Release Date 15-07-2025
SCL 2025.2 will introduce enhancements to the SCL core architecture and new features for improved user engagement and usability.
- Enhanced SCL Request Support for Increased Customer Privacy
- Stronger Privacy Controls: Support access is now fully disabled for existing clients and removed by default for new clients.
- Granular Access Management: To allow SCL Support to log in, explicitly create Support Access and define a specific duration.
- Full User Control: Authorised users can de-authorise or remove support access at any time.
- Transparency & Tracking: Users can view access expiration dates and the last login details of SCL Support for better visibility.
- Moments (Update & New Features)
- Support for iOS Image Extension HEIF & HEIC has been added and can now be uploaded.
- Support for video uploading was added, but it currently only supports MP4 & MOV video formats.
- The "Moments Delete Item" feature now removes the item from local storage if the photo is not duplicated in other existing items across different classrooms.
- Significant improvements in Moments file size are achieved by dynamically converting all supported image types to JPG format and resizing them to 1080p resolution.
- Mobile Application Update (2025.2)
- Added support for Video.
- Added Close Button for better UX.
- Added Controls on every item for better UX.
- The thumbnail viewer currently supports generating thumbnails from videos.
- Interactive Assignment (New Features & Updates)
- Importing Questions from a Document
- Ability to upload a PDF and import all Questions within it.
- Ability to generate MCQ or True and False Questions based on the uploaded PDF.
- Ability to adjust how many questions there are, up to 60 questions per generation.
- Ability to adjust how many Answers per Question.
- It only supports PDFS up to 5 Mb as an experimental method.
- The maximum number of questions that can be generated by the (Assignment Generator) has been increased to 60, with the default now set to 15.
- Added ability to re-enrol alumni in their last year's courses if they repeat a year, limited to a maximum 1-year gap from the current academic year.
- System Compliance Widget (New Checkups)
- Checking if they are empty
- School Divisions
- Educational Levels
- Classrooms
- Applicant Status
- Absences Types
- Added a checkup to ensure Educational Levels & Classrooms have their educational level promotion & classroom promotion configured properly.
- Added a widget checkup for educational levels that have no classrooms.
- Added a widget checkup on enrolled students to ensure they were assigned correctly to valid educational levels & classrooms.
- Added a widget checkup on Teachers Groups, with no teacher assigned.
- Added a widget checkup on Teachers Groups, which has no enrolled students.
- Added a widget checkup on academic periods with non-continuous start and end dates.
- Private Storage (New Features)
- For parents and students, the root folder now displays only the subjects they choose, enhancing the user experience and preventing any layout issues caused by teachers.
- Adding the Subject name to the Private Storage Breadcrumb for Students and Parents.
- Improve UX for Parents and Students. If the parent subject contains only a single folder, it will automatically browse it to reduce steps.
- Added Mobile Application Support for the new Private Storage features.
- Added a new report to Print Parent Copy School ID.
- Dismissals - Early Leave Request
- Parents can submit early leave requests specifying date and time, reason and the ability to attach documents.
- Submitted requests have a specific time frame which the SCL Administrator can configure.
- There is a Badge of Pending Requests showing to Administrators.
- SCL Notification will be sent to Administrators on the creation of a new Leave Request.
- All Notifications can be controlled from Notifications Settings.
- There is an Approved & Rejected Email, Private Message & SMS Template that can be configured from Settings.
- An SMS, Email & Private Message Notification Control can be configured from Dismissals Settings.
- Added to Billing Settings, the ability to show Invoices to parents when the "Invoice Unpaid Reminder" date is reached.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed Toolbar radius under Grading > Teachers Groups & Subjects.
- The API wasn't sending the correct JSON Format; instead, all were sent as strings, which caused some instability in the mobile app.
- The IB Reportcard wasn't showing the Edit Report Card button.
- Fixed Students' Newcomer Label and Exam Control in Gradebook Next Theme.
- Fixed Amazon Payment Services to let the order description meet their guidelines.
- Fixed Student Age wasn't showing correctly in Student & Parent Information.
- Fixed an Admission Overview Report that wasn't loading the custom fields' values.
- Fixed the Additional Groups; the Additional menu remains from the main account session on Login As User.
- Fixed a bug where the Student Information of some students wasn't properly loaded.
- Fixed Registrar throwing error if a student has a comment in their reportcard.
- Fixed Unit of Inquiry Academic Period Selection.
- Fixed Reportcard Queue Generation didn't delete the previously generated reportcard.
- Improvements
- Tagify's dark mode layout has been aligned with SCL's main style, and its border-radius has been resolved.
- Dropping the Legacy student-parent internal connection and reducing it to different logic reduces the resolving times and increases the SCL Student to Parent Link Performance.
- Improved System Storage Folders' Scalability for our future Remote Storage Update.
- Added Thumbnails Cleanup aligned with 90 days Logs Retention.
- Reduced the generating thumbnail file size by 25%.
- Improved CRUD Button Groups are to be vertical in mobile view.
- Created new mail protocol "None". Emails will not be sent when this option is selected.
- When creating a Playground, the SMS URL will be set to an empty value, and both Admission and System Email Settings will have their protocol set to "None".
- Improved in System Settings, Timezone selection becomes identified by World Cities.
- Improved UI/UX for CRUD Columns Dropdown: Save Button Position Enhanced.
- Added Referrer URL Columns to Admission > Applicants, which must be selected from the Columns.
- Added to Access Logs Reports any updated SCL Settings.
- Notification Registration has been enhanced to include users' groups that have not been assigned any educational levels, ensuring they are now included in all notifications as well.
- Changing sorting in the Admission Over Years' Widget to Ascending by Academic Years.
- Bringing back the Student Code Column in Manage Students Users.
- Renamed Admissions Widgets in Dashboard to be “Applicants” instead of “Admissions” in the title to avoid confusing the user with the Admission Phase.