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PowerSchool SIS 22.9.0.0

PowerSchool SIS version 22.9.0.0 is available as of September 8, 2022. When the installers are available for download, an announcement will be posted on PowerSchool SIS Release Notification on PowerSchool Community. 

New Features and Enhancements

Feature or Product Area

Description

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Attendance

The Bell Schedule Setup page has been updated to reflect if an invalid period is defined. As part of this change HTML popups that are created server side will indicate “Currently saved value not found in dropdown options. (xxxxx)” if the value currently defined on the record is not present in the dropdown as this represents potentially bad data.

Data Access Tag (DAT)

Student Email, Global ID, and Race Codes (comma separated) values are now accessible using the following Data Access Tags (DAT). Learn more in episode 125 of the PowerSchool Insider.

Students

  • ~(*powerquery;query=com.powerschool.core.dats.students.student_email)

  • ~(*powerquery;query=com.powerschool.core.dats.students.globalid)

  • ~(*powerquery;query=com.powerschool.core.dats.students.racecodes)

Teachers

  • ~(*powerquery;query=com.powerschool.core.dats.teachers.adminglobalid)

  • ~(*powerquery;query=com.powerschool.core.dats.teachers.teacherglobalid)

  • ~(*powerquery;query=com.powerschool.core.dats.teachers.racecodes)

Customizers can now also implement their own basic PowerQuery-based Data Access Tags (DAT) as documented on the PowerSchool Developer site.

PowerQuery DATs

End of Year

The validation mode of End of Year has been improved to provide more details:

  • The progress page will better indicate that the user is running End of Year in validation mode.

  • The following informational counts will be shown:

    • Students to Promote

    • Students to Skip a Grade

    • Students to Retain

    • Students to Demote

    • Students to Move (Not Graduated)

    • Students to Graduate

Library Upgrade

The Apache ActiveMQ library has been updated to version 5.16.5.0. Note: As part of this upgrade only the wrapper.log will be populated instead of the activemq.log.

Server

A user will be required to provide details when triggering a server restart from the user interface to capture the reasons for doing so.

Universal Rostering

The getClassesForTeacher OneRoster endpoint is now available in Universal Rostering.

Resolved Issues

Product Area

Description

Reference

Attendance

A user with an admin and teacher account, with the Meeting Attendance preference selected in the teacher portal profile, will no longer be redirected to the start page when selecting the Student Attendance page in the Admin portal.

PSF-61581

Change History

In some rare cases, the wrong user will no longer be recorded in Change History. 

PSF-68663

Contacts

Updating a contact to make them inactive will now disable the Web Account Access if it is enabled. You no longer have to do so separately.

PSF-62979

Courses

The wrong course name no longer shows when selecting a course from the Courses screen.

PSF-68818

Dashboard

The Student Programs Dashboard widget no longer fails to load when the Student Program name contains an apostrophe.

PSF-18984

Data Validation

Data validation has been improved for Boolean-based Database Extension fields. Values that fail validation now result in a single more consistent message instead of two or more messages.

PSF-43885

End of Year

Customers in a state-wide PowerSchool SIS deployment or those that use PowerSchool Enrollment will no longer experience a unique constraint violated error PS.REENROLLMENTS_U3 during the End-of-Year process.

PSF-66192

Enterprise Reporting

The following fixes have been made for Enterprise Reporting/APEX:

  • The HealthOfficeVisitAssoc and HealthVaccineCVXCode tables were missing from Enterprise Reporting/APEX as part of recent health screen improvements.

  • The report name under Enterprise Reporting shows the report name from APEX. The list no longer shows the report name at the time of being added.

  • Four additional Enterprise Reporting categories have been added, Counselors, Principals, Schedules, and Special Education.

PSF-68680

Graduation Plan Progress

Earned required credits for an ACP program were not reflected correctly in Graduation Plan Progress.

PSF-65021

Importing

Teacher Race now imports as expected using Teacher Number or Teacher Name.

PSF-18965

Incident Management

Newly created actions will now remain when it is added in the Incident Builder section while editing an existing Incident.

PSF-61349

Mobile Notifications

Mobile push notifications will validate the Parent/Student Access Term setting on the Parent/Student Access setup page. If an invalid term is present, such as a value from a previous year, the term used will default to the term the public portal uses when logging in.

PSF-64904

Modify Schedule

A more comprehensive message will appear when hovering the mouse pointer over the Lock icon on the Modify Schedule page: The section is locked and can only be Rescheduled at the school the course originates from.

PSF-60841

Office Visits

Users will no longer experience an error when attempting to edit an existing Health - Office Visit.

PSF-60190

Performance

The performance of the Student Scheduling Setup page has been improved when accessed at the District Office.

PSF-68222

PowerScheduler

The wrong room description will no longer appear on the Room Free Constraint page when the same room number exists at multiple schools.

PSF-15529

PowerSchool Admin - System

Teacher automated emails no longer show   in the subject line when a student changes sections.

PSF-48208

PowerTeacher Pro - Teachers 

Teachers can now add assignments to a class in a different school than their home school.

PSF-64832

Schoology Attendance

Users will no longer experience a validation error due to different date formats between the server and the user in the various attendance modules.

PSF-62212

Seating Chart

The teacher's Seating Chart page will now load properly when a combined sections chart exists.

PSF-59680

Security

PowerSchool will validate URL parameters used to access records, such as FRN and ID, to ensure they match the expected numeric format. If the format is not valid a security error will occur.

PSF-70008

Security

The error message on the Admin Access and Roles Tab page has been improved when a role has not been defined at the home school.

PSF-68298

Session Management

Users will no longer experience login issues into PowerSchool SIS due to an errant space after the Secure flag on the PowerSchool Session cookie, when used in conjunction with the Microsoft Application Proxy.

PSF-68984

Staff Screen

An invalid screen id error will no longer appear after selecting a Staff Custom Screen when switching Staff.

PSF-68885

Student Photo

The photo icon (thumbnail) size will now be the same whether it is uploaded from the student screen or if it is imported via the photo management import process.

PSF-60674

Student Selection

Additional protection has been added to the Student/Teacher selection when multiple browser tabs are open.

PSF-69174

System

Following the Content Security Policy (CSP) changes made in the 22.7.0.0 release, these issues have been identified and resolved:

  • PowerSchool SIS no longer requires the use of an image server. References to an image server have been removed from the System Requirements documentation since PowerSchool 21.x.

  • The email links on various pages will now launch the client email application as expected.

PSF-68962

User Accounts

Users will no longer receive an incorrect password message if the user submits the password change page multiple times. 

PSF-69931

Validate Address

The Validate button in the Student Addresses page no longer appears for admin users with view-only access to the page.

PSF-67631

Known Issue

Product Area

Description

Schema Update

A schema update failure for PSF-69026 occurs on startup. This error does not impact PowerSchool SIS functionality and will be addressed in a future release.


PowerSchool Components

PowerSchool SIS comprises several software components, each versioned independently. 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 misconfigured. The following table identifies the version number for each PowerSchool SIS component in this release compared to the previous release:

Component

Version Number

22.7.0.1

22.9.0.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

22.7.0.1

22.9.0.0

ReportWorks

1.5.1.42

1.5.1.43

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

19c

19c

State Reporting

22.7.3.0

22.9.1.0

Report SDK

1.29.0.0

1.30.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u322

1.8u322

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