PowerSchool SIS Wisconsin

State Reporting 20.5.2.0 Release Notes

A release announcement will be posted on PowerSchool Community when the installer is available for download. Refer to 2020 State Reporting Releases for release dates.

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Summary

Release Note

PSSR-232783

CTE Profile Report - Update

CTE Profile Report: Version 1.1

A student's enrollment record will be excluded from the report if the Exclude this record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current enrollment or previous enrollment.

PSSR-231446

CTE Profile Report - Update

CTE Profile Report: Version 1.1

The following updates are made:

  • State Endorsed Regional Career Pathway Status Type is removed from the report. This is no longer required by DPI.

  • The CIP code column is expanded to print up to 20 characters.

  • The Report Parameter page now states CTE related courses need to be identified as either Vocational or Career Tech or have an IAC Code specified.

  • The Program Areas are listed in bold in a box to the right of the description.

  • If a student receives certification on the Career Technical Education (CTE) page, an X will print in the box, otherwise, the box will be blank.

  • The report output column Program is relabeled to Non-Certified Program.

PSSR-232789

Direct Certification - Updated

Direct Certification: Version 1.3

A student's enrollment record will be excluded from the report if the Exclude this record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current enrollment or previous enrollment.

PSSR-234269

Ed-Fi: Duplicate/Multiple SPED Records Publishing

If a student was enrolled in multiple schools or into the same school multiple times, duplicate and extra SPED records were being published for the student. SPED records will now correctly publish and are no longer duplicated.

PSSR-231375

Ed-Fi: English Language Proficiency Classification Default for Choice Schools

The logic for the limitedEnglishProficiencyDescriptor data element on the studentEducationOrganizationAssociations resource has the following updates:

  • If a Choice school and EnglishProfCode is null, publish as Null (empty element)

  • If a Public school and EnglishProfCode is null, default to 7.

PSSR-232805

Ed-Fi: GradingPeriod on Grades Could Publish Incorrect Value

Ed-Fi now publishes the Grading Period descriptor according to class term of the associated section.

PSSR-231671

Ed-Fi: Include Five Additional CE Programs from Student CTE Page

Ed-Fi now publishes the below CE programs as Non-certified CE programs:

  • Internship

  • Local Co-op

  • School based Enterprise

  • Simulation

  • Supervised Occupational Experience

PSSR-226732

Ed-Fi: Modify Student Exclusion Logic

Ed-Fi publishing will be based on both the previous and current enrollments. If a student has a previous enrollment that is marked as excluded, then this enrollment will not be published, but any other enrollments for the year will be published. If the student's current enrollment is marked as excluded, then the current enrollment will not be published, but any other enrollments for the year will be published.

PSSR-230152

Ed-Fi: Remove Hard-Coded Namespaces from All V3 Descriptors

In order to align more fully with Ed-Fi publishing to the state ODS, hardcoded namespaces that were part of our publishing have been removed and the namespaces provided by the state will be used in its place.

Important: In order to prevent errors after installing this release, descriptors must be downloaded before any publishing occurs.

PSSR-225102

Ed-Fi: Special Characters in a Key Are Secret Are Not Saved

Ed-Fi is updated to correctly handle special characters that may appear as part of a district's key or secret.

PSSR-230737

Ed-Fi: Student Records Continuously Publish Causing Errors in the State ODS

When a student has transferred from one district to another, the first district is not authorized by the state to update their student record any longer. Previously, these records would result in dependencies that would continuously try to publish causes multiple errors in the State ODS. The system will now detect a student record that has successfully published in the past and will mark the record as published if the state returns an unauthorized error.

PSSR-233578

Ed-Fi: Terms Published by Context School ID, Not by Ed-Fi School Number

Ed-Fi will now add terms records based on the School ID and not the Ed-Fi School Number. This will prevent duplicate terms from showing in schools that use the same Ed-Fi School Number.

PSSR-232786

PI-1441 School Food - Update

PI-1441 School Food: Version 1.3

A student's enrollment record will be excluded from the report if the Exclude this record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current enrollment or previous enrollment.

PSSR-232209

PI-1547 Transportation Report - Update

PI-1547 Transportation Report: Version 1.2

A student’s enrollment record will not be excluded from the report if the Exclude the record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current or previous enrollment.

PSSR-232788

PI-1563 Pupil Count - Updated

PI-1563 Pupil Count: Version 1.6

A student's enrollment record will be excluded from the report if the Exclude this record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current enrollment or previous enrollment.

PSSR-232787

PI-1563 Pupil Count Detail - Updated

PI-1563 Pupil Count Detail: Version 1.2

A student's enrollment record will be excluded from the report if the Exclude this record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current enrollment or previous enrollment.

PSSR-234881

PI-1563 Reconciliation - Update

PI-1563 Reconciliation: Version 1.2

A student's enrollment record will be excluded from the report if the Exclude this record from WISEdata Reporting field is selected on the current enrollment or previous enrollment.

PSSR-195034

Student-Level Field Update

Student-Level Field Update: Version 1.2

The following updates are made to the report:

  • The report parameter options are now in a table format.

  • New columns for table, field, value to set, and action are added.

  • Page is organized into two areas, Recommend Fields and Other Fields.