SDSHOWTO:SDS 5 Series Changelog
SDS 5.15.0 (October 24, 2015)
SDS 5.14.0 (September 26, 2015)
SDS 5.13.0 (August 29, 2015)
SDS 5.12.0 (August 1, 2015)
Admissions
- Add reminder to update admissions profile PDF (SMUS RT #4987)
Online Application
- Change interest "instrumental music" to "strings" and add "piano" (SMUS RT #6219)
- Add ability to require a certain answer to an app question, require consent to personal information collection (SMUS RT #565)
Transcripts
- Hide AP marks from transcript (SMUS RT #9746)
SDS 5.11.0 (July 4, 2015)
Admissions
- Add third iteration of service/leadership application question to admissions profile PDF (SMUS RT #9558)
Awards
- Add ability to go to award granting page from honour roll page with qualifying students preselected (SMUS RT #9536)
Calendar
- Fix fatal error on multiple calendar event student list (linked from scheduling assistant)
- Added event email links for sessions and days from event schedling assistant page
- Add ability to email owners of a calendar event from the manage event page and calendarmeister page (SMUS RT #8917)
Courses
- Do not allow course deletions if dry run has placed selections there (SMUS RT #9538)
- Correct typo in email validation (SMUS RT #9506)
Lesson Planner
- Create booking link now opens in a new tab/window so you don't lose your spot (SMUS RT #8809)
Online Application
- Update app fee page with new text (SMUS RT #9317)
Parent Portal
- Remove debugging PT meeting ID from parent display
- Elaborate more on parent portal preselection view page
Parent/Teacher Meetings
- Manage PT page now indicates booked meeting slots and asks for confirmation before deleting them
- Teacher PT page now refreshes automatically every 60 seconds
- Teacher PT page jumps to current PT date automatically when page is loaded
- Teacher PT page highlights current meeting
Printing
- Support iOS App Unlock papercut print queue
Reports
- Add quick links to current RoA and report PDF when writing a report (SMUS RT #9654)
- Display homeroom advisor using short name rather than formal name for SS PLO-based report (SMUS RT #9330)
- Allow setting is_missing_marks value from reports_entry_spell (SMUS RT #9330)
- Support fuzzied courses when importing markbook into marks by offering each course separately (SMUS RT #9589)
System
- Correct retrieving of course_end_date when year is not overridden
- Use course end date for Year::currentSchoolYear("course_end") rather than hardcoding to June 30
- Update Year::currentAndPreviousYears so that it is potentially more reliable (SMUS RT #9243)
- Update account deletion script generator to handle new alumni rules (SMUS RT #9591)
Timetable
- Added registration heat map information to timetable planning pages
- Included additional teacher and block information to help place courses in timetable planning pages
TRAX
- Correct output of SLP completed date for non-2004 graduation program students in grade AD (SMUS RT #9101)
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
Reports
- Adjusted placement of student list on student records of achievement (SMUS RT #9430)
System
- Migration runner skips to 400 before starting
- Added Touch-Punch functionality for allowing drag and drop on touch devices
Timetabling
- Provide ability to edit block name
- Section prediction page can set default number of seats when creating new sections.
- Section prediction page shows average section size for next year
- Added heatmap coloured course preselection loads in various locations
- Provided switch to turn off block colouring on drag-and-drop timetable page
- Altered preselection conflict matrix functionality to automatically view all singleton courses
- New page for suggesting groupings of singleton courses within the timetable
- Academic dry run now uses correct set of grades for campus and year; special experiential program text removed
- New page for dry run process, showing course selections by block
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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 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
- 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)