The Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is a custom tool and is only available to districts who purchase these tools. The Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is part of the Campus Workflow Suite.
Release notes provide the applicable personnel the ability to review enhancements, modifications and corrections included in a release pack prior to accepting an update. It is advised that users review the release notes carefully and alert appropriate district staff to changes in the product.
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Release Notes describe all changes included within the release pack which may impact users who use the Advanced Attendance and Appointments tools as add-on functionality to their existing student information system.
Questions or concerns regarding an update should be directed to Campus Support.
See the Advanced Attendance and Appointments Product Documentation for more information.
The following Release Notes are available:
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.29 (10/29/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixes
- Users without a Product Security Role, but that had tools rights to the Scan History Report were seeing a permissions error when accessing the tool. This has been fixed. (CDP-3740)
- Changed the Name field on the Scan History Report to be Last Name, First Name. (CDP-3745)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.28 (10/25/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixes
- Updates have been made to the Absence Request Excuse Codes. (CDP- 3731)
- A few Absence Request Excuse Code fields were pointed at the old Absence Request Types in the Core Attribute/Dictionary instead of the new Absence Request Excuse Code settings. This has been corrected.
- You are now prevented from deleting an Absence Request Excuse Code when it is used in your Check In/Out Kiosk settings or an Absence Request.
- Fixed an issue where the active checkbox was not actually inactivating excuse codes.
- The Absence Request Document Upload Settings has been renamed to Absence Request Excuse Code Settings.
- Added a toggle to show/hide inactive excuse codes in Absence Request Excuse Code Settings.
- Absence Request Processing would give an error when trying to load a student that previously had a student number, but now no longer has one. This has been corrected. (CDP-3699)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.27 (10/21/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- A Document Upload button has been added to Absence Requests. (CDP-803)
- Only one document is allowed per request, and it is attached to every student included in the request. When a request has two students included but only one student needs the document, both will have it attached to their requests.
- Excuses are now set up and selected in the district-wide Scanner Settings tool. This is also where it is determined whether the document upload is optional or required.
- Accessibility improvements have been made to the Scanning tools. (CDP-3608) (CDP-3729)
- A Grade Level column has been added to the Scan History Report. (CDP-3626)
Fixes
- Scan Prevention was not preventing scans when a student had a behavior event created from the Behavior Matrix. This has been corrected. (CDP-3658)
- The Class and Reason header columns on the Parent Hall Pass History Report were in the wrong location. This has been corrected. (CDP-3711)
- Using Ad hoc filters in Custom Scanners sometimes created performance issues. This has been corrected. (CDP-3718)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.26 (10/11/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- Created a Hall Pass History report in the Campus Parent Portal. (CDP-3275)
Fixes
- Hall passes of the same type were being reset when a new pass of that type was being issued. This has been corrected. (CDP-3684)
- The sequencing for the Hall Passes was not working correctly in the Student Portal. This has been corrected. (CDP-3685)
- An Internal Server Error was occurring when attempting to give a Hall Pass via a Substitute Code and there was not a Substitute code setup. This has been corrected. (CDP-3692)
- The Attendance Summary in Absence Request Processing was appearing blank if a district had a period in its period names. This has been corrected. (CDP-3694)
- The droplist of hall passes in the Student Portal did not respect the 'Active' checkbox for hall passes, causing inactive passes to be displayed. This has been corrected. (CDP-3695)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.25 (9/27/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fix
- The StudentCurrentSchedule query was causing performance issues with some districts. This has been corrected. (CDP-3665)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.24 (9/25/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fix
- Reduced the number of times the StudentCurrentSchedule query is called to improve performance. (CDP-3669)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.23 (9/17/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- Added a droplist to the Hall Monitor Grid, enabling admins to choose which types of hall passes they want to view. (CDP-3244)
- Added a toggle that filters the Hall Monitor Grid to only show expired hall passes. (CDP-3276)
Fixes
- Hall Pass Settings would display an error message or not be saved if a user had previously attempted to save them with invalid fields. This has been corrected. (CDP-3619)
- An error caused images with transparent backgrounds to be replaced with a black background when resized. This has been corrected. (CDP-3641)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.22 (9/12/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixes
- Administrators, Substitutes, or teachers (who did not have a course scheduled in the selected period) who selected a room in Teacher Hall Pass View could not assign any room-specific passes (those made available to that room via Hall Pass Groups). This has been corrected. (CDP-3555)
- Reduced the size of the files produced by the Badge Designer. (CDP-3627)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.21 (9/6/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixes
- KY Absence Request records attempted to save comments from the request itself rather than from the processing screen upon approval, leading to data truncation errors if the comments were too long. This has been corrected. (CDP-3599)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.20 (9/4/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- Student numbers/IDs have been removed from all printed hall passes. (CDP-2770)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.19 (8/29/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- The Create Hall Pass button will now be hidden if no room is selected. (CDP-3516)
Fixed
- Users with only Read tool rights to the Hall Monitor Scanner could not see the default Tardy Excuse when assigning a hall pass. This has been corrected. (CDP-3590)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.18 (8/2/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- Enhanced the Teacher Hall Pass View to display all periods within a schedule in the Teacher Hall Pass View and enable teachers to choose rooms during unscheduled periods. (CDP-3348)
- Moved the period selection buttons and the Room Selection drop-down list into the class table and added labels above each of them. (CDP-3445)
- Added the course name to the table header in the Teacher Hall Pass View when selecting a room for a substitute. (CDP-3505)
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the Create Hall Pass button was not functioning after deselecting a room with no section. This has been corrected.(CDP-3473)
- Fixed an issue where the Hall Pass screen would not load for students in the Student Portal under certain circumstances. This has been corrected. (CDP-3524)
- When a teacher logged into the Teacher Hall Pass View (on the first day of their students' enrollments), they received the error "No Class Scheduled in this room," despite rostered students being present in that section. This has been corrected. (CDP-3525)
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Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.17 (7/16/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixed
- Student Hall Pass Look Up and Hall Monitor Grid no longer require Read Tool Rights to the Teacher Hall Pass View. (CDP-3401)
- Users were unable to Save Hall Pass Settings when the Substitute Hall Passcode was empty and No Prior passes existed. This has been corrected. (CDP-3455)
- The Teacher Hall Pass View was not sorting all students alphabetically. This has been corrected. (CDP-3458)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.16 (6/28/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancements
- Added a Substitute Hall Pass Code in Hall Pass Settings. If it is set, when a student requests a hall pass via the student portal, there is an option for substitute in the staff list. The substitute teacher can then select that option and enter the code to assign the hall pass. (CDP-2952)
- Added a droplist for selecting a room to substitute teach for on the Teacher Hall Pass View. This allows users to see the roster of another room and issue hall passes for them as if it was their own section. Users can only select a room when they have no schedule at all or they are a teacher that has a section with no roster in the selected period. (CDP-3197)
Fixed
- A message was unintentionally appearing on the Detention Scanner tool. This has been corrected. (CDP-3390)
- Some users were unable to use Photo and Badge Printing and assign an RFID due to insufficient rights. This has been corrected. (CDP-3411)
- An error occurred when a teacher utilized the "End Pass On Time" option in Teacher Hall Pass View, causing the pass to end everywhere except in the Student Portal. This has been corrected. (CDP-3424)
- The "Issue By" field in Teacher Hall Pass View was not populating if a pass was originating from the Student Portal. This has been corrected. (CDP-3425)
- The "Pass Issued" field was not populating on Teacher Hall Pass View when the page was allowed to refresh automatically. This has been corrected. (CDP-3429)
- The Student Hall Pass Lookup was not loading when selecting a student with no schedule. This has been corrected. (CDP-3432)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.15 (6/7/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- Enhanced the Teacher Hall Pass View to show sections/rosters only for the current school's calendar, preventing the display of sections/rosters from other schools. (CDP-3343)
- Added a tool rights check for 'Add' rights when a user updates or creates a passcode in the Teacher Hall Pass View. (CDP-3375)
Fixed
- The Read Only Tool Right for Teacher Hall Pass View was not creating hall passes (this was functioning correctly), but it appeared as though passes were getting created. This has been corrected. (CDP-3318)
- When issuing a hall pass to a student in the last period of the day and looking at their hall pass via the Hall Monitor Grid (Student Hall Pass Lookup), the class they were currently in was labeled as "Next Class" instead of "Current Class". This has been corrected. (CDP-3326)
- An error occurred where the Photo and Badge Printing tool could not print. This has been corrected. (CDP-3399)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.13 (5/10/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- The Absence Request History table in the Parent Portal has been updated to make it more mobile friendly. (CDP-3309)
- Created a warning that appears when deleting a Hall Pass if it is part of a Hall Pass Group. (CDP-3233)
- Added a new error message when trying to delete a Hall Pass that has already been used. (CDP-3263)
- Teacher Hall Pass View now lists all section names for a given period.(CDP-3279)
Fixed
- When attempting to open a Hall Pass Restricted Group from the Hall Pass Settings, the data in the group failed to load, resulting in an internal server error, and no data populated the dropdown lists. This has been corrected. (CDP-3312)
- The Teacher Hall Pass View would not load when attempting to view a section that had no start or end time. This has been corrected. (CDP-3315)
- Teachers were not able to edit Hall Passes with only Teacher Hall Pass View tool rights. This has been corrected. (CDP-3349)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.12 (4/29/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixed
- An error occurred where custom scanner kiosks were not logging in as the scanning user, and any attempt to log in caused users to return to the main Infinite Campus site. This has been corrected. (CDP-3292)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.11 (4/26/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- In Teacher Hall Pass View, hall passes can now be viewed (in addition to created) for non-rostered students. (CDP-3164)
- The Sign-Out Column in Scan History and Student Scan History now indicates whether a pass was never ended. (CDP-3194)
Fixed
- Tool rights for custom kiosks have been modified to not require the Kiosk sub-right. (CDP-3256)
- Student names in the Teacher Hall Pass View are now listed in alphabetical order by Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. (CDP-3264)
- Hall Passes issued via Student Hall Pass Lookup were not changing to green when viewed by teachers in Teacher Hall Pass. They were also not changing to yellow or red with the time change. Both of these have been corrected. (CDP-3265)
- On the initial load of Teacher Hall Pass View, all Hall Pass options were loading, regardless of the Hall Pass Settings. This has been corrected. (CDP-3278)
- When there are multiple overlapping terms and/or term schedules, scanning into the classroom kiosk signed a student in and attempted to issue a hall pass. This has been corrected. (CDP-3283)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.10 (4/18/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- Created roll forward settings for all workflow tools including Badges, Behavior Matrices, Hall Pass, and Scanner Settings. (CDP-594)
- Updated Teacher Hall Pass View so that if a pass is issued, all of the pass labels will be hidden, and information about that pass will be displayed in the empty space along with the option to edit the pass (add time and/or add comment). (CDP-3107)
- Removed Limit Warnings when creating non-rostered student hall passes in Teacher Hall Pass View. (CDP-3126)
- Removed Rostered Students from the list of students in the Create Hall Pass button in Teacher Hall Pass View. (CDP-3129)
- Improved the Student Scan History by adding additional data points from the Scan History Report. (CDP-3149)
- Added a new section in Student Hall Pass Lookup to display comments. (CDP-3162)
Fixed
- Clicking Reset in Check In/Out would not reset the comment in Check In/Out Period. This has been corrected. (CDP-2954)
- Clicking Reset in Check In/Out would not reset the Attendance Code on Check In/Out Period. This has been corrected. (CDP-2955)
- When a student received a hall pass from a teacher whose class they were not in, the hall monitor was not allowed to end the hall pass, and the hall pass location was listed as none. These have been corrected. (CDP-3033)
- Physical Hall Passes were not printed with a room or class when a school uses multiple schedule structures. This has been corrected. (CDP-3170)
- Pictures and student information were not changing between scans for students with a stop warning. This has been corrected. (CDP-3195)
- Updated present minutes calculations that accounted for Check In/Out within the same period. (Check In/Out Scanner only)(CDP-3196)
- An error occurred where room specific hall passes in Hall Pass Settings were not visible to teachers assigned to that room. This has been corrected. (CDP-3232)
- An error occurred where Check In/Out Kiosk would not load when a student checks in during a period where lunch is at the beginning of the period. This has been corrected. (CDP-3246)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.9 (4/1/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- In Scanner Settings, the Printer column in the Check In/Out Kiosk table was updated to control both physical and digital passes. (CDP-3160)
Fixed
- The Grade field in the Barcode Label Report was not refreshing when a new school was selected. This has been corrected. (CDP-3062)
- When a district disabled Absence Requests on the Portal but allowed students to use the Check In/Out Kiosk with notifications to parents, the Absence Request Notifications enabled parents to create and submit absence requests via the Portal. This has been corrected. (CDP-3089)
- An error could occur when using Absence Request Processing for requests for students that have no Student Number. This has been corrected. (CDP-3113)
- Check In/Out would not work when a student had a current partial enrollment and a non-end dated primary enrollment in the same calendar. This has been corrected. (CDP-3115)
- Old barcodes did not fit within the boundaries of a badge with large student numbers. This has been corrected. (CDP-3120)
- Re-add legacy barcode support to badges. (CDP-3121)
- Hall Monitor Grid and Student Hall Pass Lookup tool rights were not working as designed. This has been corrected. (CDP-3142)
- Some Scanning tools were sorting by Period Sequence rather than Start Time. This has been corrected. (CDP-3151)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.7 (3/7/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixed
- A warning banner will be displayed for the Classroom Attendance Kiosk if it has not been set up for a selected school. (CDP-2841)
- The Hall Pass request screen would not display a student's name if that student did not have a middle name. This has been corrected. (CDP-3084)
- An error was occurring where a student's name was not being displayed in the Student Hall Pass Lookup tool. This has been corrected. (CDP-3106)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.6 (2/29/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Fixed
- After processing an absence request, the Arrival and Departure Times appeared blank, making it look like there was no arrival or departure time on the request. This has been corrected. (CDP-3056)
- If a calendar was set up to use Lunch records, but those records lacked start and end times, then errors occurred when processing requests in Absence Request Processing. This has been corrected. (CDP-3079)
- Student numbers were appearing invalid when scanning into rooms they were not rostered in. This has been corrected. (CDP-3082)
- Caching errors were occurring with workflow tools. These have been corrected. (CDP-3088)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.5 (2/26/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- Added an enrollment drop-down list to the Hall Pass tool on the Student Portal. For the Enrollment list to show up, districts must configure their Portal Display Options for both calendars/schools the student has an enrollment in and have Hall Pass Configured for both calendars as well. (CDP-3016)
- Added the ability in Photo and Badge Printing to display the student's current student picture with an option for the user to either use the existing picture or allow a new photo to be taken.(CDP-3020)
- Added an option to select "End existing badge" when a new RFID number is entered for when a student loses a badge and the school needs to issue a new one. (CDP-3021)
Fixed
- If a user attempted to load the Admin Hall Pass View to look up a student's info, where the student had a hall pass that the admin couldn't assign, it would error out. This has been corrected.(CDP-3051)
- An error occurred where Custom Scanners were not printing physical hall passes. This has been corrected. (CDP-3057)
- Under rare circumstances, the Attendance Grid used with absence request processing would fail to load properly. This has been corrected. (CDP-3073)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.4 (2/20/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- The Photo and Badge Printing tool now only shows the "Please scan badge to register RFID number" option if the Scanner Settings > Enable Alternate ID setting is set to "Yes" or "Yes with Fallback."(CDP-3022)
Fixed
- An error occurred when a student checked in/out during a lunch period if the period had start/end times attached. This has been corrected. (CDP-3026)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.3 (2/16/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2407.
Enhancement
- Updated scanning present minutes to match core Campus present minutes calculations for the Check In/Out Scanner. (CDP-2766)
- Added the ability to rotate barcodes in the Badge Designer. (CDP-2899)
- Add the ability to have a digital hall pass created from the Hall Monitor Scanner at Check In, to have a physical hall pass created from the Detention Scanner at Check Out, and created three separate droplists so that the correct options are available for each tool. (CDP-3013)
- Never and Out - Counseling, Detention, Health Office
- Never and In - Hall Monitor
- Never, In, Out, Both - Check In/Out, Custom Scanners
Fixed
- Validation on Absence Request Time was not working correctly when the minute changed over. This has been corrected. (CDP-2973)
- The Allow Hall Pass for Flex Students checkbox was still selectable if Issue Hall Pass was turned off and a room did not have hall passes set up for it. This has been corrected. (CDP-3019)
- Several queries in scanning that pull schedule information were underperforming if a district made heavy use of responsive scheduling. This has been corrected. (CDP-3032)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.2 (2/9/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2331.
Enhancement
- Added a new tool that streamlines the process of a new student getting their picture taken and uploaded, printing out a badge with their picture, and saving the RFID number of the printed badge. (CDP-2919)
- Increased the size of the restricted icon within Hall Pass and added an info icon. (CDP-2965)
- Improved performance of mass approval full-day Absence Requests. (CDP-2997)
- Made improvements to kiosks so that they remain active if there are unexpected network errors. (CDP-3004)
Fixed
- The primary teacher was not defaulting in for the droplist of staff members on the Student App for Hall Pass. This has been corrected. (CDP-2995)
- In some cases, if one period did not take attendance, it could cause none of the periods for a teacher to display in the Teacher view, even though those do take attendance. This has been corrected. (CDP-3007)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.5.1 (2/1/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2331.
Enhancement
- Our new Hall Pass tools have been released. For more information, please view our Hall Pass release notes.
- Added the ability to copy a badge within a calendar. (CDP-2931)
Fixed
- A loading error was occurring when clicking on the New button in the Behavior-Resolution Matrix. This has been corrected. (CDP-2935)
- An error was occurring where users were able to use Hall Monitor Scanning without selecting a tardy excuse. This has been corrected. (CDP-2943)
- An error was occurring when processing absence requests by first opening the attendance grid on a request with an existing code. This has been corrected. (CDP-2963)
- If a student was not scheduled into the first period in a day, it was possible for the Check In/Out Scanner to not set defaults properly when checking a student in. This has been corrected. (CDP-2981)
Advanced Attendance and Appointments Version 2.4.34 (1/11/2024)
This version of the Advanced Attendance and Appointments toolset is compatible with Campus.2331.
Fixed
- When mass processing absence requests, entered comments were not being properly applied. They will now be properly appended to the Check In/Out time.(CDP-2911)
- An error was occurring where the Check In/Out Kiosk could freeze if students scanned in too quickly when not using a printer. This has been corrected. (CDP-2923)
Enhancement
- Added Behavior Start and End dates to the Stop/Warn alerts. (CDP-2884)
- Removed the two date values in Scan History from the sign-in and sign-out columns and made it a single date column, as well as made the sign-in/out times the number of minutes a student was at a location. (CDP-2850)
