Release Notes 05-19-2021

BigSIS Updates/New Features

1. Introducing New Teacher and Associate Insight tools for the Teacher and Associates Portals! 
   • These great new tools will allow teachers and/or associates the ability to easily see all reports they have written about their current students, current reports of other teachers for their current students, and past reports from other teachers for their current students. 
   • We also added the additional benefit of allowing associates the ability to see their student's reports By Cohort. This gives administrators the power to let associates see students and/or reports By Program or By Cohort adding more versatility for admins.
   • These options can also be made optional by administrators for those schools that don't want their teachers to see each other's reports. 
   • To learn more about these great new features click the help articles below: 
     • Teacher Insight Reports And What You'll See
     • Teacher Insight Reports: Your Reports
     • Teacher Insight Reports: Current Reports
     • Teacher Insight Reports: Past Reports
     • Teacher Insight Reports: Enabling the Reports Option
     • Associates Insight Reports And What You'll See
     • Associate Insight Reports And What You'll See: Current Reports
     • Associate Insight Reports And What You'll See: Past Reports
       
       
2. Introducing New Daily Attendance By Program and By Cohort Tracking tools including dashboard widgets! You will never need to run another report to see if attendance has been taken or not!
   • We have added two new dashboard widgets to help track Daily Attendance By Program and Daily Attendance By Cohort.
   • This easy-to-use tool will track Program or Cohort daily attendance taken by the main office of the school (i.e., administrators), teachers, and associates with real-time updates right on your dashboard. Just refresh the new attendance widget and you will see real-time attendance anytime you want!
   • To learn more about these great new features click the help articles below:
     • How to Enter Daily Attendance By Program or By Cohort
     • Making your Daily Attendance Widgets Active or Inactive
     • Using Your Daily Attendance By Program and Cohort Dashboard Widgets
       
       
3. Donation Invoices will now show up in the Family Summary under the "Donation Invoices" Tab.
   
   
4. Donation Fund, Campaign, and Appeals can now be configured to use Accounting Items and Classes, making Quick Books syncing more fluid.
   
   
5. The ability to filter By Accounting Item has been added to the Family table.
   
   
6. The Payment Plans table is now available to those with the Financial permission. This includes a new export of payment plan data and new filtering for payment plan data.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed an issue that was causing school days to get created on weekends and holidays.