Features & Improvements
Built out transfer degrees (the ones you add under Profile > Admissions > Other Education) a bit. Degrees are now matched to a degree level, let you enter more details, and have a cute lil' notes area where you can write whatever you want but will presumably use for something degree-related.
Forms now have linked fields for custom Term Student fields.
Added some automation triggers for when course discussions are created and replies are reported.
College Financing Plans have their own HTML Layouts now.
And we added some asset managment for fonts and images to what I'm calling (no one else does) the Layouts Engine.
The maximum price allowed in the replacement price field for library resources was a paltry $9999.99. I wouldn't even get a library card at a joint that didn't have at least a few six-figure resources lurking in its stacks. Just to make sure that the kinds of libraries I would grace with my presence would be willing to use Populi, we upped that to $99999999.99. Still room for improvement, but it'll do for now.
The Academic Progress report wanted a degree filter for its birthday and so that's what it got.
The API has a new "route" for course_lesson_files. I'm not sure if that's actually what we called it. Look it up.
To help deal with people's browser plugins autocompleting application fields with irrelevant nonsense, we set all application fields to autocomplete = NOPITY NOPE NOPE.
In other application news, you can now give your applicants the option of selecting one specified program OR choosing Undecided.
Bugfixes
Rascally students. This week they were creating discussions, saving them as drafts, and then losing access to them because students aren’t supposed to be able to create draft discussions. If they didn't bring in so much money I bet no one would tolerate this kind of stuff. Also, we fixed the bug that let them do that.
The availability dates for assignments shown on Course > Assignments did not show the same thing that was displayed on the assignment page's Settings panel.
Videos and Focus Sessions
Focus Sessions coming up next week:
- Introduction to Academics: Here's one on 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 March 3rd, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
- Introduction to Admissions: Here's a totally different one on 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 March 5th, 2026, 11:00 AM Pacific time.
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