We're pleased to announce that Centre V. 2.9 is now available from the Download Section. Matt Boytim has put together some great new features along with increased stabilization and bug fixes. As Matt says, we're striving "...for the right natural behavior - that is, you shouldn't really have to think about it, Centre should just do the right thing...."
The innovation and skill of our development team is clearly setting higher and higher standards.
We would like to thank our clients, teachers and administrators for their suggestions and patient testing. - and promise we'll continue to listen carefully to your needs and prioritise new features into our roadmaps.They contributed a number of good suggestions which we utilized in the latest version. It’s nice to see the community coming together to help make Centre an even better product.
V. 2.9 Key Features
New in 2.9
- True multiple gradescales
- multiple gradescales can be created and assigned to courses
- Report card comments
- comment entry (definition) separated from grade code entry
- functionality unchanged
- Progress Reports
- Option to include extra credit assigments that are ungraded
- Option to include assignments that are not yet due
- Preferences
- student field categories not allowed to the user are removed from the selection list
- a 'disable portal alerts' configuration added
- $htmldocAssetsPath
- config.inc.php variable to set path for htmldoc access of assets directory
Changes in 2.9
- bugfix: converted AllowUse() function to positive logic (oops, forgot to do when converting profiles/permissions to positive logic in 2.8)
- Progress Reports converted to search/select
- introduced multiple gradescales
- NULL gradescale replaces courses:doesˍgrades
- updated CHANGELOG and INSTALL with the v2.8 changes (forgot in 2.8)
- removed AllowEdit.fnc.php from top level dir (oops in 2.8)
- moved 'Recalculate Daily Attendance' to Utilities category
- bugfix: changed profileˍid and comment from '2' to '3' in CreateParents.php (unsupported module)
- added $htmldocAssetsPath to config.inc.php
- added user preference to disable portal alerts
- backed out changes to DBDate from 2.8
- bugfix: Users:Preferences/StudentFields allows selection of categories not allowed by profile/permission
- bugfix: update PortalNotes.php and Portal.php for profiles/permissions changes of 2.8
- modified grade calculations to use outer joins to treat missing grades as 0 instead of excused tried to apply this uniformly to all grade calculations
- better handling of extra credit assignments in modules/Grades/Grades.php
- changed assignment sorting in modules/Grades/Assignments.php to the user Preferences(ASSIGNMENTˍSORTING)
- changed course sorting in student grades to the school period sort order
- changed report card grade codes sorting to sort by breakoff first
- modified grade lookup in EnterEligibility.php to use id instead of title (since titles can be reused with multiple gradescales and ˍmakeLetterGrade can return the id)
- PrintSchedules converted to search/select format
- bugfix: formating of new student screen
- added support for User pictures, added $UserPicturesPath variable to config.inc.php
- added rolloverˍid (last year's staffˍid) to User's screen
- added new gradebook rounding option of 'no rounding' which is now the teacher default. Existing teachers are set to NORMAL by upgrade.sql which is old default so rounding behavior is unchanged for existing teachers
- added PrintSchedules to teacher menu
- upgrade adds permission for teachers already with permission to PrintClassLists
- moved PrintSchedules,PrintClasslists,PrintRequests to the top of the Scheduling/Reports menus since printing functions seem more used and the commonly used functions are easier to find at the top
- moved teacher gradebook configuration under Grades/Setup, seems to make more sense
- added marking period prefix to teacher / gradebook / final grade percentages so that all grades that make sense can be included in the full year grade (using only the marking period id is not enough to be unique if you want say the quarter grades to be averaged into both the semester grade and year grade)
- quarter grades added to final grde weights in teacher gradebook configuration
- final grade calculation for year and semester grades / get gradebook grades updated
- GetMp.fnc.php marking period queries combined into single unioned query
- bugfix: DOW omitted in functions/Attendance.php summation of minutes in the specified day
- warning displayed in teacher gradebook assignments if due date is earlier than assigned date
- student grade is grayed in teacher gradebook if grade is blank but assignment is not yet due
- assignments not due excluded in grade calculations
- assignments are 'due' if (assignedˍdate is null or today>=assignedˍdate) and (dueˍdate is null or today>=dueˍdate) or a grade is entered in StudentGrades (parents and students view of student grades) ungraded
- assignments do not show up until the day after they are due, this gives teachers a day to grade assignments before parents would see them as a zero grade
