product:changelog:5.3

5.3 Changelog

Release Date 29-06-2022

On SCL 5.3 we will focus on introducing a unique experience of gamification with bright new ideas & features

New Features

  • Gamification
    • Stickers
      • Introducing 7 Stickers Albums (in the future we will add more)
        • Ashley Hughes Vol 1
        • Kim Miller Vol 1
        • Safari
        • Souper Douper
        • Motivational
        • Passmore
        • Rainbow Sprinkle
      • Stickers Albums Management & Control for Administrator
      • Ability to Install & Uninstall your desired Stickers Album
      • Ability for Teacher to Select Multiple stickers & students to complete the sticker awarding
      • Instant notification received by Student account with the awarded sticker
      • Received unseen Stickers are showing in a wrapped box with shaking animation and on clicking it will show up the received stickers with more visual and sound effect
      • Unseen stickers will showup in Student as a badge on the left menu
      • When Student hovers or clicks on the sticker counter will show the entire history of the rewarded sticker
      • When the Teacher hover or clicks on the sticker counter will sum up how many each student has received the selected sticker
    • Badges
      • Badge Crafting (Easy to Build and Customize the following)
        • Frame Shape
        • Frame Color
        • Frame Shadow
        • Border Type
        • Border Color
        • Border Size
        • Badge Icons with search (Over 225 Unique Icons in 4 Categories [Animals, Emojis, Fruits & Vegetables, Childhood])
        • Icon Type
        • Icon Color
        • Badge Text
        • Text Color
        • Text Size
        • Text Font
      • Badges Library
      • Introducing virtual currency called Flasks which teachers will give to students in the form of Badges
      • Show Badge awarding history, which students have received such badge
      • Badges Market
        • Ability to add any badges to Badges Market
        • only unique badges can be listed in the Badge market and any clone or copied badge won't be able to be re-added in the market unless the original has been taken down
        • Likes System
        • Ability to purchase badges which cost way less than crafting them from scratch, purchased badge flasks will go into badge owner credit
      • Added Notifications and Notification control in Notifications Settings typical type of Badge Market notifications
      • Student can review their received badges of the current academic year and all recent academic years as well
    • Games Center (Required to be enabled from Users Groups)
      • Typing Speed
        • This is our first educational game that can increase and measure users typing speed in just a 1-minute challenge
        • This is only available for all types of users groups except for parent
        • Ability to review your best personal score
      • Leaderboards
        • Showing Top 5 Participants by the score for the selected game
    • Flasks
      • Ability to see Flasks Transactions history
      • You can get flasks only from the following
        • Receiving Badges
        • Selling Badges (20% of actually Badge value per purchase)
        • Playing Typing Speed (Flasks received are your typing speed words per minute)
        • Creating Merit Incident (10 Flasks)
        • Publishing Interactive Assignment (Autocorrect On) - 3 Flasks per created Question
        • Publishing Interactive Assignment (Autocorrect Off) - 1 Flask per created Question
        • Student Interactive Assignment Submission (25 Flasks for Autocorrect Assignment, 15 Flasks for Non-Autocorrect Assignment)
  • Layout Improving in Student Interactive Assignment Submission which increases Student UX in answering the assignment questions (Desktop only)
  • Added Dark mode support to Gradebook & Class attendance
  • Virtual Classroom (Update)
    • Screenshot of the current slide with annotations
    • Easier setup of breakout rooms
    • Change the time of breakout rooms
    • Webcam pinning
    • Improvements to Guest Lobby
    • Text message broadcasting to breakout rooms
    • Learning Analytics Dashboard improvements
    • Improved scaling of webcams and screen share
    • Performance - increasing overall performance and scalability
  • Added a new way for SCL Support to login into your SCL platform to assist you by adding a Request Support PIN Code which is only valid for 4 hours
  • Added Learning Dashboard Report to Virtual Classrooms reports

Fixes & Enhancements

  • Progress Report read-only logic has been improved and fixed as was causing a rare issue when Quarter is not selected
  • Students Pictures which is saved on SCL Student Information System will be displayed on Interactive Assignments, Reportcard Comments & Skills Assessments and if there is no student picture is set will fallback to the user avatar
  • Fixed Publish Assignment wasn't working from the previous update
  • Improvements in reducing Users sessions latency and locks for higher traffic
  • rework on User Logout to work with the new improvements and fixed Logout from Mobile device
  • Improving Framework Uploading Library to use SHA1 File when encryption is set to true
  • UI responsivity Improving in Question image & correct answer
  • Fixed Total assignment points were a step behind in Building Interactive Assignment
  • Improved Fill the blank to save answers on keydown and sync instantly with the answers
  • Fixed Interactive Assignment auto recalculating failed if a question point has been changed in some instances
  • Student picture cards become better responsive in any UI scale regardless if is loading student picture or avatar
  • Fixed Questions Bank in adding the new questions is reset the search parameters
  • Fixed Questions bank saving similarity, question topic, title, difficulty & keywords when using copy from Questions Bank
  • Improve UX in Copy from Questions bank to scroll back to the last copied question
  • Fixed Copy from Questions bank to insert the correct priority in Interactive Assignment
  • Fixed SCL CRUD Toolbar, where Columns button was not matching other buttons
  • Unread Messages is now dynamically updated even if the page is not refreshed
  • Improvement in Admission applicant print to support custom fields
  • Fixed Progress Report wasn't sending to parent
  • Fixed Student Assignments sorting wasn't considering the due date & time it was only sorting by date which may confuse students if there multiple assignments for the same due date
  • Fixed course selection Class & Subject dropdown wasn't functional correctly
  • Improved the UI of Course selection review & print
  • Fixed crash caused by backward compatibility in Interactive Assignment when editing Assignment Topic & Assignment Keywords before using Sync in Questions Bank
  • Fixed Issue in Downloading Reportcard from API fail if the behavior was attached to the Reportcard Template
  • Fixed Skills assessments in print mode don't break after each student
  • Replace the new Badge on the left menu for the new features to be green sparkles to minimize the impact of new features on the users who use SCL daily
  • Fixed broken Generate Teachers group, and now is correctly generate teachers group correctly
  • Fixed Grades dropdown menu to take school division priority as the first order