CMS release notes – April 2021

Content Management System (CMS) 

Our CMS is the feature-rich software behind all our school website designs.

This month: 

• Our remote learning zone has been updated, allowing schools to share the Greenshaw remote learning content with parents and pupils who do not have internet access via a USB download. 

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• Remote Learning quizzes can now have much larger text answers – the previous limit of 200 characters has been removed. 

• A new calendar sync option has been added for Microsoft Outlook which will allow users to authorise the sync via OAuth. A calendar sync is a great way to keep your website calendar up to date automatically. If you’d like to find out more about this functionality, contact your Account Executive for more info!  

• We have replaced the old spell checker with Wproofreader. This update will allow you to spell check in 17 default languages and grammar check in 15.

  The languages available are:  

  • American English
  • British English
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Canadian English
  • Canadian French 
  • Danish
  •  Dutch 
  • Finnish 
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian 
  • Norwegian Bokmal 
  • Portuguese Spanish 
  • Swedish
  • Ukranian 
  There are also 150 additional languages and specialised dictionaries, such as medical and legal available and you can add words that are specific to your field to a personal dictionary, to prevent that word being reported in the future.  
   
  Wproofreader is WAI-compliant up to WCAG 2.1 and Section 508 accessibility standards and all modern browsers are supported.

• References to ‘username’ and ‘username / email address’ have been updated throughout the CMS and the additional modules to use ‘email address’, ‘login email address’ and ‘user account’ as appropriate.  

• We have added protection against multiple clicks of the form submission button to avoid duplication in form exports and submissions. 

Communications Tools 

Our suite of communication tools is extremely popular with schools and our updates are designed to make this functionality even more engaging.  

General

• School contact details can now be edited directly from the school settings rather than the app settings. 

Newsletters 

• Additional templates have been added for the display of social media feeds. This will allow images to be displayed alongside the post as opposed to as a background image. 

• The columns issue when emailing newsletters has now been fixed. 

Emails

• Improved security checks have been added for users editing / deleting emails. 

Payments & E-Shop 

Our payments functionality has had a couple of updates this month too:  

• The ‘total discounts’ heading will now only appear when discounts have been applied.  

• Registration is now permitted for non-UK postcodes.