We're pleased to announce that Centre v. 2.7.2 is now available in the downloads section. Matt Boytim has taken some user contributions, added his own enhancements and bug fixes, and has delivered another inproved version of Centre.
Thanks to all of our users, the Centre Users Group members and our supported clients for their advice, suggestions and encouragement.
What's New in 2.7.2?
- MassDrops.php
- drops courses for groups of students similar to othe Mass (Group) Scheduling functions
- DuplicateAttendance.php
- finds and deletes attendance conflicts that can result when student's course enrollment is backdated and attendance is already entered for the course being dropped
- Students/AddUsers.php
- associate Users with Students similar to associating students with users
- Student Address
- simple addresses and contacts ganging capability added
- 'title below' format adopted for contacts and contact info
- config.inc.php
- configuration variables moved to config.inc.php files in their respective module directories, simplifies upgrades but also better positioned to move configurations to the database in future release
- config variables added to main config.inc.php for optional modules to simplify upgrades
What changes and bugfixes are in Centre 2.7.2?
- added year, progress periods, and exams to teacher completion and marking period select list filtered on graded and examed
- fixed bug: can not delete address from student addresses
- improved tab highlighting behavior on students screen
- fxed bug: 'required' column in studentˍfields in centre.sql
- removed 'create parent users' from menu - was accidentally added in 2.7.1
- made some fields 'required' (red if blank) in gradebook Assignments
- improved total grade calculation in progress reports
- added MassDrops.php and DuplicateAttendance.php submissions to project
- added Students/AddUsers.php to associate parents with students similar to Users/AddStudents.php
- added configuration variable to disable anonamous grade stats in StudentGrades.php
- fixed enrollment bug in TakeAttendance.php
- corrected inconsistent use of $extra['DATE'] and DBDate in 'teacher' profile of GetStuList and changed 'admin' date references to $extra['DATE']
- added a NoInput() in Inputs.php for convenient consistent display of fixed text display
- added assets/emergencyˍbutton.gif to replace use of warningˍbutton.gif for emergency contacts in Address.inc.php
- changed highlight color of user in side menu so can distinguish current user from current student
- changed School Information screen to use titles below for better consistency with rest of centre
- fixed bug: any admin can edit school information in School.php
- modules/Grades/CommentsA.php renamed to config.inc.php
- configuration variables for modules/Students/includes/Address.inc.php moved to modules/Students/config.inc.php
- config variables added for state reporting and food service
- CentreVersion variable moved to Warehouse.php to simplify upgrades
