What's New and Improved in Playground ✨
All our recent updates — from new features to enhancements to fixes. Check your version of Playground in app by clicking the Menu button > My Account and scrolling to the bottom of the screen.
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View our roadmapVersion 230 — Better and better
January 07, 2022
📄 Parents can now view uploaded documents
💳 Users are notified they are disabling autopay when removing autopay card
🏙 Feed enabled for Enterprise users
🤳🏼 Alerts when wrong code is scanned
🕚 Fixed editing start and end times on activities
✓ Fixed the number of recipients on a post
Version 228 — Small fixes
January 04, 2022
🌡 Fixed bug where parents didn't see the daily wellness check
👻 Alert now pops up when trying to mark absence with no reason
🧒🏾 When recording an activity for one student, the student's name now shows instead of "1 person"
🍼 Activity details now show up on the activity (e.g. 3 fl oz)
Version 215 — You asked, we delivered!
November 17, 2021
🚫 Staff member accounts can now be disabled by administrators from the web dashboard (Help Center article) 🚫
🗓 When bulk recording activities, teachers can now filter based on student schedules 🗓
💥 Resolved minor issues that may cause the app to crash 💥
Version 214 — Payments, Documents, and more!
November 09, 2021
- Payments in the parent mobile app now displays all students in one screen
- Administrators can now set Document permissions (View/Edit/None) for both parents and staff on an individual document in the dashboard
- Chat notifications can now be muted in the mobile app by opening a chat and clicking the blue circle "i" in the upper right-hand corner
- Small fixes to timeline post creation and chat notifications
- Verify bank amount placeholders are clearer
Version 211 — More user requests!
October 26, 2021
- Administrators can now delete chats in the mobile app
- Guardians now have up to 3 phone numbers in their profile
- Small fixes to the payment screen in the mobile app for Android users and to the "Generate invoice" screen on the administrator dashboard
Version 210 — Looking good!
October 24, 2021
- Primary Guardians/Staff/Administrators are able to mark/see the absence reason in the mobile app (tap student name > Activities)
- On the mobile app, your PIN code appears on the QR code scanner for both guardians (student check-in/out and staff clock-in/out)
- Administrators can see who liked a post (using the mobile app)
- "All chats" has been reenabled in the Administrator mobile app
- Improvements to quick signing on the mobile app
- Improvements to contactless signing
- Improved overflows where it is no longer blocked by top or bottom notches
- Corrected issue where notifications on Android devices showed up as a white square
- Corrected issue where gray thumbnail would appear for some photos
Version 207 — Built for speed
October 18, 2021
What's New
- Chat has a new look, data downloads much quicker with less data utilized (~30-40% less data) [MOBILE]
Bug Fixes
- Fix a bug where signature report printout would cut off at the end of each page (now 7 rows per page) [WEB]
Version 199 — At long last, multiple classes for teachers
September 23, 2021
What's New
- Teachers can now be assigned to multiple classrooms
- Send multiple photos at once via chat
Bug Fixes
- Timelines load faster because we got rid of unused code
- Photos show in order instead of randomly appearing