As summer comes to a close and the leaves begin to change, we continue an unprecedented year in education. Our October release provides additional functionality for all users, including new administrator notifications and additional online meeting tools. The PlusPortals development team is committed to creating useful features based on your feedback. We hope to hear from you soon!
| Improvements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Added Incident Submittal Notifications | Using the Incident Notifications list, administrators can select users to receive e-mail alerts for disciplinary events submitted through the PlusPortals. | |
| Added Online Meetings Filters | The Online Meetings panel introduces a filter drop-down list box, allowing each user type to filter by Today's Meetings or All Meetings. | |
| Added Online Meeting Invite Options | The Online Meeting dialog box for teachers includes the option to invite students, parents, or both to the online meeting they are scheduling. | |
| Added Online Meetings Permissions | An Online Meetings setting is available in Student Permissions and Parent Permissions to control which user groups can see the Online Meetings panel. | |
| Improved the Quiz Modal | The quiz modal fills the browser window vertically when the quiz is active. This change improves quiz content visibility for students. | |
| Improved the Restriction List Information Tooltip | In the last PlusPortals release, administrators gained the ability to use the Restriction List to block individual students and parents from logging in to the PlusPortals. The informational tooltip for the Restriction List reflects this change. | |
| Reduced Microsoft Teams Popup Frequency | PlusPortals now hides the Microsoft Teams pop-up window unless authentication requires user input. | |
| Feature Fixes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fixed Recurring Events Not Appearing on RediSite Calendar | The calendar feed correctly formats recurring events sent to the RediSite calendar. A future RediSite update will complete this feature fix. | |
| Fixed Parent Portal Calendar Display | The PlusPortals calendar correctly handles multi-student households, hiding calendar events for students currently hidden from the calendar. | |
| Fixed E-Mail Recipient Selection | The PlusPortals e-mail recipient selection function reads student usernames correctly and no longer selects more than the intended students. | |
| Fixed the Health Questionnaire Report | The Health Questionnaire Exception Report includes students without PlusPortals usernames when their parents fill out the Health Questionnaire. | |
Improvements
Added Incident Submittal Notifications
Using the Incident Notifications list, under Communication > Notifications, administrators can select users to receive e-mail alerts for disciplinary events submitted through the PlusPortals. Each grade level has an Incident Notifications list.
Under Setup > E-Mail Setup, administrators can customize the Incident Notification e-mail template.
Added Online Meetings Filters
The Online Meetings panel introduces a filter drop-down list box, allowing each user type to filter by Today's Meetings or All Meetings:
| User Type | Default Filter | New Filter |
|---|---|---|
| Students | Today's Meetings | All Meetings |
| Parents | Today's Meetings | All Meetings |
| Teachers | All Meetings | Today's Meetings |
Added Parent and Student Invite Options for Online Meetings
In the Online Meeting dialog box, teachers can invite students, parents, or both to the online meeting they are scheduling.
Currently, you can only invite an entire class (and their parents) to a meeting. Future enhancements will enable scheduling meetings for individuals or selected groups of students and their parents.
Added Parent and Student Online Meetings Permissions
An Online Meetings setting is available in Student Permissions and Parent Permissions to control which user groups can see the Online Meetings panel.
Online Meetings are off for parents by default. You must activate this setting in Parent Permissions before teachers can invite parents to meetings.
When Online Meetings are active for parents, they see an individualized Online Meetings panel, showing any meetings they were invited to by a teacher. Parents can still see their student's online meetings on the Classroom page.
Improved the Quiz Modal
The quiz modal fills the browser window vertically when the quiz is active. This change improves quiz content visibility for students.
Improved the Restriction List Information Tooltip
In the last PlusPortals release, administrators gained the ability to use the Restriction List to block individual students and parents from logging in to the PlusPortals. For more information, see Added Disable Login to Restriction List. The informational tooltip for the Restriction List reflects this change.
Reduced Microsoft Teams Popup Frequency
When creating and editing Microsoft Teams meetings, PlusPortals authenticates the action with Microsoft. Previously, this resulted in a pop-up window. PlusPortals now hides the Microsoft Teams pop-up window unless authentication requires user input.
Feature Fixes
Fixed Recurring Events Not Appearing on RediSite Calendar
The calendar feed correctly formats recurring events sent to the RediSite calendar.
A future RediSite update will complete this feature fix.
Fixed Parent Portal Calendar Display
The PlusPortals calendar correctly handles multi-student households, hiding calendar events for students currently hidden from the calendar.
Fixed E-Mail Recipient Selection
The PlusPortals e-mail recipient selection function reads student usernames correctly and no longer selects more than the intended students.
Fixed the Health Questionnaire Exception Report
The Health Questionnaire Exception Report includes students without PlusPortals usernames when their parents fill out the Health Questionnaire.