School Options - The Calculate Attendance Totals Based on Period Attendance option was added. This option will affect attendance calculations, attendance history calculations, CALPADS STAS, student profile, and the attendance page. See Period Attendance Calculation Option.
Two SBG Report Card options were added: 1 Mark Landscape and 2 Mark Landscape. These options can be configured on the Standards Based Options page and will print according to the configured grade levels. See Standards Based Options - General Options.
Report Card History now honors the new 1 Mark and 2 Mark Landscape Report Cards.
The Teacher SBG and Student SBG pages have been adjusted to honor this new setting.
Create Substitute Teacher Accounts - The page now supports Flexible Scheduling and Sections Staff.
Create Sections for Next Term - The page now supports Flex Scheduling and Section Staff. See Create Sections for Terms.
Attendance Log Report - The report now supports Flex Scheduling, Section Staff, and Class Attendance.
Ed-Fi 2.x Integration - The following entities now support Flex Scheduling and Section Staff: Class Period, Section, Student Section Association, Student Section Attendance Event, Staff Section Association, and Grade.
Weekly Engagement Report - The School Settings option for including Class Calendar and/or Gradebook information was updated to include Gradebook in its title.
Scheduling - The midyear scheduling process (i.e., scheduling for the current year) was significantly updated and improved. See Mid Year Scheduling Setup and Finalization.
Changes to Scheduling Master Schedule (SMS) records will be limited to new records that do not also exist in the Master Schedule (MST).
All changes to existing sections must be made in the MST.
These changes will automatically sync to the SMS.
This change applies to the Scheduling Master page, SMS Board, and any other place where SMS records can be updated.
Scheduling Setup - The Copy current master schedule (MST) table to the new SMS table initialization option now supports Section Staff.
Copy Scheduling Results to SEC & MST - For mid-year scheduling, when MST records already exist, a new option was added allowing users to select which terms to copy. This ensures that accidental changes to fall schedules are not made in SSS and prevents accidental creation of new sections in the wrong semester. See Mid Year Scheduling Setup and Finalization.
School Settings - The Populate All-Day Attendance Code Automatically option was added. This allows automatically flagging All Day codes in Attendance when all periods are flagged with absence codes. For Texas schools, the logic is limited to Remote Asynchronous students based on Special Programs and/or School Programs of RA. These changes do not yet apply to Class Attendance in Flex Scheduling schools. See School Settings.
Attendance - When attendance is updated in Aeries and the School Setting Populate All-Day Attendance Code Automatically is enabled, changes made to period attendance will potentially update the All-Day code. When all periods on a date are absence codes, with the exception of any flagged ADA = N in Master Schedule, the All-Day code will be flagged with an absence. If all periods contain the same absence code, the All Day code will receive that value; otherwise it will be flagged with the Unverified Absence (typically A). For Texas schools, the logic is limited to Remote Asynchronous students based on Special Programs and/or School Programs of RA. These changes do not yet apply to Class Attendance in Flex Scheduling schools. See Update Student Attendance.
Long Running Processes - The RHO table was added to store process options to prevent long running process failures due to Message Queue limitations.
Grading Periods - Calculated Grading Periods can now be weighted by a percent of marks in either GRD or GBK.
School Options - The Hide Grade Reporting GPAs option was added to the district-level page.
Student Grades Page and Report - Adjustments were made to support the new district Hide Grade Reporting GPAs option.
Issues Resolved
Transcripts - The "here is the title" tooltip appeared on the Mass Add pop-up window when hovering over empty areas on the page, fixed.
Letter Log - Letters sent with titles that contained more than 50 characters were not saved in LTL.ID or LEA.ID, fixed.
Teacher Attendance
In some circumstances, in a Section Staff school, a teacher was not able to submit attendance for the remaining sections of a selected date and period when the team teacher already submitted attendance for the same date and period, fixed.
Aeries Mobile API - The home screen in the Aeries Mobile Portal app did not display data in Elementary w/out MST schools, fixed.
Attendance Log Report - Selecting the AL period was printing every period instead of just the AL period, fixed.
Standards Based Report Cards
Marking Period options did not honor the 1 Column Portrait reports when all grade levels had the same report card type, fixed.
Existing 3 Mark and 4 Mark Landscape reports had the Track field overlapping the Track label, fixed.
Aeries Query
When querying the CSH.FP field, an error was generated, fixed.
The old PGM.SR field was removed from Query. Program Services is now stored in the PGS table.
Aeries Query and Field Level Security
The Repeat Grades (STU.RG) and School of Choice Transfer (STU.SCT) fields were not available in Query or Field Level Security, fixed.
For Texas users, the Entry Type (ENR.ET) field was not available, fixed.
Weekly Engagement Report (California)
For Elementary w/MST schools using daily attendance report only printed homeroom data, fixed.
Default options for the report now mirror the options in the Teacher Portal for consistency.
The report did not display all days of the week if those days were not in the class calendar, fixed. See Weekly Engagement Report (SB-98).
The report did not display attendance notes for schools with a Master Schedule doing daily attendance, fixed.
Student names were not displaying properly in some cases, fixed.
The report stopped printing for schools with a Master Schedule but without Class Calendars configured, fixed.
CCGI Extract Error - On the CCGI Extract page, after selecting Schools and clicking Next, in the Basic Info section an error was being displayed when saving the options, fixed.
Weekly Engagement Report - Shading was adjusted to differentiate Instructional vs. Non-Instructional Days. See Weekly Engagement Report (SB-98).
Texas Specific
Student Attendance Details Report - Grade level totals were added to the summaries section.
Database Changes
District GPA Grade Points (DGG) - The DGG table was added to store grade points for weight factors added to District Defined GPAs.
District GPAs (DGP) - The DGP table was added to store District Defined GPAs.
District GPA Schools and Cohorts (DGS) - The DGS table was added to store schools and cohorts associated with each District Defined GPA.
District GPA Weight Factors (DGW) - The DGW table was added to store weight factors added to District Defined GPAs.
Letter Log Audit (LEA) and Letter Log (LTL) - The size of Letter ID (ID) was increased to match the Letter (LET) table.
Student GPAs (GPA) - The GPA table was added to store student GPAs generated by District Defined GPAs.
Report History Options (RHO) - The table was added to store process options to prevent long running process failures due to Message Queue limitations.
Testing Exclusions (TEX) - The following fields were added: Insert Date (IDT), Insert User ID (IUI), Update User ID (UUI), Insert User Name (IUN), and Update User Name (UUN).
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New Features
Standards Based Report Cards
Two SBG Report Card options were added: 1 Mark Landscape and 2 Mark Landscape. These options can be configured on the Standards Based Options page and will print according to the configured grade levels. See Standards Based Options - General Options.
Report Card History now honors the new 1 Mark and 2 Mark Landscape Report Cards.
School Options - The Hide Grade Reporting GPAs option was added to the district-level page.
Student Grades Page and Report - Adjustments were made to support the new district Hide Grade Reporting GPAs option.
Issues Resolved
Standards Based Report Cards
Marking Period options did not honor the 1 Column Portrait reports when all grade levels had the same report card type, fixed.
Existing 3 Mark and 4 Mark Landscape reports had the Track field overlapping the Track label, fixed.
California Specific
Texas Specific
Database Changes