Enhancements
Jackrabbit is always improving and adding new features and enhancements. Review the latest
enhancements below and click at the bottom to see more enhancements.
| # | Date | Enhancement | Description |
| 1 | 05/21/20 | User login status more intuitive | A new button was added for you to set a User to a revoked status. This button is for staff members who no longer need access to Jackrabbit. Go to Tools> Manage Users and Permissions. Click on the User ID to see the User Details and the Revoke User ID button. Refer to the Help Center article, User ID Login Status, for more information. |
| 2 | 05/21/20 | Allow parents to schedule absences & makeups in Parent Portal | Save those admin hours with the option to allow parents to submit absences and schedule makeups right from the Parent Portal. Go to Tools> Edit Email Templates, select 136 or 137 to send informative emails to your families so that they know how to do this\! |
| 3 | 05/14/20 | Email Student Schedules: Contact and Student names added | Contact and Student names are now showing in Email Student Schedules when sending a Student Schedule to a family when sending from the Student page. |
| 4 | 05/07/20 | NEW Mass drop classes | Jackrabbit users can now drop all classes for a student or family at one time from the student and family records. |
| 5 | 05/07/20 | Class Skills Worksheet: Display additional information | Class Skills Worksheets now have the option to display roll notes, allergies, and special needs. |
| 6 | 05/07/20 | Revenue Reconciliation Report: Add search criteria | Location and Payment Method search criteria options added to Revenue Reconciliation Reports. |
| 7 | 04/27/20 | Credits: Search and mass apply | With a new option under the Transactions menu, Find Unapplied Credits, you can now search and apply outstanding credits to multiple family accounts at one time. |
| 8 | 04/23/20 | Absences: Add multiple for student or family | Quickly submit absences for a period of time from the student or family record. |
| 9 | 04/14/20 | Staff Portal: Display Virtual Classes and Resources | Virtual Classes and Class Resources are now viewable in the Staff Portal. Note: All Resources that were previously shared to the Parent Portal will automatically be shown in the Staff Portal. New Resources added from this point forward should be shared to the Staff Portal as needed. |
| 10 | 04/09/20 | Classes Search: Resources criteria added | The Classes Search now includes search criteria for Resources to help quickly find classes that have resources added. |
| 11 | 04/07/20 | NEW All Families | The All Families page allows you to quickly and efficiently find the information you need, related to family accounts. Help article and video for more information |
| 12 | 04/02/20 | Skills: Display options for Staff Portal | Select which skills show in the Staff Portal based on whether they are class-assigned skills or student-assigned skills. |
| 13 | 04/02/20 | NEW Gender Customization | You now have the ability to edit your drop-down lists for gender to include more inclusive options in addition to male and female. |
| 14 | 03/27/20 | Sent Emails report: Add Contact Us correspondence | The Sent Emails report will now show correspondence sent by your customers to your organization through the Parent Portal\'s Contact Us form. This report is not retroactive and will only show correspondence from the parent portal going forward. |
| 15 | 03/27/20 | NEW Resource Management | A new Resources tab is now available on the Families, Students, Class, and Staff Records. Resources added to the Class records can be viewable from the Parent Portal. |
| 16 | 03/24/20 | Classes Search: Virtual Class fields added | The Classes Search now has the option to search for classes that do or do not have a Virtual Class link added. |
| 17 | 03/24/20 | Edit All Classes: Virtual Class fields added | Edit All Classes now includes the Virtual Class fields (Link URL and Link Text) to help add links to multiple classes at one time. |
| 18 | 03/19/20 | Post Late Fees/Misc Fees: Duplicate detection optional | When using Post Late Fees/Misc Fees, you can now decide when you want to use duplicate detection. |
| 19 | 03/19/20 | Mobile Inventor: Reload Punch Cards | Parents can now reload and purchase punch cards from the Mobile Inventor app for your organization. Purchases of punch cards will be recorded on the family\'s account in your Jackrabbit application. |
| 20 | 03/17/20 | NEW Virtual Class Links | Take your classes online with the new op'); tion on the class record to add video links to the class record. Parents will able to access the video in the Parent Portal if they have an active student enrolled in the class or scheduled for a makeup. |
| 21 | 03/17/20 | NEW Email Templates | To help you communicate with families during unexpected closures, there are new email templates available for use. |
| 22 | 03/05/20 | SpotTV: NEW Integration | Jackrabbit now partners with SpotTV for video streaming integration through the Parent Portal. |
| 23 | 03/05/20 | Email Student Schedules: Contact and Student name added | Contact and student names now show at the top of the page when sending student schedules to a family from the Family page. |
| 24 | 03/05/20 | Edit All Classes: Duration Search Criteria Added | In Edit All Classes, you can now search for classes by Class Duration. |
| 25 | 02/20/20 | Email: Contact and student name added | Contact and student names now show at the top of the email editor when sending an email to a family. |
| 26 | 02/06/20 | Staff Portal: Enter future absences | Staff who use the Staff Portal to take attendance can now enter future absences for students. |
| 27 | 02/06/20 | Parent Portal: Display wait listed classes | The Parent Portal will now display the classes that a student is on the wait list for, below their normal classes. |
| 28 | 01/09/20 | Post Late Fees/Misc Fees: add tax option | A checkbox for Tax was added to Post Late Fees/Misc Fees in the Transactions Detail section. |
| 29 | 01/09/20 | NEW Staff Certifications | Staff Certifications allows you to track trainings and certifications for each staff member. Certifications can be marked as required and set with an expiration date. |
| 30 | 01/09/20 | Parent Portal: Gender optional | The Parent Portal has a new setting to give flexibility to the gender drop-down. Gender can be required, hidden, or optional to match the web'); registration form. |
| 31 | 01/09/20 | Parent Portal: Email notification settings added | New options have been added to the Parent Portal settings tab to allow you to decide which automated email notifications your organization and families will receive. |
| 32 | 01/09/20 | Paid Fees Report: Multi-select Session option added | The Paid Fees Report now allows you to select more than one session at time when running the report. |
| 33 | 12/05/19 | Lesson Plans: Visible in the Staff Portal | Lesson Plans are now visible from inside the Staff Portal when lesson plans have been added to a class record. |
| 34 | 11/21/19 | Web Registration Form : T-shirt size added | The T-shirt size drop-down is now available on the Web Registration form. The field defaults to optional, however, you can change the field to be hidden or required on your form. To do so, go to Tools > Online Web Registration > Field Options/Labels. |
| 35 | 11/15/19 | Student Detail Report: Print button added | A print button was added to the Student Detail Report for easy printing. |
| 36 | 11/15/19 | New Sent Emails Report | The Sent Emails Report allows you to search for emails that have been sent by users in your database. You can preview the email sent and check on the status per recipient. |
| 37 | 10/24/19 | QuickBooks Online Authentication | In order to keep up with the the authentication supported by QuickBooks Online, we have updated our integration to the newer authentication system. You will need to reconnect your QuickBooks online account to Jackrabbit. |
| 38 | 10/24/19 | New Student Detail Report | There\'s a new Student Detail Report, which is a great tool to find information about students in one place. The report results includes important student information such as:
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| 39 | 10/03/19 | New Notes Tab | A new Notes tab is available on Family, Student, Class, and Staff records for keeping internal notes. Each note shows:
Notes are NOT viewable in the Parent Portal. |
| 40 | 10/03/19 | Billing Portal: Automatic Login for Billing Contact | Billing contacts can automatically login to the Billing Portal when clicking the link from the My Account page in Jackrabbit. Billing contacts will also see a new option under the Tools menu, Pay My Bill/Update Account, for quick access to the Billing Portal. |
| 41 | 10/03/19 | Discounting & Prorating: New Class Setting | Each class record has a new check box that allows you to exclude the class from multi-class discounts or the total hours count when checked. The new setting is only available when using the new Post Tuition Fees. |
| 42 | 09/03/19 | Email Student Schedules: Display First Class | When using Email Student Schedules, the first class will display for each student enrolled. The date shown is the first class the student can attend based on when the student enrolls and when the class meets. See Display First Class in Email Student Schedules |
| 43 | 09/03/19 | Parent Portal: Display First Class | The Parent Portal displays the first class for each student enrolled. The date shown is the first class the student can attend based on when the student enrolls and when the class meets. See Display First Class in Parent Portal |
| 44 | 08/20/19 | New Revenue Reconciliation Reports | With the new Revenue Reconciliation Reports, you now have the option to track revenue by Class Location. When tracking revenue by Class Location, you can report how much revenue is generated at each location, regardless of the family\'s location. This is most helpful when you have multiple locations. See Revenue Reconciliation Reports |
| 45 | 08/20/19 | New Tuition Not Posted Report | There\'s a new Tuition Not Posted Report which searches by date range for any class '); enrollment that doesn\'t have a corresponding tuition fee posted, as identified by the student and class assigned to the tuition fee. See Tuition Not Posted Report |
| 46 | 08/20/19 | Process Class Registrations Report: Several Improvements | The Process Class Registrations Report has been improved with the following:
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| 47 | 08/06/19 | Dashboard: Added Class Registrations Settings | You can now control which records show on your dashboard to help you keep your dashboard clean. See Class Registrations Dashboard settings |
| 48 | 07/23/19 | New ePayments Wizard | For those who haven\'t set up their database to accept ePayments, there\'s a new wizard to make it easier by walking you through the process. See ePayments Wizard |
| 49 | 07/23/19 | Email Listing: Added Email | Email Listing now has the ability to email from the search result list. See Email Listing |
| 50 | 07/23/19 | Aged Accounts Details: Added search option | Aged Accounts Details has a new search criteria called Do you want to show all families or only those with unpaid fees? This gives you the option to pick either Show all families or Only show families with unpaid fees. Showing all families includes families with credit balances and zero balances, even when there are no unpaid fees. This change will help when reconciling to the Family Balance Summary report. |
