New Features

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Features

  • Online Judging Set up your Custom Judging Rubric. Judge using your iPad or mobile device. Automatically assign all Category Awards. The system will automatically use the z-score to normalize the scoring of judges, helping better ensure that judging is done fairly.
  • Bulk Mailer Send an email to all of your students, teachers, staff, volunteers, or judges.
  • Security Our Head Developer is the lead architect for a mobile banking software company and uses many of the same methods to help ensure that your information is safe. We have implemented and maintained several security layers to ensure your data and our systems are secure and safe. We do not sell or share your information with third-party vendors.
  • Media Release Electronic form and electronic signatures. Automatically sent out to parents via email upon the registration of their student. This form can also be signed by the parent right off of the Project Dashboard. Track who has signed your Electronic Media Release Document. This form can be customized to your fair.
  • Hold Harmless Electronic form and electronic signatures. Automatically sent out to parents via email upon the registration of their student. This form can also be signed by the parent right off of the Project Dashboard. Track who has signed your Electronic Hold Harmless Document. This form can be customized to your fair.
  • Credit Card Payments Collect registration fees and track who has paid.
  • ISEF Forms Wizard We can tell the students, teachers, and staff members who need what paperwork based on the responses from the students to the questions asked regarding their particular project.
  • Missing Forms Reminder Send a reminder to all students missing one or more required forms when using the Paperwork Manager.
  • Project Dashboard Society for Science & the Public & Intel ISEF APPROVED Generated ISEF Forms and E-Signatures. Streamline the paperwork process for students, adult sponsors, the SRC & IRB Committees, and everyone involved with signing the ISEF Forms.
  • Judge Auto Assign Assign judges projects to judge by the click of a button. Set up your judging preferences. Monitor how many judges you will need to fulfill your desired preferences vs. how many judges have registered on your site. Judges will have access only to the student they have been assigned to when using Online Judging.

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Release Notes

Please note that not all features, enhancements, bug fixes are listed.

Version 4.0.5.20

  • New Feature! Bulk mailer. You can now send groups emails from our product.
  • Updated category abbreviations to be able to be up to 10 characters; however, 2 or 3 is still the recommended length.
  • When saving custom text, a message is now displayed at the top of your browser, letting you know it saved.

Version 4.0.5.19

  • Corrected minor spelling and grammar errors.
  • Addressed a minor bug with Fair Divisions.
  • Category awards were expanded to have Prize, monetary value, sponsor, and presenter.
  • Add 3 new reports.
    • Special Award Program with Prize.
    • Excel Report: Category Awards Monetary Prize.
    • Excel Report: Category Awards Monetary Prize Details (has teacher's name).

Version 4.0.5.18

  • Added a feature for Volunteer registration.
  • Added a config to allow or not allow the following registration types: Staff, Teacher, Judges, Volunteer, and Schools.

Version 4.0.5.17

  • Changed menu; to be more user-friendly and to be in a more expected location.
  • Updated student search page to be more user-friendly.

Version 4.0.5.16

  • Fixed minor spelling and grammatical errors.
  • Fixed broken round 2 judging report.

Version 4.0.5.15

  • Now, you can set your own colors and themes with a new advanced site styling system using CSS.
  • Update to Category Awards Manager.
  • Update to Special Awards Manager.
  • Update to Special Awards to have several more data points.
  • Fair abbreviation can now be up to 5 characters.
  • Minor fixes with a custom text editor.
  • Minor bug fixes

Version 4.0.5.4

  • Fixed bug where students name does not appear on the file review screen.
  • Now, clicking on your user name is located near the top right will take you to your profile page.

Version 4.0.4.3

  • Implemented a more robust logging solution
  • Back-end changes

Version 4.0.4.5

  • Added setting for ISEF fairs to ask if the student wants to be considered for ISEF. When this feature is off, all students are marked as wanting to be considered for the ISEF fair.
  • Added setting to require gender for all students.