product:changelog:5.9

5.9 Changelog

Release Date 09-11-2023

New Features

  • Introducing the inclusion of a Student Pseudonym feature, accessible through Settings > System Settings. This functionality empowers educators and administrators to use Student Pseudonyms instead of their names for internal purposes. In cases where a student hasn't set a pseudonym, the system will seamlessly default to using the student's real name.
  • Enhance the statistics of the Messages Queue by presenting a table that shows users who have accessed the message with the ability to export to Excel or print them.
  • Revamped the Absences Report which minimizes user input and maximizes user filtration to generate the absences report such as adding alumni and transferring out students to it.
  • Private Storage (Update for Parent Only)
    • Parents with multiple children using Web SCL must select a child to access shared materials in private storage.
  • Inquiry Learning Management (PYP System)
    • Lines Of Inquiry Management
    • Unit Creation
      • Ability to target to
        • Created Lines of Inquiry
        • Educational Level
        • Multiple selection of Academic Periods
  • Support (the school can use the Ticketing System Help desk for parent complaints or user support by the school LMS Specialist)
    • Status Management
    • Priorities Management
    • Departments Management
      • Adding Specific Operators over a selected department to manage & reply to the tickets within this department.
      • The Department will be available only to selected User groups.
    • Custom Forms for Departments supporting the following controls
      • Text
      • Date
      • Dropdown
      • Email
      • Number
      • Teachers List (Which will show all teachers listed by Grade and Subject for admin staff or limited to Parents and Students)
    • Tickets
      • Showing Tickets List for your assigned Departments as operator.
      • Show and Filtering Tickets by ID, Status, Priority, Department Name or date.
      • Tickets are sorted by Status, Priority and ticket Submitted Date.
      • The ticket will be automatically assigned to the first operator who replies to it.
      • Ability to modify Ticket Department, Subject, Priority and Status.
      • Ability for Operators and Third Parties to send replies privately.
      • Ability for the Operator to add and delete Participants from the Ticket and ability to force the participant to send replies privately.
      • Parents and students have a Teachers List showing only Teachers list assigned to them by Grade Name, Teacher Name and Subject Name.
    • Notifications will be sent to all ticket operators, requestors and participants, if a Ticket is assigned to the operator the notification will be between who is assigned to and the requestor only.
    • Badges Indicator for Opened and Replied Tickets, Tickets must be assigned to you or no one.
    • SCL Administrator Required to add the proper Users Groups ACL to the Users Groups who can access Tickets and Creating Tickets.
  • Admission (Improvements)
    • Added New Columns can be displayed in Applicants Columns
      • Father, Mother Names
      • Father, Mother Mobile
    • Displaying Scheduled Assements, Registration & Paid Date on Applicant Edit
    • Rework and Improvements on Admission Overview Report, now display the field name as in Display name and correctly display other collections model values
    • Added filtration by column to the Admission Overview Report
    • Added DOB Column in Admission Scheduled Report
    • Rework of Admission Schedule Report and have the ability to customize the displaying columns
  • Added Preserve your window session's filtering, sorting, and customization settings for your upcoming login, this can enabled from Profile.

Fixes & Enhancements

  • Improved SCL Licensing query.
  • Fixed Edit Applicant Custom Form Control wasn't displaying.
  • Improved Timezone to cover the Login area & user logs correctly.
  • Fixed Edit Applicant Localization for Forms and Documents Tab.
  • Upload centre for Moments now relies on a separate list of teachers, distinct from the Homeroom Teacher list.
  • Fixed Student codes to be generated accurately throughout the enrollment process.
  • Web Browser Push notification will no longer be available to Mobile users since they can use Push Notification in the SCL Native Mobile App instead.
  • Improvement of Marking Assignment's height and width responsivity.
  • Ability to Disable Recording Voice Clip in Private Messages.
  • UX Improved when reading a message will scroll to the latest reply.
  • The Delete Button in the Messages queue now retracts the private messages before deleting the queue item, which is currently soft deleted.
  • Added to Admission Group Messages, Enrolled Applicant option which helps the school to communicate with the latest enrolled students from Admission.
  • Enhancements to the user experience have been made in the applicant search feature. When an applicant has been enrolled, their status will be indicated by a solid green icon, eliminating the need to display the enrollment icon separately.
  • Security Improvements on School Subjects and Teachers Groups.
  • Fixed Private Storage access denied on Delete.
  • Added Student Email, Transfer Reason in Transfer Out Report, and Fixed Academic Year to show the academic year of transfer out instead of the last enrollment.
  • Improved Messages Retract ACL and Localization.
  • Ability to Edit report card grades for previous academic years in PDF.
  • UX Improvements on the Student Information Report when selecting the Student Picture's column.
  • Added Route Name, Destination Name, and Vehicle Name to the Student Information report.
  • The Messages History feature now allows for the display of messages sent from a created assignment.
  • Admission Overview improvements can now be filtered by admission academic year and applicant enrollment status.
  • Added Student Name in Native Language along with English Students Routes Report.
  • Added Student Activity Selection to System Settings Suspension Control.
  • Fixed School > Classroom Bug where Classroom Promotion was incorrectly saved with the wrong ID.
  • Fixed in Teacher Groups > Enrollment still showing the transfer students.
  • Fixed Students Interactive Assignment Dark theme the link on hover was still dark.
  • Added new error message “System Error: Unable to process your request. Please verify that your request is valid and try again later.” This will be thrown when the user invalidates the request.
  • UI Improvement on Text Editor Toolbar to be grey in light mode and dark in dark mode.
  • Rework and improvements on SCL Update Modal, removal of Twitter feeds and making the modal minimal by linking it to the new website.
  • Fixed Improper Save button in system settings doesn't show correctly in responsive low resolutions and dark layout.
  • Fixed the Seen report in the Newsletter Queue, which was retrieving incorrect users from the Private Messages History Queue. It now accurately retrieves the report only for the Newsletter Queue.
  • Improvements on SCL CRUD to allow us to manipulate the output data used in SetRelationNN.
  • UX Improvements on Required fields now show the asterisk in normal size instead of being small and the asterisk colour is now red.
  • Fixed where crud value conflicts with special characters.
  • UX Improvement on new module icon.
  • Fixed Teacher Messages History Seen showing the incorrect number in conflict with Newsletter Queue ID.
  • Fixed Newsletter Queue not running when a queue deleted before it started making the queue process stalled.
  • UX Improvements on composing new messages the reply box gets autofocused and the cursor is ready to write, also, the signature has an extra newline.
  • UX Improvements Sidemenu can now understand more about active sub-modules and will mark the main module as active.
  • UX Improvements messages threads spacing becomes more spaced.
  • Fixed Applicant Age Calculation to be based on applicant academic year not admission academic year.
  • Increased Admission Maximum File Size Upload per Single field from 1Mb to 2Mb.
  • Fixed Admission Parent Single Field value wasn't loading correctly.
  • Fixed CRUD for Column selection will be vertically scrollable on so many columns.
  • Fixed Export to CSV in CRUD wasn't exporting with the user selected Columns.
  • Fixed an issue where the Weekly Bulletin feature, which automatically copied content to other categories, was not accurately comparing the values of the same textarea among different teacher groups.
  • UX Improvement: Disabling autofocus on top header Search bar.
  • UX Improvement: Enforce Applicant Enrollment to be forced to the current Academic Year despite the applicant's academic status showing a warning message with this step.
  • Fixed pseudonym student name was still showing in creating student even if pseudonym utilization was disabled.
  • Fixed Left and right arrow Icon direction to be corrected with RTL.
  • Fixed the Localization of Enroling Students to Teachers Groups and Subject Grading Categories.
  • Fixed Admission Phase Assessment Typo, Fixed Applicant Phase in Dashboard Search Result.
  • Slightly UI/UX Improvements on Student Information > Courses Enrolment.
  • Added Preloader to Moments Explore in Web Application.
  • Removed Double Tap giving like on Moments Web Edition.