Gibbon 25.0.00 is now available. This release includes improvements, new features, changes and bug fixes.

Gibbon 25.0.00 is free, open source software: its flexible design gives schools complete control and freedom.
Gibbon collates student information, helping teachers to understand, contact, find and help their students. It allows teachers to plan, teach, collect, assess and return work in one streamlined process. It is built by teachers, with the primary purpose of aiming to solve problems common to all schools.

Gibbon 25.0.00 Changelog

Gibbon v25.0.00 (Ice House Street). This release includes a new tool for visually managing internal staff coverage, making teacher substitutions easier than ever. In addition we have supercharged the timetable, which now displays activities and duties, both of which can also be included in coverage requests.The Admissions module and flexible Form Builder, added as beta in v24, are now the default for fresh installations. In addition, Messenger now includes a Pre-Flight mode, allowing sending users to see who will receive a message, and to receive a testing copy.

v25 also includes future attendance for ad hoc groups, an Off Timetable option for special days, custom fields for lesson plans and more than 40 other enhancements and improvements.

🪩 New Features

•  Messages can now be saved as a draft and previewed before sending
• Activities, staff duty and coverage now display on the timetable
• The new admissions system is turned on by default and is no longer in beta
• Staff coverage can now be requested for timetabled classes, activities or duty
• New visual tools have been added to help assign and manage coverage internally

📝 Changed

• System: activated the lt_LT Lietuvių Kalba – Lithuanian locale
• Attendance: added the option to take future attendance for ad hoc groups
• School Admin: added an Off Timetable option for special days
• Staff: added a drag-drop interface for creating and managing a duty schedule
• Timetable Admin: changed Participant counts to Student counts in Course Enrolment by Class, adding minimum and maximum enrolment controls to courses

🪄 Enhancements

• System: improved the access error message for non-logged in users
• System: updated Parent Weekly Summary CLI to not send if date is outside school year
• System: improved right-to-left support in Default theme
• System: added new hooks for Staff Profile and Lesson Planner
• System: added Malawian Kwacha, Algerian Dinar, Uganda Shilling, Zimbabwean Dollar as currency options
• Activities: display current school attendance when taking activity attendance
• Admissions: added custom field support to Student Enrolment
• Attendance: enabled taking Future attendance on the current date
• Data Updater: added a search option to all Manage Update pages
• Data Updater: updated Family Data Updater History to order parents by contact priority
• Finance: added Outstanding Amount total to payment log for partial paid invoices
• Form Groups: removed website column from View Form Groups page
• Individual Needs: add a notification event for New Investigation
• Messenger: added the ability to send confidential messages which are not viewable by other users
• Messenger: updated the Transport target to be able to handle comma-separated transport values
• Messenger: improved the success message for confirmed read receipts
• Messenger: added form group name to students in Individual target list
• Messenger: added the option to determine confirmation type in Send Report
• Markbook: added Term filter to student view, when Group Columns by Term enabled
• Markbook: increased maxlength of Name field to 40 characters
• Planner: improved the error message when unable to access classes in Unit Planner
• Planner: update Add Lesson Plan to suggest dates based on existing lesson sequence
• Planner: updated Work Summary by Form Group to account for student start date
• Planner: updated Manage Resources to clean up unused tags after editing a resource
• Planner: added a message to homework that was assigned before enrolling in the class
• Planner: enabled custom fields for Lesson Plans
• Resources: differentiated the upload button from the sticky submit buttonReports: improved the UTF8 character set for DroidSansFallback to include wider CJK support
• Reports: added a school year switcher to the Generate Reports page
• Reports: updated Attendance template to enable displaying present attendance counts
• School Admin: added an option to cancel activities in Special Days
• School Admin: added custom field support to Departments
• Staff: enabled editing the Cover Required field in Manage Absences
• Staff: improved the visibility of absences requiring coverage in lists
• Students: added a permission check for Family Adult comments in Student Profile
• Students: added the ability to search students by first name
• System Admin: added filename to Import History in Import From File page
• System Admin: added the option to configure phone number fields in Form Builder
• System Admin: removed anonymous sessions from the Active Sessions page
• System Admin: added the option to set default values for Form Builder fields
• Timetable: enabled View Available Facilities for non-lesson periods
• Timetable: enabled booking facilities for other users with Manage Facility Bookings_all permission
• Timetable: added an option to add a reason when booking facilities
• Timetable: added an Edit Timetable by Class tool to Manage Timetables
• Timetable: added class teacher names to timetable hover-over information
• Timetable: added a simple Print option to student and facility timetables
• User Admin: added last login timestamp and IP address to password troubleshooting page
• User Admin: added the ability to search users by first name
• User Admin: updated Manage Permissions to require filtering by either module or role

🐞 Bug fixes

• System: improved exception handling for transactions in Connection class
• System: removed unused medical fields from gibbon.sql
• System: fixed Form Group link under student photos on Parent Dashboard
• System: fixed missing translations for module strings in dashboard tabs
• System: fixed incorrect student count with multiple form groups on Staff Dashboard
• System: fixed broken View All links in Staff Dashboard Enrolment tab
• System: fixed My Classes list including Left classes in DatabaseFormFactory
• System: fixed links opening in new tab when using Url object in Format class
• System: fixed lesson plans not showing up on Staff Dashboard for multiple classes with a TT exception
• System: fixed dashboard hooks displaying when modules are inactive
• Activities: fixed activities not viewable from profile after listing end date
• Activities: fixed activity attendance tables overlapping the page
• Admissions: fixed application username check to include other applications
• Admissions: fixed database error when using Add Application to create a blank application form
• Admissions: fixed missing Introduction and Post Script on application form
• Attendance: fixed duplicate entries in Students Not Present and Students Not Onsite
• Attendance: fixed Students Not Onsite reports not displaying student name on mobile
• Attendance: fixed Attendance Summary by Date to use end-of-day status for school-wide attendance
• Attendance: removed print option from Attendance Summary by Date until the form is refactored
• Attendance: fixed numerical indicator on Student History for days with partial attendance
• Attendance: fixed non-attendance classes showing up for partial absence in Set Future Absence
• Data Updater: fixed incorrect top links on Edit Request pages
• Data Updater: removed parent emails from Family Data Updater History when contact email is No
• Data Updater: fixed unable to remove all privacy settings via data update
• Data Updater: fixed Family Data Updates not checking student start and end dates
• Library: fixed the Get Book Data From Google button in Manage Catalog
• Library: fixed js issue in QR code scanner on Manage Catalogue
• Markbook: fixed Left teachers showing up in “Class taught by” list
• Markbook: fixed View Markbook breadcrumb when class name is blank
• Planner: fixed selected course resetting when navigating between school years
• Planner: fixed CLI scripts attempting to users who are Left or have no email address
• Planner: fixed incorrect homework status when both teacher and student recorded homework are used
• Planner: fixed homework checkboxes not visible on students mobile view
• Planner: fixed Concepts & Keywords tag counts in Add Unit and Edit Unit
• Planner: fixed error message after duplicating a lesson into future year
• Reports: fixed error when milestones are empty in Manage Reporting Cycles
• Reports: fixed batch report bulk-action missing the two-sided option
• Reports: fixed HTML being removed from Rich Text template sections
• Reports: fixed file upload not working in Template Builder
• Reports: fixed json_decode error for hooks in Write Reports By Student
• Reports: fixed unable to re-send acceptance email from Edit Application page
• School Admin: fixed error in Add Attendance Code when no roles specified
• School Admin: fixed possible duplicate values using Copy All To Next Year in Manage Form Groups
• Staff: fixed staff absences not showing up if outside school year dates
• System Admin: fixed Form Builder submission error when subheading is the first item on a page
• System Admin: fixed calendar feed cleared when saving Third Party Settings
• System Admin: fixed untranslated fields in Form Builder when viewing a form
• Timetable Admin: adjusted column uniqueness interface string
• Timetable Admin: fixed Copy All To Next Year to copy custom fields and prevent duplicate values
• Timetable: fixed class student counts in Manage Student Enrolment
• Timetable: fixed display of room number for short periods
• Timetable: fixed the position of the Add Lesson Plan tooltip
• Timetable: fixed long-running periods not displaying information on the timetable
• Timetable: fixed making facility bookings on another person’s behalf
• Tracking: fixed Data Points export MySQL error
• User Admin: fixed black user photos when using non-jpg image format

Although updates are tested, you’re always encouraged to backup your files before patching.

Tags: Educational, Softaculous

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