Features & Improvements
Layouts need variables like fish need the sea (a metaphor that breaks down upon any amount of scrutiny). That's why we added student custom fields to the diploma layout and honors variables to the grade report layout.
The Data Slicer now graciously allows you to include a column displaying the date a standardized test was taken whenever you look up a standardized test score.
The Academic Term > Schedule export has a column for course units.
Apparently we have a layout for admissions applications. And apparently you can add profile pics to them. Handy!
The person importer is now aware of your custom financial aid fields. That makes it sound ominous, but it just means you can map columns from your import onto your financial aid custom fields.
Bugfixes
The Edit Donations Settings dialog—oops, I mean, the Edit Donation Settings dialog—let you choose from Presets Amounts rather than Preset Amounts. We sent in a total of six developers to fix this typo. Only four returned alive, if you can call their shellshocked husks "living".
For some reason, likely not a good one, the Donations Portal wouldn't let you print a Canadian donation receipt.
Authorize.net was "choking on hyphens": students with hyphenated last names couldn't make ACH payments. Heimlich applied.
Adding conditions in the Data Slicer for First Name and Full Name wasn't also adding columns for those items.
Data Slicer column problems weren't limited to that show-stopper. Filtering for Student Type: Online: Enroll/Audit created a column called Student Type: On Campus.
If you filtered Academic Term > Course > Progress by evaluation completion percentage and then emailed the faculty in the results, the dang thing would just email ALL the faculty.
The new dingybell notifications like "X unlinked applications", etc. were taking you to an unfiltered applications report. That is, until we fixed it.
Another dingybell oopsie: we forgot to include transcript request notifications in that whole kaboodle, but they're in there now.
Federal Work Study disbursements were getting auto-applied to invoices and couldn't be unapplied; we made it stop doing this and fixed the ones where it happened.
Billing > By Term > Summary wasn't correctly accounting for transaction reversals until we made it reverse course.
For a brief time, you couldn't delete Standardized Tests entered in error. But for the foreseeable future, you'll be able to.
Selecting Undecided for degree fields on an application prompted a "Pweez fiww owt aww wequiwood fiewds" error because of a bug that didn't count that selection towards the application completion percentage.
Notifications for online payments weren't taking into account discounted amounts. They've been awakened.
Videos and Focus Sessions
Missed a few weeks of Focus Session updates. Sorry! But here's what's coming next week:
- Introduction to Populi: Our sages guide you through 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 July 1st, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
- Introduction to Academics: One day before the big day, enjoy this explosive look at 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 July 3rd, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
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