State Reporting 21.3.2.0 Release Notes

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 to 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 Residence
    • Internet Access
    • Internet Performance
    • Device Access
    • Device Type
    • Device Serial number
    • Paper Learning Packets

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

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 to 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 Residence
    • Internet Access
    • Internet Performance
    • Device Access
    • Device Type
    • Device Serial number
    • Paper 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.

The separate fields for “Dual Credit” and “International Baccalaureate” are now obsolete and are removed from the Historical Grades page. “Dual Credit” is also removed from the Sections page.

• The “Credit Type Detail” field in Courses, Sections and Stored Grades is now the exclusive source for these data elements:
  • DC = Dual Credit
  • IB = International Baccalaureate
• The Dual Credit flag in existing section records is automatically migrated to the Credit Type Detail field as code "DC" in the Sections extension table (S_ND_SEC_X. Credit_Type_Detail).
• The Dual Credit flag in existing stored grades records is automatically migrated to the Credit Type Detail field as code “DC” in the Stored Grades extension table (S_ND_SGR_X. Credit_Type_Detail).
• The International Baccalaureate flag in existing stored grades records is automatically migrated to the Credit Type Detail field as code “IB” in the Stored Grades extension table (S_ND_SGR_X. Credit_Type_Detail).
• The North Dakota Permanently Store Grades Process is also updated to remove the deprecated fields and to add new logic to copy the values from the Credit Type Detail field in Sections or Courses to the Historical Grades records.

The following updates for Legal Gender are now available:

• The North Dakota Legal Gender field now appears below the core gender field on the Enroll New Student and Demographics pages.
  • The existing validation requiring a value of M or F in the core Gender field is removed.
  • A new validation warning is displayed if the selected code for the core Gender field is not M or F, and the Legal Gender field is blank: Legal Gender must be M or F if Gender is not M or F. The user must populate the Legal Gender value in order to save the page.
• The same Legal Gender validation is also implemented on the State/Province - ND > General tab.