Release notes 2024
July 2024
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Analytics | July 25, 2024 | Enhancement | Legacy and reports 2.0 sunset | As we move toward a single location to access all student and system data, we have removed all legacy and 2.0 reports in Naviance for which there is parity in Reports 3.0. Review the list of 3.0 reports and descriptions along with the equivalent legacy and 2.0 reports that have been sunset. |
Analytics | July 24, 2024 | Enhancement | Counselor filter in Reports 3.0 | As Reports 3.0 continue to be enhanced, a new Counselor filter has been added to all school-level reports. Both school and district users now have the capability to choose one or multiple counselors when running a report. This filter will not be available for counselors who are assigned to students and have the User can view data for assigned students only option selected for their user account. |
College planning | July 18, 2024 | Enhancement | Match powered by Concourse added to Colleges homepage and menu in Naviance Student | If enabled by the district or school, the Colleges menu and homepage will display Match powered by Concourse from Apply to College. Match powered by Concourse lets students create and submit an anonymous profile from Naviance to the Match platform. From there, students can access the Match platform directly to complete and publish their profile for the opportunity to receive offers of admission and financial aid from partnering Match colleges and universities. |
College planning | July 18, 2024 | Enhancement | Match powered by Concourse added to the district Setup page and the School Select and Update Optional Features page | From the Setup page in Naviance District Edition, district users can now enable Match powered by Concourse for grade 11 and 12 students at all schools within their district, or enable Match powered by Concourse as an optional feature for their school staff to enable from the Select and Update Optional Features page. |
College planning | July 17, 2024 | Issue | Duplicate colleges in Naviance | Naviance was displaying duplicate college entries in Naviance under specific conditions. The code logic has been adjusted to prevent the creation of duplicate college records. |
Analytics | July 15, 2024 | Enhancement | New Scholarship Report 3.0 | This release of Reports 3.0 includes the Scholarship Data report which provides all details, qualifications, and contact info entered for school and district scholarships. |
Work-based learning | July 10, 2024 | Enhancement | Work-Based Learning apply verbiage updated | The language on the ‘Apply’ button in Work-Based Learning was changed to I Plan to Apply. With this change, it will be clearer to students that by selecting the button they are letting staff know they intend to apply rather than have already applied. No other Naviance work-based learning functionality has changed as part of this update. Students will still need to review and follow the application instructions in the work-based learning opportunity to take the next steps. |
Analytics | July 9, 2024 | Enhancement | New Career Reports 3.0 | This release of Reports 3.0 includes summary and detailed information on favorited careers, career clusters, and career pathways. In addition to the data you are used to finding in Careers reports, you will also find details on students' military choices. |
Naviance Student | July 8, 2024 | Issue | Naviance Student school logo fixed | The school logo in Naviance Student displayed a broken image. This is now resolved and Naviance Student displays the logo appropriately again. |
Course planner | July 2, 2024 | Enhancement | Export parent-approved student course plans | This new feature lets staff bulk export all parent-approved student courses at the school, helping them understand the number of course plans approved by parents. |
Analytics | July 1, 2024 | Enhancement | New Scholarship Reports 3.0 | This release of Reports 3.0 includes summary and detailed information on favorited, applied, and awarded scholarships. In addition, the report preview for all reports was updated to 100 records to help with performance and decrease the time it takes to load a report preview. |
June 2024
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Data integration | June 27, 2024 | Enhancement | Ability to only review mapped roles in the log file for Clever Staff Data Integration | District users will only have the ability to review mapped roles in the log file for Clever Staff Data Integration. Clients can clear Include only mapped roles in the log file when needed and download the entire log. The setting remains checked by default. |
Data integration | June 18, 2024 | Enhancement | Clever staff integration - New | Importing staff data from Clever into Naviance is now available. This feature allows districts to maintain a unified source of staff records, streamlining the process and enhancing data management. After the integration is established, staff records are created and updated in Naviance, using Clever as the single source of truth. |
College planning | June 14, 2024 | Issue | Scholarship exports now display Award Amount and Max Award in separate columns | Naviance Scholarships now displays Award Amount and Max Award fields in separate columns in the export file, rather than merging them into the Max Amount column. Displaying the Award Amount and Max Award columns separately in the export gives schools more clarity on the award amount value including varies, specific amount, unknown, and see description as well as the max award value, which must be a numerical value. |
Analytics | June 13, 2024 | Issue | Scholarship data export file displays incorrect deadline date/year | The Scholarship Data export file displayed an incorrect deadline date/year because the Deadline column was formatted incorrectly as DD-MM. All other exports use the format MM/DD/YYYY. The issue was fixed by correcting the format. The deadline now displays MM/DD/YYYY. |
Analytics | Jun 10, 2024 | Enhancement | Inactive student filter added to success planner Reports 3.0 | The Student Task Activity Detail and Student Program Activity Detail reports in Reports 3.0 now include a filter and column for student status, allowing inactive students to be included when running the reports. |
Analytics | Jun 10, 2024 | Enhancement | New Plans and Outcomes Reports 3.0 | This release of Reports 3.0 includes summary and detailed views of student plans and outcomes, including primary and secondary pathway data. |
May 2024
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Analytics | May 31, 2024 | Enhancement | Customize and save reports in Reports 3.0 | Users can now save their preferred filters and columns per report using Custom Reports in Reports 3.0. This will allow for quick access to the details needed per report, without having to re-add custom filters and columns each time. |
College planning | May 30, 2024 | Issue | College Maps displaying an error | An invalid map-key previously prevented the display of College Maps. The map key was updated, and users can review the College Map without any issues. |
May 30, 2024 | Issue | Canceled emails not displaying the correct status for students | Canceled emails did not display the correct delivery status. While all parent emails correctly displayed the Not Sent status, student emails displayed No problems reported. This issue was resolved and canceled emails now correctly display the status Not Sent for students when reviewing the email history. | |
Analytics | May 29, 2024 | Enhancement | New Self-Discovery Assessment Reports 3.0 | release of Reports 3.0 includes summary and detailed views of StrengthsExplorer and all AchieveWorks Assessments, including individual student results. |
Surveys | May 23, 2024 | Enhancement | Activate, inactive, and edit survey features | This release includes.
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May 14, 2024 | Issue | Preview image in email in draft Email | Images copied and pasted into a draft email did not appear during a preview. This issue has been fixed and JPG and PNG images copied and pasted into a draft email now appear during a preview. | |
College planning | May 10, 2024 | Issue | Corrected Scattergrams Application Deadline Symbols | Naviance Student was not displaying scattergram symbols correctly. This issue, caused by data not being sent to the graphs, is now fixed. Scattergrams now display symbols such as early decision application statistics correctly. |
April 2024
Product area | Date | Type | Summary | Description |
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Career planning | April 30, 2024 | Enhancement | Access to Search Job Opportunities | Search Job Opportunities, in the Careers list of Naviance Student, lets students search for active employment, apprenticeships, or internships using filters to find options that align with their interests. Starting this month, students are not required to link Headed2 accounts to access the feature. Staff can disable the job search tool by grade level, but it will be enabled by default. |
Analytics | April 30, 2024 | Enhancement | New self-discovery assessment reports 3.0 | The recent release of Reports 3.0 includes summary and detailed views of Career Interest Profiler, Career Cluster Finder and Career Key assessments, including individual student results. |
Career planning | April 18, 2024 | Enhancement | Explore Local Opportunities | Explore Local Opportunities enables students to better understand their local economies and explore careers or industries with significant growth potential. Content is available for students in Michigan with future expansion to additional states anticipated. |
Analytics | April 16, 2024 | Enhancement | Reports 3.0: Success planner 2.0 reporting | Three reports that support the tracking of Success Planner 2.0 student engagement and completion are now available in Reports 3.0.
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Surveys | April 11, 2024 | Issue | Resolved overlapping responses in Surveys pie chart | Previously, staff encountered an issue where responses overlapped in the pie chart view, making it difficult to review the data. To resolve this issue, the responses now appear in the horizontal bar graph format. This ensures that all responses are presented clearly and without overlap, allowing staff to review the data comprehensively in a graphical format. |
March 2024
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Success planner 2.0 | March 27, 2024 | Enhancement | Time-limited task status | A new path task status to Success Planner 2.0 called Time Limited Task is now available. This status populates when a path task is not completed before the completion time limit date. If a student completes a path task before the completion time limit date, the status displays Completed. Now you’ll know whether or not students completed a path task on time. No action needs to be taken by staff or students. The new status appears in the new Success Planner 2.0 section of the student folder and our soon-to-be-released Success Planner 2.0 reports in Reports 3.0. |
Surveys | March 19, 2024 | Enhancement | Export survey response | You can now efficiently export survey responses based on selected class years. With this release:
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February 2024
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Analytics | February 29, 2024 | Enhancement | Reports 3.0: College and eDocs Reports | This latest set of reports covers college and eDocs data. In addition to reports you are familiar with such as College Applications Summary, Student College Applications Detail, and eDocs activity reports, PowerSchool is also launching new reports including:
Reports 3.0 also includes new data fields to sort overdue teacher recommendations and applications by colleges that require mid-year reports and counselor evaluations. |
Curriculum | February 27, 2024 | Issue | Curriculum action items are not creating to-dos | When students are asked to create action items within certain Curriculum lessons, such as My College Applications, those action items are not being created as To-dos in the Planner area of Naviance Student. |
Success planner 2.0 | February 20, 2024 | Enhancement | Success Planner 2.0 phase 1 | Success Planner 2.0 has been released. This release does not replace current Success Planner. It is a pre-built set of self-guided Path Tasks, defined by Naviance, for students to complete based on their grade level and chosen post-secondary path. A complete scope and sequence of Path Tasks is available in both the staff and student help centers. Any client can use Success Planner 2.0, Phase 1, but we recommend it for clients that do not currently use Success Planner, or use it sparingly since there is potential for the Naviance-defined sequence of Path Tasks to conflict with a district’s already created Success Planner tasks. Success Planner 2.0 can be enabled by updating the Path Tasks row from the Home Page section in Select and Update Optional Features. A new district and school permission, View student Success Planner 2.0, must be enabled to review reporting in the Student Folder. |
January 2024
Product area | Date | Type | Summary | Description |
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College planning | January 24, 2024 | Enhancement | New notification of Common App student account deletion | If a student decides to delete their Common App account after completing the matching process in Naviance, the Send page in the student folder now displays a new “Unmatched” status and tooltip. An alert is also displayed in the Documents Submitted to All Common App section. |
Data integration | January 11, 2024 | Enhancement | PS Student Data Integration supports built-in counselor of PS SIS | Users can now select a built-in Counselor option while mapping the Counselor field in the PS SIS-Student Integration. This will map the counselor to the student. The PS SIS Student Integration will now have three options for the Counselor field:
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