Release Notes 24.8.0 - Revised - 23 Jan 2025

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Release Notes for version 24.8.0 (revised) dated 23 Jan 2025, detailing resolved issues and new capabilities across multiple system areas. Updates cover Enrolments, Wellbeing, and Academic Reports, including corrections to student code handling, school-day query performance, and printed report formatting. Academic Reports improvements also enhance Course Results settings for unmarked results and subject name printing options. Activities and Attendance changes refine portal publishing/unpublishing behaviour for fees and payment requests, add attendance roll sync updates, and address specific operational errors.

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Enrolments

Issues resolved

Wellbeing

Issues resolved

Academic Reports

Improvements

Issues resolved

Activities

Improvements

Issues resolved

Attendance

New features

Core\Authentication

Issues resolved

Core\Data Sync

Improvement

Curriculum Reference

New features

Release Notes Version Release date Version Release date Version Release date Version Release date 24.7.2-p3 9/12/2024 Enrolments Issues resolved ⚫ Student Codes: Students created via the API did not properly check to ensure the student code being assigned wasn't already in use by another student Wellbeing Issues resolved ⚫ The query to find the school days since a suspension was causing performance issues for schools with lots of suspension data Improved the performance of retrieving the counts for current and expired suspensions. 24.7.2-p2 6/12/2024 ⚫ Internal 24.7.2-p1 4/12/2024 Academic Reports Issues resolved ⚫ Student names were not capitalised correctly on printed reports ⚫ Progression Point Breakdown: The headings were misaligned on printed reports for EAL Pathway B ⚫ An error occurred when printing progression point components for non-Victorian Curriculum progression points ⚫ Comments were cut off on the left hand side for General Comments in the data entry section 24.8.0 9/12/2024 Academic Reports Improvements ⚫ Course Results component: Added settings for unmarked results to the component in subject layouts These settings have been added to the Course Result component: — Show Unmarked Results — Treat zero scores as unmarked — Unmarked Results Title ⚫ Subject Name component: Improved the functionality for the option to 'Show Schema Name Instead' — When the setting=Yes, the subject will print with Schema name. — When the setting=No, the subject will print with Subject name. — When the setting=Schema, the subject will print using the setting specified in the faculty schema. Issues resolved ⚫ Victorian Schools: An error occurred when attempting to import the new VCE-VM subjects Activities Improvements ⚫ Publish to Portal: New fees/invoices will not be created and published for students who have existing fees/invoices for the activity These changes apply to independent, ACT government and NSW government school only. — When an activity is published (or re-published) as Payment Only or Permission & Payment, new fees/invoices will no longer be created and published to the Parent Portal for students who already have active fees/invoices linked to the selected cycle instance of the activity. Instead, the existing fees/invoices will be published to the Parent Portal for those students. New fees/invoices will still be created and published to the Parent Portal for students who do not already have active fees/invoices linked to the selected cycle instance of the activity. — On the Publish to Portal screen, the ‘Existing fees/invoices’ section displays how many students have existing active fees/invoices that will be published, and provides a link to view those fees/invoices. The ‘Create new fees/invoices’ section displays the number of students for whom new fees/invoices will be created, and provides a link to view those students. These changes mean that you will no longer need to cancel/void and recreate fees/invoices if you need to unpublish and re-publish an activity. ⚫ Unpublish from Portal: Ability to unpublish activities with online payments Activities with one or more online payments can now be unpublished from the Parent Portal. When an activity is unpublished, unpaid payment requests will be removed from the Parent Portal but paid and partially paid payment requests will remain visible. ⚫ Archiving an activity will automatically unpublish linked invoices/payment requests from the Parent Portal ⚫ Publish to Portal [Victorian government]: New payment requests will not be created and published for students who have existing payment requests for the activity This change applies to Victorian government schools only. — When an activity is published as Payment Only or Permission & Payment, new payment requests will no longer be created for students who already have active payment requests linked to the selected cycle in

FAQs

What key changes were made to Academic Reports in version 24.8.0?

Course Results gained settings for how unmarked results are shown, including options to display unmarked results and treat zero scores as unmarked. The Subject Name component was improved with the ability to print schema names instead of subject names based on a configurable option.

How does “Publish to Portal” work differently for Activities with existing fees/invoices or payment requests?

When activities are published (or re-published) as Payment Only or Permission & Payment, new fees/invoices or payment requests are not created for students who already have active items linked to the selected cycle instance. Existing items are published instead, while new items are created only for students without active linked items.

What Attendance update is introduced with Activities roll submissions?

If the Activities Roll setting “Create attendance absence on activities roll submit” is set to Yes, submitting an Activities roll will update existing Attendance records, rather than only creating new absences. The feature is restricted to schools with the corresponding capability enabled by Sentral Support staff.

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