Release v22.0

  • Previously you could join any moderated or free to join group, now you must have read access in order to submit a join request. If you wish to prevent people from joining a group, please make sure they do not have read access via their role permissions
  • QR Codes will not be available by default, and must be enabled per year level on Admin -> Lists -> Year Levels
  • Student access to pastoral is disabled by default, you must enable it in Admin -> Modules -> Pastoral Care
  • TASS API will now include user portraits in the sync. If you previously have had custom imports or other things running these should now be disabled, otherwise they may conflict
  • We have deleted all support for legacy WebDAV implementations. If you are using WebDAV, please ensure it is configured properly in your admin system under Drives
  • From this release forward all login records older than 2 years will be removed automatically. This will mean that engagement stats from further back than 2 years will no longer be available
  • Schoolbox will be upgraded to PHP 8.0. While this has required a major update of code and 3rd party libraries, it should bring a range of performance improvements throughout the system.

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New Integrations

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With V22.0 you can now add Schoolbox Fixtures + Clipboard integration into your School plan.
Once activated this allows the Schoolbox fixture system to be automatically synchronised with Clipboard. Update your teams and schedules in Clipboard and the information will automatically appear in Schoolbox. Once synchronised you will be able to use all the features of the Schoolbox fixture system including:

  • Scheduled event pages with team members and maps of locations
  • Homepage fixture component for displaying upcoming events on group pages
  • Post news articles to team members and their parents
  • Schedule events automatically appear in team members calendars.

To organise a quotation or find our more about accessing this major integration speak to your Schoolbox Account Manager.

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You may now populate your user and timetable data via the Wonde platform. The Wonde data management solution provides secure and fine control over your school data. By utilising Wonde you can connect your on premise SIS data to the cloud. Enabling more flexible hosting setups and simplifying the initial installation. They support over 35 SIS platforms with many more being added giving you more freedom to choose the SIS that supports your needs, while being confident that Schoolbox will continue to have access to the required data. 

 

Last Minute Changes

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  • New calendar based timetable view to support multiple or complex timetable definitions
  • Added support for configuring email signatures for your school domain
  • Improved interface for importing courses to many classes, now supports multi-select and copy and pasting codes
  • Added support for moving projects between course units
  • Projects can now have a work type and as a result appear on grades summary page and reports.

Additional Features

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Administration

  • The Victorian and NSW curriculum are now available as packages to install
  • The dashboard calendar component can now be used multiple times and each instance can be configured with different filters. Allowing dedicated timetable, fixture or external event feeds to be displayed.
  • Added new dashboard component for displaying quicklinks to Intellischool Analytic Reports
  • The TASS API has been expanded to include the synchronisation of user portraits
  • UPS rules can use wildcards to work on partial matches, allowing matching on comma-separated or other multiset data fields
  • Add support for opening LTI integrations in a new window, rather than always being embedded into the homepage
  • When modifying the settings in the admin system, a floating save button will always be visible to allow quick saving without needing to scroll to the bottom of the page
  • Redesigned bulk modify user system to be faster and easier to use, with new popup window to implement changes to selected users
  • Improved error reporting when creating or modifying users via a CSV bulk upload
  • Student form is now available as a field in the UPS
  • The school data import tool now displays a log of each import run and the outcome of the import.

Homepages

  • The “View All Files” link on the file component returns, but rather than sending users to the resource browser, it is now a dedicated system for viewing the files on a page. It can be searched and filtered. Bonus: It provides a quick multi-file delete feature to save time cleaning up old files.

LMS

  • Provide teachers with the ‘last visited time’ for students and parents on assessments. So you can easily see if the feedback has been viewed
  • The student due work submission workflow has been redesigned to include only a single step during self-reflection, to avoid submissions being left in a draft state
  • Added support for using markdown in rubrics, allowing formatting like bold/italics/underlining, dot points and links to other resources

Pastoral

  • The pastoral report builder can now be filtered to records with outstanding actions to be completed and also by campus
  • The confidential area of a pastoral record can now be templated by the pastoral record type
  • Pastoral records can now be shared with the student themselves allowing more transparency and accountability
  • Updated pastoral comment system to be smaller and easier to use, like comments on learning moments.

Fixtures

  • Fixture events now appear in the school calendar for all team members
  • News items can be delivered to team members and their parents
  • Improved search functionality on the homepage fixture component, making it easier to find the right team to display
  • Fixtures now supports performances and training events where there are no opponents.

 

QR Code Logins

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A quick peek into a Junior School classroom and you discover the challenges of password management for young students. To help teachers manage this challenge we have provided the ability for teachers to print QR codes for students. The QR codes can be scanned with an iPad, mobile phone, Chromebook or any device with a camera. The device will then automatically launch a browser and authenticate as the student. The landing page can be configured to ensure the student starts in the correct location to start capturing evidence or complete tasks.

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Improved Personal Group Management

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Ensuring your school community is connected and engaged is more important than ever. The new group management system will allow users to find and discover areas of interest, with more ease than ever before. While making it easier to find groups, we have also made sure you can protect groups to prevent the wrong people from joining in on the conversation. Once a member of a group, you can now control notifications and your quick links with ease.

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Summative Reporting

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At the end of each semester you can now save a student's achievements to their permanent record - with the ability to download a batch of PDF generated reports for each student in a year level or campus. The report can be customised to provide either an overall summary, or a per class statement. Like the existing online continuous report it can include assessment results, comments, rubrics and cohort graphs. It can be configured to include exactly what you require to ensure that only relevant information is included in the final report.

 

New APIs

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In order to allow our customers and our partners to do more with Schoolbox we are constantly evolving our API interfaces. With this release we now provide a complete user management API. This will allow you to manage your Schoolbox users via your own in-house system. The API includes searching, updating, creating, deleting and managing group memberships.

In addition we have a new assessments API endpoint that will provide details about assessments and student feedback. This can be used to connect Schoolbox to your SIS, analytics or reporting platforms so you can further utilise assessment results that have been published inside Schoolbox. 

For more information on our APIs and detailed instructions on how to work with them please visit our API documentation.

 

Schema Changes

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  • Added role_type field to pastoral_access and pastoral_audience
  • Added student_comments_allowed field on pastoral table
  • Added template_private field to lu_pastoral_type and lu_pastoral_subtype
  • Added actions, include_records_without_action, include_uncompleted_actions_only fields to pastoral_report
  • Created new table user_jwt_id
  • Added qrcode_enabled on lu_year_level
  • Added jwt_id to login_log
  • Created sis_event, sis_event_campus, sis_event_roletype, sis_event_user_overrides
  • Added portrait_hash to sis_user_profile
  • Added table assessment_view
  • Added favourite to userAccess table.