PowerSchool SIS 24.7.0.0

Create Staff

The New Staff Member page now supports database extensions.

Enterprise Reporting

The new Monitoring Type tables (released with the Enhanced Monitoring Type functionality in PowerSchool SIS 24.6) are now available within Enterprise Reporting.

Export

All export pages within PowerSchool SIS will now show the following statement:

“By performing an export on this page of Customer Data from this institution's instance of PowerSchool SIS, you are expressly warranting that you have the authority from the applicable institution, the data controller of the Customer Data, to conduct this export.  Moreover, you acknowledge and indemnify PowerSchool from any claim resulting from your action to export the data to another location. You assume all responsibility for the security of the Customer Data in the location where the Customer Data is to be exported. Finally, you acknowledge that PowerSchool will log your scheduling of the export from this page.”

Additionally a feature to restrict access to users without roles defined was intended to be released with this PowerSchool SIS release, but was unintentionally released in version 24.6.0.0. User roles should be assigned to users to properly restrict access to the tables. Customers can create User Access roles defining the tables a user should have access to and apply these roles to users who need Export, DDE, and DDA access.

Localization

Admins can now turn on a district preference to allow admin and teacher users to change their display language based on available district locales while signed in. 

Notifications

Admins can now add dynamic text to a notification indicating the user that made the triggering change in the system. 

Configuring and Managing Notifications

Notifications

When notifications are being distributed to recipients using security access roles, the recipient list will now be restricted to users granted the role at the relevant school.

Notifications

Notifications

When configuring a Student Added to Incident application event notification, Admins can now use additional condition fields to create incident threshold notifications. 

Reporting

As part of PowerSchool SIS 23.9.0.0, improvements were made to support UTF-8 characters and Right-to-Left (RTL) printing. 

Starting with this release, the Use Advanced PDF Processing on the Report Queue Preferences page will be enabled by default. A new QR Code Object Report object has also been added to allow the embedding of QR codes in an Object Report.

The following areas are impacted by the enabling of the advanced PDF processing and may result in slight report rendering differences, particularly around fonts and font spacing:

• User Created Reports

  • Object Reports

  • Mailing Labels

  • Form Letters

  • Report Cards

• System Reports

  • Class Roster PDF

  • Teacher Gradebooks

  • Graduation Progress Report (Legacy)

  • Schedule Master Schedule PDF 

  • Schedule Master Schedule PDF – PowerScheduler

The following Font support enhancements have been implemented to enable support UTF-8 when Use Advanced PDF Processing is enabled:

• The available Fonts are loaded from Windows and the Custom Font folder.

• The Font link/preview as part of Object Report objects will print a report with example text of every available Font.

• The font style menu has been removed in favor of the bold and italic checkboxes or HTML styling when defining a report.

• DFont fonts are not supported when Use Advanced PDF Processing is enabled. TTF/TTC and OTF are supported.

• Helvetica is no longer available and is mapped to Arial.

Objects on an Object Report

Student

While enrolling a student using SIS admin pages, State Student Number will now be included and used while searching for duplicates. State Student Number will also appear on the Student Demographics page. 

System

The Attendance Nightly Diagnostics page has been updated to display the start and end times based on the application time instead of the database time.

Tasks

Admins can now assign shared tasks from an individual back to the group. 

Tasks

Admins can now notify task assignees when edits are made to a task from the Task Management page. 

Task Management

Tasks

Admins can now add dynamic text to notification triggered tasks. 

Tasks

Admins and teachers can now go straight to a task from the corresponding notification. 

Tasks

Task preferences have moved to District Management, District Setup, Notifications and Tasks Setup. This also applies to Notification preferences. Admins can now configure which task statuses will trigger a task to archive, as well as the timeframe for task archiving and deletion.

Note: Archived tasks will not be visible at this time. This functionality is coming in a future release. Please keep this in mind when configuring the archiving timeframe. 

Notifications and tasks setup

Update Course Staff

A new Update Additional Course Staff End Date option is now available on the Update Course Staff page. This process will add end dates to the additional course staff’s selected course sections.

Update Course Staff

Back navigation for School Enrollment Audit

Clicking the breadcrumb link on the School Enrollment Audit page will now navigate to System Reports.

PSF-102914

General

The following improvements have been made:

• The Master Course Schedule list view has been updated to make the Course.Section and Class Count clickable to align the page with the matrix view.

• The Teacher Maximum Load report has been updated to add the course name.

• When navigating to another student after submitting the Graduation Plan Selection page, the Graduation Plan Selection page will be loaded instead of Graduation Plan Progress.

• Manage Custom Pages has been updated with the following improvements:

  • The font size will be remembered between sessions when using the same browser.

  • The file tab will only reflect the changed content instead of when customize is selected.

PSF-103407

Incident Management

An incident with the same behavior code and different subcodes will now import successfully.

PSF-103243

Notifications

A loading issue with the Notifications list page has been resolved.

PSF-104237

Parent Portal

When teachers utilize whitelisted HTML objects in standards grade comment, these do not render properly for parents and students.

PSF-99497

Reports

When printing a Standard Object on an Object Report the formatting of Standard Comments and Descriptions will properly honor carriage returns and entered characters.

PSF-103719

SAML SSO

An error no longer occurs when connecting to a third-party site using SAML SSO when the client’s IP changes mid authentication.

PSF-103135

Search

The performance of the *hours_requested student search has been improved. 

PSF-15503

Seating Chart

The seating chart from the Teachers Schedule page will now print correctly.

PSF-99312

Student

All icons on the Student Quick Lookup page will now appear when the page is printed.

PSF-100954

Tasks

An issue with filtering tasks by status has been resolved.

PSF-104299

Update Course Staff

The additional staff start and end dates will now be populated correctly.

PSF-103863

Update Course Staff

The end date range selector in the Assign Additional Course Staff process may not capture the selected date properly when closed. It saves properly when manually entering the date.

PSF-102791

SSO OIDC Plugin

Once the OIDC Plugin is enabled, users can export persona mappings (Contact, Staff, Student, Teacher) via the DEM. This is a known issue. As a workaround to enable SSO mappings export now, configure and enable any of the four personas in the OIDC configuration.

PSF-104298

24.6.0.0

24.7.0.0

PowerSchool SIS Server

24.6.0.0

24.7.0.0

ReportWorks

1.5.1.53

1.5.1.53

Desktop PowerScheduler

3.1.0

3.1.0

Oracle

19c

19c

State Reporting

24.6.2.1

24.7.2.1

Report SDK

1.49.0.0

1.50.0.0

Amazon Corretto Java

1.8u402

1.8u402

Apache Tomcat

9.0.87

9.0.87