2025
→ Version 12.5.5.202507011700
July 1, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
- Introduced School Year automated archiving for users with manual capabilities for Planbook Support. (SE-667, SE-887)
Bug Fixes
Plans Page
- Resolved an issue where some dropdowns in the Standards picker were missing labels. (SE-1129)
- Fixed a bug where the shift notification is not shown to Dual users after adding a “No School” event as an Administrator, switching to the Teacher view, and navigating to Plans. (SE-883)
Events Page
- Fixed an issue where event updates were not saving. Also resolved a bug where updating a district-level event incorrectly converted it to a school-level event. (SE-1039)
Copy Page
- Resolved an issue where attachments were not included when copying Units with all unit items selected. (SE-960)
Improvements
- Updated the automated email signature. (SE-1153)
- Refreshed the automated email header and footer. (SE-1152)
- Added an inline WYSIWYG editor for improved user experience in Notes & To-Do’s (Reminder Text), Lists (Description), and Strategies (Description). (SE-1005)
- District Administrators and School Administrators can now create and update district/school-level “No Cycle” events. (SE-628)
Other Changes
- Made minor content updates to welcome.planbook.com. (SE-1161)
- Fixed a bug where exporting performance reports as PDFs would occasionally fail. (SE-1157)
- Resolved a null pointer exception logged in the developer console (not visible to users). (SE-738)
→ Version 12.5.5.202506111600
June 11, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
Plans Page
- Fixed an issue where applying classwork using Lesson Actions caused an error after saving. (SE-833)
Notes & To Do Page
- Fixed an issue where pressing Enter during inline edit triggered the full editor instead of saving the field only. (SE-945)
- Fixed an issue where the “Classes” field initialized as blank instead of defaulting to “All Classes” when using the Send To (Export) button. (SE-945)
- Fixed an issue where inline editing of a repeating to-do using “Only This To-Do” did not work. (SE-945)
Login Page
- Fixed an issue where the CAPTCHA was not reset after a user received an error when logging in with incorrect credentials, causing subsequent login attempts to fail. (SE-1051)
Copy Page
- Fixed an issue where copying lessons into a bank using the “Insert Starting at” field caused an error. (SE-1119)
- Fixed an issue where filtering by unit did not work on the School Type Lesson Bank in the Copy Page. (SE-893)
- Fixed an issue where units in a school bank could not be copied, unlike units from a class. (SE-889)
Account Page
- Fixed an issue where “Manager” accounts could renew subscriptions that are part of group billing. (SE-1007)
Lesson Layouts Page
- Fixed an issue where some toolbar contents overlapped on smaller screen sizes when logged in as an admin. (SE-942)
School Profile Page
- Fixed an issue where accessing the school profile caused an error due to the “Weekly Plans Due on” field not being properly initialized. (SE-1089)
Sharing Options Page
- Fixed an issue where clicking “Delete” on a permissions row opened the editor instead of performing the delete action. (SE-1046)
Improvements
- Improved API performance by adding support for a date range filter when retrieving Planbook Holidays. (SE-859)
- Added support for using unique URLs for ad tracking. (SE-1064)
- In the Support module, added a “Manager” option to the “Invite Teachers” feature on the School Information page. (SE-964)
- Updated the message shown to “District Admin” accounts to clarify billing instructions: “To manage billing, please contact Planbook at support@planbook.com.” (SE-1007)
- In the Students page, made students searchable by Student ID and email. (SE-977)
Other Changes
→ Version 12.5.5.202505282100
May 28, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
Grades Page
- Fixed an issue where the loading overlay failed to appear during grade and performance report exports, potentially allowing unintended user actions. (SE-980)
- Fixed an issue where score weights were displayed out of order. (SE-794)
- Fixed an issue where filtering student score details did not work for Student and Administrator accounts. (SE-940)
Lesson Banks
- Fixed an issue where dragging screen components caused unintended text selection. (SE-854)
Assign Student Page
- Fixed an issue where dragging screen components caused unintended text selection. (SE-854)
Copy Page
- Fixed an issue that required subject copy dates to exactly match the target school year. Subjects are now correctly accepted if their dates fall within the target year’s range. (SE-962)
Lesson Banks
- Fixed an issue where copying lessons within the same lesson bank or class did not include unit details. (SE-921)
Improvements
- Fixed an issue where error page text was not visible in dark mode. (SE-955)
Other Changes
- Introduced feature flags allowing the Success Team to test and review the feature before general availability. (SE-1077)
- Updated sign-up pages, invoices, and emails with the new phone number and company name. (SE-998)
- Updated the “Schedule a Meeting” and “Schedule a Demo” links to the corresponding Planbook Calendly links. (SE-1062)
- Renamed “Help Center” to “Planbook Help Center” on the Help subpage. (SE-1062)
→ Version 12.5.5.202504301500
April 30, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
Plans Page
- Fixed an issue where canceling the “Add No School Day” action from the day actions menu would cause an error. (SE-894)
Events Page
- Fixed an issue where exporting events returned a blank CSV for teachers not associated with a school. (SE-973)
- Fixed an issue where Admin/Dual users couldn’t select dates due to restrictions tied to the school year set during account creation. (SE-970)
- Fixed an issue where the prompt asking whether to apply changes to “All Events” or “Only This Event” always appeared when adding or removing extra events. (SE-839)
- Fixed an issue where users were warned about unsaved changes when closing the editor, even when no changes had been made. (SE-885)
Grades Page
- Fixed an issue where students couldn’t scroll to grade details located at or near the bottom of the list. (SE-941)
School Years Page
- Fixed an issue that could result in school year data being deleted when switching between school years. (SE-712)
Units Page
- Fixed an issue where deleting a unit also deleted the associated classwork. (SE-797)
Improvements
- Added a “Show Archived” filter button to the Standard Subjects picker. (SE-917)
Other Changes
- Resolved several security vulnerabilities. (SE-1001)
- Disabled automatic snapshots for backup database instances. (SE-971)
→ Version 12.4.4.202504091500
April 9, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
Grades Page
- Fixed an error that occurred when selecting a student and then switching to a class the student isn’t enrolled in. (SE-916)
Lesson Banks Page
- Fixed an issue where some lesson content was not being copied when using the lesson actions menu to copy lessons. (SE-547)
Reporting Page
- Resolved an issue where standard subjects were not updating correctly when changing the selected class from the dropdown. (SE-679)
School Years Page
- Fixed a bug where a school Administrator could unintentionally convert a district-level school year into a school-level year. (SE-762)
Improvements
- Enhanced the lesson-saving functionality in the lesson editor within the Plans page by preventing auto-saving when no changes have been made. (SE-744)
- Teachers can now quickly mark To Do items as “Done” directly from the Notes & To Do page list. (SE-882)
Other Changes
→ Version 12.4.4.202504081500
April 8, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
- All references to the Planbook Knowledge Base and Video Tutorials in UserVoice have been updated with links to the relevant sections of the new Planbook Help Center in HubSpot, on both the Welcome page and within the web application. Additionally, all messaging and feedback features previously provided through UserVoice have been removed from these areas. (SE-793)
Bug Fixes
Improvements
Other Changes
→ Version 12.4.4.202503262100
March 26, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
- A new Manager account type is now available. School Administrators can invite managers just like teachers, without incurring additional costs for the school or district. (SE-843)
Bug Fixes
Plans Page
- Fixed an issue in the lesson editor where users are unable to go to the previous or next week when there are no lessons for the class on the first or last day of the week. (SE-788)
- Fixed an issue rendering lesson text when the lesson has no title and unit titles are set to hidden from the Plans filter. (SE-831)
- Fixed an issue where opening and then closing a linked lesson caused the bump lesson action to not work correctly. (SE-834)
Events Page
- Fixed an issue where users are unable to edit “Add Days” on Events created over a month in the past. (SE-838)
Grades Page
- Resolved an error encountered when viewing a specific student and then switching to a new class that the student is not enrolled to. (SE-916, SE-857)
- Fixed Google Assignment scores to open in a new window/tab instead of the same window. (SE-760)
- Fixed an issue where classwork did not appear on the Grades page when all assigned students were Google Students. (SE-677)
Lesson Banks Page
- Resolved an error encountered after reordering lessons. (SE-858)
Notes & To Do Page
- Fixed the vertical alignment of the “Reminder Text” column in some screen resolutions. (SE-898)
Copy Page
- Fixed an issue where users are unable to copy lessons into a replica class with edit permissions. (SE-673)
- Fixed an issue where linking lessons did not work when the target was “All Classes”. (SE-742)
- Fixed an issue where canceling a copy operation did not close the loading pop-up. (SE-783)
- Fixed an issue where users are unable to copy content (via drag-and-drop) into an extra lesson. (SE-836)
School Years Page
- Fixed an issue where additional class days are copied when “Class Days” and “Class Times” are not selected while adding a new school year. (SE-856)
- Fixed an issue where Cycle Resets appear as editable for teachers connected to an Admin School Year. (SE-828)
Assign Student Page
- Resolved an error that occurred when a school year was not selected by default. (SE-627)
Change History Page
- Resolved an error encountered when undoing a link lesson change. (SE-841)
Improvements
- Comment icons in lessons that indicates the existence of admin comments on lessons are now displayed in real-time. (SE-888)
- The Notes & To Do page is now updated in real-time when adding To Do items via the Add button in the Plans page. (SE-881)
- Changed the wording of holidays with the suffix “(first day)” to use the suffix “(begins)”. (SE-736)
Other Changes
- Fixed an issue in the support module where restoring a school year (with school year checked) doesn’t include cycle resets. (SE-771)
- Security vulnerability fixes. (SE-767, SE-768, SE-790, SE-791)
→ Version 12.4.4.202503052100
March 5, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
Plans Page
- Fixed an issue where students were unable to view certain lesson content due to conflicting teacher lesson layouts.
- Fixed an issue where teachers received unnecessary event shift notifications.
- Resolved an intermittent error encountered when exporting plans spanning over a month.
- Fixed an issue where the incorrect layout was applied to lessons in some scenarios.
Classes Page
- Fixed an issue where the popup header incorrectly displayed “Export Events” instead of “Export Lessons” when exporting lessons from a class.
- Fixed an intermittent issue preventing teachers from adding new class schedules.
Grades Page
- Fixed an issue where deleted school years still appeared for Administrators.
- Fixed an issue where teachers appeared multiple times when a logged-in Student was assigned to multiple years under the same teacher.
Lesson Banks Page
- Fixed an issue where changes to the lesson layout of a selected bank were not immediately reflected in the lesson list.
- Fixed an issue where shared lesson banks were not included when exporting lesson banks.
- Fixed an issue where Administrators saw blank section titles in the lesson layout.
Messages Page
- Resolved an error encountered when searching for a teacher while logged in as a Student.
Templates Page
- Fixed an issue where template editor tabs failed to initialize properly when changing lesson layouts.
Teachers Page
- Fixed an issue where the Manage Teachers page incorrectly displayed teachers from a different school instead of the administrator’s primary school when selecting another school on the Plans page.
Change History Page
- Fixed an issue where recent lesson changes did not appear at the top of the list.
Sign-Up/Sign-In Page
- Fixed an issue where some buttons were not visible when viewed on smaller screens.
Improvements
- Students wanting to reset their password will now receive instructions via email.
Other Changes
- Google compliance changes.
- Security compliance changes.
→ Version 12.4.4.202502052100
February 5, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an error that occurred when exporting to Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Improvements
Other Changes
→ Version 12.4.4.202502051700
February 5, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
- New users are now able to sign up using Single Sign-On (SSO).
- Emojis are now supported when exporting PDFs (Note that emojis are rendered in black and white with the version of Prince XML we are running).
Bug Fixes
Plans Page
- Fixed an error that occurred when opening the filter plans menu in vertical stack mode.
- Fixed an intermittent issue where the “No School Event” prompt (Shift/No Shift) is not displayed to Teachers when the district no school events are updated.
Classes Page
- Resolved an issue where the selected schedule was removed when switching to mobile mode.
Events Page
- Fixed an issue preventing users from adding future events (more than a month ahead) via file upload.
- Resolved an issue where Dual users were unable to delete teacher-level events.
Manage Students Page
- Fixed a problem where toggle button fields in the Join Code popup did not display the correct state after saving.
Sign-Up Page
- Fixed an issue preventing students from using the join link to enroll in a class.
Improvements
- Updated the “Schedule a Demo” button on the landing page by reducing its font size and ensuring it opens Planbook’s online appointment scheduling page in a new tab.
- Teachers can no longer update their school ID.
- Teacher invite links no longer expire.
- Improved capacity and performance when exporting PDFs.
Other Changes
- Fixed an issue where some information overlapped in the support module.
- Resolved a problem where lessons appeared incorrectly as out of schedule for cycle schedules with cycle resets in the support module.
- Fixed an issue where searching for teachers by school resulted in missing additional school IDs in the support module.
- Addressed a bug where State and Country codes were not displayed when accessing A/R in school or district pages in the support module.
- Fixed intermittent errors that occurred when restoring a School Year from backup using the restore tool in the support module.
- Under the School and District tabs in the support module:
- Added a new default option labeled “ALL SCHOOLS” or “ALL DISTRICTS”, including both U.S. and international institutions.
- Renamed “All States” to “U.S. States” (now the second option).
- Moved “Outside U.S.” up from the bottom to the third option.
→ Version 12.3.3.202501281700
January 28, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
Bug Fixes
Rostering
- Fixed an issue allowing School Administrators to modify settings on the Integrations page.
- Fixed an issue where records related to rostering are inserted to random schools that are not necessarily part of the district being processed.
Improvements
Other Changes
→ Version 12.3.3.202501141600
January 14, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
- In rare occassions where multiple accounts exists for a user in the SIS, District Administrators are now able to select which account to roster to Planbook in the Teacher Mapping section of the Integrations page.
Bug Fixes
Rostering
- Resolved an issue where users were not provisioned in Planbook due to having both active and inactive accounts in the SIS.
- Fixed an issue where duplicate options could appear in dropdown menus of the “Planbook Teacher Name (Teacher ID)”” column within the Teacher Mapping section on the Integrations page.
General
- Fixed an issue that prevented Teachers from linking lessons from a School or District lesson bank.
Improvements
Other Changes
→ Version 12.3.3.202501071600
January 7, 2025
Breaking Changes
New Features
- Administrators and Teachers are now able to set their preferred language setting. Available options include French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
- Introduced restrictions when making updates to events that could affect teacher lessons. Administrators can no longer modify events that are either older than a year or related to “No School” or “No Cycle” events that are older than a month.
Bug Fixes
Classes Page
- Corrected a typographical error to display “1 hour” as the slot duration instead of “1 hours”.
- Fixed an issue where days of the week text was cut off within the two-week schedule editor.
Events Page
- Resolved an issue where imported events required a manual refresh to display correctly.
Lesson Bank Page
- Fixed an issue where teachers can add lesson statuses to school and district lesson banks.
- Fixed an issue where reordering a lesson being edited from a lesson bank caused another lesson to be overwritten.
Rostering
- Resolved an issue where teachers may become temporarily disassociated from a school when the call to ClassLink Roster Server fails or returns empty.
General
- Resolved an issue where the lesson editor unexpectedly closes while editing in full screen mode.
Improvements
Other Changes
- Rewrote the welcome page using a new UI framework, incorporating minor updates and cleanup.
- Updated all instances of “Teacher Innovations, Inc.”” to “Planbook, Inc.”” in the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
- Updated all Planbook phone number instances to Planbook’s online appointment scheduling link.