1.0 Release Notes

SchoolTool

1.0.6 (2010-07-20)

New features

Bug fixes

1.0.5 (2010-03-09)

  • Backport report template refactoring for CanDo

1.0.4 (2009-12-28)

  • Many i18n fixes by Douglas and Gediminas
  • Update translations from trunk
  • Many build improvements by Justas and Gediminas

Bug fixes

1.0.3 (2009-07-07)

New features

  • New section adding view.
    • Multiple-term (linked) sections can now be created.
    • “New Section” button replaced with a link in action menu in course view.
    • Sections now can also be added from term’s “sections” view.
    • See https://launchpad.net/bugs/389283
  • You can specify the relationship between a person and a contact from a standard set (parent, guardian, step-parent, etc). See https://launchpad.net/bugs/381412
  • Removed ability to delete calendar events that come from (section) timetables. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/271391

Douglas Cerna:

Tweaks and fixes

Unicode fixes

Douglas Cerna:

1.0.2 (2009-06-02)

Justas Sadzevičius:

Gediminas Paulauskas:

1.0.1 (2009-05-11)

Major

Translations are back in SchoolTool.

As usual, please set a preferred language in your browser or follow instructions in the SchoolTool book: http://book.schooltool.org/htmlhelp/translations.html#selecting-schooltool-s-language

Tweaks and fixes

Douglas Cerna:

Justas Sadzevičius:

  • Added section linking to the edit section view.

1.0.0 (2009-04-30)

Person and Demographics

Filip Sufitchi <fsufitch@charon>:

  • Initial implementation of demographics field management views.

Ignas Mikalajūnas <ignas@pov.lt>:

  • Added custom demographics field storage and fields themselves.
  • Added contacts to schooltool with list/add/edit/display views.
  • Added contact managemenet view and made it possbile to add+assign contact in one go.

Alan Elkner <aelkner@gmail.com>:

  • added group to person add form
  • added advisor to person add form
  • added advisor and advisee functionality to BasicPerson
  • basicperson has new fields and some old ones were removed

PDF Reporting improvements

Justas Sadzevičius <justas@pov.lt>:

  • Rewrite calendar PDF views to use RML.
  • Added headers and footers to PDF views.

XLS import/export

Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@gmail.com>:

  • Creaded empty annotated XLS import template.
  • Updated texts in XLS import view

Ignas Mikalajūnas <ignas@pov.lt>:

  • Added ability to import user passwords.
  • Importer now will not complain about missing spreadsheets in the XLS file being imported.
  • Added Export to XLS functionality.
  • Split terms into 2 school years in sample data.
  • Fixed a crash in export when no resources are assigned to a timetable event.
  • Separated section import/export into separate spreadsheets.
  • Made most if not all the objects in xls import reimportable.
  • Added demographics information to the sample data file.
  • Changed “Excel import” action to “XLS import”.

Tweaks and fixes

Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@gmail.com>:

  • Updated section import csv file documentation.

Alan Elkner <aelkner@gmail.com>:

  • Removed unused identifier field from add forms.

Filip Sufitchi:

  • Made Delete buttons look consistently (Red) all over the system.

Chris Carey:

  • Unify color color scheme in schooltool.gradebook and schooltool.lyceum.journal ajax status indicators.
  • Added School Timetable id display to the School Timetable view page

Ignas Mikalajūnas <ignas@pov.lt>:

  • Added headers to some Section views.
  • Do not allow people without schooltool.edit permission on SchoolYears delete terms.
  • Made field descriptions in most of the forms visible.
  • Switched to ISO dates everyehere.
  • Added date picker to all the forms in schooltool.
  • Started using ISO date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in the short date formatter.
  • Removed resource booking link from the section view.

Justas Sadzevičius <justas@pov.lt>:

  • Added simple section cross-term copying and linking interface.
  • Fixed a small bug in weekly calendar title - week date range was one day too long.

Douglas Cerna:

  • Group and section member CSV import views.

SchoolTool Gradebook

0.4.10 (2010-02-04)

Backport fixes, translations and small features from trunk up to 0.5.2 release.

Translations

  • Gradebook translations are now separate from schooltool.
  • Many fixes to make it translatable.

Tweaks and fixes

0.4.9 (2009-07-07)

New features

  • There is a new gradebook view for grading a single student. Please follow “>” next to a student’s name in the gradebook.
  • Report sheet activities can have comments as their scores now, to allow comments on report cards. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/381054
  • Administrators can define custom score systems (grading scales) used in the gradebook and report sheets.

Tweaks and fixes

Fixes by Douglas Cerna:

0.4.8 (2009-05-12)

Alan Elkner:

0.4.7 (2009-04-29)

Released together with SchoolTool 1.0.

Ignas Mikalajūnas <ignas@pov.lt>:

  • Move gradebook tab to the left.
  • Add i18n domain to the zcml file.
  • Style remove button red.

Douglas Cerna:

  • Added gradebook XLS export views.
  • Added capacity to import “external activities” into gradebook.

Chris Carey:

  • moved gradebook cell color validity from javascript to css

Alan Elkner <aelkner@gmail.com>:

  • got rid of confusing description of requirement title field
  • mygrades (student) view now looks like teacher gradebook
  • spaces now removed from activity column headings
  • report card now handles multi-course sections
  • added capability to deploy a report worksheet to a school year
  • added instructor names to course title in report card pdf
  • fixed javascript bug caused by activity description having newline char
  • added handling of arrow keys for navigating cells
  • added description field to gradebook and set on cell focus and activity mouseover
  • got rid of obselete final grades view
  • added javascript to set focus to first gradebook cell
  • added javascript to allow user to save changes when trying to navigate away from a gradebook with unsaved changes
  • added heading attribute to report card layouts
  • added term drop-down to gradebook overview
  • changed worksheet drop-down to be tabs instead
  • added due date to activities and filtering by due date to gradebook overview
  • moved label from external activity to linked activity where it belongs
  • added label to IActivity, to be used for gradebook column labels
  • got rid of unnecessary student and student/activity grade views
  • made activity grade view look like gradebook overview
  • made Weight Categories button an action button
  • worksheets can no longer be deleted
  • create sheet1 if the section has no worksheets
  • got gradebook to handle switching between sections in different terms
  • created report card pdf view
  • created Report Card Layout view
  • added subscriber to deploy worksheets to newly added sections
  • deployed worksheets and activities are now blocked from deletion
  • created view for deploying report worksheets
  • created simpler add/edit activity views
  • added javascipt for validating input

SchoolTool Lyceum Journal

0.3.6 (2010-02-04)

0.3.5 (2009-05-27)

  • Automatically compile translations.

0.3.4 (2009-05-26)

0.3.2 (2009-04-20)

This release goes with SchoolTool 1.0.0.

  • Removed lesson descriptions from the journal views.