Provincial Reporting 20.11.2.0 Release Notes
A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Community when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2020 Provincial Reporting Releases for release dates.
Minimum PowerSchool SIS version required to install SR 20.11.2.0.
Before installing SR 20.11.2.0, verify that you are running one of the following versions of PowerSchool SIS.
- PowerSchool SIS 19.4.5.3
- PowerSchool SIS 19.11.2.4
- PowerSchool SIS 20.4.5.2
- PowerSchool SIS 20.11.0.0
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PSSR-246889 | Minimum PowerSchool Version for State Reporting - 19.4.5.3 | As of November 25, 2020, PowerSchool State Reporting only supports PowerSchool 19.4.5.3 or later, and our Technology and Support teams will focus solely on supporting PowerSchool versions 19.4.5.3 or later. |
PSSR-244295 | Contact Tracing Report Update - Busing Data | Contact Tracing Report: Version 1.1 The Contact Tracing report is updated and now pulls busing data based on a newly added report parameter. With the busing data parameter checked, the report will pull students that may have shared the bus with the report the student is run for based on the following:
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PSSR-247358 | Data Validation Report - Update | Data Validation Report: Version 2.4 The validation to ensure that the student's Year of Entry to Canada does not fall after the student's enrolment start date has been disabled for the 2020-2021 school year, to align with the Ministry's OnSIS rules. |
PSSR-239091 | Elementary Report Card (7-8) Shows 0% Median Scores For Select Standards In One School | Elementary Report Cards (7-8) - Gradebook: Version 5.6 To meet Ministry recommendations, when the median for a subject is a value of I or R, the median field in the report is now left blank. In the case when the median is the average of two marks, one of which is I or R then the median field in the report is also set to blank. |
PSSR-240673 | Elementary Report Cards (7–8) – Gradebook Is Not Selecting French Field for All Students When Run for a Group of Students | Elementary Report Cards (7-8) - Gradebook: Version 5.6 The report is updated to select the French field appropriately for each student when run for a group of students. |
PSSR-230303 | Enhance Calculate Course Repeats Logic - Several reports were impacted | Additional References: PSSR-230308, PSSR-242768, PSSR-243551, PSSR-245701, PSSR-246591, PSSR-249404, PSSR-230309, PSSR-230313, PSSR-230314 Ontario Student Status: Version 7.2 The reports are enhanced to calculate repeats on the alt course number (the five-character course number). The following is the high-level logic of the common function used by all the reports. For more details on the affected fields and pages on each report, please refer to the online guide. The function process the students records as follows:
A co-op course cannot be a repeat of a regular course with the same Alt Course Number; so the function performs the following:
Only final marks for credited courses that are not excluded from transcripts or GPA are considered for repeat calculation. Failed classes are not considered for repeat calculation. The logic consider records with
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PSSR-230231 | New Field- Calculate Repeats on Course Number | Additional References: PSSR-230233, PSSR-230234 A new field, Calculate Repeats on Course Number, is added to the following pages:
When this field is selected for a section, course, or historical grades record, the course repeat logic uses the course number instead of the alt course number when calculating course repeats. Database field
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PSSR-249965 | OCAS/OUAC - CommunityInvolvment Calc Enhancements - COVID-19 | OCAS Transmission: Version 7.9 The reports are enhanced to mark students as achieving their community hours if the student has completed 20 hours or more starting with the 2020-2021 school year. |
PSSR-251602 | OnSIS Elementary – Support Cross-enrolled Students | OnSIS Elementary Submission: Version 13.8 The OnSIS Elementary Submission is enhanced to include the school's cross-enrolled students in the transmission file. Students who are cross-enrolled should have a school enrollment at another school during the cross-enrollment period. Also, the cross-enrolled school and the school in which the student is enrolled should both have the same attendance conversion for DAYS_ABSENT_YTD and TIMES_LATE_YTD tags to populate correctly. SECOND_LANGUAGE_PROGRAM and SPECIAL_ED segments are now generated for the cross-enrolled students for the October submission. |
PSSR-236124 | OnSIS Secondary Submission - Diploma Segment is Not Appearing For Selected Students Who Are No Longer Enrolled | OnSIS Secondary Submission: Version 15.8 The OnSIS Secondary Submission now generates the Student_Non_Enrolment segment for the appropriate students when running for a selected group of students as well as all students. |
PSSR-248343 | OnSIS Student ADE Report - Update | OnSIS Student ADE: Version 1.8 |
PSSR-251288 | Remove Early Years Tags from ONSIS Elementary Report | OnSIS Elementary School Submission: Version 13.8 |
PSSR-237221 | Schools Language Instructional Minutes Replace Virtual Tables with Extended Tables | The Language Instructional Minutes page under Schools is updated to use the extended tables and fields rather than the virtual tables and custom fields. This will improve performance. There is no change in functionality. |
PSSR-230355 | Script to Select ‘Calculate Course Repeats on Course Number Flag’ for Graduated Students | Review an optional script for setting the 'Calculate Repeats On Course Number' flag to ON. This script selects the 'Calculate Repeats on Course Number Flag' for all the historical grades records for all graduated students in the board (students with diploma date is not blank). This allows reports to calculate repeats using the course number (old logic) and reports are printed the same for graduated students. |
PSSR-245841 | Secondary Report Card – Enhance SHSM Calculation to Use Course Repeat Logic | OnSIS Secondary Submission: Version 15.8 The report is enhanced to select the SHSM flag only for current and completed courses that are used to fulfill an SHSM course credit requirement. Repeated courses (based on the new course repeats logic) should not have the SHSM flag selected.
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PSSR-245839 | Several Reports Enhanced to Print H Note Based on Course Repeat Logic | Ontario Student Transcript Report: Version 7.0 Reports are enhanced to print the H notes on the basis of new course repeat logic. H Note indicates the course credit has been used to fulfill a SHSM course credit requirement. As of the report run date, if the course is completed after the student has met the requirements for the SHSM program or the student has exited from the program, the course is not flagged as a SHSM course. If a SHSM course is repeated (as per the new logic ), the H note is printed only for the instance with the highest mark. |
PSSR-245304 | SHSM Progress – Enhance Page to Use the Course Repeat Logic | SHSM Progress page displays a student's current and completed SHSM courses counted towards the program. This page is enhanced to use new common course repeats logic. Changes include:
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PSSR-237222 | Special Programs SHSM Replace Virtual Tables with Extended Tables | The SHSM program page, under Special Programs at the district level, is updated to use the extended tables and fields rather than the virtual tables and custom fields. This will improve performance. There is no change in functionality. |
PSSR-237224 | Student Community Hours Replace Virtual Tables and Custom Fields with Extended Tables | The Student Community Hours pages are updated to use the extended tables and fields rather than the virtual tables and custom fields. |
PSSR-240971 | Student Digital Equity and Learning Preference Tracking Available in the Public Portal | A new page is now available (if enabled) in the public portal that will enable parents and guardians to enter learning preference and digital equity data for their student or students. This functionality is disabled by default. To enable, navigate to the following page:
If enabled, parents/guardians have the ability to create records and populate the following fields:
The Comment field is not visible when a parent/guardian is creating a record but it will the following string will get saved for any record created in the public portal:
Additionally, if a parent/guardian has entered a Digital Equity & Learning Preference record previously and they create a new record, the above elements that are marked with an asterisk will be pre-populated based on the values in the existing (previous) record. |
PSSR-237223 | Student SHSM Replace Virtual Tables and Custom Fields with Extended Tables | The Student SHSM pages are updated to use the extended tables and fields rather than the virtual tables and custom fields. |
PSSR-242138 | Update New Feature to Store Second_Language_Program Segment of XML Files in Permanent Tables | OnSIS Secondary School Submission: Version 15.8 The OnSIS Secondary submission now saves Second_Language_Program segment data to S_ON_STU_XML_SECOND_LANG_C table to enable boards to validate the data before uploading files to OnSIS. |
PSSR-242137 | Update New Feature to Store Second_Language_Program Segment of XML Files in Permanent Tables | OnSIS Elementary School Submission: Version 13.8 The OnSIS Elementary submission now saves Second_Language_Program segment data to S_ON_STU_XML_SECOND_LANG_C table, enabling boards to validate the data before uploading files to OnSIS. |
PSSR-242151 | Update New Feature to Store STUDENT_CLASS_ENROLMENT Segment of XML Files in Permanent Tables | OnSIS Secondary School Submission: Version 15.8 The OnSIS Secondary submission now saves the STUDENT_CLASS_ENROLMENT segment data to S_ON_STU_XML_CLASS_ENROL_C table, allowing boards to validate data before uploading files to OnSIS. |