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SSP v2.8.0 General Release Announcement

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Release Date: TBDJanuary 20, 2017

Release Highlights

 

Info

v2.8.0 contains a variety of changes that enhance nearly every tool tools within SSP. The specific issues are noted below, but there are additional resources with information about the changes. A major change is the upgrade to support Java 8 and Tomcat 8. Only those versions are supposed with the 2.8 release. Highlights include new tools and features:

  • Bulk add students/assign coaches
  • Admin tools to run background jobs, view message queue and view status of background jobs
  • External View Tools
  • Create elective list for MAP courses
  • Special Service Group external sync
  • Email notification for student withdrawal
  • New participation score for courses
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Success Indicator search and Early Alert generation

Fresh Installation Instructions

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SSP v2.8.0 JIRA Issues

Bugs

  • [SSP-2635] - Capitalize MAP Report
  • [SSP-2751] - Early Alert Case Count summary truncates selected term list
  • [SSP-2757] - Random result sorting in certain reports
  • [SSP-2799] - EarlyAlertStudentOutreachReportController is dead code
  • [SSP-2935] - Loading Saved MAP Templates/Plans fails on valid JSON containing Unicode
  • [SSP-3037] - Multiple active program statuses
  • [SSP-3101] - Silent Fail when there is No Current Term Available
  • [SSP-3114] - Caseload sorting by coach is incorrect
  • [SSP-3115] - MAP plan fails with invalid program code
  • [SSP-3117] - Save Template
  • [SSP-3125] - SSP-Platform/uPortal builds failing with stax.codehaus issue
  • [SSP-3128] - Infinite load spinner on Saving a Template with Tag/Folder
  • [SSP-3129] - EarlyAlert Response Status and Details Show Intermittently
  • [SSP-3130] - Upgrade Apache Commons Collections to v3.2.2
  • [SSP-3149] - NPE when Group or Person is Missing in EA Campus Routing
  • [SSP-3157] - Add/Edit a Student or insert/update on Person doesn't update PersonDirectory
  • [SSP-3158] - MAP Plan Status Calculation Doesn't Consider Retaken Courses
  • [SSP-3159] - Bump JRE/JDK dependency to 1.8
  • [SSP-3174] - MAP Plan Create From Template Id
  • [SSP-3176] - Person Staff Details not updated in sync
  • [SSP-3185] - Blurb/Text Save and Display Issues
  • [SSP-3186] - MAP Template menu persists after save as plan
  • [SSP-3188] - Non-Course doesn't satisfy course requisite
  • [SSP-3191] - Permissions problem with coach adding electives
  • [SSP-3192] - New MAP creation error
  • [SSP-3215] - Fix Student Counts in EA Course Report
  • [SSP-3216] - Fix Labeling and Calculation for Students with Multiple Reasons on EA Reason Report
  • [SSP-3217] - Change Labels in EA Student Outreach and EA Student Outcomes Reports
  • [SSP-3220] - Student Transcript Course Section Code nullable in documentation but not in code
  • [SSP-3222] - Main Tool Intervention Indicators don't scale after adding Participation

New Features

  • [SSP-514] - Message queue browser
  • [SSP-3119] - Faculty email allow/block configuration
  • [SSP-3124] - Sync SSP-Platform i8n/internationalization with SSP
  • [SSP-3127] - Disable Background Jobs for Multi-SSP installs
  • [SSP-3153] - (Re)Assign Coaches from Imported CSV File
  • [SSP-3154] - SSP External View Tool (Civitas)
  • [SSP-3155] - Develop Ability to Identify Elective Courses in MAP Template
  • [SSP-3156] - Develop a MAP Template Builder Outside of Student Record
  • [SSP-3161] - Build external table to be used to set SSG from SIS
  • [SSP-3162] - Add code and email notify on withdraw fields to Special Service Group in Admin
  • [SSP-3163] - Add SSG external data sync configs
  • [SSP-3165] - Modify Person sync to sync SSG to internal students
  • [SSP-3166] - Email notification to Advisor on Student withdrawl based on Special Service Group
  • [SSP-3167] - Add entry in configuration options to define which enrollment status code changes generate an email
  • [SSP-3168] - Add Configuration Option to allow Admin to set sync interval
  • [SSP-3169] - Build history table for external_student_transcript_course.status_code
  • [SSP-3170] - Create new method that generates an Advisor Email based on SSG and Course Withdrawals
  • [SSP-3171] - Create Message Template for Advisor email for course withdrawals
  • [SSP-3172] - Create "Special Service Course Enrollment" Report
  • [SSP-3181] - Admin Background Job Manual Interface
  • [SSP-3193] - Add Column for Participation Score to Main tool, Schedule tab
  • [SSP-3194] - Add varchar column to external_student_transcript_course to contain data for new Participation Score column
  • [SSP-3195] - Add a new Success Indicator for Participation (display in Student Indicators box) on Dashboard
  • [SSP-3196] - Add checkbox to each Risk Indicator admin screen to "Show in Caseload"
  • [SSP-3197] - Add column titled "Risk" to Caseload & Watchlist to display number of Risk Indicators for student flagged as Red/Yellow
  • [SSP-3198] - Update Data Importer Tool for External Data in 2.8
  • [SSP-3201] - Accessibility Improvements - SSP Portlet / Students Tab
  • [SSP-3218] - Add "At Risk" criteria to Search form & new column in Search results
  • [SSP-3219] - Auto-Generate Early Alert for Nightly Changes to Success Indicators

Improvements

  • [SSP-868] - Add special service group to external data sync
  • [SSP-1987] - Load Template dialog keeps previous filter
  • [SSP-2199] - MAP- decouple Template building from Plan building
  • [SSP-2579] - Email routing override
  • [SSP-2987] - Expand evaluated success indicator panels 100% vertically
  • [SSP-3078] - Early Alert Portlet Course Order By Term and Larger Default Page Size
  • [SSP-3089] - Move Hibernate Version To 4.1.4.Final
  • [SSP-3122] - Optional Faculty Email on Early Alert Responses (except creation/close)
  • [SSP-3123] - Add registration status fields to Registered dropdown in Search
  • [SSP-3134] - Extend Internationalization features to SSP Portlet
  • [SSP-3160] - Add Special Service Group to External Data
  • [SSP-3187] - Improve person sync transaction flush times

Tasks