January 27, 2022

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Grade Level Order

Grade Level Order

Maybe you want to change the ordering of the grade levels in your school year. Well, now you can!

This is a very brief feature update.

If you create your school year’s grade levels in an order that you don’t like, you can now adjust the order to your liking, just like you can with course ordering. You can find the ordering controls on the school year’s edit page.

On an unrelated note, I fixed some horizontal scrollbar issues. Previously, scroll bars would appear even when your content (like a task description) fit into the user interface easily. With this change, a variety of pages should clean up nicely as they were intended to be seen.

Thanks to Amie for the grade level ordering feature suggestion.

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