Overview
One of the benefits of moving to Jenzabar's cloud hosting platform is the relative ease with updates/upgrades/patches. As such, we will always keep within one minor release version of their current product. The version numbers look like this: 2019.1.03. The major release version number is the year (2019, 2020) - the minor version number is represented by the numbers that immediately follow (.1, .2 etc). The numbers that follow that are patches and fixes. We will only apply patches and fixes that apply to issues that we are experiencing.
Attached to this article are all the release notes for the major versions after 2020 that we are currently running or have previously run, with any minor version updates that are associated with that.
Current Versions:
Production Environment
Jenzabar One Desktop/Web: 2023.1 Patch 2
InfoMaker: 2022
JICS (MyCedarCrest): 2022.1 with Registration Patch
Testing Environment:
Last Data Refresh: 11/5/2024
Jenzabar One Desktop/Web: 2023.1
InfoMaker: 2022
JICS (MyCedarCrest): 2022.2
Jenzabar One 2024.1 Release News and Notes
Jenzabar One 2024.1 delivers enhancements and resolved issues to the Client Application Services, client machines, database, Jenzabar One Web, and Web Application Services. Here are the details as we have received them from Jenzabar.
As always, release notes are downloadable on the side of this article.
Jenzabar One Release Video Walkthroughs are here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6qAKxnxDmQnEoC0WI_PlIrTVMhRdzCAS
Jenzabar One 2024.1 introduces:
- The new Workflow module! Streamline and automate campus processes.
- Our Student modules, Advising, Registration, and Student Life, are entirely in J1 Web. Users can work in a centralized location.
- Significant new features in our Finance modules.
Core
- New Workflow module allows campus departments to design, manage, and optimize routine and complex workflows. Workflows can update system data, initiate communications, trigger system processes, and start additional workflows.
- Desktop’s Process Internet Submissions feature for importing data is consolidated, centralized, and simplified in the new J1 Web Data Management hub.
- J1 Web Login page is updated with a new look.
- New options available for schools using recurring schedule automation plans.
- System-wide performance improvements related to user permissions.
Finance
- Payment plans can now be assigned to students in J1 Web.
- New import features allow users to import batches, invoices, and receipts.
- New options on various pages allow users to view several instances of adjustments, budgets, students, selections, worksheets, or vendors from a single page.
- Users can now close months and years in J1 Web.
Financial Aid
- 2026-2027 award year is now available from the Award Year Definition window (Financial Aid Manager)
- Users can now deactivate disbursement batches (Financial Aid Manager with Jenzabar Financial Aid).
HCM
- Hub navigation updated in J1 Web.
- New Employee Supervisors Definition page available for inactivating supervisors in J1 Web.
Institutional Reporting
- 2024 IPEDS changes are available.
- State reporting updates available for the Arkansas Student Term, Oklahoma UDS Summer End of Term, and Texas CBM reports.
Student
- Desktop functionality is now fully available in J1 Web.
- Advisors can now be automatically assigned to advisees using rules.
- Registration sections and Student Term Table records can now be copied.
- Multiple definitions pages added for Advising, Registration, and Student Life.
- Users can now create cases based on incident reports.
- Vehicle incidents are now managed separately from conduct incidents