PowerSchool SIS 24.5.1.0
PowerSchool SIS version 24.5.1.0 is available as of May 30, 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 24.5.0.0 release, the option to turn off the Enhanced User Interface is removed, and the Enhanced UI is 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.
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.
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New Features and Enhancements
Feature or Product Area | Description | Learn More |
|---|---|---|
Enhanced User Interface | The Custom Links and Configure Page Permissions screens have been updated to start in a collapsed state. | |
Favorites | When accessing Favorites an open in new tab icon will appear when hovering over a link. | |
Internationalization | When using a locale set to the Arabic language, admins and teachers will now see help documentation in Arabic. | |
Internationalization | Object Reports now support Hijri dates. | https://ps.powerschool-docs.com/pssis-admin/latest/other-information-dats https://ps.powerschool-docs.com/pssis-admin/latest/object-reports |
Internationalization | Admins can now set a currency name and symbol for the district on the Units and Alphabet Filter page (/admin/district/localization/localeindependentsettings.html). This currently will only be used for Enrollment Express and Ecollect Forms. | |
Notifications | Admins now have the ability to add a school condition so that notifications trigger for specified schools. | |
Notifications | Dynamic text specific to staff can now be added to in-app notification messages. | |
Notifications | Admins will now see a rich text editor when drafting in-app notification messages. Dynamic text can also be added via the editor. | |
Notifications | Admins can now create tags to categorize notifications for searching and filtering. | |
Notifications | Additional tables and columns are available for data change notifications. | |
Notifications | Admins can now add URLs requiring dynamic text to an in-app notification. | |
System | Overall rendered html page sizes of the Administrator portal have been reduced by as much as 30% resulting in better overall performance. | |
Universal Rostering | The students.id metadata has been added to the students and users for OneRoster v1.2 and v1.2 endpoints. | |
Universal Rostering | PowerSchool SIS Universal Rostering is officially recertified by 1EdTech for OneRoster v1.1 and OneRoster v1.2 using v24.5.0.0. The product listing has been updated to indicate this. |
Resolved Issues
Product Area | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Asset Tracking | Since the Asset Type code set does not support user-defined values, this option has been removed from the list and is now a system-only code set. | PSF-93495 |
Change History | The Change History records will only show the student's current school attendance data. | PSF-93286 |
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-99707 |
Graduation Plan | The Graduation Plan Progress messaging has been improved when there are parent and child requirements for a course. | PSF-95683 |
Graduation Plan | If multiple targets are selected when adding or editing Course Groups and Credit Types, the following info message appears just above the target area: “Selector order is only important when multiple selectors might all select a given credit type. This may happen when a single course appears in multiple selector course lists, or when selectors include credit types. The "top" selector will have the first opportunity to match any credit the student earns.” | PSF-87497 |
Graduation Plan | District Graduation Plan now shows all Grade Levels under course groups and credit types. | PSF-99085 |
Importing | Importing into Transportation or Incidents using Data Import Manager no longer results in a system stability issue. | PSF-101374 |
Importing | Validation errors no longer occur when importing multiple rows that have more than 5000 characters per row. | PSF-101319 |
Manage Custom Pages |
| PSF-100913 |
Mobile | Teachers using the mobile web pages to view the class roster will now see the student's name with their picture. | PSF-100271 |
Notifications | An issue with activating a notification including a message body having unclosed curly braces (“{{“ without matching “}}”) at the end has been resolved. | PSF-100393 |
PowerScheduler | Student photos now show as expected in PowerScheduler in the Enhanced UI. | PSF-101007 |
PowerScheduler | When deleting a section from the Master Schedule the report runtime parameters are no longer changed. Additionally, when viewing the Matrix or List view the Show Preference’s link has been moved to the top of the page on both the Live side and PowerScheduler. | PSF-100286 |
PowerScheduler | Course numbers containing lowercase alpha characters will now display the Prerequisite Note on the Course Request Management - View Future Requests page. | PSF-98194 |
PowerScheduler | The Percent Scheduled by Student PowerScheduler report will only display students from the current school and those with the next school indicator for that school if the student is being scheduled from the current school. | PSF-91883 |
PowerScheduler | Trailing spaces in the course group name will no longer result in a "No records found" message, allowing the student course request page to load correctly. | PSF-15430 |
Public Portal | The messaging for the Forgot Username has been corrected to indicate “Forgot Username Email Sent” for the username recovery process on the public portal. | PSF-15681 |
Search | Compound IN searches for Students and Staff now work as expected. | PSF-101244 |
Stored Grade | Entering a course name with more than 40 characters in Multiple Stored Grades will no longer produce an error. | PSF-100901 |
Stored Selection | When using Stored Selections, the expected errors show when creating a selection with no name. | PSF-90654 |
Students | The Course Registration page no longer shows Partially Dropped when a student re-enrolls in the same section for a previously dropped course. | PSF-101042 |
Students | The Full-Time Equivalency field has been updated to be required when re-enrolling a student. | PSF-95799 |
Students | An Unauthorized Data Access Detected error no longer occurs when selecting the Entire Year Schedule link from the List Schedule page. | PSF-100893 |
System | The Global Server Settings Internal Access value no longer changes to the host name in some rare cases. | PSF-99211 |
Teacher | The student’s grade level no longer shows a K when creating or editing a recommendation. | PSF-100678 |
Teacher Schedules | Under certain circumstances, an error would occur when attempting to use the manual lock/unlock option on the teacher schedules page. | PSF-98901 |
Universal Rostering | To comply with the recent update to OneRoster v1.2, all User objects will now include a username. If there is no username value in the SIS, then the Universal Rostering API response will provide a whitespace string. | PSF-101008 |
Universal Rostering | The currentyear filters are only applied if the SIS version is 24.5.1.0 or above. SIS versions below 24.5.1.0 will continue to provide data for all years. | PSF-100591 |
Update Course Staff | Inactive staff will no longer appear in Staff dropdown lists in the Update Course Staff processes. | PSF-100666 |
Update Course Staff | The Update Course Staff navigation link will no longer result in a "Page not Found" error. | PSF-100504 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 24.5.0.0 | 24.5.1.0 |
PowerSchool SIS Server | 24.5.0.0 | 24.5.1.0 |
ReportWorks | 1.5.1.52 | 1.5.1.53 |
Desktop PowerScheduler | 3.1.0 | 3.1.0 |
Oracle | 19c | 19c |
State Reporting | 24.4.3.0 | 24.5.2.2 |
Report SDK | 1.48.0.0 | 1.49.0.0 |
Amazon Corretto Java | 1.8u402 | 1.8u402 |
Apache Tomcat | 9.0.87 | 9.0.87 |