Lead Developer Matt Boytim has released v. 2.11 of Centre, the premier open source student information system. This is a release with substantial improvements and fixes and is recommended for all users.
Matt continues his pattern of improving Centre's reliability yet extending the functionality with ideas from Centre Users. We've gotten some great suggestions from our supported users and we've implemented lots of them in this release. Thanks to Joe, Peter, James, Brian, Gloria, Mike and others for their help and ideas!
New features for 2.11 are:
- Honor Roll
- Report Card Comment Categories - more standards-based grading
- Advanced Search feature for more granular queries
- Explicit School Selection for teachers, improving multiple school performance
- Improved and extended Searching Widgets for more power
- User Fields in Expanded view
Here's a more complete and detailed list of enhancements and fixes:
- bugfix: 'group by family' option sometimes fails when ungrouping search result of only one family
- sort by date in modules/Attendance/StudentSummary.php
- changed student attendance query to incremental in modules/Attendance/DailySummary.php (per student query in ˍmakeColor)
- period select list includes only periods with at least one course period that does attendance
- when deleting a course from a student schedule (endˍdate
- added non null constraint to marking periods in db
- added honor roll cutoffs to grade scales in db and in ReportCardGrades.php and Rollover.php
- synced diagnostic.php db connect string logic with database.inc.php
- bugfix: initialize filled seats to zero when adding course periods
- added mechanism to force student field on search screen
- added sort order to course subjects
- bugfix: add existing contact in student contacts and addresses would include people already associated with the student
- limit the course period selection for teachers to the selected school and marking period
- added a preference setting for heading color
- added color coding mechanism for report card comment categories
- bugfix: all assignment grades in the marking period listed as anomalous after the end of the marking period
- modified PreparePHPˍSELF() to accept 'remove' and 'add' parameter lists
- made teacher schedule tab list only courses at selected school and added checkbox for all schools
- bugfix: converted grade completion to courseˍperiod based instead of period based because teachers can have more than
- bugfix: attendance shown as incomplete only for days when the class meets one class in a given period and marking period (because of day of week)
- changed grades teacher completion to show both complete and incomplete grades
- changed attendance teacher completion to show both complete and incomplete grades
- added popup with course title to checks/x's on Grades and Attendance teacher completion
- added people field information to the contact info popups
- added nextˍschool and calendar search widgets for student searches
- added permissions search widget for user searches
- feature: added Users/Preferences Widgets tab to add search widgets to basic student search for admins and teachers
- feature: added Users/Preferences UserWidgets tab to add search widgets to basic user search for admins
- feature: added Users/Preferences UserFields tab to add user field search/display features for users similar to students
- feature: added advanced search feature to student searches for admins and teachers
- feature: added advanced search feature to user searches for admins
- bugfix: address field, people field, and user field date types could not be saved
- added expanded view for user listsupdated version in Warehouse.php
- bugfix: 'group by family' option sometimes fails when ungrouping search result of only one family
- sort by date in modules/Attendance/StudentSummary.php
- changed student attendance query to incremental in modules/Attendance/DailySummary.php (per student query in ˍmakeColor) period select list includes only periods with at least one course period that does attendance
- when deleting a course from a student schedule (endˍdate
- added non null constraint to marking periods in db
- added honor roll cutoffs to grade scales in db and in ReportCardGrades.php and Rollover.php
- synced diagnostic.php db connect string logic with database.inc.php
- bugfix: initialize filled seats to zero when adding course periods
- added mechanism to force student field on search screen
- added sort order to course subjects
- bugfix: add existing contact in student contacts and addresses would include people already associated with the student
- added explicit school selection in the side frame for teachers
- limit the course period selection for teachers to the selected school and marking period
- added a preference setting for heading color
- added report card comment categories
- added color coding mechanism for report card comment categories
- bugfix: all assignment grades in the marking period listed as anomalous after the end of the marking period
- modified PreparePHPˍSELF() to accept 'remove' and 'add' parameter lists
- made teacher schedule tab list only courses at selected school and added checkbox for all schools
- bugfix: converted grade completion to courseˍperiod based instead of period based because teachers can have more than
- bugfix: attendance shown as incomplete only for days when the class meets one class in a given period and marking period (because of day of week)
- changed grades teacher completion to show both complete and incomplete grades
- changed attendance teacher completion to show both complete and incomplete grades
- added popup with course title to checks/x's on Grades and Attendance teacher completion
- added people field information to the contact info popups
- added nextˍschool and calendar search widgets for student searches
- added permissions search widget for user searches
- feature: added Users/Preferences Widgets tab to add search widgets to basic student search for admins and teachers
- feature: added Users/Preferences UserWidgets tab to add search widgets to basic user search for admins
- feature: added Users/Preferences UserFields tab to add user field search/display features for users similar to students
- feature: added advanced search feature to student searches for admins and teachers
- feature: added advanced search feature to user searches for admins
- bugfix: address field, people field, and user field date types could not be saved
- added expanded view for user lists
