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State Reporting 21.5.3.0 Release Notes

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Community when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2021 State Reporting Releases for release dates.

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Release Note

PSSR-263484All States/Provinces: Asset Inventory Enterprise Report

A new Asset Inventory Enterprise Report is now available for Enterprise Report Managers to add to their list of published Enterprise Reports.

This Enterprise Report requires the Asset Tracking functionality in PowerSchool SIS 21.4.0 or newer.

PSSR-263489All States/Provinces: Asset Management Enterprise Report

A new Asset Management Enterprise Report is now available for Enterprise Report Managers to add to their list of published Enterprise Reports.

This Enterprise Report requires the Asset Tracking functionality in PowerSchool SIS 21.4.0 or newer.

PSSR-262117All States/Provinces: Compliance Pages Updates to Support the New User Experience

The Staff Information page is updated and displays correctly without any errors when New User Experience is enabled.

PSSR-260209All States/Provinces: Health Report Update - Vision and Hearing

Health Report: Version 1.2
The Report has been updated and now pulls the Display Value (rather than the State Name) when outputting Vision & Hearing (Color Blindness and Outcome) screening results.

PSSR-258099All States/Provinces: Medication List Report Update

Medication List Report: Version 2.0

The Medication List report updated and now runs and completes as expected when a medication has a time value entered.

PSSR-263023All States/Provinces: CRDC Common Data Collection Implementation for 2020–2021

The following new data collection and updates for the 20-21 submission are added to the Common CRDC pages:

  • PENR-6 is moved to a deprecated fields section on the Sections and Courses pages.
  • Updated the School CRDC page with new or updated data collection:
    • DIND-1 and DIND-2: COVID-related Directional Indicators (New)
    • OFFN-10 'Offenses - Allegations Against School Staff (Duty Reassignment)' (New)
    • Elements OFFN-6 through OFFN-9 are updated to have corrected title wordings.
  • Collection year is removed from all CRDC pages.

These new data fields and changes are applicable to states that have implemented Common CRDC pages. State-specific CRDC pages will be updated in a future release.

PSSR-212617

Database Field Rename Part 1

The database fields EnrollmentTypeCode and ResidentTownCode in tables S_ME_STU_X and S_ME_REN_X have been renamed to EnrollmentTypeCodeOld and ResidentTownCodeOld.
The UI pages that refer to these fields have also been updated to refer to the new field name. The UI pages are:

  • Student Selection --> Legacy Tab

  • Functions --> Re-Enroll In School

  • Functions --> Create New School Enrollment

PSSR-260783

Vaccine Rules Engine: Seed ME State Rules - DTAP, Polio, MCV4

New vaccine rules are added to help to indicate when a student is out of compliance with the standard vaccine schedule. Rule changes are implemented upon completion of the PowerSchool nightly process. The following vaccine rules are added:

  • 5 DTaP - ME: Checks for 4 doses and 5th dose in case 4th dose given before 4th birthday. Non-compliance if less than 5 doses.

  • 4 Polio - ME: Checks for 4 doses and 5th dose in case of 4th dose given before 4th birthday. Non-compliance if less than 4 doses.

  • 2 MCV4 - ME: Checks for 1 dose if the student is in grade 7. Checks for 2 doses if the student is in grade 12 and 1 dose received before 16th birthday. Non-compliance if less than 2 doses.

PSSR-264418Vaccine Rules Engine: Seed ME State Rules - MMR, Varicella, Tdap

New vaccine rules are added to help to indicate when a student is out of compliance with the standard vaccine schedule. Rule changes are implemented upon completion of the PowerSchool nightly process. The following vaccine rules are added:

  • 2 MMR - ME: Checks for 2 doses of MMR vaccine. Non-compliance if less than 2 doses
  • 1 Varicella (chickenpox) - ME: Checks for 1 dose of Varicella. Non-compliance if less than 1 dose.
  • 1 Tdap - ME: Checks for 1 dose of Tdap, Non-compliance if less than 1 dose.

PSSR-260784

Update the Message to Display Accurately While Establishing the Test Connection

“Test Connection“ in Start Page > District > Report Upload Configuration page displays below error if invalid credentials are entered.

“Unsuccessful Test connection. Invalid user id or password“

PSSR-248729

Report Upload: Update to Success/Failure Message

The alert message that displays after the report Upload button is clicked has been updated as follows:
If the file upload is successful, the alert message displays, “File uploaded successfully and the job execution has started. Job ID is <XXXXXXXXXX>. To view the completion status of the job, please log in to Synergy.”
If the upload fails, the alert message displays, “Failed to upload the report to synergy. Please contact the System Administrator.
The potential errors (but is not limited to) could be the following:

  • Invalid Synergy Log in Credentials.

  • Connection Error.

  • Invalid Webservice Report method.”

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