Release 24.2.1.0 - May 2024
PowerSchool Unified Insights version 24.2.1.0 is available as of 5/18/2024.
New features
Feature | Description |
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Attendance and Behavior data retrieval for MTSS intervention goals | Attendance and behavior (incidents and actions) goal data can now be set for the intervention plan:
Interventions linked with the plan will auto-populate fields with preset values. Modified prepopulated fields While retrieving data for attendance and behavior (incidents and actions), if the user modifies a prepopulated field, they 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 and 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. |
MTSS goal score refresh | A new “Refresh Data“ button was added to the intervention Goals section to refresh goal scores based on the configuration of the plan’s goal data or the settings used to retrieve goal data. You can refresh goal scores for every meeting date. |
Enhancements
Product area | Summary | Release note |
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Academics, Achievement | Timeout issue
| Resolved a timeout issue in Achievement metrics by optimizing query joins, ensuring smooth loading of grade distribution data for larger customers. |
Application | Updated SQL query | The user extract SQL query in AWS and Azure was updated to ensure compatibility with SIS enhancements supporting multiple identity providers. |
Application | Updated Staff filter | The Staff filter now only displays the top 500 staff members across standard content, ensuring expected filter behavior without impacting features. |
Classroom, Students | Updated Students dashboards
| The Classroom Search module was updated as follows:
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Classroom | Renamed Overview dashboards | Enhanced the dashboard navigation and accessibility by renaming "Overview" dashboards to provide clearer, module-specific insights. |
Demographics | Updated state-specific query (CA)
| The logic for retrieving the primary language has been updated for Unified Insights in accordance with California (CA) State: |
Demographics | Updated state-specific query (CT) | The Plan 504 query logic for Connecticut (CT) has been updated as follows: |
Demographics | Updated state-specific query (MA)
| The logic for retrieving the primary and home language has been updated for Unified Insights in accordance with Massachusetts (MA) State. For primary language: For home language: |
Demographics | Updated state-specific query (OK)
| The logic for retrieving the primary SPED has been updated for Unified Insights in accordance with Oklahoma (OK) State: |
Demographics | Updated state-specific query (TN) | The ELL query logic for Tennessee (TN) has been updated as follows: |
Essentials | New Grade View filter | A new Grade View filter was added to allow users to toggle between viewing currently enrolled students and cohort annualized students in Essentials dashboards. |
Essentials, Attendance | Updated metric | The Attendance Trends metric on the Attendance Overview dashboard now has a dynamic y-axis range, as well as background colors consistent with Chronic Absence levels. |
Essentials, Behavior | Updated metric column category
| To resolve a display issue of ‘--' for action groups, the metric column category was updated to 'Discipline_Action_Type_Code' on metric "How is our use of actions changing week over week?" |
Essentials/Classroom, Attendance | Updated metrics labels | To improve user clarity, the “Semester” field was renamed to “Term” in all relevant Attendance metrics under Essentials and Classroom. |
Essential | Updated behavior metrics
| Behavior-related metrics now exclusively consider “offenders” students for incidents and actions across various Essentials, Classroom, and Risk Analysis dashboards. |
MTSS Interventions | District names in plan preview | To improve readability, the district names on state-level plans (in multi-district tenants) are now displayed in a single line, truncated by an ellipsis if needed. Hovering over the line displays a tooltip with the complete list of district names. |
MTSS Interventions | Enhanced visibility for state-level plans
| In a multi-district tenant, state-level users with access to create state-level plans can now select the districts where they want the plan to be visible. When users select the State-level checkbox to make the plan visible in multiple districts, all available districts are listed in a dropdown menu. Users can then select specific districts from the dropdown, making the plan visible only to users within those districts. Plans will be invisible to users outside the selected districts. |
MTSS Interventions | Enhanced Plan School Selection | Schools selected for an intervention plan are now displayed as dismissible chips. When previewing an intervention plan, the selected schools appear in a single line, truncated by an ellipsis if needed. Hovering over the line displays a tooltip with the complete list of selected schools. |
MTSS Interventions | Updated District Manager role | Previously, the District Managers role allowed access to interventions from entire districts. Now, users with the District Managers role can only access interventions for schools they have access to in SIS. If a school is not assigned to the user, they will not be able to see the interventions of students from different schools. |
Risk Analysis Analytics | Low GPA display issue | Resolved a low GPA display issue in Risk Analysis by adjusting connector customization for mark_numeric value attributes, ensuring accurate data representation. |
Resolved issues
Product area | Summary | Release note |
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Application | Disappearing labels in donut charts | Fixed an issue where labels disappeared when clicking or hovering over donut chart metrics. |
Application | Export issue | There was an issue with exporting an HTML table where the background colors were not applied. The issue is fixed. |
Application | Updated external PD services | Updated the external PD services setup to resolve an issue where clicking the Integrated PD drop-down links redirected the user to the Infobase login page instead of the PD documentation. |
Attendance Analytics | Query error
| Fixed an issue and improved performance when pagination has to rerun the query to get the data that was previously failing with a query error. |
Classroom, Academics | Grade level display issue
| Academics dashboards within the Classroom module now accurately display relevant grade levels on the x-axis, with empty cell suppression set to ‘Both’ for improved data clarity. |
District Configuration | Edit mode issue | Fixed an issue in the District Configuration application where users were able to select dropdown values without being in Edit mode. |
District Configuration, Enrollment | Record update issue | Fixed an issue where both CONFORMANCE tables for Student Status were not being updated in the District Configuration app. |
MTSS Interventions | Add students in MTSS using student group | Users can now add students using the "Add Student from Group" feature in MTSS interventions. Users with permission to create and modify students in an intervention can add students in bulk using the group functionality. |
MTSS Interventions | Updated UI for MTSS Browser role | Buttons to create or edit interventions plan are no longer displayed to users with an MTSS Browser role. Previously, the buttons were displayed and caused an error when clicked. |
MTSS Student Plans | Issue with "Other" option | Fixed an issue in Student Plans where selected options were cleared when the “Other” option was selected, and the user started typing in the text field. |
MTSS Student Plans Improvement Plans | Updated banner colors | The colors of the Improvement Plans and MTSS Student Plans banners were updated to match the Unified Insights banner. |
Student Plans | Attendance percentages issue | Fixed the Student Plans attendance query to match the student profile attendance percentage for consistency between dashboards and the Student Plans application. |
Student Profile, Overview | Missing School Year column | The School Year column was added to metric “Multi-Year Absence Trends by Term” on the Overview dashboard. |