Release notes 2026

College planning

March 5, 2026

Enhancement

Early access to modernized staff college profiles

Due to the mid-year timing, modernized staff college profiles will be available via opt-in Early Access.

District or school administrators who would like access can enable the new experience for their district or school staff through the Early Access page.

This approach allows interested districts to adopt early while minimizing disruption during peak college season.

Data integrations

February 17, 2026

Enhancement

Exclusion rules for Clever staff integration sync

Clever staff integration now allows clients to exclude specific staff and teacher records during the Clever staff integration sync.

What’s new:

• New exclusion list in sync settings.

• Users can create rules based on Clever user type (staff or teacher) and fields such as Title, StaffID, Teacher_Number, or Email.

• Rules support in and = operators, with AND logic within each rule.

• Multiple rules can be created for IN operator only; deleting a rule removes the entire rule block.

• Records matching any rule will be excluded; existing matches will be deactivated and removed from teacher and counselor lists.

• The default behavior is to expand all.

• A system error is shown if required fields are missing when proceeding.

Work-based learning

February 17, 2026

Enhancement

Partner portal phase 2 released

We’re excited to announce that Phase 2 of our new Work‑Based Learning Partner Portal has launched.

Phase 1 introduced key features that allowed Partners to connect with districts or schools and manage their own Contact and Organization information.  Partners also gained the ability to create and share opportunities.  

With Phase 2, we have expanded the Portal to support student Engagement and Hours management. New content that has been released includes:

• Student engagements now appear in the Partner Portal for partner‑created opportunities.

• Partners can update engagement statuses directly in the Partner Portal.

• Student-submitted hours on partner-created opportunities route to partners for approval before moving on to district or school staff in Naviance.

• Privacy protections ensure that students are only displayed to partners from districts or schools they’re connected with.

PowerBuddy

February 10, 2026

Enhancement

PowerBuddy staff permission update

PowerBuddy for staff in Naviance now requires only one permission to enable:

• Administer PowerBuddy Settings – District Level

How it will behave:

• When Administer PowerBuddy Settings – District Level permission is on, the PowerBuddy Settings menu is displayed.

• The PowerBuddy Settings page includes:

  • PowerBuddy for CCLR – on by default (no change)

  • PowerBuddy for Staff – off by default (must be explicitly enabled)

Reports

February 10, 2026

Enhancement

New work-based learning reports

This release introduces six new reports designed to give educators deeper visibility into work‑based learning engagement, hours tracking, and partner organization activity:

• Work-Based Learning Contacts – Provides detailed information on contacts and their associated opportunities and engagements.

• Work-Based Learning Engagements – Displays comprehensive engagement records, including linked opportunities, contacts, organizations, and engagement status.

• Work-Based Learning Hours Submissions – Shows detailed participation hour submissions for each student, including submission status.

• Work-Based Learning Hours Summary – Aggregates total participation hours by student, including submitted and approved hour totals.

• Work-Based Learning Opportunities – Lists all available opportunities along with their key details.

• Work-Based Learning Organizations – Lists participating organizations and their details, including connected contacts and engagements.

Work-based learning

February 03, 2026

Enhancement

Staff can add student hours

A new Hours option has been added to the Work‑based learning Add menu. This allows staff to add hours directly to student engagements, including cases where students have not yet submitted hours themselves. Staff can also continue to add hours via the Manage hours drawer on the Hours dashboard.

PowerBuddy

February 03, 2026

Enhancement

PowerBuddy can now talk about Work-Based Learning

We’ve released the ability for PowerBuddy to talk to students about work-based learning (WBL). While chatting with PowerBuddy, students will be able to ask questions about WBL opportunities, get suggestionforof opportunities that fit their interests, and discuss opportunities they're taking part in.

Data import

January 07, 2026

Enhancement

Faster manual district imports in Naviance

What’s new:

• Instant imports

  • Manual district imports will now process immediately—no more 24‑hour wait times.

• Comprehensive coverage:

  • All manual district‑level imports are supported (including curl), with performance depending on file size.