WHATS_NEW.md

WHAT'S NEW

RosarioSIS Student Information System

New in 12.1

School

• Marking Periods: Remove "only 1 Marking Period & 1 grading period open at any given time" check for Progress Periods, sponsored by AEP St-Joseph-des-Carmes, France

Users

• User Profiles: add Admin Delete Permission (Accounting Expenses/Incomes/Salaries/Staff Payments), sponsored by Lamine Samate, Mali

Scheduling

• Courses: add "Show only my courses" checkbox, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France

Student Billing

• Daily Transactions: add Breakdown by Grade Level to Daily Totals, sponsored by Rousseau International, Cameroon

Entry and Exit module

NFC/QR Actions module

TTHotel Smart Locks module

The above modules are sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

Email Parents module

• Send Days Absent (for a specific period), sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France

Certificate module

• Add background image / watermark, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France

Messaging Premium module

• Notify me by email when I receive a message, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France

Audit module

• Add Browsing Log, sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

New in 12.0

Breaking change, please upgrade the following add-ons:

• Email SMTP plugin version 10.4+ (March, 2024)
• Email Log module version 1.2+ (March, 2024)
• Reports module version 10.6+ (May, 2024)
• Human Resources module version 10.2+ (August, 2023)
• Calendar Schedule View plugin version 10.2+ (July, 2024)
• Quiz module version 10.7+ (December, 2024)
• Assignment Max Points plugin version 1.2+ (December, 2024)

Performance improvements: smaller payload, up to 10% faster & less AJAX requests sent to the server

Use colorBox instead of popup window for Course & Request Widgets and Calendar Event

Some optional configuration variables are now deprecated (still work if set in the config.inc.php file):

• $PortalNotesFilesPath Path to portal notes attached files.
• $AssignmentsFilesPath Path to student assignments files.
• $FS_IconsPath Path to food service icons.

Those files are now uploaded under a subdirectory of assets/Fileuploads/. See the $FileUploadsPath config variable.

Add-on installations statistics (on first activation). To disable, use the ROSARIO_DISABLE_USAGE_STATISTICS config constant.

New translations (99% completed, includes help), thanks to Georgios Katakalos

• Greek (Greece)
• Turkish (Turkey)

Stripe Registration plugin, sponsored by English National Program, France

Library Premium

• Quick Loan: quickly search and lend a document to a user or student, sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

Billing Elements

• Daily Transactions, sponsored by Petit Rousseau, Cameroon

New in 11.8

School

• Configuration: Move "Number of Days for the Rotation" option from School Information to Configuration

Students

• Advanced Report: Add "Course Periods - Short Name" field

Scheduling

• Print Class Lists: Add "Course Periods - Short Name" field

Grades

• Gradebook Configuration: Add "Automatically calculate and save Final Grades using Gradebook Grades" option, sponsored by AEP Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes, France

Staff and Parents Import module

• Assign users to a specific school, sponsored by LGBTQInnos, USA

Templates plugin

• Integrates with the Messaging Premium module, sponsored by @Hirama666

New in 11.7

Default School Year: 2024 (2024-2025)

School

• Rollover: update the default school year (if the config.inc.php file can be edited). Rollover Guide PDF update

Limit SQL result for List: Improve performance for lists > 1000 results (e.g., schools having more than 1000 students)

Templates plugin

• Integrates with the Grades > Report Cards program (Free Text), sponsored by Petit Rousseau, Cameroon

New in 11.6

Users

• My Preferences > Print Options: Mailing Label Position (left or right)

Student Billing Premium: link your Stripe account and accept payments. Stripe is available in 46 countries.

Custom Menu plugin sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

Instant List Search and Sorting plugin sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

New in 11.5

Moodle plugin: Add REST API protocol for Moodle 4.1+ and MoodleCloud compatibility

Scheduling

• Courses: on course teacher change, new teacher will inherit old teacher's assignments

Students

• Letters: Hide Headers option

Templates plugin

Email Log module

PDF Archive module

Append Custom Field to Grade Level plugin

The above add-ons are sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

Slovenian translation (71% complete), thanks to AT group, Slovenia

License change from GNU/GPLv2 to GNU/GPLv2 or later so it is compatible with GNU/GPLv3

New in 11.4

School

• Access Log: Automatically clear entries older than one year

Scheduling

• Courses: Reassign Course Subject, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France

Grades

• Assignments (Student): Attach multiple files, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France
• Report Cards: Group courses by subject, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France
• Input Final Grades: Use Grade Scale Comments, sponsored by Petit Rousseau, Cameroon

Food Service Premium module, sponsored by AT group, Slovenia

SMS Premium

• Add Substitution codes to send GPA to Students, sponsored by Petit Rousseau, Cameroon

New in 11.3

Absent for the Day on First Absence plugin, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup, France

Scheduling

• Student Schedule + Group Schedule: Refuse to enrol the student twice in the same course period

Export list to Excel using SimpleXLSXGen (more reliable)

School

• Database Backup: MySQL dump now includes procedures, functions and triggers

To disable responsive list layout, add &LO_disable_responsive=Y to the URL

New in 11.2

School

• Configuration, Attendance tab: Dynamic Daily Attendance calculation based on total course period minutes (when "Minutes in a Full School Day" is set to 0)

Student Billing

• Fees + Payments + Daily Transactions: Expanded View (Created by & Created at columns), sponsored by Rousseau International, Cameroon

Lesson Plan module, sponsored by Rousseau International, Cameroon

Class Diary Premium

• Attach multiple files, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

New in 11.1

Scheduling

• Courses:
  • Automatically update teacher: Fix the false "Missing attendance" portal alerts
  • Automatically update credits (attempted and earned); will also recalculate GPA

Grades Import

• Import Final Grades, sponsored by Univers Frère Raphaël, Haiti

Students Import Premium

• Create Food Service Accounts (and assign a Barcode)

Billing Elements

• Mass Assign Elements: Assign Elements by Grade Level, sponsored by Rousseau International, Cameroon

New in 11.0

Grades

• Report Cards: Add Class Average & Class Rank (Course Period)
• Progress Reports: move from Teacher Programs to Grades menu (admin)
• Configuration: Add Weight Assignments option

Assignment Max Points plugin

The above enhancements are sponsored by École Étoile du Matin, France

Accounting

• Incomes: fiter by date, assign categories
• Expenses: fiter by date, assign categories
• Daily Transactions: filter by category
• Add Categories

Thanks to @0xD0M1M0 for the above enhancements

Food Service

• Accounts: Create missing Food Service Student Account

New in 10.9

Add Portuguese (Brazil) translation, thanks to Emerson Barros

Add Vietnamese (Vietnam) translation, thanks to Steven M. Haag & Trân Thi Kim Thanh

Update German (Germany) translation, thanks to @0xD0M1M0

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

New in 10.8

Resources

• Resources: add Resource Visibility options, sponsored by @Hirama666

New in 10.7

Use Select2 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

• Print Invoices/Receipts: add "Two per page" checkbox

Library Premium

• Library: limit document Category Visibility to selected User Profiles and Grade Levels, sponsored by @Hirama666

New in 10.6

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

New in 10.5

SMS Premium: new gateway, WhatsApp Cloud API, sponsored by EspaceHitech.mg

New in 10.4

Hostel module

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

School

• Rollover: Add "Course Periods" checkbox

Student Billing

• Student Balances: Add "Cumulative Balance over school years" checkbox

New in 10.2

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

Add MySQL support

config.inc.sample.php

• $DatabaseType configuration variable
• $DatabasePort configuration variable is now optional

Installation tutorial for 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.

New in 9.1

PHP8.1 compatibility

School

• Configuration: Decimal & thousands separator

Grades

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

New in 9.0

PHP8.1 compatibility

intl PHP extension is now required

Security improvements

French translation revised, thanks to Étienne de Blois

School

• Calendars: legend

Quiz Premium

• Answer Breakdown: Identify questions for which students have difficulties to answer

New in 8.9

Food Service

• Meal Items: icon upload

Scheduling

• Courses: Half Day option removed

New in 8.8

Grades

• Report Cards:
  • Min. and Max. GPA
  • Class Rank

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

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

Users

• User Profiles: Admin Student Payments Delete restriction, sponsored by Rousseau International school

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

• 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 module, sponsored by Dzung Do

New in 8.4

Accounting

• Incomes: add File Attached
• Expenses: add File Attached

New in 8.3

Accounting

• Staff Payments: add File Attached

Student Billing

• Payments: add File Attached, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

New in 8.2

Class Diary Premium

• Send email reminder to Teachers who did not add an entry for yesterday's classes, sponsored by Paris'Com Sup

New in 8.1

Accounting

• Salaries: add File Attached

Student Billing

• Fees: add File Attached

New in 8.0

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

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:

• Staff and Parents Import module to version 1.3
• SMS + Premium modules to version 1.5
• Public Pages Premium 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 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