product:changelog:4.0

4.0 Changelog

Release Date 10-08-2019

SCL 4.0 is a Summer Update Will Include New Way of Assigning HOD to Their Teachers Group, Scope & Sequence, Lesson Planning, and Interactive Assessments, Quizzes & Submissions.

New Features

  • Replacing Teacher Coordinator by new reworked Head Of Department which introduce new Selection Logic
  • Added Scope & Sequence
    • Managing Subject Units
    • Managing Unit Objectives
    • Managing Scope & Sequence Entries
    • Predefined Objectives Management
    • Sortable Objectives
    • Setting Timeframe
    • Showing Scope & Sequence in School Calendar
  • Added Grade Name & Class Name Next to Children Names on Private Message Parent Indicator
  • Added New Report for Archived Gradebook Assignments for Previous Academic Year
  • Added Interactive Assignment (Quizzes Builder or Assignment Submission)
    • Creating Questions (Interactive Assignment Builder)
      • Question Type
        • Multiple Choice
        • Multiple Response
        • True/False
        • File
        • Text
      • Added Ability to Insert Images & Videos Link in the Question
      • Added Ability to Select which answer is correct for Automation Score Submissions
      • Automatically Calculate Assignment Total Points based on Questions Points
      • Quickly Add Sample Answers Option for (Multiple Choice, Multiple Response, True/False)
      • Added Ability to Autocorrect Assignment and Submit it score to Teacher's Gradebook
      • Added Ability to Restrict Certain Assignment to be only taken From School Facilities
      • Added Ability to Upload Images into Question body
    • List Of Interactive Assignments
      • CloneInteractive Assignment to Another Teacher Group with the same Subject
      • Assignments Details of Current Academic Year for only Interactive Assignments
    • Student Interactive Assignments
      • Ability to Start, Resume Any Interactive Assignment and even update the question within the timeframe of Due Date.
      • Validations and UI Element focus & indicators about the taking Assignment, Quiz, Exam or even Submitting File for Project
      • Responsive UI for all Devices
      • Student Can Flag a Question
      • Autocorrect Assignment will have instantly correction and receive scores for the submitted Assignment
    • Teacher Review Student Answers (Manual Submissions)
      • Easy to Mark Question and see student Answers
      • Ability to Reset & Delete Student Answers for retaking the Assignment again for new Submission
  • Date picker is now aligned and configured with system settings date format instead of old MySQL Date Format
  • Added new features to Admission
    • New reworked responsive UI/UX
    • Ability to Optout (Not Accepting New Applicants) from certain School Grades
    • Improved Form error Validation
    • Added more parent (Both Mother & Father) Information in the Admission form
      • ID/Passport Number
      • Employer
      • Business Phone
      • Business Address
      • School
      • University
    • Added Student Medical Information in Admission Form
    • Added Form Control to set which field name to appear, if required & display order number
    • Admission can be now set as On/Off and ability to modify the HTML Error Message when is set to Off
    • Ability to Make new Applicants select assessment interview day and skip it for being in admission phase & pending
    • Ability to Add Slots for Assessment Booking Interview date and number of allowed to book such date & time
    • Added In Settings » Admission the new Admission URL Link to Integrate with your School Website which is RECOMMENDED
    • Added in Settings » Admission an Embedded code if you prefer to have it inside your website
    • Form Fields are Autosaved for 2 Days
  • Added Account Suspension which will let users still can receive push notifications & Private Messages even if they are suspended
  • Mobile Application Updates
    • Changes in Tabs Icons
    • Added Last Update Date in Inbox and Formatting the Date with System Configuration
    • Enlarging User Avatar in Messages Inbox & Outbox from 40px to 55px
    • Added Interactive Assignments (Partially Updates)
      • Added Button & Badges of Interactive Assignments at Student Dashboard
      • List Of Assignments but for now is Going to Interactive Assignment in SCL Web Application (Full Edition around 1st Term)
    • Select Activity has been added to Mobile Application with its full features for Both Parent & Students
  • Added Summary (Group Details/Summary) to Teachers Group which is very useful in such parent/student interactions like in Activities
  • Added Notification System which is very optimized and introduces a new smart way of sending a notification
    • Interactive Assignment First Notification is the first method used to the new Notification System, more will be added later
  • System Cron has been improved moved all manually Hourly CRON to be handled by 1 Single Cron which running every minute

Fixes & Enhancements

  • Multiselection Search is returned back after some UI issues got fixed
  • Added Migrating from Teacher Coordinator to Head Of Department
  • Reducing the usages of JS UI Libraries for faster load
  • Added Confirmation on Re-Enrollment a Transferred Out Student
  • Alert & Notification on SCL Web are now by default have a hidden button for disappearing the alerting message
  • Inbox Messages is now sorted by Message Last Update Date instead of Message Created Date
  • Added Priority to Subjects to Help Personalize The Sorting of Subjects
  • Improved Subjects to Sort by Subject Priority First, Core then Subjects Name.
  • Reversing Incident Description Sorting to be compatible with the previous behavior pointing system update
  • Behaviour - Incident Description is Now Searchable
  • UX Improvement - Changing Readonly inputs to be colorless instead of confusing grey as is Disabled Input.
  • UX Improvement - Saving State of 'Notify students with this assignment' in Creating Assignment on Form Validation Error
  • Fixed Select Activity Alignment in Student Dashboard and updated Select Activity Button to be “palette”
  • Fixed Course Selection UI Where empty Group show as an empty row in the table
  • Updating SCL School Code to Accept AlphaNumeric when is setup on SCL unified Mobile
  • Fixed Date & Time Format in Medical Visits
  • Improved System Settings UX and now when you save the form you get back to the same Tab instead of starting over from General
  • Improved UI of Select Activity
  • Fixed Bug in Select Activity where it was preventing duplicating Subject ID which is will could happen most of the time
  • Shown Group Name Next to Subject Name in Parent Dashboard if the Subject is Activity