ABI Revision History

ABI Revision History
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/1/2010	Progress By Student report	When there is no active gradebook selected, a message will display instead of an error.
	Scores by Assignment	Change Default Date Completed does not work. Fixed
	Enters/Leaves	New students added to a gradebook through Enters/Leaves do not have their start date saved. Fixed
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/26/2010	Print Gradebook Final Mark Analysis	This report would kick the user back to the main menu when running for multiple gradebooks, fixed.
	Gradebook	Students dropped from a class with a future Exit Date were displaying as needing to be dropped from the gradebook today, fixed.
	Gradebook	Administrative users switching between teachers could not look at the gradebook area after having looked at a previous teacher's gradebook, fixed.
	School Search	The Google Map link was not working in situations where the school was in a different city than the student's home address, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/18/2010	Standards Based Grade Reporting	Data on this screen is now saved immediately as it is changed. The "Submit" button has been removed because it is no longer needed.
	Print Weekly Attendance Report	This report was not handling Track F, fixed.
	Gradebook Restore	The process for restoring a gradebook now asks the user to select a gradebook to restore from when restoring to a new gradebook instead of automatically defaulting to the first one.
	Ad Hoc Email	When adding email addresses based on students in a period, the sort order of students is now by name. Before, it was random.
	Gradebook Scores by Assignment	This page now displays the attendance each student had on the Date Assigned and Date Due.
	Gradebook Options	The Show Assignment Range and Count Assignment Range fields now validate for high and low values and overlapping values.
	Gradebook Edit Assignments	When submitting this screen, the buttons now become disabled to prevent teachers from clicking them multiple times while the system is processing.
	Attendance by Month	Track holidays were not being honored, fixed.
	Admin Gradebook Backup	The process for admins backing up gradebooks has been changed to use iterative web-service requests. This should prevent script timeouts from occurring with this process. A progress bar has also been added.
	Seating Chart	If the period has been manually changed on the Attendance or Attendance by Photo Pages, switching to the Seating Chart page now displays the same period that the Attendance page was displaying.
	Attendance	In AeriesCS districts, teachers were seeing Delete-Tagged records since the last update, fixed.
	Reports	Page Breaking was not working in some new browsers, fixed.
	Gradebook	Switching between the current year and last year would not allow the gradebook to be viewed if it had been viewed in the other, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
6/10/2010	Emailing	When emailing, emails sent from certain browsers would use "Smart Quotes". This would cause the resulting email to contain the Question Mark character instead of the quote. The emailing process now converts these invalid characters to normal Quote characters.
	Gradebook To Standards-Based Grades	Moving Grade from the Gradebook to SBG now only processes gradebooks the student was actually active in on the effective processing date.
	Admin Access	Many Admin features were not available when using Integrated Windows Authentication, fixed.
	Attendance by Month	Attendance by Month was not working since the last update, fixed.
	Print Gradebook Progress by Class	This new report for elementary standards-based gradebooks displays all of a teacher's students and all of their standard gradebooks on a single report.
	Print Gradebook Progress by Student	This is a new report that optionally allows a teacher to view on a single report how students are doing in all their subjects.
	Print Daily Attendance Summary Report	In schools using a master schedule, the enrollment and absence totals will now only include the date range the student was in the current class.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	When parents view SBG and the ABI Advanced Reports are enabled and permission is granted for parents to Print SBG Report Cards, then a Print button will appear on this page for parents and students.
	Grade Reporting	Teacher now have the option to "Mark Page as Complete" so that even when not all students have something to be entered, the period can be marked as complete so that it will not show up on missing sheet lists in Aeries and will no longer display in red in ABI.
	User Options	There are now options to enable teachers to change their Email Address and Website URL. Email address was previously always editable by teachers, but now the option must be turned ON to allow teachers to change their email address.
	Discipline	The system now has the ability to identify an email address to send a notification whenever a teacher adds a new DIS record.
	Prior Year Access	When switching to last year, the gradebook now displays ALL assignments for a gradebook instead of just the assignment range that was in effect at the end of the year.
	Multi-Data Profile	Data from the GTE table was not visible to AeriesCS districts in the ABI Multi-Data Profile report, fixed.
	ABI Options	A new option: "Do Not Change Options for Admin Login" has been added so that admin accounts do not get granted access to areas that teachers and parent do not have access to. It is often confusing for admins to see things that teachers can not see. Using this option will match an admins login experience to a teachers.
	Admin Login	Logging in as an administrator will now no longer turn ON the options to view Grade Reporting by Period and Sheet and to hide drop-downs.
	Physical Fitness	The Seconds for the Mile Run and Walk Test now display with a leading zero when below 10.
	Physical Fitness	The Pass/Fail Status was not displaying for students without a current testing admin PFT record, fixed.
	School Search	SchoolSearch.asp has been changed to use Google Maps and has been re-designed to match the look and feel of ABI. To use this page, link to it on your parent ABI server and from your public web server. If you do not use AeriesCS (SQL), you will need to create a AeriesDistrict.udl in the ABIConn directory on the server and point it to the Aeries District database.
	Read Only Admin Login	"P-Admin" (Read-Only Admin) accounts could still modify some areas of the system if they were enabled for teachers, fixed. INFO - Read-Only Admin accounts can be created by giving the account a type of "P" and an association of "0".
	File Uploads	Uploading new files was not working, fixed.
	All	Various aspects of the system have been adjusted to run faster against a SQL database.
	Main Menu	The ability to minimize certain sections of the Main Menu have been disabled. This is ensure that certain messages from the school or district are seen by ABI users.
Version Date	Page	Comments
4/29/2010	Gradebook	The "Absent - Able to Make Up" status was not available in the last update, fixed.
	Attendance by Photo	Submitting attendance using the free-form seating chart was not working, fixed.
	Gradebook Scores by Class	Switching between "Points" and "# Correct" wasn't switching the display in non-IE browsers, fixed.
	Admin Fix Gradebook	This process was not working with non-IE browsers, fixed.
	Gradebook Summary	Viewing a gradebook on this page that didn't have all the GBS records added to it yet was generating an error, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
4/23/2010	Gradebook	Added a new Status value to the Gradebook for "Received, Not Yet Graded". The current "Not Yet Graded" was supposed to be used for this type of notice, but it was not explicit enough for some teachers so this one was added.
	Gradebook Assignments	If an assignment already has scores entered for it, now a value for Max # Possible can not be added to the assignment.
	Gradebook Scores By Assignment	The ability to sort on Comment has been disabled because this field was changed to be a Memo/Text field and sorting on this type of field is not possible.
	Interventions	The Referral field was not displaying its contents, fixed.
	Parent Access	Adjustments have been made to help make sure parents and students do not access student data from other students.
	Gradebook To Grades	When loading grades from the gradebook at the secondary level, the default gradebook selected is now one that was active on the last day of the grade reporting period.
	Attendance	Attendance is now not possible to be submitted for a month that has been locked even if the number of Back-Posting Days includes a day in that month.
	Physical Fitness	Added a filter for limited to just Males or Females.
	System Security	Various changes have been made throughout the system to help prevent un-authorized access to data.
	Gradebook Assignments By Student and Email Assignments	These features have been adjusted to accommodate situations where very long report comments are added or a very high number of students are selected. Previously, the volume of information would cause an error but they are now supported.
	Standards-Based Grades	Modifications to SBG and SBC are now logged for AeriesCS districts.
	Gradebook To Standards-Based Grades	Moving grades from the Gradebook to SBG now logs the values entered into the SBG table for AeriesCS districts..
	Gradebook To Grades	Moving grades from the Gradebook to GRD now logs the values entered into the GRD table for AeriesCS districts..
	Gradebook Summary	The initial parent and student view of gradebook summary information has been changed to display gradebooks from previous terms and gradebook the students was previously dropped from in their own sections on this page.
	Gradebook Maintenance	Transferring a student from another linked gradebook was not including all the fields in the GBS table, fixed.
	Gradebook Backup	Fields recently added to the gradebook tables are now included in the Gradebook Backup process.
	Email Log	Added the ability to view the email message body in either full viewable form or in raw HTML form. Also corrected some formatting issues with this screen.
	Attendance	The "Tag" (MST.ST) field for flagging a section to not take attendance is now factored into the attendance screens in ABI. This was previously already supported, but had issues when multiple sections were scheduled during the same period for the same teacher but only some of the sections had the flag to not post attendance.
	Attendance	The settings for Days for Back Posting and Forward Posting now factor in non-school days so that these settings reflect actual School Days Backwards and Forwards.
	Graduation Status	The CAHSEE Math and ELA status are now displayed on this screen as well as the Algebra 1 Requirement Status.
	Gradebook	Modifying the Max Score for an assignment with a "Max # Possible" identified will now re-calculate the score for the assignment against the new Max # Possible.
	Supplemental Attendance	Supplemental Attendance now logs all changes to the data for SQL districts.
	Gradebook	"Excused" has been added as a "Status" value in the drop-down list.
	Attendance	Parent Conference Days were displaying as "Holiday" on the student attendance page, fixed.
	Password Expiration	Setting a password expiration for 1 year or 1 month would require the user to change their password when the year or month rolled over. It was not actually looking for a length of time, fixed.
	Gradebook	When an assignment has a "Max # Possible" value populated, the teacher can no longer enter a "Score" for the assignment directly. They are required to populate the "# Correct" for the assignment and the system will automatically calculate the number of Points to give to the assignment for that student.
	Gradebook Assignments	Assignments now can not have a "Max # Possible" that is the same as the "Max Score" field. The system will zero-out the "Max # Possible" if these two fields are the same. This should help prevent this feature from being misused by teachers. It should only be used if the number of questions on an assignment is different than the number of points given to that assignment.
	Supplemental Attendance	The system was not logging when a user blanked out attendance for a particular day, fixed.
	Medical	The Medical Sub Tabs now display Red Flags for each of them.
	Interventions	The current teacher now defaults on new Intervention records.
	Student Content Standards	Changing Testing Admins would result in an error, fixed.
	Medical Notes	Medical Notes are now available in ABI.
	Gradebook Assignments	When importing an assignment from another gradebook, it would not work for elementary schools using standards on the assignments, fixed.
	Gradebook	The ABI Gradebook now logs all changes to data in the system for AeriesCS and Aeries.net districts.
	Gradebook Rules	If a teacher defined more than 100 assignments to be skipped using the Gradebook Rules feature, an error would occur, fixed. The limit is now 500.
	Student Attendance	Parent Conference Days were displaying as actual school days, fixed.
	Gradebook	It is now NOT possible to change the Gradebook value in the URL to switch to a gradebook that the teacher does not control.
	Print Attendance Log	When printing for a day that does not have any attendance logs, an error was occurring, fixed.
	Print Birthday Listing	ABI now has the ability to produce a PDF-based Student Birthday Listing report. This feature is only available after the "ABI Advanced Reports" system has been installed and configured. Please contact info@aeries.com for more information about pricing and implementation steps for this system.
	Print Weekly Attendance Report	When printing for an Elementary w/ MST or Secondary Daily school, teachers with multiple sections in the attendance period would have the "Period" on this report display as "L", fixed.
	Print Class Labels	ABI now has the ability to produce PDF-based Avery 5160 Labels. This feature is only available after the "ABI Advanced Reports" system has been installed and configured. Please contact info@aeries.com for more information about pricing and implementation steps for this system.
	Print Standards Based Report Card	ABI now has the ability, to produce an official Standards Based Report Card. Optionally, either the teacher or the parent/student can generate the report. This feature is only available after the "ABI Advanced Reports" system has been installed and configured. Please contact info@aeries.com for more information about pricing and implementation steps for this system.
	Reports	ABI now has the ability to be configured to produce PDF-based reports. This process is called "ABI Advanced Reports" and is done by integrating ABI with the Aeries.net reporting engine. Integrating ABI and the Reporting Engine allows for ABI to generate PDF reports in a format consistent with how Aeries and Aeries.net format the reports. Issues of page breaking and lineup become non-issues using this reporting method. Not all ABI reports are available through this system, but most will become available over time. Please contact info@aeries.com for more information about pricing and implementation steps for this system.
	Resources	The Resources tab is now available to parents, students, and counselors. This will allow easy access to the Online Resources (links) setup by the school, School News, and Reports.
	Special Programs	This area was available to any custom groups if the "Counselor" group had access to it, even if the custom group did not have access, fixed.
	Reports	Some reports and page in ABI were displaying " " instead of a space, fixed.
	Supplemental Attendance	When using the Student Number Data Entry method, an error would sometimes be generated, fixed.
	Gradebook Assignments	Assignment Comments could not be edited, fixed.
	Ad-Hoc Email	Teachers with more than 500 parents with email addresses would generate an error. Now the limit is 1000.
	Gradebook	There is now a new option to identify the number of decimal places to display on assignment scores. It defaults to 4 digits, but can be changed to 1, 2, 3, or 4.
	Graduation Status	Lower-case Repeat Tags were not being honored, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/29/2009	Attendance	Under some situations, days within the first 10 days of school could mistakenly be flagged as Track Holidays in ABI, fixed.
	Supplemental Attendance	Supplemental Attendance is now available to be entered through ABI. This integrates with the new Supplemental Attendance system in Aeries.
	Attendance Log	Attendance Log is now an available report in ABI for teacher to see the log of changes to the attendance of their students.
	Attendance	Changing Attendance in ABI now logs to the ATL table. This is the table being used for Electronic Attendance tracking to meet the new state standards for Electronic Attendance Accounting and Teacher Signature Alternatives.
	Print Class Roster	There is now an option to "Print Telephone #" on this report. Also, when printed, the Telephone Number will now no longer wrap to a 2nd line.
	Student Data Editing	Teachers when trying to add a record like DIS could not add a record is there was a delete-tagged record in that table for the student, fixed.
	Print Content Standards by Class	This report was sorting students with the same First and Last Names incorrectly, fixed.
	Email Log	There is now a new page where teachers can view the log of all the emails they have previously sent out. This feature is only available to AeriesCS and Aeries.net districts.
	Ad-Hoc Email	There is now an option on the Ad-Hoc Email page to send a copy of the email to the teacher as well as to the recipients.
	Print Gradebook Summary	The Assignment Key Location option now contains options for the top and bottom of each page.
	Gradebook Assignments	There is now the ability to push assignments from the current gradebook to any of the current teacher's gradebooks.
	Gradebook Assignments	There is now the ability to copy assignments FROM any gradebook from any teacher to the current gradebook.
	Student Demographics	Students without a value in the Birth Date field would generate an error, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/17/2009	Gradebook Trends	Gradebook Trends is a new page in the ABI Gradebook that will display the Up or Down Trend of the overall score for students during a defined range of assignments. This will help teachers determine if students are improving or declining in their class.
	Email List	Information about the current class schedule was being displayed in the email list even when "Schedules" was turned OFF for that group, fixed.
	Grad Status	Waived courses were not properly rolling the credit into the Electives area, fixed.
	Gradebook	There is a now a new option to allow teachers to import any student in the teacher's defined grade range into their gradebook.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	When teachers using Safari submitted changed for a student, the screen would switch back to the first student in the class, fixed. This would also happen when submitting changes while viewing by standard, fixed.
	Grade Reporting	The ability for teachers to use the Up and Down Arrow keys to navigate has been eliminated for Firefox users. Firefox would change the value in the newly focused field and no work-around could be found to prevent this so it had to be eliminated so that data isn't changed accidentally. Up and Down Arrows are still functional on all Text Boxes and in all other browsers.
	Student Data	There is now an option for parents to be able to edit the new Race and Ethnicity fields.
	Student Data	The layout of the Student Data page has been adjusted to be more readable.
	Print Content Standard Scores	Changing the Student Number in the URL would allow for viewing the Standard Scores for any student, fixed.
	Gradebook Print Gradebook Roster	This report now has an option to sort students by the Custom Sort Field.
	Gradebook Print Assignments by Student	This report now has an option to sort students by the Custom Sort Field.
	Gradebook Scores by Student	In Parent and Student view of the detailed gradebook view, a link to the Teacher Website is displayed if it is populated in TCH.WS.
	Class Schedules	The Class Schedules screen now displays a link to the Teacher Website populated in the TCH.WS field.
	Visitation	The Visitation screen now contains the same fields as the Counseling screen.
	Course Requests	The Alternate Course field is now limited to a drop-down list of courses if the Limit To CRQ option is turned ON.
	Contacts	The Contacts page now displays the Correspondence Language of the student.
	Reports	The Resources \| Reports page now also contains the reports that are visible on the Attendance Reports page.
	Print Daily Attendance Summary Report	This is a new report in ABI that teachers can run to analyze the attendance totals for their students.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	Loading Standards Based Grades from the Gradebook can now evaluate gradebooks of other teachers to determine a student's progress on a standard. The need to identify different weightings for each gradebook has also been eliminated from this new process.
	Physical Fitness	Entering Skin Fold values for a boy was generating an error, fixed.
	Gradebook Scores by Class	This page was generating an error when a high number of assignments were visible on a page and when sorting by Overall Score, fixed.
	Elementary Transcript	There is now a new option to allow teachers to view the Elementary Transcripts of their students.
	Attendance by Photo	Inactive Students were still displaying on this page, fixed.
	Lunch Count	The comment field on each line of the Lunch Count area of the attendance page is now a multi line text box.
	Attendance	Classes that contain students from different tracks will now display "Track Holiday" for students on days when they are off track.
	Attendance	There is now a new option to define the Number of Days to Displays Adds and Drops on the Attendance page. After this setting is defined for a school, student adds and drops from a class will display to the teacher for the specified number of days.
	Parent Login	If a Parent or Student account that had not previously been associated with a student tried to login to ABI, an error would be generated, fixed.
	Gradebook Student Scores	When students, parents, or teachers viewed the Gradebook Student Scores page, the Percent for each assignment was not always being recalculated and if something abnormal occurred, the incorrect percent could display. This was rare, but has been corrected.
	Activities and Awards	Certain non-standard data in the ACT table was causing this page to generate an error on some students, fixed.
	Change Password	When a teacher was using Firefox and had a password of "welcome" or "changeme", Firefox would generate an error and not process the page correctly, fixed.
	Student Attendance	When a teacher viewed a student's individual attendance information, changing the summary date range would result in a redirection to the incorrect page, fixed.
	Student Data	The User Code fields will now display the custom caption defined for these fields in Aeries.
	Student Data	The Network Login ID field will now display if there is data in the field. The Records Release (DNR) field also now displays if there is a value in it.
	Parent Access	There is now a new option to hide Pre-Enrolled Student Records from Parent accounts.
	Main Menu	An Attendance Reminder now displays for teachers on the Main Menu if they have not yet submitted attendance completely for today.
	Emergency Contacts	When a contact record is marked to not receive a copy of any mail, that line is now not shown in ABI.
Version Date	Page	Comments
4/23/2009	Graduation Requirements	The Graduation Requirements tab was generating an error for AeriesCS districts, fixed.
	Class Schedules	There is now a new option to hide classes for future terms from students and parents.
	Gradebook Reports	Options screens for all gradebook reports now include the full Gradebook Navigation Pane.
	Print Gradebook Summary	The assignment legend now displays on its own page. It was never able to print along with the report body on a single page anyways.
	Ad-Hoc Email	When adding email addresses for multiple students, the wizard to add new email addresses now provides check boxes for each student to include.
Version Date	Page	Comments
4/22/2009	Navigation	The color scheme and Navigation Structure for ABI has been adjusted.
	Physical Fitness	Tests that were previously passed are now highlighted on this screen and there is an option to hide those tests. Tests that passed this year are highlighted after someone recalculates the Physical Fitness Status for all students. That recalculation must be done by someone using the Aeries client software.
	Gradebook Assignment Analysis	This report now has an option to include or not include scores of 0.
	Grade Reporting	When a teacher switches to last year, the system was displaying the Grade Reporting Date Range for the current year, fixed.
	Print Content Standards by Class	The heading of this report now displays the current class and testing administration being displayed.
	Event Calendar	When access to Student Classes is turned OFF, the ability to view Class Schedule Options on the Calendar is now hidden.
	Grade Reporting	When teachers are entering grades, they can now see the students' grade levels next to their names.
	Grade Reporting	The Tardy field in GRD is now visible if the option in Grade Reporting Options is turned ON for "Print Tardy."
	Gradebook Assignments	When adding a new assignment, the "Default" Scale is no longer automatically chosen for the new assignment. Teachers must now select a Scale to have it apply to a particular assignment.
	Print Weekly Attendance Report	Track Holidays now display as "HOL" on this report.
	Gradebook Student Scores	When in TA mode, entering scores would result in the Max Score being changed to a zero, fixed.
	Gradebook Rules	The maximum number of assignments that can be dropped by a rule is now 99.
	Gradebook	The maximum number of gradebooks per teacher has been increased to 500. If a teacher has 500 gradebooks, the system will not allow them to add any more.
	Student Data	The student image is now clickable and will display the image in full size in a new window.
	Class Labels	Running this report from the elementary level now displays options to select which information to print.
	Gradebook Maintenance - Link Gradebooks	The maximum number of link groups has been increased from 20 to 99.
	Physical Fitness	The First Test Date was not able to be populated if test data entry was done prior to implementing the version of ABI with this new field, fixed.
	Attendance	When a teacher marks a student as Present in a Negative Attendance school, the ATT record was being deleted if only the All Day Code field in the ATT record had a value. The system now checks the All Day Code field before deleting any ATT record.
	Attendance	The Absence Summary fields now display on the right side of the attendance page instead of in the middle. This makes using the Absence selection options easier for teachers.
	ABI Options - Tardy Code	The Tardy Code on the Attendance tab in ABI Options can now be blanked out. This is will cause the ABI Attendance page to not display an option to teachers for Tardy.
	Session Timeout	After a user's session timeout, the notification that the session has times out now continues to follow a user as they scroll through the page, just like during the last 5 minutes before the session times out. The timeout notification is now larger too.
	Login	Previously, when users enter an invalid password 3 times in a minute, ABI will lock out the current workstation. Now only the username that was used will be locked out from the current workstation for one minute. This change will provide better support for systems where a proxy server is used to access the ABI server.
	Login	For AeriesCS districts, logging into ABI now creates an entry in the LOG table.
	Contacts	Email Addresses in the system with certain characters were causing the Email List part of this page to not work correctly, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
2/11/2009	Physical Fitness	The First Test Date field is now editable through ABI.
	Gradebook Scores by Student	An error was being generated when changing a Max Score field to a 0, fixed.
	Change Password	When a "P-Admin" account had a password of "welcome" or "changme", the system generated an error trying to force that user to change their password, fixed.
	Gradebook Backup Restore	The option to load from "Other Gradebook Not Listing" was not working, fixed.
	Print Gradebook Student Scores	This report was sometimes generating an error when new GBS records needed to be added for new assignments, fixed.
	Gradebook Summary	Since the Gradebook Summary was added, parents and students could view their current grade even if a school was marked to Only Show Check Marks, fixed. Also, the Missing Assignment number was including assignments outside the High and Low range defined to count for that gradebook.
Version Date	Page	Comments
1/12/2009	Print Gradebook Student Scores	When printing missing assignments, students without any missing assignments will now display "Student Has No Missing Assignments."
	Print Multi Data Profile	When printing a profile at the elementary level, students from the whole school were being printed, fixed.
	Parent Change Contact Info	The email to school staff when a parent changes Emergency Contact data now labels each field as "Contact record…" so there is no confusion with changes to Student Data fields.
	Parent Account Registration	When parents are emailed their account confirmation email, the "School" parameter no longer be sent in the email for AeriesCS districts. This parameter was not used for anything and could cause confusion.
	Parent Login	When a parent tries to login to the system but has not yet confirmed their email address, they will be given a link to be able to send another confirmation email.
	Student Info by Class	The process of teachers viewing student data has been changed to be more secure. The new process, which does not impact the way the system is used, eliminates any possibility that a teacher can see information about a student they do not have.
	Gradebook Scores by Class	When none of the students in the class displayed a final mark, this page would generate an error, fixed.
	Gradebook	Gradebook Scores can now be entered according to how many correct answers a student had on an assignment. This is enabled because a "Max # Possible" can be identified for each Assignment and there is now an option to enter the Number Correct and the system will calculate the Point Value for the assignment automatically.
	Grades	ABI has been adjusted to support 2 character grade comment codes.
	Edit Assignments	When in Print Preview, changing gradebooks would not display the newly chosen gradebook after the page refreshed, fixed.
	Gradebook Summary	The Gradebook Summary Report now asks for the Assignments and Types to print on a second step in the options selection process. This will allow teachers to print this report for a different gradebook than the one they were looking at.
	Navigation	When parents or students only have access to the Fees and Fines or Activities areas underneath the Student Info tab, the tab is now available and labeled to match the child tab if only one area is accessible.
	Parent Access Restrictions	The ability to restrict access to the Fees & Fines, Counseling, Visitation, Interventions, and Retentions areas of ABI has been added for when a student is marked as having limited parent access through ABI.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	Entering SBG Grades by Standard will now allow the teacher to "Mass Set" values if they are doing data entry using the "Dropdowns" and are viewing only a single standard.
	Reports	Many reports throughout the system have been adjusted to have smaller text. This change was necessary to size the reports to be like they were with the old font of "Time New Roman."
	ABI Options	Logging into ABI as a system administrator would turn ON the option to do Summer School Period Blocking. It will no longer do this.
Version Date	Page	Comments
12/4/2008	Attendance and Grades	For AeriesCS districts, the Attendance and Grades pages log the details of every change made to ATT and GRD by teachers. This logging process now records the IP Address of the teacher.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	When editing the comments on Standards Based Grade Reporting, there is now a Character Count displayed so teachers know how much they have entered.
	Attendance	ABI now has the ability to display Absence, Tardy, Excused Absence, and Unexcused Absence Totals on the "Class Roster" version of the Attendance screen. To display these totals, the system admin must turn ON the options on the "More Att" tab of the ABI Options application.
	Attendance	ABI now has the ability to display an additional 5 Attendance Codes on the "Class Roster" version of the Attendance screen. The additional Attendance Codes can be configured on the Attendance tab of the ABI Options application.
	Gradebook	When teachers enter the Gradebook area of ABI, if they don't have any students to add or drop from a gradebook, they are now taken to the Scores by Class page automatically.
	Teacher Adhoc Emails	When choosing to include Parents of Students, student email addresses where being included if those students had ABI login accounts, fixed.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	The process of loading grades into Standards Based Grades from the Gradebook will now allow the load process to continue even if the "Current Grade Reporting Mark" in Aeries doesn't match the marking period that is currently editable in ABI.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	The option for showing + and - for mark type 3 is now supported in ABI.
	Parent Gradebook View	When Parents or Students view the gradebook, they are now first taken to a summary page that shows the overall percentage and grade in each class and they can then drill down into the details of particular gradebooks.
	Edit Gradebook	The page to edit or add a gradebook now allows a teacher to enter a standard category if the elementary school is using a master schedule.
	Gradebook Backups	After restoring one gradebook, if the "Restore Another Gradebook" was used to restore another gradebook, it would not work, fixed.
	Gradebook Backups	When restoring a gradebook and choosing a different teacher to load from, the list of gradebook backups was not being loaded until another gradebook was chosen for that teacher, fixed.
	Every Page	The font used by ABI has been changed from Times New Roman to Arial. This will improve readability of data viewed in ABI but may make some text slightly larger..
	Edit Gradebook Assignments	The Start and End Date fields on the Edit Gradebook Assignments popup window now have a Date Chooser available to select a date.
	Edit Gradebooks	The Start and End Date fields on the Edit Gradebooks popup window now have a Date Chooser available to select a date.
	Gradebook Scores by Class	The Class Average information now does not include students without any scores.
	Gradebook Scores by Class	This screen now has the ability to sort by Student, Grade, or Overall Score. AeriesCS districts also has the ability to sort by any of the assignment scores.
	Gradebook Print Assignments by Student	When printing this report for multiple gradebooks and for only students with missing assignments, sometimes blank pages would be generated for students without any missing assignments. This same issue applied to Emailing Missing Assignments to Parents for multiple gradebooks. These issues have been fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
10/13/2008	Grade Reporting	The sort order of the Grade Reporting Marks in the drop-down list have been adjusted to match the identified sort order from the Update Valid Marks form in Aeries.
	Student Info	The Student Info tabs for teachers now honor the new FLG Red Flag table logic.
	Attendance By Photo and Seating Chart	The Attendance By Photo and Seating Chart pages have been adjusted to display a smaller student image and also no longer display the student number. These changes should help fit more students on a single screen. The ability to click on a student's photo and display it larger in a new window has also been added.
	Grade Reporting	The Grade Reporting and Student Grades pages were generating an error because of the new CO field in the GRD table, fixed.
	Parent Registration	The process of registering for a parent account and associating that account with a student was confusing for parents when the student they were associating with did not have any Contact records in Aeries. This process has been changed to better accommodate that situation. Also, if a parent did not associate with a student during the registration process, but did so after logging into the system, the parent would have to log out of ABI and then back in to see the student they associated themselves with, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/10/2008	Student Attendance	Viewing Student Attendance would generate an error and not display any attendance details, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/9/2008	Seating Chart	Safari was having issues with the new Drag-And-Drop features. Some adjustments have been made to better support the Safari and Google Chrome Browsers.
	Passwords	If an account has a password of "welcome" or "changeme", the system will force that user to change their password before continuing to use the system.
	Student Contacts	Viewing Student Contacts with the Last Name or First Name fields populated would cause an error for parents, students, or counselor-style accounts, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/23/2008	Student Contacts	Viewing Student Contacts if the STU record had a Record Release (STU.DNR) value would generate an error, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/22/2008	Seating Chart	The Seating Chart and Attendance by Photo Pages for elementary schools were not allowing teachers to use the traditional grid structure for their class seating chart. Additionally, the Mass Assign Seats was not available. These issues have been fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/21/2008	School and District News	School and District News is a new tab that displays on the Teacher's Resources tab. The information on this page comes from the newly added School News and District News forms (NWS table) in Aeries. This feature will also be expanded later to allow parents and students to see this information.
	Parent Options	Parents and Students with accounts can now register to receive District and School News periodically by email. The option in on the User Options page, but is only available for districts who have implemented the AeriesCS and the Aeries.net Reporting Engine.
	Main Menu	The "Did You Know" area has been removed from the Main Menu page of ABI.
	Gradebook	There is now a new Data Entry Page called "Quick Data Entry" that allows the teacher to enter the first character of the last name and then enter the score for the assignment chosen on the screen. This should allow for quick data entry of assignments scores.
	Gradebook	There is now a new Sort field on each student in a gradebook that can be used by the teacher to sort students according to that number instead of alphabetically. This number will automatically increment as new students are added to a gradebook.
	Gradebook	The Gradebook Scores by Assignments and Scores by Student pages now have the ability to view only the Missing Assignments.
	Seating Chart	The Seating Chart now offers the ability to drag-and-drop students to their location on the screen instead of requiring the use of the grid.
	Gradebook Assignments	Teacher now have the flexibility to set Gradebook Assignments as not visible to the Student/Parent Portal. Teachers can also identify if they do not want the score of an assignment to be visible to Student and Parents.
	Student Contacts	The Contacts screen now displays an "Email List" of parents, the student, teachers, and counselor email addresses so that someone can easily email all interested people concerning a student.
	Student Classes	Class Schedules displayed for students now include the Teacher's Email Address in another column to make it easily visible.
	Navigation	The navigation tabs previously required that Firefox users click on the actual text of the tab. Now they can click anywhere on the tab just like IE users.
	Gradebook Student Scores	When parents or students log in and view the gradebook, if the first gradebook to be displayed has the option to Count Assignments When Entered, the option is not applied until the user switches gradebooks and then goes back to the original gradebook. This has been fixed to work the first time.
	Attendance	The Attendance page now displays students' middle names.
	Print Multi Data Profile	An error was occurring on certain Profiles, fixed.
	Editing Data	When a group was given permissions to Delete certain records like medical information, the Delete function was not working for SQL districts using Perm-ID Based tables, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
3/14/2008	Gradebook Print Assignments by Student	This report was generating an error if a student in a gradebook didn't have any assignments applying to them, fixed.
	Print Gradebook Summary	This report was not displaying the current Gradebook and Period information, fixed.
	Gradebook Options	Clicking on the Current Gradebook tab would cause the Gradebook Dropdown in the upper-left corner of the pag display the first gradebook instead of the current gradebook, fixed.
	Gradebook Scores By Assignment	The title of the gradebook displayed in the upper-right corner was always displaying the first gradebook, fixed.
	Physical Fitness	Inactive students were being displayed. This page has been adjusted to not show inactive students.
Version Date	Page	Comments
2/29/2008	All Pages	Every page in ABI has been evaluated for SQL-injection vulnerabilities and all known issues have been corrected.
	Course Requests	When entering course requests, entering a value into the Alternate Course field would sometimes not work or generate an error, fixed.
	Gradebook - Print Assignments by Student	Page breaking was sometimes not working when printing for Missing Assignments, fixed.
	Parent Account Creation	There was an internal restriction to the system that only allowed for 32,000 accounts to be created. This limit has been increased to 2.1 Billion.
Version Date	Page	Comments
2/4/2008	Physical Fitness	Physical Fitness Test Results can now be entered into the PFT table by PE teachers through ABI. This capability is also available in the PDA version of ABI.
	Student Information	The ACT - Activities and Awards table is now viewable in ABI. This information is also optionally editable by various groups of ABI users.
	Class Labels	The Class Labels program has been adjusted to better support IE 7 and Firefox on Windows.
	Print Gradebook Assignments by Student	Blank pages were being printed when only printing students above or below a certain percentage, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
1/11/2008	Lost Password	The Lost Password page was not properly cleansing the email address entered by the user and allowed for a possible SQL Injection attack. This has been corrected.
	Gradebook Scores by Student	Students now have the ability to use the File Upload system to turn in their assignments through ABI. This capability has been added to the "Current Assignments" tab (formerly the "Homework" tab). Note - the File Upload feature is only available for AeriesCS districts.
	Student Gradebook	The Gradebook view for just a single student has been redesigned to better handle the increased number of fields that is now displayed on this screen.
	Student/Parent Gradebook	The tabs formerly names "Class Assignments" and "Homework" are now named "Gradebook" and "Current Assignments". This new wording should be more self-explanatory for new users of ABI.
	Teacher Gradebook	Teachers using the ABI Gradebook now have the ability to enter a Due Time for each assignment as well as indicate if the assignment can be turned in online by students. The Due Time will tie in with student drop boxes and require that the student turn in the assignment before the Due Date and Due Time.
	Teacher Gradebook	The ABI Gradebook now has the ability to enter 3 documents for an assignment instead of the previous limit of one.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	When the Teacher view of Standards Based Grade Reporting is not editable, teachers could not change their view of the information from By Student to By Standard and vice-versa. This capability is now available.
	Teacher Add Grades	The process for teachers to add new records to GRD was not working, fixed.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	Was not allowing administrators to edit records like they used to be able to, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/17/2007	Teacher Add DIS records	This feature was not working in the last version if the school previously enabled this option, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/12/2007	Medical Info	The Dental table is now available in ABI. It has all the same optional security parameters as the other medical tables.
	Attendance	Limiting attendance posting to the time frame of the period was not properly working in AeriesCS, fixed.
	Student Data Editing	Counselors, Teachers, and Counselor-style accounts now have the option of being able to Add, Change, or Delete data in the Fees and Fines (FEE) table, Interventions (INV) table, Retentions (RET) table, Counseling (CNF) table, or Visitation (VIS) table.
	Student Data	The capability to view Fees and Fines (FEE), Interventions (INV), Retentions (RET), Counseling (CNF), and Visitation (VIS) has been added to ABI.
	Print Content Standards By Class	The Print Content Standards By Class report is now available to elementary schools.
	Standards Based Grade Reporting	The Standards Based Grade Reporting system in ABI now supports the concept of multiple teachers being assigned to different standards on a single student. This will be used when a school or district identifies course associations with standards for pull-out classes.
	Gradebook Edit Assignments	When adding a new assignment to a gradebook that is linked with other gradebooks, the suggested new assignment number will be one higher than the highest assignment in all linked gradebooks.
	Teacher Adhoc Emails	There was a prior limit of adding 200 email addresses at a single time, this limit has been increased to 500.
	Student and Contact Data Changing	The emails that are sent as a result of parents editing student and contact information has been changed to use full names for "School", "Student", and "Permanent ID".
	Discipline	Teachers adding new DIS records was not working against Access databases, fixed.
	Course Requests	Counselor-Style Accounts with View permissions to Course Requests were also inheriting the Counselor permissions to Edit Course Requests, fixed.
	Group Security	The Permissions to Add and Delete Course Requests has been removed. Only Change and View permissions are now available because refinement of Add and Delete permissions are not currently possible for Course Requests.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/30/2007	Reports	There is now a new option on the "Other 2" tab to allow teachers to print saved Multi Data Profile Reports for their own students. Turning on this option will enable a "Multi Data Profile" link on the Resources --> Reports page.
	Attendance	When posting lunch counts, some AeriesCS districts were receiving an error, fixed.
	Attendance	Schools doing Secondary-Daily Attendance can now use A/B Days and the Days of the Week features for the attendance period.
	Gradebook Edit Assignments	When adding a new assignment and using an existing assignment number, the renumbering process was generating an error for AeriesCS districts, fixed.
	System Header	For teachers logged in to the system, the header now displays the current teacher's name from the TCH.TE field in the database.
	Copyright	The ABI Version and Copyright notice have been added to the bottom of every page in ABI.
Version Date	Page	Comments
6/4/2007	Student Data	In AeriesCS, when teachers were allowed to switch between years, if the prior year did not use a PermID-based table when the current year did, an error would be generated, fixed.
	Counselor-Style Accounts	The permissions defined for Counselor-style accounts were not being honored by the last version of ABI, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
6/1/2007	Standards Based Grade Reporting	The Load process from the Gradebook in AeriesCS was not always reading the setting for Doing Pluses and Minuses correctly, fixed.
	Parent Account Creation	The email that is sent to the parent to verify the email address they enter will now contain the email address in the subject line so that bounce-backs will be easier to track.
	Parent Edit STU and CON	The email that gets sent after a parent changes STU or CON information now contains the school code, student number, and Perm ID of the student in the subject and body of the email.
	Gradebook Scores by Assignment	The row that the cursor is currently on is now highlighted.
	Gradebook Scores by Student	The row that the cursor is currently on is now highlighted.
	Gradebook Reports	If a student had a Low Assignment that was higher than the highest assignment in the gradebook, an error was being generated, fixed.
	Course Requests	When teachers entered course requests for a student, they were redirected to the wrong place in the system and had to navigate back, fixed.
	Grades and Standards Based Grades	There is now a new Grades option to "Hide Current Info from Students and Parents when Teachers are updating Grades." This option will hide the current mark and the other currently updateable information from students and parents when the grade posting window for teachers is open.
	Standards Based Grades	The Student Number and Grade Level are now shown in the dropdown list of students.
	Admin Control Panel	The ABI Admin Control Panel to change between teachers and students was not properly preventing P-Admins (Read-Only Admins) from accessing the Security, Manage PWA, and Gradebook Backups pages, fixed.
	Print Gradebook Summary	The Print Gradebook Summary Report now displays the Teacher Name at the top of the page.
	Student Attendance	When logged in as any type of user other than a teacher, changing the summary display range resulted in the user being taken back to the ABI Home page, fixed.
	Discipline	In AeriesCS, Teachers would receive an error trying to add a DIS record if the DIS table was PermID-based, fixed.
	Course Requests	There is a new option to Hide Scheduling Results from Parents and Students that, when turned ON, will show only the Course Request and Alternate Course on the Course Requests page when a student or parent looks at the page.
	Student Attendance	The summary section at the bottom of this page for Period Attendance was not displaying the All Day Code totals, fixed.
	Gradebook	Additional Assignment Status codes have been added to the Gradebook for: "Absent - No Make Up" and "Absent - Able to Make Up".
	Attendance	Schools setup for doing Secondary Daily Attendance will now have the roster of students on the attendance page honor the CAR table. This will allow for posting attendance to prior school days where the class list may have been different.
	Grade Reporting	Teachers now are not shown the Load From Gradebook link on the Grade Reporting page if a current marking period is not open.
	Gradebook Assignment Analysis	The graph showing score distribution was not handling scores above 100 properly, fixed.
	Gradebook Assignments by Student Report	This report was generating an error is a student had a Low Assignment range that was higher than the highest assignment being printed, fixed.
	File Uploading	A process to allow files to be uploaded to your system has been added to ABI. This feature is only available for AeriesCS (SQL) districts and involves an extensive setup and configuration process. Please contact Aeries 2nd Level Support for more information.
	Graduation Status	The Grad Status calculation in ABI needed some adjustments to match the calculation from Aeries, done.
	Event Calendar	The Display Type of the calendar is now remembered for an individual user the next time they log in to ABI.
	System Emails	In AeriesCS, the system was sometimes using the incorrect principal's name in the body of the email, fixed.
	Gradebook Admin Backups	The Admin process for backing up gradebooks did not support a UNC path, fixed.
	Parent Account Creation	If a parent creates an account that is later deleted by the system administrator in AeriesCS, if the parent tries to create another account with the same email address, the system will re-activate the old, delete-tagged records in the PWA table in stead of trying to create a new record.
	Gradebook Import from TST	The import process from the CST table was generating errors, fixed.
	Gradebook Import from TST	The process to import scores from TST/CST to the Gradebook would generate an error in no one in the current school or class took the test that the teacher was attempting to import from, fixed.
	Login	If a user attempted to log in to ABI and typed an incorrect password, the system was sending the incorrect password back in the URL. This was not needed by the system and posed a potential security risk. The password in the URL has been removed.
	Grade reporting Load From Gradebook	The process of loading secondary grades from the ABI Gradebook was not always choosing the correct assignment range for the first gradebook in step 3, fixed.
	Gradebook	Gradebook Reports were still having issues printing page breaks in IE 7. Additional changes have been made to these reports to correct this issue.
	Admin Security	The Administrative Security page was not handling account with apostrophes in them, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
2/2/2007	Gradebook Scores by Assignment	The Gradebook Scores by Assignment page for AeriesCS was generating an error when sorting by student name.
	Gradebook Class Scores	The description of each assignment is now shown when you mouse over the assignment number in the header and footer of the page.
Version Date	Page	Comments
2/1/2007	Parent Account Creation	There is now a link during the Parent Accoutn Creation Wizard to go back to the login page.
	Print Gradebook Student Scores	The Print Gradebook Student Scores report now has an option to "Show Completion Checks Instead of Scores" that will hide the actual score a student received on an assignment and print only a Check or nothing for a student to indicate if the assignment was completed and scored.
	Teacher Change Student Email	The process that allows teachers to change STU and CON email addresses, when adding an email address when one was not there previously, was not properly creating new PWA accounts in Access Aeries and was creating an account with a duplicate email address in AeriesCS, fixed.
	Parent Account Creation	The confirmation email that is sent to parents will no longer make reference to the "Confirmation Code" if they are to manually confirm the email address instead of clicking on the link. This item has been changed to "Email Code" to avoid confusion that some parents were having with the Verification Code needed to associate the account with a student.
	Gradebook	A new feature has been added to the Gradebook for teachers to create Grading Scales with valid alpha marks and to assign those scales to assignments. There is now a new tab on the Maintenance page called Scales where they can be managed by individual teachers. Once a Scale is assigned to an assignment, the various areas to input scores for that assignments will include a drop-down list of valid marks. When one of those marks is chosen instead of entering a numeric score, the Percentage assigned to the mark will be factored into the Max Score for the assignment and internally, the student will receive that percentage of the Max Score as their Score for that assignment.
	Student Data	The Student Demographic Data shown in ABI now includes Alias Names, CSIS ID, and Parent Ed Level.
	Gradebook Scores by Assignment	The headings on this page no longer turn the various input fields ON and OFF, they now sort the students by the data displayed in each column.
	Gradebook Summary Report	The Gradebook Summary Report now has the option to sort on the Overall Scores of Students.
	Gradebook Assignment Analysis	The Gradebook Assignment Analysis Report now has the ability to produce a bar chart of the actual scores on an assignment.
	Gradebook	There is now a new Gradebook report called "Final Mark Analysis" that is a bar graph of final marks for students in a single or across multiple gradebooks.
	Gradebook	Assignments of individual students can now be flagged with a new "Status" value. Currently the available codes are: "Late", "Incomplete", "Not Yet Graded", & "Not Yet Processed". Additional values may be added in the future.
	Gradebook - Standards Based Grades	There is now the ability to identify a Standard Category for an entire gradebook. Doing this will make every assignment apply to the Achievement mark and will limit the Assignment Standards dropdown to just the standards in that category.
	Gradebook Assignment Scores	The ability to import Gradebook Scores from the Aeries TST or CST tables has been added to the system. The option must first be turned ON to allow teachers to see the "Import Scores from TST/CST" button on the bottom of the "Scores by Assignment" page.
	Gradebook to Standards Grades	The process for loading SBG from the Gradebook, now remembers the mark value ranges that are entered. Additionally, if a gradebook has nothing already entered for the values, the values from another of the teacher's gradebooks will be automatically used.
	All Reports	All reports in ABI that utilize hard page breaks have been adjusted to support IE 7.
	Event Calendar	Teachers with more than 200 gradebook assignments due on the same day would cause the event calendar to give an error, fixed.
	Gradebook Backup and Restore	Fields with single quotes in them were causing problems when the backup was done by the system administrator, fixed.
	Gradebook Edit Assignment	The system now does not allow teachers to enter an assignment number 0 (zero).
	Gradebook Backups	In AeriesCS (SQL), gradebooks from other schools with the same teacher number were displaying for teachers doing a Backup process, fixed.
	Gradebook Student Transfer	An error was being generated if a student had an apostrophe in the Gradebook Score Comment fields, fixed.
	Event Calendar	Elementary Teachers who do not have any sections had the ability to add "Section-Level" events without a section number. This resulted in errors when the events were attempted to be displayed. This capability has been removed.
	Change STU & CON Email	This process was not working for CON tables in AeriesCS that are PermID-Based, fixed.
	Gradebook Scores by Student	There is now a global school option to only display a Checkbox to parent and student accounts when they view the Gradebook "Class Assignments" page. This could be useful for elementary schools who generally do not want parents seeing the precise assignment scores because of the complexity in determining Standards Based Grade Reporting.
Version Date	Page	Comments
9/22/2006	Grade Reporting	Teachers with permissions to change the Credit value of a GRD record would have the GRD.CR field zeroed out when submitting grade reporting marks, fixed.
	Gradebook Student Scores	Parents and students viewing this page will now see gradebooks where the student is no longer active, labeled "DROPPED" and will be shown at the bottom of the list.
	Gradebook Backups	In AeriesCS (SQL), gradebooks from other schools with the same teacher number were displaying for teachers, fixed.
Version Date	Page	Comments
8/30/2006	Gradebook	The ability to import gradebook scores from BlackBoard is now available. The option needs to be turned ON in ABI Options and a BlackBoard.udl needs to be created in the c:\ABIConn\ directory. It is required that the BlackBoard database be populated with Student ID Numbers and Teacher Email Addresses for this process to work.
	Gradebook Student Transfer	This process was confusing to some teachers. The wording has changed to better express that the Transfer process is a PULL process. Additionally, errors were being generated by GBS records with NULL values in some fields. This has been fixed.
	Student & Parent Logins	Instances where students have been in multiple schools but have had one of their STU records deleted could potentially log a student or parent into ABI as the Delete-tagged STU record, fixed.
	Transcripts	Added support for multiple TDF records.
	Print Content Standards By Class	Added support for Perm-ID Based CST tables in AeriesCS.
	Print Student Content Standards	Added support for Perm-ID Based CST tables in AeriesCS.
	Print Gradebook Assignments by Student and Email Assignments	These programs can now process multiple gradebooks at once. This allows for a student in multiple gradebooks to have all the information from multiple gradebooks displayed together or emailed together.
	ABI Options	Added new option to "Allow Access to Last Year (Read Only)". This new feature is only enabled for teacher accounts and displays as a link to "Switch to Last Year" on the Main Menu page. In order for this feature to work properly, a SchoolData#Last.udl must be created to point to your previous year database. For AeriesCS districts using a single SchoolDataSQL.udl, they must create a SchoolDataSQLLast.udl.
	User Options	Parent and Student accounts using the PWA table will now see the Options link at the top of the ABI header. The Options page will allow parents and students to define what types of email from the district they do not want to receive.
	ABI Logins	The Web Users form in Aeries now has the ability to identify a Numeric Passcode for each account. When a value is specified, the user, when they log in to Aeries, will be prompted to click on a virtual keypad to enter their numeric passcode. This Passcode can also be changed by using the Change Password area.
	Manage PWA Accounts	Added the capability to display students and all of the related PWA accounts. Also in AeriesCS (SQL), added paging to the result set of accounts or students so that districts with thousands of accounts can use this page to manage the PWA records.
	Student Info By Class	Added an option to allow teachers to change a student's or contact's email address. The change will apply to all instances of a particular email address in the system and will also create a PWA account or modify an existing one if necessary.
	Teacher Mass Emailing	Added the ability to load email addresses for all of the teacher's students and for secondary schools, all student or parents in an individual section.
	Gradebook Backups	Streamlined the process for restoring information from backups made last year.
	Manage PWA Accounts	Added the capability to delete students from certain accounts.
	Parent Student Associations	The process for adding a new student to a Parent account will warn the parent if the student does not have a Home Telephone Number and will not allow the association to occur.
	Gradebook Scores by Class	A legend of the Gradebook rules is now show at the bottom of the page if the assignment key is also being shown. Otherwise, a note at the bottom of the page in Red will indicate "Grading Rules are in effect."
	Discipline (DIS)	Added the option for teachers to be able to add new DIS records to the database. This can be used as a "Teacher Referral" or for other purposes. Teachers can only add new records, but they can not change or delete existing records.
	Navigation	For Parent, Student, and Administrative accounts, the Main Grades tab will now go directly to the Grades sub-tab (either GRD or SBG) if that option is turned ON. Otherwise, it will continue to go to the blank page where the user is prompted to choose another page.
	Gradebook Edit	Inactive sections are now displayed at the end of the section list in brackets.
	Gradebook Score by Student	The Grading Rules were not being applied for students without explicit High Assignment Range values, fixed to handle zero for a high assignment value.
	Gradebook Student Transfer Process	An update to the transfer process has been made. The process would error out if a score was removed for an assignment.