SchoolTool 2.3 Release Notes¶
SchoolTool 2.3 features a new gradebook/journal grid that is faster and supports large number of sheets, improved XLS import/export, and many bugfixes.
New plugins¶
SchoolTool CanDo¶
CanDo is a complete system for tracking skills, competencies, standards, or any similar set of student outcomes.
- Create documents specifying student skills, standards or outcomes via spreadsheet import or through the web interface.
- Associate groups of skills with courses automatically or manually.
- Create projects with unique combinations of skills.
- Assess student skills through a familiar gradebook-style interface.
- Track the history of student skill achievement across multiple sections and school years.
- Teachers and administators can generate graphical reports by student, section or teacher.
- Skill scores can be integrated into SchoolTool’s point based gradebook.
https://launchpad.net/schooltool.cando
Included in default install.
SchoolTool Virginia¶
CanDo extensions for schools in Virginia state.
2.3.2¶
SchoolTool Journal 2.3.1 (2013-02-19)¶
- Update translations
SchoolTool CanDo 0.4.4 (2013-02-18)¶
- Fixed error when current skillset for the user has been removed.
- Sorted tables for adding/removing nodes by label and title.
SchoolTool CanDo 0.4.3 (2013-02-11)¶
- Fixed submit of Set Required/Visible course skills page.
SchoolTool CanDo 0.4.2 (2013-01-29)¶
- Skills now have their own scoresystem. Old skills that had no scoresystem set, system default is used.
- Add IEP (Individualized Educational Plan) functionality.
- Added Dutch and Spanish (El Salvador) translations.
SchoolTool Virginia 0.4 (2013-01-29)¶
- Updated VA reports and their descriptions
- build_xls now gets verso_skills.xls from the web, creates new_verso_skills.xls by matching matching skillset and skill external ids, making sure labels sort in same order as the web api
SchoolTool Intervention 2.3.1 (2013-01-24)¶
- Added hint for “Persons responsible” in goal form (https://launchpad.net/bugs/922211)
- Made some of the less essential goal fields optional (https://launchpad.net/bugs/922209)
- Added a student interventions link to message and goal views
- Added optional subject line to messages (https://launchpad.net/bugs/922226)
- Updated translations
2.3.1 (2012-12-05)¶
- Update to Zope Toolkit 1.1.5 (or more)
- Sync versions with Raring Alpha 1.
SchoolTool CanDo 0.4.1 (2012-11-29)¶
- Fixed skills sorting in more teacher and student views.
- Update section worksheets on global skill or skillset change (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1066940)
SchoolTool Gradebook 2.3.1 (2012-11-29)¶
- Set default point value of external score to 100, the same as of activity.
- Refactor student’s gradebook view for CanDo.
SchoolTool CanDo 0.4 (2012-11-27)¶
- Search skills, skillsets, or nodes.
- Sorted components (skills, skill sets, layers, etc) by label and title
SchoolTool 2.3.1 (2012-11-27)¶
- Indexed table improvements for CanDo.
- Automatically include plugin overrides.zcml
- Updated translations.
SchoolTool CanDo 0.3.2 (2012-11-09)¶
- Fix for the missing scores fix
SchoolTool CanDo 0.3.1 (2012-11-08)¶
- Sorted skills by label in the skills gradebook
- Fixed validation in score student view
- Removed subscriber that prevented section deleting
- Restored scores that disappeared after upgrade to 0.3
2.3 (2012-10-19)¶
Final release to go with Ubuntu 12.10.
SchoolTool 2.3.0 (2012-10-19)¶
Bugfixes¶
- Update scheduled calendar event titles on section title change (https://launchpad.net/bugs/899368)
- Allow student’s instructors edit his contact’s data (https://launchpad.net/bugs/479336)
- Schedule for all terms at once (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1047266)
SchoolTool Gradebook 2.3.0 (2012-10-19)¶
- Fix score history when first grade is unscored
SchoolTool Journal 2.3.0 (2012-10-19)¶
- Fix exception in student journal when grade is not a number (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1065474)
SchoolTool Intervention 2.3.0 (2012-10-19)¶
- Update style of Done links
2.3rc (2012-10-09)¶
SchoolTool 2.2.4 (2012-10-09)¶
New features¶
- School logo (https://launchpad.net/bugs/314151)
- Photos for contacts (https://launchpad.net/bugs/970201)
- Highlight today in calendars (https://launchpad.net/bugs/79865)
- Done links now look like buttons
- New script, schooltool-server, to enable –pack and –restore-password commands (https://launchpad.net/bugs/505824)
Bugfixes¶
- SectionTimetables sheet doesn’t add calendar events (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1061385)
- Log In button should remember where you came from (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1039194)
- Permission fixes
- Updated translations.
SchoolTool Gradebook 2.2.1 (2012-10-09)¶
- Cross linked sections break gradebook (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1052931)
- Fixed Edit Activity submit
- Total and Average calculation shouldn’t use the minimum score of the activity (https://launchpad.net/bugs/966426)
- Updated translations
SchoolTool Journal 2.2.1 (2012-10-08)¶
- Journal for students (https://launchpad.net/bugs/882663)
- Update Dutch translation
2.3b (2012-09-13)¶
SchoolTool 2.2.3 (2012-09-13)¶
- Section add form needs title and location (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1042267)
- Person links in group view return to group
SchoolTool 2.2.2 (2012-08-31)¶
- We need person filters on the group page (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1038845)
- Ignore trailing space in ID cells (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1042773)
- Unrecognized day id error on localized XLS import (https://launchpad.net/bugs/901267)
- Updated translations
SchoolTool 2.2.1 (2012-08-15)¶
XLS¶
- We need to allow id cells to be numeric again on import (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1035036)
- Handle empty Weekends table (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1035969)
- Skip empty rows if there is only one table in the sheet (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1035088)
Bugfixes¶
- Users cannot see their own photo (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1007145)
2.3a (2012-08-08)¶
First releases of rewritten gradebook/journal grid and other work done over the last three months.
SchoolTool Gradebook 2.2.0 (2012-08-08)¶
Features¶
- Gradebook refactoring
- New style for worksheet tabs that allows for many sheets and long titles
- Hide sidebar button
- Score history
- Updated translations
Bugfixes¶
- Text area smaller than cell (https://launchpad.net/bugs/921750)
- Red cells don’t revert to green (https://launchpad.net/bugs/921694)
- Fix a rare failure when upgrading from gradebook <= 0.9.0 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/995615)
- Report Layout displays a server error (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1008176)
- Set short spreadsheet names in Gradebook Export xls (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1024814)
Developer tools¶
- Selenium tests and testing extensions
SchoolTool Journal 2.2.0 (2012-08-08)¶
- Refactored month navigation to match new-style gradebook
- Hide sidebar button
- Update translations
SchoolTool 2.2.0 (2012-08-07)¶
New features¶
- Refactored gradebook/journal javascript and style
- Add teachers column sections list
- Add filter by course and term to sections list
- Show term details in term view
Old features¶
- Show sections and groups of a person in a tree, grouped by term, like in old skin.
- List sections in course view (https://launchpad.net/bugs/868396)
XLS¶
- Added course_id, government_id and credits to Courses sheet import/export.
- New sections sheets to replace section sheets per term (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020836)
- Remove the old Sections exporter and tests (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020837). Old section import still supported.
- New LinkedSectionImport sheet for import only (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020838)
- Import errors grouped by sheet and error type, displayed in a textarea (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020839)
- ResourceImporter needs to process description cells (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020840)
- Exporters must skip sections with no courses (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1020842)
Bugfixes¶
- Timetables evolution fails on exception days (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1003834)
- Advisory accordion doesn’t show advisees (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1005989)
- Fix upgrade from schooltool < 1.5 crashing on missing levels (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1007361)
- Allow teachers to see attributes of all sections and resources.
- Remove demographics when person is deleted.
Translations¶
- Updated translations
- Added Bosnian, Croatian, Slovenian translations
Development tools¶
- Selenium screenshots and downloads
- XLS file testing helpers