product:changelog:4.4

4.4 Changelog

Release Date 01-10-2020

This update is mainly focusing on fully English Localization

New Features

  • SCL Localization
    • Partial Localized the Administrator Interface
    • Fully Localized the Teacher Interface
    • Fully Localized the Student Interface
    • Fully Localized the Parent interface
    • Fully Localized the User Authentication
  • SCL available Translations for the completed Localization
    • Arabic
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Spanish
  • Ability to switch between Languages Profile (Adding New Languages will be added next major updates)
  • Virtual Classrooms
    • Ability to set Virtual Classrooms Lock Viewers
    • Ability to Modify Virtual Classroom Welcome Message & add for it Pictures or links, also this message will be saved for Teacher next Session
    • Virtual Classroom now have a Session Maximum duration, is disabled by default (can be configured from System Settings » Virtual Classrooms)
    • When Removing Student from Virtual Classroom, now can prevent the student from rejoining the same session
    • Teacher on Creating new Virtual Classroom can change the Lockviewers before starting the session
    • User Duplicating is now not Allowed in Virtual Classrooms
    • Virtual Classroom has now a Take attendance checkbox for automatically taking your students attendance to your Course Class Attendance
    • Added Late for Automatically Class Attendance, can be configured from System Settings
    • Ability to control Automatically Share Recording folder to Teacher Groups
    • Ability for Administrator to have access to join as Moderator in any running Virtual Classes
    • Administrator has the ability to delete Virtual Classes recording
    • Automatically delete any Recording older than x Days from System Settings
    • Added New Virtual Classroom Settings control to 'Allow/Disallow Users Duplication'
    • Added Notification control when Recording is ready to send alert the students and teacher that the new recorded has been published
  • Teacher can now Include certain Private Storage folder contents to be directly uploaded to Virtual Classrooms Presentations
  • Added Minimum & Maximum mark for National Report cards
  • Added New feature to Truncate Student names in Non-official reports to be by default 3 names, can be increased or disabled from Grading Settings
  • Gradebook Legacy Theme become the default theme for the users who not selected a Gradebook theme
  • Edit report card can create a score for un-created grade
  • 1 Click Classroom changer for Multiple Students
  • Added Working Days in System Settings, now Class Attendance only functional on the school configured working days
    • You can't select weekend in Assignments Creating or Appointments
  • Disabling Gradebook is now from School Divisions to be applied per School Division
  • Huge Improvement on SCL UI & UX (Totally rework)
  • Teacher can now send to Multiple Teachers Groups for both Parent or Students
  • Parent can send messages for Staff users who are enrolled in the same grade level and has the ability for a parent to private message them. For example School Principle, Moderator
  • Interactive Assignments (Updates)
    • Question Assets, now you can add PDF and/or Audio file to any Question which will be displayed and/or played at the Student Interactive Assignment page
    • Return Assignment
      • Teacher can multiply time return the student assignment to do any modification on it within the assignment end date
      • all assignment returns will be logged with comment & DateTime to the teacher
      • automatic private message sent to the student on message return, can be edited from Settings » Message Templates
    • Gradebook automatically marking incomplete interactive assignments as missing (M)
    • On Updating Points or correct answers of an Interactive Assignment Question it will automatically recalculate the students submitted assignments
    • Automatically Submit Interactive Assignment for the Progressing Status upon Interactive Assignment End Date
    • You can now include an attachment in your Marking Feedback
    • Hide any Future Assignments from both Parent & Students Gradebook
  • Reports (New Features)
    • Reports are now dynamically loading from its Report modules alphabetically
    • showing only the assigned reports from the user group ACL management
    • Added new Administrative report for classes attendance (Available also for Teachers & HOD)
    • Added new Administrative report to show Virtual Classrooms start & end Dates and actual duration
    • Added Virtual Classroom Late Duration & Join time to Class Attendance Report
  • Messages Policy (Available on Settings » System Settings » Security)
    • Control if Teachers & Parent can private message each other
    • Control if Students can private message other students from the same grade level
  • Questions Bank
    • Questions Bank can be created & managed all years around by HOD & Teachers
    • All previous Interactive Assignments Questions has been copied to your Questions Bank
    • Question Difficulty
    • Question Title
    • Question Topic
    • Question Keywords
    • Question Point
    • Question can be accessible by any Teachers or Manageable by the Question owner or HOD
    • Copy Question from Interactive Assignments to Questions Bank
    • Copy Questions from Questions Bank to Assignment
    • Ability to Filter Assignment by Subject, Difficulty, Type, Keywords

Fixes & Enhancements

  • Fixed perms of GenerateForFirstUse
  • Improved UI in Students Assignments List
  • Fixed Issue where Gradebook is disabled it will throw access denied for administrative users
  • Improved Virtual Classroom Recording File Size to be compressed 33% of previous recording file size
  • Improved Deployment & Virtual Classroom Servers Management from the SCL Support
  • Major fixes & Improvement concerning Gradebook selected Quarters if the school selected some quarters of the Division
  • Applying Maximum Virtual Classrooms Sessions from Account License
  • Increased Effort characters from 2 to 4 as maximum characters
  • Uploads is now are only restricted to Images, Media, Documents & Archive files
  • Absence list has a rework on the UI and is has been UI improved
  • Added Localization for WYSIWYG Editor
  • Fixed Required Scoring Badge where it was showing after the end of the quarter
  • Fixed Registration UI wasn't showing the Scrollbar
  • Added background color for the Missing marks boxes in the Gradebook
  • Private Storage is now associated with SCL License
  • Egyptian Reportcard has an update for extracting Marks from Percentages
  • Newsletter minor UX Improvements
  • Fixed Virtual Classroom to enforce students names which are registered by the school to be the one it showed
  • Fixed Issue on throwing an error when creating new Assignment from Interactive Assignment
  • Fixed Incorrect URL for SchoolsCRUD
  • Added Export & Print for Grading Values
  • Admission on Assessment Accepted is set to Parent Interview automatically
  • Fixed Class List Print wasn't printing all
  • Fixed Applicants Search
  • Fixed Class list when pressing Back is hanging on an incorrect selection of School Division
  • Live Search Improvement is now shown Grade & Classname and ability to press escape to close the search and even you could click ESC on the keyboard to reset the search result
  • Huge Improvement on Publishing Recording to be File by file instead of the bulk recordings
  • Improved on Top right menu User Profile Dropdown Menu Toggling
  • Totally improvement of Teacher Class Attendance UI & UX
  • Fixes & Improvements on Creating New Message/Group Message is shown any errors in the same page and saving the PM Subject or Message
  • Authentications error wasn't showup on SCL Login
  • Improve Interactive Assignment on Creating New Question is now goes to the Bottom and also let the teacher focus on the new created Question instead of trying to search for it
  • Showing Total size of stored attachments in Administrator Dashboard
  • Updated Grading Values to use react native CRUD table
  • Student Name can't be changed anymore from User Profile
  • All Users full name for Students has been updated to the Users registered students name
  • Added UL to Feedback Editor
  • Showing indicator on any Texteditor or Input has a maximum length
  • Fixed Restore Student 404 error from Registrar Transfer List
  • Fixed Private Messages where Parent or students were able to communicate with their old teachers
  • Improved Virtual Classroom Sessions & Added Users Grades Filteration to it
  • Fixed Users Logs report where it won't generate single day report from the past dates
  • Showing student code next to student name in the parent dashboard (Web version)
  • Improved Report date range to show is using today date
  • Added current week to Class Attendance
  • Interactive Assignment Quantity is now limited to 5 max questions to be added in a time
  • Fixed Message body when you send emoji it won't send any text after the emoji
  • Supporting Emojis in Messages
  • Fixed Virtual Classroom randomly rare users could get removed from the session due to user id duplication bug
  • Showing Student grade name & class name in private messages
  • Improved License Handling, on License error, Parent & Students will not get effected anymore, Invalid license required Administrator user group to enter the license key
  • When recording storage reached its full capacity, a private message will be sent to all users assigned in the Administrator users group
  • Do not show Teachers name from Student Gradebook when grade book is disabled
  • Fixed Issue which any files on Private Storage root are getting to be included at VCR
  • Added Default file to be included among your private storage files at VCR
  • Showing Assignment Description to the Student Interactive Assignment
  • Improvement, when VCR server is not reachable, won't show error 500 anymore and will continue its background operation when the server is getting reachable again
  • Added Next Available Student code in Users » Students List
  • Fixed HOD Sending Group Messages where HOD Groups wasn't loaded
  • Fixed issue where transfer out student could log in to their accounts
  • Set some of Student Information System Fields to be required
  • Fixed issue with automatically taking absence wasn't working properly with multiple teachers group
  • Fixed copy Interactive assignments doesn't give M for the students scores
  • Improved the UX of Questions Assets, Optimize Add Answer & Delete Question to Question Management Dropdown button
  • Fixed Gradebook Issue with Monthly Filteration where is always pick last day of the month is 31.
  • SCL Web play recording on mobile devices in the same page instead of popup
  • Fixed where M was giving at the beginning of Interactive Assignment, now is given after Interactive Assignment End Date is due.
  • Limiting Similarity to 10 results only to avoid any overlapping with the whole school assignments
  • Any empty Interactive Assignments Questions is older than 14 days will be deleted
  • Fixed Issue with recording playback on iOS will play normally
  • Fixed Homeroom Issue where Classes does not show to certain teachers where they were assigned to deleted classrooms
  • Fixed Interactive Assignment Priority especially when creating a new assignment sometime return to the incorrect Question
  • Added to Users Logs when Teacher Update any Student's Assignment score
  • Added Today Absence in Class Attendance