New Features
Work Placements
SELMA now includes a dedicated Work Placements module, making it easy to manage student internships, practical training, and work-based learning arrangements all in one place.
What you can do:
- Create and manage placements: Record placement details including dates, hours, employment type, and industry for each student.
- Track progress: Monitor actual hours against expected hours to see how each placement is progressing (Actual hours tracking WIP).
- Manage organisation positions: Define available placement positions at host organisations with capacity limits, so you always know how many spots are available.
- Communication included: Send templated emails to placement supervisors/stakeholders directly from SELMA, complete with mail-merge fields.
- Attach documents and events: Link relevant files, notes, and events to each placement record.
- Tag and customise: Use Tags and Custom Fields on placements, just like you do with other SELMA records.
- Export data: Search, filter, and export placement data to CSV from the placement grid.
Good to know: Work Placements needs to be enabled—reach out to our team if you’d like to give it a try. Timesheet entry functionality is coming soon in a future update.
Student Identity Verification (Persona Integration)
We’ve integrated Persona for secure, seamless identity verification.
- Staff can now send verification emails to students directly from their profile.
- Students complete verification using their government-issued ID.
- Results automatically appear in SELMA and are validated against existing student records.
- Please enquire to learn more about enabling this feature.
Enhancements
Event Scheduler Triggers
We’ve expanded the automation capabilities of the Event Scheduler. You can now set triggers based on:
- Enrolment Withdrawal Date
- Enrolment Graduated Date
- Class Start Date
Importer Improvements
- Staff User Uploads: You can now add staff users to a class via both the “Create” and “Update” functions in the importer.
- Class ID Support: Added
class_idas a supported field, providing a reliable alternative toclass_codewhen updating records.
Security & Performance
- SELMA Forms: Added additional sanitisation and security measures to keep your instance and data safe.
- Geolocation: Improved accuracy for User IP and location logging by refining our API integration.
Bug Fixes
- Marking Area Filtering: Added a top-level component to the Marking Area to allow for fine-tuned queries. This resolves an issue where data outside the 500-row limit was being missed during filtering.
- UI Overflows: Fixed an issue where text in custom field dropdowns or multi-select fields would overflow the container. These now wrap correctly and include a tooltip to view the full text.
- Timezone Correction: Resolved a timezone conversion bug for Public Trust. Dates will now correctly reflect the user’s local timezone instead of defaulting to UTC.
- Mail Merge Formatting: Fixed a bug where certain non-date fields were being incorrectly formatted as dates during mail merges.
- Log Management: Addressed a deprecation warning and log limit issue within the Message Broker to ensure system stability.