PowerSchool SIS 21.11.3.0

Graduation Planner

When adding or modifying courses in a Course Group, the search options have been enhanced to support better filtering capabilities. These new options include the ability to search using a Contains or Does Not Contain operator. In addition, the Course Name and Course Number options can now be used multiple times.

Graduation Plan

PowerSchool CDN

PowerSchool recognizes the concerns of our on-premise customers regarding the use of http://assets.powerschool.com , the Content Delivery Network (CDN) used for our PowerSchool Design System, and potential loss of navigation during an internet outage if the elements are not cached by the browser. Under normal operation, the browser will cache needed content from the CDN and be available as long as the cache has not cleared. To address this possible situation, we have added a local backup that ships with PowerSchool SIS as a failover to prevent loss of navigation through the new header bar or other user interface elements that utilize the CDN. 

System

PowerSchool SIS will now use ETags for the cache management of content under the images and scripts directories. The cache duration of files under these folders has been lowered from 24 hours to 4 hours to allow changes to be seen faster while lowering throughput requirements.

Universal Rostering

The getResultsForStudentForClass and getLineItemsForClass endpoints are now available in Universal Rostering.

Universal Rostering

Attendance Change

Depending on the PowerSchool SIS server's timezone, the Change Meeting Attendance function no longer fails when attempting to use it.

PSF-42026

Change History

Change History will now appear for the pages that are enabled in System Settings and assigned to Security Roles.

PSF-60634

Contact Details

An error no longer occurs when using the up and down arrows to adjust the order for contact addresses.

PSF-59086

Customizations

Several Custom Page Management issues have been resolved:

• When creating a file or folder, the navigation tree will scroll to the new item.

• Extract to Keys did not function correctly for new files.

• The Teacher Backpack template has been renamed to Teacher Student.

• The Admin Student template has been updated to reflect the updated changes records paradigm.

PSF-60349

Data Access

The Summary of Current Grades and Attendance email no longer sends the wrong data for remote enrollments when TermIDs do not match between home school and remote school enrollments.

PSF-48110

Data Management

Custom Pages using Import/Export screens will no longer cause an outage when many assets exist.

PSF-60253

Data Management

An outage no longer occurs when deleting a folder in Custom Page Management with many child objects.

PSF-60245

Data Management

Unique columns, like IDs, should not be modifiable when performing mass modifications (Student/Teacher Field Value or DDA). Therefore, to prevent mass modifications, columns are now defined as unique.

PSF-59882

Enrollment Summary

The Enrollment Summary Report no longer omits certain gender headers when drilling down into the gender count details.

PSF-60462

Health

Vaccines with expiry dates in the past will no longer be excluded from the Immunization Compliance report when they are not exempt.

PSF-58139

Import/Export

As part of PowerSchool SIS 21.4.4.0, security enhancements were made to AutoComm/AutoSend. In some cases, these protections were too strict. This release resolves the following:

• The file path allows for a single-level path traversal. This allows for hairpin AutoSend/AutoComm execution.

• Mapped drive letters that are not marked as the data drive can be used in the file path.

PSF-60088

Import Fitness Tests

Importing fitness tests using the Data Import Manager will no longer fail due to table extensions.

PSF-57482

Incident Details

The Incident Details page will display the total characters allowed for the Incident Description, and the count will decrease as characters are typed. 

PSF-58096

Office Visit

Inactive code set values used for Office Visits will no longer display as an option when adding a new record. The inactive codes will be visible if used in records created before the code set values end date. 

PSF-58592

Plugins

The Plugin Management screen will no longer incorrectly indicate that some hard-coded plugins can be disabled or upgraded when trying to edit them.

PSF-15523

PowerTeacher Pro - Final Grade Entry 

The final grade column on some PTP pages displayed an incorrect grade before saving updated data.

PSF-59183

PowerTeacher Pro - Missing Assignment Report

When a teacher ran a Missing Assignment report with at least one student having an assignment scored with zero points, the report failed to display in certain situations.

PSF-59926

PowerTeacher Pro - Standards

Standards did not populate in PowerTeacher Pro after upgrading PowerSchool SIS to 21.11.1.0.

PSF-59558

PowerTeacher Pro - Traditional Grade Calculation Formula

Users attempting to edit a traditional grade calculation formula received an error indicating that the reporting term could not be retrieved. 

PSF-59666

Security

Security regarding the SMTP email password was improved so that the email password now cannot be viewed via page source code.

PSF-59956

Server Statistics

School Names will no longer appear more than once on the Server Statistics Diagnostic page when processing attendance records.

PSF-54942

Sign in Page

The selected language will now remain when logging out of the admin portal instead of reverting back to English.

PSF-33723

System

An HTTP 500 error may occur on some pages immediately after startup.

PSF-60712

Users Groups

Users in groups other than the Admin group could not access Fitness Tests. 

PSF-58768

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

21.11.2.0

21.11.3.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

21.11.2.0

21.11.3.0

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.28

2.8.0.28

ReportWorks

1.5.1.40

1.5.1.40

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

19c

19c

State Reporting

22.1.2.1

22.2.2.0

Report SDK

1.27.0.0

1.27.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u302

1.8u302