PowerSchool SIS 23.6.0.0

Attendance

Administrators can now control which Attendance Code should not be editable by a Teacher after an Administrator has taken attendance for a student by enabling the Lock Attendance Record when Administrator Entered value. 

Attendance Codes

Custom Links

Custom Links can now be added to compliance-related categories in the navigation.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Fees

The New Fees and Fees Transaction pages have two new optional fields: Due Date and Internal Notes. A new General Ledger field has also been added to the Fee Type page.

Guided Walkthroughs

PowerSchool SIS Admin users can now view guided walkthroughs within the PowerSchool SIS application. These walkthroughs will introduce new features or help new users onboard to the application. Users can choose to view the guide or not, and can view it again from the Onboarding Help, available by clicking the hovering PowerSchool logo near the footer of the page.
In the future, PowerSchool will launch other types of dialogs to improve the user experience, such as surveys and banners. These will be used minimally as too many can become intrusive and distracting. These dialogs will help users get important information and give feedback.

Group Actions

Empty categories will no longer appear in the Start Page Select Action Menu.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Group Actions

Group Actions a user does not have access to will no longer appear in the Start Page Select Action Menu.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Quick Data

Quick Data Widgets can now be disabled at the District or School level.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Get Started

Quick Search

The Quick Search preferences have been updated to show clearly when higher-level preferences are affecting lower-level preferences.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Quick Search

Quick Search

Users can now use the Quick Search to search for pre-registered students using a "/" before entering a search term.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Quick Search

Enhanced UI Quick Search Rules

Report Queue

The ReportQueue page Merger Action and Destination attributes can now be localized.

Search

The Start Page Smart Search and the Quick Search will now show student grade levels before 1 correctly.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Security Groups

While editing a security group, Admins will now see messaging next to the Accessible Student Screens section indicating that the section will be deprecated when the classic UI is deprecated.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Universal Rostering

PowerSchool SIS Universal Rostering is officially recertified by IMS for OneRoster v1.1 using v23.5.0.0. The product listing has been updated to indicate this.

Attendance

Switching students while on the Modify Attendance page will no longer cause the page load to become stuck.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

PSF-82710

Enrollment Summary

The School or District context has been removed from the title of the Enrollment Summary page. This is redundant information.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

PSF-75761

Quick Search

Quick Search now works if used while the navigation fly out is open.

This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

PSF-82024

Attendance

Attendance counts filtered on Grades 1 or 2 will no longer return students in grades -1 or -2 as well as 1 and 2. 

PSF-76039

Attendance Tracking & Notification

Refresh Attendance Tracking Data: Version 1.8

The Attendance Tracking & Notification Refresh Attendance Tracking Data report has been updated and will complete for all different attendance methods as expected.

PSSR-316453

Bell Schedule Items

Users will be prevented from editing a bell schedule item if the period has already been used for student attendance.

PSF-44868

Couse Rank

The Course Rank breadcrumb navigation link will now navigate to the proper page instead of the Commit Master Schedule page.

PSF-79737

End of Year Process

The following improvements have been done for End of Year validation:

• The Student Setup Description section now includes Students to Enroll (Preregistered).

• Existing Student Setup Description counts no longer include Pre-Registered students.

• Students to Skip a Grade no longer counts students moving to Graduated Students.

• Student Names link to the Schedule Setup page in a new tab.

• The Last Completed End of Year information appears when running End of Year validation.

PSF-81352

Functions

The Consolidate Users function will no longer cause an error when attempting a search.

PSF-72477

General

The following user experience improvements have been made:

• Co-Teacher icons now show on the School Management → Courses and Programs → Course Sections page

• The OIDC Authentication setup page properly indicates if a SAML/WS-Trust IdP plugin is enabled

• Fixed text alignment issues that occurred following the PowerSchool SIS 23.3.0.0 update

• Various pages in the Enhanced UI have been updated to prevent submitting the page when clicking on the Enter/Return key when the focus is on the Global Search box.

PSF-83109

PSF-82565

Graduation Plans

Multiple Nested Requirement within Course Groups now work correctly.

PSF-80224

Health

Medication notes will now appear in the text area of the Medication Dose page when administering medication doses to a student.

PSF-79650

Health

Health management daily log exports will now export the filtered records.

PSF-78544

Health

The TERMDCID field has been removed from the HealthMedInventory table to eliminate an error blocking the commit of a build from PowerScheduler.

PSF-66053

Health

It is now possible to modify a table border size when creating a Health Plan Template.

PSF-77868

Incidents

Behavior incident sub-codes can now be added to different incident sub-codes.

PSF-84628

Incidents

An incident can now be saved even if the Submitter's Last/First Name exceeds 30 characters.

PSF-80938

Incidents

All users with the proper security group will now be able to access the Attendance Entry page when clicking on the Enter Attendance button from the Create Quick Incident page. 

PSF-78381

Incidents

Incident Elements will now appear on the Incident Details page when using the French Locale.

PSF-74616

PowerScheduler

The performance of the Schedule Course Enrollment report has been improved.

PSF-83193

PowerScheduler

Naviance submitted elective course requests will no longer cause an error in PowerScheduler.

PSF-79998

PowerTeacher Pro

Under certain circumstances, teachers with classes in multiple schools are unable to create an assignment for a class in their non-primary school.

PSF-83830

Security

The Configure Page Permission no longer displays the “An error occurred. Contact your system administrator” message for specific states/provinces.

PSF-84422

SRP Reports

Updates have been made to ReportingSDK and the warning message "Error querying for student by dcid 0" will no longer appear in the psj-runtime.log when running SRP reports.

PSSR-322107

System

Since Teachers view cannot be extended, the U_teachersUserFields database extension will no longer be available, if it exists, to avoid invalid errors when attempting to enable plugins.

PSF-82999

23.5.1.0

23.6.0.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

23.5.1.0

23.6.0.0

ReportWorks

1.5.1.48

1.5.1.48

PowerScheduler

3.1.0

3.1.0

Oracle

19c

19c

State Reporting

23.5.2.0

23.6.2.0

Report SDK

1.37.0.0

1.38.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u362

1.8u362

Apache Tomcat

8.5.87

8.5.87