Feature

Description

User Role

Module

Assignment Revamp

Assignment module has been upgraded to bring a lot of new features to enhance your experience with the application.
Create New Assignment
Creating new assignments is more flexible now. You can select whether the assignment is offline or online through the assignment type option. Many other features are also provided while creating new assignments such as enable/disable comments, enable/disable submission, Marks/Grade Entry, additional fields, save an assignment as draft and publish later according to requirement.

Assignment Logs

Now you can track the assignment publish date and username details through assignment logs. The following details will be available: the employee who created the assignment, assignment name, students who have been assigned the task, Date and time of creation.
Note: Admin can view the logs of all the assignments created in the app, teachers can only see logs of their assignment.

Administrator, 

Subject Tutor,
Batch Tutor

Assignment

Assignment Revamp

Graph
You can see published and completed assignments counts represented graphically according to the selected period of time.

Report

You can see assignments listed in tabular form according to the selected period along with the status. Advanced search is provided for more appropriate search results.

Settings
Two new settings have been added: Additional field settings and Link Grade profiles. You can configure the additional fields that need to be captured when teachers create the assignments, and to make the Gradebook grade profiles available to evaluate the assignments you can use the ‘Link Grade profiles’ setting. 

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Assignment

View Assignments Privilege
A new ‘View assignment’ privilege has been added, which can be given to employees to view other assignments. This could be given to a user like the principal who wants to see the no. of assignments given and the status of each one.

Administrator

Assignment

Assignment Revamp Mobile App

You can now create new assignments with new features such as assignment type, enable/disable comments, enable/disable submission, Marks/Grade Entry, Save Assignment as Draft/Publish in mobile apps. You can also track assignment logs from the mobile app using the Assignment logs tab.

Students can submit answers for online assignments through the mobile app. 

Admin login has been introduced in the mobile app with overview and graphical analysis features with advanced filters.

Administrator, Privileged Employee, Subject Tutor, Batch Tutor

Assignment

Online Exam in Mobile app

Students can now attend online exams from their mobile app. They will receive notifications in their mobile app about the exams and results published. Also, view the results in the mobile app itself. 

Student

Online Exam

Gate Management

You can now use the new Gate Management feature to record the entry and exit of different users from various locations of the institution. There will be three main types of actions that can be performed with the gate management feature:

• Visitor Management
• User Entry Management
• Gate Pass Management

Only the admin/privileged employee will have access to the gate management feature in the web app where they can view the reports(graph and tabular view) and configure the settings(form settings, general settings like notification, and prefix for the pass number). The entry/actions in visitor management, user entry management, and gate pass management will be marked and handled in the mobile app.

Visitor management
Whenever there is a visitor at the gate, a visitor entry can be created with the Visitee’s name and other details. The Visitee will be notified about the same and asked to approve/deny the request. Based on the action performed by the visitee the gatekeeper will be allowing the visitor to the institution.

User Entry Management
Existing users of the organization – Students and Staff entry can be entered into the system via mobile app. 

Gate Pass
The gate pass can be issued for allowing a student or staff to exist from the institution. It will record basic details of the user applying for it, permission given by, Exit time, etc. When issued, a Gate pass for students will trigger a notification and/or SMS(based on the setting) about the issue to the students. Notification and/or SMS will be sent to the employee confirming the issue of the gate pass. Once issued, the entry and exit of students/employees can be updated by the user with Gatekeeper privilege.

Administrator, Gate Management Admin, Gatekeeper, Visitor entry approver

Gate Management

Floating Elective Subject

You can now enable an elective group as a floating elective to group subjects that are not always taught simultaneously. Subjects added to this group can be assigned individually to timetable slots and can be mismatched with other floating elective subjects in a timetable slot.

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Subject Center

Paybooks Integration

You can now use paybooks to handle payroll and payslip-related details. Once enabled, payroll generation will be through paybooks. Its powerful Wizard and intuitive design makes it easy to use even for users who have no experience in using payroll software. This integration keeps employee records in line with Paybooks across the fields, reflecting any changes made in the ERP. Employees can access their Paybooks-generated payslips with the salary structure, and deductions made. To learn more about Paybooks, click here.

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Human Resource

Gradebook Marks Entry Through Mobile App 

Entering marks/grades is now more flexible for users. Employees can now enter marks/grades from the mobile app for a specific exam, term, skill, and activity. We can check whether the marks are entered or not through submission status.

After entering marks the user can see the result on behalf of entered marks immediately.

Administrator, Privileged Employee,

Subject Tutor

GradeBook

Notification Management

Notification Control Settings
This new setting allows the school Administrator to control the notifications sent out to students, parents and employees from different modules. Features enabled or disabled will apply to web and mobile apps.

Notification Control
A new privilege has been added to the user privileges. A user with this privilege will have access to the notification control settings page to enable/disable the notifications based on the requirement.

Push Notification Settings in mobile app
You(irrespective of the role) can now Enable/disable the push notifications in the mobile app. Two other sections in this page:-
Do not Disturb: Turn off notifications for a set duration.

Set control for different features: Enable/disable push notifications for Examination/Gradebook scheduled, Fee Scheduled, Assignment Response, Gallery Published

Administrator, Privileged employee

Configuration

Quickbooks Integration

You can now use Quickbooks for accounting purposes. QuickBooks is a very stable, reliable, and proven product. Once the authorization is completed, data from Fedena will be synced to Quickbooks in the following way – Master particulars as Products and Services; Fee collections as Invoice; Student and Employee as Customers. The instant discounts and fines will be restricted, that is, they cannot be applied once the accounting software has been authorized.
You can view the auto-syncing record statuses in Quickbooks sync available in the ERP.

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Quickbooks Sync

BBPS Integration

Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) is an integrated bill payment system offering interoperable and accessible bill payment methods. The institution needs to register with BBPS and the gateway has to be enabled from the accounts panel. Once enabled, it needs to be enabled in the Online Payment settings page as well. Students can be searched and the pending amount can be viewed in the BBPS system.
As a Payee, when you click on the pay fees button, the pending fees will be displayed as a request in the BBPS system. The amount can be edited and paid. 

Administrator, Privileged employee

Online Payment

Feature

Description

User Role

Module

Attendance notification

Send attendance SMS/notification on save/submit in locked mode
In the attendance lock mode, the notification will get triggered only when the ‘save’ button is pressed after marking the attendance. When the attendance is not saved, then notifications will be triggered only after the attendance is locked as per the date in the setting.

Send SMS/notification async in open mode
In the open mode, the notification will not be triggered immediately, you need to click on the bell icon >> navigate to the notification status page, where absentees can be notified with a single action for any notification mode that is enabled.

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Attendance

Finance templates

Receipt templates to be finance templates
You can now design custom templates with header and footer for fee receipts, income, expense transactions, inventory invoices in the same ‘Receipt templates’ link which is now renamed as ‘Finance templates’. Also, edit the text of the Fee receipt footer by using the basic version of the Redactor such as text formatting, new line, bullet, and numbering support for the footer.

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Finance

Voucher number setting for the expense.

You can now enable the ‘Multiple Receipt sets’ option now renamed as ‘Multiple receipts and voucher sets’ to create different voucher number sequences for different transactions

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Finance

Inactivate action for payroll category

Change the status of a payroll category from active to inactive by clicking the ‘Inactivate’ button in the ‘View payroll category’ page and revert the status of an ‘Inactive payroll’ category to ‘Active’ by clicking on the Activate button, all the payroll categories present in its formula will get activated but you will have to manually activate the dependent categories. 

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Human Resource

Setting to disable available item quantity and price in Inventory

You can use the new ‘Inventory settings’ to hide the quantity and price of the store items. When disabled, an employee with ‘inventory privilege’ will be able to raise indents but will not be able to view the quantity and price of the store items. Also, they will not have access to CSV reports.

Administrator,
Privileged employee

Inventory

Custom string for Absent in Gradebook reports

You can now mention the custom string that needs to be displayed in the reports instead of a hyphen by enabling the new Custom String option in advanced settings of the student report settings available within a planner. This custom string will be displayed in the exam report, term report, and planner report that use the following templates: default and 3 core templates mentioned. 

Administrator, Privileged employee

Gradebook

Timestamp in receipts

Enable this feature in finance settings to add timestamp(date and time) of receipt generation to all fee receipts as footer. 

Administrator, Privileged employee

Finance

Certificates and id cards files to have a proper name

The downloaded ID cards and certificates will now be displayed in the following format,

Student ID/certificate: ‘Date_Time_AdmissionNo_Studentname’

Employee ID/certificate:
‘Date_Time_EmpNo_Employeename’

Administrator, Privileged employee

Certificates and ID cards

Show red for failure

You can now show the failed subject score in Red color. A new setting ‘Enable highlighting of failed subject scores’ has been added to the advanced settings tab in the Student report settings of the planner. Once enabled, the failed subject scores in the exam report, term report, and planner report that use the following templates: default and 3 core templates will be displayed in red color. 

Administrator, Privileged employee

Gradebook

SMS Template for Fee Defaulters Sms

The fee defaulters SMS can now be edited in the Message templates of the SMS module.

New Keys Available: ward_total_balance_without_fine, ward_fine_amount, total_balance_without_fine, fine_amount 

Administrator, Privileged employee

SMS

UI/UX change in Online Payment transactions

The transactions page in Online Payment has been improved to enable transaction ID and advanced search(Payment date range, Transaction ID, Fee name, Gateway name, and Gateway status)

Administrator,

Privileged employee

Online Payment

Send email and SMS on applicant submission

You can now edit the applicant submission SMS in the Message templates of the SMS module.

New Keys Available: academic_year, current_status, applicant_name, registration_no, course_name

Administrator,

Privileged employee

Applicant

Online Payment CSV search

You can now export the filtered transactions as CSV using the Export CSV button.

Administrator,

Privileged employee

Online Payment