The Month in Review: July 2020 Feature Releases

Derek Nichols

Somehow, we’ve already reached the end of July. Before the final summer month kicks off in full, let’s take one more look back at all of the new content that came to Education management in the month of July.Is it just me or the summer suddenly starting to fly by? Another month down as we head into our last official summer month, though for many of you, the school year is likely right around the corner. Either way, I hope you’re all continuing to find ways to have a happy and health summer under these current times.

July continued to be a busy month for us here working inside of the Education management products. We have a lot to get to, so let’s take one final look back at everything that arrived in July for Education management.

Academics
As usual, Academics received a lot of updates in July. Schedule managers can now filter the Student enrollment page by course section. This is useful when you need to reschedule all students in a particular section.

Grading managers now have the option to select a registration period from a dropdown when editing an academic official note.
Other updates include:

• Administrators can now search by the school-created Course code when managing groups.  
• The new Assignment Center now displays using the default options originally set by the admin.
• Under Preferences, Add to cumulative grade and Publish grade can be added to a Gradebook by default. If Add to gradebook is set to Unselected by default, both of these new options will be disabled.
• When a teacher adds materials to a Topic, they can set the publishing options for the added widget.

Core
In July, Core continued making more progress with Preferred Name with Advanced lists. When working with them, list managers have the option to use the new field called Preferred or First Name under User Base.

New auditing tools were also added to the Business field inside a user’s Contact Card. Any changes are made to Add Business Data, Edit Business, or deleting any current business data, the profile changes are logged under a new section called Business.

Other Core updates this month include:

• When creating or editing Pushpage templates in Core or School website, we’ve updated Nickname to now say Preferred name.

Enrollment management
While the Enrollment management team was hard at work behind the scenes on the Student Checklists EAP, the team updated Medical forms to now have a File Upload block that can be added to form layouts.

Stay tuned for next month when we dig into Student checklists!

Billing management
Inside Billing management this month, billing clerks were given the ability to add charges for incoming students. These charges can be added in-bulk or individually as needed.

If you want the full and complete details of everything we’ve added to the Education management products make sure to visit our release letter. Use the Recent option at the top of the page to view past and archived releases. Want to stay updated whenever we have a new release? Get notified via email by signing up for our mailing list here.

And of course, make sure to bookmark these links if you haven’t already as we’re continuing to add resources over time.

• Distance Learning Video Playlist
• Resources and Links Blog

And that’s a wrap for July! For those of you who attended are redesigned and completely free User Conference, I hope you enjoyed yourself. If you missed it, head over here to check out all of the information, panels, and more.  

Even though we’re technically still on Summer Hiatus for the next couple of weeks, keep your eyes peeled for new content we have coming in August. Stay safe and we’ll talk again soon.