**Release Notes for PTO V2.15 (September 2024)
- Educonnex Support
This page describes the updates implemented with the latest version of PTO.
For more detailed information, please view the links provided in each subsection below.
SSO functionality compatible with the following providers is now available in PTO.
Microsoft/Entra (contact Educonnex Support in all cases)
K-12 Solutions/PIPs
Studentnet/Cloudwork
Wonde/MyLogin
Educonnex (our own Student Information Management Platform)
To request information on how to establish SSO for your PTO service please contact these providers directly, or email us at support@educonnex.education
We may look at other SSO integrations subject to demand so please let us know via email at support@educonnex.education if you would like to see another integration method considered.
Ability for Administrators to Force Archive events
Events can be archived before they are finished, where access to the bookings for the current event is no longer required, and preparation needs to begin promptly for the next event.
Requests for this feature to be enabled for a school must be requested by contacting the Support Team.
Improved software update experience
We are implementing an improved software update process next year, where the first user to log in from your school will only have to wait about 5-10 seconds before they can access the update version of PTO. This will automatically update date your entire system, removing the need for an extended outage window each term.
We'll still do our longer server updates to keep your data secure, but we'll keep these to a minimum, and carry them out at times when user access is very low usage.
Timeslot availability calculation modes
Click here for more information on timeslot availability modes
We are introducing new functionality to allow schools greater flexability in regard to teacher availability.
Currently if a teacher is unavailabile for a timeslot, they are unavailable for all times slots at that time. This new ‘timeslot specific’ availability will allow you more flexibility when deciding which individual time slots are and aren’t available to be booked.
A link directly to the Teacher Training Guide is now located within each teacher’s dashboard screen.
Management of dormant PTO Admin Accounts
Click here for more information on managing dormant PTO Admin accounts.
PTO will now alert you PTO any PTO Admins who have not logged into PTO for:
- more than 1 year; and
- more than 2 years
An option to automatically deleted any PTO Admins dormant for more than 2 years is provided.
We have also implemented several bug fixes and general system improvements, including:
Fixed an issue related to gaps between bookings
Improved handling of Wonde data transfers that take longer the usual
Times for outages will now be displayed in local time setting of school
Better booking handling of overlapping time slots of different durations
Instructions in the View and Edit Data page will now open the related index in the dedicated help documentation
Main administrators will now be prompted to review administrator profiles that haven’t logged in for a significant time
Fixed an issue with the email being sent to an administrator to confirm teacher login details being sent out
Fixed an issue with the validation of URLs used for video meetings used as the meeting location for teachers
Fixed an issue with the Excel extract available when administrators cancel bookings for a teacher
Fixed an issue with interpreters being available for a booking
Tightened requirements about repeated usage of the same email address to work with new single sign-on options available from this release
Added the option to customise the event name used for meetings created with the Microsoft Teams integration that sets up calendar events