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New Features

• Courses - Department Codes can now have up to six characters. 
• Graduation Status - Endorsements being pursued by a student are now grouped separately from the others on both the page and widget. See Add-on Graduation Requirements/Endorsements Calculation. 
• Endorsements - Student Endorsement Status now uses Fixed Code values. See Add-on Graduation Requirements/Endorsements Calculation. 
• Transcript Definitions 
  • The GPA print options are now hidden when their corresponding built-in GPAs have been disabled. See GPA Configurations Page. This option applies to the enhanced one-column report style. See Transcript Design Options Enhanced 1 Column Style.

  • The Print Department Code or Description option was added when selecting to print department.  This option applies to the enhanced one-column report style. 

  • On the Things To Print tab, an option was added in the Score column to not display hours for ACT values. 

• Student Transcript Report - The new Print Department Code or Description option is now honored. 

• Academic Plan Course Sequences - The page now allows up to 16 courses to be added, as well as setting a default term and default year for each course. See Academic Plan - Setting Up Course Sequences.
• Contacts - The Parent/Guardian Education Level field was added.  
• Aeries Mobile API - In the Teacher App, Class Roster features were enhanced. 

• Contacts - The CON.CD field label was renamed from Code to Record Type to make it more descriptive. See Contacts. 

• Query - The CON.CD field label was renamed from Code to Record Type. 

• Content Standards Scores - The Related Part column now displays the description and part number instead of just the part number. 

• Copy Many Student Records - The ability to filter to a specific list of Student IDs was added. See Copy Many Student Records - Process.

• Student Contacts Report 

  • The Record Type field (CON.CD) was added so Parent/Guardian, or other types, can be clearly identified. 

  • The report format was adjusted for clarity. 

• Student Quick Contacts Report - The Record Type field (CON.CD) was added to this report so Parent/Guardian, or other types, can be clearly identified.  

• Period Totals by Grade - The report was adjusted for Flex Scheduling.
• Student Locator Cards - The report now supports sorting by time for Flex Scheduling schools. See Student Locator Cards
• Master Cut Listing - The report was disabled in Flex Scheduling schools. 
• Master Absence List Report - The report was removed from Aeries. The following pages can be used to retrieve this information:
  • Students Absent Today
  • Attendance Management

• Student Demographic Update Information

  • A Parent/Guardian checkbox was added to the Contacts section of report. 

  • The Parent Education Level field was moved from the Demographic to the Contacts section. 

• Portal Options - The Attendance to be Taken (Marked as Complete) by Section option was added to the Attendance section.  This option will be automatically selected if the Lock Teacher Attendance for a class after the teacher clicks the 'Attendance Complete' button option is enabled. See Portal Options - Attendance. 
• Teacher Attendance - The Mass Apply feature for Att Code and Quick Notes now allows filtering students by Grade, Program, Track, and other Student fields that are also sortable. See Attendance Notes.
• Teacher Attendance and Attendance By Photo - These pages now support the new Attendance to be Taken (Marked as Complete) by Section option on Portal Options. 

• Student Schedule Listing and Student Schedule Listing Wide - The reports now support Flex Scheduling schools.

• Import Test Results - The page now supports the NWEA 2020-2021 student test results for California and Texas. See Test Specific Information NWEA Map.
• Define Custom Captions - The following pages now support User Code fields that have district-defined labels: 
  • District Assets
  • Vendors
  • Extracurricular Activities
  • Religious Information
  • Course History Institutions
  • Supplemental Attendance Programs
  • Supplemental Attendance Sessions
  • Summer School Course Requests
  • Employers
• Ed-Fi 3.x
  • The following entities were implemented:
    • Parents 
    • Students 
    • Custom Student School Combinations 
    • Graduation Plans 
    • Student School Associations 
    • Student Parent Associations 
  • Caching was added to core Ed-Fi implementation code to improve efficiency. 

Issues Resolved

• Transcript - ACT values in Things To Print did not display the title on the one-column enhanced transcript style, fixed.
• Census Block - For Texas users, the Census Block auto complete on the Demographics and Street Address Management pages showed valid addresses as invalid because the state changed to using 2020 Census Blocks instead of 2010, fixed. 
• Texas State Reporting - In the PEIMS Fall Student Enrollment and Student files, leavers who were enrolled in a summer school during the same year were not extracted, fixed.
• SMS Board - The Copy Class feature did not work when copying for the same teacher in a Section Staff school, fixed. 
• Staff - The Update Totals process did not update Time of Service for all district staff with Primary School 0 while at the district level, fixed.
• Test Results - The Test ID filter did not work if the ID contained more than six characters, fixed. 
• Discipline Distribution Report Options - The page was not honoring the district option for number of allowed offenses by assertive discipline record, fixed. Minor enhancements were made to the page.
• Parent Portal - Class Summary - The page did not load when the student attended more than one school and one school was a Flexible Scheduling type, fixed. 
• Teacher Attendance and Attendance By Photo - The Attendance Complete button was displayed for blocked sections even if the section's attendance was already submitted, fixed.
• Security - The Program Services (PGS) table was added to the Programs security area as a query-only table. This allows non-admins to be given permissions to query this table. 
• Dashboard - The Classes widget on the new version of Parent/Student Portal did not display the description of the meeting from the ellipsis button, fixed. 
• Aeries Mobile API - In Aeries Mobile Portal, Parent Data Confirmation Lockout will now apply when new confirmations are added after the parent has already finalized their student's data.

California Specific

• Special Programs - The Runaway field highlighting for state reporting was removed. 

• Free and Reduced - The Foster Child field highlighting for state reporting was removed. 

• Internships - Code "55" was removed from the Work-Based Learning Type dropdown, based on feedback from the CDE.

Texas Specific

• Transcript Definition -The Only Display Completed Endorsements option was added to the Optional Areas section. See Transcript Design Options Enhanced 1 Column Style.
• Transcript 
  • The Grad Track is now displayed when no HSG is populated. 
  • The Attendance Based Grade field was added. The field is a Yes/No dropdown list and is initially populated to Grades (GRD) from the Grade Reporting "Attendance Based Grade Reporting" process.
  • The Endorsements marked as Complete are now always displayed even if the Endorsement is not pursued by the student. 
  • The Only Display Completed Endorsements option is now supported. 
• Copy Grades to GRH - The Attendance Based Grade (ABG) field is now copied from Grade Reporting (GRD) to Grade History (GRH). 
• Copy Grades to Transcripts - The Attendance Based Grade (ABG) field is now copied from Grade Reporting (GRD) to Transcripts (HIS). 
• Texas State Reporting (PEIMS)
  • The StudentTruancyExtension complex type was added to the PEIMS 3 Summer Student Attendance file. 
  • The reference to element E1597 ONRAMPS-DUAL-ENROLLMENT-INDICATOR-CODE was removed from PEIMS 3 Summer and PEIMS 4 ESY collections for all years other than 2019.
  • The TX-InconsistentCodeOfConductIndicator data element was added to the Student Discipline file's DisciplineActionExtension when appropriate.
  • The PEIMS Summer default selection to include the Staff Association file was removed.
• Texas State Reporting (TSDS)
  • The SELA submission tab was added. The Education Organization File, Student Parent File, and Student Programs File options are displayed, but only the Education Organization extract is currently functional. 
  • The Education Organization Interchange file can now be extracted for the SELA submission.
  • The Master Schedule Interchange file now uses Population Served (PSV) and Non-Campus Based Instruction (NCI) from the Master Schedule (MST) record instead of the Course (CRS) record when populated. 
• Student Attendance Detail, Student Attendance Campus Summary, and Student Attendance District Summary Reports - The reports now allow user-defined signature line titles and certification text. The Detail and Campus Summary report user-defined text is stored at the school level; the District Summary text is stored at the district level.
• Special Programs - The Prior Year Bilingual/ESL Summer (PGM.PYB) field was added for the Bilingual/ESL Summer (code 145) program.
• Special Ed - The Language Acquisition tab was added for adding, modifying, and deleting language acquisition services, hearing amplification, and language acquisition assessments information for students. 
• Texas Assessment Precode Extract - Data for the affected students is now persisted in the PRE table.
• Content Standards Scores - The Performance Level colors for STAAR tests were adjusted to more accurately reflect their meaning. 

• Demographics

  • The ResSchl field highlighting for state reporting was removed. 

  • The ResDist field highlighting for state reporting was added. 

Database Changes

• Contacts (CON) - The following fields were added:
  • Education Level (ELV)
    This update will copy existing user-defined COD and XRF values for Parental Education Level from STU.PED to CON.ELV for use with the new Education Level field.
  • Insert Date (IDT)
  • Insert User ID (IUI)
  • Insert User Name (IUN)
  • Update User ID (UUI)
  • Update User Name (UUN)
• Courses (CRS) - The Department Code (DC) field was increased to 6 characters to allow for Course Category codes for Texas. 
• Course Sequences (CSQ) - The following fields were added to allow for up to 16 total courses per sequence instead of 6, plus new default term and year fields: 
  • Course 7-16 (CN7-CN16)
  • Default Term (DT1-DT16)
  • Default Year (YR1-YR16)
• District Analysis Qualifications (DAQ) - The Qualifying Value (QV) field values were updated to correspond with changes to Status (ST) field in the Graduation Endorsement Students (GES) table. No structure changes were made, only modification of existing data. 
• District Analysis Thresholds (DAT) - The LvlGrdMarks (L1M - L5M) field values were updated to correspond with changes to the Status (ST) field in the Graduation Endorsement Students (GES) table. No structure changes were made, only modification of existing data.
• Graduation Endorsement Students (GES) - The Status (ST) field values were updated to use code values for consistency rather than long text. No structure changes were made, only modification of existing data.
• New Hearing Amplification (HAM) - The table was added for use in Texas.
• New Language Acquisition Assessment (LAA) - The table was added for use in Texas. 
• New Language Acquisition Services (LAV) - The table was added for use in Texas. 
• Portal Option (POP) - This update will create default records for the new Attendance to be Taken (Marked as Complete) by Section option if the Lock Teacher Attendance for a class after the teacher clicks the 'Attendance Complete' button is already selected. 
• Special Program Details (PGM) - The Prior Year Bilingual/ESL Summer (PYB) field was added for use in Texas.
• Texas Assessment Precode Accommodations (PRE) - The table was dropped and re-added. This table was previously used for the STAR Pre-Identification Form in Aeries Client.
  • NOTE: For any databases found with existing data in the PRE table, the data was moved to a new table called PRESTAR.
• Transcript Definitions (TDF) 
  • The Department Code or Description (T73) field was added, to be used in combination with Show Department (T69). 
  • The Print District GPAs (T74) and Print Rank for District GPAs (T75) fields were added. 
  • The Only Display Completed Endorsements (T76) field was added.