v3 Preview 1

Candle 3 re-imagines school software. Take a look at the feature breakdown below.

• Improved reporting system

  • List of reports with previews
  • Ability to pin frequently used reports
  • Built-in report editor
  • Patron Notice Generator
  • Several new reports (Health Notices, Average Matrix, Student Absences, Library Books Label)

• Enhanced grading system

  • Fine-grained specification of weights, averaging, and rounding methods
  • Fine-grained letter grading

• Student Groups

  • Assign teacher roles within a student group (helper, tutor, homeroom)

• Conduct and Absences

  • Incident editor
  • Conduct adjustment sheet
  • Improved absences entry

• Broadcasting (in beta)

  • Allows broadcasting a text message or phone call to contacts
  • Upload a recording or have a phone call for a recording

• Filebox

  • Basic file box for uploading files for all users to see (except typing students)

• Accounts and login

  • Automated patron registration system via SMS or phone call
  • Added ability to change auto log-out time

• System Maintenance

  • Automated backups
  • Query tool for interacting with the database
  • Improved, file-based, licensing
  • Auto-login by scanning QR code beside the Candle logo

• General UI changes

  • Move the app bar from the top to the side
  • Vastly improved home page
  • Better styling on Health record entry
  • Streamline typing system for students
  • Styling improvements throughout the app
  • More tooltips and infoboxes to help explain difficult concepts

Fixed a variety of bugs, including an issue where the app would auto log out in 5 minutes.