Release notes 2023

Naviance has introduced a new reporting experience, Naviance Reports 3.0 with additional report types added throughout 2024. This initial release focuses on User Information and Success Planner reports, offering comprehensive student and parent data, as well as Program and Task insights.

Staff users can access Reports 3.0 from Analytics to:

• Favorite reports, filter by category, and search by report name for a personalized experience.

• Select specific columns and filters on each report to retrieve the precise data you need.

• Apply chosen columns and filters to view a report preview or export data to a .csv file.

• Receive email notifications when an exported .csv file is ready, ensuring timely access.

• Explore the Exported Files tab to conveniently view and download previously exported reports.

Naviance has launched a new student workflow enhancement that makes it easier to add courses to the student course plan.

With this release, students can:

• Add courses to requirements without going back to the course plan after adding courses to each requirement.

• Use the requirement list to navigate to the next requirement.

• Easily review the courses added to each requirement before finalizing them in the course plan.

• Save and add all courses to the plan at once for each requirement.

Upon mapping a username in PS SIS Parent Integration, the Naviance system registers parents and sends an introductory email containing a temporary password from mailer@email.naviance.com

Clients are requested to whitelist Naviance and the aforementioned email address. The introductory email template is a system-generated email and cannot be edited by the client.

To support Mid-Year season, you can now identify student applications that require a Mid-Year Report to be sent from the new Mid-Year column in the Application Manager.

• Required displays for any colleges that require the report.
• A dash displays for colleges that do not require the report.

When the report is required and submitted to the college, the value displays Submitted.

You can now import parent data from PowerSchool SIS into Naviance. This enables the district to maintain a unified source of parent records, streamlining the process and enhancing data management. After the integration is established, parent records are created and updated in Naviance, using PS SIS as the single source of truth.

Changes to the elementary platform include an updated K-5 curriculum with nine pre-built lessons per grade level, opportunities for parent and guardian engagement outside the classroom, improved workflows for students, and advanced lesson customization for staff.

Naviance has released the Student Readiness Indicators (SRI) dashboard for Washington. The SRI dashboard helps districts and schools keep track of students' progress toward meeting Washiington’s Graduation Pathways Requirements.

Use this dashboard to:

• Review aggregate and individual student progress toward meeting state mandates.

• Filter SRI results by counselor, indicators, and indicators’ status.

• Manually edit individual student’s progress within the dashboard.

• Bulk import and update students’ indicator completion statuses.

• Import WA-AIM and WA Smarter Balanced test scores.

• Export SRI raw data with or without filters applied.

Common App fee waiver and ED agreements are available for re-submission if they fail during the first attempt.

The Scribbles integration is now available. Naviance has  partnered with Scribbles which has expanded our higher education receiver network. With this new integration, clients can submit student application materials to approximately 2,100 more institutions. The institutions are a diverse mix of 4-year institutions, community colleges, and vocational & technical schools. To learn if an institution is a Scribbles member, visit the institution's college profile page in Naviance Succeed.

Continue to prepare documents using the same, existing workflow on the eDocs Prepare page. The eDocs Send page displays a new Scribbles table with the ability to submit Scribbles documents individually or in bulk. After submitting a document, review the submission status, submission date, and the date the institution downloaded the document on the eDocs Submission Status table.

The logic used for matching student transcripts when uploading via the Multiple Transcript Manager was updated to ensure all pages of a student's transcript can be matched appropriately. Here is the updated logic for each page:

1. The student's first name and last name are matched first.

2. After the student's first name and last name are matched, then either their date of birth, high school student ID, or state student ID is used to match the transcript page to the student record.

Test Optional data can now be exported at the individual school level.

Naviance has released the Student Readiness Indicators (SRI) dashboard for Alabama. The SRI dashboard helps districts and schools keep track of students' progress toward meeting Alabama’s new College and Career Readiness requirements.

With this dashboard, clients can:

• Review aggregate and individual student progress toward meeting state mandates.

• Filter SRI results by counselor, indicators, and indicators’ status.

• Manually edit individual student’s progress within the dashboard.

• Bulk import and update students’ indicator completion statuses.

• Export SRI raw data with or without filters applied.

The Student Readiness Report generator was not displaying all of the grade/class years to staff users in high schools when their highest enrolled grade level was not set to 12th grade. This issue is now resolved. The Student Readiness Report generator will now display all appropriate grade levels.

If students took equivalent courses, imported courses will now replace the planned courses they didn’t end up taking. This will work for both full and partial credit imports and block and blockettes for our eSchoolPlus clients.

To take advantage of these updates, students or staff will need to perform an action on a student’s course plan to allow the course plan to update. These actions can include:

• Republishing and updating the plan of study after any changes are made.

• Importing student course data either manually or via SFTP, or SIS integration.

• Editing the student’s course plan.

To find out which course an equivalent replaced, staff and students can edit the requirement or select a course name in the plan grid and navigate to the equivalents section of the course catalog information.

Naviance Clever Student Integration now aligns closely with Clever's sync status. When updates are absent at the source, no jobs will run. The test and start import options will be disabled and display the following message.  Importing data is unavailable because your sync is paused in Clever. Resume your Clever sync to import data.

This prompts clients to update data accordingly, ensuring synchronization accuracy.

Naviance Clever Student Integration now supports all grades from Clever. This includes flexible mapping of non-standard grades on the Define Code page.

• Log in to your Succeed account and navigate to Clever Data Integration.

• On the Match setting map “class year = Class year based on grade”.

• Navigate to the Define Code page to map the grades as per your institution.

The data integration history page was enhanced to display data for the past 30 days across all integrations. To streamline the experience, logs older than 30 days are now hidden, and clients may not see certain logs on the page. Simply rerun to view any new logs.

Search Job Opportunities lets students search for active employment, apprenticeships, or internships from within the Careers section of Naviance. Students can apply filters to find options that interest them and then save their favorite opportunities. Favorited job opportunities are listed in student folders in Succeed. Students can also review detailed job descriptions and navigate directly to a company’s site to access the job application.

To access this tool, students must have linked their Naviance and Headed2 accounts.

Military careers are now included in Naviance career exploration, letting students review military branches, access direct links to military branch websites, and favorite the branches that interest them. Favorited military branches are available in student folders in Succeed.

A section for Related Military Careers is also added to Naviance career profiles and includes a list of related military career titles, branch information, and key details. Students can filter from Explore Careers to specifically display careers that have related military options.

Naviance has released a student and parent help center. This help center lets students and parents access content about navigating Naviance Student without needing to reach out to district or school staff for support.

The new help center is accessed by clicking the question mark icon in the top navigation when logged in as a student or parent or when viewing as a student.

Naviance is excited to announce the release of our new student homepage and improved user experience! The new homepage focuses a student on their Future Plan. It provides an individualized experience based on their chosen post-secondary paths, which they can select on the homepage. To accommodate this new experience, the Welcome Message, Additional Information from School, Tasks and Important To-Dos, What’s New, Student Readiness Indicators, where applicable, and the Info Box were moved to the side of the page. Additionally, Curriculum and Test Prep links were moved to the Planner menu of the main navigation. Finally, the Careers homepage was sunset since the new homepage displays the same content. 

Key pages in Naviance Student were updated to create a streamlined look and feel without changing workflows. The updated pages are:

• Self-Discovery, not including the actual assessments
• Favorite Careers and Clusters
• Explore Careers, including Career profiles
• Explore Clusters and Pathways, including Career Cluster and Career Pathway profiles
• College Lookup
• Colleges I’m Thinking About
• Colleges I’m Applying To
• College Specific Scholarships
• Scholarship Search, including individual scholarships 
• Favorite Scholarships

Due to the updated Texas graduation requirements for the ACT, the verbiage in SRI was updated to reflect the scores that students need to meet. There is no change to how the indicator works in SRI, and you can continue to use the Texas SRI import template to update the indicators.

The description for the ACT Reading indicator now displays:

• For any ACT test taken after February 15, 2023, receive a combined score of 40 or higher on the ACT English and ACT Reading tests.
• For any ACT test taken before February 15, 2023, score 19 or higher in ACT Reading with a composite ACT score no less than 23.’ to both students and staff.

The description for the ACT Math indicator now displays:

• For any ACT test taken after February 15, 2023, score 22 or higher on the ACT Math with no composite score requirement.
• For any ACT test taken before February 15, 2023, score 19 or higher in ACT Math with a composite ACT score no less than 23.’ to both students and staff.

Clients with the base Naviance Plugin of 1.2.4 in SIS are auto-upgraded to the latest plugin of 1.2.14 to support the Naviance-SIS Staff import.

For clients that have versions below the base Naviance plugin or the required SIS version of 22.7.0, an error message indicates what to upgrade.

Students and staff can start tracking which college applications a student applied to as Test Optional.

Students and staff can indicate if a student applied test optional on their Colleges I'm Applying To page. Additionally, the existing built-in college application survey question includes the Test Optional question, allowing students to indicate per institution if they applied with or without their ACT or SAT scores. This data is immediately available to staff and students from the College I'm Applying To page. PowerSchool will be releasing new displays of this data in the fall!

Naviance has released Student Readiness Indicators (SRI) for Pennsylvania. The Student Readiness Indicators dashboard is designed to help districts and schools keep track of students' progress toward meeting Pennsylvania’s Future Ready PA requirements. Clients can import data for Student Readiness Indicators from the Data Import New page for the Keystone Exam and Pennsylvania SRI indicators.

The Naviance and PowerSchool SIS Integration for staff data allows for a one-way sync of staff data from PowerSchool SIS to Naviance. Users can set the update frequency and determine the staff data shared from the SIS to Naviance.

The Student Readiness Report would not generate for staff users if a group was selected on the first page of the wizard.

This issue is fixed and groups can be used to select students when running the Student Readiness Report.

Reports BETA is now Reports 2.0! This rename is purely nominal and does not include any report enhancements.

Additionally,  Reports 2.0 can now be found under Reports on the Analytics drop-down menu.

Naviance has resolved an issue that caused district-created Work-Based Learning (WBL) opportunities with per-school seat availability limits to not be properly enforced in Naviance Student, allowing more students in a particular school to register for the opportunity beyond its seat availability limit. The implemented fix prevents this issue from occurring for all current and future opportunities created in WBL.

Naviance has resolved an issue causing scheduled Course Planner - PowerSchool Student Information (SIS) imports to fail and display a Critical Error - Import Canceled status. The changes made to resolve the issue impact all three scheduled course-related integrations: course mapping, student course data (course history), and student course data (current courses).

These changes are implemented automatically onto scheduled imports, so no action needs to be taken.

Naviance is excited to announce the release of our new Careers Home page. The new page lets students review information about their future plan and favorite careers in one place. Students can set their own post-secondary goals with College, Career, Military, or Exploratory plans as options. Students can also review additional details about their favorite careers, including which Skills and Knowledge Sets are most prevalent in their favorite careers. This new data will help students plan and develop themselves for the careers they are most interested in.

The new page is located in the Careers section of the top navigation bar.