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September 2023
- Statistics: Added Attainment over Time page (27 September)
- Attendance/Communications: Added ability to download messages for specific students
- REST API: Added follow up actions and time of event to behaviour end point
- REST API: Added maximum marks to markbooks end point
- REST API: Added "deleted from source" field to education
June 2023
- Statistics: Added Curriculum Overview page
- User interface: Added setting to feed settings page to allow display of legal/preferred names to students and parents
- User interface: Removed ability to create and reply to existing support tickets on the GO 4 Schools site.
May 2023
- Statistics: Added Residual Progress Indicator (RPI) to curriculum analysis page and explorers
- Statistics: Added KS5 key statistics to KS5 at a glance pages
April 2023
- Attendance: Added CSV download for session audit trail
- Reports: Added CSV download for report attribute gaps
- User interface: Menu changes for accessing support
March 2023
- User interface: GO 4 Schools system column sets added to year group explorers for both English and Welsh schools.
- User interface: Moved legacy explorer data columns to year group explorers
- User interface: Removed legacy year group explorers
February 2023
- Statistics: Added 2022 Ebacc pillar estimates
- User interface: Added link to external support site - for access instructions please see this article.
- User interface: Added Roles and permissions, updated staff access page
- User interface: Changed school default home page to year 11 at a glance
- Behaviour: Added AM/PM session marks and last lesson information to allocated detention list
- Attendance: Pinned left columns on attendance analysis page when scrolling through tables
- Homework: Added summary homework count by year group to CSV download page
November 2022
- Statistics and Tracking: Moved enhanced year group ribbons to Curriculum analysis page
- Statistics and Tracking: Added Year group at a glance page
- Statistics and Tracking: Added Residual Progress Indicator
October 2022
- User interface: Enabled SSO and settings
August 2022
- Statistics and Tracking: Enhanced ribbons added to year group pages
July 2022
- New module: Added online consent management
- Statistics and Tracking: Prior attainment from average KS2 scaled scores attribute added
- Statistics and Tracking: Scaled score transition matrices added to subject pages
June 2022
- Statistics and Tracking: Added methodology for 2022 KPIs
- Attendance: Added rooms to unauthorised absence list on lesson attendance status page
- Attendance: Enabled scrolling to attendance analysis pages to view all weeks
May 2022
- Attendance: Added unauthorised absence list to lesson attendance status page
- Behaviour: New student behaviour explorer which allows custom views and filtering/sorting
February 2022
- Attendance: CSV download for I codes and I code aliases
November 2021
- Reports: New functionality allows upload and download of report attributes.
- Reports: Sorting ability added to the report attribute marksheet assessments.
- Attendance: New download available on the CSV page to display all session marks, and lesson marks by student/subject/date.
October 2021
- Reports: Added report attribute marksheet to populate report attributes from markbooks.
July 2021
- Markbooks: Added a new BTEC style marksheet, to convert raw marks to points
- Reports: Moved grade settings for reports into report management to provide better control over report settings
June 2021
- User interface: New-look menu and student page available
April 2021
- Markbooks: Added functionality to display marks/percentage/grade on student page in detailed progress
- Markbooks: Added functionality to allow private marksheets to contribute to current grade calculations
- Markbooks: Added popouts to whole subject markbooks
- Residual Schemes: In Residual schemes you can now set a specific name for use in Progress Reports and to display on the student page to simplify the display
- Reports: The header column in Take home reports now has the option to change the name of the comments column
- Statistics and Tracking: When disabling the Progress 8 the EBACC Pillars will also be now not be visible.
March 2021
- Attendance: Added functionality to handle DfE attendance sub codes
- Behaviour: Added detention escalations
- Behaviour: Added functionality to flag detentions as not required to attend
- Behaviour: Added "sex" attribute to behaviour csv downloads
- Homework: Added bulk archive/deletion tools for tasks/resources
- User interface: Updated preview to new student page for all school staff
- Statistics and Tracking: Added table to full statistics page to show pass rates by key grade for internal grading schemes
February 2021
- Attendance: Updated the persistent absentee tables to include students who are PA even where they have X codes for the week
- Attendance: Focus groups table to include students who were on roll at any point during the year
January 2021
- Explorers: Added flag to indicate where a teacher's minimum grade is being used in vocational markbooks
- Behaviour: Added detention flags to attendance registers and markbooks
December 2020
- User interface: Added preview to new student page
- Markbooks: Added flag to indicate where a teacher's minimum grade is being used in vocational markbooks
- Behaviour: Added setting to show a "House" filter in the detention allocation pages (under contact details and settings)
- Behaviour: Added new CSV download for focus groups that will include any attributes that have been flagged for use in analysis of behaviour.
November 2020
- Attendance: Added tooltip when hovering over attendance notes to show note
- Markbooks: Changed "BTEC" markbook type to "Vocational 1" type markbook - as suitable for additional qualification types. Added standard marksheet aggregations in External unit marksheets
- Markbooks: Changed "NVQ" markbook type to "Vocational 2" type markbook
- Homework: Changed tracking to be on an assignment level instead of task level
- Detentions: Allow for copying supervisors as well as sessions
- Attendance: Added daily attendance figure to attendance statistics page
- Attendance: CSV download for X codes and X code aliases
- Attendance: Displaying all attendance codes on student detailed attendance page
- Attendance: Write back comments and late minutes to SIMS
- SMS Messaging: Allow for schools who organise invoicing through Twilio to turn off credit check
September 2020
- Statistics and Tracking: Added headline APS measure for Welsh schools (Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenge Certificate)
- Statistics and Tracking: Added "Welsh" sub-type for internal gradings schemes in Welsh schools
- Statistics and Tracking: Added Welsh discount codes for qualifications that differ from Ofqual
- Statistics and Tracking: Corrected official numeric GCSE points values for combined science qualifications.
- User Interface: Improvements made to custom charts
August 2020
- User Interface: Added functionality to allow for saving year group/subject charts
- User Interface: Added system year group/subject charts
June 2020
- Markbooks: Added functionality to allow for different values to be shown on the markbook/marksheet views - grade, total marks, and percentages
- Subject Explorers: Added total marks and percentage values to columns available under marksheet data
- Year Group Explorers: Added average report attribute values to new year group explorer under reports/snapshots
- Year Group Explorers: Added grade percentages
- Attendance: Added count of alias marks under attendance marks for session/lesson
- Attendance: Added CSV download to CSV downloads page to assist in reporting COVID-19 attendance data to DfE.
- Homework: Added link to subject pages to allow for setting of homework on a subject level
- Homework: Added CSV download to CSV downloads page which will allow for the analysis of homework
April 2020
- Markbooks: Added whole subject view of markbook data
- Markbooks: Added sorting while in marksheet view (not compatible with IE11)
March 2020
- User Interface: Added school messaging (SMS - via Twilio, Email, Mobile App notifications)
- Attendance: Added attendance messaging
January 2020
- Statistics and Tracking: Added official 2019 L3VA estimates, and pre-validated A8 estimates