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.