Welcome to the uEducateUs 1.27 release

Introduction

These release notes have been set up to allow the different user types to easily find the issues that are relevant to them. For example, if you are a parent, you only need to look in the Parents category to find all issues that affect you.

Key new features in this release:

• [CR 1659] - New Admin feature - 'Public Holidays Management' in School Preferences
  - Individual schools can now manage which public holidays they recognise and whether or not attendance rolls should be generated on those days.

• [CR 2148] - Set custom landing page upon login (Teachers/Admin)
  - Teachers and Administrators can now set their prefered landing page for when they log in to the system.

• [CR 2200] - Census Report for No Government Schools is now available

• [CR 2157] - 'Appointment Type' has been added when parent's accept and interview
  - When a parent accepts an interview they can choose the interview type as Phone, Video or Onsite.

Administrators

Improvements

• [CR 1136] - 'Permission Slips' - notifications can now be targeted to specific parents if required

• [CR 1384] - Tasks - Rating method changed from 'thumbs up/down' to the '5 star' method

• [CR 1465] - Incident notifications can now be sent to parents

• [CR 1539] - Admins can now add a 'Class End Date' for students that change classes mid-year.

• [CR 1539] - Admins can now add a 'Class End Date' for students that change classes mid-year

• [CR 1541] - Student Arrivals/Departures - Notifications can now be automatically sent to teachers if required

• [CR 1680] - Parent Welcome Letters can now be email directly to parents

• [CR 1700] - Teacher Profiles - New fields for VIT number and VIT expiry date have been added

• [CR 1731] - Uploading bulk student photos - Students with an exit date are now ignored

• [CR 1749] - The error message displayed when signing in to a disabled account is now correct

• [CR 1760] - Semester Reports - The 'main scores page' can now be hidden if required

• [CR 1820] - Improvements to Download Manager messaging

• [CR 1825] - Usability improvements have been made to the Case Notes module

• [CR 1840] - Case Notes for siblings can now be linked to each other.

• [CR 1869] - Paper Logins can now be filtered by class

• [CR 1883] - Parent-Provided Reason for Unexplained Absence - now displayed in a seperate tab

• [CR 1934] - Tasks - User groups can now be used to distribute tasks

• [CR 1939] - Tasks - Teachers can now see when parents or students have opened a Task

• [CR 1943] - Communication - Announcements can now be sent via email

• [CR 1953] - Student Overviews - now displays the students online activity (for remote learning confirmation)

• [CR 1971] - Tasks - Parents can now submit their children's tasks if required

• [CR 1975] - Tasks - Public schools - Only main classes are now shown by default

• [CR 1984] - Usernames have been added to the 'My Profile' section for easier reference

• [CR 1986] - Tasks - 'Release Date' column has been added to the Tasks table

• [CR 2059] - Teachers can now see 'Past reports' when they change year levels

• [CR 2075] - Tasks are now locked from editing if already opened by another user

• [CR-2076] - Semester Reports - Teacher dropdown list is now displayed if comments have been raised

• [CR 2083] - Semester Reports - Option added to keep printed names when adding Digital Signatures

• [CR 2103] - Semester Reports - Work Habit settings are now removed from subjects when 'Mark by Class' is selected

• [CR 2104] - Semester Reports - Teachers and admins can now reset scoring

• [CR 2125] - Semester Reports - There is now an admin option to amalgamate Principal/Teacher on print reports

• [CR 2142] - Semester Reports - past Reports can now be edited and released when in Draft status

• [CR 2143] - 'Students in User Groups' tab has been added to the 'Student Attendance report'

• [CR 2144] - 'Test Area' has been added to the 'Test Type' filter

• [CR 2145] - Communication - Details of announcements/conversations have been removed from email notifications

• [CR 2193] - Improvements to the filtering and changing codes in attendance Records

• [CR 2211] - Notifications - Filtering and column sorting has been refactored for a better user experience

• [CR 2218] - Private schools - Medical Condition Information is now displayed in the Students Overview

• [CR 2241] - Formatting improvements to the 'Interview Appointments' printed reports

• [CR 2248] - The 'Behaviour Comment' character limit has been increased to 4096 characters

• [CR 2255] - Administrators can now edit the 'Diary colour descriptions'
  [CR 2277] - Conversations can now be edited and deleted by administrative users

• [CR 2282] - Expired Tasks are now hidden from students and parents

• [CR 2288] - Semester reports - You can now display 'Admin Position' rather than Principal if preferred

• [CR 2292] - Semester Reports - New work habit added - Personal and Social Capability

• [CR 2323] - Administrators can now delete case notes

• [CR 2326] - Communication - Parents cannot see teachers have read message

• [CR 2329] - The logic regarding welcome letter creation has been reinstated

• [CR 2336] - ILPs for disabled students can now be seen, if required

New Features

• [CR 1659] - 'Public Holidays Management' in School Preferences

• [CR 1670] - Refactored the 'Permission Slip Table' for better usability

• [CR 1755] - Private Schools - parent's address can now be prefilled when enrolling a new student

• [CR 1834] - Security - User is temporarily disabled after 5 failed password attempts

• [CR 1860] - Private Schools - can once again create 'student free days' via the calendar.

• [CR 2148] - Set custom landing page upon login (Teachers/Admin)

• [CR 2157] - 'Appointment Type' has been added when parent's accept and interview

• [CR 2200] - Census Report for No Government Schools is now available

• [CR 2240] - Security - PIN is disabled after after 5 incorrect login attempts

Issues

• [CR 1433] - Interviews - 'Check Availability reports' no longer deliver inconsistent results

• [CR 1533] - Interviews - resolved an issue that was allowing interviews to be double booked

• [CR 1636] - Semester reports - PDF reports are now displaying 'Work Habits by Class'

• [CR 1646] - Interviews - Resolved an issue that was removing non affiliated bookings when a timeslot was marked as unavailable

• [CR 1696] - Security - Improved logic and messages around the use of the 'Password reset link'

• [CR 1746] - Semester reports printed using the 'Print Options' now the correct information

• [CR 1764] - Resolved an issue that was causing Work Habit scores to not save in some cases

• [CR 1921] - Security - Parents with no current Students are now automatically disabled

• [CR 1968] - Tasks - Resolved an issue that caused some task notifications to be sent multiple times

• [CR 1996] - The Conversation attachment file size has been capped to 5mb

• [CR 2036] - Past reports are no longer affected affected by current report settings

• [CR 2072] - Semester Reports - Disabled teachers are now automatically removed from classes

• [CR 2086] - Semester reports - Resolved an issue that was causing Teacher Names to display inconsistently

• [CR 2151] - Upload bulk student photos - students with shared names are now handled correctly

• [CR 2206] - Private schools can now export the 'Student Family Occupation and Education data'

• [CR 2239] - Create New Parent - 'Main language spoken at home' is now optional

• [CR 2275] - Incident reports can now include disabled children

• [CR 2307] - Grammar error in Student Arrivals and Departures Preferences

• [CR 2396] - Upload bulk student photos - .jpeg is now an acceptable format

• [CR 2434] - Semester Reports - PDF reports have duplicate scoring in some instances

Teachers

New Features

• [CR 1834] - Security - User is temporarily disabled after 5 failed password attempts

• [CR 2240] - Security - PIN is disabled after after 5 incorrect login attempts

• [CR 2148] - Set custom landing page upon login (Teachers/Admin)

• [CR 2157] - 'Appointment Type' has been added when parent's accept and interview

Issues

• [CR 1636] - Semester reports - PDF reports are now displaying 'Work Habits by Class'

• [CR 1636] - Semester reports - PDF reports are now displaying 'Work Habits by Class'

• [CR 1696] - Security - Improved logic and messages around the use of the 'Password reset link'

• [CR 1968] - Tasks - Resolved an issue that caused some task notifications to be sent multiple times

Parents

New Features

• [CR-2157] - 'Appointment Type' has been added when parent's accept and interview

• [CR-1834] - Security - User is temporarily disabled after 5 failed password attempts

• [CR-2240] - Security - PIN is disabled after after 5 incorrect login attempts

Improvements

• [CR 1696] - Security - Improved logic and messages around the use of the 'Password reset link'

Issues

• [CR 1968] - Tasks - Resolved an issue that caused some task notifications to be sent multiple times

Students

New Features

• [CR 1834] - Security - User is temporarily disabled after 5 failed password attempts

• [CR 2240] - Security - PIN is disabled after after 5 incorrect login attempts

Improvements

• [CR 1696] - Security - Improved logic and messages around the use of the 'Password reset link'

The School for Student Leadership

• [CR 2273] - SSL - Changes to the 'Enrolment Details' section as requested

• [CR 1571] - SSL - Student Overviews - two addition field made visible as requested

• [CR 1708] - SSL - Campus and Head Principal can now be differentiated in Semester Reports

• [CR 1709] - SSL - Limits can now be set for the number of peer reviews

• [CR 1834] - Security - User is temporarily disabled after 5 failed password attempts

• [CR 2240] - Security - PIN is disabled after after 5 incorrect login attempts

• [CR 1696] - Security - Improved logic and messages around the use of the 'Password reset link'