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- Provide the ability to mark all complete while ignoring statuses such as incomplete, withdrawn, no show etc.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- Ensure participants who have withdrawn are not considered when consolidating invoices.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.