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student:release_3_5

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ASCENDER/TxEIS Student Release Notes

ASCENDER Release 5.0 | TxEIS Release 3.5

ASCENDER

Release Date: 6/22/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0217

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Modified the program so clients are now able to create a TREx Export file for Transfer or Transcript without receiving an error message, TREx Export Error - No Student Records Found.

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Modified the program to only use Code 6 for Substitute Assessment when Substitute Assessment is selected for an EOC test. Code 5 was removed for school year 2020-2021.

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Corrected an issue when exporting Transcript to use the correct end tag </IBCEarned> with every XML name - “IBCEarned”.


TxEIS

Release Date: 6/22/21 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0244

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Modified the program to only use Code 6 for Substitute Assessment when Substitute Assessment is selected for an EOC test. Code 5 was removed for school year 2020-2021.

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Corrected an issue when exporting Transcript to use the correct end tag </IBCEarned> with every XML name - “IBCEarned”.


Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 5.0/TxEIS Student 3.5

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0216 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0243

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0214 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0242

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0213 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0241

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0212 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0240

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0211

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0209 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0238

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0208 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0237

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0207 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0236

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0206 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0235

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0204

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0203 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0234

Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0202 TxEIS Update: 3.5.0233

Update 3.5.0231

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Update 3.5.0196

Release Date: 9/3/20 TxEIS/ASCENDER: 3.5.0195

Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1160 - Interim Progress Report

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented some grade averages from being displayed on the report even though the grades were posted and available.


ASCENDER TeacherPortal logo

ASCENDER TeacherPortal

Release Date: 9/3/20 TxEIS/ASCENDER: 3.5.0195 TeacherPortal Update: 4.0.3.29

Grades

❏ Corrected the program to calculate and display averages as whole numbers.

❏ Corrected the following pages to properly display the cycle averages. Previously, the grades that were displayed on these pages were not the same as the cycle grades displayed on the Assignment Grades page.

  • Cycle Grades
  • IPR Comments
  • Print IPR
  • Print IPR by Average

Grades > Assignment Grades

❏ Corrected the functionality of the Calculate Averages button. Previously, when a teacher entered grades and clicked the Calculate Averages button, without first clicking Save, to see what a student’s working cycle average was, the program cleared the grades typed in before the teacher clicked the Calculate Averages button.

ASCENDER TeacherPortal logo

ASCENDER TeacherPortal

Release Date: 08/28/2020 TxEIS/ASCENDER Update: 3.5.0192 TeacherPortal Update: 4.0.3.10
Release Date: 08/29/2020 TxEIS/ASCENDER Update: 3.5.0193 TeacherPortal Update: 4.0.3.13
Release Date: 08/30/2020 TxEIS/ASCENDER Update: 3.5.0194 TeacherPortal Update: 4.0.3.18

Login

❏ (Released on 08/29/2020) Corrected the issue that caused some users to receive an internal server error when trying to log on.

❏ (Released on 08/30/2020) Corrected the issue that allowed a new user to create an account but prevented the user from logging on.

Reset Password

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Corrected the issue that caused some user's personal identification number (PIN) to be reset to blank when they reset their password.

NOTE: Some users may still have a blank PIN, use the reset PIN SQL to reset these PINs to a default value. The SQL is located in the release folder.

Admin

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Corrected the issue that caused incorrect campus and teacher names to be displayed in the main menu for admin users. Now, the campus and teacher names match the selections indicated on the Admin > Admin Options page.

Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Manage Elementary Skills-Based Courses

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Modified the program to properly allow the use of Elementary Skills-Based courses.

Attendance > Post/View Attendance

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Changed the Last day for mass activation date format from YYYY/MM/DD to MM/DD/YYYY.

Attendance > Post/View Attendance
Settings > Update Profile

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Modified the program to display the correct course list in the Period drop down when the Combine Courses in Attendance field is selected/unselected.

Grades > Assignment Grades

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Corrected the issue that prevented Cycle Averages from being calculated and displayed for some courses.

Grades > Cycle Grades

❏ (Released on 08/30/2020) Corrected the issue that caused an incorrect teacher name to be printed on the report.

Reports > Class Roster

❏ (Released on 08/30/2020) Corrected the program to properly sort student names in alpha order even when names are in all uppercase letters.

Settings > Manage Categories

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Corrected the issue that caused some users to receive an error when accessing this page.

Settings > Manage Assignments

❏ (Released on 08/28/2020) Modified the program to correctly change and display all courses as applicable.

Settings > Manage Course Groups
Settings > Manage Student Groups

(Released on 08/30/2020) Corrected the program to properly search, select, move, and save students in the course and student groups.

Update 3.5.0190 Registration

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Updates

❏ Updated the program to prevent a long-running process from running, thus improving application performance.

3.5.0190

Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting with Comments

❏ Modified By Period, By Individual, By Date/Control Nbr, By Date/Grade and Code, By Date/Course, and By Generic Program to allow posting and viewing of either an absence or presence code for students.

❏ Removed the P option to delete an absence (Present is now PR).

❏ Added the following presence codes to the Posting Code ellipsis: Present (PR), Remote Synchronous (RS), and Remote Asynchronous (RA).

NOTE: When you replace any saved posting code with a Present (PR), that row in the posting table will be deleted and an audit row will be created for it.

New Posting Presence Codes

Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry

❏ Modified Attendance Audit to include the presence posting code.

Attendance > Utilities > Import External Gradebook Absences

❏ Removed the utility from the application.

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0900 - Campus/District Summary Report
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0920 - Campus/District Multi-Track Summary Report
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0950 - District Attendance and Contact Hours

❏ Modified the program so that the following rows on the reports calculate properly (the same way as the same rows from the TEA TSDS PEIMS PDM3-130-001 report):

  • H1 Early Ed Eco Dis Elig Days
  • H2 Early Ed Lang Elig Days
  • H3 Early Ed Eco Dis & Lang Elig Days

Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Move To Grade Reporting

❏ Corrected the issue not allowing users who ran Load from Backup to run Move to Grade Reporting. This affected users who had selected Set To Campus Track for at least one campus on the Campus Move Options tab and caused them to receive the following error message: “No First day of School Found.”

❏ Modified the program to properly display fields in Spanish instead of English when Spanish is selected as the language.

Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Principal/Counselor
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Instructor

❏ Corrected the program to display next year employees in the Staff ID ellipsis.

Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters

❏ Corrected the program validation to match cycle end dates to the Attendance calendar by campus/track.

Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Assignments

❏ Corrected the program error that was caused by an assignment with a blank due date.

Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Gradebook Options > District > Administrative Users
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Gradebook Options > Campus > Administrative Users

❏ Modified the User Name field to allow up to 25 characters (the same as TeacherPortal).


ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.2.5.2

Login

❏ Corrected the following message from “ParentPortal ID does not exit.” to “ParentPortal ID does not exist.” Previously, the word “exist” was misspelled.

❏ Corrected the program to only display the Sex field once during the Registration process.

❏ Corrected the program to only display fields as indicated on the ParentPortal > Admin > Form Creator page.

Admin Settings > District Settings

❏ Modified the program so that when Color Customization is on, ParentPortal is properly displayed on mobile devices.

Admin > Form Management > Form Creator

❏ Corrected the issue that caused a static form to be saved as a dynamic form when Spanish was selected as the language.

Admin > Form Group Management > Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the program to auto-populate the district name (e.g., Texas ISD) where applicable on the following forms:

  • FERPA
  • Food Allergy Disclosure
  • Student Health Information Sheet

Summary > Registration

❏ Corrected an issue where a form for Online Registration was not displaying, but the parent/guardian could save the form and continue.


ASCENDER TeacherPortal logo

ASCENDER TeacherPortal

Update 4.0.2.6

Login

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented some users from recovering their user name or resetting their password. These users received the following error message: “One or more of the following fields failed to match a user record or the user record is not active.”

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented some users from creating an account.

Grades > Assignment Grades

❏ Corrected the Transfer Student pop-up window to properly display the From details.

❏ Modified the program to correctly retrieve assignments by Due Date when either manually entering a date or selecting a date from the calendar. Also, corrected the program error that may have occurred when manually entering a due date and tabbing out of the field.

Reports > Cycle Grade Range

❏ Corrected the program to allow a maximum grade of 100. Previously, an error occurred.

Reports > Rubrics

❏ Corrected the report to bold the Points Earned value in the Student Score column and add a page break between students when printing the report.

Settings > Manage Course Groups

❏ Corrected the program to match the instructor's schedule.

ASCENDER/TxEIS

Update 3.5.0189

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment

❏ Corrected the program to prevent the following error from occurring when saving a change on a tab other than the At Risk tab for a current year student without an at-risk record: “SQL Anywhere Error -193: Primary Key for table SR_STU_AT_RISK is not unique.”


ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.2.4.2

Form Management > Custom Forms > View Custom Form Data

Corrected the issue that prevented custom form columns from being generated on various forms.


ASCENDER TeacherPortal logo

ASCENDER TeacherPortal

Update 4.0.1.7

Reset Password

❏ Corrected the User Name field to accept the allowable 25 characters. Previously, a teacher could not perform a password reset because her user name was more than 8 characters.

Campus

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented teachers who teach at multiple campuses from switching views between assigned campuses.

Grades > Assignment Grades

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the assigned category colors (Settings > Manage Categories) from being displayed.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented you from re-entering a new grade after you previously entered and deleted the grade.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the Print Comments check box selection from being saved.

❏ Corrected the program to italicize the lowest grade(s) according to the number of dropped grades indicated under Selected Categories.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the program from responding when manually entering a grade in the Transfer Walk-In Average pop-up window.

❏ Corrected the error that occurred when trying to use the Transfer Walk-In Average feature for students who did not transfer into a class.

Reports > Cycle Grade Range

❏ Corrected the program to allow a maximum grade of 100. Previously, an error occurred.

Settings > Manage Categories

❏ (Help only change) Changed information in the Category Names description. Previously, it read “Category names are not case-sensitive (e.g., if “quiz” already appears in the list, you can add “Quiz”).” Now, it reads, “Category names are case-insensitive (e.g., if “quiz” already appears in the list, you cannot add “Quiz”).”

Settings > Manage Categories

❏ Corrected the program to accurately delete the selected categories, and allow multiple selected categories to be deleted at the same time.

Settings > Arrange Student Order

❏ Corrected the functionality to shift the order of the student positions up or down in the list instead of swapping them.

3.5.0187

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment

❏ Modified the program to optimize the auto-assign function for Online Registration.

ASCENDER TeacherPortal logo

ASCENDER TeacherPortal

Update 4.0.1.4

Create Account

❏ Modified the program to allow for up to 25 characters for the user name.

Update 3.5.0185

Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule

❏ Modified the program to change a decimal point typed into the Tot Credits field to a zero when clicking Save (DBA Assistant was also updated to fix any pre-existing data with a decimal in it).

Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > District Maintenance > Control

❏ Modified the Do not create STAAR 2020 Waived Recds functionality to only create 2020 waived records for students who previously failed the EOC exam in that subject but passed the course with full credit in the 2020 school year if the student graduated in the 2020 school year.

Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Next Year Copy Calendar

❏ Modified the program to no longer require you to press the ENTER key when adding a new track. Now, the new attendance track is automatically added to the grid after you click +Add and type the two-digit track. Previously, a browser error occurred upon pressing the ENTER key.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment

❏ Modified the program to correct the error of new student ID not automatically assigning when clicking Save.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Updates

❏ Corrected the pending update errors that occurred when trying to accept and save records.

Scheduling > Maintenance > Live Scheduling Load

❏ Modified the Run Schedule Load functionality to reduce processing time and table locks.

ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.2.3.5

Administrator

Form Group Management > New Student Enrollment
Form Group Management > Returning Student Registration

❏ Updated the wording of the Food Allergy Disclosure form under Standard Forms:

  • Previous wording: “The nurse will contact you for a note from your physician if your child has food allergies.”
  • Updated wording: “The parent will provide a doctor's note, notify the school nurse, and food & nutrition if your child has an anaphylactic food allergy that requires an EpiPen.”

Form Group Management> Returning Student Registration

❏ Updated the program to properly show static forms in Returning Student Enrollment and Student Data Maintenance.

Parent

My Account > Enroll a New Student > Step 3 > Add Address
My Account > Enroll a New Student > Step 4 > Student Information

❏ Updated the program to properly make some required fields that were allowing the forms to be submitted required.

Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the error parents/guardians received when opening the Food/Allergy Standard form during the Returning Student Registration process (this was a database update).

ASCENDER StudentPortal logo

ASCENDER StudentPortal

Update 4.2.1.2

Create Account

❏ Updated the password rules to coincide with the rules established in ASCENDER ParentPortal.

❏ Updated the order of information on the Create Account screen to be Student ID, Birth Date, and Social Security Number.

Login

❏ Created the Create Account, Reset Password, and Recover User Name processes. See the StudentPortal Login Help page for more information.

Reset Password

❏ Updated the program to properly allow up to 25 alphanumeric characters in the User Name field.

Update 3.5.0184

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0900 - Campus/District Summary Report
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0920 - Campus/District Multi-Track Summary Report

❏ Corrected the program to display codes other than 0 for the G1 BE-Elig Days Bilingual/ESL field.


Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > District Maintenance

❏ Added the Do not create STAAR 2020 Waived Recds field to the Control Info tab. When selected, any 2020 waived records for STAAR 3-8 and STAAR EOC created by the system will be deleted. If the field is deselected later, waived records will be created if students a) earned full credit for a STAAR EOC course or b) were enrolled grade levels 3-8 when the STAAR 3-8 exam was given.

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Added the C - 2020 DidNotMeet code to the EOC record for transcripts and transfer files created by the program.

Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC

❏ Added the C - 2020 DidNotMeet code to the program for ending school year 2020 for students who did not meet the EOC requirements. The code will appear on the AAR produced by clicking the Print AAR button on the Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Cumulative Courses tab in Grade Reporting, SGP1000 - Student Personal Graduation Plan, SGR2047 - AAR Multi-Year, and SRG0400 - Student Information Sheet (Attendance, Grade Reporting, and Registration).

ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.2.2.2

Login

❏ Modified the program to open the Public Documents page (View/Download Documents button) to the selected language (previously opening to both English and Spanish).

Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the program to properly display the Student Residency Questionnaire (this was a DBA Assistant change).

Update 3.5.0183

Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Move to Grade Reporting

❏ Enabled Move to Grade Reporting menu option.

ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Returning Registration

❏ Corrected the program to properly display documents in Returning Registration after they have been accepted in Registration > Online Registration > Pending Updates.

Registration > Military Connected Student Data

❏ Corrected dash marks on the Military Connected Student Data form in ParentPortal Online Registration.

Update 3.5.0182

Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance

Modified the program to accept the new description for Role ID of 008: School Counselor (old description was 008: Counselor) when validating changes for school year 2021.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Update

❏ Corrected Pending Update Details to copy data into previous school year when applicable on save. This correction is required before you run Move to Grade Reporting (MTGR) if you are using Online Registration. If you have already run MTGR, open a ticket with the TCC and submit a copy of your database before and after running MTGR.

ASCENDER StudentPortal logo

ASCENDER StudentPortal

Login > Create Account

❏ Corrected the program so that you can go through the Create Account wizard to create an account. This was due to an issue with a common file. StudentPortal itself was not updated.

Update 3.5.0181

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit

❏ Removed SAT0921 - Interim Estimate Camp/Dist Multi-Track Summary Rpt from the report menu.

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0900 - Campus/District Summary Report

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0920 - Campus/District Multi-Track Summary Report

❏ Rearranged the report to include the following new rows/calculations for Bil/ESL, Dual Lang, Early Ed, Pg Related Services FTE, and Residential Facility. In addition, reformated the report to display grade levels EE-05 on one page and 06-12 on the second page. Previously, all grade levels were displayed on a single page.

  • G.1 BE-Elig Days Bilingual/ESL
  • G.2 D1-Elig Days Bil Dual Lang
  • G.3 D2 (EL)-Elig Days Bil Dual Lang
  • G.4 D2 (EL)-Elig Days Bil Dual Lang
  • H.1 Early Ed Eco Dis Elig Days
  • H.2 Early Ed Lang Elig Days
  • H.3 Early Ed Eco Dis & Lang Elig Days
  • L.1 BE-Bil/ESL Refined ADA
  • L.2 D1-Dual Lang Refined ADA
  • L.3 D2(EL)-Bil Dual Lang Refined ADA
  • L.4 D2(EP)-Bil Dual Lang Refined ADA
  • M. Residential Facility Refined ADA
  • O.1 Early Ed Eco Dis Refined ADA
  • O.2 Early Ed Lang Refined ADA
  • O.3 Early Ed Eco Dis and Lang Refined ADA
  • P. Preg Related Services FTE

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Membership > SAT0950 - District Attendance and Contact Hours

❏ Rearranged the report to include the following new rows/calculations for Bil/ESL, Dual Lang, Early Ed, Pg Related Services FTE, and Residential Facility. In addition, reformated the report to display grade levels EE-05 on one page and 06-12 on the second page. Previously, all grade levels were displayed on a single page.

  • G.1 BE-Elig Days Bilingual/ESL
  • G.2 D1-Elig Days Bil Dual Lang
  • G.3 D2 (EL)-Elig Days Bil Dual Lang
  • G.4 D2 (EL)-Elig Days Bil Dual Lang
  • H.1 Early Ed Eco Dis Elig Days
  • H.2 Early Ed Lang Elig Days
  • H.3 Early Ed Eco Dis & Lang Elig Days
  • L.1 BE-Bil/ESL Refined ADA
  • L.2 D1-Dual Lang Refined ADA
  • L.3 D2(EL)-Bil Dual Lang Refined ADA
  • L.4 D2(EP)-Bil Dual Lang Refined ADA
  • M. Residential Facility Refined ADA
  • O.1 Early Ed Eco Dis Refined ADA
  • O.2 Early Ed Lang Refined ADA
  • O.3 Early Ed Eco Dis and Lang Refined ADA
  • P. Preg Related Services FTE

Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > PGP

Graduation Plan > Reports > SGP1000 - Student Personal Graduation Plan

❏ Modified the program to include substitute assessments for STAAR EOC subjects if there is not already a passing EOC record or exception record for the same subject. In order to be included, the Substitute Assessment field must be set to 1 – Yes and a value must be selected in the Assessment Substituted field on the Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC page. If either the Level II: Approaches Grade Level or the Level III: Masters Grade under Student Academic Performance fields are set to 1:Yes, then Sub Lvl II is displayed on the report; otherwise, Sub Lvl I is displayed.


Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule > Available Courses

❏ Removed the edit that prevented you from saving a district course record with both Speech and CPR selected under Course Codes and Credits.

Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Report Cards

❏ Corrected the Secondary (2 Semester) and Secondary (4 Semester) report card types to only include grade levels that are not designated as elementary on the Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Elementary > Elem Grade tab.


Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Move to Grade Reporting

❏ Modified the program to create SPPI 14 demo and parent records using prior year leavers for students in grade levels 09-12 with applicable leaver codes (98, 88, 90, 24, and 01).

❏ Modified the program to correctly write longer student names (up to 60 characters each for first, middle, and last name) to the new school year.

❏ Modified the program to remove data from alert and email queue tables to be able to start new year alerts.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Updates

❏ Corrected the program to quickly retrieve and display pending updates.

Registration > Maintenance > State Performance Plan 14 > Directory

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented you from sorting by Last Name.

❏ Corrected the program error that occurred when sorting by Unique Stu ID.

Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Modified the program to write the Crisis Code for students who are enrolled at the end of school year 2020 and have a record for a generic program on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Generic with TEA Crisis Code 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E, 7F, 7G, 7H, or 7I on Registration >Maintenance > District Profile > Generic Ent/Wd Program Codes.

❏ Corrected the program to reference the COVID-19 Options set on the Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters tab for the 2020 school year. If Print Pass/Fail on AARs is selected, then Pass/Fail should also be printed on the student's transcript.

❏ Modified the program to include substitute assessments for STAAR EOC subjects if there is not already a passing EOC record or exception record for the same subject. In order to be included, the Substitute Assessment field must be set to 1 – Yes and a value must be selected in the Assessment Substituted field on the Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC page. If either the Level II: Approaches Grade Level or the Level III: Masters Grade fields under Student Academic Performance are set to 1:Yes, then the Performance Level will be 6; otherwise, it will be 5.


Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Cumulative Courses

Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Grades > SGR2047 - AAR Multi-Year

❏ Modified the program to include substitute assessments for STAAR EOC subjects if there is not already a passing EOC record or exception record for the same subject. In order to be included, the Substitute Assessment field must be set to 1 – Yes and a value must be selected in the Assessment Substituted field on the Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC page. If either the Level II: Approaches Grade Level or the Level III: Masters Grade under Student Academic Performance fields are set to 1:Yes, then Sub Lvl II is displayed on the report; otherwise, Sub Lvl I is displayed.

Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District > Courses

❏ Removed the edit that prevented you from saving a district course record with both Speech and CPR selected under Course Codes and Credits.


Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance
Test Scores > Utilities > Import Test Scores

❏ Modified the program to create a performance acknowledgement code of 130 when the AP Exam Code, 23: Research, is added to a student's record.


ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.2.0.3

Application Log Files

❏ Updated the program to write to its own log file. Paths:

  • C:\TCC\TxEIS\standalone\log\ParentPortal
  • C:\TCC\TxEIS\standalone\log\StudentPortal

Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the Registration form and Print Confirmation page to display the student's full name correctly when it contains an apostrophe.

ASCENDER StudentPortal logo

ASCENDER StudentPortal

Update 4.1.0.6

Application Log Files

❏ Updated the program to write to its own log file. Paths:

  • C:\TCC\TxEIS\standalone\log\ParentPortal
  • C:\TCC\TxEIS\standalone\log\StudentPortal

Update 3.5.0179

Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs

❏ Corrected program error when adding ELO programs.

Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Move to Grade Reporting

❏ Removed (temporarily) the Move to Grade Reporting option from the page to prevent clients from running the utility.

Update 3.5.0178

ASCENDER ParentPortal logo

ASCENDER ParentPortal

Note: This was a database issue; the ParentPortal application, while affected, was not changed for this Update.

ParentPortal > Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the database issue that prevented a parent from successfully completing the Registration forms. In one instance, an error occurred not allowing the parent to continue. In other instances, when the parent completed a form, the form status changed to Completed but then reverted back to Pending as the parent continued to another form.

ASCENDER StudentPortal logo

ASCENDER StudentPortal

Update 4.0.2.3

StudentPortal > Attendance

❏ Corrected the issue that caused the instructor name to be duplicated.

StudentPortal > Course Request

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented incoming students from seeing their course requests.

❏ Corrected the program to display the correct Course Request Units Remaining for record status 4 students (enrolled at another campus, will attend this campus next year).

Update 3.5.0177

Attendance > Maintenance > Flexible Attendance > Weekly Register Worksheet

❏ Modified the Week field to allow two digits instead of one.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > Class Roster Extract

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the utility from extracting properly.

Grade Reporting > Utilities > Grade Averaging and Class Ranking

❏ Added Grade Levels fields under H.S. Credit Level Courses for Middle School, allowing you to select the middle school grade levels to include in grade averaging and class ranking, and historical grade averaging and class ranking. If no grade level is selected, a H. S. Credit Level row will only be calculated for students in grade levels 7 and 8.

Grade Averaging and Class Ranking utility with new fields highlighted



Grade Reporting > Utilities > Grade Computation & Credit Assignment

❏ Modified the program so when the utility is run for only the final semester of courses with a credit sequence of 2 or 4, credit awarded for previous semesters is updated correctly for courses that allow partial credit.

Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Report Cards

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the Failing message from being displayed on published report cards for two-semester secondary campuses.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented report cards from printing data correctly when COVID-19 Options are selected on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters.

❏ Modified the utility to allow elementary report cards to be generated for the following school types:

• 11 - Primary
• 12 - Intermediate

Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Interim Progress Reports

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented you from viewing a student's last posted IPR when IPRs have been published for other students.

Graduation Plan Menu

❏ Renamed the MyZone submenu to StudentPortal.

Graduation Plan Maintenance menu




Health > Maintenance > Student Health > Demo

❏ Added the display-only Medicaid ID field which displays the ID entered on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1 for students who are eligible for Medicaid.

Student Health - Demo tab with new field highlighted




Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs > Expanded Learning (ELO)

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the Type field from being populated with 2020 values after running Update Database.

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment (Document Attachments)

❏ Added Social Security Card to the documents that can be stored for a student.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented attached documents from being displayed for enrolled students.

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1

❏ Moved the Medicaid Eligible field from the Demo2 tab to the Demo1 tab.

❏ Added the Medicaid ID field allowing you to enter the nine-digit Medicaid ID for students who are eligible for Medicaid.

snippet of Demo1 tab with new fields highlighted



Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2

❏ Added the following fields to the re-enrollment from Historical process, so that they are populated appropriately when a student is re-enrolled from the Historical Directory:

• Under Miscellaneous: Medicaid Eligible and Att Zone Home Campus
Dual Language Immersion
ECDS Assessments

❏ Corrected the program to properly validate the Dt Entry 5th Grd, Dt Entry 8th Grd, and Dt Entry 9th Grd fields, and to display the appropriate error message when invalid data is entered.

❏ Removed the Medicaid Eligible field. The field was moved to Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1.

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL

❏ Modified the Bilingual field edit (BILINGUAL-PROGRAM-TYPE-CODE (E1042)) to allow codes 0 and 2-5.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment

❏ Corrected the autosuggest functionality of the Search by Name and Search by Key fields.

❏ Added an edit to prevent you to from saving a next year student record (Record Status 5) with an entry date that is after the ending of school.

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment > Register Student

❏ Removed Parent SSN validation from the SSN field.

Registration > Utilities > Reset Values

❏ Added Dyslexia Risk to the Items to Reset drop-down list allowing you to reset this code from Specific/All/Blank to Specific/Blank. This value is maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3.

Reset Values utility with Dyslexia Risk selection highlighted



Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG0710 - Standard Forms Printing

❏ Added the Migrant Education Program - Family Survey form, allowing you to retain a printed copy.

SRG0710 parameters

SRG0710 migrant form



Registration > Reports > Create Registration Report

❏ Updated fields as follows:

• Under Demo1 - Demographic Information, added the following fields which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1:

Medicaid Eligible
Medicaid ID
Portal ID

Create Registration Report - Demo1 section

• Under Demo2 - Miscellaneous:

• Added Att Zone Home Campus which is maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2.
• Removed Medicaid Eligible from this section; it was moved to the Demo1 section.

• Under Demo2 added the ECDS Assessments section with the following fields which are maintained on on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2:

PK Beginning of Year
PK End of Year
KG Beginning of Year

Create Registration Report - Demo2 section

• Under Demo3 added the Dyslexia Services section with the following fields which are maintained on on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3:

Section 504 Services
SBEC/Trained Staff
Section 39.023 Mods

• Under Demo3 in the Status Indicators section, added the Dyslexia Risk.

• Under Demo3 in the Graduation section, corrected the Industry Certification2 Date Completed label.

Create Registration Report - Demo3 section

• Under At Risk - At Risk, added the following fields which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > At Risk, and reordered the fields to accommodate the new fields:

Unsatis Assess (PK-03) Doc
Failed Courses (07-12) Doc
Not Promoted Doc
Unsatis Assess Doc
Pregnant/Parent Doc
Placed in DAEP Doc
Expelled Doc
Conditional Release Doc
Prior PEIMS Dropout Doc
LEP Doc
DFPS Doc
Homeless Doc
Residential Placement Doc
Incarcerated
Incarcerated Doc
• Also corrected the DAEP acronym in two places.

Create Registration Report - At Risk section



• Under Spec Ed, added the following fields which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd, and reordered the fields to accommodate the new fields:

Secondary Dis
Tertiary Dis
Multiply Dis
Medically Fragile
Child Cnt Fund
Asst Tech
Aud Svc
Couns Svc
ECI
Interp Svc
Medical Diag
Occup Thrpy
Orient Thrpy
Phys Thrpy
PPCD
PPCD Location
Psych Svc
Rec Thrpy
Sch Hlth Svc
Soc Wrk Svc
Transport

Create Registration Report - Spec Ed section

• Under Bil/ESL - Bil/ESL, renamed and reordered fields:

• Renamed LEP to LEP Cd.
• Renamed Par Perm to Par Perm Cd.
• Renamed Alt Lang to Alt Lang Cd.

Create Registration Report - Bil/ESL section

• Removed the Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) section.


Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Campus Control

❏ Renamed the txMyZone Course Requests heading to StudentPortal Course Requests.

snippet of Campus Control tab with renamed heading highlighted



Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > StudentPortal Message

❏ Renamed the txMyZone Message tab to StudentPortal Message.

Master Schedule > Campus tabs with tab name highlighted



Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Master Schedules > SCH0133 - StudentPortal - Course List

❏ Renamed the report from txMyZone - Course List to StudentPortal - Course List.

Scheduling Reports list

SCH0133 report parameters

SCH0133 report



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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.1.0.28

ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > User Settings

❏ Corrected the search functionality to correctly retrieve users from multiple campuses according to the Multi Campus User setting on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Gradebook Options > District > Administrative Users.

ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > District Settings

❏ Corrected the Allow Campus Admins to View All District Students setting to function as expected.

❏ Corrected the Display Schedules setting to function as expected.

ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > Site Statistics

❏ Corrected the ParentPortalID column in both Student Accounts downloads to display the correct heading.

ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator

❏ Modified the Contact:Language column so that the Visible and Required fields are selected and disabled.

ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Field Management

❏ Added DOCSTOR_SSC to the Available Fields list allowing you to add the option for parents to upload a social security card image from the New Student Enrollment, Returning Student Registration, and Student Data Maintenance forms.

Form Field Management with SSC field selected



ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Custom Forms > Create Custom Form

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented a form from being displayed correctly if the content had been pasted from an external document.

ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Custom Forms > Create Custom Form (Step 2)

❏ Renamed the Multiple Choice format to Radio button.

❏ Renamed the Dropdown format to Dropdown-Multiple Choice.

Create Custom Form page



ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Custom Forms > Edit Custom Form

❏ Corrected the program so that labels are displayed correctly on the page and preview window.

ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Usage > Form Completion Data

❏ Corrected the Students With Incomplete Forms report so that the the Grade Level and Campus column headings are positioned correctly in the spreadsheet.

ParentPortal Admin > Form Group Management > New Student Enrollment

❏ Corrected the program so that the form list displays correctly without needing to refresh when a form is moved from Selected Forms to Available Forms.

ParentPortal > Summary

❏ Disabled a feature that allowed a student to change a displayed grade via the source code.

ParentPortal > Summary (Report Card)

❏ Corrected the program to display the PROMOTED/RETAINED message on electronic report cards.

ParentPortal > My Account

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented parents from linking an enrolled student with record status 5.

ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 3)

❏ Corrected the New Student Address form fields so that they are listed in the order specified on ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator.

ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 4)

❏ Corrected the issue that caused an error to be generated when you attempted to view an uploaded document.

❏ Corrected the program to require both the Hispanic/Latino field and at least one race field to be selected.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented edits from ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator from appearing in the parent view of the form.

ParentPortal > Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the program to update the school year value in the database according to the date range specified on ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Group Management > Form Settings.

Returning Student Registration

❏ Corrected the Registration form and Print Confirmation page to display the student's full name correctly when it contains an apostrophe.

ParentPortal > Attendance

❏ Corrected the program to display 'School Related' absence for attendance posting code Q where Absence Type is N (not in class present).

Update 3.5.0176

Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters

❏ Under Options added the following field for the 2019-2020 school year:

Date School Started COVID-19, allowing you to enter the beginning date that the campus was closed due to COVID-19. If the Date School Started COVID-19 field contains a value, the COVID-19 Options section is displayed.



❏ Added the COVID-19 Options section which is displayed when the Date School Started COVID-19 field contains a value. The following fields are included.

Campus will post cycle grade, allowing you to indicate for each enabled semester-cycle if the campus will post cycle grades.
Campus will not post, use previous cycle grade, allowing you to indicate for each enabled semester-cycle if the campus will not post a cycle grade, and will instead re-post the cycle grade from the previous cycle.
Exclude cycle grade on calculations, allowing you to indicate for each enabled semester-cycle if the campus will exclude cycle grades in the grade calculations. This setting only applies to four-semester campuses.

Print Pass/Fail on Report Cards, allowing you to indicate for each enabled semester-cycle, as well as for the semester 2 average and final grade, if pass/fail grades will print on report cards instead of a numeric or alpha grade.
Print Pass/Fail on AARs, allowing you to indicate for the semester 2 average and the final grade whether pass/fail will printed on AARs instead of numeric or alpha grades.
Use the following cycles for the Last Semester Grade Calculations, allowing you to select which averages will be included when calculating the average for the last semester. These fields are only displayed for two-semester campuses.

Campus Control tab


Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Cumulative Courses (Print AAR)
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Grades > SGR2047 - AAR Multi-Year

❏ Updated the AARs to display pass/fail grades instead of semester and/or final grades, according to the COVID-19 Options selections on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters.

AAR with Pass/Fail grades




Grade Reporting > Utilities > Grade Computation and Credit Assignment

❏ Modified the utility to consider the COVID-19 Options selected on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters when computing semester and final averages using cycle grades for the 2019-2020 school year.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > Grade Computation - Elementary

❏ Modified the utility to consider the COVID-19 Options selected on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters when computing semester and final averages using cycle grades for the 2019-2020 school year.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > Grade Averaging and Class Ranking

❏ Modified the utility to consider the COVID-19 Options selected on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters when running early computation with cycle grades when Grds Used for Grade Avg on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > H Roll & Gr Avg is set to S (i.e., grade average and class rank are calculated by averaging semester grade).


Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract

❏ Corrected the issue that caused the extract to fail when retrieving records.


Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1300 - Secondary Report Cards (2 Semesters)
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1350 - Secondary Report Cards (4 Semesters)

❏ Updated the report cards to print pass/fail grades instead of cycle, semester and/or final grades, according to the COVID-19 Options selections on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters.

SGR1300 report with pass/fail grades highlighted




Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1400 - Elementary Report Cards
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1401 - Elementary Principal's Proof List

❏ Updated the report cards to display pass/fail grades for the 2019-2020 school year according to the settings on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters. If the final grade is blank, and the campus and grade level use cumulative final averaging and do not use semester averaging, the cumulative final average is calculated as calculated by the Grade Computation - Elementary utility.


Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Instructors > SGR0900 - Class Rolls (Student Grade Information)
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Grades > SGR2091 - Elementary Grade Labels

❏ Updated the reports to calculate cumulative final grades using COVID-19 Options on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Campus Control Options > Parameters. For the 2019-2020 school year, final grades are only calculated if the student's final grade is blank and Comp Cum Avg is selected, and Comp Sem Avg is not selected for the student's grade level on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Elementary > Elem Grade for all school years.


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ASCENDER StudentPortal

Update 4.0.1.13

ASCENDER StudentPortal Login Page

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented Course Requests from being disabled when Graduation Plan was enabled.

ASCENDER StudentPortal > Grades > Assignments

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented Record Status 3 students (i.e., currently enrolled at this campus, will attend new campus next year) from being able to view assignments.


Update 3.5.0174

Attendance > Maintenance > Flexible Attendance > Weekly Register Worksheet

❏ Removed the Multi Dis and Primary Dis fields for the 2019-2020 school year and later.


Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Control Info

❏ Added the Full Day PK Waiver field allowing you to indicate if the campus has received an exemption from offering a full-day PK program (PK-FULL-DAY-WAIVER-INDICATOR-CODE (E1646)). The field must be selected if Instructional Program Type is 15 on Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Options for at least one track at the campus.

snippet of Control Info with Full Day PK Waiver field highlighted




Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs > Expanded Learning (ELO)

❏ Added the page which allows you to maintain a list of the Expanded Learning Opportunity (ELO) programs offered at the campus. This information is needed for the PEIMS summer submission.

Expanded Learning (ELO) tab




Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1

❏ Added the Portal ID field which displays the student's Portal ID if it exists. The Portal ID is required for parents/guardians in order to add students to their ParentPortal account.

NOTE: A Portal ID is automatically assigned to the student when you save an enrollment record for a student who submitted an enrollment request using ASCENDER ParentPortal New Student Enrollment. You can also generate the ID for a student using Registration > Utilities > Set Parent Portal IDs.



snippet of Demo1 tab with Portal ID field highlighted


Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment

❏ Modified the program to automatically populate Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Title I for the student upon enrollment at a Title I campus (i.e., a campus that has Title I and Schoolwide Title I special programs selected on Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Options).


Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Update Details

❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Contact - Cell Phone to be formatted incorrectly in the New Value column.


Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment > Register Student

❏ Updated the Falsification of Documents standard form to correct a spelling error.


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Program > SRG0100 - Campus Information

❏ Added the Campus Expanded Learning Opportunities ELO section to the report which displays the Expanded Learning Opportunity (ELO) programs offered at the campus during the specified school year, as entered on Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs > Expanded Learning (ELO).

Campus Expanded Learning Opportunities ELO subreport on SRG0100




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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.3.14

ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator

❏ Modified the Required field for the NAME_M (middle name) field so that it is editable and not disabled.

ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > Site Statistics

❏ Added the Campus column to the spreadsheet that is downloaded when you click Student Accounts - Without Accounts.

spreadsheet



❏ Corrected the Student Accounts - Without Accounts report to only include active students.


ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Usage > Form Completion Data

❏ Corrected the program to show search filters.


ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 3)
ParentPortal > Summary > Registration
ParentPortal > My Account > Student Data Maintenance

❏ Modified the program so that the Contact - Phone Preference field is required, as well as the phone number that corresponds to the selection (Business, Cell, Home, or Other).


ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 4)

❏ Modified the program to allow you to select up to seven contacts for the student.

❏ Corrected the program to prevent users from completing enrollment without entering all required fields.


ParentPortal > My Account > Enroll a New Student
ParentPortal > Summary > Registration

❏ Updated the Falsification of Documents standard form to correct a spelling error.


ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle and Semester Grades

❏ Corrected the program to display a note icon with any assignment notes, if entered by the teacher in txGradebook.


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ASCENDER StudentPortal

Update 4.0.0.10

StudentPortal Database-URL

❏ Modified the program to allow alphanumeric database ID characters in the URL.


StudentPortal Login

❏ Corrected the program to disable the Login page when both Graduation Plan and Course Requests have been disabled.

❏ Corrected the Spanish version of the message displayed when StudentPortal is disabled.


StudentPortal > Grades > Cycle & Semester Grades

❏ Corrected the program to display a note icon with any assignment notes, if entered by the teacher in txGradebook.

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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.2.17 (TxEIS 3.5.0173)

ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 3)

❏ Prevented you from adding more than seven Family Contacts.




ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 4)

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented you from uploading a document.

❏ Corrected the program to display any field-specific instructions as entered on ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator.




ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 3)
ASCENDER ParentPortal > Summary > Registration
ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > Student Data Maintenance

❏ Corrected the Contacts forms to display according to settings entered on ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the Contacts form from being saved for some districts.




ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > Student Data Maintenance

❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Registration page to open when you clicked Add Contact.

❏ Corrected the program to properly display comments when a form change is rejected by campus staff from Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > Pending Updates - Details.




ASCENDER ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle and Semester Grades

❏ Added the Show All/Hide All buttons allowing you to expand/collapse the assignment grade details section for all courses at once.

Cycle Grades page with Show All/Hide All button highlighted






ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator

❏ Modified the Contact: First Name, Contact: Last Name, and Contact: Relation fields so that they are required and cannot be removed from the form. The Visible option is selected and disabled.

❏ Corrected the issues that prevented you from adding a field to a dynamic form, and caused dynamic forms to be listed under the Static Forms heading.

❏ Disabled the Archived checkbox for the following dynamic forms: New Student Enrollment, New Student Contacts, New student Address, Registration, and Contacts.




ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Custom Forms > Edit Custom Form

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the available forms from being displayed.


Update 3.5.0172

Attendance > Maintenance > Gradebook Options > Unposted Absences

❏ Corrected the program to only report unposted absences for course-sections where the beginning or ending period falls within the 1st Period/Last Period Nbr on Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Options.

❏ Corrected the program to display properly when a course-section has an invalid instructor ID.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Report Cards

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented Secondary (2 Semester) report cards from being generated for campuses with School Type set to Elementary/Secondary on Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Control Info.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Interim Progress Report

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented IPRs from being generated when the Print ADA Attendance Summary parameter was selected.


Grade Reporting > Reports > Create Grade Reporting Report

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the report from being generated when any EOC Exception fields were selected.

❏ Corrected the Sort/Filter dialog so that the field names in the Columns Available for Sorting list match the field names on the page.


Health > Reports > Health Reports > Screenings > SHS0825 - Screening Problem Report

❏ Corrected the report to generate properly when an invalid Screening Date exists.


Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Control Info

❏ Corrected the program to allow you to save a blank Capped Date, and removed validation for Capped Date for districts that are not using Attendance Zones.


Registration > Maintenance > State Performance Plan 14

❏ Corrected the issue that caused a program error to occur when clicking Directory for a district with students whose SPPI-14 campus is different from their campus of enrollment within the same school year.


Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment > Register Student

❏ Corrected the program to automatically assign the next available State ID to a new student upon Save when the student's SSN is blank and SSN Denied is selected, and Assign State ID Number is selected on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > District Maintenance > Control Info.

❏ Updated the Military Connected Student Data standard form so that the options match the language in the 2019-2020 TEDS.


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG3014 - State Performance Plan14 Information

❏ Added the report which provides demographic and contact information for students who meet the requirements for State Performance Plan Indicator - 14 (SPPI-14) reporting.

SRG3014 report




Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Current Year > Program Information

❏ Corrected the program so that data on this tab reflects the student's most current record on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd.


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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.1.135

ParentPortal Timeout

❏ Modified the program to redirect to the login page when the web page times out due to inactivity.


ParentPortal Login

❏ Corrected the program to display the My Account page when a user with an unverified email address logs on.


ParentPortal > My Account > Enroll a New Student (Step 3)

❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Add Contacts and Add Address pop-up windows to open blank with no fields.


ParentPortal > My Account > Enroll a New Student
ParentPortal > Summary > Registration

❏ Updated the Military Connected Student Data standard form so that the options match the language in the 2019-2020 TEDS.


ParentPortal > My Account

❏ Corrected the program to display the message “Verification code sent successfully” when the user enters a valid email address and clicks Verify Email.


ParentPortal > Summary

❏ Corrected the alignment of the Last Updated, Current Average, and Today's Attendance columns under Class Schedule.


ParentPortal > Attendance > Detailed View

❏ Corrected the program to display attendance data for active courses only for transfer students.


ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle and Semester Grades > Cycle Grades

❏ Added the ability to view Cycle Grade Details for the previous semester.

❏ Corrected the Cycle Grade Details to display the Possible Points for each assignment grade and category for courses that used points-based grading.

❏ Corrected issue that caused a student's cycle grade to display F when the teacher entered grade P.


ParentPortal > Alerts

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented alerts from being sent to parents for assignment grades falling below the set threshold.

❏ Corrected the program to allow students (i.e., non-parent users) to receive alert messages.


ParentPortal > Alerts > View Alerts

❏ Modified the page to sort alert messages in the order received with the most recent on top, and to only display alerts from the current school year.


ParentPortal > Alerts > Set Alerts

❏ Corrected the program to enable the alert preferences fields for all parents who have a verified email address.


ParentPortal Admin

❏ Corrected the program to prevent campus-level administrators from accessing district-level admin pages.


ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator

❏ Corrected the Copy Form functionality for dynamic forms so that all fields are copied.

❏ Corrected the program to display the selected background color when previewing a dynamic form.


ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Custom Forms > View Form Data

❏ Corrected the DTS column to display the most recent date the form was submitted by the parent, rather than the date the form was created.


Update 3.5.0171

Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract

❏ Corrected the STAAR 3-8 Early and STAAR 3-8 extracts to only include data that pertains to correct subject and test mode (Online or Paper).

For STAAR 3-8 Early, the extract will only include information for Reading and Math if the student is in grade level 5 or 8 (current enrollment or above grade), and Writing for grade level 4 or 7 (current enrollment or above grade).

For STAAR 3-8, the extract will not include any information for Writing since this is only applicable to STAAR 3-8 Early (April).

For both STAAR 3-8 and STAAR 3-8 Early, the Online Test Group Name columns for each subject will be blank when Paper test is selected.


Grade Reporting > Reports > Create Grade Reporting Report

❏ Added the following fields, allowing you to include these fields in a custom report:

• Under Demo3, added AAR Grad Plan and Migrant which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3.

• Added the SpecEd section which includes the Primary Dis field, which is maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd.

• Under Student Course Maintenance, added Title, Self Pcd, and Grad Plan Use Cd which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule. Also removed Service ID Override from this section.

• Under Prior Year/Transfer Courses, added the following fields which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Prior Yr Transfer.

Grd Lvl
Crs Seq
GA Wgt
GA Tbl
GP Use 1-4

• Under District Course Offered CYR added the following fields which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule:

Crs Nbr
Grad Plan
CPR
Speech

Also renamed the following:
Hroll Cd renamed to HRoll Cd
Dist SpcCons renamed to Dist Spec Cons
Hroll Wgt renamed to HRoll Wgt
Dist Gender Rstr renamed to Dist Gender Restr
Hroll Table renamed to HRoll Table
Exclude from txGradebook renamed to Exclude from TeacherPortal

• Under Campus Course Offered CYR in the Course Section CYR section, added the Grad Plan Use field which is maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Section.

Also renamed the following:
Cr Sec Nbr renamed to Cr Section Nbr
Dual renamed to Dual Credit
Wks Mon renamed to Wks/Mnth
Cr Instr Sett renamed to Cr Instruct Sett

• Under Campus Course Offered CYR in the Course Meet CYR section, added the Entry Date and Withdraw Date fields which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Section.

• Under Campus Course Offered CYR added the following fields to the Instructor CYR section, which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Instructor:

Homeroom
Exclude from Fall PEIMS
Max Study Halls/Day
Max Sections/Sem
Max Periods/Day
Max Preps/Sem
Max Contact Per/Year
Restr Department
Restr Subject Area
Restr Resvrd Room
Designator 1-3

• Under Campus Course Offered CYR added the Course CYR section which includes the following fields which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Course:

Grd Restr
Add Grd Restr
Pregrid Grd Restr
Add Pregrid Grd Restr
Excl Conflict Matrix
Can Split Opt
Rpt Card Grd Typ

• Added the EOC Exception section which includes the following fields which are maintained on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > EOC Exception.

Algebra 1 and Alg 1 Sch Yr
Biology 1 and Bio 1 Sch Yr
English 1 and Eng 1 Sch Yr
English 2 and Eng 2 Sch Yr
US History and US Hist Sch Yr

Create Grade Reporting Report - first half

Create Grade Reporting Report - second half




Registration > Maintenance > State Performance Plan 14

❏ Added the page which allows you to maintain demographic information and contacts for students at the selected campus who meet the requirements for State Performance Plan Indicator - 14 (SPPI-14) reporting:

  • The student was enrolled in grade level 9-12.
  • The student was served by special education services in the prior year, as reported in the PEIMS Summer submission.
  • The student was reported as a leaver in the Fall submission with one of the following leaver codes:01, 24, 88, 90, 98.

There are two tabs:

  • Demographics - Automatically populated with basic demographic information. Certain fields can be updated.

    Demographics tab



  • Contact - Automatically populated with existing contact records. Contacts can be added or updated as needed.

    Contact tab




Registration > Utilities > Texas Unique Student ID Processing > UID Import

❏ Modified the program to correctly import longer student names (up to 60 characters each for first, middle, and last name).


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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.1.110 (TxEIS 3.5.0171)

❏ Corrected the program to resize the screen appropriately for Chromebook users.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Create Account

❏ Corrected the program to display the message “Email has already been verified” when a parent clicks the link in the verification email message after already having verified the email address.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Summary

❏ Corrected the program to display student summary cards correctly in responsive mode.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Attendance (Detailed View)

❏ Added a vertical scroll bar so that users can see all dates when a student has numerous absences.

❏ Renamed the toggle button from Simple/Detailed to All Attendance/Detailed.

❏ Corrected the Detailed View so that the All Attendance/Detailed toggle displays the correct codes.

The All Attendance view displays the four main absence types:

• Unexcused Absence (U)
• Tardy (T)
• Excused Absence (E)
• School Related (S)

Detailed Attendance - All Attendance view

The Detailed view displays the specific district codes assigned to the student for that absence, which are set up on Attendance > Maintenance > District > Posting Codes.

Detailed Attendance - Detailed view


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Attendance (Calendar View)

❏ Corrected alignment of the calendar in the Firefox browser.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented you from selecting My Account from the drop-down menu after clicking on a highlighted date in the calendar.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Attendance (Totals View)

❏ Modified the program so that the following Instructor information is displayed if provided by that instructor in txGradebook.

• The instructor's name is displayed as a link if the instructor's email address exists. Click the link to send an email message to the instructor.
• The note icon is displayed next to the instructor's name. Click the icon to view any additional notes provided by the instructor, such as office hours, phone number, etc.

snippet of Totals page with Instructor column highlighted




ASCENDER ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle and Semester Grades > Cycle Grades

❏ Corrected the functionality of the Show/Hide toggle so that it works as expected.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle and Semester Grades > Semester Grades

❏ Corrected the page to refresh properly when the student is changed.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 3)

❏ Corrected the program so that the Family Addresses and Family Contacts forms reflect any changes made on ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > New Student Enrollment (Step 4)

❏ Corrected the program to display instructions for static documents as entered in the Form Instructions field on ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator.

❏ Corrected the program to require the parent to complete any fields marked as Required before proceeding to the next step, and to indicate the blank required fields with a red box when a parent attempts to proceed.

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented a user from proceeding to the next step.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Summary > Registration

❏ Renamed the Add User button to Add Contact.

Contacts tab with Add Contact button highlighted


ASCENDER ParentPortal Alert Notifications

❏ Added the attendance posting date to attendance alerts.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Custom Forms > Create Custom Form

❏ Corrected the functionality of the Dropdown question format so that if a user selects multiple options, all of the user's selections are recorded and displayed on Custom Forms > View Form Data.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > User Settings

❏ Added the following fields allowing you to enter search criteria for retrieving a particular ParentPortal user.

User
Email
Student ID
Student Name

Also added the ability to sort each column in the Matching Users grid.

User Settings page with new features highlighted



❏ Modified the Matching Users search results to not include students with status code 4 or 5.

❏ Corrected the program to filter Matching Users results for campus-level administrators according to the search criteria entered.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator > Edit Form

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented fields from being displayed when a campus has an invalid or blank Number of Semesters or Number of Cycles per Semester.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Usage > Usage Statistics

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented usage statistics from being displayed.

Update 3.5.0170

Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0600 - Student Detail Report
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Membership > SAT0950 - District Attendance and Contact Hours

❏ Updated the error report with new special ed columns so that only invalid status changes for special education students are listed.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Interim Progress Report

❏ Corrected the issue that caused the report card message to print twice on elementary IPRs.


Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1800 - Compute Attendance in Course Records

❏ Corrected the program to process a campus with up to 36 periods. The program was also modified to look at up to 50 meeting times for a course-section when determining if student has an absence posted for a particular date and period.


Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2

❏ Added the following fields under ECDS Assessments, allowing you to enter the date the beginning-of-year and end-of-year reading assessments were administered to the student. These dates are used by the ECDS Interchanges in State Reporting.

PK Beginning of Year
PK End of Year
KG Beginning of Year

Demo2 tab with new fields highlighted


Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment > Register Student

❏ Added the Xfer Factor field allowing you to enroll a student who would otherwise be assigned to another campus when a campus is capped. This field allows you override the cap for the current year. The list of Transfer Factor reasons is maintained on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Tables > Transfer Factor CY.

❏ Added the Attendance Zones section which provides a list of campuses in the student's attendance zone. If Attendance Zones are used in the district (i.e, if Attendance Zone Edit is selected on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > Attendance Zone Options), the student's physical address will be validated against the campus Attendance Zones. If the student's physical address is not within a street segment as defined on the campus Attendance Zones page, the student cannot be enrolled.

Register Student page with new fields highlighted


Registration > Utilities > Reset Values

❏ Added the following options to the Items to Reset drop-down list allowing you to reset these dates from Specific/All/Blank to Specific/Blank. These values are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2.

• KG Beginning of Year
• PK Beginning of Year
• PK End of Year

Reset Values utility


Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Modified the transcript and transfer files not to display 'Apt.' in the address section unless there is actually an apartment number.


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG2600 - Attendance Zones Invalid Addresses

❏ Added the report which provides a list of invalid addresses for districts using Attendance Zones, which can be used to correct Attendance Zone information. The report matches the student’s Physical Address on Demo1 against the Attendance Zones addresses.

If the student's address if found, the student is not listed.

If the student's address is not found, the student is listed, along with the valid Attendance Zone campuses for that address.

SRG2600


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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.1.86 (TxEIS 3.5.0170)

ASCENDER ParentPortal (Active Campus)

❏ Corrected the program to associate a student with his most current campus if that student has changed campuses.

ASCENDER ParentPortal > New Student Enrollment (Family Contacts Form)

❏ Modified the Contact: Language field so that the drop-down list is populated with English and Spanish, and to update the corresponding TxEIS Registration field according to the parent's selection.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Student Data Maintenance (Contacts Form)

❏ Added the Add User button allowing you to add a new contact for the student.

snippet of Student Data Maintenance page with Add User button highlighted


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Summary

❏ Modified the Class Schedule so that the following Instructor information is displayed if provided by that instructor in txGradebook.

• The instructor's name is displayed as a link if the instructor's email address exists. Click the link to send an email message to the instructor.
• The note icon is displayed next to the instructor's name. Click the icon to view any additional notes provided by the instructor, such as office hours, phone number, etc.

Class Schedule on Summary page


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Attendance

❏ Corrected the program to refresh student data properly when selecting a different student.

❏ Corrected the program so that all applicable dates are visible when the page is in responsive mode.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Grades

❏ Corrected the program to display “No Due Date” when the teacher has not entered a due date for an assignment.

❏ Corrected the page to display both active and withdrawn courses when selecting to include withdrawn courses.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > User Settings

❏ Corrected the issue that caused students to be listed multiple times in the search results if the student had multiple enrollment records.

❏ Corrected the program so that previous search data is no longer retrieved in the search results once the search fields are cleared.

❏ Corrected the search results so that user names are not duplicated in the search results when searching for a student using a single character from the student's name.

Update 3.5.0169

Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment > Register Student

❏ Added the Xfer Factor field allowing you to enroll a student who would otherwise be assigned to another campus when a campus is capped. This field allows you override the cap for the current year. The list of Transfer Factor reasons is maintained on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Tables > Transfer Factor CY.

❏ Added the Attendance Zones section which provides a list of campuses in the student's attendance zone. If Attendance Zones are used in the district (i.e, if Attendance Zone Edit is selected on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > Attendance Zone Options), the student's physical address will be validated against the campus Attendance Zones. If the student's physical address is not within a street segment as defined on the campus Attendance Zones page, the student cannot be enrolled.

Register Student page with new fields highlighted

Registration > Utilities > Attendance Zones Address Change

❏ Corrected the program to change the address for the current year only (prior years are not changed).


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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.1.56 (TxEIS 3.5.0169)

ASCENDER ParentPortal > My Account > Enroll a New Student

❏ Corrected the program to properly display the address and contact fields when enrolling a new student (Add Address and Add Contact buttons on the third step of the New Student Enrollment process).

Static Forms

Admin: Form Management>Document Upload
Parent: My Account > Maintain Student Data > Student Information

❏ Corrected the program to properly display static forms during the registration process.

Update 3.5.168

Grade Reporting

Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract

❏ Added a header row to the precode files for TELPAS, TELPAS Alternate, and STAAR Alternate 2.


Test Scores

Test Scores > Utilities > Import Test Scores (PSAT and SAT)

❏ Updated import files to include the new gender code A (Another), district student ID, and state student ID, per the 2019-2020 layout. These columns will not be imported and stored in TxEIS, but will be used to help identify students when matching by name and date of birth in TxEIS.

Release 3.5

Attendance Zones (New Feature)

GUIDE: TxEIS Registration - Enroll Students Using Attendance Zones

Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > District Maintenance > Attendance Zones Options

❏ Added the tab which allows the district to enable the use of Attendance Zones for identifying street boundaries and properly enrolling students at the correct campuses according to where they live.

Attendance Zone Options tab


Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > Attendance Zones

❏ Added the page which allows you to manually add or update street segment information for Attendance Zone boundaries, including campus assignments and bus eligibility. This data is used to verify student addresses and ensure that students are attending the appropriate schools for their area. You can update data for the current school year or next school year.

District Attendance Zones page showing CY tab


Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > Attendance Zones (Street Directory Search)

❏ Implemented the Street Directory Search pop-up window which opens when you click Directory from the Attendance Zones page.

From the directory, you can search for and retrieve a particular street segment.

The directory includes the Selection Begins With check box. If selected, the search retrieves all streets beginning with those that match the characters entered. If not selected, only matching street names are retrieved.

Street Directory Search pop-up window


Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Tables > CY Transfer Factor
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Tables > NY Transfer Factor

❏ Added two tabs which allow you to create codes for various conditions where enrollment at a capped campus can be overridden. The CY tab codes apply to the current school year, and the NY tab codes apply to the upcoming school year. The System codes will be loaded using a SQL statement.

CY Transfer Factor tab


Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Control Info

❏ Added the following fields:

Capped To Campus, which is used to prevent over enrolling students at a particular campus. You can select the campus at which a student will be enrolled if the campus you are logged onto is capped. For a student to be allowed to enrolled at the capped campus, the student's entry date must be later than the Capped Date, and that student's Transfer Factor must be 0 (out of district). This field is only enabled if Enable Attendance Zones is selected on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Information > District Maintenance > Attendance Zone Options.

Capped Date, which allows you to enter the date after which students can be enrolled at the capped campus if Capped To Campus is used. The date must be a valid school or working date.

snippet of Control Info tab with new fields highlighted


Registration > Utilities > Attendance Zones Change Address

❏ Added the utility which allows the district to change an Attendance Zone street address for situations such as the following:

  • A street name was entered incorrectly, or the street was renamed
  • A street got longer in one or both directions
  • A street dropped a range of numbers (beginning or end)
  • A street was renamed and the number range was re-assigned

All students whose Physical Address on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1 matches the specified segment will be updated with the new address information for all school years.

Attendance Zones Change Address utility


Registration > Utilities > Import Campus Attendance Zones

❏ Added the utility which allows the district to import campus attendance zones data from a .csv or .txt file provided by the post office, government or tax entity, or any other entity that contains the street information. See online Help for the file layout.

Import Campus Attendance Zones


Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Membership > SAT5500 - Attendance Zones Street Detail Report

❏ Added the report which lists all street segments included in the Attendance Zones, including the current year and next year campuses. You must specify a range of street names.

SAT5500 report


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG2600 - Attendance Zones Invalid Addresses

❏ Added the report which provides a list of invalid addresses for districts using Attendance Zones, which can be used to correct Attendance Zone information. The report matches the student’s Physical Address on Demo1 against the Attendance Zones addresses.

If the student's address if found, the student is not listed.

If the student's address is not found, the student is listed, along with the valid Attendance Zone campuses for that address.

SRG2600


Attendance

Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Options

❏ Corrected the program to display the Calendar Operational Minutes heading when Instructional Program Type is set to 14. Previously, the Calendar Instructional Minutes heading was displayed for type 14.

The following were also updated accordingly:

• Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Calendar
• Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Copy Calendar
• Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Program > SRG0100 - Campus Information
• State Reporting > Utilities > Create State Reporting Interchanges (Summer - Education Organization Calendar Interchange)


Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0921 - Interim Estimate Camp/Dist Multi-Track Summary Rpt

❏ Added this report, which provides multi-track campus or district summary reports that meet the audit documentation requirements specified in Section 2.3 of the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook. This report is similar to SAT0920, except the students included in SAT0921 on lines G and J that are not included in SAT0920 have the following in their Bil/ESL record:

LEPBil/ESL Fund Cdboth Bilingual and ESL
1BE, D1, or D2blank or 0
OR
0, F, S, 3, 4, or 5D2blank or 0


snippet of JAT0921


Attendance > Reports > Create User Report

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the report from being generated when the Yearly Count - Percent field was selected, and at least one student had zero membership days and absences in the previous year.


Grade Reporting

Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract

❏ Added options X (large print - paper) and Y (oral admin - paper) to the extract for STAAR Accommodations for the 2019-2020 school year and later.

If either code is used for a test, the test mode will be P for Paper (AO). Codes X and Y cannot be used on conjunction with any other accommodations for a subject; they can only be used with each other.


Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract

❏ Updated the precode extract file as follows:

• Added accommodation codes X and Y to columns AW, BD, BE, BF, BG, and BI (not applicable to TELPAS or TELPAS Alternate) (Code X only applies to STAAR Alternate 2).
• Added columns CC and CD to header (empty).
• For STAAR 3-8, updated the header.
• In column U, inserted 0 in place of LEP code 5 (not applicable to TELPAS or TELPAS Alternate).


Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Report Cards

❏ Modified the program to prevent you from creating report cards unless the School Type field is set for the campus on Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Control Info.


Health

Health > Maintenance > Nurse's Daily Log > New

❏ Added the Provider field under Log Information allowing you to record name of the provider (e.g., nurse or aide) who attended to the visitor and/or administered medication.

snippet of Nurses Log inquiry page with new field highlighted


Health > Reports > Health Reports > Daily Log > SHS0350 - Nurse's Daily Log Detail

❏ Added Provider Name to the report, which displays the name of the provider (e.g., nurse or aide) who attended to the visitor and/or administered medication.

snippet of SHS0350 report with Provider field highlighted


Registration

Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment

❏ Added a pop-up message that is displayed if you change the following demographic information for a student making that student ineligible for Census Block reporting:

Eco Disadvan (Demo1) is not 00, and
Elig Code (Demo1 or W/R Enroll) is 1-3, 6, or 7, and
Homeless Status Cd (Demo3) is 0, and
Attribution Cd (Demo1 or W/R Enroll) is not 21 or 23
Physical Address (Demo 1)

The message is only displayed if census block data existed for the student, and the criteria is changed so that the student no longer meets the criteria requiring census block.

The census block data will be cleared for the student on State Reporting > Maintenance > Fall > Student > Demo.

Pop-up window stating that changing fields will remove census block data


Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1

❏ Added validation to prevent entry of a Texas Unique Stu ID that is already assigned to another student.


Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > W/R Enroll

❏ Corrected the issue that caused a program error to be displayed and made it necessary to save twice when re-enrolling a No Show student.


Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd

❏ Corrected the abbreviation of Services for several fields (e.g., Psych Svc).


Registration > Utilities > TREx Export

❏ Modified the export to append D to the semester sequence tag (<SemesterSeq>) for dual credit courses (i.e., when Dual Credit is set to 1 on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Section.


Registration > Utilities > Delete a Current Year Student

❏ Modified the program to delete any document attachment links for students who were only enrolled during the current year and not during any prior years.


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Program > SRG1200 - Student Status Changes by Program

❏ Added the following columns to the report generated when the Print Bilingual/ESL Records parameter is set to Y:

Alt Lang Cd which displays the code indicating the type of alternative language program the student participates in, as entered on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL.
Bil/ESL Fund Cd which displays the code indicating the language program in which the student participates during the reporting period, as entered on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL.

snippet of SRG1200 report with new columns highlighted


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Program > SRG1500 - Student At Risk Listing

❏ Added the Student/Parent Incarceration Ind column which displays Y if 14. Incarcerated or parent/guardian has been incarcerated… is selected for that school year on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > At Risk.

SRG1500 report with new column highlighted


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Program > SRG1600 - Student At Risk Profile

❏ Added #14. Incarcerated or parent/guardian has been incarcerated… under At Risk Criteria.

snippet of SRG1600 with new fields highlighted


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG0200 - Student Name Listing

❏ Removed the Prior SSN column, as it is obsolete.

❏ Increased the width of the Instructor column to accommodate longer names.


Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG0710 - Standard Forms Printing

❏ Renamed the report from Standard Forms (Home Language Survey) to Standard Forms Printing.

This report now prints the following forms for the specified student(s). The hard copy of these forms must be retained in the student's folder.

Home Language Survey
Home Language Survey -19 TAC ( if available)
Student Health Information Sheet

❏ Added the Form Name parameter allowing you to select which form to print.


Registration > Reports > Create Registration Report

❏ Added the following fields, allowing you to include these fields in a custom report:

• Under Demo2 - Counselor Information, added Dt Entered 5th Grade and Dt Entered 8th Grade which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2.

• Under Demo2, added Dual Language Immersion fields which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2.

• Under Demo3, added Industry Certification6-15 which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3.

• Under Bil/ESL added the following which are maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL:

Campus
Entry/Exit Date
Reason
Date HLS Admin
Bil/ESL Fund Cd
Alt Lang Pgm Cd

• Under PK Enroll, added PK Elig Prev Yr which is maintained on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > PK Enroll.

snippet of Create Registration report page with new fields highlighted

snippet of Create Registration report page with new fields highlighted


Special Education

Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Current Year > Program Information

❏ Modified the program to ensure that any disabled check boxes are selected disabled when the matching field is selected on the most recent enrollment record for the student on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Spec Ed.


Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Current Year > Program Information
Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Next Year > Program Information

❏ Renamed Mental Retardation Code to Intellectual Disability Code in accordance with recent TEA wording updates.

The field was also renamed on the following reports (abbreviations were changed from MR to ID where applicable):

• Special Education > Reports > Create Special Ed CY Report
• Special Education > Reports > Create Special Ed NY Report
• Special Education > Reports > Special Ed > Program > SEM0200 - Special Ed Primary Disability Counts
• Special Education > Reports > Special Ed > Program > SEM0640 - TEA IDEA-B P.L. 105-17 Report
• Special Education > Reports > Special Ed > Student > SEM0350 - Special Ed Student Profiles


Test Scores

Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC

❏ Modified the program to automatically clear Met Standard and Commended Performance for imports with a test admin date during the 2019-2020 school year and after.


Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > PRECODE

❏ Added options X and Y to the Accommodation 1-5 fields for the 2019-2020 school year and later.

• X - Large print accommodation for a student testing on paper
• Y - Oral admin accommodation for a student testing on paper

Codes X and Y cannot be used on conjunction with any other accommodations for a subject; they can only be used with each other.

snippet of PRECODE page with new options highlighted




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ASCENDER ParentPortal

Update 4.0.1.50

ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > District Settings

❏ Updated the program to accept a .png file for the District Picture.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Admin Settings > District Settings

❏ Corrected the ParentPortal is field to display Inactive if a date has not been set, and to prevent access accordingly.


ASCENDER ParentPortal Admin > Form Management > Form Creator

❏ Corrected the program to not overwrite English Form Instructions when Spanish instructions are updated.


ASCENDER ParentPortal - Login

❏ Corrected the issue that prevented parents from logging on if they had a parent portal account before the 2019-2020 school year.


ASCENDER ParentPortal - Navigation

❏ Enabled Attendance and Grades navigation links to be available for parents whose email address is not verified.

❏ Corrected the program so that clicking Summary opens the Summary page for parents whose email address is not verified.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Summary > Registration

❏ Corrected the program to properly save information when you click Submit Data with Electronic Signature.


ASCENDER ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle and Semester Grades
ASCENDER ParentPortal > Grades > Assignments

❏ Corrected the program to display both withdrawn and active course details for students who have withdrawn from a course and then re-enrolled in the same course. Previously only withdrawn course details were being displayed.


ASCENDER ParentPortal - Mobile Device

❏ Corrected performance issues on the parent and admin Login pages.


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