Online Grades

Important Security Fix: We have made updates to the login code to prevent SQL injections [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection ], which would allow someone to log in without having a valid password. Everyone needs to upgrade to the latest ... [More] version (3.2.5). If you are on 3.2.4 you can delay the upgrade by manually upgrading the following four files using the 3.2.4.1 download: studentlogin.php admin/admin_login.php faculty/facultylogin.php parents/login.php New Features: [ 1650274 ] - Rich Text Editor for Notes using TinyMCE (see http://docs.onlinegrades.org/Installing_TinyMCE_for_OG ) [ 1167387 ] - CSV uploads of information in the Admin Interface - Including added the ability to upload parent accounts [ 1167380 ] - Web based database schema installer to help with fresh installs [ 1560343 ] - Added ability to accept assignment dates in the export from the Grade book software. (No number) - Added printer friendly views for Parents and Faculty (No number) - Added ability to send welcome email to students after account creation or edits (No number) - Fix for Firefox printing where DIVs spanned more than one page. Thanks to David Kenneally for providing a fix. Bugs Fixed: [ 1634529 ] Mailer -- Mail to All Broken [ 1549133 ] IE "conditional compilation is turned off" javascript error [ 2009929 ] admin/client_update.php SQL Error Plus more that did not get put into the Bug Tracker Other news: Export Support for the "OpenGrade" grade book software - http://www.lightandmatter.com/ogr/ogr.html Upgrade Instructions: 1. Backup your database 2. Backup your current Online Grades Installation. 3. Upload new files, replacing all files except config.php 4. Run and follow instructions in http:///upgrade.php 5. Once you are finished, delete the upgrade.php and the install.php files. 6. That is it! If you have any question, feel free to post to the forums. Sam and Beau [Less]

Important Security Fix: We have made updates to the login code to prevent SQL injections [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection ], which would allow someone to log in without having a valid password. Everyone needs to upgrade to the latest ... [More] version. If you are on 3.2.4 you can delay the upgrade by manually upgrading the following four files using the 3.2.4.1 download: studentlogin.php admin/admin_login.php faculty/facultylogin.php parents/login.php Get the 3.2.4.1 upgrade package here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=127473&package_id=139528&release_id=658722 [Less]

I know it’s been over a year since anything was posted I thought I would take a moment to update everyone. Although we haven’t had time lately to actively release a new version you will still find the latest bug fixes and some new features in the ... [More] CVS version which can be found in the navigation to the left. If you are in need of help or find a bug please let us know via SourceForge, you will also find those links in the left navigation menu. Until Next Time, The Online Grades Team [Less]

First off I would like to thank everyone who voted for Online Grades in the CCA, but we didn't make it. In the efforts of supporting open-source please remember to vote for the projects that have made it to the final nominations.

Merry Christmas! We are pleased to announce the release of Online Grades version 3.2.4. This release features "Grade Groups" capability, which allows for coaches or administrators to review the overall grades for a group of students. Thanks to ... [More] "evilpluto" for doing much of the work to move this feature over from an old version of Basmati. For an overview of how Grade Groups works please see http://docs.onlinegrades.org/Faculty_Group_Grades. If you are wondering where Online Grades 3.2.3 went, we decided to skip this version number due to the new Grade Groups functionality and other new features that have been added since 3.2.2. There were no database changes in this release, so upgrading is very straight forward. See http://docs.onlinegrades.org/Upgrading_from_Previous_Versions for details. If you upgraded from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 the procedure is the same. We are also pleased to announce support for a new grade book program, GradeL - http://gradel.sourceforge.net/ . GradeL is a free graphical grade book program that currently runs only on Linux. Thanks for your continued support of the growing Online Grades community and we look forward to another year! Details of the new features and bugs fixed are below. Beau and Sam New Features: 1580566 Added Grade Groups 1194191 Allow admins to upload grades for other teachers 1599347 Support for per login help links 1421752 Modify update checker to reduce hits (No number) Added a demonstration mode to help with the Online Grades Demo. (No number) Added ability to sort tables on the fly using JavaScript (multiple locations) (No number) Added ability to send mail to any user with an associated email address (No number) Moved the SQL query and quick query in the admin area to an "expert mode" area. Bugs Fixed: 1616839 Fix for password reset email not being sent 1612878 Fixed IIS/PHP as CGI Login Session Problem 1582098 Fix for being unable to change default admin 1582092 Added support for short_open_tag off PHP option 1580649 Fixed Remove Student bug in the parent center 1574982 Fixed Email Validation Bug for .info addresses (No number) News & Updates would display error if logged in as semi-admin (No number) Fix for incorrect email link from parents.php?func=showgradebook (No number) Fixed default value in the config [Less]

The Online Grades team is pleased to announce the release of Online Grades 3.2.2. This release incorporates several bug fixes and adds a few new minor features. There are no database changes this release, so upgrading consists only of upgrading the ... [More] files on your server to the new versions. Bugs fixed: 1561868 All interface go offline when student area is set to be offline 1560184 Table Name not all caps in admin/course_list.php (no number) Admin Area export to CSV would not work if PHP magic quotes was turned on (no number) Faculty could not change their password due to the system thinking the user name was being changed (when it was not). The code used here was rewritten, as well as the option added (see below) for disabling the ability of teachers to change their user names in the prefs. New Features: 1432927 Allow students to change their password, but not their first and last name. -- If allowed in the admin configs, students could change their password, email address and first and last name. To reduce the risk of students changing their name to something nefarious, there is now a per-school option (admin --> edit school) that allows you to decide whether students should be able to change their names or not. This options defaults to NO. (included in 1432927) Allow faculty members to change their preferences, but don't allow them to change their user names -- The Online Grades Admin config contains an option that determines whether faculty are able to change their preferences. One of the preferences that they could change was their login id, or user name. Since changing the user name is potentially confusing, there is now a per-school option (admin --> edit school) that determines whether teachers at that school are able to change their user name if they are allowed to change their preferences. The option defaults to no. 1559502 A warning is displayed in the admin interface if you are not running MySQL > 4.1 (no number) A change was made so that the link at the bottom of the student login screen is to the parent login screen, if the parent center is available (it can be turned on and off in the admin configuration section). This is a change because previously the link here was to the faculty login screen. The faculty login screen retains its link to the admin login as well as the student login. If you would like the Student login to still have a link to the faculty login look for the commented out code in the include/common_gui.php file. This change was suggested by one of the schools who uses Online Grades. Thanks for supporting Online Grades. If you have any questions, feature request or bugs please feel free to post them to the correct areas at http://www.onlinegrades.org/ . In addition, if you have any interest in helping out with Online Grades, through programing or documentation, we always welcome an extra hand. --The Online Grades Team [Less]

New Features Implemented: 1484220 Offer Drop-down for school list at login - This new option can be selected via the Admin config interface. 1167376 Tools for deleting/viewing/editing data - Multiple Admin Interface tools for viewing ... [More] , deleting, editing, exporting class, student, teacher, parent data General: - Online Grades 3.2.1 requires MySQL version 4.1.x or later due to the use of subqueries. - New Online Grades web site deployed since last release http://www.onlinegrades.org - New documentation center online at http://docs.onlinegrades.org - Beginnings of context based help added. We now have several "help" links that go to the improved online documentation. Bugs fixed: 1522715 10 Digits in SID don't work 1501388 Multiple Parent Center Prefs bugs 1501387 Allow student to change pref not saving 1468164 Can't add admins [Less]

Hello from Online Grades! The 3.2.1 version is currently in development. In addition to several small bug fixes from 3.2.0 the major addition we are currently working is improved tools for deleting, editing, and managing student, teacher, and ... [More] parent accounts. In addition these tools will help manage viewing a removing the course and grade data in Online Grades. You may find these tools useful late spring/early summer, which is when the new version should be available. ***One requirement for these new features to work will be to have MySQL version 4.1 or higher.*** To generate some of the new information we are using sql subqueries, which were introduced with in MySQL with version 4.1. Please check your server or hosting setup now so that you are prepared when new new features are available. If you need help feel free to post to the forums. There has been some interest in a file upload/storage facility built into Online Grades. This would allow teachers to upload assignments for students to download if they have lost their copy of the assignment. If this is something your school is interested in please consider if you or someone on your staff could help with the planning (ideas, rough layouts), development (writing the php code), or testing. See Feature Request # 1179210 at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1179210&group_id=127473&atid=708662 for more information about the request and feel free to make comments there or in the forums. Sourceforge.net had problems with their CVS (development file storage/revision control) for several weeks but these have now been resolved and so it is now again possible to download the current development version of Online Grades via CVS. See http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=127473 for more information and feel free to post to the forums or email if you need help. --Sam [Less]

Welcome to the Online Grades 3.2.0 release. We have made many improvements and are excited to release our best version yet! There are several major new features in this release: To your teachers, the main difference they will see is the teacher ... [More] memos. They will need to migrate their current teacher memo to the new per-class teacher memos. The old teacher memos will still be visible to the teachers but not visible to students. Administrators will appreciate being able to change all the common configurations options via the administrative web interface. In addition, many administrators will like the new semi-admin logins that give restricted access to the administrative interface (restricted to one school and limited options). Parents are now able to have their own login into Online Grades. If they have more than one student with grades in Online Grades they only need their single login to access all their students' grades. New Features: 1424122 - Time Zone offset per school - Requested by Benton High School 1167384 - Switched to a mostly web based configuration. 1179209 - Memo for each class - Requested by Christian Heritage School 1179212 - Parent Login - Allows parents to have a single login for one or multiple children. - Requested by Christian Heritage School 1189351 - Anchoring Left Navigation so that is no longer pushed down the page when the main content is long. 1320617 - Semi-Admin User - Give basic admin ability without giving full admin access. - Requested by rahenkamp 1199499 - "Delete All Classes" button for teachers 1262189 - Split Offline Feature - Added the ability to turn on and off any login section independently 1395588 - Update DB, import for New Grade book Fields (class level teacher comments, student free text comments, attendance) 1408310 - Display Attendance Information for Students 1406996 - Configurable SMTP Server for OG generated emails - Requested by jfouks General - Moved lots more code to functions to reduce code duplication between sections of Online Grades. Bugs Fixed: 1264373 - upload error if % score field is blank (rarely seen condition) 1321118 - Error when editing school that already existed. You may download the latest version of Online Grades at http://www.onlinegrades.org/download, the latest version of the documentation is also available at http://www.onlinegrades.org/download. If you have any questions while upgrading or installing please feel free to post in the forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=127473 . If you find any bugs they should be posted to the Bug Tracker - http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=127473&atid=708659 and if you have any ideas for improvements or additional features they should be posted to the Feature Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=708662&group_id=127473 . If you are interested in contributing improvements to Online Grades, feel free to submit patches. Thanks for using Online Grades! [Less]

The Online Grades development has entered a feature freeze in preparation for release. No new features are being added at this point, only bug fixes. Three schools are testing the new version "in production" and there have not been any major issues. We are updating the documentation and hope to release at the end of the month.