4.6 Changelog
Release Date 14-02-2021
This update is mainly focusing on Student's Academic Performance & Analyzing
New Features
- 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
Fixes & Enhancements
- 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
17 Feb 2021
- 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
18 Feb 2021
- Update SCL mailer which causes some issues in the latest update in sending HTML emails
23 Feb 2021
- Changed Notification deletion for unseen to be 1 day instead of 3 days and for unseen 14 days instead of 21 days