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Release Date: 8/6/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0221
Grade Reporting
❏ Changed the report preview PDF and CSV icons to improve readability.
Release Date: 8/6/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0221 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 5.1.0.83
❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing teachers from being able to post students active or inactive on the first day of school for the ADA period.
❏ Removed the default Bestview ISD generic logo from the Home screen.
❏ Removed Remote Synchronous (RS) and Remote Asynchronous (RA) from TeacherPortal Attendance menus.
❏ Corrected custom sort issues on the following pages:
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Modified the program to disable the Absent button so that teachers cannot mark a student absent on their first day of enrollment.
❏ Corrected an issue where some students are showing duplicate absences in the Attendance section of the Student Information page when the student has a fractured schedule and does not meet Monday through Friday.
❏ Modified the program to disable the top and bottom PIN field and Post button, once the attendance is posted.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected the Print issue that caused missing and misaligned data on the report.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Modified the program to add assignment sorting by Due Date.
❏ Modified the program so admin users with read-only access cannot modify grades or post attendance.
❏ Corrected an issue with the session timeout function freezing the page. Session timeout will now return the user to the log in page.
❏ Corrected an issue where imported grades were not saving.
❏ Modified the import message to the following:
Assignment grades import complete.
Click OK to continue.
Enter PIN and click Save to update.
❏ Corrected an issue in the program when accepting a transferred student where clicking the T will not keep the assignments as Excluded after PIN and Save.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Corrected an issue where letter grades in the Override column did not save when a user enters PIN and Save.
❏ Corrected an issue where the Auto Grade was not showing in parentheses.
Grades > IPR Comments
❏ Corrected an issue that prevented comments from being added when the teacher has Group selected for Course-Section.
Reports > Cycle Grade Range
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the Cycle Grade Range Report to generate for all grades even though only one grade was specified.
Reports > Class Roster
❏ Modified the program so column widths are the same when printing the Class Roster Report.
❏ Corrected an issue when teachers have courses grouped together and select Course-Section in Sorting Options, that the courses are sorting in the incorrect order.
Reports > Student Grades Report (and UIL Eligibility)
❏ Corrected an issue when a teacher runs the report using All for Course-Section.
Reports > Student Notes
❏ Corrected an issue in the program causing the page break to fail between the Student Assignment Note Report section and the Course Assignment Note Report section when both note types were selected in Note Selection Options.
Admin > Elementary Report Cards
Grades > Elementary Report Cards
❏ Modified the program to disable PIN and Save fields for users with read-only access.
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 5.0
Update ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0510
Release Date: 7/27/21 ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0220
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry > Cumulative
❏ Corrected the Cumulative Absences Report to include all historical attendance records.
Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected an issue occurring during online registration that caused the program to assign the same ID number to multiple students. The program was modified to add duplicate ID checks.
Registration > Utilities > TREx Export > Directory
❏ Corrected an issue when creating a transcript for a prior year student.
Release Date: 7/27/21
ASCENDER Update: 5.0.0220 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 5.0.9.52
❏ Corrected several pages within the program that had caching issues.
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue in the program where Attendance messages were not clearing after users changed period, semester or date.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Modified the program to allow values from 0 to 100 to be entered in the Weight field when transferring a student. User will not be able to enter values greater than 100.
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing a system error if a category name was not assigned in Course-Section.
Additionally, the error message has been updated to A category was not found for an assignment. Go to Manage Assignments to review category selections and save assignments.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Modified the program so the warning message Exam Grades are missing is given when there are no values in the Exam column and the user chooses Ready to Post for a course-section then saves.
❏ Modified the program so the Save button on the page functions like the Save button on Grades > Assignment Grades.
Grades > Assignment Grades
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Modified the program so Grades > Cycle Grades and Grades > Assignment Grades will function the same.
Grades > Assignment Grades
Settings > Manage Assignments
❏ Corrected an issue that caused Calculate Averages to function inconsistently on Grades > Assignments Grades when a new assignment was added on Settings > Manage Assignments.
Grades > Print IPR by Average
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing some teachers to receive an error message when trying to print reports by average.
Reports > Admin Reports > Semester Grade Range
❏ Corrected an issue with logic that caused some students to be duplicated when generating the Cycle Grade Range Report.
Reports > Student Notes
❏ Added the following headers to the Student Assignment Note Report:
Settings > Arrange Student Order
❏ Modified the program to enable the Arrange Student Order page. This option is not visible when logged in as an administrator.
Settings > Manage Course Groups
❏ Corrected an issue with Save button.
❏ Added the default message to Course Group Detail Group: Please select or create a course group.
Settings > Manage Seating Charts
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the student seating chart random order functionality to fail when Random is chosen in the Layout Options field.
Settings > Manage Student Groups > Copy Student Groups
❏ Modified the program to revise the error message received when copying student groups from one teacher to another and some teachers are not registered. The message has changed to No User Name found for selected Teacher. Valid TeacherPortal login is required.
Admin > Admin - Student Grades
❏ Corrected a printing issue that caused attendance records from the Student Information page to print only the current semester even when the previous semester is displayed on the screen.
Previous ASCENDER Release 5.0 | TxEIS Release 3.5 Student Release Notes can be found here: https://help.ascendertx.com/releasenotes/doku.php/student/release_3_5_archive
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