PowerSchool SIS Louisiana

State Reporting 20.10.2.0 Release Notes

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Summary

Release Note

PSSR-242967

EdLink Discipline Extract Update

LA EdLink Discipline Report: Version 1.1
The Start and End date prompts are replaced with a School Year prompt. This value determines the records to include in the extract files.

PSSR-242969

Change Enrollment Extracts Use School Prompt for Record Selection

LA EdLink Enrollments Report: Version 1.1
The Enrollment extracts now use the School Year prompt, instead of the start/end date prompts, to select records for the report.

PSSR-242966

EdLink K-3 Assessments Report Changes

LA EdLink K-3 Assessments Report: Version 1.0
The LA EdLink K-3 Assessment Report extract is modified to select the appropriate data based on the new School Year prompt. The Report Start Date and Report End Date fields are removed from the report parameters.

PSSR-242786

EdLink Calendars Extract Report Changes

LA EdLink Calendars Report: Version 1.1
The LA EdLink Calendars extract report is modified to select the appropriate data based on the new school year prompt. The Report Start Date and Report End Date fields are removed from the report parameters.

PSSR-242970

Calendar Date Type List Updated with Code and Sort Order

The Calendar Date Type values display the code and description specified in the Calendar Date Type code set. The values are also sorted in the order specified in the code set information.

PSSR-245059

New Values Available for Distance Learning Course Type

The Distance Learning Course Type code in the New Course or Edit Course pages and the Override Distance Learning Course Type in the Edit Sections page now has new values:
• 04- Course Choice/Supplemental Course Providers
• 05-Dropout Recovery Program Providers

PSSR-244930

New Work Based Learning Fields Added to Sections Information

The fields, New Override Work Based Learning Category and Override Work Based Learning Business Name now appear on the Edit Sections pages under School Setup. This information is used for reporting transcript information in the STS and EdLink files.

PSSR-244441

Post High School Code Field Added to STS - Student Transcript System Report

The STS Student Transcript System report now includes POST HIGH SCHOOL CODE field’s information.

PSSR-244442

New Post High School Code Added to Academics/Progress Tab

A new field Post High School Code is added to the Academics/Progress tab. This field is used for reporting transcript information in the STS and EdLink files.

PSSR-244443

New Work Based Learning Fields Added to Courses Information

Two new fields, Work Based Learning Category and Work Based Learning Business Name appear in the Edit Course and New Course pages under District Setup. This information is used for reporting transcript information in the STS and EdLink files.

PSSR-246226

The Virtual Setting for Assessment Field Location Changed

The Virtual Setting for Assessment field now appears immediately after the Alternate Assessment Reason Code field on the K-3 Assessment data page.

PSSR-242790

Updates to Students_ext and Enrollments Extracts

LA EdLink Students Report: Version 1.1
LA EdLink Enrollments Report: Version 1.1

Changes for Students_ext file:

  • GRADE_9_ENTRY_YEAR appears in the output file

  • PARENT_INDICATOR now defaults to N in the output file (was defaulting to "--" if there was no value)

Changes for Enrollments file:

  • WITHDRAW_DATE is reported only if the student has a WITHDRAW_REASON_CODE

  • ENROLLMENT_PERCENT is populated for all students with a value of "1"

PSSR-244934

Work Based Learning Category and Work Based Learning Business Name Fields Added to Student Transcript System Report

STS - Student Transcript System: Version 1.14
The new fields, Work Based Learning Category and Work Based Learning Business Name are added to record 030 in the STS Student Transcript System report.

PSSR-245434

Work Based Learning Updates for LA Stored Grades

The LA Stored Grades pages are updated to include the new work based learning fields: Override Work Based Learning Category and Override Work Based Learning Business Name. This information is used for reporting transcript information in the STS and EdLink files.

PSSR-248151

SIS - Student Information System v 3.7 - Not pulling 110 Schedule records

SIS - Student Information System Report: Version 3.8

The report will now include the student's class schedule (110) records with this version.

PSSR-244945

EdLink Staff Extract

LA EdLink Staff Report: Version 1.0

The new LA EdLink Staff report will allow the user to generate two EdLink extract files:

  1. staff_course_offering_link

  2. staff_course_offering_link_ext

These extract files contain teacher schedule information for the selected school year, for any staff identified with a classification levels 01, 02, 05, or 06. Contract staff are not included in these extracts.

PSSR-228316

EdLink Attendance Extract

LA EdLink Enrollments Report: Version 1.1

A new Extract output option of “Attendance” has been added to the “LA EdLink Enrollments” report. This extract will include full and half-day student attendance data that is to be reported to EdLink.

In order for the attendance calculation to be performed correctly, the district must have set up the following attendance categories and mapped the appropriate attendance codes to these categories. While the District can modify the category description, they must enter the codes exactly as listed below:

Category Code

Category Description

ExcusedNE

Excused Absence - Non-Exempt

Excused

Excused Absence - Excused

Unexcused

Unexcused Absence

TardyLate

Unexcused Tardy - Late to School

TardyLeave

Unexcused Tardy - Early Checkout

Suspension

Suspension

The two Tardy categories are needed only when the district is using the Calculate Truancy report to update the 'Truant' indicator for students.