Roadmap
DISCLAIMER/ IMPORTANT NOTES
We do our best to estimate when features are going to be delivered to you. However, emergencies do come up and priorities can change. Some items that impact our roadmap include: customer feedback, TASS Forum voting, government requirements.
The Roadmap below includes 'major' or noteworthy features e.g. TASS Forum enhancement requests. TASS continues to release software updates that include functional enhancements and bug fixes - these will be detailed in the Release Notes when the version is published.
This is not a definitive list. There will be some features released that will not be represented here but will be available in release notes as they come to fruition.
The majority of items in this roadmap are behind Feature Flags during development. They are sometimes completed the month before the scheduled release month. If you would like to test these features, please contact TASS Customer Care to enable them for you.
The rolling roadmap continually moves left and is adjusted as time passes and becomes less detailed the further out the plan stretches. It is updated monthly to align with our development release lifecycle.
COLUMN DESCRIPTIONS
NOW - In active development
NEXT - In requirements gathering/scoping stage
LATER - Development backlog/approved for scoping
For more information on enhancements, releases and maintaining TASS:
FAQs on the TASS Release Cycle FAQ
FAQs on Enhancements
Recently Released Items
Student Administration Roadmap
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Scheduling of Student Medication A new system to allow for scheduled student medications and alerts for students and staff, and when they need to be administered. A log will be included to ensure recording or medication being administered. User Type: Medical Staff, Teachers, Parents and Students | Timetable Daily Changes An expansion of the TASS Timetable to allow daily overrides of Rooms and Staff to include a greater level of interaction with external timetabling solutions. User Type: Timetable Administrators | Staff Kiosk Markbook - Default Calculation Rules This enhancement will allow users to setup default calculation rules for the new Markbook in Staff Kiosk. The default calculation rule will automatically be applied to the Markbook for a class when the screen is loaded for the first time. User Type: Department Heads & Teachers |
Activity Setup Migration from webBook to Staff Kiosk Expansion of MarkBook to include Assessment Activity Setup that replicates the functionality previously in webBook Activity Setup. Estimated release: v59.08.200 | Parents to enter planned absences for Extra Curricular activities with pre-populated list Provide Parent Lounge users with the tools to indicate that a student will be absent from additional Custom Rolls on the day/s that they are indicating they will be absent from school. Allow events, sessions and fixtures linked to a custom roll to be updated in advance to indicate expected absence from the students edairy. User Type: Parents | Staff Kiosk Markbook - Calculate Z Scores & Estimates This enhancement will introduce the calculation of Z Scores in the new Markbook in Staff Kiosk. There will also be a facility to estimate results for student based on the Z Scores. User Type: Teachers, Department Heads |
| Mark the student absent from any Extra Curricular activities when marked AFS for that day User Type: Parent | Enrolled Student - Change Parent Code to Current Parent Enhancement to facilitate users to change the parent of an enrolled student, even when the parent is marked as Current. User Type: Enrolments Officer |
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| Data Retention Policy Full extent of the requirement is yet to be determined. Potential to include a relative date parameter based on flagged files to delete them after a period of time. User Type: IT Administrators |
Finance & Payroll / HR Roadmap
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Enrolments - Invoicing an Enrolled Student An enhancement to expand the functionality of School Shop, Parent Accounts and associated reports to allow for Enrolled Students based charges/credits before the student has been transferred to current. User Type: Parents and Accounts Receivable Officers Estimated release: v59.08.200 | Requisitions: Ability for approver to edit GL Code field An enhancement to allow approvers of purchase order requisitions to edit the GL Account of the requisition within the approval workflow. User Type: Purchasing Officers | Add Percentage into Split Bill Account Details Options by Fee and by Student Provide tools to distribute partial charges and credits associated with students to other parent accounts. Increase the flexibility of split billing allow a students fees to be divided over more than two accounts. |
Events and Payments Additional Detail, Images and Attachments Enhancements to the Events and Payments features, including multiple attachments, long-form descriptions with images and rich text. And creating an option to delay publishing to Parent Lounge. User Type: Teacher Estimated release: v59.08.200 | TASS.web permissions change log A new enhancement for an Administrator to have detailed history of permissions being added and removed from users and roles including when and by whom etc. This enables oversight and therefore enhanced assurance of data privacy and integrity. User Type: IT Administrator | Enhance Teacher Details Program to Cater for Staff Enhance the Teacher Details Program, providing the ability to look at School Staff that do not have Teacher Records and review available employee details. |
Checkbox and Multi-Select accural that will be calculated on Paycode User Type: New option in Paycode setup to selectivly accrue chosen accural codes. Estimated release: v59.08.200 |
| Parent Lounge Online Shop A new program within Parent Lounge to allow parents to engage with the TASS School Shop for the purpose of buying items online through a secure payment gateway. User Type: Parent |
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| TASS.web Employee Note Category based permissions Enhancement to expand the TASS.web Employee Note Categories permissions to include Category based permissions. This functionality currently only exists within Staff Kiosk User Type: HR Administrators |
Orbit Roadmap
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Staff App Proof of Concept/Bleeding Edge [Available for SIG Members only] The Bleeding Edge version of Staff Orbit includes: API foundation, app foundation, login authentication, Daily Digest: Staff eDiary, Basic Student Profile, Student Quick search and some of the UI framework. User Type: Staff | Other Staff Timetable Staff Orbit Access Other Teacher Timetables through the Staff Details tile to find out what they're up to. User Type: Staff | Staff Kiosk Notifications Enhancements Enhancements to the Notifications program:
User Type: Administrator |
Staff Extra Curricular Hub The Staff Extra Curricular Hub will includes the staff members Extra Curricular Activity groups, fixtures and sessions, activity detail and student list for those included in the activity. You'll also be able to edit the team/level the student is in. | Extra Curricular Fixture Venue Info field into API Introduce a new rich text field to provide venue details for Extra Curricular sessions and fixtures. | Events & Payments Push Notifications Upcoming event reminders and reminders to accept and pay when a closing date is approaching. User Type: Parents |
Generate Push Notifications (Schoolbox) Introducing the ability for Schoolbox to be able to import notifications directly into the TASS.web ecosystem and then send out those messages as push notifications to Parent Orbit. Estimated release: v59.08.200 | Staff Orbit Emergencies (Custom Rolls) Initiate an emergency, automatically generate custom rolls for staff members to handle emergencies e.g. evacuation, fire drill and send push notifications to all staff. An Emergency Dashboard with rolls marked vs. not marked, unaccounted students and staff on leave will also be available. User Type: Staff | Parent Teacher Interviews Push Notifications Notifications for:
User Type: Parents |
Add Student Notes Staff can add new Standard and Confidential (if they have permission) notes to a student on the go in Staff Orbit. User Type: Staff |
| Add Extra Curricular Future Absences Parents will easily be able to enter absences for future Extra Curricular activities through the Extra Curricular Hub and when adding a school absentee User Type: Parents |
Leave Applications (View and Submit) Staff can review and submit new leave applications for their supervisor to approve through Staff Kiosk. Handy for when you're home in bed, unwell. Estimated release: v59.07.200 |
| Staff Orbit Create Custom Rolls Allow staff to create custom rolls from within Staff Orbit. User Type: Staff |
Staff Orbit Timesheets Introduce a feature for Staff Orbit for non-permanent staff/coaches to submit timesheets. User Type: Staff |
| Staff Kiosk - Teacher Notifications Target Staff Orbit |