Centre v. 2.5 has been in the hands of our supported clients for some time now, and we've released it for general availablity. We cannot underestimate the contributions made by our supported clients to the improvements in Centre. Their unfailing optimism and expert advice are the driving forces for Centre.
The number of bug fixes alone justified a major release, but we've made lots of enhancements as well. Here's a partial list from the Change Log:
- Users
- New profiles system for user permissions. Allows permissions to be assigned to profiles of users, such as secretaries, nurses, deans, principals, etc.
- Permissions can be assigned to each student field category -- for users and profiles. When a user isn't allowed access to a student field category, he can't see that category's tab in Student Info, he can't see any of those fields in the expanded view or the advanced report, and he can't search on those fields.
- Added "Search all Schools" capability to Users search screen
- Added Teacher Schedules as a tab on the User screen
- Attendance
- Added a daily attendance comment to the main Administration screen
- Eliminated the need to click "Update" when switching between dates in Administration
- Fixed printing problems in Administration involving new phone rollover
- Added ability to remove certain periods from the Administration list
- Improved Block Scheduling support
- Fixed "Search all Schools" support in the Attendance Chart
- Returned the P code to Attendance Chart
- Added the ability to search all schools in the ADA report
- Added comment to student summary
- Gradebook
- Added ability to setup score breakoff points for each class
- Fixed minor bugs involving switching between classes
- Fixed certain rare bugs in Gradebook Grades
- Changed the behavior of 0 grades in Gradebook Grades
- Newest assignment is listed at the beginning of Gradebook Grades "All" view -- this sorting is also configurable
- Fixed rare bugs when calculating Final Grades and eligibility using Gradebook Grades
- Fixed small issues in Student Grades
- Eligibility
- Fixed a bug in Add Activity
- Fixed a bug in Enter Eligibility
- Student Demographic Information
- Expanded Address field
- Checked "Residence", "Mailing", "Bus Pickup", and "Bus Dropoff" by default when adding an address
- Fixed a rare bug in Address & Contacts
- Addressed small security concerns in Address & Contacts
- Added ability to assign Admin Permissions on each tab on the Student Info screen
- Added ability to mass-assign Rolling/Retention options and Calendar
- Changed the extension of student pictures to .JPG (from .jpg) for improved compatibility with picture CD's
- Added the ability to search for exact matches on text fields by using "" surrounding a search phrase
- Fixed occasional enrollment problems
- Separated the fields into categories in the Advanced Report and added a few options
- Fixed a bug in the medical screen
- Added a nurse visit log
- Added a Student Field datatype -- select many from options
- Removed phone rollover from expanded view when printing
- Added ability to add contact, parents, and phone number to expanded view
- Added school to student list when searching all schools
- Added status to student list when searching including inactive students
- Added the ability to allow teachers to modify individual tabs on the Student Info screen
- School Info
- Added the ability to keep multiple calendars for any school
- Allows for the unsetting of dates in Marking Periods setup
- Fixed small bug in Rollover
- Calendar is the default program under the School Setup menu
- Other
- Fixed bug when printing related to language extraction
- Allow for postgres connections without the -i option when using localhost
- Added a reference to pgˍhba.conf file in diagnostic.php
- No Headers are white in printed reports
- Fixed a bug related to switching between marking periods in the side menu
- Fixed the behavior of 0 in "hidden" (clickable) input fields -- thanks maboytim
- Improved ability to view previous / upcoming school year information
- Small usability improvements in Preferences
- Small usability improvements involving Student Info tabs
- Fixed a bug that caused a database error when listing inactive students in Mass Assign programs
- Headings & Subheadings removed from side menu if no programs within those headings are accessible by the user.
- Fixed bug in Enter Eligibility that prevented teachers from entering eligibility for some classes when that teacher taught more than one class in the same period.
- When Searching for students in "All Schools", Centre only lists students available in your schools setup in the User General Info screen.
- Eliminates error message when loading a default program (like Attendance -> Administration) when you're not allowed to use that program.
- Grades
- Added Year Fraction to Weights in Courses setup for the sake of calculating GPA of courses that don't meet full year
- Fixed occasional bug in the GPA/Class Rank List
- Newest assignment is listed at the beginning of Gradebook Grades "All" view
- Fixed bug preventing Final Grades from being entered
- Allow for the input of progress period grades
- Returned course title to teachers' progress reports
- Revamped, customizable Report Card
- Input Final Grades correctly checks the beginning and ending dates of grade posting set in Marking Periods setup.
- When "Using Gradebook Grades", Input Final Grades no longer creates Report Card grades for students who are no longer in the class.
- Scheduling
- Added Short Name to the Course Period title
- Added Course search to Mass Schedule/li>
- Fixed bug in Print Class Lists/li>
- Added the ability to print schedules as of any date/li>
- Schedule program keeps better track of seat counts when dropping a course/li>
