# WHAT'S NEW

## RosarioSIS Student Information System

New in 10.9
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Add Portuguese (Brazil) translation, thanks to Emerson Barros

Lists: add pagination if more than 1000 results. Deactivated by default, only activated for:
- Grading Scales
- Access Log

Teacher Programs:
- Prevent the following issue: If form is displayed for Course Period A, then Teacher opens a new browser tab and switches to Course Period B. Then teacher submits the form, data is saved for Course Period B.

RosarioSIS can now be installed with [Softaculous](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/rosariosis/-/wikis/How-to-install-RosarioSIS-with-Softaculous)


New in 10.8
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Resources
- Resources: add Resource Visibility options, sponsored by @Hirama666


New in 10.7
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Use [Select2](https://select2.org/) instead of Chosen for enhanced select inputs

Grades
- Report Cards: add "Class average" option (Last row)
- Report Cards: add "Student Photo" option, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

[Student Billing Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/student-billing-premium/)
- Print Invoices/Receipts: add "Two per page" checkbox

[Library Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/library/)
- Library: limit document Category Visibility to selected User Profiles and Grade Levels, sponsored by @Hirama666


New in 10.6
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Files input: automatically resize & compress uploaded images (only if width > 1988px or height > 2810px)


New in 10.5
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[SMS Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/sms/): new gateway, WhatsApp Cloud API, sponsored by EspaceHitech.mg


New in 10.4
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[Hostel](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/hostel/) module

[Student Billing Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/student-billing-premium/)
- Configuration: Add Payment Reminder to Portal, sponsored by @Hirama666

Student Billing: Attach File to existing Fee/Payment

Accounting: Attach File to existing Income/Expense or Salary/Staff Payment


New in 10.3
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School
- Rollover: Add "Course Periods" checkbox

Student Billing
- Student Balances: Add "Cumulative Balance over school years" checkbox


New in 10.2
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Students
- Student Info: Add "Enroll student for next school year" link to Rolling / Retention Options

Student / User Listing: order by "Display Name" (was Last Name, First Name)


New in 10.0
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Add **MySQL** support

config.inc.sample.php
- `$DatabaseType` configuration variable
- `$DatabasePort` configuration variable is now optional

[Installation tutorial for Mac (macOS, OS X)](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/rosariosis/-/wikis/How-to-install-RosarioSIS-on-Mac-(macOS,-OS-X))

#### Breaking changes

SQL table names were converted to lowercase. If you have any _custom_ CSS, JS (div or input ID and names) or PHP code relying on UPPERCASE table names, please update.

#### Know more

Know more about RosarioSIS version 10 and MySQL support in this [blog post](https://www.rosariosis.org/blog/#mysql-support).


New in 9.1
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PHP8.1 compatibility

School
- Configuration: Decimal & thousands separator

Grades
- Input Final Grades: Class average, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup


New in 9.0
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PHP8.1 compatibility

`intl` PHP extension is now required

Security improvements

French translation revised, thanks to Étienne de Blois

School
- Calendars: legend

[Quiz Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/quiz/)
- Answer Breakdown: Identify questions for which students have difficulties to answer


New in 8.9
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Food Service
- Meal Items: icon upload

Scheduling
- Courses: Half Day option removed


New in 8.8
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Grades
- Report Cards:
  - Min. and Max. cumulative GPA
  - Class Rank

[Email Students](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/email-students/)
- Automatically send Absence notifications, after X registered absences
- Automatically send Birthday notifications
- Automatically send Payment reminders (outstanding fees), X days before or after Due date
Sponsored by Mr Marinsek, Argentina


New in 8.7
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Fix menu & scroll issue on recent smartphones (landscape resolution > 735px)

FlatSIS theme
- Do not import WPadmin theme stylesheet anymore
- Use Grunt to minify
- Improve load time & payload


New in 8.5
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Users
- User Profiles: Admin Student Payments Delete restriction, sponsored by Rousseau International school

[Email Parents](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/email-parents/)
- Automatically send (child's) Birthday notifications
- Automatically send Payment reminders (outstanding fees), X days before or after Due date
Sponsored by Rousseau International school

[SMS Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/sms/#premium-module)
- Automatically send (child's) Birthday Notifications to Parents
- Automatically send Payment Reminders (outstanding fees) to Parents, X days before or after Due date
Sponsored by Rousseau International school

[Quiz Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/quiz/#premium-module) module, sponsored by Dzung Do


New in 8.4
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Accounting
- Incomes: add File Attached
- Expenses: add File Attached


New in 8.3
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Accounting
- Staff Payments: add File Attached

Student Billing
- Payments: add File Attached, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup


New in 8.2
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[Class Diary Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/class-diary/#premium-module)
- Send email reminder to Teachers who did not add an entry for yesterday's classes, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup


New in 8.1
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Accounting
- Salaries: add File Attached

Student Billing
- Fees: add File Attached


New in 8.0
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Attendance
- Attendance Chart: Merge Attendance Chart (Daily Summary) & Absence Summary programs

Accounting & Student Billing
- Daily Transactions: Merge Daily Transactions & Daily Totals programs

Students
- Advanced Report: Total from Fees & Total from Payments


New in 7.9
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[Class Diary](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/class-diary/) module


New in 7.7
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[Google Social Login](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/google-social-login/) plugin, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school


New in 7.6
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PHP8 compatibility

Moodle plugin: PHP xmlrpc extension no longer required

[Automatic Attendance](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/automatic-attendance/) plugin, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

Security improved


New in 7.4
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School
- Configuration: Course Widget select / Pull-Down option, sponsored by English National Program


New in 7.2
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Discipline
- Breakdown by Student Field: Grade Level breakdown.

[Certificate](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/certificate/) module, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

[Email](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/email/) module:
- Attach a file, sponsored by English National Program


New in 7.1
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Students
- Student Breakdown: Grade Level breakdown.

Users
- Preferences: select among 10 Date Formats.

Grades
- Report Cards: include Credits.


New in 7.0
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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
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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
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Security enhanced


New in 6.7
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[Staff Absences](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/staff-absences/) module, sponsored by English National Program


New in 6.6
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Default School Year: 2020

Custom (Students)
- Registration: Administrators can customize the Registration form, sponsored by English National Program

[Student Billing Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/student-billing-premium/) module:
- Accept Paypal payments.


New in 6.5
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[SMS Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/sms/#premium-module) module:
- Send Absence Notification to Parents.


New in 6.4
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School
- Configuration: Add-on zip upload (check [INSTALL.md](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/rosariosis/-/blob/mobile/INSTALL.md#optional-variables) to disable).

[Students Import Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/students-import/#premium-module) module:
- Update Existing Students info, sponsored by English National Program.


New in 6.3
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[Jitsi Meet](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/jitsi-meet/) module, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.


New in 6.1
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[Students Import](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/students-import/) module:
- Send email notification to Students.
- Premium: Create Student in Moodle.

[Staff and Parents Import](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/staff-parents-import/) module:
- Send email notification to Users.

[TinyMCE Record Audio Video](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/tinymce-record-audio-video/) plugin


New in 6.0
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[Chart.js](https://www.chartjs.org/) charts

[Paypal Registration](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/paypal-registration/) plugin


New in 5.9
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**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:
- [Staff and Parents Import](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/staff-parents-import/) module to version 1.3
- [SMS](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/sms/) + Premium modules to version 1.5
- [Public Pages Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/public-pages/) plugin to version 1.5

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](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/icalendar/) plugin
- Add assignments to student / teacher calendar, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school


New in 5.8
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Grades
- (Gradebook) Configuration: for administrators to override teacher settings, sponsored by Tintamail.

Export list to Excel using MicrosoftXML (more reliable).

[Grades Import](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/grades-import/) module, sponsored by Instituto Japon.

[Iomad](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/iomad/) plugin (multi-tenancy Moodle), sponsored by LearnersPlatform

[Billing Elements](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/billing-elements/):
- Store: sell Elements (including Courses) to Students and their Parents, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

[Student Billing Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/student-billing-premium/)
- Payments Import, sponsored by LearnersPlatform

[Public Pages Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/public-pages/)
- Custom page & default page, sponsored by LearnersPlatform


New in 5.7
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Create Student / User Account:
- Email notification

[iCalendar](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/icalendar/) plugin.

[Semester Rollover](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/Semester_Rollover/) module, sponsored by Instituto Japon.

[Billing Elements](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/billing-elements/) module, sponsored by English National Program.


New in 5.6
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[SMS](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/sms/) module.

[Library Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/library/) module.

[TinyMCE Formula](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/tinymce-formula/) plugin.

[Attendance Excel Sheet](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/Attendance_Excel_Sheet) module, sponsored by Tintamail.


New in 5.5
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- Substitutions: Custom Fields available, sponsored by École Étoile du Matin

[Grading Scale Generation](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/Grading_Scale_Generation/) plugin, sponsored by Signo Digital.


New in 5.4
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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](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/ldap/) plugin

[Force Password Change](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/Force_Password_Change/) plugin, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.

[Convert Names To Titlecase](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/Convert_Names_To_Titlecase/) plugin


New in 5.3
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School:
- School Configuration: Force password change on first login, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.


New in 5.2
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Database integrity improvements: added NOT NULL constraint to TITLE columns.


New in 5.1
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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](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/relatives/) plugin, sponsored by Asian Hope

[REST API](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/REST_API/) plugin


New in 5.0
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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](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/setup-assistant/) plugin


New in 4.9
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Users
- Profiles: Teachers & Parents can edit User Info tabs.

[Timetable Import](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/timetable-import/) module

[Discipline Score](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/discipline-score/) plugin


New in 4.8
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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](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/calendar-schedule-view/) plugin, sponsored by Revamp Consulting.


New in 4.7
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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
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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](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/public-pages/) plugin

[Email Alerts](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/email-alerts/) module, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school.


New in 4.5
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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](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/library/) module


New in 4.4
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Grades
- Assignments: file upload & rich text description, sponsored by Santa Cecilia school

[Email Students](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/email-students/) module


New in 4.3
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Scheduling
- Courses: Description (content or summary)

[Quiz](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/quiz/) module

Security enhanced


New in 4.0
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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
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Translate Help texts with Poedit

Translate database fields to Spanish or French


New in 3.8
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Students & Users
- Expanded View: Photo Tip Message


New in 3.7
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School Setup
- School Configuration: Display Name, sponsored by @abogadeer


New in 3.6
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[Email SMTP](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/email-smtp/) plugin

Scheduling
- Courses: teachers, parents & students can access program


New in 3.5
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[Student Billing Premium](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/student-billing-premium/) module

[Staff and Parents Import](https://www.rosariosis.org/modules/staff-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
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New [PDF Header Footer](https://www.rosariosis.org/plugins/pdf-header-footer) plugin

[New translations](locale/REFERENCE.md) (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
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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](INSTALL.md#optional-variables) can be used for PNG compression.

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

Usability improvements


New in 3.2
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Scheduling
- Requests: Students & Parents can Edit


New in 3.1
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Grades
- Mass Create Assignments


New in 3.0
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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag))

Upload images in text editor (TinyMCE)


New in 2.9
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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](https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/rosariosis/wikis/Markdown-Cheatsheet) support for Large text fields

Automatic database upgrade

French help

Khmer / Cambodian translation


New in 2.8
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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
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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
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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
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Grades
- Assignment Default Points

Better internationalization (i18n) support


New in 2.4
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Resources
- RosarioSIS Wiki
- Print handbook
- Add your links

Security improved


New in 2.3
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School Setup
- Upload school logo

Users
- Print Options preferences


New in 2.2
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School Setup
- Added School Fields


New in 2.1
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Students
- Added time and user to comments "comment thread" like


New in 2.0
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Responsive design
- Compatible with smartphones and tablets
- AJAX design
- Retractable menu
- Responsive tables


New in 1.4
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Discipline
- Added Discipline Categories to Discipline Widget
- Added new referrals Portal alert

Custom
- Added Attendance Summary


New in 1.3
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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
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Security improved

Users
- Added Failed Login to the expanded view of staff listing


New in 1.1
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Scheduling
- Added ability to modifiy and delete periods to an existing Course Period


New in 1.0
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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
