PowerSchool SIS 21.4.2.0

Standards Provisioning and Passback with Schoology

PowerSchool SIS customers using Schoology may now provision their standards and associated grade scales into Schoology, and use those to passback assignment standards scores to PowerTeacher Pro. More information about how to take advantage of this new integration can be found on PowerSchool Community.

Provisioning and Standards Passback Community Announcement

PowerSchool Admin - Asset Tracking Import and Export

Admins can now refer to the online help for importing and exporting assets to assist them with completing imports and exports more efficiently. Additional improvements made to streamline the data required for imports.

Import/Export Assets

PowerSchool Admin - Course View for Graduation Plans

Admins can now view all courses that the student completed, including those not counted towards a graduation requirement. This feature allows admins to quickly determine if there are courses available that can be applied to another requirement.

Graduation Plan Work with Students

PowerSchool Admin - Grade Levels for Graduation Plans

Admins can now choose specific grade levels eligible for completing graduation plan requirements. In addition, administrators can exclude grades from ineligible years, ensuring that they do not count towards graduation requirements, such as grades from middle school.

Graduation Plan District Setup

PowerSchool Admin - Graduation Planner

Admins can now view a clear description explaining what satisfies a given test group or subject group. This will allow admins to quickly determine what requirements are necessary for a student to complete a given requirement.

Graduation Plan Work with Students

PowerSchool Admin - Student Contacts

Admins can now extend the Student Contacts screens allowing for multiple customizations at the same time, including exposing this new field for use. Existing customizations will still work; however, you should move them to the new format to avoid conflicts. Technical Contacts can refer to the PowerSchool Developer Site for more information.

PowerSchool Developer Site

PowerSchool Admin - Batch School Setup

When a user selected a school under Batch School Setup, the page may not have displayed.

PSF-40344

PowerSchool Admin - Consecutive Absence Report

When selecting a student's name from the Consecutive Absence report, the left navigation menu disappeared.

PSF-15458

PowerSchool Admin - Contacts

When entering dates on the Contact page, the date entered may not have saved with the appropriate timezone.

PSF-44319

PowerSchool Admin - Contact Details

When entering information in the employer field in Contact Details, the text area allowed for 4000 characters, yet the page only displayed 25 characters. We have increased the size of the text field area on the page to display more characters.

PSF-47274

PowerSchool Admin - Data Export Manager

When exporting from a Database Extension that extends the Calendar_Day table, some attempts to sort or filter by CALENDAR_DAY.Date resulted in an error.

PSF-47606

PowerSchool Admin - Edit District Calendar

When a user has 420 or more schools assigned to their profile, the Edit District Calendar does not show any schools.

PSF-47511

PowerSchool Admin - Export

When using the Standard CC Export, the template label has been modified to reflect the default selection of Only schedules for enrolled students at the currently selected school.

PSF-37670

PowerSchool Admin - Health Plugin Data Migration Tab

When accessing the Health Plugin Data Migration Tab, all tables did not display correctly in some cases.

PSF-48380

PowerSchool Admin - Import and Export

When using the new experience mode, the Select Test page from Import and Export would get distorted.

PSF-47117

PowerSchool Admin - Importing Photos

Multiple issues resolved for importing photos, including:

• When importing Student or Staff photos using names, no photos would import if the names in the mapping file were not all lower case.

• When importing Student photos by name, an Unknown Error occurred while Rendering Page.

PSF-15476

PSF-48033

PowerSchool Admin - Localization

When users attempted to localize the word Student on Student Field Value, it was not supported.

PSF-44456

PowerSchool Admin - Log Entry Setup

When attempting to save the Log Entry Setup screen, a Data Validation (LDV) error occurred when one or more items were set to Hide for the sort order.

PSF-48709

PowerSchool Admin - PowerScheduler

Multiple issues resolved for PowerScheduler, including:

• When using the Schedule Course Enrollment report, incorrect values displayed for Unfilled Primary Requests information.

• When a user with a security group of view only, but with the PowerScheduler > Visual Scheduler permission set to full would modify courses, an error would occur.

PSF-46153

PSF-47161

PowerSchool Admin - ReportWorks

When utilizing OIDC for Administrators, users may not have been able to assign login information for ReportWorks. Selecting the Launch ReportWorks link will launch ReportWorks and automatically log the users in.

PSF-47633

PowerSchool Admin - Searching

When searching a legacy custom field from the Start page, an error would occur if the search contained a ( and/or ) character.

PSF-48959

PowerSchool Admin - Student

When users attempted to Set or Add the results following an advanced student search, an error may have occurred.

PSF-45366

PowerSchool Admin - Student Search Codes

Multiple issues resolved for Student Search Codes, including:

• When searching by Student Search Codes, such as *birthday, the performance of the search codes has improved.

• When utilizing the *birthday Student Search Code from the Start page, incorrect students are returned when searching for students born on leap day (2/29).

PSF-48012

PSF-15493

PowerSchool Admin - System

Multiple issues resolved for the System, including:

• When running an AutoComm for Students, the results screen may show 0 records imported. The correct error is now shown.

• When using AutoComm and Quick Import, performance has been improved.

PSF-48824

PSF-41456

PowerSchool Admin - TermID

When entering course numbers for remote/summer school for students with the summer school indicator set, invalid course TermIDs displayed.

PSF-48605

PowerSchool Student and Parent - Bulletin

Multiple issues resolved for Bulletins, including:

• When viewing Bulletins from the Student and Parent Portal, the popup contained large whitespace on the left-hand side.

• When deleting Bulletins, it was possible to delete a Bulletin that did not belong to the current School.

• When creating Bulletins, the default audience is now Admins to prevent accidentally sharing information with a public audience.

• When creating new Bulletins, an error would occur if the text contained more than 4,000 characters.

PSF-43340

PSF-49080

PowerTeacher Pro - PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook

When a section title included an expression, PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook occasionally encountered a server error when launching.

PSF-42324

PowerSchool Admin - Grad Plan Progress

When opening a requirement progress drawer with the progress drawer already open, the buttons and links within the drawer become unclickable. Therefore, you should first close the current drawer. If the issue is encountered, refresh the page to return the button and link functionality within the drawer.

PSF-35422

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

21.4.1.0

21.4.2.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

21.4.1.0

21.4.2.0

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.24

2.8.0.25

ReportWorks

1.5.1.35

1.5.1.37

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

12.2.0.1

12.2.0.1 or 19c

State Reporting

21.5.3.0

21.6.2.1

Report SDK

1.25.0.0

1.26.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u262

1.8u262