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ASCENDER State Reporting Release Notes

ASCENDER Release 6

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ASCENDER State Reporting

Release Date: 9/3/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0100

State Reporting > Crosswalks

❏ Added type ADP Additional Days School Year Courses to the Crosswalk Type drop-down menu.

State Reporting > Extracts > Extended > Additional Days School Year

❏ Modified the program to extract Staff Demo and Responsibility records when one or more of the Additional Days School Year (ADSY) staff has multiple current year rows with Role ID 087 and/or 047 in bhr_responsibility.

❏ Modified the program to attribute the student Additional Days School Year (ADSY) attendance to the correct campus when the student participated in the ADSY program at a campus other than the one where the student was enrolled.

State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student

❏ Modified the Demo tab to allow the Student Census Block field to be edited with a 12-digit numeric value if the student qualifies.

State Reporting > Maintenance > Extended > Student

❏ Modified Demo to remove edit: 40110-0120 from Extended Year PEIMS. If Summer School Bil/ESL is not checked then Campus of Enrollment must be blank.

State Reporting > Utilities > Create TSDS Core Collections Interchanges

❏ Modified the Core Collection Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA) Student Parent Interchange to add data element ELIGIBILITY-DATE (E1723) under the Disability complex type.

ELIGIBILITY-DATE indicates the date upon which a student who is deaf or hard of hearing is eligible for services. This date may be outside of the current school year and will extract from the Entry Date on the SELA Services tab.

State Reporting > Utilities > TEA Census Block

❏ Modified Export Address for school year 2022 to include students with ADA Eligibility Code 9 who are economically disadvantaged and who are enrolled on the PEIMS Fall snapshot date.

Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 5.0

Update: 5.0.0222

ASCENDER

Release Date: 8/16/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0222

❏ Corrected an issue on the Dashboard that was preventing # Pending entries for Online Registration and New Student Enrollment from updating.

❏ Changed the report preview PDF and CSV icons to improve readability.

Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint

❏ Optimized the program to help speed up the retrieval time for queries.

Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Calendar

❏ Removed School Day Event option from Day Type Selection for SY 2021-2022.

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All

❏ Modified the program to allow reports to be accessible for a prior school year.

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit

❏ Report SAT3001 ADSY Campus/District Summary was created and added to the Audit Report Group.

Grade Reporting > Maintenance > TeacherPortal Options > Campus

❏ Removed the Standard-Based Grading section from the page.

❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing teachers from being able to post students active or inactive on the first day of school for the ADA period.

❏ Removed the default Bestview ISD generic logo from the Home screen.

Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Grades Report Group

❏ Modified the SGR2010 - Numeric Honor Roll report so an error message will display at the bottom of the page when Honor Roll Cutoff Levels are set and no students meet the criteria.

Graduation Plan > Maintenance > District > Tables

❏ Expanded the IBC Exam Fee field on the Credentials or Certification tab to allow values for decimals and cents.

Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance

❏ Expanded the Exam Fee and Vendor fields on the PGP tab to allow values for decimals and cents if needed.

❏ Corrected alignment issues on PGP for the Industry Credentials or Certification, Accelerated Learning Plan and Monitor Plan sections.

Health > Maintenance > Student Health

❏ Optimized the program to help speed up the retrieval time for queries.

Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs

❏ Deleted options for Rigorous Coursework, Mentoring, Tutoring, Physical Activity, Academic Support, and Educational Enrichment.

❏ Added an Activity Code field with a drop-down menu to include Rigorous Coursework, Mentoring, Tutoring, Physical Activity, Academic Support, and Educational Enrichment.

❏ Added a Days/Year field accepting values of 1 - 210.

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment

❏ Modified program code to fix an autosuggest issue at the LastName, FirstName, and StuID fields on the Historical Directory. The code is also modified to return records correctly on UID search.

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3

❏ Expanded the IBC Exam Fee field on the Credentials or Certification tab to allow values for decimals and cents.

❏ Renamed data elements in the Career Technology section. Displaced Homemaker is now Out of Wkforce Individual and Single Parent/Pregnant Teen is now Sgl Parent Sgl Preg Woman.

❏ Modified the Graduation section to fix an auto populate issue with Exam Fee field.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment

❏ Modified the program to speed up the time it takes to auto-assign a new Student ID after the user selects Save.

Registration > Maintenance > Spec Ed Lang Acq

❏ Modified the Entry Date field to allow a prior year date that will be reported as the Eligibility-Date for the SELA Submission, StudentParent Interchange.

❏ Added Validation Rule

41163-0072 (Fatal) - If LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED is Direct or Indirect/Consultative, then FREQUENCY-OF-SERVICES and HOURS-SPENT-RECEIVING-SERVICES must be reported.

❏ Updated Validation Rules

40100-0204 - If age is less than 9 on September 1, and DISABILITY is Deaf-Blindness (Deaf-Blind) or Hearing/Auditory Impairment (Auditory Impairment), then there must be a Special Education program association reported with a matching TX-UNIQUE-STUDENT-ID, including INSTRUCTIONAL-SETTING-CODE, LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED, and PREFERRED-HOME-COMMUNICATION-METHOD.

41163-0062 (Fatal) - If LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED is Services not Provided, then FREQUENCY-OF-SERVICES and HOURS-SPENT-RECEIVING-SERVICES must not be reported.

❏ Deleted Validation Rules

41163-0054 (Fatal) - If LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED is not blank, then FREQUENCY-OF-SERVICES and HOURS-SPENT-RECEIVING-SERVICES must not be blank.

41163-0063 (Fatal) - If FREQUENCY-OF-SERVICES is None, then LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED must be Services not Provided and HOURS-SPENT-RECEIVING-SERVICES must be 0 Hours.

41163-0064 (Fatal) - If HOURS-SPENT-RECEIVING-SERVICES is 0 Hours, then LANG-ACQ-SERVICES-PROVIDED must be Services not Provided and FREQUENCY-OF-SERVICES must be None.

Registration > Utilities > Reverse Scheduling Transfer > Sending Campus
Registration > Utilities > Reverse Scheduling Transfer > Receiving Campus

❏ Modified the program to display a Select students message when no students are selected and the user clicks the Start button.

Registration > Utilities > Texas Unique Student ID Processing

❏ Modified logic in the UID Enrollment export to put the first membership date greater than or equal to 08/01/xxxx (begin school year) in field ENTRY-EXIT-DATE when the first day of school is before 08/01 of the current school year.

Registration > Utilities > Delete StudentPortal Account

❏ Added a new utility within the Registration application.

❏ Added a new sub-menu, Delete StudentPortal Account.

Registration > Reports > Registration Reports

❏ Modified reports SRG0400 and SRG0600 to update CTE data element names.

SRG0400 - Student Information Sheets
• Displaced Homemaker field is updated to Out of Wkforce Individual
• Single Parent/Pregnant Teen field is updated to Sgl Parent/Sgl Preg Woman

SRG0600 - Student Special Program Listing
• Displ Hmk column is updated to OOWk Indv
• Sngl Par column is updated to Sngl Par Prg Wmn

❏ Corrected program coding on the SRG0720 - Online Registration Forms Related Reports that was preventing students with Special Ed services from displaying.

❏ Corrected an the error that was occasionally generated when running report SRG0700 - Student Missing Forms.

Registration > Reports > Create Registration Report

❏ Renamed data elements in the Career Technology section on Demo3. Displaced Homemaker is now Out of Wkforce Individual and Single Parent/Pregnant Teen is now Sgl Parent Sgl Preg Woman.

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Release Date: 8/16/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0222 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 5.0.8.6

❏ Corrected the Left Navigation icon (hamburger icon) color issue so it will remain the same color when it is open and collapsed.

❏ System changes were made to improve ParentPortal performance issues when loading forms.

Form Group Management > New Student Enrollment

❏ Corrected an issue on the History of School Attendance - Secondary form that prevented it from retaining information when enrolling a new student to the district.

Form Group Management > Form Settings

❏ Corrected an issue on Student Data Maintenance that prevented dynamic forms that are added to a group from being uploaded.

ASCENDER TeacherPortal

Release Date: 8/16/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0222 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 5.1.0.87

❏ Removed Remote Synchronous (RS) and Remote Asynchronous (RA) from TeacherPortal Attendance menus.

❏ Corrected custom sort issues on the following pages:

Grades > Assignment Grades
Grades > Cycle Grades
Grades > IPR Comments
Grades > Print IPR
Reports > Assignment Grades
Reports > Class Roster

Attendance > Post/View Attendance

❏ Modified the program to disable the Absent button so that teachers cannot mark a student absent on their first day of enrollment.

❏ Corrected an issue where some students are showing duplicate absences in the Attendance section of the Student Information page when the student has a fractured schedule and does not meet Monday through Friday.

❏ Modified the program to disable the top and bottom PIN field and Post button, once the attendance is posted.

❏ Corrected an issue for students on multiple tracks with different start dates that caused students to not display in posted attendance.

Grades > Assignment Grades

❏ Modified the program to add assignment sorting by Due Date.

❏ Modified the program so admin users with read-only access cannot modify grades or post attendance.

❏ Corrected an issue with the session timeout function freezing the page. Session timeout will now return the user to the log in page.

❏ Corrected an issue where imported grades were not saving.

❏ Modified the import message to the following:

Assignment grades import complete.
Click OK to continue.
Enter PIN and click Save to update.

❏ Corrected an issue in the program when accepting a transferred student where clicking the T will not keep the assignments as Excluded after PIN and Save.

Grades > Cycle Grades

❏ Corrected an issue where letter grades in the Override column did not save when a user enters PIN and Save.

❏ Corrected an issue where the Auto Grade was not showing in parentheses.

Grades > IPR Comments

❏ Corrected an issue that prevented comments from being added when the teacher has Group selected for Course-Section.

Reports > Cycle Grade Range

❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the Cycle Grade Range Report to generate for all grades even though only one grade was specified.

Reports > Class Roster

❏ Modified the program so column widths are the same when printing the Class Roster Report.

❏ Corrected an issue when teachers have courses grouped together and select Course-Section in Sorting Options, that the courses are sorting in the incorrect order.

Reports > Student Grades Report (and UIL Eligibility)

❏ Corrected an issue when a teacher runs the report using All for Course-Section.

Reports > Student Notes

❏ Corrected an issue in the program causing the page break to fail between the Student Assignment Note Report section and the Course Assignment Note Report section when both note types were selected in Note Selection Options.

Admin > Set Up Standards-Based Courses

❏ Modified the program to add a check-all check box next to Usage Indicator to allow the user to select all courses at once instead of one at a time.

Admin > Elementary Report Cards
Grades > Elementary Report Cards

❏ Modified the program to disable PIN and Save fields for users with read-only access.

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