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The management of Alternate Course Requests has been completely redesigned to allow multiple alternate requests to be associated with each primary request. Also, summer course requests now support alternates using this new design. These changes apply to the staff-facing Course Requests page as well as the Course Requests Entry page where parents and/or students can enter course requests in the Aeries Portal.
The scheduler now supports multiple alternate requests associated with each primary request. The Scheduler will successively attempt every possible combination of alternate requests for all rejected courses. Also, when scheduling alternates, there was the possibility of causing additional rejects, fixed.
Summer School Scheduler
The scheduler now supports alternate requests for summer school scheduling, including multiple alternate requests associated with each primary request.
This report has been adjusted to support multiple alternate course requests per primary course request.
Security
The new tables for alternate course requests, summer alternate course requests, and their respective backup tables have been added as Query-only security areas.
Backup and Restore Scheduling Results
The new tables for alternate course requests have been added to the backup and restore processes for both regular session and summer schools.
Copy Students into Summer Schools
When copying students to summer schools in the current database, summer alternate course requests (SAR and SAA tables) will be converted to regular session alternate course requests (ACR and ACA tables).
Aeries API
Several version 4.1 (v4p1) endpoints have been added to support the redesigned Alternate Course Requests.
Aeries is now Certified as Ed-Fi 2.x compliant. As a result, the "Beta" label has been removed from the 3 Ed-Fi administration pages, Ed-Fi ODS Configuration, Ed-Fi System Init and Testing, and Ed-Fi Code mappings.
There are new options for a 1 Mark and 2 Mark report card for the 2-Column Portrait layout.
Standards Based Options
The Standards Based Options page now allows a 1 Mark and 2 Mark option for the 2-Column Portrait report card. Also, the "General Options" tab will now be the default instead of "Language Options".
The new discipline extracts, Student Incident (SINC), Student Incident Results (SIRS), and Student Offense (SOFF) have been added to the CALPADS EOY Extracts. The new extracts include logic to process restraint and seclusion. Translation is required for these new code sets.
A new feature has been added to allow users with delete permission to FTS to view the student's payment portal information and also delete the payment portal in an instance where the student is unable to initialize the payment portal. This feature is only available to districts that are using Livingtree.
Scheduling Class Load Averages report
Support for Flex Scheduling has been added to this report. The Period column will now display the Flex Period Short Title, the Staff Name and ID will display instead of Teacher Name and Number when Flex Scheduling is enabled.
Scheduling Class Load Analysis report
Support for Flex Scheduling has been added to this report. The Period column will now display the Flex Period Short Title, the Staff Name and ID will display instead of Teacher Name and Number, and the Days column will display the Class Calendar Short Description when Flex Scheduling is enabled.
Scheduling Letter to Parents report
Support for Flex Scheduling has been added to this report. The Period column will now display the Flex Period Short Title, the Staff Name will display instead of Teacher Name, and the Days column will display the Class Calendar Short Description when Flex Scheduling is enabled.
Scheduling Master Schedule report
Support for Flex Scheduling has been added to this report. The Period column will now display the Flex Period Short Title, the Staff Name and ID will display instead of Teacher Name and Number, and the Days column will display the Class Calendar Short Description when Flex Scheduling is enabled.
CCGI Extract
This process now provides a method to include 6th grade demographic information of students in schools without a master schedule. Also, the CourseGrade file displayed a value of "NULL" in the credits earned field for WIP records, fixed. The CourseCatalog has been updated so that each school that is selected in the extract will have a complete course catalog associated with it's specific CDS code.
The ATT table has been removed until the issues with the Attendance Log (ATL) are resolved. Also, on the Import Data Log, the field names had been misaligned, fixed.
Financial Transactions
The Balance Adjustment payment type has been removed from the payment type list when editing a pending payment transaction.
Contacts
Teachers were previously unable to edit Contact (CON) records even if they were given table permissions to do so. This restriction has been removed. Teachers can now also print the Contacts Report for a student from this page. NOTE: Teachers will still not be able to edit contacts records for students with "Do Not Release" (DNR) values that hide contact information.
Student Portal
The Communication widget is now hidden for student so that they can not opt out of Aeries Communications.
Aeries Student Portal Gradebook Details
When portal options are set to display scores as check marks the gradebook details page Card View still displayed scores, fixed.
Gradebook Scores By Class
When updating scores, assignments with complex titles would fail to update, fixed.
SAML Login
After the 11/22 and 12/17 updates, changes to the login process caused SAML to fail for 3rd party SSO solutions, fixed.
Students with Siblings report
This report was not honoring Query Keeps and Skips when the "Sort by Student Name" option was selected, fixed.
Update Code Table
When trying to upload a PNG image from the Update Code Table page to the table CDI and field code of IMG, the image was not visible in the file upload window, fixed.
Mass Change Section Number
This page was blank for schools that had Scheduling Tables set as inactive, fixed.
Aeries Login Redirect
Some deep links into Aeries from 3rd party systems and custom customer solutions have not been working properly since the 11/22 Aeries update, fixed.
Student Search
The "Keep and List Group" button was not fully displayed, fixed.
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https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000112891-alternate-course-requests
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000110688-online-summer-school-course-requests-portal-options
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000110673-online-summer-school-course-requests-scheduling-groups-terms-and-courses
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000110691-online-summer-school-course-requests-parent-student-portal
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000112893-summer-school-alternate-course-requests
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000095513-abl-scheduling-api-enhancements
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000104906-ed-fi-overview
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000071968-standards-based-options-general-options
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000112774-eoy-3-discipline-files-sinc-sirs-soff
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/articles/14000093520-staff-data/
https://support.aeries.com/support/solutions/folders/14000124795