On behalf of our team I'm happy to announce the release of SchoolTool 2.4 for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring). It is also available through our dev PPA for 12.04 LTS and 12.10.
This is not a big feature release, but more a snapshot of ongoing refinement and fixes. Reports and report infrastructure are a major theme. We're in the process of updating the reports to a new style guide in line with the design of the web interface. Some are updated in the new release; some are still in progress. We added some infrastructure to allow us to quickly make pdf versions of tables from the web interface using the same underlying code, which speeds up report development. We have also been getting lots of feedback from a growing global user base and have focused on quickly fixing and releasing small bugs and feature requests, adding up to many small improvements over the past six months throughout the application. In the coming weeks, we will release a beta version of SchoolTool including a new task scheduling infrastructure for performing long running tasks like report generation and data imports asynchronously. That is, when you request a long running report, for example, the server will work on it in the background while you continue to interact with the web interface. It is a lot of new moving parts, so we will be testing it throughout the coming months to make sure it will run on your servers as well as it does on ours. New features * New design of PDF reports * Ability to render forms and tables to PDF * Average, total and category weights in report sheets * Enter scores in gradebook cells of comment activities * Section roster, person profile, and resources reports * Three new reports for CanDo Full release notes: http://book.schooltool.org/2.4-release-notes.html Thanks to Gediminas, Justas, Douglas, all our users who contributed feedback and ideas, and to Mark Shuttleworth for his support! --Tom
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