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v01.058.06.200

Friendly Release Date

June 16, 2023

General Release Date

June 26, 2023

Major Items

Module

Details

Events and Payments Calendar Event enhancement

Event approvers now have greater tools available to them when working with Calendar Events created from an event, including when:

Adding a calendar entry for an event: A Calendar Event can now be added after an event has been approved. (Previously it could only be done when approving the event).

Removing a calendar entry for an event: The Calendar Event can be removed via the new 'Remove the Calendar Event for this Event?' check box.

Deleting a calendar entry for an event: The Calendar Event will be automatically deleted when the event is deleted.

Changing the Description or Dates of an event: The previous Calendar Event will be automatically removed, and a new Calendar Event created with the new details.

Cancelling an event: The Calendar Event will be automatically updated to prefix the event title with the text CANCELLED eg CANCELLED Yr 9 Science Excursion.

Employee Signature in Academic Reports

The Academic Reporting program has been enhanced to give you more options to include signatures on reports:

  1. Each class on the Student report can now include the teacher's signature. When generating Student Reports, there is a new option on the 'Subject Options' tab: 'Include Teacher Signature'. Ticking this adds the teacher's signature for each of the student's classes included in the report.

    (info) Class Teacher signatories use new stylesheet elements. These are available to you from the 'Stylesheets' button in the Generate Student Reports program, found in genericStudentAdditionsV58_5.css

  2. The 'Signatory Details' section has been moved to it's own tab in the Academic Reporting Setup program, and you can now:

    • Set up an unlimited number of signatures.

    • Sort signatures to appear on reports accordingly.

    • Map a signatory record to a Teacher/Employee record, thereby linking the signature from their Teacher/Employee record.

    • Flag a signatory as 'Class Teacher'. When generating Student Reports or Exit Statements, there is a new option on the 'Other Options' tab: 'Class Teacher Subjects' allowing you to choose a subject/s (eg Pastoral Care, or Tutor Group). The student's class teacher/s of the chosen subject/s will then display on the report.

      A new security permission has been added to manage user access to the new 'Signatory Details' tab under the Security Role Permissions Reporting Setup section:  --- Signatory Details tab.
      Note that this permission will automatically be assigned to all user groups/users at your school who currently have the 'Reporting Setup (View, Add, Edit, or Delete)' permission. You can remove the new permission from any of these users as required.

(info) Your existing signatory details will be moved to the new section automatically when you run the TASS update.

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Include Teacher Signature

Signatory Details


Class Teacher Subjects

Example of Signatures on Student Report:


Parent Orbit Academic Reporting PDF's

Academic Reports and attachments are now available to users of the Parent Orbit app.

Two new endpoints have been added to the OAuth 2 settings, in a new section called 'Academic Reports': getAcademicReports and getAcademicReportsAttachment.

What's New?

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

Reference

Staff Kiosk > Events

Events

Enhancements to Events include:
- The 'Add School Calendar Event for this Event' option is now available for approved events in Edit mode.
- The Calendar Event can be removed via the new 'Remove the Calendar Event for this Event?' check box in Edit mode.
- The Calendar Event will be automatically deleted when the event is deleted.
- When changing Event details or dates, the previous Calendar Event will be automatically removed and a new Calendar Event created with the new details.
- When cancelling an Event, it's calendar entry will be automatically updated to prefix the event title with the text CANCELLED eg CANCELLED Yr 9 Science Excursion.

MIS01

TASS-238

Staff Kiosk > Calendar

School Calendar (Maintain)

Update to the message displayed when attempting to delete a linked event to 'Unable to delete this event as it is in use by Events and Payments'.

MIS01

TASS-239

Staff Kiosk > Calendar

School Calendar (Upload) 

Enhancement to School Calendar (Upload).  The error messages that appear when an upload fails are now standardised to help users quickly and easily identify the problematic areas of their spreadsheet.

MIS01

TASS-417

TASS.web > Academic Reporting

Reporting Setup

Enhancement of a new tab titled 'Signatory Details', which allows an unlimited number of signatures to be created for use on Academic Reports and Exit Statements. Signatories can be mapped to their Employee/ Teacher Record signature, and a 'Class Teacher' signatory can be defined.

A new security permission has been added to manage user access to the new 'Signatory Details' tab under the Security Role Permissions Reporting Setup section:  --- Signatory Details tab.

MIS01

TASS-200

TASS.web > Academic Reporting

Generate Student Reports

Enhancement includes the option to include the students' Class Teacher/s signature on Reports.

MIS01

TASS-199

TASS.web > Academic Reporting

Generate Exit Statements

Enhancement includes the option to include the students' Class Teacher/s signatures on Exit Statements.

MIS01

TASS-201

TASS.web > Academic Reporting

Copy Data to Archive

The Academic Report Signatory details are now recorded as part of the 'Copy data to archive' process.

MIS01

TASS-383

TASS.web > Employee/HR 

Updates from Staff Kiosk

Enhancement to Updates from Staff Kiosk. Updates can be reviewed and approved for employees without a Payroll Number.

MIS01

TASS-519

TASS.web > General

Top Toolbar

Enhancement to the Top Toolbar of the TASS web User Interface. The 'Profile Name' drop-down menu now includes a shortcut to the 'Professional Services' page of the TASS Customer Hub.

MIS01

TASS-688

TASS.web > Parent Accounts

Auto Account Billing

Enhancement to Auto Account Billing. When the 'Include Siblings in Group Schools' option is selected, a student enrolled at multiple schools with the same Student ID at both locations is no longer considered a sibling.

MIS01

TASS-862

TASS.web > Utilities

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancement includes two new endpoints for Parent Orbit to allow access to Student Report PDFs and attachments: getAcademicReports and getAcademicReportsAttachment.
These can be enabled in the OAuth 2 settings, in a new section called 'Academic Reports'.

MIS01

TASS-863

TASS.web > Utilities

API Gateway Maintenance

The notification message that parents with the Orbit app receive has been changed from 'Parent Lounge Notification' to your Company Name, eg 'St Albert College'.

MIS01

TASS-915

TASS.web > Utilities

API Gateway Maintenance

Enhancement to OAuth2 API Applications > Orbit Parent. The 'getParentNotifications' endpoint has been updated to enable the app to detect when extra details are added to a notification and to download attachments if needed. 

MIS01

TASS-928

TASS.web > Utilities

Product UI Maintenance

Enhancement to the 'Images' tab.  When a banner image is uploaded for Parent Orbit, the image's dimensions automatically resize to 500x300 to meet app requirements.

MIS01

TASS-927

TASS.web > General Ledger

Income Statement

Fix to ensure that when the Income Statement is run, and 'Include Prior Year' is selected, all accounts from the current and previous year are included in the report where there have been transactions and/or budgets allocated.

SPR01

TASS-835

TASS.web

Customer Hub

We have a new Customer Hub!
The 'Customer Hub' link, found under your profile from within TASS, now takes you to our new site.

MIS01

TASS-921

Corrections

Module

Menu

Details

Customer

Reference

Staff Kiosk > Calendar

School Calendar (Upload) 

Correction to School Calendar (Upload).  The Oops! error that appears when the Start or End Time is not in a valid format now shows the correct field information to help quickly and easily identify the problematic areas of the spreadsheet.

MIS01

TASS-417

Parent Lounge > Accounts & Payments

TASS.web > Utilities

School Fees Account

API Gateway Maintenance

Correction to the School Fees Account for parents with an EdStart Payment Plan. The EdStart Payment Gateway API update ensures parents who previously cancelled their plan no longer appear active. The API now accurately identifies 'Cancelled' and 'Canceled' statuses.

ROC01

TASS-924

TASS.web > Accounts Payable

Invoices

Correction to display one entry only when searching via PO Number in the Invoices program.

BIS02

TASS-418

TASS.web > Attendance

Attendance Rates Report

Correction to the Attendance Rates Report to improve program performance and load times.

ROC01

TASS-847

TASS.web > Parent Accounts

Payment Schedules

Fix applied so that delay dates can be entered for future instalments only (retries included), and that the date is not mistakenly saved to any other future instalments.

SWA01

TASS-812

TASS.web > Parent Records

Parent Lounge Setup

Correction to the 'Contact Us' tab.  The 'Insert Social Media Icon' button in the Outline section of the Add/Edit screen has been updated to ensure that social media icons display in the Parent Orbit app.

MIS01

TASS-986

TASS.web > Student Records

Labels/Letter Merges

Fix applied so that when multiple email addresses are copied/pasted into the 'Additional Recipients' field, they are separated into individual email blocks. This ensures that the additional emails will be sent as BCC, and not CC, so that the additional recipients' email addresses are hidden to other recipients.

KIN02

TASS-423

TASS.web > Teacher Records

PTI Conferences

The angel icon now shows for deceased parents in the Parent Interview Maintenance screen. Additionally, the deceased parent's name no longer displays in the PTI Conference 'Parents' tab.

STL02

TASS-508

TASS.web > Utilities

API Gateway Maintenance

Correction to the setAbsenceNotification API call so that it creates absence records only for the student codes returned.

MIS01

TASS-860

TASS.web > Users

LDAP/SAML Maintenance

Correction to TASS.web SAML sessions for enterprise companies. Users can switch between companies without logging out and back in.

AUS08

TASS-849

TASS.web > Parent Records

TASS.web > Parent Accounts

Parents

Parent Account Inquiry

Correction to the Account Diary tab. Fix applied to prevent words from breaking onto different lines when viewing an Account Diary note.

NEW01

TASS-989

TASS.web > Parent Accounts

Bank Deposit Report

Correction to the Bank Deposit Report. Enterprise companies can now generate the report without errors after payments are completed through the EdStart Payment Gateway.

AUT01

TASS-979

TASS.web > Users

User Maintenance

Correction to ensure 'HSTS' security headers are correctly returned during redirects in the software.

TOO02

TASS-859

TASS.web > Users

User Maintenance

Correction to the User Maintenance program to ensure default secure cookies for SESSIONID and SESSIONTOKEN apply across all products for enhanced security.

TOO02

TASS-874

TASS.web > Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Fix applied to Bookmarks stored in TASS.web > Bookmarks to ensure that the input is sanitised to prevent XXS attacks.

TOO02

TASS-805

Staff Kiosk > Assessment

Markbook

Enter Results and Comments

Correction to the Activity Assessment screen.  An Overall Subject Grade Calculation Rule can be added with differential weightings without receiving an internal server error. 

PRO02

TASS-945

Staff Kiosk > Assessment

Markbook

Enter Results and Comments

Correction to the Activity Assessment screen.  When an Activity Objective or Final Result value changes, the calculated Final Result and Overall Subject Grade cells are only cleared if the calculation method includes the corresponding result in the calculation.

NUD01

TASS-926

Staff Kiosk > Listings

Student Absences (Lists/Emails)

Fix applied to the 'Email to Parent' option so that the parent email addresses display when clicking on the 'Emails' button to view the recipient list. Previously the student email addresses mistakenly displayed.

ABP01

TASS-414

Staff Kiosk > Listings

Student Details (Lists/Emails)

Correction to display Student Names, rather than Codes, in the 'Student(s)' field when the 'Run Report' option is selected for a Saved Listing. This applies to saved lists where multiple students were selected via the Student(s) search field.

DAL01

TASS-370

Staff Kiosk > Rollcall

Class Rollcall

Correction to Class Rollcall > Mark Roll or View Roll screen. The 'See Details' shortcut on Learning Support alerts now directs users to the appropriate Class Plan when they don't have permission to access Support Plans.

CHA03

TASS-373

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