Release 22.7.0.0 - August 2022
PowerSchool Unified Insights version 22.7.0.0 is available as of 8/13/2022.
New Features
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New District Configuration User Interface | A new District Configuration user interface (UI) is available to users with District Admin access. The new UI provides a better user experience and no longer requires remapping of the same values across school years and school codes, saving time to complete district configuration for implementation and ongoing updates.
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New Student Readiness module | A new Student Readiness module is available for Beta release. The module focuses on the college readiness of students and incorporates National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) data integration for tracking college attendance and college graduation rates of students for six years after graduating from high school. Student Readiness includes the following dashboards:
In addition, a new Student Readiness Detail dashboard was added to the Student Profile dashboard with the following metrics:
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Enhancements
| Product Area | Summary | Description |
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Academics | New Core Subjects Summary column | Upon drill-through of the following Core Subjects Summary metrics, the detail page features a new column named, “COURSE NAME”:
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Academics | New data filter | New data filter “Subject” was added to the School Skill Progress and Student Skill Progress dashboards. By default, the dashboards load with the English/Language Arts filter as well as existing default filters for the current year and district. |
Academics | New School Skill Progress metric | A new metric called, “How are students performing on district standards by grade?” was added to the School Skill Progress sub-dashboard and is available to all users except Secondary School admins. |
| Academics | New Standards by Grade dashboard | A new metric “Standards Proficiency by Grade” on the Standards by Grade dashboard analyzes SIS standards proficiency at the subject level by grade. |
Academics | Student Marks populated from SIS source | The Unified Insights data warehouse will now have Student Marks populated from SIS source. |
Assessments > I-Ready | New ELA metric | New metric “I-Ready ELA Overall Score by Grade Level” metric was added to I-Ready Diagnostic ELA sub-dashboard. |
Assessments > NWEA | Updated NWEA legend | The legend of the following NWEA metrics was updated to reflect the correct year order:
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Assessments | Updated Student list options | All Student List drill-throughs on Assessment dashboards have been updated with a checkbox option and Actions tab to take action on selected students. |
Assessments > ACT | Updated tooltip on ACT dashboard | The tooltip for metrics “Average ACT Score” and “Average Subject Scores” now displays count measures. |
Assessments | Various metric legends updated | The legend for the following metrics has been updated to consider all data points in the proficiency ranges:
The legend was updated as follows:
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Attendance | New Period Attendance metric | A new metric called “Period Attendance” was added to the Attendance Overview dashboard. |
Attendance | Updated Chronic Absences metrics | The previous year student count in Chronic Absences metrics now takes into account the selected year and grade instead of filtering it with the current year active status. |
Attendance | Updated metric subtitle | The subtitle of metric “Which years have the most chronically absent students?” in Essentials, Attendance, Chronic Absences was updated to say, “The percent of students in each chronic absence category over time.” |
Classroom | Metric removed | Metric “How are tardies for my classes?" was removed from the My Students Overview dashboard. |
Classroom | New data filter | New data filter “Year” was added to all Classroom dashboards. |
Classroom > Academic Progress | Updated subtitle | On the Student Skill Progress dashboard, the subtitle of metric “Are students mastering our defined academic standards?” now reads, “A list of students and their level of mastery for all chosen standards.” |
Demographics | New state-specific query (Alaska) | All state-specific demographic data is now available for Alaska:
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Demographics | New state-specific query (Florida) | All state-specific demographic data is now available for Florida:
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Demographics | New state-specific query (Idaho) | All state-specific demographic data is now available for Idaho:
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Demographics | New state-specific query (Rhode Island) | All state-specific demographic data is now available for Rhode Island:
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Demographics | New state-specific query (Wisconsin) | All state-specific demographic data is now available for Wisconsin:
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Demographics | New state-specific query (Wyoming) | All state-specific demographic data is now available for Wyoming:
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Demographics | Updated state-specific query (Massachusetts) | The following state-specific demographic data was updated for Massachusetts:
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Demographics | Updated state-specific query (Utah) | The following state-specific demographic data was updated for Utah:
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Demographics | Updated state-specific query (Virginia) | The following state-specific demographic data was updated for Virginia:
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Developer Tools | Updated standards-based Curriculum Code and Curriculum Levels to support PS SIS standards through six levels | Four new standards-based metric columns were added to the Content Definitions in Developer Tools. Data is populated based on SIS standards as standard content in the data warehouse to support all six levels from PS SIS standards. The new columns are:
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District Configuration | Added a third option for a Log Entries flag to get discipline data in Unified Insights | A new Log Entries flag, when enabled, will read the SIS Log Entries screen’s “Incident Type” as Behavior and “Consequence” as Action. |
District Configuration | New Course Subject mapping options | Two new core course subject mapping options were added to the Academics district configuration to provide further analysis of courses:
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District Configuration | Usability improvements | The District Configuration pages have been updated to improve usability.
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Essentials > Academics | Updated subtitle | On the Student Skill Progress dashboard, the subtitle of metric “Are students mastering our defined academic standards?” now reads, “A list of students and their level of mastery for all chosen standards.” |
Risk Analysis | Multi-district support for Risk Analysis module users | Risk Analysis now supports multi-district customer deployments. |
Risk Analysis | Updated column name | Column FORMATTED MEASURE VALUE on the Proximity to Cut Score dashboard was renamed to GRADUATION PROBABILITY. |
Risk Analysis | Updated dashboard order | The Risk Analysis dashboard tabs have been reordered as follows:
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Risk Analysis | Updated sorting order on detail pages | Upon drill-through, detail pages are now sorted by PREVIOUS RISK LEVEL and NAME, respectively, for the following Graduation Probability dashboards:
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Student Profile | New Behavior Detail metric blocks | New metric blocks were added to the Behavior Detail dashboard:
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Resolved Issues
| Product Area | Summary | Release Note |
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Academics | Fixed issue with SIS course names ending with “AP.” | AP courses with a course name ending with “AP” were excluded from the AP dashboard when filtered from the SIS database. This has been corrected. SIS courses ending with AP, for example “Adv Calculus AP,” are now considered AP courses. |
| Application | Fixed Cross Tab alignment issues | Corrected the alignment of rows and columns within Cross Tab metrics. Note that some alignment inconsistencies may arise when using a lower than recommended screen or monitor resolution. |
Application | Unable to create custom palette | Fixed an issue where users were unable to create new color palettes. Color palette information and its colors now appear in the Color Palette editor. |
Developer Tools | Unable to update custom filter columns | Fixed an issue where users with the Client Developer role were unable to make modifications to custom filter columns. |
District Configuration > Schools | Fixed school change count | Fixed an issue where the school change calculation for metric “How many students have changed schools?” on the Enrollment Overview dashboard included schools that were excluded from display in the District Configuration settings. |
Interventions | Addressed Add to Intervention error | The user encountered an error when trying to add more than 1,000 students to an intervention. Now, the Add to Intervention button is disabled and the user is warned they must select between 1 and 1,000 students. |
| Interventions | Unable to access Intervention plans | Fixed an issue where users were unable to access plans on the Intervention Plans tab if a scheduled plan was saved without filling out the Dosage Schedule options. Now, users are required to enter at least one entry for the # of Weeks, Meetings per week, or Minutes per Meeting before saving is enabled for the intervention plan. |
Utility Apps > Student Plans | Updated Assessments results list | When attempting to associate assessments to an intervention template, only the first 500 results were displayed, limiting the user to select from all available assessments. Now, the user can select from up to 5,000 assessments. |