PowerSchool SIS Michigan

State Reporting 21.3.2.0 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-258077

All States/Provinces: Common Snapshot Report Failure

The Snapshot reports are fixed now and the reports are running and showing the completed successfully status as expected.

PSSR-258722

All States/Provinces: Digital Equity & Learning Preferences Functionality Updates

The following updates have been made to the Learning Preferences functionality:

  • Learning Preferences Code creation link is moved to District Setup page under the Code Sets link.If a state has code sets disabled then the Learning Preferences Code creation link can be found at the last section under the Code Setup Header

  • The Code Start Date & Code End Date are now editable.

  • The Learning Preferences link at Student-Level is renamed Digital Equity & Learning Preferences.

  • When creating a new record, field values from the last record with the greatest Effective Date carry forward if present.Fields that copy to a new record:Internet In ResidenceInternet AccessInternet PerformanceDevice AccessDevice TypeDevice Serial numberPaper Learning Packets

  • Access to the Digital Equity & Learning Preferences link, at the student level, is now governed by a check box in the "Edit Security Group" page (path below).
    Path: Start page> System> Groups>[ select group ]
    Upon receiving the update, administrators must go into security groups and give the appropriate groups access to this page.
    Note: This security group setting is suppressed for ND and TX.

PSSR-247607

All States/Provinces: Learning Preferences Functionality Updates

The following updates have been made to the Learning Preferences functionality:

  • Learning Preferences Code creation link is moved to District Setup page under the Code Sets link.

  • The Code Start Date & Code End Date are now editable.

  • The Learning Preferences link at Student-Level is renamed Digital Equity & Learning Preferences.

  • When creating a new record, field values from the last record with the greatest Effective Date carry forward if present.Fields that copy to a new record:Internet In ResidenceInternet AccessInternet PerformanceDevice AccessDevice TypeDevice Serial numberPaper Learning Packets

PSSR-230710

Created Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) Fields and Create Pages

The following fields are created:

  • The 10 KRA Prior Care characteristics are added on the State/Province - MI KRA tab.

  • The Kindergarten Program Type codes are added to the Courses and Sections pages.

PSSR-254670

Ed Fi Framework: Dashboard Counts Updated

It was found that the Ed-Fi Dashboard at times would show inconsistent counts with the data compared to what is in the database. This has been corrected so that the counts are accurate when refreshed.

PSSR-195084

Ed-Fi Framework: Update to "Reset Publish Records" Special Operation

Updated "Reset Publish Records" special operation to handle "Error" records published to the state's operational data store (ODS). This operation clears the erroneous records from the dashboard which has been already published successfully.

The operation now includes three new parameters:

  • Param 1: Profile Name - indicates the Ed-Fi profile to process. Enter the exact profile name as shown on the dashboard or type "ALL" for all profiles.

  • Param 2: School Year - indicates the school year to process. Enter the school year or type "ALL" for all school years.

  • Param 3: Resource Name - indicates the resource to process. Enter resource name or type "ALL" for all resources.

PSSR-256294

Ed-Fi: Incorrect School Number Associated with Records

Ed-Fi will now populate using the “MSDS School Number” for the school number associated with records. If this value not present, then the “alternate school number” will be used followed by the “school number” value.

PSSR-256944

Inconsistent Use of Exclude From Ed-Fi Checkbox

Exclude from Ed-Fi checkbox is used for some resources and the Exclude from State Reporting checkbox is used for other resources. All resources are updated to use the Exclude from Ed-Fi checkbox.

PSSR-253868

MiData Hub Ed-Fi Producing Invalid Student Program Errors

Publish for studentDropoutRecoveryProgramAssociations and studentAdultEducationProgramAssociations were previously showing in error when published. This is corrected and they will now successfully publish.

PSSR-257069

Residency Status Indicators Descriptors Have Too Many Records

Codeset Mapping page and choosing Residency Status Indicator, there is only a single namespace listed and that is the midatahub.org namespace.

Note: Downloading of the Descriptors is required for this change to appear.