A new option has been added to the "New Enrollment Notifications" feature.  This feature sends notifications to teachers when students enroll in their classes. The new option allows this feature to become active only after a given class has started.

You can find this feature at Setup > Settings > Registration Settings.  The new option will ask you to select either "at any time" or "after a class has started".

A new class prerequisites feature has been added for online registration.  With this feature you can indicate that before enrolling in a class, a student must have an enrollment in some other required class.  

The required class enrollment can be pre-existing, or it can be included in the current shopping cart.  The required class can be expressed as a selection of actual classes, or based on class type. 

An example of a required class would be:  to enroll in the Tuesday aftercare program, a student must also be enrolled in the Tuesday class.
An example of a required class type could be: to enroll in an Advanced Tap class, a student must have an enrollment in a Basic Tap class.

Class prerequisite settings can be found by editing a class in Manage > Classes and going to the Additional Information tab.

Here's a customer story about using components creatively.  

A Main Street Sites customer wanted to find an automated way to post teacher job openings for classes.  They created a component and added it to a job listings page. They also created a teacher to represent the available positions.  The component is set to show all classes for that particular teacher.

Any class where that teacher is assigned, even as a secondary teacher, will show up on their new job postings page.  When an actual teacher is assigned to the class, the class is automatically removed from the listing page.  This component can be posted on their MSS website, or on any other web hosting platform, church or community website, etc.

We're happy to see components being used in this innovative way.

This is a reminder that your class schedules can now incorporate logos, icons, pictures, etc. for each of your classes.  This can add some welcome color to your web pages.

Here's quick overview of how to do this:

• Upload your class images to each of your Class Types at Setup > General > Class Types. We'll create the thumbnail images automatically.
• Add a thumbnail column to your class schedule layout at Website > Settings > Named Layouts.  Find your class schedule layout in the list and edit it.  You'll need to add a new column at the bottom of the page.  You'll notice that the thumbnail image can be a link to the class detail page, registration page, etc.

To show your new class type picture on the class details page, go to Setup > Settings > Class Settings and set the "Show class images with class details and class type descriptions when available" setting. 

Classes can have their own individual images too. Those can be set on the "Additional info" tab for the class.

As always, let us know if you'd like any help with this.

Attendance reports and online attendance interfaces have been updated to support multiple teachers per class.

Updates were applied to the payroll report, class summary report, class contacts report, daily schedule report, etc.

The option to customize the sort order for items in class schedule filters was added.

It's now possible to add as many teachers as needed to a class.  There is an "advanced teachers/staff entry" link for this purpose next to the teacher when adding or editing a class.  

Additional teachers can be displayed throughout your account. This includes on order pages, on class schedules, calendars, etc.   Various reports and custom queries also support additional staff.  Each class still has a single primary teacher.  When you add an additional teacher to a class, you can indicate if it should appear on your web pages and notifications.

To add teachers to your class schedules, use the new column options for additional staff available in Named Layouts.

The ability to add additional teachers extends to teacher overrides at the class meeting level.  When you use these overrides they will be reflected in the payroll report.

It is now possible to turn off all Google reCAPTCHA features, email open tracking and the Facebook / X share buttons.  This ability was requested by customers seeking to be compliant with EA privacy rules.

The reCAPTCHA setting can be found at Website > Site Options > Settings.

The email open tracking can be found in Setup > General > Settings.

The Facebook / X share buttons setting can be found at Website > Built-in Page > Class > Settings.

More alternate templates were added for the enrollment confirmations feature.

Custom fields now support creating a list with dependent values.  In other words, a custom field can ask the user to first pick from one list and then pick from a secondary list.

An example of this would be a field called "Where did you hear about us" that asks what media type and then offers a list of relevant publications:

 Where did you hear about us?    [  Online  ]v       [  Facebook  ]v
 

To make a custom field like this, choose the "Dependent List" option when creating a Short Text custom field.  The values are then entered like this to illustrate the dependencies:

  Print
      Local paper
      Church circular
      Flyer
  Online
     Facebook
     Instagram
     TikTok
  In-person
      Farmers' Market
      County Fair

When your customers want to cancel a make-up on your website, they can now select from a list of their pending make-ups. 

They'll see this behavior if they have logged in before visiting the "Cancel Make-Up" page.  Users who have not logged in will continue to need to search for their make-ups before cancelling.

New attendance permissions were added for your user accounts.  By default, customer balances and customer last names are now hidden from online attendance and class attendance sheets.  

You can activate the new permissions for your users by going to Setup > Advanced > Users > Security Profiles.