Release Date: 7/3/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.1100
District Administration > Inquiry > TSDS Level 1 Errors
❏ Modified the endpoints to the following domains:
Nightly batch: AsOfStatusLastDayEnrollment
❏ Modified the program to calculate the AsOfStatusLastDayEnrollment code in the nightly batch using the code from the Summer Attendance Extract.
SummerSchoolIndicator
❏ Updated the program to add data element SummerSchoolIndicator (E3091) to the CourseTranscript entity using Special Consid code R for reporting.
StudentEducationOrganizationResponsibilityAssociation: NonEnrolledStudentUILActivity
❏ Effective 9/1/2023:
Responsibility Descriptors 01 and 02 are no longer valid and have been moved to StudentSchoolAssociation.
StudentDisciplineIncidentBehaviorAssociation
❏ Created extract “P_EXTRACT_EDFI_STU_DISPLN_INC_BEHAV_ASSOC_STG” to extract from entity StudentDisciplineIncidentBehaviorAssociation.
❏ Removed StudentParticiaptionCode element in StudentDisciplineIncidentAssociation.
❏ Moved Behavior entity data elements to StudentDisciplineIncidentBehaviorAssociation.
TSDS Extract: Staff Term Date
❏ Updated the extract to report Staff Education Organization Employment Association the day after an employee's termination date.
Domain: Alternative and Supplemental Services Domain
❏ Updated the program to report begin dates and end dates for the StudentCTEProgramAssociation.CTEProgramService entity.
TSDS: CourseTranscript - api
❏ Modified the CourseTranscript entity to add LocalCourseCode, SchoolId, SectionIdentifier, SessionName and SummerSchoolIndicator to API property tx.CourseTranscriptExtenion.
StudentIdentification - NonEnrolledStudentUILActivity
❏ Added API property nonEnrolledStudentUILActivityDescriptor to the Students entity for the Student Identification and Demographics Domain.
Section.SectionSet - API
❏ Made the following changes to SectionSet for 2023-2024:
Remove:
Add:
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 8
Release Date: 6/19/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.1010
District Admin: Extract Error Message
❏ Corrected an issue in Student Education Organization Association that caused the error: “Extract processed but failed with stored procedure error. Please provide server.log file.”
Release Date: 6/5/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.1000
Staff Term Date
❏ Updated the Staff Education Organization Employment Association to send a report the day after an employee's termination date.
ReportingPeriodExt(TX)
❏ Updated the program to send ReportingPeriodExt to TSDS.
StudentIdentification - NonEnrolledStudentUILActivity
❏ Added API property nonEnrolledStudentUILActivityDescriptor to the Students entity for the Student Identification and Demographics Domain.
StudentDisciplineIncidentBehavior
❏ Moved StudentDisciplineIncidentBehaviorAssociation data elements to StudentDisciplineIncidentBehaviorAssociation and discontinued StudentDisciplineIncidentAssociation.
Release Date: 5/22/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.0900
❏ Updated the API to send data to the .InstructionalSettingSet instead of .SpecialEducationEnvironmentSet in the StudentSpecialEducationProgramAssociation endpoint.
❏ Updated the program to remove the DyslexiaScreeningExceptionReason.
❏ Updated the program to add DyslexiaScreeningExceptionReason to StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation.DyslexiaRiskSet.
❏ Updated the TSDS 2023-24 change logs to add new fields for the StudentSchoolAssociation entity.
❏ Added the CampusIdOfResidence property to the StudentSchoolAssociations API.
CalendarEvent Descriptors
❏ Modified CALL P_EXTRACT_EDFI_CAL_DT_STG('2024') to extract CalendarEvent 01 or 02 only.
EducationOrganizationid
❏ Updated the program to add the Campus ID to the StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociation
Staff Domain
❏ Corrected a mapping issue for TotalYearsProfExperience and YearsExperienceInDistrict.
Staff > StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociation
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Level 1 Error: Validation of 'StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociation' failed. Validation of 'AggregateExtensions' failed. StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociationStaffServiceSets (TX) requires at least one object in the collection.
Student Alternative and Supplemental Services Domain - Student Homeless Program Associations extract
❏ Updated the program with a procedure to extract enrolled students with a row on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3, Homeless Status group box.
Student Alternative and Supplemental Services Domain - Student School Food Service Program Associations extract
❏ Updated the program with a procedure to extract enrolled students with a row on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1, Economic Disadvantage group box.
Student Alternative and Supplemental Services Domain - Student Program Associations extract
❏ Updated the program with a procedure to extract enrolled students for each of the available programs in the Alternative and Supplemental Services domain that are previously mapped.
EDFI Enrolled Student Ed Org Association
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a -6 Error to display on the EDFI Enrolled Student Ed Org Association Extract extract. It is possible that other scenarios may inadvertently cause the -6 Error to occur. TCC will investigate additional scenarios as they are reported.
StudentEducationOrganizationAssociation.Language
❏ Updated the 2024.2.0 TSDS Upgrade change log to collect data element LanguageUse.
Prior Year Leaver IBC
❏ Updated extract Ed-Fi Prior Year Leaver to report a 4-digit IBC code.
EDFI Staff Ed Org Assignment Association Extract
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a -6 Error to display on the EDFI Staff Ed Org Assignment Association Extract. It is possible that other scenarios may inadvertently cause the -6 Error to occur. TCC will investigate additional scenarios as they are reported.
DistrictAdmin: Extract error for TSDS Days
❏ Modified the report name to Staff Members with Total TSDS Number of Days Employed in Error
❏ Modified the report to include 0 days employed as an error.
❏ Modified the report to include the Employee Status column.
Release Date: 4/16/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.0800
District Administration > Utilities > Annual Student Data Rollover
❏ Modified the utility to clear the Excessive Unexcused Absence date on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3 for the new school year when the other Truancy Indicators are cleared.
❏ Modified the utility to clear TeacherPortal table SR_CRS_ASSGN_COMNT in for the new school year.
❏ Corrected TeacherPortal category errors some users received when they did not select the Clear Categories option for a campus when running the utility.
❏ Modified the utility so TeacherPortal Report Card Skills (Elementary Report Cards > Manage Elementary Skills Based Report Cards) will be retained for the new school year.
❏ Corrected an issue with the utility that caused some students to be on the Dropped Student list even though the student had an Active Code = 1 and were fully scheduled at their Next Year Campus.
❏ Modified the utility to add code that will correctly determine if 0/00 default records should be created for specified tables and columns.
❏ Created a scheduled job to remove old API errors until Extract and API are controlled within ASCENDER.
TSDS Extract
❏ Corrected the property for contractedInstructionalStaffFTEExts.
Release Date: 3/22/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.0750
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a -6 Error to display on the TSDS Extract Error Report on the following extracts. It is possible that other scenarios may inadvertently cause the -6 Error to occur. TCC will investigate additional scenarios as they are reported.
TSDS Extracts
Course Transcript
❏ Corrected the issue that caused some users to receive a “Duplicate record error” when extracting a course transcript when a student has completed 2 courses with the same service ID in the same semester.
❏ Modified the program to extract the 0 descriptor (C067-RegionalDaySchoolProgramForDeaf) to the Student Attendance staging table.
Staff > StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociation
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Level 1 Error: Validation of 'StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociation' failed. Validation of 'AggregateExtensions' failed. StaffEducationOrganizationAssignmentAssociationStaffServiceSets (TX) requires at least one object in the collection.
Enrolled Student Ed Org Association Extract
❏ Updated the program to increase performance of the extract.
Release Date: 3/1/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.0700
District Admin > Inquiry > TSDS Level 1 Errors
❏ Modified the page to add the latest date from the API transfer.
❏ Updated the CTE Program Reporting Period Attendance extract to perform more efficiently.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a -6 Error to display on the TSDS Extract Error Report on the following extract. It is possible that other scenarios may inadvertently cause the -6 Error to occur. TCC will investigate additional scenarios as they are reported.
TSDS Extracts
Teaching and Learning > Course:
❏ Corrected the issue that caused CourseOffering load errors due to missing Course records.
Student:
❏ Corrected an issue with the extract so it will no longer report duplicate students in the error log.
Finance:
❏ Corrected the Finance actuals extract for PEIMS Midyear reporting.
Student Identification and Demographics
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Student Parent Association extract to show an incorrect record when modifying a student's Primary Contact from a non-parent/guardian to a different contact.
Release Date: 2/19/24 ASCENDER Update: 8.0605
District Administration > Tables > District Information > Campus Name/Address
❏ Corrected the TSDS Ed Org > School extract to not include campuses that are marked Exclude from reporting to TEA on Campus Name/Address.
District Administration > Options > TSDS > Connection
❏ Updated an error message from Connection: Information provided does not validate to TEA for submission year XXXX to Connection: Information provided does not validate to the host specified for submission year XXXX.
❏ Corrected errors on the Finance > PayrollExt Entity caused by not having the Staff > StaffEducationOrganizationEmploymentAssociation Entity due to a missing hire date.
❏ Corrected the following error on the Staff > StaffSchoolAssociation Program Descriptor: 400 BAD Request “Message” Unable to resolve value “url://tea.texas.gov ProgramAssginmentDescriptor#03 to an existing” ProgramAssignmentDescriptor’resource.
❏ Corrected the Student Identification and Demographics : Student Parent Association extract to only extract contacts with Parent/Guardian selected.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused an error when reporting changes to the ESC County District Number field.
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the TSDS Extract Errors report from functioning as intended.
Release Date: 2/7/2024 ASCENDER Update: 8.0600
District Admin > Inquiry > TSDS Level 1 Errors
❏ Corrected an issue with the Discipline Domain Level 1 Error Report that caused the report to not generate.
❏ Modified the Finance Domain > SharedServiceArrangementExt Entity to extract as follows:
❏ Modified all TSDS Level 1 Error reports to display and print in landscape orientation by default.
❏ Corrected the following Level 1 Errors:
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a -6 Error to display on the TSDS Extract Error Report on the following extracts. It is possible that other scenarios may inadvertently cause the -6 Error to occur. TCC will investigate additional scenarios as they are reported.
❏ In order to comply with TEA, some extracts have been modified to no longer extract the TEA deleted 0/00 descriptors. This will cause the API to no longer send the data element.
In testing against the TCC version of the iODS, TCC has discovered some of the data elements are required and will continue to trigger a Level 1 Error.
TCC is waiting on guidance from TEA.
❏ Updated the Budget and Payroll URI Descriptors to correct the following Level 1 Errors:
The URI Descriptors for Budget and Payroll were updated follows:
Budget:
Payroll:
❏ Modified the program to include Finance Prior Year Actuals in the Ed-FI Extracts.
Release Date: 12/15/2023 ASCENDER Update: 8.0400
District Administration > Tables > District Information > Fund Balances
❏ Added this new tab to manually enter prior year ending fund balances (3XXX) as reflected on schedule C-1 of the audit to be used for the ActualExtension complex type during TSDS Mid-Year reporting.
IMPORTANT:
District Administration > Options > Login
❏ Modified the Password Expiration (in days) field to only allow values 1-180. Zero is no longer a valid value.
District Administration > Maintenance > Non-Employee
❏ Added the TSDS Unique ID button. This functionality works in conjunction with the Texas Student Data System (TSDS). TSDS uses web services for Unique ID and for the Data Transmission Utility (DTU) allowing ASCENDER to interact directly with their Unique ID application to assign Unique IDs.
Before the TSDS Unique ID button can be used in ASCENDER, the LEA's designated TEAL user must obtain web service access.
District Administration > Inquiry > TSDS Level 1 Errors
❏ Added the following three buttons to allow the reprint of the extract reports from the last instance of TSDS Processing. These reports are not resent to the TSDS email distribution lists.
Release Date: 11/15/23 ASCENDER Update: 8.0305
❏ Updated the EDFI Extract Error report to only report one day of errors.
❏ Added the county district number to the email subject line of the report.
Release Date: 10/10/23 ASCENDER Update: 8.0200
District Administration > Options > TSDS > Connection
❏ Modified the program to validate TSDS credentials upon saving the record. If validation is not passed, the record is not saved and the following message is displayed: “Information provided does not validate to TEA.”
Release Date: 9/11/23 ASCENDER Update: 8.0100
District Administration > Tables > LEA News
❏ Added this page to allow LEA personnel to add and manage important news, announcements, or upcoming events, and display them on the ASCENDER Homepage Quick View dashboard. Each news entry includes a start and end date, a summary (topic), and a description. Additionally, if needed, entries can be limited to a specific audience based on their permission to an application and breadcrumb (menu item).
District Administration > Options > TSDS > Options
❏ Added validation to display a message indicating that at least one email address is required for each distribution list (Finance Extract Distribution List, Personnel/Payroll Extract Distribution List, TSDS Extract Errors Distribution List) if the Connection tab contains information.
District Administration > Options > TSDS > Connection
❏ Added validation to display a message indicating that at least one email address is required for each distribution list (Finance Extract Distribution List, Personnel/Payroll Extract Distribution List, TSDS Extract Errors Distribution List) on the Options tab if this tab contains information.
District Administration > Utilities > Annual Student Data Rollover
❏ Updated the program to add Child Care Operation Number tables to the Annual Student Data Rollover (ASDR) process.
❏ Corrected an issue with the program that caused the utility to stop running and give the user an Execute fail message.
❏ Corrected an error when performing the EXECUTE step that caused the utility to stop and give the user an unexplained error message.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the ASDR extract to fail when a student has multiple records for the IGC Program (State Reporting > Options Local Program for IGC Reporting) on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment Local Programs.