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Release Date: 8/25/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0223
Dashboard - Online Registration
❏ Updated the program open the correct Pending Approvals page (Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Updates) for the campus.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Teacher Options > Campus > Teacher Profile Tab
❏ Corrected an issue where the teacher was not showing as locked when they have had too many unsuccessful login attempts. It is showing them as Active.
Health > Reports > Health Reports > Immunizations
❏ Modified the SHS0102 - Immunization Due Report to disable the Preview button.
Health > Reports > Health Reports > Student
❏ Modified SHS0835 - Communicable Diseases Report to add code CV as a valid code for Disease Code (Blank for All).
Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs
❏ Updated the Expanded Learning (ELO) tab to display the correct data in the Activity Code field.
Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment
❏ Updated the program to correctly zero-pad and allow only numeric student IDs. This is only pertinent to LEAs who have the Auto Assign Student ID field deselected on the Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance > Control Info tab.
Registration > Utilities > Texas Unique ID Processing
❏ Updated UID Enrollment utility to correctly generate one record for students who are still enrolled in the school. Previously the utility was generating two records, entry and withdrawal, with entry and exit dates the same.
Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Post-Load
❏ Modified the SCH0010 - Students Without a Schedule report to disable the Preview button.
Release Date: 8/25/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0223 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 5.0.9.5
Form Group Management > Returning Student Registration
❏ Updated the program to correctly show saved Custom Forms.
Form Management > Form Creator (Admin)
Parent Contact Form (Parent)
❏ Updated the Dynamic Forms > Contact form to correctly hide fields when the Visible option is not selected. The information on the Parent Contact Form displays correctly for the selected parent.
Release Date: 8/25/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0223 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 5.1.1.13
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected the Print issue that caused missing and misaligned data on the report.
❏ Modified the program to add pagination.
❏ Modified the program to remove the inner scroll bars and improve page responsiveness.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing Save to malfunction when attempting to save Report Card Comments and Report Card Narratives.
Reports > Student Notes
❏ Corrected an issue in the Student Course Notes section of Notes Selection Options to enable drop-down menu options for Note Category and Notes Created By.
❏ Corrected an issue to ensure that when running multiple reports and “Page break between courses” is unchecked, the user sees each note type starting on a separate page and each course consecutively with no page breaks.
❏ Corrected an issue to ensure that when running multiple reports and “Page break between courses” is checked, the user sees each note type starting on a separate page and each course within each note type starting on a new page.
The page is designed to filter by Course-Section if a course-section is selected.
❏ Corrected an issue where notes for ALL courses were produced when a single Course-Section was selected.
❏ Corrected an issue when Course Note report is NOT selected, the report prints a blank first page.
❏ Corrected an issue so that the IPR Notes report prints the last name, first name and student ID above the comments for each student.
Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Elementary Skills-Based Courses
❏ Updated the program to correctly save Report Card Type when you click Save.
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 5.0
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
❏ Updated Validation Rules
❏ Deleted Validation Rules
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 > 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.
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.
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:
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.
Release Date: 8/6/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0221
Grade Reporting
❏ Changed the report preview PDF and CSV icons to improve readability.
Release Date: 8/6/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0221 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 5.1.0.83
❏ 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.
❏ Removed Remote Synchronous (RS) and Remote Asynchronous (RA) from TeacherPortal Attendance menus.
❏ Corrected custom sort issues on the following pages:
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.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected the Print issue that caused missing and misaligned data on the report.
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 > Elementary Report Cards
Grades > Elementary Report Cards
❏ Modified the program to disable PIN and Save fields for users with read-only access.
Release Date: 7/27/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0220
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry > Cumulative
❏ Corrected the Cumulative Absences Report to include all historical attendance records.
Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected an issue occurring during online registration that caused the program to assign the same ID number to multiple students. The program was modified to add duplicate ID checks.
Registration > Utilities > TREx Export > Directory
❏ Corrected an issue when creating a transcript for a prior year student.
Release Date: 7/27/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0220 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 5.0.9.52
❏ Corrected several pages within the program that had caching issues.
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue in the program where Attendance messages were not clearing after users changed period, semester or date.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Modified the program to allow values from 0 to 100 to be entered in the Weight field when transferring a student. User will not be able to enter values greater than 100.
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing a system error if a category name was not assigned in Course-Section.
Additionally, the error message has been updated to A category was not found for an assignment. Go to Manage Assignments to review category selections and save assignments.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Modified the program so the warning message Exam Grades are missing is given when there are no values in the Exam column and the user chooses Ready to Post for a course-section then saves.
❏ Modified the program so the Save button on the page functions like the Save button on Grades > Assignment Grades.
Grades > Assignment Grades
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Modified the program so Grades > Cycle Grades and Grades > Assignment Grades will function the same.
Grades > Assignment Grades
Settings > Manage Assignments
❏ Corrected an issue that caused Calculate Averages to function inconsistently on Grades > Assignments Grades when a new assignment was added on Settings > Manage Assignments.
Grades > Print IPR by Average
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing some teachers to receive an error message when trying to print reports by average.
Reports > Admin Reports > Semester Grade Range
❏ Corrected an issue with logic that caused some students to be duplicated when generating the Cycle Grade Range Report.
Reports > Student Notes
❏ Added the following headers to the Student Assignment Note Report:
Settings > Arrange Student Order
❏ Modified the program to enable the Arrange Student Order page. This option is not visible when logged in as an administrator.
Settings > Manage Course Groups
❏ Corrected an issue with Save button.
❏ Added the default message to Course Group Detail Group: Please select or create a course group.
Settings > Manage Seating Charts
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the student seating chart random order functionality to fail when Random is chosen in the Layout Options field.
Settings > Manage Student Groups > Copy Student Groups
❏ Modified the program to revise the error message received when copying student groups from one teacher to another and some teachers are not registered. The message has changed to No User Name found for selected Teacher. Valid TeacherPortal login is required.
Admin > Admin - Student Grades
❏ Corrected a printing issue that caused attendance records from the Student Information page to print only the current semester even when the previous semester is displayed on the screen.
Previous ASCENDER Release 5.0 | TxEIS Release 3.5 Student Release Notes can be found here: https://help.ascendertx.com/releasenotes/doku.php/student/release_3_5_archive
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