product:changelog:5.1

5.1 Changelog

Release Date 20-12-2021

on SCL 5.1 we will focus more on enhancing the User Experience of our School Setup, Newsletter, Class Attendance, and more administrative helpful tools.

New Features

  • Reportcard
    • Now Parent, Student they can view the report card as Native PDF only for security improvements, portability, unify the user experience of the report card feels and avoiding any browser customization
    • Student Information Print it will print from Native PDF, the admin doesn't need to configure printing options
    • Examination Control
      • Ability to manage and create exam assignments to teachers gradebook
      • This assignment can be displayed in the Teacher gradebook but the teacher doesn't have any access to manage or modify the assignment
      • Single click can copy all grades to all students
      • Write, Modify & Delete permission of this module can be edited from Users Groups
      • By Default all created assignments by Examination control is Unpublished and will be only automatically published by generating reportcard and can be controlled at anytime to be published or unpublished which mean teachers cannot see the exams scores until reportcard is generated
  • Reports
    • Student Information (Improved)
      • Added Marital Status
      • Added Medical Data
      • Grade Level now supporting multi selections
    • Added Admission Overview Report which can view or export any admission applicants data
    • Parent Information (Improved)
      • Added Academic Year
      • Grade Level now supporting multi selections
      • Added Filteration Selection for Alumni & Transferout
      • Search formula has a rework for accurate results for the Alumni & Transfer out
    • Email Logs (Revamped)
    • SMS Logs (Revamped)
  • Parent Contacts (Revamped)
    • UI & UX Improvements
    • Now Parent contacts require field is linked to Admission Form Control
    • If there is a missing mother or father contact in the parent account, then it will force the user to add/edit contact to make sure both contacts are exist
  • Interactive Assignments
    • Head Of Department now can access the following of other teachers
      • Preview Assignments
      • Review Students Submission
      • Student Answers (Readonly)
      • Questions Analysis
      • Copy Assignment
  • Class Attendance
    • Available for Parent, Student
    • Administrator can view or print class attendance from the attendance tab at Student Information System
    • List of all subjects and types of class attendances
    • student and parent are able to get the details of class attendance entry date & late duration for Virtual Classroom
    • Settings control to show or hide Class Attendance for the parent or/and student, Class attendance is Enabled for the parent by default and disabled by default for student
  • Skills Assessments (Improvements)
    • Improved Layout be more readable
    • Separate Printing version from the view version to provide maximum possible UX
  • School Setup
    • This will be more helpful for the first use of SCL to guide what needs to setup
    • School setup has a lot of indicators and a full map from creating school division till enrolling a student into Teachers Groups and if there any problem with your existing setup should be easy to indicate by the labels
  • Notifications
    • UX Improvements on Notifications center
    • Notification Settings to full control of most received notifications
  • Grading
    • Teachers Groups (Huge UX Improvements and New Features)
      • Multiple columns Search
      • Export CSV & Print
      • Reducing the steps needed to create a Teacher group to 50% less or more
      • Automatically detect which teacher group has a comment card instead of showing a comment card for every teacher group
      • Automatically Generate group name and automatically copy group capacity from another teacher group in the same grade and same for subscription fees
      • Added ability to fully clone teacher group with a single click
      • Toolbox (New multi-function & batch utility)
        • New tool to Update Teachers Groups Quarters if you have an update on teachers groups Terms or Quarters and need to apply it for whole teachers groups
        • New tool to Automatically assign Students to the automatically assign Teachers Groups
        • Generate Teachers Groups - Generate courses for each classroom that doesn't have automatically assigned subjects (Religion & Second language are excluded)
        • Teacher Courses Management to Assign multiple teacher groups to a selected teacher, is also available is Users » Teachers
    • Subjects
      • Multiple columns Search
      • Export CSV & Print
      • Reducing the steps required in creating Subjects to the minimum steps
      • Autocomplete on creating a new subject by predicting your selected Grade level & Grading values based on your last creation
      • Added ability to fully clone Subject & Grading Values scores with a single click
      • Added new types of Subject 'Foreign Language' & 'Religion' and is compatible with automatically assign to get religion or foreign language from the student profile
      • On changing Student Classroom will automatically assign Religion & Foreign Language to the available teacher group from the same Classroom or from different Classroom in same Grade level if is not available from the same classroom
      • Toolbox (New multi-function & batch utility)
        • Ability to Mass Copy Grading Values Category to other subjects in different or same grade level
        • Ability to copy one or more subjects from a grade to other school grade levels
  • Admission
    • Created Prohibited Phases that can prohibit specific user groups from changing applicant phase to certain applicant phases
    • Change Applicant status has UI improvements to be responsive across all devices
  • Mobile Application
    • Easy for Parents to track and register an account for children who don't yet have an SCL account
    • Contacts Management with a way to force redirect Parents who have missing Mother or Father contacts to the contacts management
    • Ability to download school Reportcard when is available from Mobile app
    • Class Attendance
    • Notification Settings
    • Showing “Parent Details” in a private message as in the web version
    • Other Fixes & Improvements

Fixes & Enhancements

  • Performance improvement for loading “parent of” in Private Message
  • Fixed critical bug in a Progress report the readonly wasn't function correctly and disallow teachers from adding new entries
  • Fixed Admission Marital status to be allowed to add to it extra options
  • Now Throwing an error on trying to update student code to another used code from the Student Information
  • Improvements on Student & Parent dashboard with relocating Absences List & add a border for Reports, Absence List & Discipline List
  • SCL CRUD has been improved and get you back to which page you were browsing
  • SCL CRUD now has Create & Edit
  • Wipe Email & SMS Logs has been removed
  • Fixed in Creating Private Message is does not search by names in Administrators users
  • Showing Users who have Additional Users group with Show in Parent Message flag in Parent Users List
  • Fixed Homeroom doesn't show Class list dropdown menu when they are no students
  • Improvements on Reportcard Template K12 Detailed + GPA Columns
  • Created new Blank Reportcard Template for all Report cards Categories
  • Fixed Icon appearance in Skills Assessments
  • Added Quarters to be required in Skills Assessments
  • Fixed Teacher's Interactive Assignment to Hide assignments that need approval first
  • UI improvements on Absence List
  • Class Attendance report has been full localized
  • Print Absences have been optimized to use exact same UI as Absences List
  • Fixed RTL wasn't showing correctly in CRUD Models & Notifications
  • Account Management in Student information system restored the way before SCL 5.0
  • Added Interactive Assignments to Account Suspension Policy
  • Admission Apply: Showing Display name first if it has a value, if not then load from system translation
  • CRUD Improvement, if on the last page of pagination there are no rows then automatically go to the previous page
  • Fixed “Export Gradebook to CSV” was throwing access denied to the users who have the privilege
  • Grading Values Scores accept now decimal numbers instead of integer numbers only
  • Added the Second language to Student Profile and fixed the dynamic loading of marital status in Student Profile
  • School setup has been set as the homepage for the Administrator user group and once your installation data is fulfilled the SCL will automatically set your homepage again to Dashboard
  • Show 2-Step Verification in Students Users CRUD
  • LoginAs & RevertLoginAs able to function after the session is killed and will redirect the user to the SCL dashboard
  • Taking Absence is now has a rework on UX and it can now handle a date range
  • Improvement on Homeroom Attendance Lock and clearing some time range illogic for better result
  • Virtual Classroom Invitation Link is now can be early created and only will be changed when used
  • Suspend/Unsuspend Family from Parent Management is now logged in Users Logs
  • Fixed Legacy Gradebook theme where was showing incorrect width and height of the Columns headers on scrolling vertical or horizontal
  • Private Message UI Fixes & Improvements
  • Text/Question Editor UX Fixes & Improvements
  • Changing how SCL handles images uploads to be hosted on SCL cloud storage instead of base64 database which is will fix any issues with images render especially on smartphones where it takes a massive time to load
  • Hide Disabled Teachers in Teachers selection at Teachers Group Management
  • Minor UI improvements on Login Page
  • Improving page results on pressing back/forward buttons from the browser
  • General Comments disable policy are now linked with Unlock Gradebook date range
  • Fixed bug where Gradebook status from Security tab wasn't working correctly with SCL Web
  • Behaviour types icons have been improved
  • [Admission] some minor privileges security has been addressed correctly
  • Fixed Create assignment button was showing to HOD on viewing Gradebook
  • Student Gradebook got minor UI refreshment and Arabic RTL has been fixed
  • Schools get their logos in authentication areas such as login, registration, code verification, etc …
  • Virtual Classroom has now a node to handle and servers availability and status and this is handled by the third-party server instead of the SCL app which will reduce session creation time and maximize availability
  • Showing Grading Category weight to teacher's Gradebook
  • Fixed the errors display on uploading Student picture
  • Student & Parent dashboard Current quarter Graph has been developed to include all Quarters/Terms comparison
  • Teacher Groups in Teacher Dashboard ordering has standard SCL ordering
  • Student & Parent Earned grade report in the dashboard is now linked and any click will show you more details in Student Progress Report