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Release Notes: MN v9.15.0 Jan 28th, 2026
Attach Documents to Announcements | Attendance Arrival/Dismissal Improvements | Transparency in School Remittance and Payment Reports | Improved Communication Restrictions for Special Custody Status | Class Schedule Calendar Improvement | Maintenance and Bug Fixes
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Attach Documents to Announcements
We’ve added a highly requested feature to make communication easier! Teachers (from Classroom module) and Admins (from School Module) can now attach documents directly to announcements, so parents can easily access important files like flyers and handbooks.
🆕What’s New?
- Add Attachments to Announcements - Upload multiple documents at once (up to 10 MB per file) when creating announcements in both School and Classroom modules.
- Supported File Types
- Documents: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt, .rtf, .csv, .xlsx, .xls, .ppt, .pptx
- Images: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .ico, .webp, .tif, .tiff
- Security & Restrictions - Executable files and audio/video files cannot be uploaded for safety and performance.
- Helpful Guidance - A clear help text will remind you of size limits and restrictions while uploading.
Here is how the attachment will show within the announcement widget in dashboards 
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Attendance Arrival/Dismissal Improvements
- Flexible Arrival & Dismissal Time Entry - We’ve made attendance tracking even easier!
- Independent Dismissal Entry - Record dismissal times even if arrival time hasn’t been entered. Perfect for scenarios where students leave and return outside the usual sequence.
- Improved Validation Experience - If you enter an invalid time, the system will show an error without clearing your previously saved data, so you can correct it quickly.
- Smart Field Visibility - Arrival and dismissal fields are automatically hidden when you select “Absent” as the attendance type, keeping the interface clean and relevant.
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Attendance by Class report
- This report is updated to include the Arrival and Dismissal timestamp data.
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Transparency in School Remittance and Payment Reports
To provide schools with complete clarity on financial transactions, we’ve updated the School Remittance Report and Payments Report:
🆕What’s New?
- Added Columns: Transaction Fees and Total Amount are now displayed alongside the existing Amount column.
- Improved Report Layout: Both columns appear on the inside pages of the report, with sub-totals for each column.
- Payments & Account Modals: Transaction Fees and Total Amount are now visible when you click on Payment or Account. Modal size has been adjusted for better readability.
✔️Why This Matters:
Schools can now easily view the breakdown of transaction fees and total amounts, ensuring full transparency and reducing confusion.
Remittance Report
Payment Report
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Improved Communication Restrictions for Special Custody Status
We’ve strengthened communication controls to protect student privacy:
- Contacts with Special Custody Status: Individuals marked as Restrained, Monitored, or Visitation will no longer receive school communications, including bulk emails.
- Why This Matters: This update ensures restricted information is not shared with contacts who should not have access, aligning with portal access restrictions.
- Impact: Schools can confidently manage communications without risk of sending information to restricted contacts.
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Class Schedule Calendar Improvement
Schedule calendar in the Household portal now shows Full-Day schedule to ensure all classes are visible, even those outside standard school hours:
- Dynamic Full-Day Display: If class occur before 7:00 AM or after 4:00 PM, the calendar adjusts automatically:
- Normal schedule: Shows 7 AM – 4 PM
- Classes before 7 AM and after 5 PM: Shows 24 hours (12 AM – 12 AM)
- Classes after 5 PM only: Shows 7 AM – 12 AM
- Classes before 7 AM only: Shows 12 AM – 5 PM
- Month, Week, and Day Views: All views now reflect the complete schedule, including early morning and late evening classes.
- Why This Matters: Perfect for schools offering summer programs, after-school care, and other extended schedules—parents and staff can now see every event at a glance.
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Maintenance and Bug Fixes
- Process Queue: We’ve improved system performance by separating the processing queues for communication messages and report cards. This prevents them from competing for priority and ensures faster, smoother delivery for both.
- Clever Sync Alert: We improved the Clever SFTP sync process to ensure accurate reporting for all schools. The system now uses enhanced log filtering to correctly identify when all six required files have been successfully sent to clever and avoid any false failure alerts.
- Student Progress Report: Time out issue for high school is fixed. The underlying query has been updated and validated, ensuring accurate section counts and smooth report processing.
- UI Logger: We’ve fixed an issue where the UI Logger wasn’t capturing activity in browsers including Chrome, Edge, and Safari due to a JavaScript error. With this fix, logging now works reliably across all supported browsers, ensuring accurate data is collected and stored in the database again.
- Gradebook Codes: Validation has been added to the Gradebook Codes to prevent the use of invalid color values. Both font and background color codes are now required to be valid 3‑ or 6‑digit hexadecimal formats.
