Fedena 3.5 Release Notes

What’s new in Fedena
Here is the list of new features included with this release of Fedena 3.5
Feature | Description | User Role | Module |
Fees receipt printer settings | Based on the type of printer your institution uses to print fee receipts, you can configure the printer settings in Fedena. Fedena now supports the use of the following printers:
You also have the options to set the page size to A4, A5 Portrait, or A5 Landscape. |
Administrator, Privileged Employee | Finance |
Fedena Mobile | In addition to the enhanced design of some of the screens, the following features are now available:
Note: To be able to pay fees online, the “Online Payment” plugin must be available and fee payment must be enabled in the Online Payment plugin.
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Student, Parent | Fedena Mobile |
Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) | As part of making Fedena completely CBSE compliant, the following features are now available:
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Administrator, Privileged Employee, Tutor | Examination |
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) |
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Administrator, Privileged Employee, Tutor | Examination |
New module – Student Records | The Student Records module is used to enter and maintain any type of details about students that are specific to a batch. It can be personal data about students, health records, extracurricular activities, or any other information you want to keep a record of. These records are attached to a student’s profile so the information is easily accessible when required. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | Student Records |
Human Resources module revamp | The Human Recourses module has undergone a complete revamp both in design and functionality for institutions to be able to efficiently manage their employees’ leave and payroll. Here’s what the HR module now supports:Employee Leave Management
Payroll and Payslip Management
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Administrator, Privileged Employee | Human Resources |
Fedena assets from CDN | Fedena asset files can now be served from a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for higher performance and faster data access. | NA | NA |
What’s enhanced in Fedena
Here is the list of enhanced features included with this release of Fedena 3.5
Feature | Description | User Role | Module |
Timetable |
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Administrator, Privileged Employee | Timetable |
Finance Reports | The finance transactions reports have been redesigned for better legibility and usability. Some of the key benefits include:
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Administrator, Privileged Employee | Finance |
New action icons added when viewing fee receipt | Beside the receipt number, use the icons to generate a PDF of the receipt and to directly print the receipt. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | Finance |
New action icons added when collecting student fees | After collecting student fees either Batch-wise, Student-wise, or Particular-wise, against each payment receipt, icons are available to:
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Administrator, Privileged Employee | Finance |
Exam Management | The process of creating and managing exams for batches has been made simpler. On the Create Exam page, when a course is selected, two tabs are available:
Note: The ‘Batch-wise exam groups’ table lists all exam groups that were created before this Fedena 3.5 update. |
Administrator, Privileged Employee | Examination |
Employee Payroll model added for Custom Import | You can now use the new “Employee Payroll” model to update employee payroll details. Note: Since you can no longer use the “Employee Admission” model to import employee payroll details, some of the previously created custom import CSVs for Employee Admission will be disabled and cannot be used. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | Custom Imports |
Attachments in news posts | When publishing news, you can now attach files with a maximum size of 5 MB along with your information. Up to five files can be attached. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | News |
Internal Messages |
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Administrator, Privileged Employee, Student, Parent | Internal Messages |
Student Attendance Report | When viewing the Student Attendance Report, in addition to the Monthly and Overall mode, you can now use the Custom date mode and select a date range to filter and view the report. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | Students |
Scheduling a fee collection | On the Create Fee Collection page, the End date field has been removed. This does not change the fee collection scheduling process. Now you will only need to provide a Start date from which you intend to start collecting the fees and a Due date within which the students are required to pay the fees. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | Finance |
Book movement log date range | For a specific date range, you can now view the list of books issued or due along with their status. | Administrator, Privileged Employee | Library |
Time Zone Compatibility | Fedena is now completely time zone compatible. The date and time stamp displayed throughout Fedena will follow the time zone you’ve set in the General Settings. | NA | NA |
New “Quick Link” added | “Fees” has been added as a Quick Link to allow Students and Parents quick access to the Fee Status page where then can pay fees (if online payment is available). | Student, Parent | NA |
Employee Privileges |
Note: The tasks an employee can or cannot perform with the privilege has not changed.
A subject teacher can:
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Administrator, Privileged Employee | NA |
Issues Fixed
Here is the list of issues fixed in this release of Fedena 3.5
Attendance
- Attendance register isn’t viewable by teachers teaching elective subjects.
- Attendance report showing transferred student (only for elective subjects).
- Privileged employee is unable to mark student attendance.
- All subjects absence details are showing in the filtered attendance report of the students.
Big Blue Button
- No audio upon integration of Fedena with BBB.
Data Palette
- Event dashlet shows deleted events as well.
- ‘Examinations’ doesn’t load under an Employee’s login.
Examination
- Unable to view CCE Consolidated Report.
- Unable to change ‘retake’ option in previous batch exams.
- Not allowed to delete certain exam categories.
- Subject teacher allowed to view other subjects’ exam scores.
- Deleted subjects of active batches appearing in CCE settings.
- Total mark % is not being displayed in PDF Report (Archived student).
- Tutor has the permission to enter FA scores.
- Inactive batch name listing in consolidated and subject-wise Report of ICSE.
- Sorting issue in FA scores (CCE).
Finance
- CSV export of fees head-wise report displays 404 error.
- Even though the fee isn’t completely paid, it shows ‘Yes’ for ‘Has Fees Paid’.
- Fee collection ID is sent through internal message instead of collection name.
- No access to GRN within Inventory Transaction Report for a user with ‘Finance reports’ privilege.
- Particular-wise fee payment page not loading after deleting the cashier.
- Show batch full name instead of batch name in the fees transaction report.
- Total amount is not shown in the CSV report of the fee defaulters.
- Incorrect ‘Amount to pay’ displayed in the fee submission form.
- Batch transferred students are not being listed in the fee collection head-wise report.
Hostel
- Unassigned hostel fee collections are also listed in the course-wise and student-wise defaulters page.
- Unable to add more than 10 students in a room.
- Hostel fee dues not being displayed for the corresponding date in the calendar for student.
- Corresponding fees are not deleted when deleting the hostel fee collection.
Human Resources
- Employee admission number gets prefixed by ‘E’, even if the previous Employee ID does not have ‘E’ prefixed.
- Employee search is not working in some languages.
- Grade automatically gets assigned when an employee’s profile is updated.
Online Payment
- Unable to uncheck all the ‘Enable online payment’ options and save.
Student
- Student search not working for rtl languages.
- Section name not being displayed in the students’ profile > More > Fees page.
Timetable
- ‘Hours per day’ validation is not being verified across all the batches.
- Subject swap is possible for the attendance marked subject in Timetable Tracker.
- Duplicate class timing is accepted within the same class timing set.
Transport
- Able to assign a student transport multiple times.
- Unassigned transport fee collections are also listed in the course-wise and student-wise defaulters page.
API
- Not possible to update the leave type through API.
Custom Import
- Allowing import any data in case of Employee Blood Group.
Custom Report
- City and State missing in Employee custom report.
Discipline
- Administrator is able to edit solved complaints.
Doc Manager
- At the time of deleting the user there’s no check for dependency.
- PPTX file format is not accepted.
Gallery
- Latest pictures and categories not being displayed first.
Task
- Task owner unable to update task posted earlier.
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