We’re happy to announce that the Schoolbox v18.1 Release Candidate will soon be ready for testing in your development environment. This release includes plenty of new features and updates we know schools will love. We would like to thank our active Schoolbox Help community for their ideas and contributions to our online forums, which continue to inspire our work! Introducing the new updates to your team First, make sure you familiarise yourself with the release by watching our v18.1 walkthrough, where Chief Product Owner, James Leckie, explains the upcoming features. Then, please read all of our supporting documentation on Schoolbox Help, including the: Release Notes Changes For Teachers Change Management Tips To receive the v18.1 Release Candidate update You will automatically receive pre-release updates of Schoolbox v18.1 on your dev server, during the beta period. Easy! We expect the beta period to last for one month. At the end of the beta period, we will announce our final gold release. Instructions on how to upgrade to the final gold release will be made available at the end of the beta period. What’s coming up in v18.1 School Communication and News We’ve added several innovative improvements to News. These include: News moderation. An improved audience selector. A save-for-later option. And so much more! Rubric Enhancements We identified two functions we could introduce that would improve our Rubrics: allowing a mark for each capability, and providing a range of marks for a single rubric descriptor. These new functions can be used individually, or combined. Atlas Rubicon Course Importer Years in the making, we’ve finally added the ability to import Atlas Rubicon curriculum data into Schoolbox for schools that are on the Pro or Elite plans. Other Changes and Features There’s plenty more to get excited about with this release, including: Course Markbook Schoolbox Help Accounts Management And more We hope you enjoy v18.1! Speak soon, The Schoolbox team