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  • Release 16.5.3

    By James Leckie in Release Notes

    Hi All As promised here is another release for early in this week.  This contains many of the customisations you asked for in the first week plus several critical fixes....
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  • Release 16.5.2

    By James Leckie in Release Notes

    Hi All We are making quick progress on releases at the moment with issues discovered during the start of the year.  We will keep up this tempo and focus for another few weeks to ensure everything is ironed out for you....
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  • Are you getting too many messages from Schoolbox Help, or maybe not enough? Well, it might be time to review you message settings and customise your experience to ensure you're receiving the types of messages you want to receive, in the way you want to receive them....
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  • Update 16.5.1

    By James Leckie in Release Notes

    Hi Everyone Just a quick update following our gold release of 16.5.0 to patch up issues discovered while rolling this out to live schools....
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  • v16.5 is GOLD!

    By Megan in Release Notes

    We are delighted to announce our major release Schoolbox v16.5 GOLD is complete and ready for install on all servers. A big shout-out to our active user community and their contributions in our ideas forums. Thank you for helping to guide our product journey....
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  • Release 16.0.23

    By Sam Bailey in Release Notes

    This is the final release of the v16.0 series, barring any major security issues. We've now added support for using TASS Communication Rules for defining student - guardian relationships using simple and complex split families....
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  • Release 16.0.22

    By Sam Bailey in Release Notes

    Two important fixes today. There has been a change to the "Hide Timetable" option that can be set for users. Previously this only hid the Timetable, which was found to not be very useful. "Hide Timetable" now also hides all classes for the user, including from their parents....
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  • Hello Schoolbox Admins. Just another reminder to perform rollover and set up your term dates for 2017! IMPORTANT! Be sure you do not set 'inherit permissions' when importing your new classes, to ensure your class codes are not overridden during import....
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  • Release 16.0.21

    By Sam Bailey in Release Notes

    Quick release with only a few fixes....
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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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