RuvnaChangelog

What's new

New features, improvements and fixes across Ruvna.

  1. Announcement Templates

    New
    • Announcements

    You can now save the messages your school sends again and again as reusable templates. Weather delays, practice cancellations, form deadline reminders: write them once, and anyone on your team can start from the same polished version next time.

    • Start from a template: Find your school’s shared library under Announcements > Templates. Choose “Use Template” to open a new draft with the subject, message, channels, and audience already filled in. Change the details that differ, then send or schedule like any other announcement.
    Read more about Announcement Templates →

  2. Increasing Visibility of Visitor Photos & Background Checks

    Improvement
    • Visitor Management

    Redesigned background check match dialog: the whole dialog was redesigned so you can quickly understand a potential match’s details, crime(s), appearance and more. The photos are larger and rectangular for easier side-by-side comparison.

    Better photos: hover over an avatar in the visitor list to see a larger photo, or click the avatar on a visitor’s profile to see it full size.

  3. Trusted Visitor Background Check Expiration

    New
    • Visitor Management

    You now have the option to set an expiration policy for Trusted Visitor background checks. Once a check expires, the Trusted Visitor is rechecked the next time they scan in. 

    To set the expiration policy:

    1. Navigate to Settings > Visitor Management.
    2. Select Configure Visitor Verification Settings.
    3. Scroll down to the Trusted Visitors section.

  4. Customizable columns in Visitor Management

    Improvement
    • Visitor Management

    You can now choose which columns appear in your Visits list and arrange them in the order you prefer.

    • Each tab (Active, Upcoming, Pending, Denied, Departed, and All) can be customized separately. For example, you might show the Notes column right next to the visitor’s name on the Active tab while hiding it entirely on the Departed tab.
    • To customize a tab, click the column settings icon next to the search bar, then toggle columns on or off and drag them to reorder. Select “Reset to defaults” at any time to restore the original layout.
    • Your settings are saved to your browser, so they apply automatically each time you return on that device. You can set up different layouts on different devices

  5. July 22nd - Dismissal, Attendance, and VM improvements!

    Improvement
    • Dismissal
    • Attendance
    • Visitor Management

    Dismissal

    • Schools with Dismissal but NOT Attendance now can mark students dismissed ad-hoc throughout the day. This will let Dismissal schools handle things like early dismissals
    • Dismissal Day Plans improvements: Once a student is dismissed - either through Attendance, the ad-hoc dismissal stuff described above, or during a Dismissal Event - they will now be labeled as “Dismissed” in the Day Plans view!
    • Filtering by grades/groups/facilities is now consistently available across both the Dismissal Day Plans page and the Dismissal Defaults page.
    • Improvements when archiving Timeslots. When archiving a timeslot, Ruvna will also update any students’ defaults and any plan changes to delete any steps for that timeslots. Before archiving, users will now see a warning explaining what will happen and be prompted to confirm.
    • Within dismissal events, self-dismiss methods now appear in the sidebar, and link to a new page to list the students in that method
    Read more about July 22nd - Dismissal, Attendance, and VM improvements! →