Features & Improvements
You can now let payment plans retire. Nothing better for a payment plan that has spent years dutifully charging students at regular intervals to scuttle off to Florida or Scottsdale and enjoy the nest egg before finally shuffling off this mortal coil.
The Profile > Registration screen now displays course start/end dates, helping your students know even more what exactly they're signing up for.
Students have a new read-only Campus Life view on their profiles, letting them see all their room and meal plans and campus life-related fees all in one spot.
The old API has been put inside a cage to which only we have the keys, and we've been using the keys to open bottles (one guy put his on a railroad track so a freight train could flatten it like a penny). In other words, we're not opening the cage again. In even more other words, you should really get rolling on using the new Populi API.
There's a new HTML Layout for grade reports.
Tightened down on password restrictions to help users not be able to pick anything guessable while also not being overly strict or annoying. Because we want to be loved! The long and the short of it is that passwords don't let you use your name, birthdate, or hometown info in recognizable form.
Username length is now limited to 100 characters (double the old limit of 50—e're always letting you have more!).
The Aid Applications report has filters for program and degree that it didn't have before.
Added an automation condition that'll trigger the doohickey when course enrollment goes over the max. enrolled number.
And then added another that does the thing when enrollments happen on or after the course start date.
And another other'n that listens for when an ISIR is imported.
Added a username variable to email templates. Fun!
For whatever reason we never displayed earned credits next to Unused Courses on the Degree Audit, but now we do!
Added "pagination and lots of cleanup" to library resource batches so that the big ones will load more fasterer.
Added filter conditions for locks on the Invoices report.
If an application is not linked to a person, when you export it from the Applications report and include the primary address column, it'll now include the address from the application rather than, well, nothing.
Added a warning to the Test Feedback settings dialog that waves its arms and yells at you if course Progress is set to "not visible to students"—which would mean your thoughtful feedback would be invisible to your students.
Bugfixes
General degree requirements would show as Satisfied even if the requirement for resident credits hadn't been met.
Fixed a problem with email headers on application questions and inquiries that could cause them to be stripped by email clients—which meant that the inquiry or question wouldn't be updated with replies from the applicant.
If you deleted a form field that individual respondents had answered, the answer would appear on their response but wouldn't be included in any exports. Fixed!
When you'd add an award with multiple disbursements, then deleted a disbursement, that disbursement amount would be added to the final disbursement on the list, but the displayed percentage would not update. But now it does!
Video captions weren't working on the Android mobile app.
If you're only using Paypal as a payment processor, students could get a nuh-uh error when trying to pay for a transcript request or form fee with a credit card. Now it gives them a yuh-huh and the payment goes through.
Even if you retired an application form but the link or embed still lurked somewhere on the Internet, people could still find it and fill it out. We threw this in the cage with the old API.
Used to be that, if you set an application status to Accepted and later then changed it to Declined, some of the fields on the "Accepted" dialog would stick around on the “Declined” dialog.
If a test was auto-graded, the correct answers for short-answer questions would not show up. Now the correct answers will show up regardless of whether the test was graded automatically or manually.
A deeply lame “waaaahhhh we couldn’t find this organization waaahhh wahhh” error was popping up when refunding a payment to an organization. Replaced it with total awesomeness.
The "sort by award” filter was breaking the Disbursements report.
Videos and Focus Sessions
Focus Sessions coming up next this week:
- Introduction to Populi: Survey your new Populi site with a look at setting up your Populi account, logging in, adding new users, login approvals, roles, search, basic reporting, Populi's global settings and so on. This will be most useful to Populi Account Administrator and Academic Admin users. It's scheduled for April 15th, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
- Introduction to Academics: A guided stroll through academic years, terms, programs, degrees, the course catalog, course instances, enrollment and so on. This will be most useful to Registrar and Academic Admin users. It's scheduled for April 17th, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
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