3.24.0 Release Notes

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.

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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_id as a supported field, providing a reliable alternative to class_code when 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.

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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.