Release 24

This page details the content that has been updated in the Union Cloud Release named in the title above, if you were looking for the content from a different Sprint, or Union Cloud Release, please take a look at the Version History page to see all Sprints and Releases.

Functionality

Improvement to questionnaires for events & groups

Includes updated set of options to configure questions, ability to set questions at membership or ticket level, hiding questions or options for group questionnaires.

Volunteering

• Enable volunteers to add text evidence for skills they claim to have on their profile with attachment feature for selected skill.
• Enable volunteers to record skills gained as part of time banking now. (To be used for HEAR like report of volunteering work)
• Enable admin to verify the text and supporting evident submitted by the volunteer during enrollment.

Awards System for Volunteers

• Ability for admin to create awards for volunteering based on the hours logged under different opportunities and students able to see those awards under their 'My Profile'.

Volunteering Skills record document

• Ability for the student to download a file comprising;

• The skills gained under various opportunities the studend is involved in to date
• The volunteering awards won by the student to date
• The details of training events attended by the student.

Student Activity Report

A report generated for each student comprising the historical activities performed by the student on the Union Cloud platform, the report consists of details from up to 7 modules associated with UnionCloud. The same details are also shown in a grid under user account details for each student.

Tribing

Enable the NUS admin to set up questions and configure tribes using the rule builder. The tribes are available at union level, and on activation are visible as part of the student registration form. Based on the answers given by the student he/she is allocated to a specific tribe and the same is visible under their 'My Profile'.

Feedback

Student Voice Update

• Ability for admin to restrict the actiosn performed by the student on Student Voice. Actions such as Like/Dislike/Signing a petition/Comment can now be restricted to specific user groups through configuration at admin level.

Customising system generated emails

For now

• Registration Email
• Group Join Email
• Event Booking Confirmation Email

These emails can now be customised in the Setup section of the Admin menu, in the UC Dashboard

Ability to use a filter criteria for referendums

• Dynamic filter added to include referenda vote, meaning admin can filter by users who voted Yes / No.

Set Publish date for events

Devised so that your events don't go live as soon as you create them, for unions that have requested the ability to set up events in advance without the ability for users to find them using search.

Dynamic User Group Filters

• Course Rep filter added
• Event attendees can now be drilled down by ticket type

Technical User Stories

• Eliminate render-blocking JS and CSS in above-the-fold content to improve the browser load time.
• Set expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from Local Disk rather than Network.
• Improvement to SOAP API for importing students to reduce load on system during scheduled API Calls
• Improvments to downloading demographic report.
• Improve performance of JSON Upload process
• Split SOAP API for Student import in two parts, and process the data inserts and update using background job so that it can process more concurrent API requests.
• Improve performance of background job for confirm student to Alumni.
• Optimise image when uploaded - improve browser load times
• Eliminate root cause of performance issues related to cart controller, for performing and maintainable cart.
• Automation to deploy the updates to non-production/staging environment, saving time, and avoiding manual errors.
• Update to latest Redis version.