PowerSchool SIS 20.4.4.0
PowerSchool SIS version 20.4.4.0 is available as of 8/26/2020:
Enhancements
| Feature | Description | Learn More |
|---|---|---|
| PowerSchool Admin - Class Rank | In some cases, when Class Rank is set to run during the nightly process, the incorrect GPA may be calculated and stored in the ClassRank table. This issue is now resolved. As part of this release additional classrank DAT tag options have been added/documented: * schoolid - example: schoolid="100" * grade - example: grade="9" * year - example for 20-21 school year: year="2020" A previously undocumented option * term - The value from ClassRank.StoreCode. Value defaults to "". | Class Rank DATs |
| PowerSchool Admin - Enhanced Health Functionality for Data Import Manager and Data Export Manager | Additional PowerSchool Data Sets have been added for the new functionality in Enhanced Health to Data Import Manager:
In addition, the following Enhanced Health PowerSchool Data Sets have been updated:
The following PowerSchool Data Sets have been added for the new functionality in Enhanced Health to Data Export Manager:
| Work with Health Data |
| PowerSchool Admin - Health Concerns | The Health Concerns page now includes a Show All (+0) checkbox. You can select the checkbox to view all health concerns (active health concerns and ended health concerns). The count (+0) indicates the total number of ended health concerns for the selected student. Ended health plans will appear in italics. | |
| PowerSchool Admin - Search by Grades/Attendance | When using the Search by Grades/Attendance function, the expected results are not always displayed. This issue is now resolved. | Search By Grades/Attendance |
Resolved Issues
| Feature | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| PowerSchool Admin - Attendance | In some cases, the ADA/ADM by Student report (version 4.2) adds PreK students to the report selection when selecting other grade levels. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-31796 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Bell Schedule | In some cases, when editing the Default Time In or Default Time Out value of a Bell Schedule record, an error can occur. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-15649 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Change History | In some cases, the PowerSchool SIS may take longer then expected to start when Change History is enabled. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-32252 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Class Count | When dropping a student who is pre-registered for a section, the class count is decremented by 1 even though the student did not yet count in the section. This could lead to inaccurate class counts or class counts of 0, particularly before the start of a new school year. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-10840 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Close Section at Max | In some cases, the Close Section at Max setting is not honored when enrolling a student. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-15543, PSF-17300 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Data Export Manager | In some cases, the Data Export Manager may time out or return an error when filtering or exporting from the *Standards: District List* dataset. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-11785 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Daily Bulletin | When editing the Bulletin HTML Formatting Preferences a cross-site scripting error occurs for properly formatted HTML. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-31033 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Import Validation | After upgrading to PowerSchool 20.4.0.0, a validation error occurs when attempting to import using a student number more than ten digits long. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-31488 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Object Reports | In some cases, running multiple Object and/or Report Card reports for a large selection of students may impact PowerSchool SIS stability. This issue is now resolved. Improvements have been made to keep memory use down in these report conditions. | PSF-29259 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Object Reports | Object Reports utilizing the Standard object fails to process if the Term/school displays option includes Year Abbreviation.This issue is now resolved. | PSF-31359 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Performance | A performance issue has been identified as part of the standards sync process that is part of the Weekly and End-of-Year processes. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-30997 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Recalculate Class Counts | Recalculate Class Counts now runs as part of the nightly process. In order to facilitate the additional time needed to complete the nightly process, the PowerTeacher Photo Resynchronization has been moved to the weekly process. | PSF-17779 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Section Expression | When creating new sections, an error may occur when attempting to change the expression. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-25422 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Server Statistics Diagnostics | In some cases, the Server Statistics Diagnostics tab erroneously displays that the Attendance Nightly has failed. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-22854 |
| PowerSchool Admin - Username | When attempting to sigh in, if the users usernames includes the "at sign" (@) an authentication error occurs. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-24282 |
| PowerSchool - Installer | In some cases, the installer fails to launch with an Apex error if the installer has been extracted to a folder with "(1)" in the name. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-18570 |
| PowerSchool Student and Parent - Sign In | In some cases, an un-rendered PS-HTML tag may appear on the Sign In page. This issue is now resolved. | PSF-30983 |
| PowerTeacher Pro - Assignment Percent | In some cases, when upgrading an assignment grade with a special code, the percent score is not updated correctly. This issue is resolved. | PSF-28544 |
Known Issues
| Feature | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| PowerSchool Admin - Stored Search | When using a Stored Search, if the result includes more than 100 students, the Selection changed to button incorrectly indicates 100 students selected instead of the actual number of students in the selection. Workaround: None | PSF-30459 |
PowerSchool Admin - Parent Portal Web Accounts Integration with Student Contacts | When attempting to update an existing Parent Access Account via import that has the required username and email address fields already created, that parent’s rows will fail to import if it has the account username but not the account email address or vice versa. Workaround: Do one of the following:
| PSF-30079 |
PowerSchool Admin - Parent Portal Web Accounts Integration with Student Contacts | When exporting data, if the contact does not have an access account, the Allow Data Access field is populated with the value FALSE, which indicates that data access is disabled. Instead, this exported value should be Null to indicate that it was not set. Workaround: Do one of the following:
| PSF-30070 |
| PowerSchool Admin - System Reports | PowerSchool has identified an issue where the names of the new reports sometimes display incorrectly. We are looking into this issue, and a fix will be included in an upcoming release. | -- |
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 configured incorrectly. The following table identifies the version number for each PowerSchool SIS component in this release compared to the previous release:
| Component | Version Number | |
|---|---|---|
20.4.3.0 | 20.4.4.0 | |
PowerSchool SIS Server | 20.4.3.0 | 20.4.4.0 |
PowerTeacher Gradebook | 2.8.0.17 | 2.8.0.18 |
ReportWorks | 1.5.1.28 | 1.5.1.29 |
PowerScheduler | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2 |
Oracle | 12.2.0.1 | 12.2.0.1 |
State Reporting | 20.5.1.1 | 20.7.2.1 |
Report SDK | 1.21.0.0 | 1.21.0.0 |
Java | 1.8u202 | 1.8u202 |