PowerSchool SIS 24.10.0.0
PowerSchool SIS version 24.10.0.0 is available as of October 10, 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 |
|---|---|---|
Fees | The Fee Balances page will now show the school name instead of the school number. The number can be seen by hovering over the school name. | |
Installer | The Apache Struts version used in the PowerSchool SIS Installer has been updated to version 6.6.0. The PowerSchool SIS Installer is not accessible unless logged directly into the server using localhost in the default configuration. | |
Notifications | The application event name will now appear in the subject line of corresponding email notifications. | |
Notifications | Additional dynamic text options are available for data change events. When using the Courses table, course name and course number are now available. When using the SpEnrollments table, program ID is now available. When using the Terms table, term name and term abbreviation are now available. | |
School Setting for PowerTeacher Pro Starting Page | Administrators can now choose to set the Display Setting for the Starting Page when PowerTeacher Pro is opened by teachers. | |
Security | Update to the latest SIS version now to ensure uninterrupted access to the PowerSchool SIS Mobile App for SAML authentication users. This update includes crucial improvements to maintain mobile app store compatibility, and PowerSchool strongly recommends upgrading your PowerSchool environment as soon as possible. PowerSchool SIS 24.3.0.1 will be released shortly after the PowerSchool SIS 24.10.0.0 release for customers who wish to remain on the legacy administrator interface till August 2025. | |
Tasks | Overdue tasks will now be visually distinguishable with an icon and alternate text color. | |
Tasks | Admins can now manually archive and delete tasks from the Task Management page. | |
Tasks | Users can now favorite the My Tasks page. |
Resolved Issues
Product Area | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Attendance | The Student Name column for the row closest to the scroll bar on the Teacher Schedule, Multi-Day Attendance page will now remain static like the other records. | PSF-98281 |
Contacts | A validation error no longer occurs when working attempting to consolidate contacts when certain data validation rules exist. | PSF-107860 |
Data Import Manager | Incorrect errors related to Credit capacity value no longer occur when importing Academic and Career Plan data. | PSF-101303 |
Data Import Manager | Users can now import incidents when Time Codes have not been setup, which are non-required fields for incident templates. | PSF-106761 |
DEX Cloud | An error no longer occurs when using DEX Cloud when any SSO login is configured in PowerSchool. | PSF-108857 |
Direct Database Access | An issue with locale date formatting when searching and modifying data has been resolved. | PSF-15468 |
Enrollment | For customers using state data solutions, students can no longer be erroneously enrolled from the Create New School Enrollment page. | PSF-107587 |
Exports | Errors no longer occur in the logs when using certain GPAs in an AutoSend. | PSF-106957 |
Grades | An issue with storing grades due to the length of the lead teacher’s name has been resolved. | PSF-108819 |
Health | Users with Read Only permission now will be able to view the Health Concern comments. | PSF-107585 |
Health Monitoring | Diabetic Monitoring Logs will not display Tube Monitoring options under specific data scenarios. | PSSR-360750 |
Medication - Change History | Users can now navigate the Change History for Medication without false errors. | PSF-103704 |
Mobile App | Students who were authenticated using OIDC without student web access enabled were previously able to access the mobile application when using OIDC. | PSF-108493 |
Notifications | An issue with extra text appearing in corresponding notification emails has been resolved. | PSF-108034 |
Notifications | The CC.DateLeft field will now populate data when used as dynamic text in a notification. | PSF-107493 |
OIDC | Records will no longer be orphaned when changing the OIDC configuration user type from teacher/staff to student. | PSF-108143 |
PowerQuery DAT | Errors no longer occur in the logs when using a PowerQuery DAT without a valid FRN. | PSF-106951 |
PowerTeacher Pro - Generating Standards Assignment Grades Report causes server issues | Under certain circumstances, when a teacher runs an extremely large standards grades reports for assignment standards scores, it may cause server connection issues. | PSF-102623 |
Quick Export | Tab characters will no longer cause an error when performing a Quick Export. | PSF-96445 |
Reports | System reports have been updated to prevent many causes of The entity xxxxx was referenced, but not declared. errors. | PSF-108436 |
Reports | In some cases Report Engine based reports, such as the At Risk report, were not able to be canceled. The cancel logic has been improved. | PSF-108180 |
Reports | In some cases a long running report, such as the At Risk report, can result in an OutOfMemoryError error. | PSF-108160 |
Reports | The ? character no longer shows when Advanced PDF Rendering is enabled for line feed characters. Additionally Report Card comments have been improved to maintain carriage return formatting when printing. | PSF-107663 |
Reports | When Advanced PDF Rendering is enabled, non-scaled images show as expected. | PSF-107255 |
Security | The Admin Access and Roles screen no longer shows escape characters when a group name contains a forward slash. | PSF-107087 |
Student Test Score | Selecting a student from the dropdown now correctly navigates to the respective student's test details. | PSF-105415 |
Students | Submitting changes in Modify Info page, won’t change the Lunch ID if it is unchanged. | PSF-107760 |
Update Course Staff | External section expressions will be displayed when using the update course staff. | PSF-107461 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 24.9.0.0 | 24.10.0.0 |
PowerSchool SIS Server | 24.9.0.0 | 24.10.0.0 |
ReportWorks | 1.5.1.54 | 1.5.1.55 |
Desktop PowerScheduler | 3.1.0 | 3.1.0 |
Oracle | 19c | 19c |
State Reporting | 24.9.2.1 | 24.10.1.0 |
Report SDK | 1.51.0.0 | 1.52.0.0 |
Amazon Corretto Java | 1.8u402 | 1.8u402 |
Apache Tomcat | 9.0.87 | 9.0.87 |