PowerSchool SIS 24.12.0.0
PowerSchool SIS version 24.12.0.0 is available as of December 12, 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 |
|---|---|
Advanced Reports | For Advanced Reports Customers, links to the Logi help are now available directly on Advanced Reports pages. |
Fitness Tests | Terms are now included in fitness tests, and teachers can change the assigned term for the result. |
Object Reports | The Export and Import Existing Report Template functionality now supports UTF-8 as a character set. |
Resolved Issues
Product Area | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Attendance | The performance of the Nightly Attendance refresh has been improved in specific scenarios. | PSF-110546 |
Consecutive Absence | Running the Nightly Attendance Calculation will not error out when the consecutive absence alert is triggered. | PSF-110244 |
Course Requests | An issue with the syncing of Student Course Requests from Naviance has been resolved. | PSF-102074 |
DDE/DDA | The following stability improvements have been made when working in DDE and DDA:
Note: Using the Select All option against tables with a large number of records may take a long time and impact system performance. Where ever possible ensure users are filtering records to only the records they need to work with. | PSF-111326 |
Fitness | The Fitness Test Results page now works as expected when an account has limited page permission access to the Administrator portal. | PSF-110650 |
Health | The Daily Health To-Do List now correctly displays the status when more than one visit outcome/action is attached to the student. | PSF-111339 |
Localization | As issue with password reset emails in Spanish locales has been resolved. | PSF-110147 |
Notifications | An issue with the delivery of automatic emails for pending notifications has been resolved. | PSF-110711 |
Notifications | When configuring a notification, the school filter will now display more than 100 schools. | PSF-110169 |
OIDC | The auth_time and iat parameters are properly populated when using OIDC and PowerSchool is the IdP. | PSF-111328 |
PowerScheduler | The PowerScheduler server side build engine now allows Pre-Scheduled Section Overlaps. Users can now put multiple course/teacher/room specifications in the same period of the day by using Pre-Scheduled Constraints. | PSF-111502 |
PowerScheduler | The PowerScheduler server side engine no longer accidentally honors data in the unused column TEACHERS.SCHED_MAXPERS. This value is no longer being honored and will not cause build failures. | PSF-109186 |
PowerScheduler | The PowerScheduler server side engine now includes a feature to check for circular team references within the Course Team constraint. This feature aims to disallow circular team references when propagating simultaneous, same-room constraints to prevent invalid team setups. | PSF-101388 |
PowerScheduler | PowerScheduler will now properly honor the āTeacher is Always Freeā setting to allow users to book a teacher with multiple sections. | PSF-98485 |
PowerTeacher Pro | The Standards Grades Report has been updated with a Reporting Term selector when the report is run using the By Assignment layout. The report will include assignments and the overall grade for the Reporting Term selected. | PSF-110985 |
Reports | The Zapf Dingbats font tag shows the appropriate characters when Advanced PDF Rendering is enabled. | PSF-111511 |
Sections | An Unauthorized Data Access Detected error will no longer appear when an admin attempts to delete a section. When deleting a section the user will be returned to the original page the user used to access the section and a āselection deletedā banner will appear. Additionally the Teacher's name has been added to the Mass Enroll preview screen. | PSF-77594 |
Security | Users are no longer logged out when accessing different portals in different browsers after upgrading to PowerSchool SIS 24.10 or higher. | PSF-111670 |
Security | The Log Entry drop down now shows the expected Log Types when a user has multiple User Access Roles that also have Security Groups for a school. | PSF-111089 |
Student Alerts | Custom alerts on the Class Attendance page now show as expected. This issue impacted customizations that depended on the FRN or RN tags after upgrading to PowerSchool SIS 24.11.0.0. | PSF-111256 |
Students | The Assign IDās and Passwords function has been updated to prevent duplicate Students.Web_ID values from being assigned. | PSF-110907 |
Students | The back button when viewing a student record is now clickable regardless of the screen resolution. | PSF-110824 |
Students | The performance of the Enrollment Summary page has been improved. | PSF-101947 |
Students | The Students Incident page will open successfully when duplicated data is present. | PSF-110415 |
System | The Current Users page no longer shows errant IF tags depending on the number of users logged in to PowerSchool SIS. | PSF-110838 |
System | Errors occurring when configuring mapped drives in the PowerSchool installer have been resolved. | PSF-111952 |
System | In some cases, all schools listed in the DDE schools table display values of 0. This issue might also appear in other areas, depending on the uptime of the PowerSchool SIS. The problem can be exacerbated by third-party integrations that use screen scraping with PowerSchool Admin accounts. PowerSchool strongly recommends against granting such access, as outlined in the Third-Party Request for a PowerSchool Staff Account article. | PSF-111771 |
Teacher | Customizations will now appear in the Select Screens dropdown when opened from the Graduation Plan Progress page. | PSF-107985 |
Update Course Staff | Enabled the ability to update the Additional Staff End Date to any date within the scheduling term. | PSF-110148 |
User Experience | The following user experience issues have been resolved:
| PSF-111090 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 24.11.0.0 | 24.12.0.0 |
PowerSchool SIS Server | 24.11.0.0 | 24.12.0.0 |
ReportWorks | 1.5.1.56 | 1.5.1.56 |
Desktop PowerScheduler | 3.1.0 | 3.1.0 |
Oracle | 19c | 19c |
State Reporting | 24.10.3.1 | 24.12.2.0 |
Report SDK | 1.53.0.0 | 1.54.0.0 |
Amazon Corretto Java | 1.8u402 | 1.8u402 |
Apache Tomcat | 9.0.87 | 9.0.87 |