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# 23 October - Fall update

🏷️ Web version 4.42.1 | Mobile version 3.31.0

## 🚀 New Features/Enhancements

#### Absences

Mark students absent and keep scores honest.

* **Mark absent from the student profile**: staff can mark a student absent for today or a past day, with a reason, and see who marked it
* **Absences tab**: every student profile shows the last 12 months of absences in one place
* **Mark from the students list**: a new Mark absent action lets you record absences without opening each profile
* **No more false perfect scores**: absent students show as Absent on profiles and classroom cards instead of 100%, and absent days no longer count as perfect in behavior averages
* **CICO covers the whole day**: marking a student absent settles every CICO plan for that day, and absent students are left out of check-in and check-out totals

Learn more: [Mark Absent](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/students/mark-absent)

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#### Student Profile

* **New Overview**: a trend chart and guardian cards at the top of the profile, with clear states when a feature is turned off
* **History lives in the profile**: the separate student history pop-up is now part of the profile, with filters that adapt to the type of activity, a Given by me filter, and downloads
* **Mood Check**: SEL Check-in is now called Mood Check, and each student's moods are shown over time

Learn more: [Mood Check](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/mood-check)

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#### Reports and School Year

* **Simpler reports**: a cleaner reports screen with a new rosters filter and consistent headers
* **Look back by school year**: reports can now pull data from previous school years
* **School year on records**: infractions and Mood Check records show their school year, and you can pick which year to view
* **Year-aware tracking**: infractions, Mood Check, and CICO now follow the active school year, and house standings open on the year
* **Tables remember your filters**: sorting and filters are kept in the page address, so a refresh or a shared link keeps your view

Learn more: [Run Reports](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/run-reports)

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#### Behavior Tracking

* **School closures and holidays**: closed days are skipped by CICO and no longer drag down fidelity
* **CICO goals as a period roster**: every goal in a plan is loaded and laid out by period
* **Edit score labels**: customize the labels and descriptions of your CICO score options
* **Infractions switch works**: turning Infractions off now actually stops infractions from being recorded
* **My Tasks for CICO-only schools**: schools using only CICO can still reach My Tasks

Learn more: [Check in check out (CICO)](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/check-in-check-out-cico)

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#### Messaging

* **Urgent messages**: urgent messages stay flagged until the reader has read them
* **Links that work**: web addresses in messages are now clickable on web and mobile
* **Translation, one setting**: direct message translation is now a single shared setting, with an on/off switch in the mobile translate sheet
* **Guardian chats at a glance**: direct messages with guardians are marked and show the guardian's students
* **Better email digests**: the unread digest points to the right school and links straight to each conversation
* **Mobile**: tap an image attachment to enlarge it, and an open channel is marked read as new messages arrive

Learn more: [Messaging](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/general/how-to/messaging)

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#### School Feed

* **Multiple photos, videos, and documents per post**: attach several files to one post
* **PDF previews**: the first page of a PDF shows on feed post cards on mobile
* **Create post, step by step**: the create post tabs are now guided wizard steps
* **Schedule when a post appears**: choose when a feed post becomes available
* **Notification hours**: non-urgent notifications are held outside delivery hours, and posts can be flagged important
* **Class feed tab**: the class feed tab now appears as soon as you save the setting

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Learn more: [Create Feed Posts](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/create-feed-posts)

#### Address Book and Guardians

* **Account status in the Address Book**: see at a glance whether each guardian has an active account
* **Fix guardian details**: staff can correct guardian details at their own school
* **First and last name required**: guardians now enter both names when updating their info and when signing up on mobile
* **Unlink the last student**: remove a guardian's last student right from the edit window
* **School switcher**: guardians with children at more than one school can switch between them, with fixes to the mobile switcher

Learn more: [Manage address book](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/manage-address-book)

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#### Calendar

* **Choose your Google Calendars**: pick which Google Calendars sync to your school calendar, and the page loads faster
* **Events in the right order**: upcoming events are sorted by their full date, soonest first

Learn more: [Connect Google Calendar](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/connect-google-calendar)

#### Rostering and Imports

* **Infinite Campus**: a new Infinite Campus rostering add-on
* **Clear setup steps**: rostering setup now says who each step is waiting on
* **Bigger syncs**: Clever and ClassLink syncs now page through every section enrollment
* **Manage rosters**: admins can archive and delete rosters, and the last staff member can be removed from a roster
* **Better CSV uploads**: uploads were rewritten, error messages are in sentence case and point to the affected rows, and schools can see the import error recorded by our importer
* **Duplicate student IDs**: admins can resolve duplicate student IDs themselves
* **Homeroom**: homeroom is now available in student downloads and CSV updates
* **Letters and QR codes by roster**: download letters and QR codes for a single roster, and printing guardian letters is no longer capped at 200 pages

Learn more: [Rostering and add-ons](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/rostering-and-addons)

#### Points and Houses

* **10+ point awards**: admins can lift the 10-point cap for all staff school-wide
* **Houses stay in sync**: points are reconciled when a student changes house, and none are left stranded on the unassigned house
* **Frozen points**: points awarding is disabled in mobile when a school has points frozen
* **Leaderboard**: a leaderboard now needs at least 2 houses

Learn more: [Manage points](https://guides.rcahousepoints.com/admin/how-to/manage-points)

#### Dashboard and Districts

* **Pulse**: the dashboard counts students recognized and staff awarding week to date
* **Staff adoption**: refreshed staff adoption view, plus a new staff dashboard in the mobile app
* **District overview**: district admins can see how each of their schools is performing

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## 🐛 Bug Fixes

**Sign in and accounts**

* Addressed an issue where some staff and admins with an older login got stuck on the account disabled page
* Addressed a brief flash of the wrong page when a school was disabled
* Addressed an issue where invite and password reset users landed on the home page instead of the login page
* Addressed duplicate invite and password reset emails, and shared invite links being invalidated when the link screen was opened
* Addressed a crash on login for users with no school
* Addressed an issue where the offline banner stayed on after the connection came back

**Students and guardians**

* Addressed an issue where restoring an archived student did not bring back their guardian link
* Addressed an issue that granted guardian access when a guardian role had been deleted
* Addressed an issue where staff could not be deleted at schools with only one staff account

**Leaderboard and points**

* Addressed an issue where a quote mark in a category name crashed the leaderboard settings page
* Addressed an issue where another school's leaderboard link was replaced by one from the same user
* Addressed an issue where a custom placeholder could be saved without a valid image
* Addressed an issue where retired behavior categories crashed infraction recording
* Addressed an issue where point awards were not limited to the current school

**Messaging and feed**

* Addressed an issue with the direct message intro when a conversation had more than two members
* Addressed an issue where the message popover was hidden behind the message box on mobile
* Addressed an issue where infraction categories mixed with points categories while scrolling on mobile

**Mobile**

* Addressed an issue with Google login returning to the app on Android
* Addressed an issue where push notifications stopped after signing out or switching schools
* Addressed a stuck loading spinner on the staff students page
* Addressed an issue where language translation did not work on mobile

**Subscriptions**

* Addressed issues where archived products and prices were not resolved correctly on the subscription settings page

**General**

* Addressed minor issues with school year transition, school grade levels showing for the wrong school, and long country names

## ☺️ P.S.

We appreciate your feedback and regularly update the app based on your suggestions. Please continue sharing your feature requests or ideas through the community link in your sidebar. Thank you!


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