Release 23.5.0.0 - June 2023

Guided Walkthroughs

Unified Insights users can now view guided walkthroughs within the Unified Insights application. The walkthroughs introduce new features or help new users onboard to the application. Users have the option to review or dismiss the guide.

In the future, PowerSchool will launch other types of in-app dialogs to improve the user experience, including banners and surveys. The dialogs help users receive important information and provide feedback. Dialogs will be used minimally to avoid distraction.

Application

Updated progress indicators

To improve visibility, the progress bar and processing icon have been updated throughout the application except for the following areas:

• Assessment Importer, Licenses tab

• MTSS

• Student Plans

Classroom, Academic Progress, Grades

Updated sort order

The Date column on metric “How are grades trending in my classroom?” is now sorted in ascending order.

Demographics

Updated state-specific query (MO)

The query logic for Missouri (MO) has been updated with EXIT_DATE for IEP and ELL fields.

• (SPEDExit_Date >= GetDate() or SPEDExit_Date = '1900-01-01 00:00:00' or SPEDExit_Date is NULL or SPEDExit_Date = '' )]

• (ELLExitDate >= GetDate() or ELLExitDate = '1900-01-01 00:00:00' or ELLExitDate is NULL or ELLExitDate = '' )]

Essentials, Academics

Added mandatory School filter

To improve the performance of metric “Are students mastering our defined academic standards?”, users must now select a mandatory School filter on the Student Standard Progress dashboard before the metric can render.

Essentials, Academics, Core Subjects Summary

Updated sort order

The School Year column on the “How have ELA/math/science/Social Studies grades changed?” metrics is now sorted in ascending order.

Essentials, Attendance

Optimized Y-axis

To better differentiate values across school years, metric “Is Student Attendance Improving Week Over Week?” on the Attendance Overview dashboard now has a dynamic Y-axis that displays minimum and maximum values based on available data.  

Essentials/Classroom, Academics

Updated metrics to remove Curriculum marks

Curriculum marks were removed from the following metrics.

Essentials, Academics, Achievement:

• “What is the distribution of grades for 2022-2023?”

Classroom, Academic Progress, Grades:

• “How are grades trending in my classroom?”

• “What grades are students receiving in their courses?”

• “Who are my students currently failing my course?“

Classroom, My Students, Overview:

• “What are the distribution of grades in my courses?”

Essentials
Classroom
Risk Analysis

Updated Attendance value categories

All Absence-related metrics and drills have been updated with the four levels of Attendance value categories for Essentials, Classroom, and Risk Analysis:

• No Absence Issues: 100% to greater than or equal to 95% attendance.

• Trending Chronic: Less than 95% to greater than or equal to 92.5% attendance.

• Nearly Chronic: Less than 92.5% to greater than or equal to 90% attendance.

• Chronically Absent: Less than 90% attendance.

Student Profile, Academic Detail

Updated metric columns

The columns in metric “Student Academic Progress” have been updated as follows:

• New column “Curriculum Scale Description” replaces the “Mark” column.

• The “Mark Type” column was removed.

• The “Course Subject” column was moved to the left of the “Course Name” column.

Utility Apps, District Configuration, Enrollment

New Student Status option

A new option "Withdrawn-Transferred" has been added to the Enrollment Student Status mapping to allow districts to separate accountable versus non-accountable withdrawn students.

Application

Drill-through display appeared in original metric when navigating back

When a user drilled through a metric and then quickly navigated back to the original metric, at times the drill-through details rendered in the original metric. This issue has been corrected.

Classroom, Assessments

Renamed dashboard

The “Grow, Maintain, Slide” dashboard has been renamed to “Gainers Stickers Sliders” with a sub-title of “Proficiency Gainers, Stickers, and Sliders.”

Classroom, My Students

Updated filters

After drilldown on metric “% Chronic Absent,” the detail data included all students, not just the chronically absent. The filters have been updated to correct the issue.

Essentials, Academics, Achievement

Metric timeout errors

To address timeout errors, metric "What is the distribution of grades for 2022-2023?" has been optimized to improve loading time.

Essentials, Attendance

Incorrect legend item

Users will no longer see legend item “@Not Configured“ on the following Attendance metrics:

• “What is the Attendance for Each Student Race?” on the Attendance Overview dashboard.

• “What are the Most Frequent Absence Types?” on the Attendance Overview dashboard.

• “How does our attendance by subgroup compare between schools?” on the School Comparison dashboard.

Essentials, Digital Learning, Staff Activity

Metric timeout errors

To address timeout errors, the following Staff Activity metrics were optimized to improve loading times:

• Are Staff Accessing the LMS?

• % of Staff by Activity

• Average Session Time Per Staff Per Day

• Is Staff Logins Decreasing Week Over Week?

• % of Staff by Day of Week – Activity/No Activity

• % of Students – Activity/No Activity by Staff

Essentials, Digital Learning, Student Activity

Metric timeout errors

To address timeout errors, the following Student Activity metrics were optimized to improve loading times:

• Are Students Accessing the LMS?

• % of Students by Activity

• Average Session Time Per Student Per Day

• Is Student Logins Decreasing Week Over Week?

• % of Students by School - Activity/No Activity

• % of Students by Grade Level -Activity/No Activity

• % of Students by Sub Group -Activity/No Activity

• % of Students by Day of Week -Activity/No Activity

• % of Students by Date - No Activity

• % of Courses Active In