SDSHOWTO:SDS 5 Series Changelog

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)

Preselection

• Allow selection of multiple students using StudentFilter on counselling list (SMUS RT #5761)

Teachers

• Added the 'Common Teacher Spares' page for coordinating free time among many different people (SMUS RT #4508)

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)

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)

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

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)