PowerSchool SIS 20.11.2.0

PowerSchool Admin - Accessibility

Accessibility improvements are now available on the Student and Teacher Matrix pages. Additionally, a screen reader section has been added to indicate Term/Day/Periods that are blank or double-booked.

PSF-40468

PowerSchool Admin - Change History

The following additional fields have been added to the School Enrollments category for Change History:

• Enroll Status

• Scheduled Transfer Date

The School Enrollments Change History category can be enabled on the Change History Settings page.

PSF-35079

Attendance - Admin

In some cases, the Attendance Nightly process generates unexpected results starting with version 20.11.0.1, requiring manually running the Attendance Refresh in order to correct the results. This mainly impacted Daily/TimeDay and Meeting/PctTimeDay calculations. This issue is now resolved. The calculation logic has been reverted to the pre-20.11.0.1 logic while keeping a key performance fix.

PSF-41274

Attendance - Admin

In some cases, attendance comments cannot be saved on the Attendance Dashboard when a user's default security level is not full access and the page permission is set to full access. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-39747

Attendance - Admin

Multi-Day Attendance does not display the attendance grid if the date range includes the exit date for a Transferred Out student. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41890

Attendance - Admin

In some instances, a student's Quick Lookup Attendance Total includes attendance for the entire school year and not for the date range of the term. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40683

Attendance - Admin

When a comment is submitted on an attendance code on the Student Edit Meeting Attendance page, all of the entered codes become locked, not just the code that received a comment. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-15631

Change History - Admin

When viewing Attendance Change History records, information about the class and teacher that provides context to the particular attendance change is missing. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41989

Change History - Admin

In some instances, when enabling Change History for the first time, Categories were missing from the Change History drop-down menu. This issue is now resolved

PSF-40518

Change History - Admin

In some cases, Public Portal appears in the Changed By column on the Change History page for School Enrollments if the class was dropped by the nightly process. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-39869

PowerSchool - Admin

In some cases, when submitting a Log Entry from the Administrator portal, the Students.GuardianEmail value may be changed unexpectedly. This occurs when the Discipline_VictimType field is one of the fields present. This issue is resolved.

Customers utilizing the Students.GuardianEmail field should evaluate/update the data contained in this field post-upgrade.

PSF-42569

PowerSchool Admin - AutoSend

When AutoSend is run, diacritical characters are exported as HTML character entities. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41219

PowerSchool Admin - Courses

Users with View Only access may encounter an error when attempting to view the Courses page. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40891

PowerSchool Admin - Daily Bulletin

The Preview Daily Bulletin does not work correctly in the New Experience view. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40884

PowerSchool Admin - Document Attachment

Attaching documents using the Document Attachment provider API will fail if the District ID is alphanumeric and not numeric. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40851

PowerSchool Admin - Grade Report

When using PowerSchool SIS with French as the selected language, the Store Permanent Grades function does not complete when choosing to display all terms under the Classes by Term Length section. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-29620

PowerSchool Admin - Graduation Planner

When viewing the Graduation Planner page, the results may not display all courses enrolled when a child's term is set on the current grade display page. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-42229

PowerSchool Admin - Graduation Planner

When attempting to convert a Graduation Set to a Graduation Plan, an error occurs. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40651

PowerSchool Admin - Health

In some cases, when changing the order of immunization dates, an error occurs. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-38647

PowerSchool Admin - Health

When the Doctor Name smart tag is included in a health plan for a student record that does not have a Doctor specified in Emergency Contact/Medical, the smart tag is incorrectly filled with the word 'student'. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41861

PowerSchool Admin - Installer

As part of this release, the installer has been improved to support newer SMB protocols. This functionality is used as part of the Map Network Drives process in the PowerSchool Installer.

In some rare cases, when using a shared drive, a Windows System error 1312 has occurred message may appear. Defining the SharePoint username in a domain\username format resolves this error

PSF-21492

PowerSchool Admin - Reports

When creating a Report Card report, an extra column may appear in a table when used as part of the Header or Footer. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40802

PowerSchool Admin - SAML

When using PowerSchool as the Identity Provider (IdP) with SAML, the metadata generated contains an invalid valueUntil date of 1/31/2021. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41182

PowerSchool Admin - Server

The Server Licensing page has been removed.

PSF-41664

PowerSchool Admin - System

After upgrading to PowerSchool 20.11.0.0, a significant number of empty numbered folders may be created under PowerSchool\temp\tomcat-oltp\dalx\{server_instance_id}\. This issue can cause the core and state reporting install to take a significant amount of time on the icalcs step. Previously, these folders were only removed as part of the PowerSchool SIS startup. Starting with PowerSchool 20.11.2.0, these folders will only be created when needed and will be removed when no longer needed. This resolves future upgrades that occur after PowerSchool SIS version 20.11.2.0.

PSF-41742

PowerSchool Admin - User Access Role Name

The addition of an apostrophe (') to any User Access Role Name causes errors in the display of existing roles and makes the Add button unavailable. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41746

PowerTeacher Pro - Assignments

In some cases, when creating a new assignment or editing an assignment, the information may take an excessive amount of time to appear when a large number of standards exist. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40055

PowerTeacher - Attendance

The Last Name sort order for Single Day attendance in PowerTeacher may not match the Multi-Day sort order. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-39873

PowerTeacher Pro - Standards

In some cases, when adding or removing Standards from an Assignment, an error may occur. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-41845

PowerTeacher Pro - Standards

In some cases, when selecting Show More on the Standards Progress page, the information may take an excessive amount of time to appear. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40141

PowerTeacher Pro - Standards

In some cases, when running the Standards Grades Report, a 0 KB file is generated, and an error appears on the server. This issue is now resolved.

PSF-40033

Legacy Look

In the PowerSchool SIS 2021 spring back-to-school release, the New Experience introduced in PowerSchool SIS version 20.4.0.0 will be the only look that is available for the PowerSchool SIS Admin and PowerSchool SIS Teacher portals. The "classic look" will no longer be available. All users not already using the New Experience will be automatically transitioned. We are providing notification in advance so that districts have ample time to test and make changes to any impacted customizations.

(20.11) New Experience

20.11.0.1

20.11.2.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

20.11.0.1

20.11.2.0

PowerTeacher Gradebook

2.8.0.23

2.8.0.23

ReportWorks

1.5.1.33

1.5.1.33

PowerScheduler

3.0.2

3.0.2

Oracle

12.2.0.1

12.2.0.1

State Reporting

20.12.1.0

21.2.2.0

Report SDK

1.22.0.0

1.24.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u262

1.8u262