Release 24.2.0.0 - March 2024

PowerSchool Unified Insights version 24.2.0.0 is available as of 3/30/2024.

New features

Feature

Description

Assessment data retrieval for MTSS intervention goals

The MTSS application was enhanced to integrate assessment data, specifically assessment marks, into your intervention goals, making it easier for you to evaluate student performance.

How to access the feature

Navigate to Utility Apps, MTSS Interventions, and All Interventions.
Select an intervention.
Click the Goals tab.
Click Retrieve Data.

How to retrieve assessment data

Select the Goal for which you want to retrieve assessment data.
Set the data type to Assessment.
In the Data Selection panel, make the following selections sequentially: school year, assessment source, assessment subject, assessment name, and score type.
In the Data Preview panel, review the populated student data and calculated values.
Click Retrieve Data.
On the Goals page, review the updated values for each student for the selected goal. For students with no available data, nothing new is added, and existing values are not touched.

Set assessment goal data at the intervention plan

Select any goal under any Intervention plan.
Click Set Goal Data.
Save selections by clicking Set Data, and then Save Goal.
- The Intervention linked with the plan will auto-populate fields with pre-set values.

Modified prepopulated fields

While retrieving data for assessments, if the user modifies a prepopulated field, users are given the option to delink the set goal data reference from the plan.
Delinking means the intervention is no longer linked to the plan but will behave independently. The intervention is prepopulated based on whatever parameters the user saved after delinking.

Note that the system ensures district-specific data retrieval for multi-district tenants and district-specific retrieval for single-district tenants. Detailed options and parameters cater to various user preferences for defining time frames and behavior types.

Attendance data retrieval for MTSS intervention goals

You can now integrate attendance data with your intervention goals to assess student performance based on user-defined parameters.

How to access the feature

Navigate to Utility Apps, MTSS Interventions, and All Interventions.
Select an intervention.
Click the Goals tab.
Click Retrieve Data.

How to retrieve attendance data

Select the Goal for which you want to retrieve attendance data.
Set the data type to Attendance.
In the Data Selection panel, make the following selections sequentially:
- Attendance Type: daily or by periods
- Time Frame: specific dates, year to date, intervention start to date, since last meeting, or rolling school days
- Dataset: absent or presence (full or tardy)
- Score Calculation: the count or percentage of presence or absence attendance for the student
In the Data Preview panel, review the populated student data and calculated values.
Click Retrieve Data.
On the Goals page, review the updated values for each student for the selected goal. A value of "0" indicates no actions or incidents were reported against a student in the selected time frame.

Behavior data retrieval for MTSS intervention goals

You can now integrate behavior-related data points, including incidents and actions, with your intervention goals to effectively assess student behavior.

How to access the feature

Navigate to Utility Apps, MTSS Interventions, and All Interventions.
Select an intervention.
Click the Goals tab.
Click Retrieve Data.

How to retrieve behavior data

Select the Goal for which you want to retrieve behavior data.
Set the data type to Behavior.
Set the Behavior Type to Actions or Incidents.
In the Data Selection section, choose the following options sequentially:
- To retrieve action-related data:
  - Action Type
  - Time Frame: specific dates, year to date, intervention start to date, since last meeting, or rolling school days
  - Dataset: days with action
  - Score Calculation: the action count or number of days
- To retrieve incident-related data:
  - Incident Type
  - Time Frame: specific dates, year to date, intervention start to date, since last meeting, or rolling school days
  - Score Calculation: the incidents count or number of days
In the Data Preview panel, review the populated student data and calculated values.
Click Retrieve Data.
On the Goals page, review the updated values for each student for the selected goal. A value of "0" indicates no actions or incidents were reported against a student in the selected time frame.

Note that the system ensures district-specific data retrieval for multi-district tenants. Detailed options and parameters are provided to cater to various user preferences in defining time frames and behavior types.

Duplicate intervention plans

You can now duplicate intervention plans as follows:

From the Utility Apps menu, select MTSS Interventions.
Navigate to the Intervention Bank tab.
On the intervention plan you want to duplicate, select the Options menu and choose Duplicate.
Enter a Plan Title.
To copy associated goals, select Goal.
Click Duplicate.

By default, the new plan is set to inactive, and you must activate the plan before you can start using it.

For multi-district tenants:

If a user with state-level permissions duplicates state-level plans, the new plans are automatically marked as state-level.
Plans duplicated by users without state-level permissions are marked by default as non-state-level and available only to their district.

Multi-district control for MTSS

MTSS settings and intervention plans have been enhanced with new functionalities and controls to provide district and global admins granular control, ensuring both flexibility and consistency.

Multi district-level configuration

Multi-district admins can set reasons, intervention levels, types, and subtypes as "State Level" under the Settings tab
These settings will be visible across all districts
Only multi-district admins can edit the settings
Identified by a green circle with a white tick in the center

District-level configuration

District admins can create district-specific reasons, intervention levels, types, and subtypes
No state-level marking is available to district admins

Student support resources and observation labels

Multi-district admins can create resources and labels visible across all districts
Observation labels are consistent across all districts
Only multi-district admins can edit observation labels

Intervention plan

Multi-district admins can create state-level plans
Plans can be attached to targeted specific districts
District admins can't mark plans as state-level

Enhancements

Product area	Summary	Release note
Application	Added support for global characters	Dashboard names and navigation menus now support global language characters.
Application	Removed SYS delete records	Users will no longer see SYS delete records in the UI, as all metric bases have been updated to exclude the SYS_DELETE_IND ='N' condition.
Application	Updated sort order	The sort order for School Year in Unified Insights metrics was updated to be more user-friendly. If the metric is horizontal, School Year is now displayed in ascending order. If the metric is vertical, it is in descending order.
Assessments, Score Search	Updated checkbox settings field	The Student List on the Score Search dashboard has been updated with the checkbox settings field to be Student Key instead of Student ID for standard content.
Assessments	Enhanced standard content for iReady assessments	Revised the entire standard content for the iReady assessment metrics for consistency across all categories, logic, and color coding within dashboard metrics.
Behavior	Added support for Canadian customers	Updated behavior data to support Canadian customers to populate behavior data in Unified Insights Behavior dashboards.
Behavior	Support multiple behavior methods	Unified Insights now supports bringing in behavior data for customers who use different behavior methods (log entries or Incident Management) in the SIS for different years.
Classroom	Exclude deleted staff records	The application no longer considers any deleted records for staff from the SIS. As a result, the School Status for staff now accurately reflects their active or inactive status, and staff members will no longer appear in their previous (inactive) School filter under the Classroom module.
Classroom, Student Plans	New Student Plans dashboard	Classroom now features a Student Plans dashboard.
Classroom, Student Plans	New Student Plans list	Added metric Student Plans List to Classroom, displaying a list of student plans filtered by staff.
Demographics	Updated state-specific query (AL)	The query logic for Alabama (AL) has been updated for section 504 as follows: {noformat}SELECT A.studentsdcid, A.five04eligibility FROM s_al_stu_special_program_x A LEFT JOIN codeset B ON A.five04eligibility = B.codesetid LEFT JOIN s_al_stu_specedprofile_x C ON A.studentsdcid = C.studentsdcid WHERE b.code IN ('Yes', 'Yes No Plan') AND (C.section504exitdate >= GETDATE() OR C.section504exitdate IS NULL){noformat}
Demographics	Updated state-specific query (NY)	The query logic for New York (NY) has been updated for the below field to take into account year-wise historical data: SPED ELL Plan 504 Title1 Unaccompanied Youth Foster
Essentials, Behavior	Updated tooltip	The tooltip for metric “What is the average suspension length?” on the Suspension Usage dashboard has been updated to display values with two decimal places for improved precision.
Essentials / Classroom, Student Plans	New Student Plans dashboards	Added the following Student Plans dashboards: Student Plans, Overview Classroom, Student Plans
Essentials Classroom	Added attendance column	New column “Avg Time Attended” was added to the Student Intervention List to track the average time students spend in an Intervention.
Essentials Classroom	Include co-teacher data	Admin and teacher roles can now see student data for the teacher’s co-teacher assignment along with the lead-teacher section assignment.
Essentials Classroom	Removed “# Students” field	The “# Students” field was removed from student detail metrics in the Essentials' and Classroom modules as it provided no meaningful information.
Essentials, Reporting	New Grade field	The Attendance and Behavior PowerGrid can now be ordered by Grade to improve data clarity and organization.
Essentials, Student Datawall	New data columns	The Student Datawall was updated to include state assessment data, organized by fall, winder, and spring. # ELA FALL INTERIM (Current Year) # ELA WINTER INTERIM (Current Year) # ELA SPRING INTERIM (Current Year) # MATH FALL INTERIM (Current Year) # MATH WINTER INTERIM (Current Year) # MATH SPRING INTERIM (Current Year) # ELA FALL INTERIM (Prior Year) # ELA WINTER INTERIM (Prior Year) # ELA SPRING INTERIM (Prior Year) # MATH FALL INTERIM (Prior Year) # MATH WINTER INTERIM (Prior Year) # MATH SPRING INTERIM (Prior Year) # ELA STATE (Current Year) # MATH STATE (Current Year) # ELA STATE (Prior Year) # MATH STATE (Prior Year) # ELA STATE (2 years prior) # MATH STATE (2 years prior)
Interventions	Added school to student interventions list	The student intervention list on the Student Interventions dashboard now includes the current school for each student.
Interventions	New columns in Student Intervention List	Columns “School,” “Enrolled Date,” “Withdrawn Date,” and “Presence Count” were added to the Student Intervention List to review the student’s intervention enrollment and withdrawal dates, their attendance count, and their school information.
Interventions	New data filters	You can now filter Interventions dashboards by programs, student group, and intervention name.
Interventions	New intervention metric	A line chart called “How many active interventions are students receiving in the current school year?” was added to the Interventions Overview dashboard, depicting the number of students (y-axis) that are part of one or more interventions (x-axis).
Interventions	New intervention metric	A pie chart metric called “Distribution of students by # of active interventions” was added to the Interventions Overview dashboard. The metric highlights the distribution of students in the district, categorizing them based on their involvement in Interventions. When you drill down to specific counts (0, 1, etc.), you can identify students who have never been part of an intervention, those currently involved in one intervention, and so forth. The metric provides a percentage breakdown of all students. Note that the date range filter does not apply to this visual.
Interventions	New intervention metric	New metric called, “How many interventions have staff administered?” was added to the Intervention Overview dashboard to illustrate the number of interventions taken up by each staff member. This visual provides insights into the success percentage of the staff, indicating how many students have experienced a positive outcome after undergoing their interventions.
Interventions	New metric blocks	Three metric blocks were added to the Student Interventions dashboard to track active, pending, and completed interventions. The student count is adjusted based on applied filters.
MTSS Interventions	Added full support for MTSS Interventions with multi-district customers	The MTSS Interventions application now fully supports district and user partitioning for multi-district customers. This enhancement was deployed with prior maintenance releases but is now part of the overall functionality with this feature release.
MTSS Interventions	Added instructor name	All Intervention lists now display the staff name in the Instructor column instead of the staff ID.
MTSS Interventions	Added student’s current status	The Attendance, Observations, and Goals pages now display the student’s status (enrolled, withdrawn, or completed) within the intervention, providing better visibility when attempting to move, delete, or change the status of a student.
MTSS Interventions	Expanded filter options	On the Intervention page, you can now filter interventions by intervention plan, student ID, or the instructor leading the intervention. The filter displays only staff and students currently participating in any intervention. If a staff or student is not listed, they have not been part of any intervention to date.
MTSS Interventions	Improved goal management	Users can now expand and collapse goals, providing improved visibility. The new functionality allows the user to add and stack multiple goals while creating the intervention plan.
Risk Analysis	Multi-district support for Risk Analysis dashboards	Multi-district admin users now have the option to select a single district from Risk Analysis dashboard filters.
Student Plans	Updated assessment option	The Test Percentile Score option has been added to the Assessment field within the student plan template.
Student Profile, Interventions	New intervention metric	New metric “How successful are our interventions?” was added to the Student Profile Interventions dashboard. The chart displays the outcome of the intervention and whether the changes in the student were positive, negative, or neutral.
Student Profile, Interventions	New intervention metric	The Student Profile Intervention dashboard has been updated with new metric “How many interventions are being served in each level of support?” The chart provides an overview of the interventions the student is currently participating in and highlights the areas that need focus and improvement.
Student Profile, Interventions	New metric blocks	Three metric blocks were added to the Student Profile Interventions page to track active, pending, and completed interventions.
Student Profile, Overview	Added hierarchy levels to Academic Standard Mastery metric	Hierarchy levels Curriculum Standard and Mark Period were added to metric “Academic Standard Mastery” on the Student Profile Overview dashboard.

Resolved issues

Product area	Summary	Release note
MTSS Student Plans	Fixed district and staff access issue for multi-district customers	Corrected an issue for multi-district customers to fully partition district and staff views when creating a student plan.
MTSS Interventions	Intervention Bank filter issue	Corrected an issue with Intervention Bank filters not working correctly after closing an intervention. The filters now work correctly with both open and closed interventions.
MTSS Interventions	Removed incorrect confirmation message	The MTSS intervention plan incorrectly displayed a message saying, "This goal has been saved" when nothing was entered in the plan. This issue was resolved.
MTSS Interventions	Updated tooltips	To resolve inconsistencies, tooltips within the MTSS intervention template now display as follows: “You don't have permission to activate/deactivate this Plan” “You don't have permission to delete this Plan”
Student Plans	Updated date format	Student plans dates are now displayed in mm/dd/yyyy format in the following application areas: Assessment Behavior Demographics Start and end date fields