What's new in V3 ​

V3 is a new major release of Skuul. It replaces the V2 application structure and data model. V2 is deprecated. The V2 guides remain only for existing V2 installations.

Choose your path ​

Changed requirements ​

See requirements for the full list of PHP extensions.

New in V3 ​

Organizations and access ​

• One installation holds several organizations, and each organization holds several campuses. See organizations and domains.
• Roles and permissions apply per campus. See roles and permissions.
• Each role has its own task guide. See instructions by role.
• Learners move between campuses, and campuses share selected records. See moves and record sharing.
• A browser installer creates the first platform administrator. There is no default password.

Students and families ​

• Admissions include a waitlist. See admissions.
• Parent accounts link to learners through guardian links. See guardians.
• The family portal shows attendance, results, timetables, invoices, and documents. See family portal.
• Families send requests to the campus from the portal. See requests.

Teaching and assessment ​

• Academic cycles hold dated teaching periods. Organizations share calendar templates. See calendars.
• Course offerings connect subjects, sections, and teachers. See offerings.
• Gradebooks hold assessments and grades for each offering. See gradebooks.
• Exam schedules set assessment windows. See exam schedules.
• Results go through review and approval before publication. See results.
• Report cards and transcripts come from published results.
• Progression and year-end handover have their own workflows. See progression and academic handover.

Finance ​

• Payments, refunds, and student credit post to a ledger. See payments and ledger.
• Financial periods control when postings are allowed.
• A reconciliation guide compares receipts, allocations, cash, and bank records. See reconciliation.

Optional campus features ​

Administrators turn each feature on or off per campus. See optional features.

Reports ​

• The report desk builds CSV, XLSX, and PDF exports in the background. See reports.

Operations ​

• Scheduled backups encrypt the database dump. File backups are available on a configured disk.
• A weekly restore rehearsal checks that a backup restores. See backups and monitoring.
• Health endpoints report the state of the application and its services.
• skuul:release-readiness checks the production configuration before deployment.
• skuul:update takes a backup before it updates a release-tag installation. See updating.
• A recovery guide covers service failures. See service failure and recovery.

Removed in V3 ​

The V3 migrations remove these V2 records. They do not convert them.

The migrations write selected removed rows to JSON archives under storage/app/legacy-v2. These archives are not a backup and have no automatic re-import. See retain removed V2 data.

Known limits ​

Read the known limits before you promise a feature to users. Report problems in the application issue tracker.