ManageBac+ has always relied on the thoughtful feedback of our schools to make our system the best it can be! In this list, we're highlighting some of our favourite school-requested improvements over the past few years.
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CAS/SA/Service Learning
- Admins can now add notes and interviews prior to any experiences being added. (March 2019)
- CAS Experiences can be bulk created for multiple or all students in a year group. (March 2019)
Essays & Projects
- IB DP TOK presentation marks can be made visible or invisible to the student view. (2017)
- RPPF form responses by students are now viewable in roster form. (2017)
- EE reflections now auto-save the date students enter their reflections for the RPPF form. (2019)
- Word counters have been added to RPPF reflections for student reference. (2017)
- RPPF forms can now be bulk generated with one click for any given year group. (2018)
- Support for the revised TOK Essay & Exhibition with customisable project templates. (2020)
- Project-based Learning Enhancements enables schools to build their own Project Based learning programs (2021)
Tasks and Assessment
- Teachers can now see each others' task details by default via the year group calendar. (2019)
- Archived students are now visible in archived classes, aiding historical grade analysis. (2019)
- Full task descriptions are now available at the end of PDF exports of your unit planners. (2018)
- Task rubrics now include IB document roman numerals for ease of task-specific clarification. (2018)
- Gradebooks now auto-save for all programmes instead of clicking Save Changes. (2019)
- MYP Term grade assessment now includes ATL skills assessment options. (2018)
- Term and Task Category averages can now be shared with students and parents. (2020)
- Task Category colours apply to the Progress bar graphs in the Gradebook. (2020)
- Task results can now be hidden from students and parents, without drafting the task. (2021)
- Events, Deadlines and Online Lessons Differentiation. (2021)
- Student differentiation within tasks. (2021)
- Locking dropbox submissions individually & in bulk. (2021)
- Extending due dates for individual students. (2021)
- Field checker for term gradebooks. (2022)
- Binary Assessment for MYP. (2022)
- Ability to archive Term Grades Rubrics. (2022)
- A separate page to bulk export Task Grades per grade level in classes linked to the grade (2023)
Report Cards
- Term grades are automatically exported to excel whenever report cards are generated. (2018)
- PYP Report Cards include Class Attendance. (2020)
- DP Percentage Averages can now be included in Report templates. (2020)
- Stamps can now be uploaded to templates and included in Report cover pages. (2021)
- Improved Reporting: Proofing & Review. (2021)
- Improved Gradebook Design. (2022)
- Cumulative Term Grades of up to 4 terms can be included in the report cards(2022)
Transcripts
- Other and Preferred names are now optional on Transcripts templates. (2019)
- GPA can be included in the Transcript data export to excel. (2018)
- A compact 1-page version of the transcript is now supported. (2018)
- Cumulative GPA across all years a student has been in school is now supported. (2018)
- Customisation of Transcript titles. (2020)
Unit Planning and Curriculum
- Conceptual Understandings are now included in the PDF export of your unit planners. (2017)
- All PDF planners can be bulk exported into ZIP files via Whole School Curriculum. (2017)
- Unit planning text boxes include bolding/italicising and other formatting options. (2018)
- Online Lessons and Zoom integration for remote learning. (2020)
- With DP units moving to inline Planner format, all units supporting Unit Templates. (2020)
- Unit Calendar views and pacing guides in all academic programmes. (2020)
- ATL Skills list added to IB DP Unit Planners. (2020)
- Ability to re-order Lesson Experiences. (2020)
- Flexible Unit Plan Template Editor. (2021)
- Interdisciplinary Planning and Assessment. (2021)
Imports/Exports
- Guardian/Child relationship is now included in the School Directory exports. (2018)
- Gender and birthdate can now be included in the class lists export to excel. (2019)
- Export Term Grades now formats with numerical cell formatting for better readability. (2017)
- Student ID and email has been added to the full school Behaviour Incidents export. (2017)
- Student and Parent phone numbers are included in the class lists export to excel. (2017)
- Required fields identified in User Import template CSV files. (2020)
- Most export formats changed to XLSX format. (2020)
Attendance
- Excusal comments submitted will now be included in daily excel exports. (2017)
- Daily Attendance Digests now go to teachers with admin-level Attendance permissions. (2017)
- Student photos now display next to their names on Attendance classroom rosters. (2019)
- Time that absence alerts are sent to parents can be customised via Attendance Settings. (2018)
- Attendance now supports a 14 day rotation cycle. (2019)
- Attendance data can be exported by academic term, monthly, weekly, and daily. (2017)
- Custom Attendance Class Periods and overall restructuring of Attendance options. (2020)
- Enhanced Weekly Timetable & Attendance. (2022)
Partners and Integrations
- Parents synced from OpenApply are automatically added to the Parents Association group. (2019)
- Turnitin can be enabled for tasks in all programmes. (2019)
- Multiple submissions can be added to TurnItIn deadlines, with drafts excluded from impacting the similarity index. (2019)
- Pamoja Lesson Suite integration and Pamoja Online Courses registration integration. (2020)
- Zoom integration for Remote Learning. (2020)
- AssessPrep and ManageBac+ Class Integration. (2021)
Teacher and Admin Views
- Teacher permissions can now be customised to differentiate between users, including options to view the Attendance Manager, Report generation, create/view student profiles, create/view all classes, and more. (2018)
- Teachers can collapse their left-hand menu to get more space when grading and annotating. (2018)
- Student Engagement Analytics dashboard created (2020)
- Teacher profiles update to align all Profile views (2020)
- Enhanced Global Search (2020)
Parent and Student Views
- Parents and students can be temporarily blocked from ManageBac+ while new class rosters are created in between academic years. (2018)
- Parents can now see all task details and attachments to tasks uploaded by the teacher. (2019)
- Reports can be hidden from individual parents and students as needed. (2017)
- Adding Tasks and Deadlines view for students to see upcoming work more centrally. (2020)
- Student Profile updates to structure student and teacher view of Profiles in same order. (2020)
Mobile
- A brand new redesigned iOS app, covering many feature requests from our users, including being supported for Administrators, Teachers, Students & Parents. (2019)
- ManageBac+ launches on Android devices for all user types and programmes. (2020)
- Scan Coursework and Attendance Manager added. (2020)
- Push notifications for mobile app. (2020)
- Coursework Annotations in iOS and Android app. (2020)
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