SDSHOWTO:SDS 1 Series Changelog

SDS 1.6.2 (July 3, 2006)

• improvements to print_queue with respect to default printers
• informed consent data can be edited and displayed
• edit_student split into page tabs
• missing assignments improved with sorting alternatives and improvements to email
• calendar events in daily_attendance links to print_calendar_event

SDS 1.6.1 (June 24 , 2006)

• fix to print_marksheet
• assignment_marks can now accept a null (instead of setting the empty mark to 0)
• can delete from email_queue
• lots of little changes

SDS 1.6 (June 15 , 2006)

• Health numbers can be shown with student photographs
• improvements to student calendar
• Classes for a course can be shown on the calendar
• improvements to admissions application importing
• email_parents only for enrolled, alumni, accepted parents
• medic_alert improved
• address labels can be printed to various label sizes
• student.has_provided_birth_certificate
• daily_attendance cannot save for future dates
• MOE data checking page for data submissions
• automatic ajax saving for reports and mark_collection data
• resource_booking_weekly is now ajax-ed
• marks and reports have been disentangled
• academic ranking can be used for any mark_collection_period, also averages the data it produces (very interesting!)
• improvements to search function, many improvements to advanced search
• key_information fix to pdf_mark_collection

SDS 1.5.3 (May 15, 2006)

• Improvements to student travel tracking at breaks
• admissions profile data entry and PDF output improved

SDS 1.5.2 (May 10, 2006)

• Allergy information output on bus_request forms
• Improvements to email for bus_requests
• check_queues() function for testing condition of print_ and email_queues
• admissions profile data entry and PDF output added
• improvements to display_date_dropdown

SDS 1.5.1 (May 9, 2006)

• Allergy information output on class_student_photographs and print_calendar_event pages
• family information imported from application into admissions section
• Fix to conflict data in daily_attendance (bug 621)
• Fixes to various mark collection pages (bug 579)

SDS 1.5 (May 5, 2006)

• AJAX framework completed and implemented
• improvements to awards using AJAX
• whole report can be edited at once (new page)
• avantgo emergency contact information formatting improved for students
• country_of_birth information is now collected
• tracking sickies - how much school time students have missed
• lots of little glitches fixed
• teacher photos now implemented
• better searching of students, teachers, parents
• advanced search functions, additions to output reports
• improvements to assignment management, also control of assignment_mark relase to students
• allergy information output on class_student_photos and print_calendar_trip
• labels can be printed using any size label (once we have input the label geometry)
• advanced search page allows complex queries of student and parent data (can also be "programmed")

SDS 1.4.3 (February 2, 2006)

• new page for viewing contents of email_queue
• multiple delete facility for php_scripts_access and php_teacher_access
• calendar now correctly deals with cancelled events
• edit_calendar un_accepts accepted events if any of the dates change
• require_session_variable() function to prevent pukes resulting from users bookmarking particular pages within the SDS (applied to daily_atendance, edit_attendance, list_assignments etc)
• Student SDS assignment marks are only visible from IP addresses listed in vars.php
• Sport preselection pages can email students using the email queue
• Missing_assignments page emails students using the email queue
• list_teachers improved
• non-Brentwood email addresses for staff can now be specified
• Teacher decisions on which parts of the course SDS they wish to use are now improved (e.g. class organiser, markbook, complex attendance)
• Simple or complex attendance data
• Classes organiser improved, tests day and date validity
• Rolodex student information cards
• bug in import class information fixed
• announcements can now contain embedded HTML links
• the Tate graph has been added
• lots of little things

SDS 1.4.2 (December 15, 2005)

• postsec_search now restricted to current_school_year()
• add_to_queue improved for default printers, condensed data report, past years
• edit_courses page improved
• admission application import improved
• edit_student improved for admissions use
• pdf_report can count number of pages without printing
• print_draft_report now colour codes reports by length, links to reports_entry_spell
• reports_entry_spell can link back to print_draft_report
• PDAs can access the SDS (modifications to CSS, header and daily attendance)
• edit_student_report_data improved, can create missing report records

SDS 1.4.1 (November 25, 2005)

• numerous small fixes
• new parent_student data fields can be edited
• changes to edit_student and list_student for admissions purposes, addition of admission information
• changes to year_switch, which now reads from current_school_year table
• improvements to bus request information linking to calendar event data
• Parent teacher improvements, including meetings with teachers that do not involve student course registrations
• Parent teacher pages default to next pt_session
• edit_student_mcp_data and edit_student_report_data are improved
• course comparison for department heads improved
• class photograph page and email page improved to deal with sport terms
• awards_edit split off from awards_search
• Key information can now be stored and varied from year to year

SDS 1.4 (October 20, 2005)

• improvements and fixes to unexplained absences
• student count glitch fixed for head_of_department
• improvements to check attendance saved
• daily calendar insert for index page
• improved parent search function for search student page
• improvements to PT scheduling
• key information is now preserved across previous years

SDS 1.3.4 (September 28, 2005)

• houseparent can now look at previous reports and mark collections
• text email to parents of whole school students (not by class yet)
• daily_attendance SAVE button now tells you if it has been pressed
• admin page for checking if attendance save has been pressed, and for emailing those teachers who have not pressed save yet
• bus requests improved: comment field, improved email functionality
• email_queue implemented
• various small fixes

SDS 1.3.3 (September 14, 2005)

• improvements to arts preregistration
• daily_attendance SAVE button is now tracked
• improvements to data output on 1004/1104 forms

SDS 1.3.2 (September 8, 2005)

• Class photograph lists added
• lots of small fixes

SDS 1.3.1 (August 22, 2005)

• Calendar categories added
• Break times now show on calendar (except month view)

SDS 1.3 (June 30, 2005)

• fine arts preregistration added
• is_marks_fuzzy added to allow mark collection fuzziness to be separate from attendance fuzziness
• faculty voting for major award winners developed
• new optional Javascript menu system should be quicker to use
• printing of PR card labels
• deletion of subject now requires no courses within the subject
• improvements to departmental access of rotating subjects
• transcripting improved
• passport to education sub-pages improved (except academic, awarding)
• many small fixes

SDS 1.2.2 (March 17, 2004)

• cumulative course data for rotating courses added: implemented through mark collections and reports
• input_absence can email students and advisors about absences
• cosmetic improvements to edit_assignment and edit_assignments
• head_of_department page links to cumulative mark calculation
• show_student_info show selective information if a student is no longer enrolled, warns about data not being maintained.
• print_marksheet altered to allow printing of departments reports
• some fixes to fuzzy for output_reports
• improvements to edit_student
• edit_course_registration add student list defaults to grade level of subject
• course deletion allowed
• courses may be made sex-specific (mainly for preregistration purposes)
• more improvements for midyear marks & transfer credits

SDS 1.2.1(February 18, 2005)

• list_student_reports_number improved
• multiple concurrent mark_collection_periods are now supported; improvements to editing mark_collections
• transfer credits added
• which_saturday() now ignores deleted calendar events
• edit_courses improved
• edit_course has a "save and return to edit_subject" button
• select_student improved
• midyear marks improved: honours courses indicated, transcript and transfer credit information included, ability to select which records show on PDF
• marks that have not been entered for a mark_collection_period can be tracked
• "on the book" added to edit_student and daily_attendance
• student preregistration for courses may be made sex-specific
• student list may be filtered in edit_course_registration

SDS 1.2 (January 27, 2005)

• show _student_info fixed for a bug involving rel_student_current_school_year and students who are not enrolled.
• calendar_meister remembers the selected date when saving.
• check_finished_courses can now close multiple courses.
• edit_student_course_registration checks for timetable conflicts as well as block conflicts.
• edit_table page allows editing of any table data
• php_teacher_access now does not force the system into impersonation, also allows copying of script permissions from one user to another.
• weekend_leaves has been improved to Ron's bug 294 request.
• weekend_leave information may now be input by admin (e.g. Diane)
• usual_first_name should show throughout the SDS now.
• edit_courses revamped.
• improvements to edit_subject, including copying all of the teachers when copying a course.
• list_teachers takes over from edit_teachers, which was getting too bulky.
• improvements to midyear marks output
• list_classes defaults to date sort if a new class is added

SDS 1.1.5 (December 18, 2004)

• edit_departments allows setting of is_for_averages value
• all_course_registrations now uses department.is_for_averages data for calculating academic averages and commendations
• search_student now searches parent table also
• print_marksheet does not complain when there is no data to output
• missing_assignments tidied up, can omit marks from here
• edit_student_marks utilises omit_mark, too
• mark_collection_index and reports_entry_spell respect course.has_reports data
• advisor page indicates current mark_collection_period - makes vague guess at not completed reports

SDS 1.1.4 (December 9, 2004)

• sports output from claws_rip_hurts will fuzzy if the course.name and course.course_subset match
• head_of_department link to mark_collection_index now does not cause pukes
• print_marksheet works when accessed via head_of_department
• glitch fixed for mark calculation if a student had 0 marks in a particular assignment_mark_type
• can save a mark of 0 in edit_assignment_marks
• reports_entry_spell and reports_data_entry check the value of course.is_fuzzy
• list_subjects now allows a 'NEW' subject to be created in each department
• admin_index improved

SDS 1.1.3 (November 29, 2004)

• numerous changes to prevent (e.g.) second term sports from showing up in first term reports
• students can see assignment_mark comments, if this feature is enabled by the course teacher

SDS 1.1.2 (November 29, 2004)

• prep history improved to include the two halves of prep, work set and feedback comments from the library / computer staff
• bug in weekend_leaves.php fixed (when return_destination_id not filled in)
• delete of university actions possible

SDS 1.1.1 (November 23, 2004)

• a couple of significant assignment bugs fixed

SDS 1.1 (November 22, 2004)

• edit_student now has a field for recording BC funding status, and suggests whether the student should get it
• edit_parent can now select a blank PT session, link to parents_meetings fixed
• parents_meetings bug fixed when adding meetings
• list_parents now uses session variables to remember what you were doing
• edit_student is left aligned
• lots of PT formatting changes
• preregistration improvements and registration of students from sports preregistrations
• rel_student_current_school_year implemented
• editing of postsecondary actions on existing records
• weighting of individual assignments is now possible - when entering marks
• SQL logging implemented - sql_log table records all database modifications made through sds
• assignment_mark_types cannot be deleted if there are associated assignments
• text boxes enlarged in edit_classes.php

SDS 1.0.6 (October 25th, 2004)

• preregistration of sports implemented (early version)
• student_mark_collections should work now.
• pdf_report updated to reflect new design
• daily_attendance fix for saving data on Saturdays
• preregistration linked to advisor pages
• minor modifications to list_teachers

SDS 1.0.5 (October 5, 2004)

• SDS finally differentiates between "Saturday 1" and "Saturday 2"
• major bugfixes in attendance with concurrent classes and saturday classes
• clicking any button in edit_calendar, edit_student now saves your data
• Sunday is now day 0, not day 7
• added nationality stuff
• lots of other bugfixes
• slight reorganization of key information

SDS 1.0.4 (September 29, 2004)

• print_calendar_event has usual_first_name fix
• added CSV export for output reports
• resource_booking fix of multiple bookings across daylight savings changes fixed

SDS 1.0.3 (September 25, 2004)

• fixed address-adding bug
• added option for non-fuzzy class selecting in output reports
• added allergies, health_card_number fields to student
• only approved events show up in calendars
• daily_attendance shows if there are class conflicts for a student (usually for music lessons), also works on Saturdays

SDS 1.0.2 (September 22, 2004)

• all_course_registrations list registrations without referring to marks/reports
• all_course_option_list() will show courses without teachers, and show the subject
• fixed bug in head_of_department if no courses set up yet
• column order revised in edit_student_course_registrations
• graphical calendar view for resource booking
• usual_first_name shown in reports whenever possible
• students without parents appear in reports
• output_index will print various grades

SDS 1.0.1 (September 11, 2004)

• list_teachers page, including link to php_teacher_access
• view deleted teachers in edit_teachers
• edit_timetable_blocks has been adapted to edit timetable data
• you can delete subject from list_subjects - only in August and September!
• teacher_timetable shows courses if course is not in session when asked to advance to when course is in session
• daily attendance does not puke if no courses happen to be running. also now correctly lists courses running on a particular date if not today.
• list_subjects: add new subject facility fixed
• edit_breaks show data that cross the year start/end line (summer vacation)
• select_student (and show_student_info) should have a search function - provided by search_student.php (also appears in menu)
• edit_parents does not puke on save if no pt session set
• reports_data_entry now informs you if no mcp in session (which_mark_collection_period() now returns the next mcp if an mcp not in session)
• orphaned records now sorts by last_name
• fuzzy class selection in output reports

SDS 1.0 (August 19, 2004)

• Add non-duplex copy room printer
• Fix togglehelp bug
• Permissions audit
• Remove permissions when teachers are deleted
• Highlight help in title bar