PowerSchool SIS 20.4.3.0

Students can now be grouped based on whether they are attending school in-person, remotely, or in a hybrid model. Teachers and admins can easily toggle between methods if the situation changes. Additionally, teachers and admins can mass fill attendance codes by track in the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal or within a teacher's schedule on the PowerSchool SIS Admin portal.

To set up:

• Assign tracks to your students. The Track field (Students.Track) is located on the student's current enrollment under Transfer Information and on the Modify Information page.
• Teachers and Admins can turn on the Group by Track option on the single-day attendance page in the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal and under teacher schedules in the PowerSchool SIS Admin portal. The setting is stored per user.
• If there are schools where the track option might not be appropriate, the option to group by track can be disabled under School Setup > Attendance Preferences > Disable Group by Track for Teacher Attendance.

Because the group by track option does not require on track and off track days to be set up in the school calendar, this option will allow your schools to easily change course throughout the year as the COVID-19 situation evolves. Additionally, the track option does not affect attendance calculations, so attendance reports remain unchanged.

Learn more about setting up blended learning and taking attendance in the July 17, 2020 PowerSchool Insider!

Attendance Preferences

Record Meeting Attendance by Section

Record Meeting Attendance by Section in the PowerSchool SIS Teacher Portal

Teachers can now send plain-text emails to students and contacts directly from the Create option in PowerTeacher Pro.

An option to Copy Emails will copy all selected email addresses (separated by a semicolon and space) to the clipboard, allowing an email that requires rich text or attachments to be quickly drafted using another email service.

• Health - Concerns
• Health - Contact Log
• Health - Medications
• Health - Medication Doses
• Health - Medication Inventory
• Health - Misc
• Health - PE Waiver
• Health - Student Health

In addition, the following PowerSchool Data Sets have been added for the new functionality in Enhanced Health to Data Export Manager:

• Health - Office Visits
• Health - Physical

The Before and After Comment fields on Change History for Health Concerns (Student > Health > Health Concerns > Change History) and Health Other (Student > Health > Other > Change History) now appear as a View link. Additionally, when viewing all change history records via System > Change History, the page now includes Student and School columns for each record.

The PowerSchool SIS Admin portal and the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal in-app help includes versioning of content for each major PowerSchool SIS release, such as 19.0. and 20.4. With this release, now when accessing the in-app help, help specific to the version of PowerSchool SIS your are running appears automatically. Using the Version picker in the navigation menu, you can select different versions of the in-app help to view.

When viewing List Records and Table View in DDE/DDA, only the first 10k records would display. This issue is now resolved. The record limit is now set at 50k. The links have also been changed to buttons.

When using the Export Historical Grades function, the first student's record appears on every line of the export file. This issue is now resolved.

As part of this release various New Experience issues have been resolved:

• When changing pages while searching from the start page users are not brought back to the top of the list.
• When selecting a Students Search Code from the field list the search is not populated.
• When clearing a search item an error occurs on the server.

In some cases, after upgrading to Oracle 12.2, some queries, such as those against STANDARDS, may take longer to execute compared to Oracle 12.1. This issue is now resolved.

Note: After the successful upgrade and launch of PowerSchool 20.4.3+ a full restart including the Database may be needed for the settings to take full effect.

A "java.lang.ArithmeticException: integer overflow" error may occur when running a Report Engine report with a destination of FTP. This issue is now resolved.

Note: FTP transmissions are not secure and should be avoided. A future release may add SFTP support and deprecate FTP support in Report Engine due the inherent insecurity of FTP.

An error may occur when performing a summer withdrawal after the school year has started. This issue is now resolved.

Note: Only applicable to Arizona users.

After submitting changes in User Settings for the initial student screen, returning to the User Settings page shows the settings have reverted to the default of Quick Lookup. This issue is resolved.

Administrators are able to see Class Grade Scales when selecting grade scales on the Final Grade Exclusions page. This issue is resolved.

Teachers are able to save a grade scale that does not have a 0 cutoff. When this happens, PowerTeacher Pro will through intermittent errors while attempting to save grades, causing teachers to be unable to save grades. This issue is resolved.

PSF-26304

PSF-23273

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:

• • Include both username and email address when updating an existing parent access account via import.
  • Include neither username and email address when updating an existing parent access account via import.

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:

• • Do not import the Allow Data Access field for contacts without a web access account.
  • On import file, set the Allow Data Access field to null.

PSF-30070