PowerSchool SIS 21.4.4.0

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PowerSchool SIS version 21.4.4.0 is available as of August 31, 2021. When the installers are available for download, an announcement will be posted on PowerSchool SIS Release Notification on PowerSchool Community.

On-premise South Carolina customers must apply the SR 21.8.2.1 State Reporting update before updating to this PowerSchool SIS 21.4.4.0 release.

Enhancements

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PowerSchool Admin - Attendance Tracking and Notification

Setup at the school level has been updated to work with all supported attendance modes, including the following modes:

Daily - Percent-Time-to-Day
Meeting - Percent-Time-to-Day
Meeting - Percent-Period-to-Day

Attendance Tracking and Notification

PowerSchool Admin - Health

Multiple enhancements for Screenings, including:

A new System Review Screening is now available for use within PowerSchool Health. This screening provides a checklist for nurses to review the overall health of students. This screening requires district-level setup and works with all currently supported methods of data entry. The Health Management Dashboard now displays this new screening.
When accessing student-level Screenings, Enter New Screening and Edit Screening have been converted to slide-out drawers giving the pages a more updated, consistent look without impacting screenings functionality or workflow.

Health Setup - Screenings

Work with Students - Screenings

Resolved Issues

Product Area	Description	Reference
PowerSchool Admin - APEX	The APEX views may be missing as part of a State/ Provincial Compliance Reporting install due to temporary invalid objects in Oracle.	PSF-52371
PowerSchool Admin - Attendance/Schoology	For some customers, the Schoology/PowerSchool SIS integration utilizes SchoolStaff dcid instead of the User dcid to sync teacher records causing a 401 error when a teacher accesses PowerSchool SIS Attendance in Schoology. PowerSchool SIS Attendance has been updated to use either the User or SchoolStaff dcid, with User as the recommended setup. This update is recommended for all customers using PowerSchool SIS Attendance in Schoology.	PSF-53234
PowerSchool Admin - Customization	When you do not use require to ensure that jQuery.cookie is loaded, the error "jQuery.cookie is not a function" may appear on the home screen. Customizations using items such as jQuery.cookie should ensure they also use require where appropriate.	PSF-50502
PowerSchool Admin - Data Export Manager	When scheduling the export of the Test: Tests data set in the Data Export Manager, the export failed.	PSF-51508
PowerSchool Admin - Database Extensions	When defining a Database Extension field, a default value the system should auto-fill for new records can be defined. If the field type was boolean, the default value was not being correctly applied. This change only applies to new boolean fields created after this release.	PSF-51231
PowerSchool Admin - Health	Multiple issues resolved for Health, including: When a student had over 100 office visit records, and you wanted to see them all, the page only displayed 100 records. If you had your local time format set to 24 hours, you could not save an Office Visit. When the Parent Name and Parent Phone smart tags were used to create a Health Plan Template, this information did not appear in the created health plan. These values will work for existing health plan templates but will not be available when new templates are created; Guardian Name and Guardian Phone will be used moving forward. When turning on modify permissions in the Access to Page Permissions setting, Daily Log under Health Management did not have Modify access privileges for this page as expected.	PSSR-260160 PSF-52569 PSF-43378 PSF-52698
PowerSchool Admin - Health Plugin Data Migration	When running the Health Plugin Data Migration for U_PTDS_MEDICATION, you may have experienced an error.	PSF-51525
PowerSchool Admin - Importing and Exporting	When importing incident data, the comments visible in the application did not match the values included in the import file.	PSF-47399
PowerSchool Admin - Initial Setup	When a database connection occurred during the nightly process, the system would create an erroneous Example School.	PSF-48689
PowerSchool Admin - OneRoster	The grade level mapping now aligns with the OneRoster definitions.	PSF-49331
PowerSchool Admin - Security	When applying page permissions to DDE/DDA edit pages, the page URL shown in the Page Permissions drawer is the generic page. The DDE/DDA pages used for page-level security did not change, ensuring that existing protections are still enforced.	PSF-50708
PowerSchool Admin - Staff	When clicking on Search Staff after selecting another staff member using Search Staff within the People menu, the system redirected you to Student Search.	PSF-50357
PowerSchool Admin - Startup	When one or more Schools with an empty ActiveCrsList field exist, the Building active course lists for all schools process on startup can take longer than expected.	PSF-50168
PowerSchool Admin - Student	When typing a name in the search bar of the Start Page, you could not use the space bar or the arrow keys when the Quick Data Options were selected.	PSF-50897
PowerSchool Admin - Student	When attempting to add an existing student number to another student in Demographics, an outdated error message occurred.	PSF-48777
PowerSchool Admin - System Settings	You can now remove more schools from the SchoolMessenger plugin in the Plugin Management Dashboard.	PSF-49231
PowerSchool Admin - Universal Rostering Setup	When using Universal Rostering, there was a two-plugin approach. Universal Rostering Plugin installation will no longer be required for the initial setup. Only Vendor plugins will be required. Contact your vendor for the latest version of their plugin. For existing customers, this upgrade is handled by the application installer, and no action is required. For more information, see Universal Rostering - Important 21.4.4.0 Changes.	PSF-48278
PowerSchool Teacher - Recommendations	When accessing Recommendations, the page loaded slowly.	PSF-48140
PowerTeacher Pro - Reports	When printing the StandardsGrade report from PowerTeacher Pro, letter grades with + and - signs overlapped with the percentage of two decimals.	PSF-50569

Removed Features/Future Deprecation

Feature	Description	Reference
PowerTeacher Gradebook	PowerTeacher Gradebook will be removed from PowerSchool SIS with the 22.4 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 is comprised of 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
	21.4.3.0	21.4.4.0
PowerSchool SIS Server	21.4.3.0	21.4.4.0
PowerTeacher Gradebook	2.8.0.25	2.8.0.25
ReportWorks	1.5.1.37	1.5.1.37
PowerScheduler	3.0.2	3.0.2
Oracle	12.2.0.1 or 19c	12.2.0.1 or 19c
State Reporting	21.7.2.0	21.8.2.1
Report SDK	1.26.0.0	1.26.0.0
Amazon Corretto Java	1.8u262	1.8u262