Release Notes / Changelog

General Improvements

Nov 6, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT ENHANCEMENTS bug fixes

Improvements in this Release:

• Customer can now pay pending/open invoice from the Admin Porta > Subscription Management > Select Your Organization Name

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• Teachers can now sign directly on screen, instead of uploading the signature for Academic reports. Go to your profile page and edit your signature, simply sign inside the white box and save it.

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• Various UX Improvements

• Few Bug Fixes

General Improvements

Oct 8, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT ENHANCEMENTS bug fixes

Additional Improvements in this Release:

We’ve also implemented several key performance and usability upgrades, including:

⚡ Faster loading times for Messages and News
📅 Teachers can now only select due dates within the term for activities
📧 Fix for multiple email copies sent via the contact form from PFW
📂 Improved Archived Reports listing
💬 Fix for Parents unable to message teachers

Introducing a major UX/UI enhancement in Ad-Din — a completely redesigned Add/Edit User experience that makes user management faster and simpler than ever.

This marks an important step in our ongoing effort to improve Ad-Din’s overall design and user experience — and there’s much more to come!

With this new release, you can now:
✅ Add a new student, create parent/guardian accounts, assign subscriptions, and enroll the student into a class — all in one seamless flow.
✅ Auto username availability check.
✅ Define and upload mandatory documents.
✅ Upload portraits for all accounts.
✅ Any updates to student or parent will be automatically synchronize across the family e.g. address, phone#, emergency contacts etc.

No more switching between parent, student, class or subscription screens — everything you need is now unified in one place!

Coming Soon:
This new workflow will soon connect with our Self-Enrollment feature — empowering parents to enroll their children directly and easing the admin workload significantly.

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General Improvements

Aug 16, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT ENHANCEMENTS bug fixes

This release includes 200+ small to medium UX/UI enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements across the Ad-Din platform—making the overall experience smoother, faster, and more user-friendly.

Time display for an event after a specific Salat is fixed.

Aug 16, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT ENHANCEMENTS bug fixes

Previously, events scheduled after a specific Salat were not displaying the correct timings on the event page. This has now been fixed.

The event page will correctly show:

• Salat reference (e.g., after Isha)

• Iqamah time

• Program start time

• Program end time

This ensures attendees have a clear and accurate schedule for all events.

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Event Recurrence and Notification fix

Aug 16, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT ENHANCEMENTS bug fixes

An issue where notifications for single-occurrence event updates were not being delivered has been resolved. Event notifications will now flow correctly, ensuring timely updates for all events.

Google Analytics Integration

Aug 16, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Ad-Din now comes with built-in Google Analytics integration, allowing you to view your website statistics directly within the Ad-Din portal. Track key insights such as clicks, impressions, CTR, search queries, devices, and visitor countries—all without leaving Ad-Din.

This integration helps you better understand your audience and make data-driven decisions to improve engagement.

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Banner Carousel Image Quality

Aug 16, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT SECURITY

The Banner Carousel now supports HD-quality images, enhancing the visual experience of your Ad-Din-powered websites. Images you upload are automatically compressed for faster loading, while still maintaining high-definition clarity.

This enhancement will gradually roll out across all Ad-Din modules to ensure a consistent and optimized experience.

All Table Grid migration to AG Grid

Aug 16, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT SECURITY

Starting August 16, 2025, all modules in Ad-Din now feature advanced data-grids, delivering an Excel-like experience directly in the browser with powerful search and filtering capabilities.

This major release includes upgrades to over 105 data-grids across the platform. Many workflows are now more efficient, with fewer clicks required. Instead of selecting a record and then choosing an action, users can now perform direct actions on records within the grid.

Grids:
AG Grid offers powerful, enterprise-grade data grid capabilities that support large datasets with features like virtual scrolling, pagination, and server-side operations for optimal performance. It includes advanced functionality such as filtering, sorting, grouping, row/column pinning, inline editing, and custom cell rendering, all of which can be tailored to user needs. With responsive design and rich API support, AG Grid enables seamless integration into modern web applications, giving users an Excel-like experience directly within the browser.

Charts:
AG Grid’s integrated charting capabilities allow users to generate dynamic, interactive charts directly from grid data with minimal setup. It supports a wide range of chart types including bar, line, pie, area, and combination charts, and enables real-time updates as grid data changes. Users can explore trends, perform visual analysis, and export charts with ease. The charting tools also include customization options and theming, making it easy to match organizational branding and enhance data storytelling within dashboards or reports.

Payment module Discount system Updates

Jun 4, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

🎉 Now Live: Ad-Din’s AI-Powered Comment Generator!

✨ We are thrilled to announce the launch of “Write With AI” – your new AI-powered assistant for Academic and Madrasah report card comments – now available in your Ad-Din workspace! ✨

Tired of spending hours drafting personalized feedback?
Now, with just one click, you can generate thoughtful, student-specific comments that reflect each learner’s unique progress—instantly.

Need a different tone or direction? Just tweak your notes and hit Regenerate. It’s fast, flexible, and feels like magic.

Here is how smart and powerful Ad-Din’s AI-Powered Comment Generator is
✔ Understands performance levels from %Marks/Grade to pick the right tone (Level 1–4)
✔ Automatically adjusts pronouns and punctuation
✔ Balances nuance with clarity
✔ Detects whether it’s a subject or skill-based comment
✔ Keeps formatting clean and consistent
✔ Reflects student achievement with rich, descriptive language

🚀 This is a game-changer for teachers—and it's LIVE TODAY inside your report card system!

Try it out and experience how Ad-Din makes report writing effortless.

BarakAllahu feekum for being part of the journey.

Payment module Discount system Updates

Feb 17, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Introducing revised logic to

1. Class-wise Discount Rules (Regardless of 1st Child Inclusion/Exclusion)

For the discount to apply:

• All siblings must be in the same class.

• That class must be selected in the payment type.

• Example: charge 1st student $225, 2nd child 200 and third child $175

2. Org-wise Rules (1st Child Excluded)

For the discount to apply:

• Siblings can be in different classes.

• All relevant classes must be selected in the payment type.

• Example: charge 1st student $225, 2nd child 200 and third child $175

3. Org-wise Rules (All Children Included)

For the discount to apply:

• Siblings can be in different classes.

• All classes do not need to be selected in the payment type

• Example: Apply 20% discount to all siblings

Automated PFW Sitemap

Feb 17, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT

The automated sitemap helps search engines like Google efficiently crawl and index all pages of an Ad-Din powered website. This improves SEO, making the site more discoverable in search results. It also ensures new or updated content is quickly reflected in search engine listings.

Shorten the display URLs

Feb 17, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT

New Premium Display URLs are shortened so Organizations can easily set them up on TV/LEDs.

OLD URLS NEW URLS
portal.ad-din.ca/public/NewVerticalDisplay1/14 portal.ad-din.ca/vd1/14
portal.ad-din.ca/public/NewVerticalDisplay2/14 portal.ad-din.ca/vd2/14
portal.ad-din.ca/public/NewVerticalDisplayContentOnly/14 portal.ad-din.ca/vdc1/14
portal.ad-din.ca/public/NewHorizontalDisplay1/14 portal.ad-din.ca/hd1/14
portal.ad-din.ca/public/NewHorizontalDisplay2/14 portal.ad-din.ca/hd2/14
portal.ad-din.ca/public/NewHorizontalDisplayContentOnly/14 portal.ad-din.ca/hdc1/14

AG Grid Migration Admin portal

Feb 17, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT SECURITY

Grids:
AG Grid offers powerful, enterprise-grade data grid capabilities that support large datasets with features like virtual scrolling, pagination, and server-side operations for optimal performance. It includes advanced functionality such as filtering, sorting, grouping, row/column pinning, inline editing, and custom cell rendering, all of which can be tailored to user needs. With responsive design and rich API support, AG Grid enables seamless integration into modern web applications, giving users an Excel-like experience directly within the browser.

Charts:
AG Grid’s integrated charting capabilities allow users to generate dynamic, interactive charts directly from grid data with minimal setup. It supports a wide range of chart types including bar, line, pie, area, and combination charts, and enables real-time updates as grid data changes. Users can explore trends, perform visual analysis, and export charts with ease. The charting tools also include customization options and theming, making it easy to match organizational branding and enhance data storytelling within dashboards or reports.

Add Image size upload limit to 500kb

Feb 17, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Reducing the file size to 500KB improves website load speed and reduces bandwidth usage, enhancing user experience.

Adding reCAPTCHA Validation

Feb 17, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT SECURITY

Extra protection added against bots and automated abuse like spam or fake sign-ups. It helps ensure only real humans can access or interact with sensitive parts of the site.

Image size guidelines for your banner carousel on Ad-Din powered websites.

Feb 17, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT

We’ve got new image size guidelines for your banner carousel on Ad-Din powered websites.

👉 Make your images 1920x600px
💡 Keep key content in the middle 900x600px area

Check out this short video 🎥
Banner Carousel Image Dimensions Guide

More details here 📘
https://ad-din.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AwCtrw

We recommend updating your banners soon for the best look 👍

New Volunteer Registration Module for Masjid

Feb 28, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Beautifully designed with flexible categories, it allows admins to manage signups and collect custom data. Users can register as volunteer via both Portal and PFW.

• Volunteers can now self-enroll through your website powered by Ad-Din.

• Masjid admins can manage volunteers and send targeted messages based on skills.

• All volunteers are listed under the new "Volunteer" tab in Masjid User Management.

• Easily collect and organize volunteer information to support your Masjid’s needs.

• Admin can add a dedicated "Volunteer Registration" menu under your Ad-Din powered website for the Masjid.

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Admin can manage the skills desired for their organization under Masjid User Management.

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An automated and dedicated volunteer page on your masjid website powered by Ad-Din.

Added high-performance, feature rich, and fully customisable Data Grids to Ad-Din.

Feb 28, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Handle millions of rows, and thousands of updates per second out of the box, without compromising on performance. AG Grid has always been focused on performance and reliability with large data sets; uses virtualisation for both rows and columns to make sure your users have the smoothest experience possible, whatever the size of your data.

Coordinates of the Masjid can be updated from the settings page

Feb 28, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

A monthly prayer time page for each organization is now available to your Ad-Din powered websites.

Feb 28, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

You can now add a monthly prayer time to your Ad-Din powered website by simply mapping a menu item to an internal page called Prayer Times (Masjid).

The same is also by default available under Masjid menu as well under portal.ad-din.ca.

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Block adding student to the class without subscription assigned to parent.

Feb 28, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Student can not be placed in the class section without a parent linked and a valid subscription assigned to a parent account.

Instead of monthly Export or prayer time Export an entire year from manual tab on prayer times management.

Feb 28, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Now clicking on Export button will export entire year prayer times in excel for you to work and import back at once.

Masjid, Madrasah & School Facilities details can now be auto published in your Ad-Din powered website

Feb 28, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Simply setup facilities details from your admin account in portal.ad-din.ca.
Then add a menu item under website management to facilities details. Done!

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Enhanced Livestream Experience with Facebook Live Integration

Jan 21, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Enjoy a seamless livestream experience with improved UX/UI and bug fixes. As Admin, you can easily embed live audio or video feeds, including Facebook Live, for better engagement on your platform. These live feeds will be automatically added to your public facing website running from Ad-Din as following.

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Event Creation and Listing Page: UX/UI Enhancements & Bug Fixes

Jan 21, 2025 ENHANCEMENTS UXUI IMPROVEMENT

The Event creation and listing page has received UX/UI enhancements along with bug fixes, offering a smoother and more reliable experience for creating and managing events.

Enhanced Password Security Requirements

Jan 21, 2025 ENHANCEMENTS SECURITYbug fixes

Ad-Din now requires a minimum of 8 characters and a more complex password for new accounts or when changing an existing password, ensuring better security and protection for your account. https://ad-din.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSD/pages/2720432141

Attendance Excuse Notes: Admin & Teacher Access

Jan 21, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Admins and Teachers can now add or edit attendance excuse notes, giving them the flexibility to update notes based on phone calls, text messages, or other communication methods. This provides more accurate attendance tracking for both Parents and Staff.

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Revised Attendance Reports with New Filtering Options

Jan 21, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Two fully revised attendance reports now allow you to filter by term or date range. The reports also include unmarked attendance days, providing a more comprehensive overview of student or class attendance.

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Enhanced UX/UI for Organization Facilities Page

Jan 21, 2025 ENHANCEMENTS UXUI IMPROVEMENT

The Organization Facilities details page has been improved for a better user experience across all portals (Admin, Teacher, Parent, Student, Congregants, etc.). This page will also be added as a default to your public-facing website, making it easier for congregants to view available facilities at your organization.

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Update Single Event Occurrence Details

Jan 21, 2025 ENHANCEMENTS UXUI IMPROVEMENT

You can now update the description and images for individual occurrences of an event, offering more flexibility and customization for event management.

Major Platform Upgrades: .NET 6 to 8 & Angular 13 to 16

Jan 21, 2025 ENHANCEMENTSUXUI IMPROVEMENT

We've upgraded the underlying platform to .NET 8 and Angular 16, enhancing performance, security, and overall user experience. Expect smoother functionality and faster performance across the system.

Control Maghrib Time Updates on Displays

Jan 21, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Organizations can now hide frequently changing Maghrib times on prayer dashboards, offering a more stable and consistent user experience for congregants.

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Automated Robots.txt for Improved SEO

Jan 21, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Each public-facing site served from the Ad-Din platform now automatically generates a Robots.txt file, optimizing search engine indexing and improving SEO for better visibility.

New Common Reports Launcher for a Streamlined Experience

Jan 21, 2025 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

The brand-new reports launcher offers a clean and intuitive user interface, allowing you to easily access and pin your favorite reports for quicker access. Enjoy a more efficient and organized reporting experience.

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Enhanced Reports with Improved Readability

Jan 21, 2025 UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Reports now feature better font sizes and a more structured layout, making them easier to read and navigate. This enhancement improves user experience and ensures better data accessibility.

Introducing Three Powerful Progress Reports:

Dec 16, 2024 New Features

Ad-Din now offers three new powerful Academic Progress Reports, conveniently accessible under the Common Reports section:

• Student Academic Performance and Activity Progress: Providing a detailed overview of student performance across various activities. Comprehensive breakdown of assignments, quizzes, homework etc. This enhancement ensures better insights into academic progress and helps stakeholders make informed decisions.

• Progress Report by Class (Average of All Subjects): Offers a detailed overview of class performance. A comprehensive metrics for overall class performance. This report helps educators gain deeper insights into class progress, enabling better performance tracking and informed decision-making.

• Progress Report by Subject by Class Section: Delivers detailed insights into class performance for each subject. Track how the class performs in individual subjects. This report helps educators pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement within each subject at the class level.

These reports allow you to track point-in-time performance if you're leveraging AD-DIN’s academic regression features. Identify top performers, low performers, and areas for improvement to strategically plan the next steps for academic success. These reports are continently accessible from the common reports under the Reports.

Enhanced Navigation: Streamlined Menu Style:

Dec 16, 2024 ENHANCEMENTSUXUI IMPROVEMENT

Our new menu design eliminates extra clicks for a smoother experience. Key updates include:

• Pin Main Menu: Keep the auto-closing menu open for quick access.

• Improved Options Display: Selected items now open beneath the menu, while hovering over others shows a side popover for quick navigation.

• Centralized Admin Settings: User Management, Organization Settings, and Subscription Management are now conveniently located under the Admin portal.

Hijri 30th Display Control:

Nov 9, 2024 New Features

AD-DIN now lets you manage the display of the Hijri 30th on prayer time dashboards and your Masjid's website. As a pioneer in online Islamic systems, AD-DIN addresses the moon-sighting edge case with a robust solution that others have yet to match.

Read More at https://ad-din.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSD/pages/1111949324

Image Positioning for Better Display:

Dec 16, 2024 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

Administrators can now select specific areas of images when posting News, Events, Donation Campaigns, Banner images, and Carousel images. This ensures that key content is highlighted and perfectly displayed in each section.

Sunsetting Few Features:

Dec 16, 2024 REMOVALS (SUNSETS)

To streamline the user experience and focus on core functionalities, AD-DIN will be sunsetting the Carpool, Ideas, Tasbeeh, Quran, and Qiblah Direction features. Qiblah direction in Ad-Din mobile app will remain intact. We encourage users who rely on these features to plan accordingly. Your feedback is valuable—please share your thoughts and suggestions through the Contact Us page.

Event After Specific Salah:

Dec 16, 2024 New Features

When creating events, you can now select an event to start after a specific Salah. Instead of displaying the time, the event will show the name of the Salah on your website running on the AD-DIN platform, offering a more intuitive event schedule for your users.

New Profile Menu Update:

Dec 16, 2024 New Features UXUI IMPROVEMENT

The updated Profile menu now includes links to profile settings, contact support, knowledge base, learning resources, release notes, and legal information, previously found in the main menu. This update streamlines navigation for a more organized user experience. Additionally, a crown icon will indicate you are a premium user.