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MST Board - Support was added for Section Staff schools.
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The Special Course Title field now supports up to 30 characters instead of 20.
Class ranks of 0 are no longer visible.
Student Attendance - The Quick Print feature was added for Flex Scheduling schools, as well as warnings when attempting to edit attendance data for old or future dates. See Flex Scheduling - Student Attendance.
Career Pathway Extract Files - The selection lists no longer require the use of the "Ctrl" key to make multiple selections, and the extract buttons are now always visible.
Recompute Cumulative GPAs and Class Rank - The option to Select Grades to Recompute was added.
Create MST/SMS Teacher Aides - Support for Section Staff in a non-Flex environment was added.
School Settings - The Do not rank students who are behind grade level from their Graduation Cohort option was added. The grade reporting and cumulative GPA/rank calculations will now honor this option.
Data Validation - The BETA label has been removed. Data Validation is now available for all customers.
Grades - Class ranks of 0 are no longer visible.
Report Cards - Class ranks of 0 are no longer visible.
Attendance Notes Usage Analysis Report - This is a brand new report added to display statistics for codes used in Attendance Notes based on dates, teachers or sections.
Class List By Section Report - Options for Including a Teacher Signature Line and filtering on selected periods were added.
Student Grades Report - Class ranks of 0 are no longer visible.
Students with N or More Absences Report - Support was added for Flex Scheduling. Note: The "wide" version of the report is not available for Flex Scheduling and there is currently no plan to support it.
Period Absence Audit Report - Support was added for Flex Scheduling and Section Staff Schools. Support for Report Tagging was also added.
Student Absence Totals Report - Flex Scheduling schools with Class Attendance are now directed to run the Students With N or More Absences report instead of this report.
Students With Perfect Attendance Report - Support for Flex Scheduling and Class Attendance was added.
Aeries Mobile API - Support for the upcoming Attendance Note and Quick Note in the Aeries Teacher app was added.
Issues Resolved
Aeries Mobile API
Some users were unable to see notifications for parent data confirmation when there were no Data Confirmation documents to review, fixed.
Some users were not able to log into Teacher App and EM2 using Google login, fixed.
Teacher Attendance - In Positive Attendance schools Present codes other than P are were not visible in mass apply attendance on teacher attendance, fixed.
Attendance Management - The legend pop-up window was misaligned and some columns were hidden, fixed.
Attendance Notes Report - In certain situations, a blank value was not listed under Select Codes to Include on the Report, fixed.
Attendance Letters District Report, and other reports - Formatting for a seven-digit phone number was not supported, fixed.
Gradebook Summary Report - The overall score displayed on this report was rounded instead of truncated, fixed.
Student Search - For teachers in a Flex Scheduling school, the Linked Students drop-down list displayed "Pd 0" for all classes, fixed.
Weekly Instructional Minutes (California Users)
Weeks where a teacher had no classes were being displayed, fixed.
When a section in MST was inactivated and the class calendar still had active dates throughout the year, "Certified" did not appear for the week that was already certified by the teacher, fixed.
Weekly Engagement Report (California Users)
In some cases the second page of the report was not displaying correctly, fixed.
An error occurred in some cases with the message "Object reference not set", fixed.
The report did not exclude sections that have no meeting dates in a given week, fixed.
Import Test Results - For California users, minor follow up fixes were needed for the ELPAC 2019-20 Test, fixed.
Language Assessment Management - For California users, the process to copy ELPAC and IELPAC did not include all the test parts, fixed.
Demographics - For Texas users, the Texas Unique ID Search did not convert the student suffix field to the proper codified value before sending to the lookup, fixed.
Standards Based Grades - Teachers were not able to print kindergarten report cards due to a mishandling of kindergarten grade level codes, fixed.
Contacts - The ability to change notification preferences (cog wheel) for Aeries Communications powered by ParentSquare was removed. This will be added back in a future release after enhancements to ParentSquare notification preferences are completed. See Aeries Communications - ParentSquare Initial Configuration.
Texas State Reporting
The PEIMs Fall student extract had the potential to fail due to a missing as-of-status-code, fixed.
A default value was added to the Star Of Texas Indicator for PK students, and defaults have been added to the Foster Care Indicator and Military Connected Student when as-of-status is not A.
In the PEIMS Fall student extract Early Reading Indicators were not extracting for 1st and 2nd grade students, fixed.
In the PEIMS Fall student extract Adult Previous Attendance Indicator was extracting for all students with a value of 0, it will now only extract when set.
California Specific
Instructional Minutes Certification Management - The page was added to allow office staff to visualize weekly instruction certification details, including teachers who have not yet certified. A Quick Print button is included on the page. See Weekly Instructional Minutes Certification (SB-98)
Weekly Instructional Minutes - The Certifying User and Certified On (date and time) fields were added for the instructional week.
Test Settings - The CAASPP and ELPAC Test settings have been updated for the 2020-21 Testing Administration. See Overview for Test Settings
Internships by Teacher/Internships by Class
The form now supports the new ISP fields that will be used in CALPADS reporting (Work-Based Learning).
The user interface now includes the associated internships in an accordion. The accordion is closed by default but always displays the number of existing internships per student.
SELA Conflict Report - Adult English Learner (ADEL) language fluency is now supported as well as KEEP/SKIP school selection (when logged in at the district and not running the report from the CALPADS page), and the ability to skip preschool (PS) grade level.
CCGI Extract - The Recompute GPA button has been removed. The Recompute Cumulative GPAs and Class Rank page should be used to recompute student GPAs.
UCELC Extract - The Recompute GPA button now redirects to the Recompute Cumulative GPAs and Class Rank page.
Import Test Results
Minor follow up fixes were needed for the ELPAC 2019-20 Test, fixed.
The Test Layout name needed to be updated to ELPAC Test Results - SY:2019-20, fixed.
The Sorting of the Test Scores Table needed improvements for handling tests such as ELPAC/IELPAC where sub-tests can have different test dates, fixed.
Test Scores were not visually separated by school year, fixed.
Texas Specific
Texas State Reporting - Code Translations
PK Curricula (MST.CT), Population Served (CRS.PSV), and Non-Campus Based Instruction (CRS.NCI) elements in the Master Schedule interchange are now supported.
The Shared Services Arrangements (SHS.CD) element is now supported.
Texas State Reporting - PEIMS Fall Student
The PEIMS Fall student extract had the potential to fail due to a missing As-Of-Status-Code, fixed.
A default value has been added to the Star Of Texas Indicator for PK students, and defaults have been added to the Foster Care Indicator and Military Connected Student when As-Of-Status is not A.
Early Reading Indicators were not extracting for 1st and 2nd grade students, fixed.
Adult Previous Attendance Indicator was extracting for all students with a value of 0; it will now only extract when set.
Texas Assessment Precode Extracts - The precode file format now supports the latest specifications for the 2020-2021 school year.
TREx - Version 1.25 is now supported and includes crisis codes, post-secondary licensures, SAT and ACT reimbursement, and RA/RS attendance.
Database Changes
Cross Reference (XRF) - Default TSDS mappings were added for Texas Unique ID Suffix (STU.SF).
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New Features
Issues Resolved
California Specific
Test Settings - The CAASPP and ELPAC Test settings have been updated for the 2020-21 Testing Administration. See Overview for Test Settings
Texas Specific
Database Changes