PowerSchool SIS 21.11.2.0

API Security

A new Regenerate Client ID and Secret option has been added to the Data Provider Configuration screen within Plugin Management for customers who want to issue new Client ID or Client Secret Values.

Plugin Security Management

View OAuth Client Credentials

Seating Chart

School Admin and Attendance Clerks can now view class seating charts in the Admin portal for a selected teacher or class.

Teacher Schedules

Staff Current Schedule

Sections

Updated Privacy Policy

A new link to the PowerSchool Privacy Policy has been added in the footer of every PowerSchool SIS login page.

PowerSchool.com

User Roles

A new screen has been added to show the Teachers and School Staff assigned to a given User Role for the currently selected school. The screen includes the Teachers and School Staff First and Last names as well as the Teacher Number. This screen is visible on User Access within Roles Administration.

For consistency in the application, we have also changed the ID label on New Staff and Staff Information screens to reflect the correct label of Teacher Number.

User Access Roles

Exporting

When attempting to edit a Scheduled System Template an error may occur.

PSF-59110

Grade Setup Preferences

A loading error occurred on the Grade Setup Preferences page if several courses existed.

PSF-58767

Health Management

The date sorting has been fixed on the Screenings tab, within the student Health screens. The dates now sort correctly for both descending and ascending options.

PSSR-278165

Identity Provider Global ID

When a user account with an Identity Provider Global ID is deleted, the PCAS_Account record becomes orphaned, and Identify Provider Global ID can become unusable.

PSF-43389

Importing

When using an Import Template, Quick Import or AutoComm, a blank screen is returned instead of the proper error messages in some cases.

PSF-57897

Importing

When using Import Templates, Quick Import or AutoComm, a new Student could be imported into an invalid school, such as District Office. When importing new students the schoolid is now validated.

PSF-14116

PowerScheduler

When navigating to Grade-Specific Requirement for Course Requests in PowerScheduler, HTML code was displayed instead of the Delete button.

PSF-59432
PSF-58715

PowerTeacher - Recommendations

When the Period Number is different than the Abbreviation name in the Periods setup, the Teacher Recommendations within PowerTeacher Portal displayed the Period Number instead of the Abbreviation. All other locations in PowerSchool SIS display the Abbreviation.

PSF-58097

PowerTeacher Pro - Assignment List

For teachers with numerous classes, loading the Assignments List for these teachers would take an extended period of time in some cases.

PSF-57731

PowerTeacher Pro - Auto-Calculate Assignment Standards Scores

Previously, when using the Collected Only score type and Auto-Calculate Assignment Standards Scores options in a particular order, all Standards Scores for individual assignments were erased if the teacher recalculated the Final Grades using the Advanced Option.

To resolve this, teachers cannot select Auto-Calculate Assignment Standards Scores if an assignment has the Collected Only score type.

PSF-57894

PowerTeacher Pro - Email

When teachers with numerous classes attempt to send Emails, it would take an extended period of time in some cases.

PSF-38597

PowerTeacher Pro - Missing Assignment Report

When running the Missing Assignment report, students who were not attached to an assignment were included in the report in some cases.

PSF-57785

Printing

When printing using a Firefox browser, extra white space was appearing at the top of the printout.

PSF-59158

Reporting

When running the Class Attendance Audit report, the include Vocational Classes Only option is ignored.

PSF-57758

SAML as IdP

When using SAML as Identity Provider (IdP), users may be unable to login into PowerSchool SIS if the IdP has a long assertion lifespan, which is common when using Microsoft Azure SAML. An example of such an issue is students that are unable to log into the public portal or PowerSchool mobile app after answering Yes to the Stay Signed In dialog when using Microsoft SAML.

As part of this release two advanced options have been exposed on the SAML Service Provider configuration page:

• forceAuth - This setting should be enabled if your SAML IdP supports forceAuth and has a long assertion lifespan. When enabled PowerSchool SIS will force re-authentication against the SAML IdP if the SAML assertion is no longer valid.

• Assertion Subject NameIdentifier - By default PowerSchool SIS uses the authenticationId attribute from the SAML response to access the state-id or psguid value. This setting allows customers to change the attribute PowerSchool SIS evaluates from the SAML Response.

  When this value is blank authenticationId is used.

PSF-58332

Student Bell Schedule

The shading on the Student Bell Schedule and Enter Attendance pages was inconsistent.

PSF-18631

System

PowerSchool SIS (OLTP) may still use more CPU than expected, impacting performance even after upgrading to PowerSchool SIS 21.11.0.0 in some cases. This addresses additional issues not resolved in the PowerSchool SIS 21.11.0.0 release.

PSF-59222

System

After upgrading to PowerSchool 21.11.0.0, the PowerSchool Monitor may show a certificate error.

PSF-58489

Transfer Information

When editing a previous enrollment record on Transfer Information and submitting the changes, the current enrollment record displayed zeros for values in the Entry Date/Code, Exit Date/Code, and Grade fields, and the Entry Comment was blank until the page was refreshed.

PSF-59159

Universal Rostering

The type attribute was returning different values in terms and academic sessions endpoint for the same sourcedId, causing an HTTP 400 error.

PSF-58303

Universal Rostering

When a large district accessed the OneRoster API Organization endpoint, they received an ORA-01489 error.

PSF-54696

User Roles

In the new Users with Role drawer, the filter does not work correctly at the District Office for the District column only.

PSF-59631

Health Management

The date sorting on the Office Visits tab and the Daily Log, within the student Health screens does not work as expected.

PSSR-283557

PowerTeacher Gradebook

PowerTeacher Gradebook will be removed from PowerSchool SIS with the Back-to-School release (Spring 2022). 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

21.11.1.0

21.11.2.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

21.11.1.0

21.11.2.0

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.27

2.8.0.28

ReportWorks

1.5.1.39

1.5.1.40

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

19c

19c

State Reporting

21.12.2.0

22.1.2.1

Report SDK

1.27.0.0

1.27.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u302

1.8u302