STEARsoft Changelog

What's new in STEARsoft 6.0.3

Jan 25, 2017
  • Improvement to highlight any blank (unmarked) attendance in the emergency printout.

New in STEARsoft 6.0.2 (Sep 8, 2016)

  • Bug fixes and improvements for scheduled ODBC importing of all teacher class and student data.

New in STEARsoft 6.0.1 (Jun 28, 2016)

  • Bug fixes: In event logging
  • Bug fix: Edit class accessibility tags could fail

New in STEARsoft 6.0.0 (Jun 28, 2016)

  • New feature: Assign an email address to each teacher
  • New feature: Users can be assigned as Administrators
  • New feature: Users can request automated email for password
  • New feature: Users can release their own mobile device
  • New feature: Copy and paste multiple teacher import
  • New feature: Assign passwords en-mass with emails
  • New feature: Event log can generate emails to admin
  • New feature: Event log has customisable output channels
  • Improved: restriction of 100 students per class removed
  • Improved: Administrator hints straight after install
  • Improved: Install program configures firewall.
  • Improved: can scroll 1 week as well as 2 weeks in register
  • Improved: default access for class created on mobile device
  • Improved: Event logging
  • Bug fix: Attendance 'Save' button could fail in some cases.
  • Bug fix: padding of non UK characters in text attend output
  • Bug fix: Changing user on some browsers was problematic.
  • Bug fix: Deleting a term centrally now works.
  • Bug fix: Reports can be generated by date even if no terms.
  • Bug fixes: relating to trying to add more than 100 students

New in STEARsoft 5.9.2 (Oct 19, 2015)

  • Bug fix: popup description for . (dot) in edit note box
  • Bug fix: central-database generation of Log 7 (minor)
  • Bug fix: Wrong warning if user not found on Sync attempt
  • Bug fix: admin set temp password overrides unset password.
  • Bug fix: Admin can unlock too many failed temp passwords
  • Improved: detail of some log messages improved.

New in STEARsoft 5.9.1 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • Bug fix: popup description in edit note box
  • Bug fix: non-standard keyboard shortcuts caused problems
  • Bug fix: School ID limit was 999999. Now bigger.

New in STEARsoft 5.9.0 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • New feature: Other teacher timetable (in other school data)
  • Improved: Show username on homescreen and attendance sheets
  • Improved: Resets password when username changed
  • Bug fix: default number of weeks on counters page
  • New feature: Optional display theme (see preferences)
  • Bug fix: International characters on central ODBC import
  • Improved: Multi-student import shows class owner (teacher)
  • Improved: If 1-week timetable, highlights even if no class
  • Improved: popup windows enlarged slightly
  • Improved: Present / \ now reflect am/pm correctly

New in STEARsoft 5.8.9 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • Bug fix: Crash on ODBC import if class data didn't exist.

New in STEARsoft 5.8.8 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • Bug fix: Edit timetable link for ODBC locked feature.
  • Bug fix: control data locks. alternate page didn't work

New in STEARsoft 5.8.7 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Bug fix: Multi-week timetable make register half-term bug
  • New feature: Sorted attendance analysis in Counters tab
  • Bug fix: Change teacher login was unreliable

New in STEARsoft 5.8.6 Beta (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Bug fix: Multi-week timetable make register half-term bug

New in STEARsoft 5.8.4 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Minor new feature: Multiple select students on add incident
  • Improved: New Logging messages to help troubleshoot.

New in STEARsoft 5.8.3 (May 18, 2014)

  • New feature: Student attendance report
  • Improved detail: Break down by code for whole school totals

New in STEARsoft 5.8.2 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • Bug fix: stopped notes getting 'lost'.
  • New feature: ability to purge lost notes in teacher acct.
  • New feature: ability to purge lost notes in admin acct.
  • New feature: Automatically runs a note purge once.

New in STEARsoft 5.8.0 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • New feature: Daily schedule for ODBC import
  • New feature: Admin do 'Makeregisters' during ODBC import
  • New feature: Power teacher school-wide purge students.
  • New feature: Jump to year links in All School Summary
  • Improved: Sorting of classes in All school summary screen.

New in STEARsoft 5.7.4 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Bug fix: Double sessions created due to timetable issue.
  • Improved: Incident weights can be negative.

New in STEARsoft 5.7.3 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • New feature: Added a custom label for the Custom iOS screen

New in STEARsoft 5.7.2 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Bug fix: Student changes not always copied to iPhone/iPad
  • Improved: Added option to odbc-import ANSI encoded text.

New in STEARsoft 5.7.1 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Improved: Extra detail in some log messages
  • New feature: Administrator can purge students school wide.

New in STEARsoft 5.7.0 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Improved: admin teacher usage shows number marked sessions
  • New feature: Multi class delete in teacher area
  • New feature: Multi session delete by date in teacher area
  • Bug fix: Memory leak in 'view teacher usage' fixed.
  • Bug fix: Minor memory leak.
  • Improved: Hotsync ID change allowed if timestamps agree.
  • New Feature: Purge old classes with no sessions (teacher).
  • New Feature: Purge old classes for all teachers (admin).

New in STEARsoft 5.6.10 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Bug fix: doubles no longer make timetable always change
  • Improved: same class in different room now not a double
  • Added: Ability to add days to timetable in individual mode

New in STEARsoft 5.6.9 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Bug fix: date problem on sync caused duplicate classes

New in STEARsoft 5.6.8 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Improved (minor bug fix): Emergency screen page breaks.

New in STEARsoft 5.6.7 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • New offsite emergency attendance data feature
  • Ability to view merged attendance sheets for job-shared classes
  • A new detalied full attendance log

New in STEARsoft 5.5.2 (Dec 15, 2011)

  • Support new individual/school license choice. Individual licenses are cheaper, but with fewer features.

New in STEARsoft 5.3.0 (Apr 14, 2011)

  • Support of new autodiscovery feature in iPhone App release 2.1
  • Better support of Google Chrome

New in STEARsoft 5.2.1 (Jan 25, 2011)

  • New copy class list feature within 'Add Multiple Students'.
  • Support of new, fully featured iPhone App available in the App store

New in STEARsoft 5.2.0 (Dec 30, 2010)

  • Enhancement: Simplified single-user setup.

New in STEARsoft 5.1.2 (Nov 24, 2010)

  • Support of new, fully featured iPhone App available in the App store (search for STEARsoft)

New in STEARsoft 5.1.1 (Oct 9, 2010)

  • Critical bug fix: saving text could corrupt data in particular cases

New in STEARsoft 5.1.0 (Sep 1, 2010)

  • A new admin management screen has been added to gain an overview of all users (teachers), giving options to delete old attendance data and old teacher accounts en-mass
  • The 'Make registers' teacher option has also had some details initially hidden to make standard use more simple

New in STEARsoft 5.0.4 (Jul 14, 2010)

  • Adds support for the full extended character set
  • Important bug fixes have been made
  • The school administration features have been extended

New in STEARsoft 4.3.0 (Oct 22, 2009)

  • New features include improved iPhone web browser support, automatic license optimising, student timetable, background ODBC import, incident thresholds used in web interface.

New in STEARsoft 4.2.4 (Aug 10, 2009)

  • New features include fast exam attendance using ODBC, improved make-registers and counters screens and an auto-save attendance option. STEARsoft also now supports negative year group numbers.