ASCRIPTICA 2023.3.0

Release Date: September, 2023

What’s new!

New Features:

  • Mass Email Communication
    • Ascriptica allows you to send mass email to your registrants.
    • This is supported by a new integration with Mailchimp.
    • Mailchimp an “email marketing platform makes it easy for marketers in any type of business to send professional, engaging marketing emails.”
    • To facilitate this new process, Ascriptica now allows registrants to opt in/out of mass email communications. If opted in Ascriptica will sync your registrants with a list you create in Mailchimp.
    • See our help section for specific instructions.
  • New SMS Service:
    • Ascriptica allows you to send SMS messages to registrants of a specific course.
    • This new service requires a new addendum to your yearly subscription if you would like to leverage it.
    • Please reach out to support@pgctechnologies.com if you would like us to turn this on for you.
  • Canvas Updates:
    • Ascriptica will mark registrants complete when you conclude a course in Canvas LMS.
    • Take advantage of the new user id connection option now available in the canvas integration. If you do not use emails to maintain your users in Canvas this is a viable option for you.

Improvements and Tweaks

  • New dynamic label for “Course.” If you would like to change the label “course” to “event” you can do that now by making the switch in the label manager.
  • Resolve error marking a registrant paid when they use a credit card during the registration process.
  • Resolve bug preventing the seat usage warning event from running consistently.
  • Resolve bug showing course number twice in upcoming courses.
  • Provide the ability to mark all complete while ignoring statuses such as incomplete, withdrawn, no show etc.
  • New option to clear application release.
  • Resolve bug in enrollment export where payment received was incorrect.
  • New event to automatically remind approvers who have not approved/declined a registration request.
  • Resolve bug during edit of enrollment record.
  • Ensure participants who have withdrawn are not considered when consolidating invoices.
  • Pending Courses: Course number not showing correctly
  • Add the following fields to the users API:
    User Id
    District
    Alternate Email
  • Resolve issue preventing the certificate from generating consistently – special character found in the participant’s name.
  • New utility to automatically re-index the underlying Ascriptica tables to maintain operational performance.
  • Resolve incorrect count in Adhoc Enrollment on screen Report.
  • Provide the ability to set the number of records that are displayed in the roster list so admins can action and see more records at once.
  • Correct spelling error when adding an instructor to a course.
  • Resolve error when using the registration reservation feature.
  • Provide the ability to go back and view previously generated consolidated invoice.
  • Provide the ability to multi select records so that you can mark the selected records as paid or complete.

2023.3.2, 2023.3.3,2023.3.4  released 12/3/2023

  • Resolve enhancement request bug preventing a request from displaying correctly.
  • Resolved error in enrollment when the ability to add user is removed from a role.
  • Resolve error in Canvas sync when a user is not found in Canvas.
  • Provide the ability to sync canvas using employee id vs email address.
  • Ensure that a registrant is automatically marked as paid and not showing any payment pending if they signed up for a free course.
  • Ensure that the district approver enrollment export contains all records selected across multiple pages.
  • Ensure that the district approver enrollment navigation to different pages remains on the enrollment tab.
  • Resolve character limit bug when sending messages from the enrollment tool.
  • District approver page filter: current day sometimes excluded from the result.
  • Resolve course number filter not working in district approver.
  • Resolved spam filters auto clicking on approval emails.

2023.3.5, 2023.3.6  released 2/11/2024

  • Resolve bug when leading zeros are used during ldap login.
  • Resolve bug preventing large data set from returning during canvas lms registration integration. This prevented automatic registration to canvas.
  • Added checkbox to work around spam filter auto clicking on approval (* pre-released)
  • Ensured successful is spelled correctly in pop-up messages.
  • Ensured the system is correctly obeying requirements to allow/disallow fractional points.
  • Resolved incorrect counts in district approver landing page. Approval now completely obeys the filters as set. Note filter will continue to default to pending.
  • Implemented foundation for improved switching between primary and backup email provider.