PowerSchool SIS 21.11.4.0
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PowerSchool SIS version 21.11.4.0 is available as of March 24, 2022. When the installers are available for download, an announcement will be posted on PowerSchool SIS Release Notification on PowerSchool Community.
Enhancements
| Feature or Product Area | Description | Learn More |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | In the Teachers Schedule and Section pages, the Attendance column has been divided into two separate columns with their own headers: Take Attendance and Multi-Day Attendance. | Teacher Schedules |
| Incident Builder | The Cancel button consistently displays in the Update Participant Attributes dialog on the Incident Detail page. | Create Quick Incidents |
| Parent/Student - Accessibility | For better visibility for the visually impaired user, now the attendance page can be zoomed in up to 400%. |
Resolved Issues
| Product Area | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Address Validation | Selecting Partial Update no longer incorrectly modifies the street value when doing an address validation. | PSF-58955 |
| Addresses | The processing of Geocode and Mailing_Geocode fields have been improved to prevent invalid data. These fields have been removed from the Student Field Value option, but are still available for mass modification in DDA. | PSF-51238 |
| Data Import Manager | When importing an Incident with a Participant_Student_Number that is 13 characters a validation error no longer occurs. | PSF-60955 |
| Graduation Plan | Promoting a student's graduation plan no longer gives an error when an invalid studentID record exists. | PSF-57900 |
| Health | The character count for the Issue and Visit Reason Note field in the Office Visit page is no longer missing when typing data in that box. | PSF-60922 |
| Health | Pagination no longer limits the number of pages when trying to view historical health information. | PSF-60847 |
| Load Balancer | PowerSchool no longer appears slow when utilizing a KEMP Load Balancer. This was caused by a 0 byte CSS file which has been removed. | PSF-61369 |
| OneRoster | Improved the Universal Rostering API performance when syncing with Canvas. | PSF-49333, PSF-59800, PSF-59841, PSF-59691 |
| PowerScheduler | The Results Log now includes the detailed statistics again, following the load process. | PSF-61212 |
| PowerTeacher Pro - Commenting Using French Numbering | Comments could not be saved when users entered a comment on an assignment that used a comma in the place of a decimal. | PSF-61284 |
| PowerTeacher Pro - Login | In the event of an external internet outage, self-hosted customers are unable to launch PowerTeacher Pro. | PSF-61472 |
| PowerTeacher Pro - Standards Grades Report | When a student had an assignment standard score but no standard final grade, the Standards Grades Report with the By Assignment parameter would be blank. | PSF-61312 |
| PowerTeacher Pro - Traditional Grade Calculation Formula | Users who attempted to edit a traditional grade calculation formula received an error indicating that the reporting term could not be retrieved. | PSF-61211 |
| PowerTeacher Pro Administrator - Category Weighting | When a district administrator adjusted the traditional grade calculation formula for a course, Category Weighting was not available as an option. | PSF-60923 |
| Public Portal - Show Standards with No Grades Setting Selection | All standards, including standards without grades, were displayed to parents and students even when the Show Standards with No Grades option was not selected. | PSF-15758 |
| Student Field Value | The following fields now appear in the Student Field Value field list, as they are no longer marked as unique, which prevented them to display:
| PSF-61415 |
| System | The Clear Activities function no longer times out when running from the District Office. | PSF-52333 |
Removed Features/Future Deprecation
| Feature | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| PowerTeacher Gradebook | PowerTeacher Gradebook will be removed from PowerSchool SIS with the 22.5.0.0 release. To ensure that teachers can start using the more advanced features in PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook when you update PowerSchool SIS, make a plan to transition to PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook by the beginning of the 2022-2023 School Year. | Moving to PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook |
PowerSchool Components
PowerSchool SIS comprises several software components, each versioned independently from one another. This allows for greater flexibility of component updates as new features and bug fixes become available. Some updates may include dependencies between components. These dependencies will be communicated and built into the component update installers to prevent PowerSchool SIS from being misconfigured. The following table identifies the version number for each PowerSchool SIS component in this release compared to the previous release:
| Component | Version Number | |
|---|---|---|
21.11.3.0 | 21.11.4.0 | |
PowerSchool SIS Server | 21.11.3.0 | 21.11.4.0 |
PowerTeacher Gradebook | 2.8.0.28 | |
ReportWorks | 1.5.1.40 | |
PowerScheduler | 3.0.2 | |
Oracle | 19c | |
State Reporting | 22.2.2.0 | |
Report SDK | 1.27.0.0 | |
| Amazon Corretto Java | 1.8u302 | |