Looking for details on older releases? Here is a summary of Little SIS for Classroom updates by release date.
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UI/UX changes:
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Show/Hide Columns, Saved Views, Filters, Saved Filters
- Previously, a slide-out panel at the left housed the Columns, Saved Views, Filters, and Saved Filters tabs. You can expand and collapse the panel when needed. With this release, the slide-out panel moved to the right of the page, and you can access each panel independently.
- Click the name of the panel, at the top left of the Explorer grid to slide it out; Columns, Saved Layouts, and Saved Filters.
- Click a panel name once to reveal the slide-out panel.
- Click a panel name again to close the slide-out panel.
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Reorder columns from the Columns panel: With the Columns panel open, you can drag and drop column names in the panel to change their order in the Explorer grid. To move a column, drag the 12-square icon to the left of the column name and move the column to a new position.
- Click the name of the panel, at the top left of the Explorer grid to slide it out; Columns, Saved Layouts, and Saved Filters.
- Previously, a slide-out panel at the left housed the Columns, Saved Views, Filters, and Saved Filters tabs. You can expand and collapse the panel when needed. With this release, the slide-out panel moved to the right of the page, and you can access each panel independently.
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Saved Layouts:
- Any user can create and save layouts.
- Saved layouts are only visible to the user who created them.
- To delete a saved layout, hover over the name, then click the Delete icon.
- To filter the layouts in the panel, click the Filter icon.
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- Core Layouts are read-only system generated layouts.
- My Layouts are all layouts created by the current users, including shared layouts.
- Shared Layouts are all layouts shared by or with the current user.
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Saved Filters:
- Saves the applied filters so you can quickly reapply them.
- Any user can create and save filters.
- Saved filters are only visible to the user who created them.
- To delete a saved filter, hover over the name, then click the Delete icon.
See the Filtering in Little SIS for Classroom article.
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Classroom Actions changes
- Previously, the Bulk Actions menu at the top gave access to action classes; Classroom Actions, Teacher actions, and Student actions. With this release, those actions no longer appear in the Bulk actions menu. When classes are selected, the Classrooms, Teachers, and Student actions become visible at the right of the page.
Depending on user permissions the following menu items appear:- Classroom Actions
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Refresh / Update tags / Archive / Delete
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Teacher Actions
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Join / Add co-teachers / Remove co-teachers / Change primary teacher
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Student Actions
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Join / Add students to / Remove students from
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- Classroom Actions
- Bulk Actions
- Bulk actions menu now contains only these actions; Bulk clear rosters, Bulk archive classes, Bulk delete classes
- Bulk actions menu now contains only these actions; Bulk clear rosters, Bulk archive classes, Bulk delete classes
- Previously, the Bulk Actions menu at the top gave access to action classes; Classroom Actions, Teacher actions, and Student actions. With this release, those actions no longer appear in the Bulk actions menu. When classes are selected, the Classrooms, Teachers, and Student actions become visible at the right of the page.
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Show/Hide Columns, Saved Views, Filters, Saved Filters
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Explorer Column Changes
- The Primary Teacher Profile column is renamed to Teacher Name. When filtering, a match on first or last name will be returned.
- The Primary Teacher column is renamed to Teacher email.
- The Go to Classroom column is removed. To allow for access to Classroom, for members of the class, the Classroom name column now contains a bolded hyperlink to the class.
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Announcements Improvements
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Classroom announcements no longer appear in the Explorer, they now appear in View class details, on the Announcements tab. With this improvement, the following changes were made to Explorer.
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Explorer grid
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Announcement Count and Most recent announcement columns no longer appear in Explorer grid, the show Columns menu, existing filters, and saved views.
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Refresh class data
Explorer > [right-click class] > Refresh class data-
When refreshing class data, Announcements no longer appears as a refresh option.
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Explorer view class details
Explorer > [right-click class] > View class details-
The Announcements tab of view class details, shows the number of announcements on the tab.
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The Announcements tab grid automatically loads with announcements for the selected classroom. There may be a small delay depending on the number of announcements.
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- See the View class details article.
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Explorer Filter Improvement
- In the Explorer, the Join Code column previously could not be filtered. A filter is now available for this column.
- See the Filtering in Little SIS for Classroom article for information on using filters.
- In the Explorer, the Join Code column previously could not be filtered. A filter is now available for this column.
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Clear rosters from archived classes
Explorer ~ Bulk Actions ~ Bulk classroom cleanup ~ Bulk clear rosters
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Bulk clear rosters option and wizard helps you remove students from ARCHIVED classes in bulk.
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Step 1: Find archived classes that contain students. Select a date to return archived classes created on or before that date. Optionally limit to classes provisioned on managed by Little SIS Premium, classes from one or more schools, and classes taught by specific teachers.
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Step 2: In the list of classes, confirm classes you want to remove students from.
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Step 3: You can choose to notify the primary teacher that students have been removed from their archived class. The notification email can be customized. An email is also sent to the user who initiated this bulk action.
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Step 4: Review the changes and perform the bulk action.
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Clearing rosters action gets logged to the audit log. Click View More to see the course ID and course name that had cleared rosters.
- See the Bulk clear rosters article for more information on this bulk action.
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Orphaned Classes Improvements
Explorer > [Primary Teacher column] ~Filter- Little SIS Classroom Explorer is updated to allow users to filter for orphaned classes. These are classes with unknown teachers. Once the list of orphaned classes is isolated, teacher actions allow the new Remove co-teacher's option.
- Use unknown in the primary teacher contains filter to return a list of orphaned classes. You can archive them as well as remove students. Improvements to the process of removing students is coming soon as well.
- See the Orphaned Google Classroom Classes article for tips on avoiding classes becoming orphaned and addressing existing orphaned classes.
- Use unknown in the primary teacher contains filter to return a list of orphaned classes. You can archive them as well as remove students. Improvements to the process of removing students is coming soon as well.
- When in view class details mode, a new message alerts on the Information tab if a primary teacher is missing.
Explorer > [right-click class] > View class details
- Little SIS Classroom Explorer is updated to allow users to filter for orphaned classes. These are classes with unknown teachers. Once the list of orphaned classes is isolated, teacher actions allow the new Remove co-teacher's option.
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Classroom Alias Filter Improvement
Explorer > [Aliases column] ~Filter
- The Little SIS Classroom Explorer Alias is updated to allow users to filter for classes with or without an alias.
- Using unknown in the Alias contains filter returns classes without an alias.
- Using exists in the Alias contains filter returns classes with an alias.
- See Filtering in Little SIS for Classroom.
- The Little SIS Classroom Explorer Alias is updated to allow users to filter for classes with or without an alias.
Little SIS for Classroom > Sync > Support > Feedback
Do you have a suggestion that could improve our tools? We would love to hear from you. We’ve added the Feedback icon to the sidebar of our Labs Tools to give you 1-click access to our feedback form.
- See the What is the best way to submit a feature request? article.
Previously when refreshing classes, individually or in bulk, aliases was not an option for refresh. With this release, Aliases as been added as an option when refreshing classes in Classroom Explorer. This change includes individual classes and those selected for Bulk Action.
Explorer > Bulk actions > Bulk classroom cleanup > Bulk archive classes
- The Bulk archive classes and Bulk delete classes wizards have been updated so that you can find classes that have been provisioned or managed by Little SIS Premium.
Explorer > Bulk actions > Bulk classroom cleanup > Bulk archive classes
Explorer > Bulk actions > Bulk classroom cleanup > Bulk delete classes- In both wizards, a new field appears in step 1 below the Please provide a date field. Check the Limit to classes managed by Little SIS Premium checkbox to find only those classes.
- See the Bulk archive classes and Bulk delete classes articles.
- New Article: See the Filtering in Little SIS for Classroom article for tips on filtering with examples for filtering Little SIS Premium provisioned classes/filtering by aliases.
Here's what we've changed:
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Previously withdrawing and removing guardian invitations was logged at a job level. With this release, those actions are logged at an individual student/guardian level.
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See the Work with Audit Logs article.