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Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest changes and improvements to Scout.
March 2026

What’s New

  • Class rank — Automated class rank calculation and display with school-level filtering
  • Grading scales — Create and manage custom letter grade scales for use across the gradebook
  • Multi-student bulk work sample uploads — Upload a single PDF across multiple students at once
  • Curriculum review UI — Side-by-side review interface for verifying AI-parsed curriculum standards before saving
  • AI chat history — Data chat conversations now persist so you can revisit and continue previous queries
  • Report builder redesign — New, intuitive design for building custom reports
  • Collapsible sidebar — Sidebar collapses to icon-only mode for more screen space
  • Permanent student deletion — Permanently delete student records when needed
  • CALPADS updates — Cross-file error validation and push errors to school admins for resolution

Improvements

  • Gradebook reports page with email trigger tracking and template configs
  • Approve all pending engagement logs with one click
  • Work sample score shown in approval drawer
  • Concurrent section enrollments anomaly report
  • Various visual and data improvements

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed admin approval status filtering
  • Fixed unassigning a module incorrectly removing the entire curriculum
  • Fixed due date refresh in gradebook tab
  • Fixed curriculum search results
  • Fixed Canvas excused submissions and PDF image loading
  • Fixed mailing address update overwriting physical address
  • Fixed communication during enrollment
  • Fixed legal name display in Basic Info tab
  • Fixed Hep B compliance dose count

Integrations

Canvas
  • SIS CSV integration for syncing course and enrollment data
  • Gradebook sync for pulling gradebook configuration directly from Canvas
  • Assignment due date overrides now respected
StrongMind
  • New: Supports assignments, engagement, and work samples

New Configurations

Contact us if you’d like any of these enabled for your school.
  • Self-service enrollment and re-enrollment configuration
  • DASS status codes can be hidden during enrollment
  • Suggested attendance days based on configurable completion multiplier
February 2026

What’s New

  • Data anomaly reports — New suite of reports to surface dozens of data quality issues: e.g. duplicate contacts, concurrent enrollments, grade/credit anomalies, and section enrollment mismatches
  • County/district of residence verification — Scout automatically calculates county/district of residence during enrollment using address geolocation
  • Caseload teacher ADA & Chronic absenteeism reports — New reports for identifying and tracking ADA and chronically absent students
  • CSAC report — New California Student Aid Commission report export
  • Credentials management — Sync staff credentials directly from the CTC
  • Immunization AI — Upload immunization documents and automatically extract records using AI
  • Gradebook — Major gradebook overhaul with bulk update/delete actions and support for various types of grading and overall grade calculation
  • Curriculum standards extraction — Upload curriculum PDFs and automatically extract learning standards using AI
  • Graduation planner — Build graduation plans with specific courses to track on-time graduation and automatic course-rollover each semester

Improvements

  • Enhanced custom report and AI report agent quality and made it available via the CMD+K quick-actions menu
  • Overhauled the mobile app: assignments, engagement, and grade reporting now available for parents
  • View per-student compliance documents and audit packets in the revamped attendance admin approval drawer
  • New bulk attendance view for managing attendance across students
  • Bulk send report cards via email to parents/guardians
  • New enrollment document types: proof of withdrawal and secondary proof of residence
  • Optionally assign a SPED teacher alongside teacher of records during enrollment
  • Engagement log filters and UI cleanup on the learning period dashboard
  • Students can now select course enrollment preferences during enrollment
  • Roster teachers can now bulk assign curriculum and assignments to students on the learning period dashboard
  • Address changes can now be automatically propagated to related family members
  • Various visual and data improvements

Bug Fixes

  • Notes on the learning period tab no longer lag while typing
  • Work sample review modal no longer gets stuck with the loading spinner
  • Signing master agreements from the home page now works reliably
  • Report cards automatically sync when course enrollments change
  • Course search now correctly filters by name

Integrations

Edgenuity
  • Manually add or remove Buzz and Edgenuity connections per student
Google Calendar
  • New calendar booking sync for scheduling IEP meetings

New Configurations

Contact us if you’d like any of these enabled for your school.
  • Option to not require matching engagement logs for attendance claims
  • Configurable master agreement approval requirement
  • Configurable required fields on enrollment forms
  • Configurable document expiration dates
January 2026

What’s New

  • Redesigned home page — New layout shows what you’ve completed alongside what’s still needed, giving you a complete compliance picture in one place
  • Compliance dashboard — See exactly what’s in and out of compliance for master agreements, addenda, work samples, and attendance records
  • Enrollment analytics dashboard — Visualize student count trends and retention gaps with our first AI-generated dashboard
  • PDF annotation — Add text, lines, and boxes to pending work samples directly in Scout—no more download-edit-upload cycles
  • Bulk work sample uploads — Upload a single PDF containing multiple work samples for a student and we’ll split them automatically
  • GPA rankings — View class rankings by GPA from the Students page
  • Term work sample report — New report showing all of a student’s work samples for an entire semester
  • Printable enrollment form — Generate paper enrollment forms for families who prefer to fill them out by hand
  • Quick-select curriculum assignments — When assigning new work, quickly select from assignments in a previously assigned curriculum
  • Student immunizations — New immunization section on the basic information tab displays immunization history and compliance status
  • State report exports — View all historical exports for CALPADS, CBEDS, and PADC reports
  • CCGI export — Export is now fully compliant with state requirements
  • Partial attendance claims — Teachers can now claim partial attendance for mid-learning-period reporting periods

Bug Fixes

  • Work samples for weekends or holidays can now be submitted using “Submit anyway”
  • Student profiles now consistently display the correct current grade level
  • Student queue no longer shows withdrawn or inactive students
  • Admins can now re-approve work samples after a teacher fixes issues from a previous rejection
  • Infinite scroll in tables now reliably loads additional data

Improvements

  • Enhanced custom data exports with power-user features including grouping, aggregations, and nested filters for complex report building
  • Student profile learning period tab now loads significantly faster
  • Student profile master agreement tab now loads significantly faster
  • Admin approvals page now loads significantly faster
  • Work samples validate in the background, allowing you to upload multiple samples without waiting
  • New enrolling students can be merged with historical records to maintain a complete schooling history
  • Admins can view the Sections page on behalf of any teacher
  • Section pages now display pending work sample requests
  • Various transcript generation improvements
  • Various report card improvements

Integrations

Microsoft Teams
  • New Microsoft Teams integration for meeting activity data
Apex Learning
  • New Apex Learning integration for activity, assignments, and work sample data

New Configurations

Contact us if you’d like any of these enabled for your school.
  • Option to pull work samples starting X days after the beginning of a learning period, instead of X days before the end
December 2025

What’s New

  • Command palette enhancements — Press CMD+K to quickly navigate to specific student profile tabs. Try searches like “John Smith LP2” or “John S documents”
  • Faster load times — Performance improvements across the entire web portal
  • Parent/guardian communication history — New tab on parent/guardian profiles showing all text messages, emails, and notifications
  • Direct messaging — Send texts and emails directly to parents/guardians from the communication history tab
  • Internal comments — Staff can now add internal comments on parent/guardian profiles
  • Expanded file support — .HEIC images and .MP4 videos are now supported as work samples
  • CALPADS validation — Reports now display validation errors so you can fix issues before submitting
  • PE logs as work samples — Convert PE logs to work samples with the new “Use as work sample” button
  • Assignments section — New assignments section added to the learning period page
  • Curriculum assignments — Assign and remove curriculum assignments to students for specific learning periods
  • Custom tags — Add custom tags to student profiles for better organization

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where students with engagement logs on non-enrolled days would incorrectly appear on the learning period page

Improvements

  • Enhanced custom report and AI report agent quality
  • Redesigned admin approvals page with improved layout, faster loading, and streamlined approval workflow
  • Improved work sample selection algorithm to reduce pulling unusable samples
  • Updated student profile learning period tab layout
  • Refreshed demographics page layout

Integrations

Edgenuity
  • Work samples now include the full student work, not just the cover page
Edmentum
  • Expanded the types of work samples that can be pulled
Subject.com
  • Time spent in Subject.com now syncs to activity logs
Canvas
  • Assignments with no submission content will no longer be selected as work samples

New Configurations

Contact us if you’d like any of these enabled for your school.
  • Option to display assignment completion percentage to teachers when taking attendance