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What's new in illumine - Mar 2025

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Written by Purva Goyal
Updated over a month ago

We’ve rolled out a powerful set of updates to make your experience faster, smarter, and more seamless. From UI enhancements to serious under-the-hood performance boosts, here’s everything new and noteworthy!

✨ Activity Module Enhancements

  • Retry Media Uploads: Say goodbye to failed posts! You can now retry uploading photos/videos for activities.

  • Activity Search: Locate activities more easily with search across any field.


πŸ‘€ User Management & Access Control

  • Seamless Reassignment: You can now add users to a new school even if they were part of a deactivated one β€” no more user-lost limbo!

  • CCTV View Control: Only users from CCTV-enabled schools will now see live streaming options. Streamlined and secure.


πŸ› οΈ AI Assistant & Messaging Upgrades

  • AI Writing Assistant: Get inspired faster with a refreshed UI designed for smoother content creation.

  • More Control Over Messaging:

    • You can edit sent messages for quicker corrections and clearer communication.

    • Permissions fixed for deleted or restricted teachers β€” no more unintended access.


πŸ“¬ Newsletters, Events & Reminders

  • Sharper Newsletters: Photo quality has been boosted in newsletters β€” make every moment look its best.

  • Event & Holiday Reminders: Never miss an important day again with automated reminders for upcoming events and holidays.


πŸ’¬ Lead Management & Enquiries

  • New β€œCreated On” Field for Leads: Track leads better with the newly added Created On timestamp.


πŸ’° Invoices & Finance

  • Invoice PDF Improvements:

    • Add billing details easily into invoice PDFs.

    • New permission control lets you decide who can cancel invoices.

  • Faster Invoicing: Invoice generation is now 5x faster with improved automation logic.

  • Credit Note Report Additions:

    • Now includes rejected status.

    • Shows unapproved credit notes and has a date range filter.

  • Student Groups Filters: Added to invoice and payment reports β€” greater precision in financial reporting.


πŸ“… Calendar, Reports & School Info

  • Reports Revamp:

    • A brand-new Reports UI for an intuitive experience.

    • New Report :You can now download each assessments reports data to Excel

    • Withdrawal Reports now supports filtering by Withdrawal Date.

  • School Details Settings: Set your country and timezone for a fully localized setup.

  • Explore Premium: Discover what Illumine Premium offers on the new info page β€” reach out to sales anytime.


πŸ“ˆ Performance & UI Optimizations

  • Streamlined Navigation Bar: Staff now see only the center name, cutting the clutter.

  • Optimized Tables: Messaging and Observation tables now load faster.

  • Pre-selected Development Areas while creating observations from lessons.

  • Fixed alignment issues in Invoice PDFs.

  • UI stability improvements across pages and downloads.

  • Sort Observations by creation date.

  • School Calendar: Supports DD[-]M[-]YYYY format for bulk onboarding.


πŸ“± Mobile App Updates

  • Nap Time Accuracy: Now showing Nap Start Time instead of end time.

  • Default Rooms in Attendance: Automatically shows default room for quicker student check-ins.

  • Staff Notifications: Approve or reject staff applications right from notifications


πŸ”₯ Bug Fixes Galore!

🧾 Reports & PDFs

  • Invoice reports now show descriptions.

  • Fixed missing deferred counts in Waterfall Reports.

  • Learning journey PDFs now render continuously without missing pages.

  • Resolved missing holidays in attendance reports.

  • Classroom filters are skipped in multi-center reports for consistency.

πŸ’¬ Messaging & Emails

  • Reply-to email duplication resolved in lead templates.

  • Multiple CC emails now work as expected in receipt emails.

🎨 UI & Performance

  • Assessment PDFs now show all pages correctly.

  • Alignment and custom date filter issues are fixed.

πŸ›‘οΈ General Fixes

  • Staff birthday emails now send with the correct staff names.

  • Auto-generate invoices now only work with synced fee plans.

  • Tour management and enquiries date storage fixed.

  • Observations hidden from parents are now correctly editable.

  • Transferred students now show under the transferred filter regardless of previous status.

  • Multiple staff form notifications no longer flood your inbox.

  • Child notes formatting issues resolved.

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