PowerSchool SIS Nebraska

State Reporting 22.8.2.0 Release Notes

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Community when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2022 State Reporting Releases for release dates.

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Summary

Release Note

PSSR-288231

All States/Provinces: APEX Report Updates

Updates have been made to the following APEX reports and the new, updated version numbers are listed below:

  • Asset Inventory: Version 2.0

  • Asset Management: Version 2.0

  • Contact Relationship Details: Version 2.0

  • Courses List: Version 2.0

  • Current Grades: Version 2.0

  • Historical Grades: Version 2.0Note: This report is designed to replace the Student Grades report. Historical Grades 2.0 has a new report ID and will not automatically replace the old Student Grades report. Users can publish this new report when ready and consider removing the old Student Grades report. The report was also renamed to sufficiently differentiate it from the Current Grades report.

  • Standard Grades: Version 2.0

  • Student Demographics Plus: Version 2.0

PSSR-280849

All States/Provinces: Attendance Profile Report Updates

Additional Reference: PSSR-289267, PSSR-284634, PSSR-281373, PSSR-296964

Attendance Profile Report: Version 1.5

The following updates to the Attendance Profile Report have been made:

  • The minutes absent are calculated based on the daily attendance clock in/out time.

  • The report is sorted as followsLast Name: List students in alphabetical orderGrade Level: List students by grade level (descending order) and then in alphabetical orderHomeroom: List students alphabetically by homeroom, homerooms are listed in alphabetical order or in descending order if homeroom values are numeric

  • Invalid data for clock in/out time is fixed

  • The Guardian Name will now consistently be extracted

  • When daily attendance is used, will only report the daily attendance data.

PSSR-230272

All States/Provinces: Calendar Membership Type Code Descriptor Mapping Page Update

The Ed-Fi descriptor mapping page has been updated and will filter out any Calendar Membership Type records where the code is blank.

Note: An LDV rule will be implemented, that will prevent the creation of Calendar Membership Type records if the Code is blank, in a future Core release.

PSSR-280358

All States/Provinces: Career Tech Credentials Report Renamed

Academic and Career Plan Credentials Report: Version 1.1

The Career Tech Credentials Report has been renamed to Academic and Career Plan Credentials Report to match Academic and Career Plan Credentials functionality in PowerSchool SIS.

PSSR-297623

All States/Provinces: Health Office Visit Detail Report Update

Health Office Visit Details Report: Version 1.2

The Office Visit Detail can fail if the VisitReason, Treatment, Procedure, VisitOutcome, and Assessment values exceed 4000 characters.

To prevent the report from failing, it will now truncate values in the columns noted above so the combined length does not exceed 4000 characters.

PSSR-286262

All States/Provinces: Minimum PowerSchool Version for State Reporting - 21.11.1.0

The minimum supported version on PowerSchool SIS State/Provincial Reporting installer is updated and can now be installed on PowerSchool SIS 21.11.1.0 or later. For details refer to PowerSchool SIS – Supported PowerSchool Versions.

PSSR-297953

Codes and Sub-Codes Updates for 22-23 SY

The codes and Subcodes in the Incident management page are updated to reflect the new state reporting codes:

New Codes:

Behavior codes

State  Aggregate Report code

Category

Alcohol

ALC

Alcohol

Property Damage/Vandalism

VAN

Property Damage

Public Indecency

PIN

Public Indecency

New Subcodes:

Behavior codes

State Detail report code

Subcode

Bullying -> Others

BOT

Others

Harassment -> Others

HOT

Others

Physical Attack -> Theft

TFT

Theft

PSSR-296907

Courses Page Updates

The courses page has been updated to accommodate the new state reporting requirements for 2022-23:

  • The new input field 'Minutes per Session' was added in the Nebraska state-specific information section

  • The Civil Rights Data Collection link is removed from the course page and moved to a new tab “CRDC”.

PSSR-295520

Ed-Fi: Grades Resource Show Errors While Publishing

Grades resource will now publish without any GradeTypeDescriptors errors.

PSSR-256966

Ed-Fi Framework: Rename Message Currently Not Available

Modified error message from Message Currently Not Available to Message Removed - Retry Publishing after the clean-up. This appears in the Error views for resources.

PSSR-263684

Ed-Fi: Remove GetCF to direct extended field for Ed-Fi Oracle Packages

The Ed-Fi packages are converted from GetCF to direct extended field and all the resources are published successfully.

PSSR-293670

Performance Improvements

Reports and processes are updated for better performance. The calls to legacy custom fields (GetCF) are updated and now process database extension fields directly. The following files were updated

  • EDFI_NE_LIB_BODY.sql

  • NE_ABSENCE_BODY.sql

  • NE_EDFI_GRADE_BODY.sql

PSSR-296914

Publish Instructional Time planned

The Course Offerings Resource was updated to publish Instructional Time planned for the school year 2022-2023.