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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I put together an example report card with the new format for 2.6.0,
attached.

--Tom


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am happy to announce the release of SchoolTool 2.6 to the Ubuntu Saucy
> Universe repositories, as well as the "dev" PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and
> 13.04 (see http://book.schooltool.org/install-dev.html).
>
> We received a lot of feedback via Launchpad regarding the last 2.5 beta
> releases, which led to a stronger, if slightly later, final 2.6 release.
>  Thanks to everyone who tested the beta!
>
> Special thanks to the development team, Justas Sadzevicius and Douglas
> Cerna, and release manager Gediminas Paulauskas, and of course Mark
> Shuttleworth for his generous support.
>
> SchoolTool 2.6 feature summary:
>
> Task Queue
> ----------
>
> To allow reports to be generated in the background, without blocking web
> page response,  SchoolTool 2.6 is integrated with the Celery asynchronous
> task queue (http://www.celeryproject.org/).
>
> With the task queue architecture in place, future releases will expand its
> use to allow imports and other long-running processes to take place in the
> background without blocking or overloading the server.
>
> Reports
> -------
>
> Printed reports have been updated to a clean, attractive design consistent
> with SchoolTool's web interface.
>
> Report request dialogs have also been updated for utility and consistency.
>  Realtime feedback on report generation completion is provided in the
> dialog.  For long-running reports, the dialog can be closed, and SchoolTool
> used normally while the report is being created.
>
> When reports are completed, a message is posted to the user's SchoolTool
> home page.
>
> Attendance Journal
> ------------------
>
> Attendance tracking and participation grading have been made distinct
> modes in the journal view.
>
> Absences and tardies can be excused by teachers.
>
> Clerks have new school-wide attendance management views to can excuse or
> enter absences and run reports.
>
> Schools can create and use custom attendance codes.
>
> Participation grading can be based on any SchoolTool score system.
>
> Homeroom attendance status is visible in all section journals for the day.
>
> Administrative Roles
> --------------------
>
> Administrative roles have been differentiated to make it easier to prevent
> accidental destructive changes to the system.  "School Administrators" can
> view most data in the system but have limited editing rights.  "Clerks" can
> enter and view data about students but cannot easily reconfigure the
> server.
>
> Search forms and read-only views of SchoolTool's gradebooks have been
> added for administrators.
>
> Auto-Complete Scoring
> ---------------------
>
> When non-numeric grades are entered in a gradebook cell, an auto-complete
> menu displays valid possible entries (e.g., the user enters "a" and "A",
> "A+" and "A-" appear as auto-complete choices).
>
> Name Order
> ----------
>
> All tables and gradebooks should be sortable by first name or last name.
>
> CanDo
> -----
>
> Improved support for deprecating groups of standards from previous years.
>
> Notable Changes Since SchoolTool 2.5.3
> --------------------------------------
>
> Revised report card style.
>
> Tracebacks can now be submitted to the correct project in Launchpad.
>
> In new instances, "SchoolTool Administrator" user will be called "Default
> Manager" to be more consistent with revised roles.
>
> To make SchoolTool friendlier to locales that put the surname first, we
> added a system-wide preference for sorting by first or last name by
> default, removed places where the last name was listed first, and split
> first and last name into separate sortable columns in all tables.  The
> sorted name is always in the leftmost column in a table.
>
> Fixed navigation bugs around multiple years in the School page.
>
>
>

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