May 5 to May 9, 2025 Release Notes

Features & Improvements

Automations triggered by a student's test submission now have a variable for the URL of the student's test attempt.

Not wanting to leave Admissions out of the excitement, admissions-related automations have a variable for the Admissions Portal URL.

Bugfixes

The Regent SBL report was sometimes generating inconsistent SAP results. Like a film-noir detective, we sapped the problem.

A real edge case bug: schools with what one developer referred to as a “weird term setup” could end up with a blank column in the Clearinghouse report if reporting on multiple terms at once. Like a good maid, we cleared this one out of the house.

This bug completely crippled nearly all of our customers: transcripts couldn’t be exported for students if their birth year was before 1883 (because timezones hadn’t been standardized yet). Like good industrialists, we squished this with a steam-powered whirlygyro.

If you set an assignment to Automatically Check for Plagiarism = Yes, that setting would still say “Yes” even if the plagiarism service was out of commission. Like a cheating college student, I myself fixed this problem without any help whatsoever, passing someone else's work off as my own.

Videos and Focus Sessions

New week, new Focus Sessions:

• Introduction to Academics: Here's one covering 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 May 13th, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
• Introduction to Admissions: Here's a different one covering different topics—application settings, designing your application, processing applications, managing leads and so on. This will be most useful to Admissions and Admissions Admin users. It's scheduled for May 15th, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.

A catchphrase-dropping Josh wants you to know how to festoon your most deserving students with honors, so he tells you how to do that.