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WHAT'S NEW

RosarioSIS Student Information System

New in 7.9

Class Diary module

New in 7.7

Google Social Login plugin, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school

New in 7.6

PHP8 compatibility

Moodle plugin: PHP xmlrpc extension no longer required

Automatic Attendance plugin, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

Security improved

New in 7.4

School

  • Configuration: Course Widget select / Pull-Down option, sponsored by English National Program

New in 7.2

Discipline

  • Breakdown by Student Field: Grade Level breakdown.

Certificate module, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

Email module:

  • Attach a file, sponsored by English National Program

New in 7.1

Students

  • Student Breakdown: Grade Level breakdown.

Users

  • Preferences: select among 10 Date Formats.

Grades

  • Report Cards: include Credits.

New in 7.0

School & Attendance: improved Numbered Days Rotation

Scheduling

  • Schedule Report: Merge Schedule Report & Master Schedule Report
  • Requests Report: Merge Requests Report & Unfilled Requests

New in 6.9

Teachers: simplify Course Periods dropdown menu. Only select School Periods to Take Attendance.

Scheduling

  • Courses: Secondary Teacher, sponsored by English National Program

New in 6.8

Security enhanced

New in 6.7

Staff Absences module, sponsored by English National Program

New in 6.6

Default School Year: 2020

Custom (Students)

  • Registration: Administrators can customize the Registration form, sponsored by English National Program

Student Billing Premium module:

  • Accept Paypal payments.

New in 6.5

SMS Premium module:

  • Send Absence Notification to Parents.

New in 6.4

School

  • Configuration: Add-on zip upload (check INSTALL.md to disable).

Students Import Premium module:

  • Update Existing Students info, sponsored by English National Program.

New in 6.3

Jitsi Meet module, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

New in 6.1

Students Import module:

  • Send email notification to Students.
  • Premium: Create Student in Moodle.

Staff and Parents Import module:

  • Send email notification to Users.

TinyMCE Record Audio Video plugin

New in 6.0

Chart.js charts

Paypal Registration plugin

New in 5.9

Breaking Changes:

  • Move Email & Phone Staff Fields to custom fields
  • SQL Rename PHONE column to CUSTOM_200000001 in STAFF table

Please upgrade the following add-ons:

Moodle plugin

  • Import Moodle Users
  • Improved stability and resilience

School

  • Configuration: Automatic Student Account Activation, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

Send Account Activation email notification to Student & User, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

iCalendar plugin

  • Add assignments to student / teacher calendar, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school

New in 5.8

Grades

  • (Gradebook) Configuration: for administrators to override teacher settings, sponsored by Tintamail.

Export list to Excel using MicrosoftXML (more reliable).

Grades Import module, sponsored by Instituto Japon.

Iomad plugin (multi-tenancy Moodle), sponsored by LearnersPlatform

Billing Elements:

  • Store: sell Elements (including Courses) to Students and their Parents, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

Student Billing Premium

  • Payments Import, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

Public Pages Premium

  • Custom page & default page, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

New in 5.7

Create Student / User Account:

  • Email notification

iCalendar plugin.

Semester Rollover module, sponsored by Instituto Japon.

Billing Elements module, sponsored by English National Program.

New in 5.6

SMS module.

Library Premium module.

TinyMCE Formula plugin.

Attendance Excel Sheet module, sponsored by Tintamail.

New in 5.5

  • Substitutions: Custom Fields available, sponsored by École Étoile du Matin

Grading Scale Generation plugin, sponsored by Signo Digital.

New in 5.4

Student Billing:

  • Portal: New fee alert to Parents.

Grades:

  • Progress Reports: Add program for admin (Teacher Programs), student and parent.

Bulgarian translation (100% complete), thanks to Martin Krastev

LDAP plugin

Force Password Change plugin, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

Convert Names To Titlecase plugin

New in 5.3

School:

  • School Configuration: Force password change on first login, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

New in 5.2

Database integrity improvements: added NOT NULL constraint to TITLE columns.

New in 5.1

Student Fields:

  • Search Medical Immunization or Physical, sponsored by Asian Hope

Grades:

  • Rename "Edit Student Grades" program to "Historical Grades".

Student Billing:

  • Payments: Fees dropdown to reconcile Payment.

Accounting:

  • Staff Payments: Salaries dropdown to reconcile Payment.

Relatives plugin, sponsored by Asian Hope

REST API plugin

New in 5.0

Grades:

  • Report Cards: Min. and Max. Grades option, Last row option (GPA or Total), add Free Text.
  • Transcripts: Last row option (GPA or Total).
  • Final Grades: Min. and Max. Grades option.

SQL speed: ID columns now use INTEGER type.

Database integrity improvements: added foreign keys.

Bulgarian translation (54% complete), thanks to Vanyo Georgiev

New theme: FlatSIS

Setup Assistant plugin

New in 4.9

Users

  • Profiles: Teachers & Parents can edit User Info tabs.

Timetable Import module

Discipline Score plugin

New in 4.8

Default School Year: 2019

Students

  • Remove Access: new Custom program, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

Grades

  • Transcripts: use rich text (TinyMCE) input for Studies Certificate text, hardcoded "Studies Certificate" title and Signtures placeholders removed.

Accessibility improved

Calendar Schedule View plugin, sponsored by Revamp Consulting.

New in 4.7

School, Students & Users

  • Fields: "Edit Pull-Down" & "Coded Pull-Down" are converted to "Auto Pull-Down" & "Export Pull-Down" Data Types.

Grades

  • GPA / MP List: program removed
  • Calculate GPA: program removed, automatic GPA & Class Rank calculation

New in 4.6

School, Students & Users

  • Fields: new "Files" Data Type, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

Students

  • Student Fields: Merge Address Fields & Contact Fields programs with Student Fields program

Installation Poll

Public Pages plugin

Email Alerts module, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

New in 4.5

Grades

  • Gradebook Configuration: "Hide previous quarters assignment types" option, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school. Note: Will only work for newly created Assignment Types.
  • Remove Teacher Programs (still available from Users menu)

Attendance

  • Remove Teacher Programs (still available from Users menu)

Library module

New in 4.4

Grades

  • Assignments: file upload & rich text description, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school

Email Students module

New in 4.3

Scheduling

  • Courses: Description (content or summary)

Quiz module

Security enhanced

New in 4.0

Dashboard

New Module icons: moved from modules to theme

config.inc.php

  • $RosarioErrorsAddress optional variable to receive errors by email (PHP fatal, database, hacking attempts)

Set admin password on first login

New in 3.9

Translate Help texts with Poedit

Translate database fields to Spanish or French

New in 3.8

Students & Users

  • Expanded View: Photo Tip Message

New in 3.7

School Setup

  • School Configuration: Display Name, sponsored by @abogadeer

New in 3.6

Email SMTP plugin

Scheduling

  • Courses: teachers, parents & students can access program

New in 3.5

Student Billing Premium module

Staff and Parents Import module, sponsored by @abogadeer

School Setup

  • School Configuration: Failed Login Attempts Limit, sponsored by @abogadeer

Create Student / User Account

  • Captcha, sponsored by @abogadeer

Students

  • Student Info: Delete Student button (only if no Schedule, Grades or Attendance records found), sponsored by @abogadeer

New in 3.4

New PDF Header Footer plugin

New translations (37% completed)

  • Afrikaans (South Africa)
  • Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
  • Belarusian (Belarus)
  • Czech (Czech Republic)
  • Greek (Greece)
  • Estonian (Estonia)
  • Finnish (Finland)
  • Irish (Ireland)
  • Galician
  • Croatian (Croatia)
  • Hungarian (Hungary)
  • Indonesian (Indonesia)
  • Icelandic (Iceland)
  • Lithuanian (Lithuania)
  • Latvian (Latvia)
  • Macedonian (Macedonia)
  • Dutch (Netherlands)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway)
  • Polish (Poland)
  • Romanian (Romania)
  • Slovak (Slovakia)
  • Slovenian (Slovenia)
  • Albanian (Albania)
  • Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia)
  • Swedish (Sweden)
  • Thai (Thailand)
  • Ukrainian (Ukraine)
  • Vietnamese (Vietnam)
  • Walloon (Belgium)
  • Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)

New in 3.3

New File Uploads folder in assets/FileUploads/.

.jpg, .png, .gif formats are now accepted for Student / User photos. The 2MB size limit was removed.

Automatically resize & compress uploaded images. PNGQuant can be used for PNG compression.

Up to 4x speed & memory gain (DBGet core function)

Usability improvements

New in 3.2

Scheduling

  • Requests: Students & Parents can Edit

New in 3.1

Grades

  • Mass Create Assignments

New in 3.0

School Setup

  • Access Log
  • Marking Periods
    • Access granted to parents & students

Users

  • My Preferences
    • Student Fields: search Username

Performance

  • 90% gain when updating Side menu
  • Cache system (ETag)

Upload images in text editor (TinyMCE)

New in 2.9

Students

  • (Custom) Registration (for parents or students to register their contacts)

School Setup

  • Configuration
    • Limit Existing Contacts & Addresses to current school
    • Force Default Theme

Users

  • My Preferences
    • Export Listings in XML format
    • User Fields: search Email Address & Phone

Scheduling

  • Group Schedule
    • Schedule multiple courses

Grades

  • Student Assignments

    • Submit Assignment
  • Grading Scales

    • Minimum Passing Grade

Student Billing & Accounting

  • Daily Totals

Password Reset feature

MarkDown support for Large text fields

Automatic database upgrade

French help

Khmer / Cambodian translation

New in 2.8

School Setup

  • School Configuration
    • Create User Account
    • Create Student Account

Students

  • Group Assign Student Info
    • Grade Level
    • Attendance Start Date this School Year

Attendance

  • Course Period Absences Widget

Portal

  • Upcoming Assignments

Menu enhancement

Security improved

New in 2.7

School Setup

  • School Configuration
    • manage Modules & Plugins
    • set Default Theme
    • set Currency

config.inc.php

  • No more Rosario Admins list

Security improved

New in 2.6

Accounting

  • New module including Staff Payroll

School Setup

  • Food Service configuration
  • Rebrand RosarioSIS

Navigate the browser history

Open RosarioSIS links in new tab

Page source viewable

Arabic translation

German translation

New in 2.5

Grades

  • Assignment Default Points

Better internationalization (i18n) support

New in 2.4

Resources

  • RosarioSIS Wiki
  • Print handbook
  • Add your links

Security improved

New in 2.3

School Setup

  • Upload school logo

Users

  • Print Options preferences

New in 2.2

School Setup

  • Added School Fields

New in 2.1

Students

  • Added time and user to comments "comment thread" like

New in 2.0

Responsive design

  • Compatible with smartphones and tablets
  • AJAX design
  • Retractable menu
  • Responsive tables

New in 1.4

Discipline

  • Added Discipline Categories to Discipline Widget
  • Added new referrals Portal alert

Custom

  • Added Attendance Summary

New in 1.3

Security improved

School Setup

  • Moved all the configuration values inside the config.inc.php files to School Configuration
  • Added limit visibility to the students of a determined teacher in Portal Polls

Custom

  • Added Notify Parents

New in 1.2

Security improved

Users

  • Added Failed Login to the expanded view of staff listing

New in 1.1

Scheduling

  • Added ability to modifiy and delete periods to an existing Course Period

New in 1.0

Themes

  • New logo
  • New theme: WPadmin inspired by Wordpress' admin theme
  • New icon set

Translation

  • Every string in RosarioSIS now translatable
  • Full french and spanish translation
  • Dates translation
  • Custom Currency
  • Handbooks/Help in spanish

Students

  • Added ability to add/change Photo directly from the Student/User screen
  • Added student breakdown adapted from Focus SIS v.2.3
  • Added TinyMCE to letters

Grades

  • Added gradebook breakdown adapted from Focus SIS v.2.3

School Setup

  • Added PostgreSQL database backup
  • Added School uses a Rotation of Numbered Days option
  • Added possibility to attach a file to Portal Notes
  • Added ability to repeat a calendar event
  • Added School Configuration

Scheduling

  • Added master schedule report
  • Added possibility to add more than one period to a Course Period

Discipline

  • Added module adapted from Focus SIS v.2.3

Student Billing

  • Added module adapted from Focus SIS v.2.3

Password Encryption

Moodle

  • Added Moodle integration

Breakdowns

  • jqPlot Javascript charts replace PHP/SWF Charts

PDF

  • Replaced htmldoc by wkhtmltopdf