PowerSchool SIS 21.4.0.0

Asset Tracking

This feature allows you to track school property, such as books, eBooks, consumables, and electronics. Administrators can:

• Define assets in three categories: books, eBooks, and equipment. Each asset type has a customized set of fields appropriate for the item, though the page is extensible to add other fields.

• Check-in/check-out items to students, view each student's checked-out items by serial number and condition and track items and their condition. Scanners are supported throughout.

• Assign books to courses, allowing them to mass assign books to a student, and see currently checked-out items. Scanners are supported throughout. Inventory items maintain an ownership history so that admins can track an item's condition and ownership over time.

• Export all asset or inventory records using new Asset Tracking PowerSchool Data Sets in the Data Export Manager.

• Add, update and delete inventory records using Data Import Manager.

Teachers can:

• Check-in/check-out items to their students within PowerTeacher Pro.

Asset Tracking
PowerTeacher Pro - Asset and Textbook Tracking

Graduation Plan Enhancements

Additional functionality is now available for Graduation Plans that allow intermixed requirement group types that support more complex logical graduation requirements and an improved user interface. Administrators can:

• Add complex graduation requirements, such as the student must complete either test A with an 80 or course B with a C+, using intermixed requirement groups.

• Promote Historic Graduation Plans into new advanced Graduation Plans with improved features and user interface. Admins are encouraged to promote their Historic Graduation Plans to the advanced Graduation Plan format. These historic plans are converted into the new advanced format with all requirements and assigned students in place.

• View progress for all plans if students are enrolled in historic plans and the new advanced plans. Student Graduation Progress is updated to support the new types of requirements introduced in 20.11 and 21.4.

• The group function for Graduation Progress Summary is updated to support the new plans.

(23.3) Graduation Plan

Enhanced Health

Additional functionality is now available for importing and exporting health-related information. Administrators can:

• Use import/export to add, update, or delete immunizations and exemptions.

• Use import/export to add, update, or delete screenings and waivers.

(23.3) Import Student Immunizations

Fitness Tracking for Teachers

This feature allows teachers of designated courses to complete fitness tests for their students. Administrators can:

• Choose to enable fitness tracking for specific courses.

• Import/export test results, including fitness tests, using Data Import Manager and Data Export Manager.

Teachers can:

• Enter fitness results by section in the Teacher Portal.

• Review individual student results in the Teacher Portal.

Enter Individual Fitness Scores

Enter Fitness Scores for a Class

PowerTeacher Pro - Minimum Assignment Value

This feature is available at the course, school, or section level in Grade Setup Preferences when enabled by a system administrator. Administrators can:

• Set a minimum percentage value for all assignments in a teacher's gradebook.

Minimum Assignment Value

PowerTeacher Pro - Student Observations

This feature allows teachers to make time-stamped notes on a student's behavior or classwork with PowerTeacher Pro. Administrators can:

• Choose to allow teachers to escalate these as incidents in the Incident Management system. Incidents created by teachers appear in Incident Management in the PowerSchool Admin portal with the Incident Type of 'Teacher Referral.'

Student Observations

(23.3) Teacher Incident Referrals

PowerSchool Admin - Accessibility

Several improvements have been made to improve accessibility within the PowerSchool application.

PowerSchool Admin - Enhanced Health

Continued improvements to the enhanced Health Module. Nurses can:

• See when a student is absent on the daily log to prevent a nurse from looking for a student that won't be at their appointment.

• Select multiple treatments, assessments, visit reasons, procedures, and outcomes to properly document the office visit for the student.

• Edit a monitoring schedule and have it update any future records.

• Copy a health plan for a student from one academic year to another to maintain their records and service level without affecting the records from the preceding years.

• Eliminate duplicate health concerns with an updated logic on health concerns to disallow two records for the same health concern with overlapping date ranges.

• Exclude a Vaccine Dose from the compliance calculations - used when a student has received a dose of a given vaccination too soon and requires an additional dose (beyond the normally required number of doses). In this scenario, the dose given too soon can be excluded, and it will not be factored into the compliance calculation.

(23.3) Office Visits

(23.3) Health Data Grid

PowerSchool Admin - New Schoology Plugin

A new plugin has been added for the Schoology LMS integration. This plugin is currently being used in testing deeper integrations with Schoology and should not yet be enabled by customers. Keep an eye on the Schoology Release Notes, the PowerSchool SIS Product Updates in the Community, and Schoology's Help Documentation for information about when this plugin can be enabled.

PowerSchool Admin and Teachers - Updated Icons

The icons used for the student alerts have been updated with a new look and colors in PowerSchool Admin, the Teacher Portal homepage, Substitute homepage, and teacher attendance pages.

Teacher Portal

PowerSchool Admin - Improved Attendance Entry for Meeting Attendance

This enhancement changes the behavior of the dropdown menu in meeting attendance to reduce clicks and make data entry faster.

PowerSchool Admin - Accessibility

Improvements have been made to support accessibility using the JAWS screen reader within the PowerSchool Admin portal.

PSF-44948

PowerSchool Admin - Attendance

In some cases, when utilizing the Attendance Change function, some errors appear in the logs. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-46350

PowerSchool Admin - Attendance

In rare instances, the Attendance Change group function may incorrectly report that changes have been saved successfully and without error or warning. This issue occurs in cases where a preference value is set to an unexpected value. This issue is now resolved. Logging has been added to report if this data condition occurs.

PSF-43927

PowerSchool Admin - Attendance

When using the Google Chrome browser, selecting an Attendance Code from the Seating Chart may not save the selected value. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-44867

PowerSchool Admin - Customizations

Some PowerSchool customizers were experiencing a race condition when customizing the New Experience. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-44695

PowerSchool Admin - Customizations

Using the ~[x:userid;guardianid] tag on a custom page outside the Guardian protected context may result in the display of unexpected data. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-44394

PowerSchool Admin - Data Access Tags (DAT)

In some cases, attendance DATs such as attpointsperiod may return values such unexpected values. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-15745

PowerSchool Admin - Fees

School Fees that are marked as pro-ratable are not applied as expected in PowerSchool 20.11.x. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-44863

PowerSchool Admin - Health Management Dashboard

The health management page displays students as not compliant when their immunizations have an expired exemption status. This issue is now resolved. The students are displayed as exempt only when their immunizations have valid exemption status.

PSSR-260824

PowerSchool Admin - Health Management Dashboard

The Health Management Dashboard tiles do not match the number of records extracted for the vaccine on that tile. This issue is now resolved. The Health Management Dashboard page now pulls records equal to the count displayed on the tile for each vaccine for all Immunization modes - Not Compliant, Compliant, Exempt, Not Recorded.

PSSR-254450

PowerSchool Admin - Historical Grades

When accessing the Historical Grades page, the currently selected school name may show the name of the current student's home school instead of the expected name. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-44438

PowerSchool Admin - PowerPack Health Migration

Some customers reported unique key errors when migrating from PowerPack Health to Enhanced Health. These issues are now resolved.

PSF-41974

PowerSchool Admin - PowerScheduler

Upon completing the PowerScheduler Copy Master Schedule function, the School Year in Years and Terms may be incorrectly set to 2001-2002 instead of 2021-2022. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-46394

PowerSchool Admin - PowerScheduler

In some instances, attempts to commit a schedule in PowerScheduler result in an error message indicating duplicate sections found. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-32223

PowerSchool Admin - System

In some cases, a memory leak related to Attendance functions can occur. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-46200

PowerSchool Admin - System

With this release, the Data Restriction Framework (DRF) will evaluate security around certain URL parameters.

PSF-21562

PowerSchool Admin - Term Selector

When the PowerSchool New Experience is enabled, the Term selector only showed the first 100 terms. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-43878

PowerSchool Teacher - Gradebook

For some countries, an error occurred when launching PowerTeacher Pro at the start or end of daylight savings time. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-44372

PowerTeacher Pro - Term Locks

Under certain circumstances, term locks would apply the day before their set date. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-38183

PowerTeacher Pro - Student Name Sorting

Under certain circumstances, students whose last name includes an accent mark were not sorting alphabetically. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-39184

PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook - Slow Loading Time

Under certain circumstances, PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook loaded slowly for teachers with several classes that have multiple co-teachers. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-34417

PowerSchool - Server

An issue has been identified in the PowerSchool SIS 21.4.0.0 release that prevents PowerSchool SIS from successfully starting when one or more mapped drives are defined for the PowerSchool component and none of the drives are marked as a data folder.

Further details are available on the PowerSchool Community article titled 21.4 Single Node with Sharepoints where none are set to be PS Data Drive.

PSF-47640

PowerSchool Admin - Assets

If users create Asset Format codesets, create items using those codesets, and then change the original codesets' Alt codes to a different value, they can encounter unexpected behavior related to checking items in or out, creating new items using those codes, or editing existing items using those codes. To avoid this, users should not change the Alt 1 value after creating inventory using that value.

PSF-47144

PowerSchool Admin - Assets

Due to a finite number of columns that display on the Asset Inventory page, if a user adds assets with similar attributes, the user can't easily differentiate when looking at the books in Inventory. This means the user needs to select each asset to ensure inventory is added to the correct one.

PSF-46994

PowerSchool Admin - Assets

When creating multiple inventory items, the user will receive an error if they include a blank row in the list of inventory tags. To resolve, remove the blank row.

PSF-46834

PowerSchool Admin - Health

In change history for office visits, the 5 new multi-select fields will show multi-select as the field name instead of the actual name of the field.

PSF-43467

PowerSchool Admin - Historic Graduation Plans

When running the data capture process as part of the version promotion for a large number of students, a timeout may occur resulting in an error. The version promotion and student association processes are not affected, and the data capture process may still be running in the background. The psj-runtime log will indicate when the Data capture process has been completed.

PSF-47457

PowerSchool Admin - Inventory Mass Assign

Using the Inventory Mass Assign group function and assigning by a class displays the abbreviation for the period instead of the period number.

PSF-46585

PowerSchool Admin - Server List

As of PowerSchool 20.11.0.0 the Server List for PowerSchool SIS deployed as a server array may not display the correct state of a node. It may incorrectly display the state of a node as running, even when it is not available.

PSF-45668

PowerTeacher Pro - Admin Users Cannot Use Asset Tracking

Read-only admin users are unable to use Asset Tracking in PowerTeacher Pro. Admin users should use the Asset Tracking features in the Admin portal.

PSF-46999

PowerTeacher Pro - Checking-out/in Inventory

Under certain circumstances, when a teacher attempts to check in or check out a material assigned to another school, the teacher user may be logged out of PowerTeacher Pro.

PSF-46410

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

20.11.3.0

21.4.0.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

20.11.2.0

21.4.0.0

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.24

2.8.0.25

ReportWorks

1.5.1.34

1.5.1.35

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

12.2.0.1

12.2.0.1

State Reporting

21.2.2.0

21.5.1.1

Report SDK

1.24.0.0

1.25.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u262

1.8u262