SDSHOWTO:SDS 5 Series Changelog

SDS 5.10.0 (June 13, 2015)

Admissions

• Correct a display issue with invited students list if first invited student has no status log comment

Finance

• Fix broken ES Audit page (SMUS RT #9195)
• Add ES Audit available time calculation report (SMUS RT #9201)
• Correct ES Audit time calculation bug with period changes
• Fix broken ES Audit Homeroom page (SMUS RT #9213)
• Fix ES Audit Homeroom page not displaying when homeroom room is not set
• Fix attendance summary not displaying for middle and junior on homeroom attendance page

System

• Migration runner skips to 400 before starting

Timetabling

• Provide ability to edit block name
• Section prediction page can set default number of seats when creating new sections
• Added heatmap coloured course preselection loads
• Provided switch to turn off block colouring on drag-and-drop timetable page

SDS 5.9.0 (May 9, 2015)

Events

• Calendarmeister now displays event category above event name (SMUS RT #7933)

Finance

• Support American Express on credit card accounting page (SMUS RT #8668)

Online Application

• Allow JPEG file uploads for passport and birth certificate (SMUS RT #8635)

People

• Add duplicate email address detection to create persons page (SMUS RT #7671)
• Duplicate detection check on names when creating people with SDS Debug group override (SMUS RT #7671)

Pre-selection

• Add information report that lists subjects with preselection information (SMUS RT #8105)
• Improve registration counting for Subject registration report

Reports

• Fix marks not displaying on the print marksheet page in brief mode when they have dropped and reenrolled in a different fuzzy course (SMUS RT #8739)
• Fix marks not saving on print marksheet editing mode due to typo
• Added progress report page for advisors to view marks by mcp and mark caption (SMUS RT #7651)

System

• Add password expiry notice to the front page of SDS (SMUS RT #8640)
• Do not send pukes for specific exploit kit attempt ('A=0)

SDS 5.8.1 (April 14, 2015)

• Correct glitch preventing health form immunization records from being entered (SMUS RT #8802)
• Fix address editing not showing country (SMUS RT #8844)

SDS 5.8.0 (April 11, 2015)

Calendar

• Event scheduling assistant page only shows future events
• Drag and drop interface for event scheduling assistant page
• List persons for session page indicates if a person appears more than once on the list

Canned Reports

• Add special CAIS report for 2015 (SMUS RT #8637)

Online Application

• Correct birth date saving issue (SMUS RT #8705)

Preselection

• Improved filtering of non-FTE course sections in pre-selection section_prediction

Resource Booking

• Fixed a issue on the resource booking page where courses would not appear on the day that they begin (SMUS RT #8113)

Teachers

• Teacher timetable list of teachers only shows teachers with FTE > 0 (SMUS RT #8517)

System

• Datepicker year dropdown extended to current -100/+25 years
• Correct a bug preventing past and future photos from being displayed
• Improve validation of phone numbers
• Change datepicker "Done" button text to "Close"

SDS 5.7.0 (March 14, 2015)

Admissions

• Fixed error on edit_admissions_targets where grades showing were for this year, but admissions targets were for next year

Dates and Datepicker

• Support for dates past 2038 (SMUS RT #1814)
• Update behaviour of jquery datepicker "X" button to work more consistently
• Update date/time picker to always show button bar (now/today and done buttons)
• Add calendar icon to datepicker boxes to reduce confusion
• Update AJAX handler to activate datepickers brought in dynamically
• All legacy date dropdowns have been changed to javascript datepickers
• Unknown dates are stored in the database as null rather than a very large negative number (SMUS RT #4111)

Online Application

• Allow file uploads of several types through the online application (SMUS RT #436)

Parent Portal

• Parent portal student timetable UI improvements (SMUS RT #8381)

Parent/Teacher

• View PT page shows the students along with parents (SMUS RT #8151)
• View PT page has links to individual teacher schedules
• Teacher PT list - can view other teacher timetables, meetings times without bookings listed, tab interface for each PT date (SMUS RT #8175)
• List courses taught by each teacher on parent P/T schedule (SMUS RT #8465)
• Add course list with relevant links to teacher P/T page
• Prevent parents from booking multiple meetings with the same teacher by manipulating AJAX
• Prevent parents from booking or cancelling meetings in time slots that have passed (SMUS RT #8174)

Reports

• Use correct report formatting for adult program grades (SMUS RT #8281)

Search

• Add ability to advanced search by subject enrolment (in and not in)

Subjects

• Fix a bug where students missing subjects page searched on a substring (grade 12s not in calculus 12 included not in pre-calculus 12)
• Course creation now uses course end date

System

• Improve behaviour of edit grades per year page to not tear down and rebuild entire list when save is pressed (SMUS RT #8199)
• Add ability to store course end date (SMUS RT #8525)

SDS 5.6.0 (February 14, 2015)

Health Forms

• Add health number prompt to medical number line on childcare health form (SMUS RT #8101)

Parent/Teacher Interviews

• Display student's grade on the teacher P/T view (SMUS RT #7970)

Re-registration

• Update the edit students page to support multiple registrations in the same year (SMUS RT #8153)

Search

• Allow not equals for course on advanced search (SMUS RT #7832)

System

• Set datetimepicker and datepicker to use dropdowns for month and year (SMUS RT #7685)
• Debug versions now print amount of realpath cache usage
• Remove HTML-commented duplicate registered fields on edit_person page
• Support for print release for separate Ricoh 907ex queue
• Add meta tag for noindex for marketing SEO (SMUS RT #8180)

SDS 5.5.0 (January 24, 2015)

Admissions

• Created new admissions funnel page to view all campuses and fee status types. (SMUS RT #7892 #4520 #4523)

Analytics

• Added analytics to monitor scheduled test distribution by date, department and subject
• Analytics to monitor school "stress levels", through daily test counts, absence counts, students on calendar events counts.

Calendar

• Add filtering by event category to my list of events
• Add academic schedule page
• Add exam planner page and another page to show the persons attached to a combination of calendar events
• Correct resourcemeister-level access to edit_calendar page when resourcemeister is also an owner of the event (SMUS RT #7981)
• Default values for primary care giver and communicate everything to when coming to email_parents page from an event (SMUS RT #7988)
• Add ability to repeat calendar events daily only on timetable days (SMUS RT #8000)

Canned Reports

• Add legal agreement data to students with legal agreements generated report (SMUS RT #7807)
• Created new photo report integrated with the advanced search fields (SMUS RT #7584)

Reports

• Adjusted the margins on plo-based reports so that they would not be cut off on certain printers. (SMUS RT #7757)

System

• Move jQuery and jQuery UI components back into the SDS tree to resolve issues with some countries accessing the CDN (SMUS RT #7978, #7994)

SDS 5.4.1 (January 19, 2015)

• Update rereg dates
• Fix P/T booking bug with teachers on multiple campuses

SDS 5.4.0 (December 20, 2014)

Attendance

• Added extra calculation to student attendance page to summarize absences and lates (SMUS RT #7686)

Mark Collections

• Added learning skills and progress indications to the senior mark collection report format (SMUS RT #7370)

Parent Portal

• Step-parents and Legal Guardians have been further integrated into the Parent Portal, and have gained access to health and registration forms (SMUS RT #4398)

Parent Teacher

• PTSession dropdown returns PTsessions in reverse chronological order
• New page to display the Parent Teacher appointments for a session against time

Timetable

• Suggested groups array attempts to equalize group sizes

Statistics

• Fix page for assignment_mark statistics (following RT3536)

System

• Support for papercut print release functionality
• Code optimization for EventCalendar::filterByCategory()
• Advanced search results using the plain_name field sort by last name first

SDS 5.3.1 (November 29, 2014)

• Add view PT page to show parent/teacher meeting summary
• Correct attendance statistics function for senior school (report cards and May audit)
• Add senior school attendance statistics to PLO-based report template

SDS 5.3.0 (November 22, 2014)

Attendance

• Fix a bug on the daily attendance page where the wrong attendance status would display after saving a double block (SMUS RT #7223)
• Fix incorrect conflict times displayed on daily attendance when timetable is changed (SMUS RT #7457)

Calendar

• Fix double clean when displaying cancelled calendar events (SMUS RT #7449)

Canned Reports

• Add special needs category to output reports (SMUS RT #7334)

Mark Collections

• Only sort report writing page by grade then name if the course is an academic advisor course (SMUS RT #7536)
• Only sort mark collection index page by grade then name if the course is an academic advisor course (SMUS RT #7536)

Markbook

• Add option to use radio buttons instead of entering assignment mark

MIS

• Update student create/delete scripts to match new Exchange servers
• Update student group script to automatically populate student boarding house distribution lists (SMUS RT #7190)

Parent/Teacher

• When managing PT meetings, only suggest courses that are set to "is included in PT" = "Y" (SMUS RT #7390)

Preselection

• Small updates to the preselection subject registration report

Reports

• PLO-based report updates for senior school (SMUS RT #7539)

Search

• Add special needs category to advanced search fields (SMUS RT #7334)

SDS 5.2.0 (October 25, 2014)

Academic Advisor Log

• Store and display creator/editor teacher (SMUS RT #7090)

Admissions

• Calculate number of returning based on last year's enrollment if non-returning is estimated in projected enrollment (SMUS RT #7322)

Calendar

• Calendar pages adjusted to no longer overflow the SDS layout. (SMUS RT #3285)

Canned Reports

• Update anaphylaxis report to also list students with "epipen" or "epi-pen" in their allergy description (SMUS RT #7096)
• Added new canned report, 'New Student Checklist - Interim Reports' on the 'Generate Report page. (SMUS RT #7253)

Consolidated Health Form

• Notify health centre when a health form is merged (SMUS RT #6975)
• Display red asterisks beside updated information on health centre health form (SMUS RT #6976)

Online Application

• Remove option to pay admissions fee later (SMUS RT #7238)

Student SDS

• Protect student timetable export page from direct URL access outside of school time (actual export of timetable was already protected)

System

• Rename "Student fee status type" to "Student program" in advanced search and StudentFilter

Timetable

• Add new page "Students without full schedule" that lists how many periods per 10 day cycle are unscheduled (SMUS RT #7034)

SDS 5.1.0 (September 27, 2014)

Advising

• Add new academic advisor log action: athletic counselling (SMUS RT #6937)
• Add links to the academic advisor log (search and add) from show student info (SMUS RT #7007)

Attendance

• Fixed a bug where the daily attendance was not displaying correctly after saving. (SMUS RT #6883)
• Daily Attendance now updates for registration changes made within a given day. (SMUS RT #6844)

Calendar

• Fixed formatting on calendar for the horizontal week view. (SMUS RT #3285)

Courses

• Update parents of students report to only list "communicate everything to" parents (SMUS RT #7140)

Events

• Change default new announcement start time to 7:00 am (SMUS RT #6935)
• Fix display bugs on weekly room group booking page

Finance

• Update AP tax file export so that the billing parent's mailing address is used (SMUS RT #6909)
• Update AP tax file export so that any errors are reported in HTML rather than as part of the CSV file
• Fix MOE 1701 band code being exported as 0 by default (SMUS RT #7134)

Markbook

• Instruction text updates on the edit course info page for teachers
• Reports can now be displayed for mark collection periods that have no marks, as well as properly handling fuzzy courses (SMUS RT #7095)

Reports

• Add learning skill collection to reports_data_entry page to support non-report collections at senior school

System

• Allow incoming person_id variable to set selected items in initial studentfilter search box

Timetable

• Teacher classrooms page updated with view of classrooms, showing how many courses each teacher has in that room
• Add ability for students to export their timetables through ICS

Transcript

• Transcript personnel changes (SMUS RT #6827)

Updates from 5.0.1

• Fix critical error in all course registration ABA mode
• Fix critical error counting number_of_selections in class student
• Fix lesson location and bookings in student SDS
• Fix admissions workflow person_log cache issue when uploading files
• Student registration count and preselection count fix after standardization of subject object
• Fix critical error in attendance class on daily_attendance page
• Fix several bugs in unexplained absences script
• Fix critical error in sick_list
• Change programming of Student::filterByIsDay function when we want non-day students
• Default to primary caregiver and communicate everything to when coming into email_parents from course email students (SMUS RT #6873)
• Fix glitch when switching between emailing students in multiple courses (SMUS RT #6888)
• Fix attendance status recommendations when a student is absent (explained by SDS) (SMUS RT #6942)

SDS 5.0.1 (ongoing)

• Ongoing fixes for issues that come up as a result of 5.0.0 release

SDS 5.0.0 (August 30, 2014)

Academic Advising

• Add academic advisor mode to my advisees page (SMUS RT #6638)
• Enable academic advisor log functionality with requested functionality changes (SMUS RT #6639)
• Allow read-only access for senior faculty to academic advisor log

Admissions

• Fixed an date inconsistency in Projected Enrollment page that led to problems for month of July
• Add enquiry data extract (SMUS RT #5419)
• Add ability to expire out old enquiries (SMUS RT #5419)

Attendance

• Refactor backend attendance functionality to make it easier to add more functionality and fix bugs (SMUS RT #271)

Finance

• Correct statement errors with -$0.00 causing issues (SMUS RT #6671)

Markbook

• Add better error message when trying to copy assignments from a course that doesn't have any

MIS

• Support different community strings when monitoring UPSes (SMUS RT #6644)
• Add link to access free software through Microsoft Dreamspark
• Add link to access free Microsoft Office for students
• Add links to access home use programs for Office and Adobe CS/CC for staff

Reports

• Rewrite print queue page to use StudentFilter functionality and add academic advisor filter (SMUS RT #6641)
• Advisor stuff -> edit reports now shows academic advisees if no homeroom advisees are found for a teacher
• Sort students by grade first then alphabetically in the write reports and advisee edit reports lists (SMUS RT #6642)

Search

• Allow advanced searching by academic advisor (SMUS RT #6640)
• Add filter for academic advisor anywhere studentfilter with homeroom advisor was previously set up
• Add toolbar search function to search by student number (SMUS RT #6505)

Students

• Update user account removal script for Office 365
• Add extra fields to create person page (SMUS RT #5419)
• Reschedule page will now allow registrations to be changed (SMUS RT #6309)
• Add ability to save and view registration comments on student/course registration editing pages (SMUS RT #4201)

System

• Move person_log data out of the database and into the filesystem (SMUS RT #6558)
• Merge photos, app_photos, reports, person_log data, and secure downloads into a new protected SDS filespace directory
• Order printers alphabetically in dropdown list
• Add flags to recognize homeroom and academic advisor courses (SMUS RT #849)
• StudentFilter no longer prints warnings if no filters are allowed
• Refactor the object model using traits to eliminate a large amount of error prone duplicated code (SMUS RT #5222)

SDS 4.114.1 (August 19, 2014)

• Correct issue fetching user subgroup membership (SMUS RT #6668)

SDS 4.114.0 (July 26, 2014)

Canned Reports

• Add exam nametag label report (SMUS RT #6306)

Email

• Navigating to the email_parent page from the sidebar now resets the page (SMUS RT #6347)

Login

• Users attempting to sign in while already logged in will be logged out if they input incorrect credentials (SMUS RT #5574)

Preselection

• Interface improvements for the preselection dry-run conflicts page (SMUS RT #6295)

Resource Booking

• Resource Meisters can now edit or delete bookings in their resources (SMUS RT #878)
• 'View Room Groups Weekly' page added to view resource bookings by week and room group (SMUS RT #761)

System

• Dropdowns no longer automatically capitalize entries. (SMUS RT #6444)

Timetable

• Added session variable to track current_school_year_id (missed in RT #6074)
• Updates to Change student course registration, including maintaining verbose page mode on Edit student course registration page
• Changed default year in timetable planning pages. Once courses have started, the year will default to next year. (SMUS RT #6238)

SDS 4.113.1 (June 30, 2014)

Email

• Fix a bug on the email parents page that was preventing users from sending email

SDS 4.113.0 (June 28, 2014)

Admissions

• Correct projected enrolment report when returning students change programs (SMUS RT #6326)

Awards

• Honour roll page now includes dropped classes when students are marked for the selected mark collection period.

Canned Reports

• Add citizenship countries to the citizenship generated reports (SMUS RT #6206)

Preselection

• Additional fatal error protection on prereg pages when no students are enrolled (SMUS RT #6168)
• Added block name to dry run course summary and fixed some column sorting (SMUS RT #6296)

Reports

• Correct an issue that was preventing letter grade "SG" from appearing on report cards

Resource Booking

• Protect resource booking pages from malformed dates when checking for availability (SMUS RT #3238)

Search

• Search functionality has been protected against UTF-8 values causing fatal errors
• Person lookup when signing up for an account has been protected against UTF-8 values causing fatal errors (SMUS RT #6169)

Students

• Extend mahara link support to all students and courses on all campuses (SMUS RT #6177)
• A new page was created to email students using the student filter (SMUS RT #5999)

Teachers

• Teachers can now view dropped students' Reports & Marks data for historical mark collection periods. (SMUS RT #6174)

Timetable

• A session variable now tracks variables between the three timetable planning pages, maintaining the same settings between pages. (SMUS RT #6074)
• Period overrides are now properly handled in student info page and student timetable (SMUS RT #6136)

SDS 4.112.1 (June 12, 2014)

Awards

• Correct bug batch printing ROAs

Subjects

• Add the ability to see and change autofill grades on more course editing pages (SMUS RT #6242)
• Fix API change to $subject->getCourses causing block informamtion not to appear on dry run conflicts page (SMUS RT #6243)
• Add list of students in the remaining demand column in prereg list of selections

SDS 4.112.0 (May 31, 2014)

Application

• Modified the parent information page to include the option to import SDS information (SMUS RT #1558)

Admission

• An Accept Interest list has been made available to Middle and Senior Faculty and boarding staff (SMUS RT #6075)

Awards

• Add advisor and ability to filter by advisor to award winner list (SMUS RT #6189)

Finance

• Optimized attendance summary reports for junior and middle school students (SMUS RT #6140)
• Update ES attendance summary for new junior school times (5.75 hours K-3, 5.916... hours 4-5) (SMUS RT #6160)

Reports

• Fixed report entry for fuzzy courses to ensure that all students can be iterated through via 'next' and 'previous' (SMUS RT #6015)

Students

• Update automatic student creation/deletion scripts for new Exchange databases, new DFS paths, and new account policies
• Student creation scripts now include left and returning students (SMUS RT #4393)
• Added 'Away Students' page to view absent or trip students per period (SMUS RT #5908)

Teachers

• Only consider courses where the logged in user is the primary teacher when calculating main campus

Timetable

• Made numerous tweaks and fixes to timetable planning pages. (SMUS RT #6074)

SDS 4.111.0 (May 3, 2014)

Calendar

• Fixed period conflict checking to exclude dropped courses from the search (SMUS RT #4746)
• Table no longer overflows on the calendar page (SMUS RT #3285)
• Remove "My trips" subsection from event attendees section (replaced by students on my event StudentFilter)

Canned Reports

• Add "Student on my event" filter to export wizard (SMUS RT #5581)

Consolidated Health Form

• Update initial and reminder form campaign emails to reduce confusion (SMUS RT #5882)

Email

• Lock out further changes to email parents selections until the previous change has returned (SMUS RT #5680)
• Restrict maximum cumulative attachment size to 1MB (SMUS RT #5938)

Lessons

• Edits Lessons page can now delete lessons that have attached school PLOs (SMUS RT #5859)

Markbook

• Fix duplicating assignments not working with mark records (SMUS RT #5580)

Parents

• Parents can now be linked to addresses in different ways at the same time (SMUS RT #5885)

Pre-Selection

• Academic Conflict Matrix now has a subject selector box to check specific subjects (SMUS RT #3939)
• Fix printing of counselling list in Firefox (SMUS RT #5873)

Reports

• Junior School PLO Values now includes * to denote a non-applicable PLO (SMUS RT #5420)
• Added the Subject Registration Report to keep track of registrations per subject throughout the year (SMUS RT #4200)

Search

• Add ability to advanced search and StudentFilter by students on a teacher's event

Subjects

• Added Unexplained Absence Report page to keep track of absent students within a subject. (SMUS RT #4875)
• Add course block check page to check for incorrectly scheduled courses (SMUS RT #4127)

System

• Optimized fuzzy functionality on course look-up.

Teachers

• Added fuzzy check to teacher period conflict page. (SMUS RT #4360)

Timetable

• Added two more timetable construction pages for "room and block" and "teacher and room". (SMUS RT #5938)

SDS 4.110.2 (April 14, 2014)

Reports

• Correct issue looking up interim mark collection for students in non-numerical grades (SMUS RT #5937)

Students

• Correct an issue slotting students into junior school Active Directory groups

SDS 4.110.1 (April 7, 2014)

Teachers

• Fixed access issues to edit scheduled tests (SMUS RT #5884)

SDS 4.110.0 (April 5, 2014)

Admissions

• Add extra admissions targets fields for max target and non returning estimate
• Add new report admissions projected enrolment PDF (SMUS RT #5013)

Parents

• Added 'Day Market Report' page to collect parent information for market research (SMUS RT #5477)

Preselection

• Allow selection of multiple students using StudentFilter on counselling list (SMUS RT #5761)
• Add ability to show new students and current advisor for returning students on number of selections page (SMUS RT #5720)

Students

• Added the 'Who is Taking a Test?" page to find all the students taking a test on a given day. It is linked to the 'Schedule Test' page. (SMUS RT #5417)
• Mahara portfolio links can be saved and accessed for middle school students. (SMUS RT #5189)

System

• Automatically close off unneeded person_log records when a student is set to a "closed" status (SMUS RT #1166)
• Update all pages that set student status to use Student::setStatus rather than setting person log directly
• Fix incorrect caching of fee status type and admission target objects
• CSS fixed so that certain page elements can be correctly hidden when printing (SMUS RT #5741)
• Add cron job and API key for weekly email of admissions projected enrolment PDF

Teachers

• Added the 'Common Teacher Spares' page for coordinating free time among many different people (SMUS RT #4508)
• Added 'Edit Tests' page so that teachers can edit tests names or delete future tests (SMUS RT# 4964)

Timetable

• clarified meaning of Grade on registrations conflict matrix page
• The print timetables page has been modified to properly handle dates. It can now be used to print past and future timetables. (SMUS RT# 4763)

Transcripts

• Add "courses" to the grade headings to reinforce that they weren't necessarily completed during the same year (SMUS RT #5716)
• Change out director's assistant's contact information (SMUS RT #5696)

SDS 4.109.0 (March 8, 2014)

AUP

• Add extra sentence to AUP text (SMUS RT #5503)

Attendance

• Added extra 'comments' field to attendance pages for teachers to give extra information. (SMUS RT #4678)
• Attendance report now correctly displays absences when configured to display more than one day. (SMUS RT #5482)

Calendar

• Added additional information to resource booking system. Now accounts for vehicle resources and stores driver name and other details. (SMUS RT #803)

Lessons

• Changed missing_assignments.php to include teacher names in the email (SMUS RT #5601)

Ministry

• Do not override BC funding setting if the SDS thinks the student is eligible on 1701 form (SMUS RT #5626)

Online Application

• Fix address line 2 not displaying correctly on application summary page

Reports

• Copy standards-based assessment data into standards-based reports

Student SDS

• fixed glitch with bad schoolPLOvalue on standards-based Student SDS page
• fix glitch related to omitted marks in Student SDS course assignment marks type summary

System

• Avoid locking database tables necessary for other use when sending large batches of email (SMUS RT #5670)
• Mark Collection Period class now is rewritten to properly use SDS object-oriented format. (SMUS RT #5692)

Transcripts

• Enhance description of I letter grade (SMUS RT #5695)

SDS 4.108.2 (February 19, 2014)

Preselection

• Fix missing preselection information

SDS 4.108.1 (February 14, 2014)

System

• Fix file downloads for some Internet Explorer users (SMUS RT #5597, 5595, 5592, 5588, 5569, 5566, 5562)

SDS 4.108.0 (February 8, 2014)

Admissions

• Allow importing an online app if the legal guardian matches the contact (as well as mother and father) (SMUS RT #5394)
• Edited admission workflow page to properly handle the 'enter' key' (SMUS RT #5309)

Attendance

• Modified input_absences to get day start and end times from database (SMUS RT #2381)
• Student photos now appear on daily attendance page when mouse hovers over the student name (SMUS RT #2987)

Calendar

• Integrated teacher duties into the database and created pages for editing the duties and the duty schedule. In addition, the teacher duties now automatically appear on email announcements. (SMUS RT #3291)

Canned Reports

• Added Legal Guardian to various contact lists (SMUS RT #4546)
• Advanced search grid view requests that web browsers try not to spread a row across multiple pages when printing
• Several canned report lists request that web browsers try not to spread a row across multiple pages when printing (SMUS RT #529)
• Added student photos to off-campus medical forms (SMUS RT #2405)

Courses

• Add subject list view to course list by grade
• Fix issue where newly created subjects do not appear on the edit_subjects page (SMUS RT #4399)
• Add warning when editing a course to set a primary classroom before attempting per-period room assignments (SMUS RT #5296)

Lessons

• Added course name and subset to assignment pages. (SMUS RT #4635)

Mark book

• allow mark increments of 0.1 on missing assignments page

Online Application

• Modified applicant.php and class_grade.php so that grades AN, AD and HS are no longer options for applicants. (SMUS RT #5382)
• Fix fatal error encountered if an applicant the country of an address but no other address or person details

Reports

• Andy Rodford's signature now appears correctly on PLO based reports (SMUS RT #5272)
• Change Advisor Group Teacher back to Homeroom Teacher on senior report format
• PLO reports now display the homeroom teacher and appropriate title on the first page (SMUS RT #599)

Search

• Add "Has IEP" to advanced search criteria

Students

• Added "Missing Data Report" to students section of SDS to generate a report on students that are missing information. (SMUS RT #621)
• Students now have access to Record of Achievement reports on the student SDS (SMUS RT #3856)
• Students can now email all their teachers from their student_information page (SMUS RT#708)

Subjects

• Added list_subject_students.php to show all students enrolled in a subject. (SMUS RT #852)

System

• Update credits file
• Informed consents are stored yearly (SMUS RT #857)
• Fixed login messages for timeout cases. No more contradictory messages. (SMUS RT #4588)
• Rationalize header output across all downloadable files (SMUS RT #1890)
• Update jQuery libraries to the latest version for IE11 support
• Moved some variables to the database. Created a page to edit variables on the database. (SMUS RT #379)
• New users-names are now checked against the database to prevent duplicates. (SMUS RT #554)

Teachers

• Link from teacher timetable page to lessons page (SMUS RT#5370)

Transcripts

• Transcript will use the latest mark collection period that the student was a part of when calculating interim marks (SMUS RT #4208)

SDS 4.107.1 (January 15, 2014)

• Fix fatal SQL error on the student course registration display page (SMUS RT #5350)

SDS 4.107.0 (January 11, 2014)

Admissions

• Do not email admissions when application is started, fee is paid, or reference is submitted (SMUS RT #5159)
• Functionality of enrolment status update pages reverted to first day of next school year (functional reversion of SMUS RT #5012)

Finance

• Fix upload and display of financial statements with negative debit or credit values (SMUS RT #5291)
• Modify current student registration dates for 2014/2015

Lessons

• schoolPLO dropdown does not include a blank row on edit_assignment

Markbook

• Fix issue where records are stored separately if a student has multiple registrations in a course (SMUS RT #3536)

Online Application

• Add chinese text to the app login new user section (SMUS RT #5171)

Preselection

• Add ability to create a note for a subject to give additional instructions or requirements during course selection (SMUS RT #5233)

SDS 4.106.0 (December 14, 2013)

Academic Advisories

• Fix updating advisories with apostrophes (SMUS RT #4840)

Admissions

• Add better sort by grade to most admissions reports (SMUS RT #5102)
• Block application import if a person is selected as "new and unique" but the email address matches a person already in SDS (SMUS RT #5120)
• Show email address when selecting duplicate adults and parents on import
• Block import if contact name and email doesn't match a parent's in the app (SMUS RT #5120)
• Fix an address import issue if the address was already in the system (SMUS RT #5120)
• Change default date for Enrolment Status Update & Summary to today's date (SMUS RT#5012)

Canned Reports

• Add student cell phone number as a field on output index (SMUS RT #4753)

Form Campaigns

• Form meister will not send initial emails to people who have already completed the health form (SMUS RT #4832)

Lesson Planner

• Redirect to edit_assignment when successfully created a new assignment (SMUS RT #4989)
• Allow multiple school PLOs to be connected to a lesson or assignment at once (SMUS RT #5085)

Parent Portal

• Add new page to explain process to request permission to miss academic time (SMUS RT #5088)
• Block the following punctuation from first and last name when signing up for an external account: "!@#$%^&*(){}_\/:;?[]|`~,<> (SMUS RT #5121)
• Block last name being all in capitals when signing up for an external account

Reports

• Add warning about safari and chrome not spell checking on page load when writing reports (SMUS RT #4847)
• Add new graduation requirement subrule type of quantity subjects matching a regular expression (SMUS RT #4984)
• Implement new standards-based assessment module for senior school (SMUS RT #4869)

Students

• Add ability for IEP data (rather than PDF) to be visible in asterisk information of student (provides IEP master list on SDS) (SMUS RT #4947)
• Add new page to list students who left and returned (SMUS RT #4999)
• Update List/Edit Students to use enhanced grade sorting
• Change free student list to default to lowest grade rather than highest to avoid AD/AN grades (SMUS RT #5109)
• Create allergy health form check page like medical number check page (SMUS RT #4625)

SDS 4.105.0 (October 19, 2013)

Admissions

• Fix fee status issue when creating an Enquiry (SMUS RT# 4636)

Assignment marks

• Allow one decimal place in assignment marks (SMUS RT#4784)
• Update course and subset on Assignment marks pages

Attendance

• Fix attendance link from the teacher timetable page for rotating courses (SMUS RT #4609)

Awards

• Add middle school director's signature on middle school ROAs

Email

• Added an email link for the academic advisor to the student information page

Reports

• Fix error on advisor print queue page that was causing limited reports to filter by new students only (SMUS RT #4724)

Search

• Allow teacher quicksearch to return alumni who have become teachers

System

• Fix sql_wrappers attempting to set protected variables when using the latest version of MDB2 mysqli driver
• Add HS homeschool grade (SMUS RT #4721)

Transcripts

• Change Allison McCallum's title on SMUS transcript (SMUS RT #4747)

SDS 4.104.0 (September 21, 2013)

Admissions

• Fix glitch in Accepts Offers Interests page if a student has no admission record.
• Modify Accepts Offers Summary to show when a student has no admission record.
• Add mother, father, and admission agent email addresses to non-returning student report (SMUS RT #4524)

Canned Reports

• Add more fields to the Nurse Information Report (SMUS RT #4367)
• Update nametag labels to use 2x5 Avery 5371 business card
• Update nametag labels to add logo and slogan
• Add new report to compare SDS health number with health form insurance information (SMUS RT #4529)

Course administration

• Added seats, room to display for each course in Edit Subject
• Added ratio of registrations to seats, to spot full and nearly full courses, in Course List By Grade
• New page to show all of the classrooms used by each teacher

Course Registrations

• Add student number to the students in department list
• New page for viewing conflicts between incomplete registrations (for exam planning, etc)
• Fix "Back to list of subjects" link from edit_course (SMUS RT #4381)
• New page to aid counsellors in adjusting student timetables from course selections
• Increased size of student dropdown to 20 on Course registration page

Lesson Planner

• Remove date range lesson create button, replace with button that creates lessons for the course's entire date range
• Simplify renumber lesson button so that it just numbers lessons from 1 -> max lesson in chronological order
• Add ability to create lessons directly from staff calendar export page, including creating lessons for all courses at once (SMUS RT #4490)

Reports

• Change senior school homeroom teacher line to "Advisor Group Teacher" (SMUS RT #4420)

System

• Migration to add grades AD and AN (adult program) to SDS (SMUS RT #4399)
• Hide autofill button on student enrollment tab if student has a record for grade AD (SMUS RT #4399)
• Add new label geometry 2x5 Avery 5371 business card
• Add limited ability for pdf labels to add full width JPG images
• Correct typo in AUP
• Fix save glitch in edit teachers page

Timetables

• Teacher timetable printing only shows teachers with FTE > 0 (SMUS RT #4353)
• Add ability for students to export timetables (currently hidden from menu until it gets tested by eager students) (SMUS RT #4539)

SDS 4.103.2 (September 6, 2013)

• Fix to PDF room timetable functionality to enable per-period room bookings

SDS 4.103.1 (August 30, 2013)

• Remove access to "My Courses" menu on Student SDS until school year starts

SDS 4.103.0 (August 24, 2013)

Admissions

• Move log entries on Decision tab of workflow (SMUS RT #2341)
• Fix event error on leads page
• Improve person duplicate reporting during application import
• Add admissions test results page (RT 2229)
• ESL Funnel page updated (RT#1178)

Canned Reports

• Sort PR label courses alphabetically by MOE code (SMUS RT #4255)

Course Setup

• New timetable planner page to replace the course scheduling board (SMUS RT #4202)
• Courses can now occupy different classrooms for each scheduled period (SMUS RT #4192)
• Room conflicts page ignores conflicts caused by fuzzied courses (SMUS RT #4344)

Email

• Allow students to use reduced functionality email page (SMUS RT #3660)

Online Application

• Improve text on student questionnaire to encourage Interest responses (SMUS RT #2182)
• Encourage students and admission agents not to create accounts for the online application (SMUS RT #3763)

Reports

• Spell check has been removed from report writing page (redundant with browser spell check) (SMUS RT #4018)
• Added ability to limit a mark collection to an arbitrary list of students (SMUS RT #3781)
• Remove PDF report customizations for new student reports as we no longer track whether an MCP is for new students only
• Ability to bulk edit reports from enter marks page has been removed due to it causing too many issues

Search

• Add new advanced search option "new to campus"

Students

• Student's gender shown on Student Information page (SMUS RT #4346)

Student SDS

• Added ability to store and display current and historical AP numbers (SMUS RT #4199)
• Add course subset to course list under My Courses in student menu (SMUS RT #4128)

System

• Add ability to store faculty FTE and faculty primary department information

Transcripts

• Grad requirements check correctly prioritizes completed requirements over interim (SMUS RT #4356)

SDS 4.102.1 (August 9, 2013)

• Temporary workaround for admissions stats issue (SMUS RT #4275)

SDS 4.102.0 (July 27, 2013)

Calendar

• Export calendar (breaks, timetable days, period overrides) includes next school year's data as well (SMUS RT #4235)
• Allow exporting next year's lessons during the current school year (SMUS RT #4235)

Lesson Planner

• Correct issue when displaying all lessons

Mark Collections

• Add teacher name to export for Trevlac report (SMUS RT #4153)

MIS

• Add UPS monitor port from ASP script on VMUtility

Online Forms

• Correct vaccination name typo (SMUS RT #4189)
• Add new form for parent consent to AUP (SMUS RT #4217)

Parent Portal

• If school year is outside of course dates, display the previous year's student directory (SMUS RT #4196)
• Add extra check for parent_view_preselections if a student is enrolled but grade does not do preselections
• Pop up course selection guide in a new window

System

• Add ability to specify an override date for StudentFilter
• Update AUP for 2013/2014 (SMUS RT #4217)

Transcripts

• Add post-processing step to remove interim courses where a final mark exists for the same school year (SMUS RT #4177)

SDS 4.101.0 (June 29, 2013)

Attendance

• Add teacher name to unexplained absence emails (SMUS RT #4096)

Awards

• Allow award administrators to view award data with changed date (SMUS RT #4138)

Course Administration

• Add seat count to course list by grade page (SMUS RT #4142)

Reports

• Fix "Write reports" menu item not displaying for courses that start at exactly the same time as the school year
• Code to determine whether to use "I" now uses the mark collection end date rather than the attendance end date
• Allow middle school director signature on reports if enabled (SMUS RT #4173)

Students

• Add ability to batch modify experiential program flag (SMUS RT #4146)

SDS 4.100.0 (June 1, 2013)

Admissions

• Provide year/campus filtering to application import centre (SMUS RT #3974)

Awards

• Change senior school director's signature (SMUS RT #3971)
• Add StudentFilter functionality to awards printing page (SMUS RT #3972)
• Remove ability to alter nomination phase by changing viewing date (SMUS RT #4002)
• Add student photo to nomination details page (SMUS RT #3986)
• Show student photo on nominations page when mouse is hovered over student name (SMUS RT #3986)
• Add "Are you sure" prompt for deleting award nominations (SMUS RT #4015)
• Add new page to list awards available to a selected list of grades (SMUS RT #4024)

Calendar

• Set default "display to parents" for announcements to unchecked (SMUS RT #3808)

Online Application

• Prompt for parent birth dates (SMUS RT #3312)
• Fix issue where unknown birth dates were being set to the date the app_person was created

Parent/Teacher

• Add ability to schedule PT meetings with breaks between each one (SMUS RT #4052)

Reports

• Hide the "Enter marks" course link if the course has marks disabled (SMUS RT #3564)

Search

• Add student enrolment date and finish date as advanced search fields (SMUS RT #3960)
• Add student email output to advanced search advanced output fields
• Fix advanced search email output for multiple parents of same gender
• Add student board/day and mother/father name and address to advanced search advanced output fields

Student SDS

• Significantly speed up the "upcoming tests" page
• Add "upcoming tests in the next week" to Student SDS front page (SMUS RT #3661)

Students

• Correctly set junior school grade groups in network account sync script (SMUS RT #3590)

System

• Fix issue on edit_person page where unknown birthdates were being set to December 31, 1969
• Fix fatal error when viewing student info for old historical students imported from Trevlac

Transcripts

• Correct final marks of type "letter grade" being represented as "F" on transcript (SMUS RT #4069)

SDS 4.99.0 (May 4, 2013)

Attendance

• Course conflicts are still displayed for the incomplete date range even if a course is dropped or completed (SMUS RT #3841)
• Fixed PLOs output in lesson section of daily attendance page

Consolidated Health Form

• Fix several pre-processing steps when form is accessed before year rolls over (SMUS RT #3872)
• Form meister page collects correct list of parents to add to the campaign even if accessed outside of proper CSY (SMUS RT #1920)

Markbook

• Fix sorting by final mark column on student marks page

Parents

• Implemented new mother/father auditing page (SMUS RT #3883)

Students

• Free students page can export student list as CSV (SMUS RT #3696)
• Correct behaviour of Student::filterByIsDay function when searching for "N" (SMUS RT #3807)
• Implement new Special Needs Category value for MOE 1701 (SMUS RT #3739)

System

• Performance optimizations for loading CSS and JS files
• Upgrade to latest version of jQuery (1.9.1), jQuery UI (1.10.2) and Timepicker (1.2.2)
• Correct display issue of menu pins in Internet Explorer 10 (SMUS RT #3871)
• Correct display issue of datepicker box overlapping sausage on small screens (SMUS RT #3871)
• Fix duplicate Korea in nationality table (SMUS RT #3826)

SDS 4.98.0 (March 9, 2013)

Admissions

• Enrolment Status update (& summary) updated to use new program definitions (SMUS RT #3537)
• Rounding of enrolment status data altered to reduce accumulation of rounding errors

Student SDS

• Restrict access to report cards until the "release to grade" date (SMUS RT #3456)

Teachers

• Add busy teacher list to free teachers page

Transcripts

• Transcripts will not show a mark of 0 for an I letter grade (SMUS RT #3586)

SDS 4.97.0 (February 9, 2013)

Admissions

• Added fee_status_type programs to monthly stats (SMUS RT #3222), school year totals (SMUS RT #3220), enrolment summary (SMUS RT #3221)
• App_breakout page rewritten so that all of the months for a given school year are visible together (SMUS RT #3223)
• Fixed glitch with accepts in enrolment summary pages
• Added extra save button to list of applications to import (SMUS RT #3467)

Calendar

• Add day number to the announcements readout page if applicable (SMUS RT #3350)
• Add day of week to the announcements readout page (SMUS RT #3440)
• Default new announcement start/end times to 8:00 am - 4:00 pm on quick creation page (SMUS RT #3363)
• Read announcements page respects current campus override
• Read announcements will display all applicable announcements when date is changed, not just ones that also display now
• Add ability to hide announcements from parents (SMUS RT #3294)
• Daily email announcements page only looks for announcements up to 11:59 pm rather than 12:00 am to avoid tomorrow's announcements
• Index "all announcements" section will display all applicable announcements when date is changed, not just ones that also display now
• Change order of first line of daily announcement email (SMUS RT #3455)

Canned Reports

• Add Student PEN to challenge course list (SMUS RT #3374)
• Add selection to print name labels by legal or usual name (SMUS RT #3411)

Finance

• Update regex for parsing statement line items so that line items with no description are caught (SMUS RT #3307)
• Update regex for parsing statement account numbers so that account numbers with letters are caught
• Verify accounting's calculated total against SDS's calculated total on uploaded statements

Lessons

• Fixed glitch introduced by datepicker on Missing Assignments page
• Link school PLOs to lesson planner (SMUS RT #1726)

Parent Portal

• Add phonetic representation of password to outgoing emails containing passwords (SMUS RT #3337)
• Change to salted hashes for LDAP password storage
• Update current student registration PDF links (SMUS RT #3417)
• Fix finding interviews for other PT sessions when checking to see if parent already has an interview scheduled (SMUS RT #3481)

Reports

• Sort batch printed reports from the print queue page alphabetically by student (SMUS RT #3330)

Students

• Only show a mailout send/return date on edit_person if a date was entered (SMUS RT #3304)
• Add ability to filter list_students page by fee status
• Remove graduation requirement satisfying by course name check (SMUS RT #3418)

System

• Speed up person_log queries by adding indexes
• Added : to the list of acceptable characters for School PLOs

SDS 4.96.0 (January 12, 2013)

Calendar

• Only display announcements for the current campus on the teacher index page
• Hide event date on announcements on index page
• Provide button to check all grades for a campus on announcement creation and edit pages
• Provide new page to read announcements applicable right now for middle and junior schools
• Update event announcement display to support older versions of IE
• Index page announcement display reflects correct announcements when viewing date is changed
• Daily announcement email will find all announcements for the day rather than just the ones scheduled to display at 8:00 am
• Bold the title of the announcement on the daily announcement email (SMUS RT #3336)

Canned Reports

• Correct fatal error when splitting students out by state and province but no students live in US or Canada

Consolidated Health Form

• Only display insurance form elements for the selected option
• Disable and clear new vaccination checkboxes until consent has been provided
• Update some instruction text for the consolidated health form
• Implement first nations non-insured health benefits option (SMUS RT #2340)
• Implement SMUS-provided temporary insurance option

Email

• Email parents export to CSV respects selected student and parent relationship types when generating export (SMUS RT #3246)

Events

• Fix the uncheck all button on manage_event page (SMUS RT #3259)

Finance

• Changes to current student registration page for 2013/2014

Mark Collections

• Update missing marks page to find students with any missing marks rather than all missing marks for a course (SMUS RT #3184)
• Advisor edit reports function from "my advisees" updates the editor person on the report (SMUS RT #3231)

Reports

• Restore "save and next/previous" functionality with new SMUS modern menu (SMUS RT #3249)

System

• Fix menu not expanding items with apostrophes (SMUS RT #3250)
• Replace frequent menu items with pinned items menu (SMUS RT #3255)
• Menu system now remembers which items are expanded under each top-level menu (SMUS RT #3254)

SDS 4.95.1 (December 21, 2012)

• Update registration code to hide new information until January 22nd

SDS 4.95.0 (December 15, 2012)

Admissions

• Fixed count of active ESL applications on Enrolment Status reports
• Fixed counting of student statuses on Enrolment Status reports

Attendance

• Count unexplained absences by course (SMUS RT #2491)

Canned Reports

• Add new mailout canned report (SMUS RT #3077)
• Add ability to filter by student status on previous school canned report (SMUS RT #3137)
• Home country report finds parents in the right order
• Home country report uses primary address regardless of whether it's the mailing address

Departments

• Separate check_finished_courses page by campus to allow closing of only one campus at a time (SMUS RT #1188)
• Correct print_marksheet by department showing old courses

Email

• Field updates for parent email export function (SMUS RT #3087)

Lesson planner

• Improvements to edit lessons page (SMUS RT #3091)

Markbook

• Altered default show and due dates when creating a new assignment
• Mark entry text boxes are now more number-friendly for mobile devices

Reports

• Fix "Set all PLO values" function when no custom PLOs are available (SMUS RT #3105)
• Correct report writing issue for courses that start exactly the same time as the school year

System

• Advanced search and studentfilter students in course search shows Kindergarten courses now (SMUS RT #3167)
• Fix sorting of edit_students page, fee status mode (SMUS RT #3158)

Visual Overhaul

• Make SDS look like SMUS Website (SMUS RT #961)
• Correct caching of old look with CSS and JS links with the modify date included
• Increase performance by correcting ETag behaviour
• Increase performance by correctly setting expires headers on non-PHP elements
• Increase performance by moving javascript includes to the end of the content
• Increase performance by revamping menu system for report writing and editing (no longer clears menu cache)
• Correct resizing issue in online app with long textarea elements
• Move some elements of the Admin Menu section into Staff Menu to eliminate display of Admin Menu for users with basic privileges
• Display closed courses in the menu again, in a separate section (SMUS RT #1363)