Product Changelog

Release Notes

See what's new in NavEd. Product updates, new features, and improvements for micro school, co-op, and small school management.

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February 2026
Feb 27
3 updates
Improvement v2026.2.27.3

Sidebar loads faster with fewer database queries.

Each page load was triggering multiple unnecessary database round-trips when rendering the navigation sidebar. The fix pre-loads all feature tier information once per request and shares it across all sidebar items, reducing redundant database operations on every page view.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Eliminated redundant database queries in sidebar rendering
  • Feature tier data is now loaded once per request and shared across all sidebar items
Improvement v2026.2.27.2

Student attendance pages now load faster — no matter how many records a student has.

If a student had a busy year and racked up dozens of attendance records, their profile's attendance tab was quietly doing a lot more work than it needed to. Every single record was triggering a separate round-trip to look up which class the student was in for that day — sometimes 59 trips for a single page load.

We caught this through our performance monitoring, and the fix was straightforward: we now fetch all the class information in one step alongside the attendance records. The page renders the same way, but with a fraction of the work behind the scenes. Schools with large or long-running student rosters will notice the biggest improvement.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Attendance tab on student profiles now loads significantly faster for students with many records
Fix v2026.2.27.1

Fix: Gradebook/attendance merge confirmation now works correctly when students need review.

When merging a linked gradebook and attendance tracker that had students requiring manual review (fuzzy name matches or over-capacity rosters), the confirmation step could silently fail. The backend was not including the partner tool's token in its response, so the confirm-merge request had no way to identify the other side of the link. Separately, the over-capacity student list was built from a key that does not exist in the response, so the selection UI always showed empty.

Both issues are now fixed.

Fixes

  • Merge confirmation now forwards the cross-tool token correctly from both sides
  • Over-capacity student checkboxes now populate from the correct response fields in both tools
Feb 23
Fix v2026.2.23.1

Elective enrollments are now fully protected from accidental removal.

If you've ever used the subject enrollment page to update a student's regular subjects, there was a risk that their elective enrollments could silently disappear in the process. This happened because the page's save logic compared what was checked against everything the student was enrolled in — including electives that weren't even visible on the form.

We've fixed both copies of the enrollment page so that electives are completely excluded from the save logic. The enrollment page now only shows and manages regular subjects. Elective enrollment continues to be handled exclusively through the dedicated electives page, where it belongs.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Elective subjects no longer appear as checkboxes on the subject enrollment page
  • Saving regular subject enrollments can no longer accidentally delete elective enrollments
Feb 22
4 updates
Improvement v2026.2.22.4

Parents, students, and staff can now see and fill out forms from the sidebar.

When we launched NavEd Forms, clicking "Forms" in the sidebar worked great for admins — but everyone else got an "access denied" message. Not ideal when the whole point of forms is collecting responses from your school community.

Now when parents, students, or staff click "Forms," they see a clean list of published forms available to them, with status badges showing which ones they've already completed. Each form links directly to the fill page — no more needing to hunt down a share link.

We also fixed the login redirect flow so that when someone clicks a form link while logged out, they're taken back to that exact form after signing in — instead of landing on the home page and losing track of what they came for.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Non-admin users now see a respondent view with available forms instead of "access denied"
  • Login redirect now preserves the destination URL across the full multi-tenant login chain
New v2026.2.22.3

Search engines can now discover and crawl the signup page.

The signup and setup pages were missing from our search engine instructions, meaning Google and other search engines were blocked from indexing them. The signup page is also now included in the sitemap so crawlers can find it automatically.

Fixes

  • Added permission for search engines to crawl the signup and setup pages
  • Added the signup page to our sitemap
Fix v2026.2.22.2

Parent weekly email now shows correct grade percentages for total-points subjects.

For subjects that use total-points grading (like Algebra 1), the weekly parent email was showing the raw score as a percentage -- so an 8 out of 8 appeared as "8%" instead of "100%." This fix ensures the email calculates the correct percentage based on each subject's grading method. The gradebook itself was not affected; only the parent email display was incorrect.

Fixes

  • Fixed grade percentage calculation in parent weekly digest email for total-points subjects
Improvement v2026.2.22.1

Transcript PDFs are now more compact and grading scale percentages display cleanly.

We tightened up the transcript PDF layout so most students' transcripts fit on a single page. The grading scale also now shows clean integer percentages (90% instead of 89.5%) and uses a two-column layout to save space. Additionally, 8th grade courses that carry a GPA bump (Honors, AP, IB, Dual Enrollment) now automatically appear on transcripts when using the default upper-school filter.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Compact transcript PDF layout: smaller header, tighter spacing, reduced font sizes throughout
  • Removed redundant Academic Summary table (per-year sections already show GPA and credits)
  • Grading scale uses two-column layout, cutting vertical space in half
  • Grading scale percentages now display as clean integers (no decimals) in both PDF and HTML preview
  • 8th grade courses with Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment designation now appear on transcript automatically
Feb 20
New v2026.2.20.1

School admins can now view form response summaries and drill into individual submissions.

When you have responses to a form, you'll see a response count badge and a "Responses" button on the forms list. Click it to open a tabbed responses page with a Summary tab showing charts and statistics, and a Table tab showing all responses in a spreadsheet layout. Click any row to see the full response with prev/next navigation.

New Features

  • Response count badge on each form in the form list (highlighted when responses exist)
  • Tabbed responses page with Summary and Table views
  • Summary tab with horizontal bar charts for choice fields, count/avg/min/max for number fields
  • Spreadsheet-style table with respondent info and truncated field values
  • Individual response detail page with vertical card layout and prev/next arrows
  • Respondent mix stats showing total responses and breakdown by user type
Feb 19
New v2026.2.19.1

You'll now see a banner when our hosting provider has issues.

If our infrastructure provider experiences an outage or maintenance, a red "Service disruption detected" banner will appear at the top of the page -- so you know the slowness isn't on your end. The banner includes details when available and can be dismissed (it rechecks every 5 minutes).

New Features

  • Added infrastructure status monitoring that checks for hosting provider outages
  • Red alert banner displays when service disruptions are detected, with incident details when available
  • Banner is dismissable and automatically rechecks after 5 minutes
  • Status checks are cached to avoid slowing down page navigation
Feb 18
2 updates
Fix v2026.2.18.2

Faster page loads and attendance pages.

We found two spots where the app was making more database queries than necessary -- one on every page load and one on attendance pages. Both are now fixed, which means snappier response times across the board.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Eliminated unnecessary database queries that ran on every page load (only needed on documentation pages)
  • Fixed attendance pages to load student and staff data in a single query instead of one per row
Improvement v2026.2.18.1

NavEd just got a little faster for everyone.

We discovered that a performance monitoring tool we use during development was accidentally left running in production. While it didn't affect your data or functionality, it was adding unnecessary overhead to every page load. We've turned it off and added safeguards to prevent this from happening again.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Disabled development profiling tools in production for faster page loads
  • Added automatic filtering to keep internal tool noise out of our error tracking

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