Release notes

Changelog

Notable product updates for RecordGrade—new features, improvements, and fixes. Newest releases are listed first.

1.18.0 — September 17, 2026

Diploma snapshot: issuing a diploma copies that graduation level onto the student. Catalog levels stay editable; already-issued transcripts do not change. Replace or revoke a diploma on the student record.

Staff access: Manage users in three tabs — Grades, Courses they teach, and Permissions.
Lock a school year: mark a year read-only so past records stay put. You can still view them. An admin can turn the lock off under Years.
Overview: a school watch list with tabs for the snapshot, slipping students, below class, behind pace, recent scores, and courses. Flag a score below a percent or a class gap (defaults 85% and 10 points) under Report Settings.
Attendance Counts Attendance totals stop at today, so pre-filled future Present days are not counted.
Lesson planner and calendar: school-wide plans and day events can be All staff, Only for me, or selected grades (teachers keep private; homeroom is limited to their grades). Untimed events now sort first before plans. In the lesson planner, each lesson shows the day it lands on.

No-grade Pass / No Pass / Withdraw: mark a no-grade enrollment No Pass or Withdraw (0 credit, stays on the record). Pass is automatic. Unenroll still removes the course. No Pass and Withdraw freeze that year’s hour log. Settings → Reports can print P on transcripts and permanent records (including 0-credit elementary no-grade courses). NP and W always print. P/NP/W are not in GPA and are distinct from a letter-grade F.
Manual entry: the grade cell accepts a percent, blank, Pass/P, No Pass/NP, or Withdraw/W (use No Pass, not Fail or F). Same values in CSV import.
Printing lesson calendar: Print the lesson calendar in month, week, or day view.

School plans: lesson plans no longer have to belong to a course. Use them for chapel, assemblies, grade meetings, or a whole year of planning without courses. Optional grade list hides a plan from staff who do not have those grades. Several school plans can be active in the same year; course plans still work as before.
Double / Stretch: year-only calendar adjustments. Double puts a lesson and the next on the same day (chainable). Stretch repeats a lesson on the following meeting day (repeatable). Skip and bump are unchanged.
Frozen past days: after a day has passed, that day’s lessons stay put when you change meeting days, start date, skip, double, stretch, or bump. Choose when a new pattern starts, or relayout from a date to recompute forward.

Lesson planner: course lesson plans, year schedules, year calendar (month / week / day), vacations, no-school dates, and freeform day events

Improved appearance of all pdfs
Improved usability of behavior and attendance pages
Added custom sorting for Course Units and Test Pattern Groups
Added custom grade scales for Transcript
Added optional letter grades for Transcript
Completed the Student Performance page
Added a Student Progress page, along with a Term Progress pdf
Added Hours functionality - you can track time on No Grade courses, earning credit based on completion.
Added the ability to enroll a student in a no-grade course for more than one year
Improved searching functionality for courses and students

Overhauled the Enter Grades page:
- Replaced individual save with Save All (Ctrl-Enter shortcut)
- Improved keyboard navigation
- Added an optional note field to test grades
Sort by course on the close-unit page rather than student
Adjusted delete behavior to protect user data
Fixed bugs with attendance