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OA Version 9.00

Open Administration for Schools 9.00 August 12, 2016
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New School Events functions

Filesize:5.85MB

OA Version 8.50

Updates to installation scripts to support latest versions of Debian (8.1) and Ubuntu Server 14.04.3. Use the older 8.3 release, below, if you don't have the latest Debian 8.1/Ubuntu 14.04.3.

Lots of other script updates that I didn't track since they were ongoing with current schools. There are updates to the teacher attendance entry, tracking scripts, and rptmonth4.pl (monthly attendance script with extensive teacher checking (to make sure they've done attendance)). Updates to some of the moodle support scripts and skipping of those 'courses' used for attendance only. More included perl modules during install, which increases the filesize for download.

Open Administration for Schools 8.50 December 26, 2015.
[ Download 8.50 ] Filesize:5.7MB

OA Version 8.30

Use This release for older versions of Debian/Ubuntu before 8.1/14.04!. It uses the older methods of teacher login certification on teacher site.

This release has many new functions including principal walkthough system, staff absence tracking, and updates to pretty much everything!

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March 19, 2015 - Filesize:3.81 MB

OA Version 7.00

This release has updates to several systems including a single logon for the teacher site, and a new layout. The announcement system is also updated on both parent and teacher sites along with a new viewer.

Open Administration for Schools 7.00 Aug 17, 2012.(updated: Aug 21)
Filesize:2 787 647 Bytes

OA Version 6.75

This release has updates to several systems including report card area scripts.

Open Administration for Schools 6.75 Feb 11, 2012.
Filesize:2 765 736 Bytes

OA Version 6.50

This release has a new announcement system, and a tracking log for teachers to track their parental contacts. There are also many other smaller updates.

Open Administration for Schools 6.50 November 9, 2011.
Filesize:2 727 214 Bytes

OA Version 6.25

This release has a new textbook management system, along with other smaller tweaks.

Open Administration for Schools 6.25 August 6, 2011.
Filesize:2 702 035 Bytes

OA Version 6.00

This release has a new homework system, integration with Moodle 1.9.x via the external database option. It has large numbers of updates to the fees system and also to the subject and subject enrollment systems. There are updates to reduce the phrase count and also simplify the static html pages.

Open Administration for Schools 6.00 Updated: July 11/2011.
(Original: June 22, 2011)
New Filesize:2 724 838 Bytes

OA Version 5.75

This release has updated Online configuration and updated installation scripts including a new 'update' script to bring your site installs up to date from as far back as 4.75. There are new CentOS installation scripts. A new Spanish translation is available. There are other tweaks, as well.

Open Administration for Schools 5.75(April 3, 2011)
Update: now updated to April 18th version
Filesize:2 629 691 Bytes

OA Version 5.50

This release has full Online configuration and updated installation scripts to support this. The fee system is updated, and various other tweaks, including gradebook. Phrase count is reduced for translation.

Open Administration for Schools 5.50(Jan 31, 2011)
Filesize:2 059 214 Bytes (Jan 31)

OA Version 5.25

This release has new Online configuration for Report card, background color, and logos. It has new installation scripts to simplify the install process. There are new enrol/withdraw script and also updated reading test system.

Open Administration for Schools 5.25(Dec 23,2010)
Updated enrol script (Jan 11, 2011)
Filesize: 2 103 864 Bytes (Jan 11)

OA Version 5.00

This release has new Medical system and updated fee system.

Open Administration for Schools 5.00 (Nov 21,2010)
Filesize: 1 417 545 Bytes

OA Version 4.75

This release has new LDAP Management, and Templated Student Staff report and simple Template generator.

Open Administration for Schools 4.75 (Oct 5, 2010 - new R10 version available)
(Sept 2, 2010 - new R8 version available
(July 18,2010; Updated Aug 16,2010 with R6 version)
Filesize (R10): 1 394 358 Bytes

OA Version 4.50

This release has new Google Apps User Management and External User Management (ie. K12LTSP, Sun Ray Terminals, etc). Updated gradebook posting system.

Open Administration for Schools 4.50 (Nov 17,2009)
Filesize: 1 278 708 Bytes

OA Version 4.25b

This system has barcodes in labels, demerits, new First Nations Nominal Roll and Reading Test storage.

Open Administration for Schools 4.25b (Sept 22,2009)(b version - Oct 15, 2009)
Filesize: 1 266 242 Bytes

OA Version 4.10

This version has new report card configuration values, fully rewritten scripts to support UTF-8 encoding of foreign languages end to end from database to web page. Also new configuration settings for PDF generation.

Open Administration for Schools 4.10 (August 17,2009)
Filesize: 1 214 631 Bytes

OA Version 4.00

This version has new report card features and many rewritten scripts to reduce script count and also translation phrase count.

Open Administration for Schools 4.00 (July 22,2009)
Filesize:1 239 259 Bytes

OA Version 3.75

This version has the new locker system and many rewritten scripts to support non ISO-8859-x languages using utf-8 http headers. Other updates in the Readme in the top level folder of the download.

Open Administration for Schools 3.75 (March 7, 2009)
1 205 510 Bytes

OA Version 3.50

This version has the new PK report card system and the new language (translation) tools to allow alternate language versions of OA to be created. Other updates in the Readme in the top level folder of the download.

Open Administration for Schools 3.50 (Dec 13, 2008)
Filesize: 1 205 510 Bytes

OA Version 3.25a

This version has updated fixes discovered since the 3.25 release and includes new secretary attendance entry and updated custom classlist with new options (option extra field, fontsize, etc.)

Open Administration for Schools 3.25a (Sept 16, 2008)
Filesize: 1 050 948 Bytes

OA Version 3.25

This version has a rewritten main IEP system. It also includes new password policies with new perl modules, and updated teacher access controls.

Open Administration for Schools 3.25 (August 10, 2008)
Filesize: 1 043 513 Bytes

OA Version 3.00

This version now has mailing labels from simple templates (more easily added). It has a simple group emailing system. I has an updated report card script with more options and single student per file functionality. It has a rewritten teacher area. Updated HTML layout. Many other fixes.

Version 3.00a now available with more fixes and updates. No new features. Updated SDS demographics synchronization script, among others.

Open Administration for Schools 3.00a (April 25, 2008)
Filesize: 1 003 392 Bytes

OA Version 2.50

This release adds:

SSL Debian/Ubuntu Single Site installation - along with using SSL for protected communication with server, there are no longer multiple sites, but only a single school website (since using SSL precludes the use of easy virtual sites). - by Andy Figueroa (including docmentation)

The existing multiple sites installation may, of course, also continue to be used as well. This is just additional functionality for those who demand the enhanced security of a secure connection.
Transcript system - will now generate a multiple page transcript per student (if required).
Fees System - Updates including a new report, fields, and fixes.
Report Card system - rewritten report card script with more configuration options, including a new GPA section.
Student Enrollment/Editing - rewritten with a better look and support for the additional 18 student fields including name knownas, prefix, suffix, parent names and email. New Student Clone function for using with several family members.
Languages - PDF generation with now support alternate language characters using LaTeX input encoding in most PDF report generation scripts. Many scripts have been rewritten to better support alternate languages.
Staff - a new custom staff list (similar to custom class list).
Paper Size - beginning support for a default paper size (including A4) for all reports.
Calendar Popups - date entry on main and attendance page now have popup calendar support (using Dynarch.com javascript calendar).

Open Administration for Schools 2.50c (December 18, 2007)
Filesize: 991 220 Bytes

OA Version 2.40

This release adds the new fees system to allow schools to charge new fees (or predefined ones) to students (individually or by group), print outstanding invoices, accept payments, and post summary accounting data into their accounting systems.

It also includes a new teacher logout function to clear the teacher session data.

Open Administration for Schools 2.40 (July 18, 2007)
Filesize: 894 096 Bytes

OA Version 2.30

This release includes many script changes and rewrites (30+). It also includes a new transcript system to generate PDF transcripts and also track student progress toward graduation.

There have also been many rewrites on the teacher site to improve session management and the ability to move quickly between applications such as the gradebook, report card entry, daybook, etc.

Open Administration for Schools 2.30 (July 7, 2007)
July 9 - Updated; fix for meta lunchstatus record missing
Filesize: 867 330 Bytes

OA Version 2.25

This release includes 100+ script changes and rewrites. This includes the discipline and the report card systems. Updates include:

All HTML files have been updated and include testing on all major browsers including IE7.
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.
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.
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).
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.

Open Administration for Schools 2.25 (March 20, 2007)

OA Version 2.20

This release contains the new transporation system with more comprehensive tracking and reporting for student transportation to and from school. It also creates daily reports for bus supervisors and includes attendance data.

This release also contains large updates to the SDS scripting for Saskatchewan schools. It has been used in 3 divisions in Saskatchewan, Canada for several years now. It uses the new XML query functions available from Sask Learning, rather than local records and does synchronization with SL. The next release will include crond versions for automatic updates.

Open Administration for Schools 2.20 (December 27, 2006)

OA Version 2.15 (Nov 18, 2006)

This release contains the more updates to the Gradebook reports, fixes for a sortorder bug, and formatting changes for IE7, Opera rendering improvements. This also includes the final updates for the IEP rubric updates, new Choice Chips coding (more to follow), and other fixes.

OA Version 2.10 (Oct 9, 2006)

This release contains the updates to the Gradebook to simplify weighting and add session management. More updates on reporting to follow. Small Sask Learning SDS updates also.

OA Version 2.05 (Sept 24, 2006)

This September 24, 2006 release contains an update to the special education site with additional service tracking and student outcome rubric features. It also contains several bugfixes introduced by the 2.00 rewrite.

OA Version 2.01 (August 19, 2006)

This is a bug fix release of 2.00, containing bugs primarily found by Methodius Dusyk, Living Sky SD. The new files are also located in the updates area for 2.00. There will be a further 2.05 release containing the new IEP code within a month or so.

OA Version 2.00 (July 18, 2006)

This version has the following:

Scheduling export/import for the FET Scheduler. Additional fields in the subject table for doing Periods Per Cycle(PPC) and backings between subjects to setup the scheduling export.
Gradebook constant percentage groups so that the percent of a particular group of assessment items don't change as new items are added (or others removed). New item cloning function between subjects and/or sections. Also allows for multiple additions of similar item. Weighting scripts now show intra-group percentages.
MySQL 5.x fix for new reserved words (schema, repeat).
I18N rewrites for many scripts in preparation for alternate language releases.

OA Version 1.99 Features

Open Administration for Schools 1.99 (May 30, 2006)
[ openadmin-1.99.tgz ] This version has the following:

Waiting List functions to allow for preregistration into a waiting list and then enrolled based on the waiting list ordering.
Expanded and Extensible Staff Functions with additional fields and templates as well as an additional PDF report for staff information
Additional Lunch Functions to allow for tracking of multiple meals per day and also bridging for an A/P module.
Multi-language rewrites of many scripts to support alternate languages (ie. French, Spanish). This is only partly complete with the current release.

OA Version 1.98 Features (May 6, 2006)

Transcripts are now available on the report card page. They will store information for multi-year retention and customization of the transcript is available.

There is a new attendance scanning script which is based on points for particular attendance reasons. Accumulated points will generate a discipline entry and also create form letters for mailing home.

The attendance system has a new 'per student' editing function (along with search).

The SDS system for Saskatchewan schools has an updated course query function that uses the new xml query functions. It also has a new course enrollment synchronization script. It no longer uses the course enrollment journal.

Metaedit has some new options for select elements to allow for leading blank entries.

The gradebook has a new item entry format to simplify weighting and group assignment.

There have been several smaller bug fixes in scripts.

Documentation

PDF and HTML versions of the documentation are available on the documentation page.

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