Features & Improvements
A new setting on fees lets you add a threshold for academic units for per-credit/hour/course fees; the fee will not apply to the student unless he enrolls in at least that number of credits/hours. For example, you set up a Faculty Exhaustion Fee of $200/credit that kicks in when the student enrolls in more than 15 credits. That one student enrolls in 22 credits, so he gets charged $1400 (then you can route that fee revenue straight into the Faculty Lounge Improvement account).
Tuition schedules can now charge per-course.
We've replaced the old student-facing financial aid interface with what the old-heads used to call a "wizard". A student checks My Profile > Financial > Financial Aid and sees all the awards you've offered him. He presses Click here to Accept or Decline Awards and the wizard takes him through each award, where he can accept, decline, and, for loans, accept partial amounts.
Contacts has a big new button that says ID Photo Kiosk. The Kiosk lets you take a picture of someone; it is then uploaded to their profile and can be used to generate an ID card right on the spot.
Academic Admins can enjoy the new read-only view of custom status mappings in Academics > Settings > Grades and Attendance.
The student's view of Course > Assignments has a column for his Assignment Group Grade. Likewise, that grade appears on the Performance Dashboard when it's filtered down to a specific student.
In your Notification settings, your email notification address is now a drop-down that lets you select from the addresses entered on Profile > Info.
If a student is flunking the course because they failed a Mandatory Pass assignment, the Gradebook has a new lil' notice about that.
A new print layout type for admissions letters is on the loose.
Last week we told you that pop-ups have been extinguished in favor of opening downloads in new tabs. We lied! That didn't actually get released until last night.
If you like one of your libraries better than the others, you can designate it as the "Main Library".
You can bulk-invite people to groups by role or by tag now.
Added an automation trigger for Advisor removed from student.
Things that are changelogged now: communication plans, anything to do with Main Library; course change logs now link to lessons that've been changed.
To make things more efficient, if you download all your assignment submission files, we now stick that job in the background and notify you when it's ready.
You can customize field labels on application forms. For example, if you use the Name linked field, you can change the "First Name" subfield to "Given Name".
Data Slicer has a new filter condition for Program Average Grade Affecting GPA, apparently because someone asked for that.
Academics > Reporting > Enrollments can now fetch delivery method data.
Fill-in-the-blank questions now let you use curly brackets (these guys: { }) within the question text if you "escape" them, that is, add a slash just before them, like this: /{ /}.
Refund to source batches could not be posted to student accounts when an aid application linked to one of the disbursements was selected for verification and the verification status is In Progress. We addressed this oversight.
Added a trash can to library resource notes so you can finally delete them.
Bugfixes
In email templates, deleting an attachment and re-uploading the same one could end up with the file data deleted.
'Twas a bug that recorded bookstore refunds incorrectly.
Required books in unpublished courses used to show up on the reading list of enrolled students in Profile > Schedule > Details, and we have put an end to that.
Videos and Focus Sessions
Two more Focus Sessions before Christmas!
- Introduction to Billing: Here's one about pending charges, invoices, transactions, payments/credits, tuition schedules, fees and so on. This will be most useful to Financial Admin and Student Billing users. It's scheduled for December 16th, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
- Introduction to Degree Audit: A different one, this one covering degree requirements, course groups, course mapping, exceptions, transcripts and so on. This will be most useful to Academic Admin and Registrar users. It's scheduled for December 18th, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
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