August 8 to August 12, 2022 Release Notes

Features & Improvements

Dark Mode! Read about it on the blog and see how to switch to it in your personal settings.

Populi's appearance has also undergone a more or less complete refresh—new charts, new icons, refreshed colors, updated controls like drop-downs and checkboxes, plus a hundred other things. We think it looks pretty sharp.

Bugfixes

No bugfixes this week, but it looks like last week's are still doing their jobs.

Videos and Focus Sessions

The Focus Session onAugust 16th, 2022, 11:00 AM PSTintroduces Billing in Populi. We'll cover some basics about pending charges, invoices, transactions, payments/credits, tuition schedules and fees, and so on. This will be most useful to Financial Admin and Student Billing users.

Forty-eight hours later we'll run a Focus Session covering the Degree Audit. We'll cover some basics about programs, 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 August 18th, 2022, 11:00 AM PST.

(You can also find out about upcoming Focus Sessions by going to the Knowledge Base page and clicking the Follow button.)

Josh Stevenson untangles web transcripts, which are the most current version of a student's transcript, whether or not he attended Spiderman University.