product:changelog:5.0 [SCL]

Release Date 27-09-2021

on SCL 5 we will Introduce SCL Billing System along with some possible automation and online payments for Tutions and School bus

Introducing new SCL Updates branch “Stable” will only receive SCL updates twice a year and it will be the default update branch for every school unless this changed from system settings
Transportation Management
- Flagship
- Drivers
- Vehicles
- Destinations
- Routes
Billing
- Tuition Fees
- Courses Fees
- Installments Template
- Create Payment
  - Ability to get predefined Tuition, Transportation & courses fees along with Installment templates and academic year
  - Ability to override the predefined price for only Tuition & Transportation fees
  - Apply Discount on Tuitions or/and Transportation based on fixed amount or percentage
  - Ability to Create Mass Payment per School grade
  - Once a Transportation Payment has been successfully created the student will be automatically enrolled in the selected route
  - Payment duplication protection, when selecting the same item and student for the same academic year the payment will be disabled and dimmed
- Create Invoice
- Settings & Configurations
- Payment Gateways
  - Cash
  - Bank (Transfer/Deposit)
  - Payment Terminal (POS Terminal)
  - Kashier (Online Payment)
    - Credit/Debit Cards
    - Bank Installments
    - Digital Wallets
- Transactions Management
- Invoice Management
  - Allow to Change Status
  - Allow to Add/Delete Transactions
  - Automatically set the invoice to Paid when full payment received
  - Allow to customize or edit invoice items
  - Transactions History
  - Print Invoice
  - Sum Of Installments
  - Ability to modify Invoice Student, Invoice Number, Academic Year or Due Date
  - Private Notes only for Billing
  - Traffic Light Summary to show Total Over, Unpaid & Paid Transactions for all invoices
- Parent can see all created invoices and they are able to online pay the invoice or print it
- Notifications
  - Notify Parent with Created Invoice (Push Notification, SMS, Email)
  - Notify Parent with Paid Invoice (Push Notification, SMS, Email)
  - Notify Parent with Created Transaction (Push Notification, SMS, Email)
- Ability to Set certain Payment Gateway as Default for Parent
- Introducing all Billing features in SCL latest Mobile Application update
- Invoice Reminders
  - Automatically notify parent with an invoice before overdue by SCL PM, SMS or/and Email
  - Automatically notify parent with an invoice after invoice overdue by SCL PM, SMS or/and Email
  - Ability to configure & control the Reminders which are 3 different messages templates.
  - Ability to control the notification message platform
- Automatically Suspend Accounts
  - Automatically Suspend Parent or/and Student account and notify parent only
  - Automatically Unsuspended Parent or/and Student account if has been detected that is been suspended automatically and notify parent only
Virtual Classrooms
- Add support to any Third-party Virtual meeting such as Zoom, Google Talk, Microsoft Teams, and any other platforms supporting invitation by URL, features are supported for these services
  - Notifying Students
  - Taking Automated Class Attendance
  - Logging who join only if the user joined from SCL not directly from external
  - Session must be manually terminated by the teacher in both SCL & External platform to be completely offline for all students
- Waiting room (Users can now request to join)
- Active talker more visible
- Showing User Profile picture
- Webcam is Draggable
- Notification when speaking and microphone is muted
- Ability to Share Audio with screen sharing
- Ability to switch microphone input and audio output
- One-click poll with Smart Slides
- Prompt users to type in a poll response
- Poll results appear in Chat
- Improved Raise Hand
- Administrator can control Server Settings from Settings » System Settings » Virtual Classrooms
  - Webcam sharing
  - Screen sharing
  - Mirror Webcam
  - Automatically Join Audio
  - Automatically Share Webcam
  - Skip Audio Test
- Recording Playback now has many improvements
  - Notes now saved to recording
  - can full-screen presentation
  - Ability to adjust playback speed
  - Can search in presentation slides
  - Polls result if published will be shown on the chat
- Uploading a new presentation is no longer blocking the main presentation for teachers
- Assign individual users whiteboard privileges
- Breakout room Improvements
- Connectivity status icon
- Randomly select a user
- Global event is now can host over 250 participants (Experimental)
- Ability to select Guest Policy on any type of Virtual Classrooms and ability to change the default of it from System Settings » Virtual Classrooms
Students Information System
- Added Student Private notes show to admin only and capable to handle up to 16MB of data
  - Any applicant enrollment will copy applicant notes to student notes
  - All admission applicants notes which have been enrolled previously before this update has their student notes copied to the SIS module
- Added Invoices Tab for students who have a created invoices
- Added Student Applicant if the student was enrolled from SCL Admission
- Ability to Manage and update student bus which only has a created payment for it
Introducing a reworked Account Suspension where System Administrator can control a single or multiple of the following to be disabled on account suspended
- Gradebook
- Progress Report
- Private Storage
- Reportcard
- Skills Assessments
- Virtual Classrooms
- Reports
Ability for the teacher to group message both users group Parent & student in the same message
Admission Improvements
- Admission Send Group Message
  - Improve Admission Status to be multiple selections
  - Added Applicant Status to the Admission Newsletter Filteration
  - Added Applicant Academic Year to the Admission Newsletter Filteration
  - Added School Grades to the Admission Newsletter Filteration
- Displaying assessment status in Applicant Edit
- Ability to change assessment status from Applicant but you need to set the current phase to assessment to be able to modify it
Interactive Assignment Improvement
- Added Similarity to Fill the Blank answer to be adjustable from 0-100%
- Added Student answer submission date & time when hovering over the student answers in FTB, MCQ & MRQ
Teacher Interactive Assignments UI/UX & Search has been improved

Fixed Export assignments report wasn't showing properly the previous quarters assignments
Fixed Export Gradebook to CSV to check all quarters currently instead of current only before to export as CSV
Fixed Manage Assignment doesn't update Quarter of assignment if Due date has been changed to different Quarter/Term timeframe
Increase Applicant private notes maximum size from 64Kb to 16Mb
Homeroom Attendance become responsive on a low scale portrait resolution devices
Improved Export to CSV to works better with empty fields
Gradebook can now be exported at any time even if there a missing grades
Fixed Arabic messages preview in Private Messages
Improved Homeroom Attendance on taking student attendance is scroll back to last clicked student
Fixed Arabic/English message display in Mobile Application
Fixed Arabic files names wasn't uploaded correctly to Virtual Classroom now any Arabic files will be renamed to English name 'Document and number of File Position'
Fixed when Including from Private storage to Virtual Classroom will now include all files even in the subdirectories recursively
Fixed rare issue in report card can't view old report card if grade level has been changed to the new school division
Fixed Arabic writing in messages
Fixed issue with Fill the blank wasn't showing properly the dots input as security render engine was blocking it
Improvement Actions UX in SCL CRUD
Added new Reportcard template for K12 which is Detailed and have Grade & GPA Columns for each subject
Fixed issue where report card of previous year showing blank after the grade changed to a different school division
Fixed issue where skills assessments of previous year showing blank after the grade changed to a different school division
UX Improvements in Behaviour Incidents list has been rewritten to use the latest SCL CRUD
Added Suspend parent account individually, and renamed suspend the account in parent users context to suspend parent & children accounts
Fixed issue if in Admission custom form control in drop-menu get separated with space after the comma
Added German & French to SCL Text Editor Special Characters
Fixed Duplicated messages to parents in Newsletter
Fixed duplicated Group messages for both students and parent
Fixed HOD Grades ordering to be ordered by first division priority then division name then grade priority and grade name
Fixed Assignments, Year Settings & Current Groups to be showing correctly when getting back in Academic Year
UX Improvement for Year settings to show school divisions correctly according to their priority then name and also academic year become dropdown instead of text input
Fixed Year promoting to avoid deletion of sharing user to users or admin to school grades
Fixed in admission the enrolled students didn't hide from the applicants
Fixed in Attendance Daily job sometimes get blocked by a bug in the Job lock
Fixed Exporting issue where it was in some cases limited to 1000 rows
Fixed UI in Admission Enroll when the applicant has a sibling
Fixed Users Groups Landing