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PowerSchool SIS 21.4.3.0

PowerSchool SIS version 21.4.3.0 is available as of July 29, 2021. When the installers are available for download, an announcement will be posted on PowerSchool SIS Release Notification on PowerSchool Community.

The New Experience introduced in PowerSchool SIS version 20.4.0.0 is now the only interface available for the PowerSchool SIS Admin and PowerSchool SIS Teacher portals. Any customers who previously opted to disable the New Experience will automatically transition to the updated interface with the 21.4.0.0 release.

Learn more about the New Experience features and options.

Customizations might be affected by the New Experience and may need to be adjusted. Technical Contacts can find Developer resources for the New Experience on the PowerSchool Developer site.

Enhancements

Product Area

Description

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PowerSchool Admin - Attendance Change History Report (System Report)

Utilize the new Attendance Change History report, located on the System Reports tab, to view attendance record data, any changes that have been made, and who made the changes.

Note: This report is available in State Reporting Installer 21.7.2

System Reports

PowerSchool Admin - Asset Inventory Enterprise Report (Enterprise Report)

Utilize a new Asset Inventory Report, available in Enterprise Reporting, to view data about asset inventory entered via the Asset Tracking functionality.

Start Page > Reports > Enterprise Reports > Add

Note: This report is available in State Reporting Installer 21.5.3

System Reports

PowerSchool Admin - Asset Management Enterprise Report (Enterprise Reports)

Utilize a new Asset Management Report, available in Enterprise Reporting (path below), to view data about assets entered via the Asset Tracking functionality.

Start Page > Reports > Enterprise Reports > Add

Note: This report is available in State Reporting Installer 21.5.3

System Reports

Resolved Issues

Product Area

Description

Reference

PowerSchool Admin - Attendance/Schoology

When using the PowerSchool SIS Attendance App for Schoology, the app does not always load properly when the teacher teaches at multiple schools. It is recommended that all customers utilizing the PowerSchool Attendance App apply this release. See Using PowerSchool SIS Attendance with Schoology for more information.

PSF-51583

PowerSchool Admin - Class Counts

Multiple issues resolved for Class Counts, including:

  • When dropping a class that has not started yet, class counts would not decrement.

  • When students pre-registered in a section after the future terms start date, the count would increment incorrectly.

PSF-51621

PowerSchool Admin - Data Export Manager

When attempting to extract Health data when no students were selected, an error occurred. A warning message will now appear if students are not selected prior to exporting health data.

PSF-48902

PowerSchool Admin - Graduation Planner

When entering test requirements for Graduation Plan, some test requirements were displayed or saved as null in certain situations. A zero is now displayed and saved in these cases.

PSF-51576

PowerSchool Admin - Graduation Planner Progress

When viewing the Student Graduation Plan progress screens, the values displayed do not always load properly when the inputs included floating-point numbers.

PSF-51570

PowerSchool Admin - Health

When trying to enter the first dose of a vaccine, the Date entry box did not line up with the selected vaccine and did not allow the user to save the changes in certain situations.

PSF-48281

PowerSchool Admin - Security

When PowerSchool SIS as OIDC Service Provider is enabled, usernames are automatically generated starting with ## if no username exists when defining an Identity Provider Global ID. These characters can impact certain OpenID integrations such as Special Programs. The following changes are implemented:

  • Existing usernames starting with ## will be replaced with ~~.

  • Newly automatically generated usernames will start with ~~.

Additionally, data validation rules have been added to prevent the use of the following OpenID impacting characters in usernames, including existing usernames: & # % [ ] \ / < > ? ^ | { } + " '. This change is made regardless of if PowerSchool SIS as OIDC Service Provider is enabled.

In certain situations, the username may be hidden when OIDC is enabled.

PSF-51989

PowerSchool Admin - Security Settings

When modifying an Admin or Teacher record, you may no longer be able to log in using OIDC in certain situations.

PSF-43682

PowerSchool Admin - Startup

Previously, a production server installed with PowerSchool SIS 21.4.0.0 could start with invalid security keys. Now, starting PowerSchool SIS with invalid security keys will result in an error message and PowerSchool SIS will not start without assistance from PowerSchool Support.

PSF-51574

Removed Features/Future Deprecation

Feature

Description

Reference

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

PowerSchool Components

PowerSchool SIS is comprised of several software components, each versioned independently from one another. 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

21.4.2.0

21.4.3.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

21.4.2.0

21.4.3.0

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.25

2.8.0.25

ReportWorks

1.5.1.37

1.5.1.37

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

12.2.0.1 or 19c

12.2.0.1 or 19c

State Reporting

21.6.2.1

21.7.2.0

Report SDK

1.26.0.0

1.26.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u262

1.8u262

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