2015 Releases

The latest edge release notes detail changes made during the 2015 year. See left navigation for previous years, or use the search field at the top of the page for released functionality.

16 December

Fixes

Enrolments

1. Filterable Lists
   • Next Year Room and House filter is correctly exporting to PDF and CSV

Curriculum

1. Timetable Step 5: Build Timetable (Manual)
   • Previously created classes are no longer being removed along with group memberships
2. NZCER
   • PAT (English) is now importing

Achievement New

1. National Standards
   • Results now display in the correct column
   • Current Attainment tables are now displaying

09 December

Enrolment

1. Filterable Lists

• Next Years’ House filter is now available and under Student Details
• Date of Arrival in NZ is now available under Additional Information

2. Student Details

• Date of Arrival in NZ is now available.

Curriculum/Achievement New

1. Assessments

• PAT Maths tests 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 7A and 8A are now available.  NB:  Provisioning NZCER has not been completed.

Fixes

Finances

1. POLi

• Improvements when checking Bank Accounts (if hypens are not added between numbers)

Curriculum

1.  Timetable Step 4: Student Allocations (Automatic)

• Better allocations dependent on class size

Achievement New

1. Probe 2

• Accuracy is now recorded correctly and displays in the staff site.

2. Provisioned assessments

• Ability to delete provisioned results

7 December

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement
   • Ability to print by rotation

27 November

Fixes

Curriculum - Timetable

1. Build timetable button now displays consistently if a previous timetable has been built.

25 November

Enrolments

1. Filterable Lists
   • Next years' class now available in filterable lists.

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Timetable Step 2: Students
   • Courses on students added via Course Summary now display as requested.

Enrolments

1. Edit Caregiver
   • Internet Explorer fix: Scroll bar disappearing when Edit Caregiver box is displayed.

18 November

Curriculum

1. Timetable: Step 2 – Courses (Automatic timetable only).
   • The mask algorithm has been modified to split classes for a course over option lines.
2. Timetable: Step 4 – Student Allocations (Automatic timetable only).
   • Student Type has been added as a filter

Enrolments

1. Enrol Student
   • When enrolling a student, the “Possible” match has been removed.  Exact and Likely are the only match types.

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Course Lists
   • The last Course is now being included in the Course Provisional Student Numbers list.
2. Define Class
   • Can now delete students from 2016 classes.
3. NAG2A
   • Summary:  Totals have now been counted correctly, and not including duplicate OTJs.
   • Data Check: Export is now displaying the latest OTJ result if duplicates.
   • Export Report: Totals have now been counted correctly, and not including duplicate OTJs.
4. ATL Configuration
   • Limit for Categories has been set to 50 characters.

Fixes

Curriculum

1. NCEA > Assign Standards
   • Failed to retrieve the course endorsements for selected students is now resolved.
   • Unable to Add Standard(s) to students who are transferred from another school has now been resolved.

11 November

Curriculum

1. ENS Group, Courses, Bus Lists, Classes, Groups and Houses:
   • New gender filter option on Add students "Student Search Criteria"
2. Student Options:
   • If a student is excluded from a course, the word "Excluded" now displays next to the course name

Enrolments

1. Student Details > Edit Caregiver:
   • The popup for editing caregivers now displays the whole window

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Course Lists:
   • If a student is excluded from a course, they will no longer be counted in the student numbers or class lists

6 November

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • On the printed reports we've replaced teacher with "teacher(s)" allowing for multiple teachers to a class
   • Subject Report: Option to hide/show withdrawn standards from caregiver reporting is now available in the report configuration. This is set to hide by default
2. Courses > Course Lists:
   • The Course Lists, Course Provisioning Student Numbers list and Course Summary now display whether students are leavers or pre-enrols
3. NCEA > Progress Table:
   • A link to download ALL students' progress and provisional NCEA results is now available via the "Export All Course Student Standard details for this year" link for CSV export. Withdrawn standards are not included
4. NCEA:
   • NZQA Standards file has been updated for October
5. Timetable - Step 7: Modify Timetable
   • We've added the ability to copy options to other periods and days

Enrolments

1. MoE Roll Returns:
   • The 2016 MoE Electronic Roll Returns validation rules are now in progress, and we envisage this work being completed in the next few weeks. Please note, you may see some 2016 return errors, but these are for 2016, so there is nothing for you to do at this time
2. Process Leavers (Individual Student):
   • Financial details now display on the Process Leavers tab, with a warning when processing about Assessment, Attendance and Financial data

Footer

The Feedback button has been replaced within edge as we have introduced the Web Chat feature for a trial period of 2 weeks, please refer to the email sent out outlining the trial details. You can email the team at support@musac.io.

Fixes

Enrolments

1. Process Leavers (Final) - For schools with students up to Year 15
   • Years 13-15 now display when processing Final Leavers

Timetable

1. Step 7: Modify Timetable:
   • Student options now display on the Student tab for 2016

28 October

Curriculum

1. Classes > Define Class - Secondary and Area:
   • Once a subject class has been defined and linked to a course, the course can no longer be changed on the subject class. To change a course, end date the class and create a new one against the correct course

Dashboard

1. Green ribbon footer and help button:
   • The white text on the buttons has been replaced by dark grey for easier reading

Fixes

Attendance

1. Attendance Records:
   • Unmarked rolls now display correctly

21 October

New automated Timetabling Functionality

(Developed in consultation with John Baumfield)

Curriculum

Timetable

1. Step 2: Courses:
   • The Mask defaults to displaying ALL courses for all students
   • Changes made to a course row can now be applied over year levels
   • The Mask versioning is listed in alphabetical order
2. Step 2: Students:
   • Colours have been changed to a pastel palette

   

3. Step 3: Option Lines:
   • Option line versions are in alphabetical order, but displays the confirmed option line, or most recently saved
4. Step 4: Student Allocations:
   • A new filter is available for Instructional Year Level, Subjects and Courses
   • Colours have been changed to a pastel palette

   

   • We've replaced the word "approved" with "chosen" to avoid confusion with "Approved" from Step 2

Achievement (New)

1. Overall Tracking:
   • Probe 1 and 2 is now available

   NB:  CSV export for Probe results has not been implemented yet.

Curriculum

1. Define Class:
   • Enrolment Officer user responsibility is now able to create classes and add students to classes
2. Student Options:
   • Subject Leader user responsibility now has access to approve students' options
3. Timetable - Step 2: Students
   • Colours have been changed to a pastel palette
4. Timetable - Step 3:

Fixed Known Issue:

• Option Lines: no longer reports there is a clash when there is not, using the "All" tab

Enrolments

1. Enrolments > Students > Student Details:
   • The student local ID number has been added to the student details in the purple banner
   • You can search for a student's local ID number in the student search field
   • The school list dropdown has been updated and Ormiston Primary School displays
2. Filterable Lists:
   • You can now export a Caregiver address using the option for separate fields
   • Home Language field has now been added to Ethnicity Details

14 October

Achievement (New)

1. Configuration, Data entry and Analysis:
   • Probe 1 and 2 is now available for Years 0-13

Enrolments

1. Enrolments > Students > Student Details - Add New Caregiver:
   • When adding a caregiver, phone numbers entered into the search now populate through to the data entry box

Fixes

Caregiver Portal

1. Attitude to Learning Reports:
   • The graphs now reflect the correct entered cycles if the student is missing a cycle

Curriculum

1. Timetable - Step 2: Students:
   • When Student options are selected via the Student Portal, they are now displaying as "Requested" in Step 2: Students in your Timetable

Enrolments

1. Staff > Register Staff Member:
   • Adding a new staff member now requires a match on all required fields (surname, first name,date of birth, gender and email)

7 October

Curriculum

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1. NCEA > Assign Standards - Student tab
   • From a new column on the right, you can conditionally remove standards off a student if the student does not have a provisional result, or has not been submitted to NZQA. To remove a result off the student, a warning message will display if the standard has been submitted to NZQA because it will need to be withdrawn
2. Timetable - Step 3:

Known Issue:

• Step 3 - Option Lines:

  Option Lines reports there is a clash when there is not, due to the "All" tab being counted for clashes

Enrolment

1. Student and School Details
   • School Year levels have been extended from 13 to 15 for selecting in Secondary, Composite, Special schools and Teen Parent Units

Setup

1. Security > Configure User Responsibilities:
   • We've added a new user responsibility "Report Designer" in preparation for the Customised Reporting features we're releasing in term 4

Fix

Achievement (New)

1. Probe 1:
   • Where only 1 result had been entered, eg. Fiction, the Non Fiction no longer saves as 0% comprehension in Analysis

For Timetabling Alpha schools

1. Step 2 - Mask: The Teacher column now reflects changes made in Step 2: Teachers
2. Step 5 - Ability to re-create the timetable if changes have been made after the timetable has already been built

30 September

Achievement (New)

1. Assessment Points Configuration
   • Running Records can now be configured. Please note that a default assessment point of Jan–Dec for 2015 is set up

Curriculum

1. NCEA > Assign Standards:
   • We've updated the NZQA Providers to include New Zealand School of Tourism Limited
2. Timetable - Step 3:
   • We've added an "All" tab to display all options for all year levels together on one page

Dashboard

1. Accessing the different views from the Dashboard page only via the blue footer:
   • Teachers with additional user responsibilities accessing the Staff portal ("Admin View"), are now able to access the Teacher View using the "Show Teacher Mode" link

• From Teacher View, from the Dashboard page only teachers with additional user responsibilities can now access the Admin View using the "Show Staff Mode" link and toggle back to the other view

Enrolments

1. Student Details > Medical tab:
   • We've added to the Medical Conditions list for selection: Encopresis, Adrenal Insufficiency, Cochlear Implants, Anxiety, Hypoglycemia

Fixes

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards: Data entry
   • The former Folder icon has been replaced with a pencil making the purpose clearer for adding/editing/deleting

• Year 0/1 students no longer display in 2014 data entry pages
• For Zone B students, data entry now defaults to 3rd year anniversary

Attendance

1. Unmarked Rolls:
   • For classes with no associated teacher defined when set up, students now display with current teacher for Unmarked rolls, or Mark Attendance > Class Rolls, alternatively can be marked by selecting the date in Teacher View

Curriculum

1. NCEA > Endorsements:
   • Physical Education and Religious Studies courses are now able to be endorsed
2. NCEA > NZQA Import/Export:
   • Withdrawn students now correctly display with $0 balance in the generated NZQA submission file
3. Timetable - Step 3:
   • Full teacher and option names now displays all characters correctly 

Enrolments

1. Students: Enrol Student:
   • When enrolling multiple students, the DOB field no longer greys out on the second student
2. Caregiver details:
   • Phone numbers for Work, Home and Cell are now displayed in a consistent form in all staff, parent and student views

23 September

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards: Data entry
   • You can now add and edit 2014 results

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • The Subject Report now displays unassigned standards attached to a student under the new heading "Other NCEA Standards"
2.  Attitude to Learning:
   • Export of all data by Instructional Year Level is now available. NB: Due to the amount of data in these exports, please note that this may take some time to generate depending on the frequency your school uses

Fixes

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards: Data entry
   • Students are listed in the order of anniversary date due
   • Once a record has been entered, the Date Sat and Period now locks, so results cannot be overwritten accidentally. To add, edit, or delete results you need to click on the Add/edit icon
   • Comment to Parent for ITJ/OTJ entry is no longer mandatory
   • Students without an OTJ anniversary date due have been filtered out (eg. Year 0). ITJ results can still be entered
   • The Information icon for viewing the student's result summary now toggles on and off by clicking the icon.

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Attendance

1. Mark Attendance:
   • Pre-enrolled students starting today now display in attendance class rolls

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • Subject Reports: NCEA results V, Y and Z now display for progress results (previously displaying NYA)
2. Define Class (Subject class):
   • A student can now only be in one subject class per course 
   • When a student is processed as a Leaver, their group memberships are now automatically end-dated

For Timetabling Alpha schools

1. Step 3 - Option Lines: Versioning is now available for option lines

18 September

Fixes

Curriculum

1. NCEA: Assign Standards > by Course and Student:
   • Changing the provider code on a standard attached to a student now only changes the provider for that student and not for all students with that standard attached
   • Changing the provider code on a standard for a course or student can now be done by clicking the standard link on the left hand side of the page

16 September

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards: Data entry
   • This has been redesigned so the OTJ period can now be selected for Interim and Final results, for example you can select 'After Year 1' or 'After Year 2'
   • A global date picker has now been added for Interim and Final OTJ data entry
2. CSV export now includes your school's form/room in:
   • Sortable tables
   • Cohort analysis
3. CSV export now includes your school's group, year level or all school in:
   • Assessment analysis

Curriculum

1. Course Summary > Course selection - "Edit/Delete this course" link:
   • A new "Remove this course" link now enables deletion of a course providing the course is still active (ie. the "Date to Remove Course" date is before today, and there are no subject classes and students attached to the course)
   • "Course Cost" field has been renamed "Course Contribution"
2. Timetable - Step 3:
   • When new option lines have been generated using the mask, if a home room is assigned on the Enrolments > Staff > View/Edit page, this is now displayed in Step 3
   • We've added the ability to filter to a subject or subjects across instructional year levels, NB. if selecting Y12 and Maths, then all year 12 classes will show and all maths classes

1. NCEA:
   • NZQA Standards file has been updated for September

Finance

1. Request for Payment Template
   • The title "Request for Payment" field is now editable

Fixes

Attendance

1. Attendance Analysis:
   • Students with no start/end dates in Define class are now included in attendance analysis
2. Attendance Rates Report:
   • Horizontal classes now display in the attendance rate report
   • Class attendance rates by class are now filtering correctly to gender

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reports:
   • Data entry: When moving off the data entry page you'll be prompted to save the data
   • Report Design: In configuring the A4 Progress Report, either one of the OTJ Progression graph or Curriculum Level graph may be selected
2. NCEA: Edit Course Standards:
   • When removing standards from the Edit Course Standards page, if a standard has already been submitted to NZQA, the standard will now display withdrawn from the student rather than being deleted
3. Timetable - Step 2:
   • When selecting a status using the Status Change radio button, the grid now highlights the correct columns

Enrolments

1. Students: Group Membership:
   • For pre-enrols; and returning students into the same class, selecting group membership no longer produces an error 500
2. Filterable Lists:
   • "Consent to Act" will now correctly display for students having no medical contact details (eg. Doctor)

For Timetabling Alpha Schools

1. Step 2 - Courses (Mask)
   • You can now edit Page 2 onwards in the mask editor
   • Page width is now in full screen

9 September

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards:
   • Data entry has now been separated out into Interim and Final data entry
   • Interim results can now be entered for students not eligible for OTJs, eg. Y0
   • National assessment results for the year are now available to view.  To display click the (i).  To hide click anywhere else on screen

Curriculum

1. Timetable - Step 3:
   • Page width is now in full screen regardless of using automatic or manual timetable process 
2. NCEA:
   • Student Summary Page: Standards now display if they are internal, or external standards

Finance

1. Assign Billable Items:
   • Pre-enrolled students are now displayed in the dropdown so billable items can be assigned individually
2. Payments Received:
   • Payments can now be made on pre-enrolled students (tickbox filter) 

Setup

1. Portal activity:
   • Account Managers (user responsibility) can now see how many users have accessed the caregiver and student portals within a date range

Caregiver and Student Portals

1. NCEA Progress:
   • Standards now display if they are internal, or external standards

Fixes

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards:
   • For schools using "Best Fit" in Achievement (New), when results have been entered, these now convert to WB, B, AT, AB on the Landing Page, Analysis and Overall Tracking pages

Finance

1. Payments Received:
   • "Reason" now displays when selecting Journal as a Method of Payment

For Timetabling Alpha Schools 

1. Step 2 - Courses: When generating option lines, 'overs' and 'unders' are now reported
2. Pinning is now available by year. Clicking on a year in the grid (like pinning students), and you can Pin or Unpin

2 September

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards:
   • Current Attainment Analysis is now available by Class, Group, Year, and All School

     NB:  Data is presented in 3 graphs/tables - Interim, Final and Latest.

   • Sortable table is now available. This shows the latest result regardless of Judgment Type
   • Data Entry: Interim and Final results can now only be entered up to the current date, e.g. unable to enter future dates.

Curriculum

1. Timetable - Create/Edit page Step 2:
   • Students tab now displays, on hover, the student NSN number for clarification on students with the same name
   • When entering student options, you can now use the keyboard either using Tab or Enter key to select options and move across the grid 

Finance

1. Statements, invoices and Requests for Payment now have a "Print by" [Form/Group] checkbox, derived from your school's vertical and horizontal School Settings. Where both horizontal and vertical are used, the vertical name will display. By default if not checked, this sorts by bill payer alphabetically

Fixes

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards:
   • Results now appear consistent on the landing page regardless of being entered in Teaching Interface or the Staff site, displaying the Judgment Type, Year and Judgment eg. F Y6 - At

Curriculum

1. NCEA:
   • Tertiary Release now displays the correct value in the NZQA submission file
   • Edit Course Standards: The issue with attaching standards not showing on the student's Assign Standards and NCEA Summary pages has now been resolved

For Timetabling Alpha Schools

1. Step 4:
   • Percentage fit of proposed timetable is now available with a link to download a list of the students attached to courses that have not been allocated in step 2, in a .CSV export

26 August

Enrolments

1. Enrolment number is now available for data entry (if selected in School Settings) when enrolling students in the Additional Info section of Student Details, and editing pre-enrolled student details

Curriculum

1. Timetable:
   • For area schools, steps 2 and 4, defaults to [All Years] to view all year levels

Fixes

Achievement (New)

1. Secondary Schools:  Assessment points now display for subject classes (if setup in configuration) where data has been entered

2. Data Entry: For clarity, to edit an existing National Standards Interim or Final result, we've added "Jan-Dec 2015 result" below "Mark new Assessment"

   NB:  Editing loads the latest result, regardless of being an Interim or Final result. If you wish to edit previous results, click the folder icon to load a previous result.

3. Current Attainment Analysis table - .csv exports now include the Room/Form details

Attendance

1. Attendance Summary graph no longer displays a <br /> in the mouse-over text

Curriculum

1. NCEA:
   • It is no longer possible to add a standard to a student without entering a provider and location

19 August

Curriculum

1. Timetable:
   • Automated timetable feature is now available for our alpha testing school

14 August

Enrolments

1. Student Details > Medical tab:
   • We've added to the Medical Conditions list for selection: Back Injury, Cancer, Ear Infections, Head Injury, Neck Injury

Fixes

Dashboard

1. The main menu has now been rearranged to allow for smaller screens, ipads and other devices, and for the Curriculum tab for area and secondary schools

Curriculum

1. Courses > Student Options page:
   • The selected student's name now remains on the page in the new purple banner
   • Pre-enrols for 2016 now display the correct instructional year courses by default 

12 August

Curriculum

1. NZQA standards file received for August 2015 has been updated

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Pre-enrols for Next Year are now available in Student Options and Student Option Summary; and Timetabling Step 2 Student tab

Finance

1. Payments can no longer be made with future dates

5 August

Enrolments

1. Student Lists:
   • You can now export a .csv file for the Worsfold suite (Star, Gateway, EOTC). Please visit the Worsfold software website for more

Fixes

Attendance

1. Year to Date no longer displays blank pages for classes if there is no data

Curriculum

1. Analysis:
   • National Standards Progress and Achievement tables are now available

Enrolments

1. Process Leaver:
   • Reason for Leaving code E "Granted Early Exemption" is now available for students under 16 years of age
2. Student Lists:
   • School-links export no longer displays "quotes" on some fields

30 July

Fixes

Attendance

1. Unexplained absences:
   • The 'Select All' check box now selects all students in the list if a student was added to the ENS Group after they were marked with a ? code

Curriculum

1. NCEA > Edit Course Standards:
   • The page is no longer generating an error when saving (timing out)
   • The page is now displaying all subject classes and standards
   • Course tab - the toggle for the subject class is now working for all classes, not just the first row
   • Student tab - the Course row has now been removed to ensure changes to standards are edited from the Course tab

24 July

Curriculum

1. NCEA Billing:
   • You can now bring through payments allocated against the billable item in Finance to NCEA ‘Payment and Assistance’ page. This is the first step to integrate NZQA to finance in edge
   • "Tertiary Release Denied" tick box has been moved to student edit details page in Enrolments 

Enrolments

1. Student Details > Edit Details page now has "Tertiary Release Denied" tick box (details are included for NZQA by default) - moved from Curriculum > NZQA Billing

Fixes

Dashboard

1. Announcement no longer pops up each time if the announcement has been read

Attendance

1. Improvements have been made to the speed of generating the YTD attendance period by period report
2. Unexplained absences is now refreshing on 'Save'

Enrolments

1. MoE Returns:
   • The J10 table is now counting students with over 14 subjects, including the 15th subject

Finance

1. PDF Receipt now displays on screen, and not in the Notification popup

Setup

1. Configure user responsibilities:
   • Pastoral Officer responsibility is now available for selection for a staff member

21 July

Staff and Teacher Only

1. New Save/failed/warning messages now display throughout the Staff and Teacher Only sites in a consistent way

Achievement (New)

1. National Standards re-order of Maths, Reading and Writing to "Reading, Writing and Maths' on the Landing Page, Data Entry and Overall Tracking pages for consistency
2. Junior Assessments Data Entry, self-correction ratio has now been changed to a ratio, and no longer a percentage 

Curriculum

1. NZQA standards file received for July 2015 has been updated

Enrolments

1. Student Lists:
   • When printing to PDF, width of the student type and ethnicity data columns has been increased

Setup

1. Configure User Responsibilities:
   • Year levels can now be configured for Group Leaders. Please note, only configuration is completed

Student Portal

1. Students can select course choices based on calendar days set in the Staff portal

15 July

Attendance

1. To provide clarity, a last updated date has been added to the individual student attendance summary graph and other attendance reports where relevant, to indicate when the summitive data was created
2. The periods attended column in the Student Attendance Rates report (Attendance > Analysis) has been corrected to include all present attendance codes

Curriculum

1. NCEA:
   • Default view for the Progress Table is now to have the "Display Student Details" tickbox unchecked, including Teacher View
   • On the Billing page, the "Assistance" tab heading name now includes "Payment and", and you can now enter part payments in an "Amount Paid" field. Click "Save" for the "Amount Due" details to update. The "Undo Payment" button removes payment of the full amount owed. (NB: NCEA billing only)

Finance

1. The Xero authentication key has been removed from the Financial Settings page in edge, instead is now in Xero.

10 July

Achievement (New)

1. Junior assessment:  Partial results can now be recorded (Reading Age is still mandatory) eg. Letter Identification or Clay Word Reading Scores only. For Oral Language, you will need to select a Reading Age, but no other results for Marie Clay are required

Fixes

Achievement (New)

1. Overall Tracking:  Age at 1 January has been corrected

Enrolment

1. We have changed the Get Check process so that if the first and second name combined matches what is held with ENROL then the NSN is validated. If there's a mismatch then the second name is removed from edge and all names (from Enrol) entered into the firstname entry box so that it can be split into appropriate name fields as required. Once this has been done, it validates overnight, or you can perform another manual GetCheck NSN

8 July

Achievement (New)

1. Marking National Standards now has the ability to add/edit and delete a result

Known Issue:  Overall Tracking:  Student's "Age at:" is not displaying correctly

Attendance

1. Student summary:
   • Pie graph hover text and summary table grid lines and shading have been enhanced making them easier to read

Fixes

Curriculum

1. NCEA:
   • On the tabs within the Edit Course Standards pages (using more of the available space), the contrast between the colours has been improved, and the tick boxes are no longer visible when disabled. Select all to turn on/off in the top row of the table 
2. Attitude to Learning:
   • In the student and caregiver portals, longer comments now wrap displaying the entire comment

3 July

Achievement (New)

1. From the new icons (release screenshot 10 June) you can now edit and delete a result in the additional assessments for individual students:
   • BURT
   • Schonell
   • Science Thinking with Evidence
   • Curriculum Assessments

Enrolments

1. Medical:
   • Ambulance icon displays for individual students who have one of the following ‘Severity’ selected; “Contact Caregivers” or Emergency Care Required”

Fixes

Attendance

1. Corrected error where Attendance > Print Rolls was displaying "The date 3/7/2015 is not within a school term" message

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • Work flow for MSA has been clarified and now displays under a new menu beside the Classes menu:  Curriculum > Middle School

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • Secondary schools (year 9 and above) are no longer able to create the Progress A4 Booklet and Single Page Reports, as they are not relevant to their school type.  Existing reports are still able to be edited and printed/published
   • The first two reporting teachers are displayed from either 'Vertical' or 'Horizontal' according to data entered and saved in your School Settings page

Enrolments

1. Greater clarity has been provided on 'likely' search match results when adding new caregivers or students to edge
2. Medical List:
   • Error resolved when filtering for 'class' with no sub filter

Finance

1. If the edge connection in Xero has been disconnected, your Financial Officer needs to reconnect via Finance > Maintain Ledger Number > “Sync with Xero” 

1 July

Teacher View

1. NCEA:
   • Teacher only > Achievement > NCEA Credit summaries, by form class only
   • Teacher only > Achievement > NCEA Summary page now displays the NCEA progress table for their form class

Curriculum

1. On the Curriculum > NCEA > Progress table page there is now additional filtering of class and Course for the progress table
2. Middle School Achievement:
   • The title for MSA Reports have been adjusted to fit longer school names
   • When a subject class has more than one reporting teacher assigned, both names will appear on the report
3. Attitude to Learning:
   • The reports now display the legend for the selected cycle category
   • The reference key has been redesigned to be less dominant on the report page
4. The student enrolment note pop up from the student banner will now close correctly, and is not reliant on the student photo
5. Staff of secondary and Intermediate schools now only have assessment configuration appropriate to their school type
6. Analysis of all results (from any edge school record of current students) can now be viewed up to, and including their leaving date in your school
7. Caregiver reporting:
   • The configuration of National Standards has been removed from secondary schools' Detailed Key Competency and Single page report set up, as it is not relevant to secondary school reporting

29 June

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • Reports now print teacher name in the format of first name; last name
   • The word ‘comment’ has been removed from the comment section of the report

Achievement (New)

1. Ethnicity and Gender filters now return outputs for assessment analysis

26 June

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • Attendance has been removed from the reports

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Attitude to Learning:
   • The Print and Publish page has been optimised
2. Middle School Achievement:
   • Now prints the subject class teacher's name on the report

24 June

Curriculum

1. NCEA > Edit Course Standards:
   • 'Edit standards' has undergone major improvements and is now called ‘Edit Course Standards’ 
   • The new “Edit Course Standards” page is for managing exceptions -  
     To view or edit the standard attached to the course/class, which can be filtered by Instructional year level, or Course, or Student, or Standard 
     From this page to attach any standards, click on the ‘student name’ link or ‘course’ link for the ‘Assign standards’ course/student page. Standards can only be removed where there are no results

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • Printing the report in Chrome issue addressed by creating a booklet printing format
   • When adding a new rotation and printing only, the page no longer needs refreshing
   • In Courses > Topic/Activities the selected course now opens expanded

22 June

Curriculum

1. Assessment Co-ordinator now has permissions to add classes from ‘define class’

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • Ability to print without publishing
   • Now designed to print in booklet format
     To ensure booklet is printed, please change your printer properties to the following:  2-sided print, Flip on short edge,  2 pages per sheet

Known Issues:

Attendance

1. We are working on the attendance error, improvements should be apparent

Middle School Achievement

1. This is specific to "Chrome" issue where MSA printed report produces no data

19 June

Curriculum

1. New tab from the NCEA > NZQA Import/Export page for Achievement 2013-17 (ART) reporting Level 2 NCEA candidates

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • Achievement > data entry page has sub-headings added for clarity
   • Curriculum > Courses - the Activity title now allows full stops, commas, brackets and dashes
   • Curriculum > report printing – the Reports heading now displays the vertical class title set in School Settings, and if no vertical class set then edge uses the horizontal class
   • Curriculum > Moderation page - you can now remove and save comments

Achievement (New)

1. Classes previously missing from the dropdown list now display

17 June

Curriculum

1. NZQA standards file received for June 2015 has been updated

Fixes

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting > Data Entry & Printing:
   • The completion totals have been corrected for form and subject classes on new reports
2. Class lists:
   • We've added more space between students in the list, so that teachers can write details against each student
3. Course and Class Lists:
   • More spacing has been added between student rows in the list

Enrolment

1. Student Lists > Filterable lists:
   • The filtered lists now display all relevant students
   • The filter criteria now displays on the PDF
   • Student names no longer duplicate when exporting or printing where no criteria has been set
2. Student Lists > School-links export:
   • The School-links export now produces the export file
3. Ministry Roll Returns:
   • Subject code error 241 on Middle School Achievement no longer occurs

Financial

1. Xero integration:
   • Upgraded to Partnership status between edge and Xero

12 June

Fixes

1. Caregiver Reporting:

• Shading within the Key Competencies and Flexible comments report for the Curriculum Level section, estimated level now displays "Pre" column in the table

10 June

Achievement (New)

1. From the new icons you can now edit and delete a result in the following assessments for individual students:

   

   • PAT
   • STAR 2012
   • SSpA
   • Running Records
   • IKAN
   • GloSS (2nd Ed)

5 June

General

1. The Help button has been relocated higher on the page to optimise the page view
2. Staff, Student and Caregiver email addresses can now be edited if there is a change of email request "Pending" Read more:
   • Enrolments > Getting Started - Students > Student Details > Edit Student Details and NSN
   • Enrolments > Staff > Register new staff
   • Enrolments > Caregivers > Caregiver Details

Fixes

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • On the Moderate Topic Reports page empty comments were causing errors, this has now been resolved
   • Printing is no longer dependent on all students having been moderated
2. The caregiver chevron in the Student Portal now expands
3. Finance: we've improved the performance of the Request for Payment page

3 June

Caregiver Portal

1. Tabs displayed are related to the relevant year level for each student
2. The student's attendance graph displays
3. Senior student's NCEA summary for the current year is available to print. There is no longer a Print button displayed for "All Years"

Student Portal

1. Tab display is determined by the student's year level

Fixes

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • On the Moderation page class names are now available in the drop down
2. When a class moves courses, each student's previous course standards (where there is no results only) are removed, inheriting the new course standards

29 May

Curriculum

1. NZQA Import/Export:
   • Improved usability of the NZQA import errors and warnings so issues are clearly defined
   • We've added a new tab to Import NZQA Other Provider results file. Read more in  Import Other Provider results  article

Enrolments

1. You can now export your Medical List selection to a .csv file from the Students > Student Lists > Medical page
   • All caregivers included in both file formats are sorted alphabetically for those with legal guardian status, then alphabetical for emergency contacts on the student
2. Filterable lists: fixed so that student previous form classes are no longer displayed in the output

Achievement (New)

1. In Junior Assessment entries you can now delete single entries for efficiently maintaining student results

Student and Caregiver Portals

1. Ongoing improvements on the look and feel of these pages

27 May

Enrolments

1. Filterable Lists:

• We've enhanced clarity around exporting horizontal and vertical groups for students year 9+, so that the columns are now sortable

Known Issues Resolved:  "House" filter now works in Filterable Lists

Curriculum

1. When exporting multiple values in the same field, eg. a student has more than one ethnicity, these are now separated by a comma rather than a space:  Samoan,Maori. For more, see our latest video.

Student Portals

1. These student details now display on the dashboard:
   • photo
   • email address (if there is no student email entered, the "Living With" caregiver's email displays)
   • phone number (if there is none entered, the "Living With" caregiver cell phone number displays)

22 May

Enrolments

1. Filterable Lists:
   • Improvements have been made to the speed of generating list display and export to Excel

Known Issue:  "House" filter does not work in Filterable Lists

Student Portals

1. Cosmetic layout changes have been made to the Student Portal banner

PaCT Integration

1. edge is now integrated with PaCT and is available once enabled on the Curriculum > Assessment > e-asTTle, NZCER and PaCT page, PaCT tab 

20 May

Achievement (New)

1. Analysis - Overall Tracking:
   • On the Overall Tracking page we've added options for selecting the columns you wish to have displayed, for these assessments:    BURT, e-asTTle (all), National Standards, PAT (all), Running Records, Schonell, Science Thinking with Evidence and School Entry Assessment

Enrolments

1. Student Details:
   • "Headache" has been added to the list of Medical Conditions for selection

Finance

1. Configuration:
   • On the Finance Settings page the Paystation HMAC Authentication key now displays confirmation of the passord entered into the field

18 May

Fix

Caregiver Reporting:

1. Subject report comments are now displaying for comment entry for all students
2. The Report Summary page has been optimised so that it loads for Report Masters to view

15 May

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • Report preview page has been removed from all reports. Look at our knowledge base and videos to determine report style
   • Once a report is saved, the report type cannot be changed. Where this is required, create a new report
   • Report designs can now be deleted, there's a prompt message and new checkbox to confirm deletion for reports containing data on the Caregiver Reports > Report Design > Content page
2. Progress A4 Booklet Report:
   • Report Master now has the option whether or not, to include Key Competency comments
3. Subject Report:
   • Printing is ordered by form class, with students within the form sorted alphabetically 
4. Key Competencies and Flexible Comments Report:
   • We've added a "Pre" Curriculum level which displays on the report
   • In the Expected Curriculum Level field data entry selection, we've renamed all "Below" levels to "Early Level".. in the drop-down
5. Middle School Achievement:
   • The name for the teacher responsible for each tech course is now displayed on the Report Moderation page located in Curriculum>Course/Tech. courses>Moderate Topic Reports
6. We've updated the latest standards list distributed by NZQA 

Finance

1. Text "for online payments please visit the caregiver portal" is now configured to only appear on statements if POLi or credit card payment have been configured

13 May

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:

• Subject report:

1. The data entry page now displays the teacher name next to the subject name (to assist those who are moderating the caregiver report comments)

• Progress A4 Booklet report:

1. Report Masters can now configure the colour for headings and background
2. Formatting changes to improve alignment on pages 2 and 3
3. The Key Competencies heading is now editable
4. The Other Learning Area heading is now editable 

• Key Competencies report:

1. Shading of Curriculum Areas (prescribed by the NZ curriculum Learning Media LPDP team) has been adjusted, and can also be customised for each student on the data entry page
2. The Key Competencies heading is now editable
3. The Other Learning Area heading is now editable

Fix

Filterable lists:

The "Failed to retrieve data from service" error some schools experienced when generating a filterable list for export or pdf has been corrected. We're continuing improvements to this page

8 May

Attendance

1. ENS:
   • We've added the option of connecting with TxTStream for your Early Notification partner

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • NCEA Subject Report template improved wording to "Credits gained" and "Credits available this year"

Fix

Achievement New:  

SSpA dictated words column sorting has been corrected in the sortable table

6 May

Achievement (New)

1. Analysis - Overall Tracking:
   • National Standard results for both Interim and Final now display on the Overall Tracking page
   • e-asTTle results now display on the Overall Tracking page

Curriculum

1. Caregiver Reporting:
   • Subject Reports now have the option to include a new Principal's Comment box

Setup

1. Student, caregiver and staff portals:
   • To enable a new user access to their appropriate site, tick the appropriate year level, click "Save", and a message advising the outstanding number who have yet to be notified of portal access displays
   • New step to advise new users by email from edge that they now have access, you must click "Send Access Notifications to non-notified portal users" link. Read more

4 May

Fix

The error encountered today when enrolling a student has now been corrected.

1 May

Student and Caregiver Portals

1. The login page design has changed encouraging existing social logins to be used for edge (eg. facebook, YAHOO!, Windows Live, google+)

   

2. Updated website design makes it easier to see where you are within the websites

Curriculum

1. Analysis:
   • Assessment > Analysis selection is now based on student current class and year level regardless of which year you are analysing, eg. for year 6 data on a year 7 student, you'll select "year 7" in the Previous year page

Enrolments

1. Details:
   • When a student, staff member or caregiver's email address is updated and it already exists in the edge system, edge emails the owner of the existing email seeking permission for the change
   • If an email change has been made, a message on the Student, Staff or Caregiver enrolment details page conveys the email change is waiting to be accepted by the original owner of the email address
   • A new Setup  > School > School Settings > Data Change Log page for Enrolment Officers displays data changes requiring approval (currently Email validation)
2. Medical:
   • From the Student Details > Medical page secondary schools can now enter comments for immunisations, general pain relief, or consent to act (displayed in the Medical List)

24 April

Attendance

1. The Attendance Weekly Report now generates all attendance periods for students grouped by their Form Class (no longer separate pages for each subject)

Curriculum

1. NCEA:
   • The NZQA Provider number now displays for standards being taught by other providers, on the NCEA Student Summary page and on the Assign Standards for student page
   • The duplicate New Zealand Red Cross listing has been removed from the provider list

22 April

Achievement (New)

1. Data entry is now available for:
   • Interim OTJ results to be entered via the Achievement new
     

     

   • Schonell Spelling
   • School Entry Assessment (SEA)
   • Science Thinking with evidence (STWE)
2. Analysis is now available for:
   • Schonell (sortable table, current attainment analysis and cohort tracking)
   • SEA (sortable table)
   • STWE (sortable table)

Enrolments

1. Student Lists:
   • Medical List    New filter to select (and de-select) students in a group. For example select only a few students from a year level, to determine which students to include in the medical list PDF
   • The Medical List has been re-designed to ensure it's easier to read

Finance

1. "Export" button added to the Transaction Summary page enabling a CSV file export

17 April

Achievement (New)

1. Data entry:
   • Data entry is now available for Burt results
2. Analysis:
   • Analysis is now available for the Burt assessment
3. Landing page:
   • The notes now correctly display in full when hovering over the icon

Finance

1. You can now print an individual student's transactions from the Transaction Summary page (for the year selected)

15 April

Curriculum

1. Attitude to Learning:
   • We've re-designed the report which now includes teacher comments

PaCT

1. We've been working on PaCT integration, and will advise further once we've worked through the compliance process with the Ministry

10 April

Dashboard

1. We've made enhancements to the formatting structure ensuring your school logo appears within the frame

Curriculum

1. Attitude to Learning:
   • The Curriculum > Attitude to Learning > Report Summary page is now configured so only edge Report Master and Assessment Co-ordinator user responsibilities have access
   • The ability to print has been removed from the Report Summary page, from where Report Master and Assessment Co-ordinator can now export the Attitude to Learning data for the Year level and cycle selected
   • Form teachers with the "Reporting Teacher" ticked in the Define Class page appear on the PDF report
   • The report front page displays the vertical or horizontal group (taken from School Settings > School Details - Form class title)
   • Printing of the reports is now available from the Curriculum > Attitude to Learning > Print and Publish page, grouped by Form class with students sorted alphabetically
2. National Standards:
   • When selecting no mark for the OTJ, a prompt has been added to confirm automatic deletion of mark and comment

Enrolments

1. A new "Consent to administer pain relief" check box has been added to the student's Medical page to record caregiver consent

Finance

1. NZQA Scholarship fee requirements for 2015 have been added in edge and will automatically be billed for every Scholarship subject standard added to a student ($30 per subject)
2. The Pre-Enrols filter has been removed from the Transaction Summary page for consistency
3. We've added vertical/horizontal and year level to the debtors list .csv export

8 April

Routine core infrastructure software updates applied

1 April

Curriculum

1. Caregiver reporting:
   • On the Single Page, Key Competencies and Progress A4 reports, the reports for teachers with the title Whaea or Matua display their title and first name only
2. Middle School Achievement:
   • Technology topic reports can now be previewed and printed
   • The reports can be published for view on the Caregiver and Student portals
3. Attitude to Learning:
   • Students taking subjects at different year levels to the one selected now have all their subject results printed on the one report
4. For Enrolment Officers recording year 9+ participation in STAR Funded courses, the tick boxes have now been reset defaulting to blank. See STAR Funding article for more

Finance

1. From the Debtors List based on the filter criteria selected, from the "Export" button you can now export a CSV file of all students showing the name, date assigned, billable item, and amount owing

Timetable

1. When subject classes are linked to a form class, you can now move a student between form classes - edge will automatically move subject classes that are linked with the form class
2. From "View Timetable" Class tab you can now select a form class which will display all of the subject class periods that have been linked to the specified Form class

27 March

Curriculum

1. NCEA:
   • The Assign Standards page now allows removing standards from courses without timing out
2. Attitude to Learning:
   • Further enhancements have ensured Vertical Form classes are the default form class on reports, if both horizontal and vertical form classes are being used

Caregiver portal

1. Attitude to Learning:
   • Curved lines in the graph reporting results have been changed to straight lines

Student portal

1. Attitude to Learning:
   • Curved lines in the graph reporting results have been changed to straight lines

26 March

Curriculum

1. Attitude to Learning:
   • The graph in the Caregiver portal now displays results by subject and by category
   • Reporting is now available in the Student portal in the form of a graph, displaying results by subject and by category
   • "ATL Report" tab has been renamed "Attitude to Learning" in the Student and Caregiver portals
   • The form class name now displays on the ATL Report – form teacher details to come
   • In Teacher View, adding an Attitude to Learning report for a form class has now been removed
   • We've made changes to improve the speed of generating data from the Attitude to Learning Publish page

​Known issues *

24 March

Attendance

1. The Truancy Report now has radio button selection for 2014 reporting
2. The Student Attendance Summary now displays in strict time order for the student's periods and form time

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:
   • The initial development work relating to display and printing of a Middle School report is available, and advice will follow when this work has been completed
2. Caregiver Reporting:
   • The Key Competencies Report Mid and End of Year Expectation shading logic has been changed to show as at end of year, not as at today
3. Attitude to Learning:
   • Secondary and Area Schools (ie. year 9 and above) can now configure Attitude to Learning reporting by year level (assuming Setup > School Settings Attitude to Learning section has been ticked)
   • Reporting is now available in the caregiver portal in the form of a graph

*Known issues - ATL:

1. In Report Summary all years display in the drop-down regardless of setup when printing Attitude to Learning report

2. On the data entry page if the chevron is expanded at the time of saving, the chevron disappears (unable to open and view historical results) until you refresh the page and the chevron displays

3. While printing report, the class name disappears replaced by "Enter Report Comments" wording. Once printing has finished, the class names replace the temporary wording

4. When entering a comment, and you navigate away from the page, an error displays but disappears before you can click on Yes or Cancel

20 March

Attendance

1. For groups created in the Define Groups page, attendance can be marked by Attendance Officers for these groups over multiple days

Curriculum

1. Middle School achievement:
   • Students from year levels 7-13 can be added to topic/activity classes
2. Define Class:
   • With edge responsibilities of Timetabler and Assessment Co-ordinator, a new "Subject Class" section provides for display (and removing) of subject class links for each individual form classes.
3. Attitude to Learning:
   • Teachers can now edit and remove results
4. Caregiver reporting:
   • Key Competency years 1-3 report now includes shading for the Mid year Expectation tables. The shading is determined by the time at school of an individual student

For more: There's a link for finding subject classes where at least 80% of students from the form class belong to. These staff can choose to link these classes, or add and remove links to other subject classes. This feature enables you to view where all students from a form class are at any point within the school day.  Additional: Future functionality extending to moving students from one form class to another at the same time including the associated linked subject classes, while end dating their membership from the previous subjects

Enrolments

1. On the Student Lists page, clicking on the Medical list link now displays a filter by: Year levels, Form, Group and Student Type. The selection made determines the items provided in the "Select items..." field
2. Below the new filter a "Only show students with medical conditions" tick box ensures only students with "Medical Conditions" entries on the Enrolments > Students > Student Details Medical tab are included in the medical list generated

18 March

Attendance

1. A new "Mark roll for multiple days" button enables Attendance Officers to mark attendance for subject classes or by group for multiple days
2. Weekly rolls can now be printed by the Attendance Officer for all form class rolls, including in advance

Curriculum

1. Timetable:
   • For a new student the Timetabler, Assessment Co-ordinator and Group Leader can add subject classes from the Timetable > View Timetable Student tab, Cycle view. Clicking the "Add classes" button and into a cell shows those available in the option line for that student's instructional year level
2. Middle School achievement:
   • The Report Master can configure a Middle School report title and introduction in addition to setting the attainment and effort values within Curriculum > Courses/Tech. Courses > Curriculum Topic Settings
   • Rotation configuration is also set up on the Curriculum Topic Settings page, which displays topic class names and status totals. For more please refer to Answers.
3. Attitude to Learning:
   • The room no longer displays on the Attitude to Learning Report

Enrolments

1. A Medical Details checkbox has been added to Filterable Lists enabling the output of additional Medical Details, including immunisation and doctor's clinic details

16 March

Curriculum

1. NZQA standards file received for March 2015 has been updated

13 March

Pastoral

1. Analysis:

• Your Pastoral Officer can now view pastoral records by Year Levels and Form groups

Curriculum

1. Middle School Achievement:

• For more efficient data entry we've replaced the drop-downs for selection with buttons

11 March

New Achievement

1. Data Entry:

• The STAR2012 test now defaults to the test for the student's year level
• STAR2012 data entry now includes full heading details when you hover over the short title
• Junior Assessment now includes Running Record data entry
• Middle School assessment data entry is now available - note this work is ongoing

Attendance

1. Form teachers (secondary) and all primary teachers now have links for choosing to mark their form class rolls either "mark this period" or

"mark all periods" view:

Curriculum

1. Middle School assessment (once configured by your Assessment Coordinator in Curriculum > Courses) data entry is now available in Achievement New
2. The NCEA Student Summary page now displays expired standards
3. e-asTTle:

• Export - pre-enrols are now included
• Import - horizontal groups and options classes are now included
• We've improved usability by re-wording the Assessment > Manage e-asTTle page 

Enrolments

​Known issue resolved: Using the Firefox browser, in Student Details the magnified student photo displayed an "Undefined" heading as the student's name

Caregiver Portal

1. We've added a new timetable view for parents in the Caregiver View

Student Portal

1. We've added a new timetable view for students in their Student Portal

3 March

New Achievement

1. Analysis:

• Analysis is now available for the Probe 1 assessment (sortable table, current attainment analysis and cohort tracking)

Attendance

1. Anyone having the edge Teacher user responsibility can now view and mark their Unmarked rolls for the current year, also from the Teacher Only site

Curriculum

1. When entering Attitude to Learning report data, you now have the option to enter in a comment - as the first step, note this work is ongoing, and more will follow in this area
2. Timetable:

• When editing changes are made in Step 8 (Modify Timetable), these are now retained if you need to revisit Steps 3, 4 and 5
• New "Availability" tab from Curriculum menu (or Enrolment > Staff > View Timetables (beta)) to search for free teachers or locations for any periods in the current year

Known issues:

In Timetable > Check Availability - Period times only are picked up, so please note for timetable banded schools, form class teacher/locations will appear as being available for the selected period times, even though they are not.

In Enrolments if you're using the Firefox browser, in Student Details the magnified student photo currently displays an "Undefined" heading as the student's name.

Enrolments

1. On Student Details pages the photo on the purple banner can now be magnified by clicking on the photo to enlarge. (Close clicking either on the "X", away from the image, or hovering on the picture produces a minus icon to click)

Finance

1. We've made changes to improve the speed of generating the Debtors' List

25 February

Curriculum

1. The Assessment Co-ordinator for years 7-13 can now access from the Curriculum > Courses menu new Middle School assessment for configuring your technical classes and topics. More will follow in this area
2. The Mutukaroa Report now has available comments for Week 0

Known issue resolved: New students not showing in the Mutukaroa Report data entry has now been resolved

New Achievement

1. A "Delete" button has been added making it possible to remove National Standards results (eg. made in error) from the data entry page
2. A "Delete" button has also been added to enable removing results (eg. made in error) from the Probe 1 and 2, and JAM 2nd edition data entry pages
3. The Overall Tracking Data tab now has the option to display an Additional Information section
4. Overall Tracking now includes PAT assessments. Running Records, PAT and Additional Student Information columns are now all sortable, apart from Running Records Rdg Lvl

Known issue: Entering SSpA results outside of the normal range (eg. Year 6 student taking Test 1), need to be entered through the New Achievement engine - they will not be able to be edited from the original Achievement tab from the Curriculum menu, which is restricted to the norm for tests for that year. 

Finance

1. On the Batch Processing page we've added a "Include detail lines" checkbox for the Print Batch No. Ledger Total. This will include details of all transactions making up each ledger total in the report 

20 February

Attendance

1. We've made changes to improve the speed of generating the Weekly Attendance Report, and this work is ongoing  

Curriculum

1. When the OTJ has been entered, the student's name is now correctly removed from the Exclusion List of NAG2A

Finance

1. We've made adjustments so that for schools using Xero, the ledger numbers are now integrated within edge

New Achievement

1. Data entry:
   • Data entry is now available for IKAN results 
2. Analysis:
   • Analysis is now available for the IKAN assessment (sortable table, current attainment analysis and cohort tracking) 

18 February

Curriculum

1. Mutukaroa Report - we've added an additional comment field for students just starting school (0 weeks)
2. In Caregiver reporting we've also provided in the Progress A4 Booklet Report format, the ability to show a student's progress between two reports in the same year (mid and end of year)

OTJ and NAG2A Reporting:

Known issue: OTJ data entry for students held back currently displays the incorrect anniversary date.

You are now able to enter in the After 1, 2 and 3 OTJ's for students who have their anniversary in January and February. However, note that the Year may be out for students who have a lower School Year than their Funding Year. When you've clicked the date link, confirm that you have the correct OTJ at the top of the screen.

In addition, we are aware that in some cases the Exclusion List is not updating when the correct OTJ has been entered. We are working on fixing this.

17 February

Enrolments

1. Ministry Returns

• We've updated the validation rule and warning rule for students attending STP who turned 19 before 1 January (as advised by the Ministry)

Curriculum

1. Timetable
   • New functionality for Timetablers has been designed to enable changing a student's subject class from their timetable page from the available classes for the same option line

Finance

1. Credit/debit payments can now be set up by any school's Financial Officer for online payments by caregivers using the Caregiver portal. See Finance > Configuration Settings

Teacher Only

1. We have now realigned the pages

11 February

Curriculum

1. The NZQA Import error report now includes more detail on any results which were overwritten by the imported data
2. The Mutukaroa Report is now available from the Caregiver reports menu
3. PaCT integration is now available from the Assessment menu.  Currently you can upload to PaCT by generating the file from the new tab in Curriculum > Assessment > e-asTTle, NZCER and PACT, and uploading to the PaCT website

New Achievement

1. Configuration
   • Assessment Points can now be configured by individual year level (formerly all years for specific dates) 
2. Data entry:
   • Data entry is now available for Probe 1.  Please note that the analysis for Probe 1 is currently in progress
   • Once data is entered for Junior Assessment (Marie Clay), their reading age is then displayed on the Landing page for English
3. Overall tracking:
   • An Overall tracking page is now available for Running Records

Teacher Only

1. Adding or editing an announcement from the Teacher dashboard has now been corrected

4 February

Attendance

1. As requested, the Weekly Attendance Report for timetabled classes now includes subject class periods in addition to form class attendance 

Curriculum

1. Assessment Coordinators can now view/print/export individual assessment data for leavers using the new "Leavers" tick box when selecting students on the Curriculum > Assessment > Analysis > Students page
2. NZQA updates
   • ​​The Providers list has been updated to the latest available from NZQA
   • NZQA Standards for January have now been updated in edge
   • The National results file for 2014 has been updated and is available if your school results file has been imported

New Achievement

1. Configuration
   • “Junior Assessments” is the new name given to configure the Marie Clay and additional Record of Oral Language ('ROL') assessments 
2. Data entry:
   • JAM 2nd Edition results can now be entered
   • “Junior Assessments” (Marie Clay and Record of Oral Language assessment)
3. Analysis of Junior Assessments:
   • Analysis is now available for Marie Clay (please note, if Record of Oral Language is entered, analysis is not available at this time – following soon)

Teacher Only

1. Weekly Attendance Report for timetabled classes now includes all periods (eg. subject classes) in addition to form class periods
2. Teachers can now see timetables for anyone in the school using a new Timetables button to view timetables by Teacher, Students, Location or Class
3. From Teacher Only, a new Finance Details tab shows the status of billable items payments (eg. debtors list)

28 January

Attendance

1. ENS Group - behaviour modified to default to selecting all caregivers who have 'living with' status, and a cell phone number entered in edge

Finance

1. The configuration details are now visible to enable Xero integration by obtaining a network key from Xero to insert into the new field

A combination of edge Teacher in addition to any other edge user responsibility/ies is now able to access the Achievement beta from the Curriculum menu.

Achievement Beta

1. Configuration
   • Curriculum Area Strands is now configurable
2. Probe 2 page
   • Probe 2 landing page now displays the student's reading age and whether it’s a Fiction or Non-fiction result
3. Assessments added for data entry:
   • National Standards
   • GloSS 2nd Edition
   • Writing Exemplars
   • Curriculum Strands for English, Mathematics and Statistics, Science, Arts,  Health and Physical Education, Social Sciences, Learning Languages and Technology
4. Now available for Analysis:
   • GloSS 2nd Edition
   • Writing Exemplars
   • Curriculum Strands for English, Mathematics and Statistics, Science, Arts,  Health and Physical Education, Social Sciences, Learning Languages and Technology

21 January

Achievement Beta

1. Data entry and analysis are now available for SSpA
2. Data entry and analysis are now available for STAR2012

Curriculum

1. Analysis - JAM data export now correctly exports results and is not being converted to a date when opened in Excel
2. STAR is no longer supported in edge, however analysis for previous years is still available. For best practice, STAR2012 is available 

14 January

Enrolments

1. New medical conditions have been added (Dwarfism, Glue Ear, Blood Pressure, Anaesthetic Allergy, Alopecia, Language Disorder)

Curriculum

1. Jam 2^nd Edition data entry and analysis is now available for Years 0-8 (previously years 0-3 only)

Achievement Beta

1. Data entry and analysis is now available for Running Records.

Note: We are currently working on adding curriculum assessments into edge, and as the data entry and analysis of the current Writing Assessment will be impacted by this change, we have disabled it in the meantime.

7 January

Curriculum

1. Students can now be filtered by groups when searching for students to add to classes, groups, houses or courses.
2. Groups from last year will need to be recreated for this year, however you can select last years students using the group selection.

Finance

1. Statements are now able to be created and sent to caregivers.
2. Request for Payments, Statements and Invoices can now be created by Group.

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