.
  • Tasks Queue is now added to Settings, it will show every Task in detail such as completion and failed and even more in detail for little tasks.
  • Real-time progress for all system Tasks Queue.
  • Tasks Queue Report
    • Show in Details Tasks Statistics.
    • Show Every Task Processing Status.
    • Hidden Feature for SCL Support only ability to debug why it failed.
  • Some Modules such as Reportcard Generator is now has inbuilt external Queue Monitoring just specified in Reportcard Generating without the permission of Tasks Queue.

• Bug Fix: AI Controls in Newsletter Private Messaging wasn't working.
• UX Improvement: Excluding Clearing Newsletter Queue from Year Promotion.
• Bug Fix: In Shuffling mode the private storage will return as empty.
• Bug Fix: API Moments Highlight doesn't have a specific academic year, so it showed all highlights from all academic years.
• Bug Fix: Weekly Bulleting Has Incorrect Read-Only Logic, created from the previous updates and corrected in the current update.
• UX Improvement: Added 11 New British System Standards Alignments to Lesson Planner.
• UI Improvement: The authentication background image is fixed to be covered and not repeatable.
• Bug Fix: Improved Lesson Plan Generator to generate the tasks in the Subject Language instead of only 'English'.
• Bug Fix: Improved Lesson Plan Generator Lesson Activity items to be separated.
• Bug Fix: Behaviour Incident Description Sorting.
• UX Improvement: Mobile Application Push Notification When it is blocked you can click on Blocking Message from the Notifications Tab to Trigger the Permission Prompts.
• Bug Fix: Messages History Infinity Loading.
• Bug Fix: Two-Step Verification wasn't showing the QR Code & Problem with Password Validating.
• Big Fix: Incidents won't be deleted if the user group has assigned a specific educational level to the ACL.
• UX Improvement: Added Second Language to Users > Students.
• UX Improvement: Remove Form Submission in Private Storage when renaming since everything can already be renamed without the need to submit.
• Bug Fix: Fixed Class Attendance Title.
• UX Improvement: Removal of WYSIWYG Editor for Summary in Teacher Groups due to Mobile Application Incompatibility.
• Bug Fix: Display Top Header search for Tablet Devices.
• Bug Fix: When uploading a new file, retrieving the list of users takes an extra few seconds to get notified.
• Bug Fix: HOD is now defined by Educational Level Name & School Division to avoid duplicated school division names ignoring another.
• Enhancement: Newcomer students no longer rely on the duration of student applicant time, it now depends on the applicant's academic year.
• UX Improvement: Limited Menu Search for 10 Results maximum.
• Enhancement: The Students' Information Report now displays students' ages in years, months, and days.
• Bug Fix: Branding wasn't showing the newly uploaded logo after the upload was completed.
• Bug Fix: Arabic Punctuation doesn't show correctly in Message Content (Web Edition).
• UX Improvement: Weekly Bulletin has been added to the Teacher Groups Action Menu.
• Enhancement: Learning centre modules such as Flashcards or Quick Review will show the subject with 0 questions in a dark colour and not clickable.
• Enhancement: 2-Step Verification now uses Local SCL QR Code Library instead of remote third-party services to avoid interruptions like when Google shut down their services.
• UX Improvement: New Family Students Code will start from -1 instead of -2.
• UX Improvement: The print button inside the manage applicant will always be visible.
• Enhancement: Newsletter Queue is now showing the Stats button even when the message has not been completed sending.
• Bug Fix: When changing the Student Code from the Student Profile, the user account student code will also be altered.
• Enhancement: Changing Email/SMS Template name from 'Applicant - Student Converted' to 'Applicant - Parent Enrollment'.
• Bug Fix: The grading Scale in Reportcard Block still shows the GPA even if the student has the GPA Disabled.