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December 2016

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  • Overview At 12:30am AEDT on the 22nd of December we experienced a significant service disruption. The disruption lasted approximately 6 hours and 30 minutes, until 7:00am AEDT. At 12:30am our systems deployed an approved update to one of the PHP modules that Schoolbox relies on to function....
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  • Email Overload!

    By Anna Hindson in General

    Has your inbox just been flooded with emails from Schoolbox Help? Apologies. Here's why: We've just fixed a bug in the message system in Schoolbox Help that meant users weren't receiving notifications for the past week....
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  • It's rollover time again!

    By Anna Hindson in General

    As you finish up for 2016, don't forget to perform rollover and set up your term dates for 2017! Here are some handy guides that will help you out: Performing Rollover​ Customising Term Dates Happy holidays from the Schoolbox Team! 
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  • Christmas has come early! You can now add headings to text box and image components in homepage templates as of v16.0.20. We are super excited about this awesome feature! Thank you to all of the schools that suggested this idea. We hope that this makes templates easy for you....
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  • Release 16.0.20

    By Sam Bailey in Release Notes

    A couple of new things for your holiday fun. Individual users added to news posts will now correctly receive notifications. In addition, Text box components can now have their own heading so you can set the heading in your homepage templates....
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  • Oops! Your work was not due 2046 years ago!

    By Anna Hindson in General

    In an effort to move all Teacher Course due dates to mid next year, we accidentally made them all due 2046 years ago... Sorry about that! This only lasted a few minutes before we realised our error and fixed it. All work should now be due on Friday June 30th 2017....
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  • We're excited to announce that the v16.5 Release Candidate is now available!!!  Please note, this is not final, it may only be installed on dev servers and it may change over the next few weeks....
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