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PowerSchool SIS 24.3.0.0

PowerSchool SIS version 24.3.0.0 is available as of March 21, 2024. This release is considered a minor feature/maintenance release. When the installers are available for download, an announcement will be posted on PowerSchool SIS Release Notification on PowerSchool Community.

Starting with the PowerSchool SIS 24.5.0.0 (Back to School) release, the option to turn off the Enhanced User Interface will be removed and the Enhanced UI will be the only interface available for PowerSchool SIS. Versions prior to 24.5 will still include the Classic User Interface. To learn more about the Enhanced User Interface, refer to FAQs: PowerSchool SIS Enhanced User Interface Webinar on Community or join our Tips and Tricks Office Hours April 9, 2024.

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

📣 Need resources for your staff? Check out the new Admin User Training video. This training link should not be posted on any public websites and should not be copied, distributed, or reproduced in whole or in part, or passed to any third party without PowerSchool written consent.

The PowerScheduler Build Server Engine is available for all your scheduling build needs. This engine will run on the PowerSchool SIS instance, allowing Schedulers to build their schedule from anywhere. To access this feature, enable the Engine Builder - Enable Server-Side Engine option on the Scheduling Preferences page for each school.

New Features and Enhancements

Feature or Product Area

Description

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Manage Custom Pages

The Custom Page Manager has been updated to indicate if a plugin has added a page to the SIS. The file name will be in purple and the hover over text will indicate the plugin name.

PowerScheduler

The following improvements have been made:

  • When viewing a PowerScheduler constraint the number value will also be shown next to the the text as part of the autocomplete.

  • The Course Number and Course Name on the Course List report will now open the course edit page in a new tab.

PowerTeacher Pro

Teachers will now find the bulk comment functionality available on additional pages within PowerTeacher Pro, such as the Scoresheet, the Assignments Details page, as well as the Traditional Final Grades page.

PowerTeacher Pro

Teachers can now utilize operators, such as greater than or less than, to filter to students based on points or percentage.

PowerTeacher Pro

Teachers now have the ability to Show Term Comments for Standards Final Grades on the Standards Progress page for Students as well as the Standards Final Grades page under Grading.

State Reports

The mechanism which allows State Reports to be favorited has been updated to work off of the report name (rather than report ID) for scenarios where there may be multiple reports with the same report name on the State Reports or System Reports tabs.

Student and Staff

The student/staff carousel arrows have been moved to the left of the name in the header bar. Additionally, a placeholder image is now displayed for students and staff who do not have a photo. The placeholder image includes the person's initials. This change is specific to the Enhanced UI.

Resolved Issues

Product Area

Description

Reference

Accessibility Updates

The following accessibility improvements have been added to PowerSchool SIS.

  • The totals section passes color contrast checks in the parent portal.

  • The notifications icon in the navigation now has a tooltip that says 'Notifications'.

  • When zooming the Mobile application, the navigation top-right icons and profile links appear as expected.

  • Page zoom levels can accommodate 300% zoom for Mac (Safari, Chrome) and Windows (Chrome, Edge).

PSF-83556

API

The com.pearson.core.attendance.meeting_interval_attendance_template API now includes double-booked sections for the same course.

PSF-96986

Attendance

In the multi-day attendance page, after changing the date range, the current teacher name will remain intact. In the admin and teacher's portal, the tooltip/title will say "Multi-Day Attendance," as well as the alt text.

PSF-94190

Change History

The Configure Page Permissions page in the Enhanced UI will now load the Change History information promptly.

As part of this change, the existing Change History drawers now have a date range selection to improve performance.

PSF-95969

Course Fees

Fee Type names linked to a Course fee category will now display correctly in the Course, Fees tab when defined at the school level. 

PSF-95588

Courses

Courses will now be available for the selected years when creating multiple courses consecutively.

PSF-96985

Custom Staff Screen

The Custom Staff screens will now display correctly regardless of the data length present.

PSF-97598

Fitness Scores

Under certain circumstances, codes that have expired for use are still available to select when entering a fitness score.

PSF-75360

Export Using Template

The Submit button in the Export Using Template page will only appear once the page options have been defined and the page reload completes to avoid triggering an error.

PSF-93717

GPA

Having the Use extended decimal precision enabled in district settings will no longer appear truncated when using the sum() function for GPA calculations. This is a result of an edge case with floating point math calculations that are dependent on both the specific values and the hardware the server running on.

PSF-95142

Quick Import

Importing Test Scores will no longer change French characters during the import.

PSF-93691

Search

The performance of Student and Teacher searches, using IN and NOT IN from the Start Page, has been improved.

PSF-97367

Grade Calculation Formula

When a district has a large number of schools, the modal to manage school selection for the Grade Calculation Formulas will fail to load.

PSF-88405

PowerTeacher Pro

Under specific circumstances, when teacher utilizes comment fill and a student with special characters in their name is inserted into a comment using Smart Text, the comment unexpectedly stops after the character.

PSF-95777

Standards

Searching for standards will no longer use a hidden filter setting on the conversion scale ID in the Custom Standards List setting so that all expected standards will now be returned.

PSF-96809

Start Page

Localization grade level values will return the correct results when searching for students on the Start Page using Grade_Level = {localized grade values}.

PSF-91884

Students

The Enroll New Student option has been removed from District Office. This change is specific to the Enhanced UI. 

PSF-96723

System

The PSJ-Runtime log will no longer report a VersionFixes_PSF_90637 warning when restarting PowerSchool SIS.

PSF-95021

System

Various performance improvements have been made.

PSF-96886

PSF-96936

PSF-97023

PSF-96797

System - LDAP

The LDAP Sync Report has been updated to address inaccuracies and confusion experienced by users during synchronization processes for many students. The report previously displayed conflicting information, showing error messages alongside statements indicating successful LDAP updates, despite errors. 

PSF-91885

Teacher Schedule

The Teacher Schedule page has been updated to sort by Term Start Date, Term End Date Desc, Internal Expression using Period/Day sort, Course Name, Section Number, and Sections.DCID.

PSF-97042

Universal Rostering

Improvements have been made to ensure successful grade synchronization with Universal Rostering APIs. To facilitate the triage of failed requests, we have included X-Request-Id in the response header to trace back to the originating request.

PSF-97771

PowerSchool Components

PowerSchool SIS comprises several software components, each versioned independently. Independent versioning 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

 

24.2.0.0

24.3.0.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

24.2.0.0

24.2.0.0

ReportWorks

1.5.1.50

1.5.1.51

Desktop PowerScheduler

3.1.0

3.1.0

Oracle

19c

19c

State Reporting

24.2.1.0

24.3.1.0

Report SDK

1.46.0.0

1.47.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u392

1.8u392

Apache Tomcat

9.0.82

9.0.82

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