This week we launched a bunch of helpful tools to make daily and weekly processes much more efficient and seamless. Admins can now set up a process to approve lesson plans before they are shared out with families or can be used in classrooms. This way, you can deliver the high level of quality your families expect and ensure proper lesson plan structure & content.

We also added "getting started" screens for our most popular features with insights into how to use the features in your school. Playground offers a ton of flexibility, and sometimes that can make it harder to know where to get started. These resources should help in managing the first time you handle billing, enrollment, or paperwork so you can put the Playground power-user features to use.

We know how important it is to have the right data, right when you need it, in a format that you are comfortable with. We launched a whole new column editor for your tables to better set them up exactly how you like them.

Releases

• Lesson plan approvals — you can now require approvals before lesson plans can be used

• Getting started screens — Enrollment, Billing, and Paperwork now have getting started screens to help learn how to use our features

• You can now sort and enable/disable columns on tables in a much more streamlined way

Improvements

• Able to filter by current classroom on mobile app

• Cannot transition or name to face for signed out students

• Much better UX for selecting options on custom post type forms

• Students now have a dated transition log on their profiles

• Improved food item editing

• Subsidies and third party payers now report by agency

• Not able to sign inactive students in and out

• Meals are now snappier to post and duplicate

• Classroom ratios are now based on staff current classroom when enabled

• Able to apply for a listing from the application complete screen

• Enrollment export now includes add-ons

• Added document name to document status report print out

• Changed word "charge" to "bill" on fee approvals

• Added "quick edit" to menus to mirror old functionality

• Exporting document values updated

• Able to create a role to manage enrollment while billing is read only

Fixes

• Fixed "Chat started by" message

• Staff documents are now default shared with all staff

• Fixed an issue with some guardian field pre-fills on enrollment forms

• Staff PDF exports now sorted by last name

• Calendar invite modal now resets every time you edit

• Fixed web food posts showing ids instead of names

• Downloading submissions now default downloads the newest documents

• Able to close the auth modal on the first page of enrollment

• Added classroom info to detailed CACFP report

• Fixed styles on enrollment forms for templated objects

• Turned off inactive staff as chat suggestions