SDSHOWTO:SDS 6 Series Changelog

SDS 6.6.0 (April 27, 2018)

Forms

• Changed wording on parents portals links to clarify health form location

Standardized Tests

• Added bulk upload capacity to iTep tests

SDS 6.5.2

LR Test Room

• Test log page allows exam seat bookings to be cancelled
• Test log page only shows accommodations that match those of the test

SDS 6.5.0 (March 30, 2018)

Admissions Workflow

• Fixed the student fee status showing as incorrect if it had been changed mid year.

AUP

• Added check upon login, so that users who have not signed the AUP in the current school year will be prompted to (#19779)

Boarding

• Added a boarding questionnaire to the Parent Portal, answers are viewable from the admissions worksheet (#16156)

Event scheduling

• Add person count to events on scheduling assistant page
• Add functionality to create exam calendar events directly from registrations conflict matrix - suggested subject groupings process.

Health Form

• Changed the Temporary Health Insurance language on the consolidated health form

Preselection

• New page to show graphically the progress of the preselection process
• Section prediction allows setting of minimum number of preselections by a student before they can be used to scale preselections to target
• Add functionality to select between admissions target information by grade, or use diferent values, for the preselection section process (RT# 13765)

Reports

• Added new report for aggregating family statistics
• The 'Print PR Labels' page will now print out course registrations only for grades K-8 instead of letter grades

Search

• Added lr_connection as a searchable field

Student Funnel

• Fixed denies/declines in student funnel so it will only pull students of the appropriate start year (#19980)

Test Centre

• New AJAX functionality to add test bookings from the exam room page

SDS 6.4.0 (February 23, 2018)

Admissions

• Added a Notes column to the 'List Decision Students' and the 'Admissions Workflow - Decision' pages (#19726)

Attendance

• Added a new "excuse" type, for students attending the LR Test Centre. This should provide excused absence information (RT#19906)

LR Test Centre

• Link from LR test pages to test_log ticket page
• Test_log page can create log records at times other than 'now'
• Include teacher name on upcoming tests page

Parent-teacher

• Lists of teachers sorted by last name (RT#16100)

Parent Re-registration

• Changed hardcoded references to Michelle Vecqueray and her email to the ACCOUNTING_DATA_UPDATE_PERSONAL and ACCOUNTING_DATA_UPDATE_EMAIL variables respectively.

Preselection

• Removed filter for Subjects with preselection information so that all subjects can be seen.
• Updated parent preselection so that if a parent tries to preselect for an enrolled student they are advised that the student can do it instead

Reports

• Fixed bug in Trax Export, where it was trying to look in an array before checking if it existed'

Subjects

• Fixed subject sort order not being set on the 'Edit Subjects' page
• Allow for subject enrolment filter to work on August 1st (RT#18128)

Teachers

• Fixed the 'List Teachers' page so it wont break anymore when displaying deleted teachers (#19909)
• Added list of teachers without invigilation to the teacher invigilation statistics page (threshold is 0.1 FTE)

Tests

• Check for absences/trips/conflicts on schedule test page (RT#15612)

Timetable

• Fixed timetable output (for specific dates) if there are period overrides that change the default order of the periods (RT#19907)

SDS 6.3.4 (January 23, 2018)

Exam administration

• Fix administrator view of student exam seat bookings

Parent Portal

• Changed links on the re-registration page

Student Timetable

• Added a check to student timetable so that it will report on next timetable day if queried during a break

Teacher Cover

• Display teachers on invigilation to teacher cover administrator

Test Centre & Accommodations

• Fix teacher listing of student testing accommodation requests

Trax Export

• The trax export will now pass the Grad Requirement to the ministry for any course that has a course code starting with a Y (#19812)

SDS 6.3.3 (January 21, 2018)

Test Centre & Accommodations

• Fixed type cast bug in LR test request page

Reports

• Added first/last legal name fields to the output report (#19853)

SDS 6.3.2 (January 18, 2018)

Test Centre & Accommodations

• Fixed bugs in LR accomodations page, and View Room Exam Seats page

SDS 6.3.1 (January 12, 2018)

Test Centre & Accommodations

• Added accommodations information to daily_test_students output for LR administrators
• Added logging system for tests taken outside class (RT#19690)
• Added student test page with QR codes for accessing logging system.

SDS 6.3.0 (January 12, 2018)

Application

• Restored scholarship option in application (RT#19372)

Canned Reports

• Added the Special Needs Category Id to the Fields and Separators drop down menu in Output reports

Parent Portal

• Change day/year of required fees and registration availability in parent portal

Print Queue

• The dropdown menu for adding items to the student filter will now remember the last selection

ROA

• Changed titles/signatures for ROAs to reflect current school leadership

Teacher cover

• Fixed glitch preventing deletion of future teacher_absences

SDS 6.2.0 (December 01, 2017)

Roadmap

Application

• Removed the first and second report cards as required uploads for students applying to Kindergarten (#18734)

Application Centre

• Changed the login page layout to give the 'New Users' column more room

Attendance

• The 'Check Save Pressed' page will now aggregate courses and teachers based on which campus the courses take place at. This means teachers who are on multiple campuses will show on this page for both campuses.

Calendar

• Changed the calendar column headers of the weekly views so that the day will print as 'Monday Oct 30' instead of 'Monday'

Documents

• Added check to 'Student Educational Documents' page so that it will tell the user if the IEP or Psych Ed is missing

Emails

• SDS Emails logs are now stored for a week instead of two days

Invigilation

• Upgrade UI for administration
• Prevent multiple users signing up for last spot simultaneously
• Prevent users signing up the SDS thinks they are busy

List Students

• added 'Status start date' column on the List Students page for Denied and Declined students

Parent Mailing Labels

• Change how titles are handled so that N/A won't print in front of anyone's name

Report

• The report date will no longer print unless the reporting period has been set

Teacher Cover

• Added the ability to show multiple classes for a teacher in a period on the teacher cover admin page
• New admin page to show teacher absences
• Teacher page shows all future absences for a teacher, not just for today

SDS 6.1.1 (November 08, 2017)

Reports

• Changed wording on K-9 Reports so Learning Skills -> Learning Behaviours for learning_skills as well as school_PLOs

SDS 6.1.0 (November 03, 2017)

Roadmap

Application

• The application import code was changed so it would recognize ELL students and associate the correct fee status with them (#19212)

Email

• The 'Email Parents' page will have the parents unchecked by default, unless it was navigated to from a course

Parent teacher meetings

• Update booking system to allow parents to book one meeting per student/teacher combination (rather than one per student/teacher/parent combination) SMUS RT#7470

Reports

• Draft reports page now also shows reports for dropped courses (as these appear on the PDF output)
• Reports data now accommodates situations where a student ends up being registered in a course more than once, and outputs the last one.
• Reinstated Integrade mark export
• Director name/signature changed from 'Andy Rodford' to 'Eliot Anderson - Interim Director'
• Increased the memory available to php on the 'Progress Report' page (so that it won't crash when parsing large data sets)

Statistics

• Changed Monthly Student Stats page to include enrolled students

Students

• The list students page was changed so that fee statuses of denied and declined students will report properly (#18198)

Timeout

• Softened the login timeout message wording

SDS 6.0.0 (October 06, 2017)

Analytics

• Add event category filter to period analysis page (SMUS RT#17664)

Calendar

• Fix glitch when deleting event_test from manage_event page
• Update validator to check if students return to class time is before students leave class (SMUS RT#18950)
• Fix validator that tests when resource bookings are made from manage_event

Email

• Add student filter to email parents page (SMUS RT#12771)

Head of Department

• Major department upgrade - departments are now campus-specific. Support for multiple HoDs, as well as teacher cover administrators, is added (SMUS RT#16150)

Invigilation

• New exam invigilation module (SMUS RT#18251)

LR Test booking

• Minor updates to student interface

Pre-selection

• Display time of preselection on counselling list

Reports

• Updated and fixed reports data editing pages so that they agree with PDF output

System

• Fix typos in paginate functionality

Timetable

• Correctly display courses without rooms on Timetable: courses by teacher and block