[school-discuss] Open Administration for Schools 2.25 released.

[Les Richardson <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

The latest version of Open Admin is now available for download at:

http://richtech.ca/openadmin

This version has lots of rewrites (100+) to extend multi-language support 
(i18n) to OA (and we're not done yet...)

There is also a teacher focus in this release which includes major updates 
to teacher attendance entry, gradebook, daybook, report card mark entry 
for single user logons. (as well as other features... outlined below).

The next release will continue the teacher focus and should complete the 
rewrites of all teacher site scripts, updated interface, and some new 
features.


Here are some of the updates:


1) All new HTML... tested in all browsers including IE7.

2) Complete discipline rewrite (thanks to Kevin Waddell who did most of 
the work). I've added a new search function to simplify the adding of 
discipline records. This now has i18n functionality (multi-language) in 
all scripts. (ie. %lex hash for phrase storage). The online translation 
system will build altered (translated) versions of these scripts once the 
translation system has these phrases in alternate language versions.

3) Report Card System - rewritten. Several scripts have been reduced to one. 
The report card script is rewritten (but there is certainly more to come with 
the report card...). The term edit script now supports multiTrack term editing 
when this feature enabled in the admin.conf.

4) Teacher Scripts - the login, teacher attendance, gradebook, and daybook have 
all been updated and/or rewritten to support session management for single 
logon. Once logged in, you can enter attendance, use the gradebook / daybook, 
without having to log in again. There have been lots of rewrites to improve 
security and prevent sql injection attacks (with more to come, of course).

5) Mark Entry - the mark entry scripts have been rewritten (for NWCSD) and they 
now include language support (i18n), multiTrack support (for K-12 schools), 
simplified CSS postioning (and now works in IE7 since it finally has absolute 
postioning (IE6 doesn't)), multi-term previous mark, comment views, popup 
current term eval results. It also has session support and single login 
functionality.

Overall there are 100+ changed / updated / rewritten scripts and several others 
rolled into a single script.



Les Richardson
Open Admin for Schools