News Archive
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.... -
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.... -
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! -
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.... -
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.... -
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.... -
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.... -
We are coming to the end of the 16.0 release cycle. There is nothing major to announce in this release. But a few basic fixes around the place based on your support requests.... -
Another fresh set of fixes and improvements.... -
We are excited to have a new Online Learning and Education Consultant on board the Alaress team. Aimee comes from Orange in NSW and has 6 years of teaching experience in NSW and Turkey!... -
For the second consecutive year, Schoolbox and Digistorm Education, have partnered to bring you the innovative-schools-2016-report.... -
Hi All Little delayed on these release notes but nothing really major happened in this point release. Just a few little cleanups around the system.... -
We have created a Librarian User Group for all of you librarians out there to come together and chat about how you are using Schoolbox in your libraries. -
We have just released v16.0.16 with an IMPORTANT change that you need to understand. Due to a bug in IOS when playing videos we needed to change our session expiries. Previously sessions were set to be destroyed when the browser was closed.... -
A larger release this week. There are a couple of larger items with the final changes to the new spell checker which started in 16.0.12 and a fix for teachers accidentally removing class codes from class pages....