Release Notes

New: Personal founder welcome email template for new signups.

Added a reusable email template for sending a personal welcome note from Ike to brand-new customers who just completed signup. Unlike the automated system welcome, this is a warm, conversational first-touch that introduces Ike, connects over shared values, and opens a genuine conversation about the school.

Additions¶

• New new_customer_welcome_v1 outreach template with customizable variables for school name, type, location, and closing question

Improved: Email delivery tracking with Brevo message IDs.

Switched from SMTP to Brevo's API for sending emails. Every email sent through NavEd now captures the Brevo message ID, enabling delivery tracking, bounce handling, and webhook correlation. This applies to both individual and bulk email sends.

Improvements¶

• Email backend upgraded from SMTP to Brevo API via django-anymail
• Brevo message IDs now stored in every email send log entry
• Bulk emails capture per-recipient message IDs for granular tracking

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
• Added automated tests to prevent this issue from ever returning

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
• NavEd Forms announcement added to the deploy pipeline so HODs see the "What's New" modal
• Removed unused standalone announcement command (now handled by the catalog)

Search engines can now discover and crawl the signup page.

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

Fixes¶

• Added Allow: /signup/ and Allow: /setup/ directives to robots.txt
• Added /signup/ to sitemap.xml

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

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

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

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