Table of Contents
js#thread navbar nocookie msort nsort
js#thread navbar nocookie msort nsort
This is an old revision of the document!
Release Date: 11/30/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0375
Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract
❏ Modified the current STAAR Alternate 2, 3-8 and EOC extracts to conform to the new Cambium file layouts.
To code students for STAAR Alternate 2 3-8 ensure the student is (1) enrolled in special education with a primary disability selected and an Exit Date of blank on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd, and (2) coded as taking STAAR Alternate 2 (i.e., T: STAAR Alternate 2 in Precoding STAAR status) in all subjects on Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > PRECODE.
To code students for STAAR Alternate 2 EOC ensure the student is (1) enrolled in special education with a primary disability selected and an Exit Date of blank on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd, and (2) enrolled in an EOC course. For valid EOC Service ID’s, refer to the Help Page.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract
Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract
❏ Added a new option Cumulative to produce a cumulative precoding file for all the tests (i.e., TELPAS, TELPAS Alternate, STAAR 3-8, STAAR Interim, STAAR Alternate 2, STAAR EOC). The Cumulative file can be executed from Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract or STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract. The functionality is identical.
Before executing the Cumulative option, the campus/district must execute the individual tests since the Cumulative file is built from the execution of the individual tests. For example, if only TELPAS is executed, the Cumulative will only contain TELPAS precoded students. If all tests are executed, the Cumulative will contain precoded students for all tests (including STAAR EOC, if executed, even though the execution functionality resides in a different screen). Executing the Cumulative option without executing any of the individual tests, will result in an error message, “No data to extract”.
Currently, the Cumulative extract cannot be cleared. The district/campus can re-run an individual test to overwrite the contents of the Cumulative for that test, and, re-run the Cumulative, if desired.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports
❏ Modified the program to include the second line of the header in the P-EBT extract so that it may upload successfully into www.YourTexasBenefits.com.
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 6.0
Release Date: 11/12/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0350
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > Prior Yr Transfer
❏ Corrected an issue with the magnifying glass so when selected, it will display the appropriate course details.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > Cumulative Courses
❏ Corrected an issue when users click on a grade link, the user is taken to the appropriate grade update page (i.e., prior year, current year).
Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract
❏ Modified the current STAAR Interim 3-8 and EOC extracts to conform to new file layouts.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports
❏ Modified the Student Report Group to the create the SRG6000 - Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) (2021 Summer) extract and report.
Districts may code students to extract students on the SRG6000 extract and report by completing the following:
Release Date: 11/5/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0305 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0305
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected an issue in the program so that comments entered in Notes will remain when changes are made.
Release Date: 11/4/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0300
❏ Modified the URLs for Registration > Utilities > Delete StudentPortal Account and Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Local Programs so the Help pages are correctly retrieved.
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry > Cumulative Absences
❏ Updated SAT0000 - Absence Transaction List, SAT1200 - Excessive Absence Report, SAT1500 - Daily Attendance Report I, and SAT1900 - Perfect Attendance Report so that code W (Obtain a driver’s license) and code O (Life-threatening illness) will now be considered Excused per the following new guidelines for Funded Absence Excuses:
Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Maintenance
❏ Modified the program to add Cyber checkbox. This checkbox will be used to calculate the number of cyber bullying incidents entered when the PEIMS Offense Code is 61.
Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > PGP
❏ Added the Financial Aid Application section.
❏ Added Status and Met Date with drop-down menus.
Grade Reporting
❏ Modified Grade Reporting > Utilities > Historical Grd Avg and Class Ranking to look for in-district courses on the Prior Yr Transfer tab when populating the School Year drop-down so that iTCCs converted databases can use the utility. iTCCs-converted districts must have verified the data in the verification environment provided to them for the utility to be enabled for their district.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule
❏ Corrected an issue in the program when Auto Grd is assigned a grade it is not populating correctly in TeacherPortal > Grades > Cycle Grades.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract
❏ Modified the current TELPAS Extract to conform to the new file layout for school year 2021-2022.
❏ Modified the current TELPAS Alternate Extract to conform to the new file layout for school year 2021-2022.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports >
❏ Updated SGR1800 - Compute Attendance in Course Records, SGR0450 - Attendance Percentage by Course and SGR1100 - Students At Risk for Promotion reports so that code W (Obtain a driver’s license) and code O (Life-threatening illness) will now be considered Excused per the following new guidelines for Funded Absence Excuses:
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Created the Financial Aid Application section in the Graduation section.
❏ Added Status and Met Date drop-down options to the Financial Aid Application section.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > At Risk
❏ Modified the PEIMS at-risk criteria to match the TWEDS AT-RISK-INDICATOR-CODE Definition.
Registration > Utilities > TREx Export
❏ Added FinancialAidApplication and FinancialAidApplicationMetDate for the AcademicStatus complex type and added DyslexiaRiskCode for the StudentDemographics complex.
Registration > Utilities > Set Student At Risk indicators
❏ Modified the utility so it will calculate at risk numbers to accommodate new score charts for EOC Online Primary Base Form (SO) and Online Secondary Base Form (DO).
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports
❏ Updated the SRG1500 - Student At Risk Listing report to reorder the existing At-Risk Indicators section.
❏ Updated the SRG1600 - Student At Risk Profile report to reorder the existing At Risk Criteria and Documentation sections.
❏ Updated the SRG0400 - Student Information Sheets report to reorder the existing At Risk criteria to match the current TWEDS AT-RISK-INDICATOR-CODE Definition.
Registration > Reports > Create Registration Report
❏ Updated the program with the following 2022 Data Elements:
Release Date: 11/4/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0300 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 6.0300
Settings > Manage Assignments > Assignment
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing all Notes to display the same message. Notes should reflect different messages for each assignment.
Release Date: 11/4/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0300 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0300
❏ Corrected an issue in Assignment Grades so that names can be sorted alphabetically by both last name and first name.
Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Manage Elementary Skills Based Report Cards
❏ Corrected an issue in the program when printing skills based report cards so that printing with page breaks is possible when Force Page Break After Skills Grid is selected.
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Modified the program to re-introduce Remote Asynchronous (RA) and Remote Synchronous (RS) Attendance options.
❏ Added Remote Attendance dropdown in Attendance > Maintenance > Gradebook Options > Campus Options.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected an issue in the program to ensure that when a teacher adds notes in Grade Properties that the session will not timeout and the information in the note will not be lost.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Corrected an issue in the program where course averages are displaying as Auto Grade but are not set to Auto Grade in Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule.
Grades > Print IPR
❏ Corrected an issue when users select students and print IPRs and when returning to the previous screen only those selected students are displayed rather than all students for the selected course-section.
❏ Corrected an issue when users select students and print IPRs that when returning to the previous screen a different course-section loads.
Release Date: 11/4/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0300 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 6.0300
❏ Updated the program to retrieve the correct portal Help links.
Release Date: 10/22/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0220
Discipline > Maintenance > Referrals
❏ Corrected an issue so that discipline referral information copies over to Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Maintenance when creating an incident.
Clients that used the utility while it was broken, resulted in incomplete or incorrect records.
Incomplete records:
The client clicked on a pending referral in Discipline > Maintenance > Referrals and checked the Create Incident box and Saved their selection. An incident number is generated and shows in TeacherPortal. The client is routed to the Discipline > Maintenance > Maintenance tab and the referral information was not copied, and the client DID NOT manually select the referral information (i.e., Location of Incident, Reported by, Administered by, and so on) to Save. Instead, they clicked out of the screen without completing the information. This has created a “ghost” record where the incident is not part of the student record in Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Inquiry. The incident also does not appear in the Referrals screen as pending, it shows as complete. The record is still in the database without referral details.
Through a DBA Assistant change, TCC has set the referrals back to pending so that clients can go back to the Discipline > Maintenance > Referrals screen and complete the incidents again.
Incorrect records:
The client clicked on a pending referral in Discipline > Maintenance > Referrals and checked the Create Incident box and Saved their selection. An incident number is generated and shows in TeacherPortal. They are routed to the Discipline > Maintenance > Maintenance tab and the referral information was not copied, and the client DID manually select the referral information (i.e., Location of Incident, Reported by, Administered by, and so on) and Saved. Upon clicking Save, the program created a new incident number, different from the first incident number that was generated. The incident shows as completed in Referrals and the incident is part of the student record in Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Inquiry. There is a discrepancy between the incident number in ASCENDER and TeacherPortal.
Through a DBA Assistant change, TCC has consolidated the incidents so that each incident has a matching incident number as shown in TeacherPortal.
Registration > Utilities > ID Change
❏ Added a validation to the utility so that New/Hist Student ID can only be changed to a valid student ID number.
Release Date: 10/12/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0215
❏ Re-enabled tabs in Health, Registration, and ParentPortal Registration after a temporary disabling.
Discipline > Maintenance > Referrals
❏ The release that went out Tuesday, October 12, 2021, included a fix for saving an incident on the Referral Details Form. When the user selects Create Incident, enters the referral information and saves, the information will save.
Please note however that while the Save issue is fixed, the referral information (i.e., Location of Incident, Reported By, Administered By) does not transfer to the Maintenance tab on Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Maintenance. The user must re-enter the referral information at this time.
Release Date: 10/12/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0215 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0215
❏ Modified ParentPortal to bypass the Ende User License Agreement (EULA) for administrative users. Administrative users will accept the EULA in TeacherPortal.
Release Date: 10/8/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0210
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Students Report Group
❏ Modified the SAT0400 - Daily Attendance Summary report to correctly calculate the Total (Beginning Membership + Total New Or Reentries) when the student has a status change in registration.
❏ Modified the SAT1800 - Attendance Audit Report to correctly report absences.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Report Reports > Report Cards
❏ Modified SGR1160 - Interim Progress Report to speed up retrieval time.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student
❏ Temporarily removed SRG0710 - Standard Forms Printing and SRG0720 - Online Registration Forms Related Reports to investigate an issue.
Release Date: 10/6/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0206
❏ Temporarily removed tabs in Health, Registration, and ParentPortal Registration to correct an issue.
Release Date: 9/30/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0205
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the End User License Agreement (EULA) to display after users with existing accounts had accepted the agreement.
Release Date: 9/30/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0205 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 6.0205
Grades > Assignments
❏ Corrected an issue where the message Schedules are currently disabled was displayed and assignments were not loading for parents to view.
Release Date: 9/30/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0205 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0205
❏ Corrected an issue that changed the colors in the TeacherPortal navigation menu to their default color before the release 6.0200.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Corrected an issue where users were unable to delete comments for Citizenship, Report Card Comments and Report Card Narrative after entering and saving.
❏ Corrected an issue where users were unable to delete an override grade in the Override column.
❏ Corrected an issue for users where previously entered grades in the Override column were removed after saving and entering additional grades.
Release Date: 9/28/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0200
❏ Updated color contrast for ease of readability to the following:
❏ Modified the portals to meet WCAG 2.0AA accessibility standards.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All
❏ Modified the SAT0400 - Daily Attendance Summary report to include historical data.
❏ Modified the SAT2300 - Average Daily Attendance report to include historical data.
❏ Created the SAT2021 - Virtual Attendance Verification report for the Student Report Group so clients will be able to verify a student's virtual (remote synchronous and remote asynchronous) attendance.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected an issue when a student record has been accepted and updated in ParentPortal, but only the student name is displaying when retrieved on Contact.
❏ Added At-Risk Indicators 14 and 15 to the PEIMS At Risk Indicators sub-report of SRG0400 - Student Information Sheets Report.
❏ Modified code 32 on the Attribution Cd drop-down list on Demo1 so that if Campus ID Resid is blank, the user will receive error message: Campus ID Resid cannot be blank if Attribution Cd is 02, 03, 06, 07, 10 or 32.
❏ Modified the Bil/ESL tab to replace LEP Cd with EB Cd.
❏ Added the PARENT-REQUEST-RETENTION-INDICATOR (E1729) Parent Request Retention to the Promotion section and added the GENERAL-EDUCATION-HOMEBOUND-INDICATOR (E1730) Gen. Ed. Homebound to the Demo3 tab for school year 2021-2022.
Registration > Utilities > Attendance Zones Address Change
❏ Corrected an issue where clients with usernames containing special character dot ( . ) were not able to save information when they clicked Execute.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student Report Group
❏ Corrected an issue on the SRG0710 - Standard Forms Printing report that was causing an error when attempting to print when the username contained an period.
Release Date: 9/28/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0200 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 6.0200
Admin > Form Management > Form Usage > Form Completion Data
❏ Corrected the following:
Summary > Contacts
❏ Corrected an issue when registering a student where the process cannot be completed because Contacts reverts back to Pending status when information is entered and saved.
Summary > Interim Progress Report
❏ Modified the program to correct an issue that was causing an error when trying to view IPRs.
Student Health Information Sheet
❏ Modified the program to align the Yes and No buttons.
Student Residency Questionnaire
❏ Corrected an issue when parents were trying to complete the Returning Student Registration where they were unable to successfully add information to the Student Residency Questionnaire without receiving an error message.
Admin > Form Group Management > Public Documents
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing an error when a user selected Edit Group to add a document.
Release Date: 9/28/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0200 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0200
Student ID > Navigation > Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue in the Attendance section on the Student Information page where ISS attendance was missing and not all posting codes were showing.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that was causing the Show Averages as Alpha checkbox to disappear when sorting the page by Due Date.
Both the Show Average as Alpha and Show Withdrawn checkboxes should remain on the page.
Admin > Admin Options
❏ Corrected an issue so campus level administrators are not able to view student information for all campuses in the district. They should only be allowed to see the campus for which they have permissions.
Release Date: 9/28/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0200 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 6.0200
Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue where some students are showing duplicate absences when the student has a fractured schedule and does not meet Monday through Friday.
Release Date: 9/23/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0120
Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract
❏ Modified the current STAAR EOC Extract to conform to the new file layout for school year 2021-2022.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards
❏ Modified SGR1160 - Interim Progress Report to expand the Sort Order (A=Alpha,G=Grade Lvl,C=Control Nbr,Period Nbr=Period) parameter. Clients are now able enter a period number and the IPRs will be sorted by the name of the instructor teaching the class in which the student is enrolled for the designated period.
Release Date: 9/15/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0110
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry
❏ Modified Count of Absences, Count of Tardies, Attendance By Date, and Attendance Audit tab to retrieve historical attendance data for students.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Students Report Group
❏ Modified the SAT3600 - Detail Attendance Audit by Student report to include historical data.
❏ Modified the SAT3650 - Detail Attendance Audit by Course report to include historical data.
Release Date: 9/12/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0105
Release Date: 9/12/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0105 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 6.0105
❏ Modified the program to remove the End User License Agreement (EULA).
Release Date: 9/12/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0105 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0105
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected an issue that caused a modified Assignments per Page number to revert back to the default setting of 5 when a teacher navigates away and returns. The page is not saving the last setting.
❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing the Assignment grades saved message from going away when making additional changes after the save. This is misleading teachers as they continue to add grades then close the page without saving.
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the gridlines on the page to not display.
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing the header and footer to move when the user scrolls left and right. This causes the PIN field and Save button to disappear from view when there are several assignments.
❏ Corrected an issue when entering an assignment note that caused the Note icon to disappear if the Late checkbox is selected.
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing student information to be out of alignment on the page.
Release Date: 9/12/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0105 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 6.0105
❏ Modified the program to remove the End User License Agreement (EULA).
Release Date: 9/3/21 ASCENDER Update: 6.0100
❏ Modified the program to create a End User License Agreement (EULA) for ASCENDER. Users must accept the agreement in order to proceed with account creation and/or first log in and on an annual basis.
Health > Reports > Health Reports > Immunizations
❏ Modified the SHS0102 - Immunization Due Report to disable the Preview button.
❏ Corrected an issue with the SHS0102 - Immunization Due Report.
❏ Modified the SHS0102 - Immunization Due Report to re-enable the Preview button.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment
❏ Added a street name autocomplete feature to the mailing address and physical address street name fields on Demo1 when Enable Attendance Zones is selected on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance > Attendance Zone Options.
❏ Added 15. Enrolled in a designated dropout recovery school under TEC §39.0548 and documentation checkbox to the PEIMS at-risk criteria section on the At Risk tab.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Forms
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG0710 – Standard Forms Printing
❏ Modified the program per TAC §89.1215 to provide the Home Language Survey (HLS) in Spanish as well as in English.
Additionally some fields were modified from drop-down menus to text fields.
Added fields:
Removed field:
Registration > Utilities > Reset Values
❏ Modified the utility to add Foundation Crswrk and Distinguished Crswrk to the drop-down menu in the Item to Reset section.
NOTE: the FHSP endorsements should be assessed for each student, and set if necessary prior to using the Reset Utility for Foundation Coursework and Distinguished Coursework.
Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Post-Load
❏ Modified the SCH0010 - Students Without a Schedule report to disable the Preview button.
❏ Modified the SCH0010 - Students Without a Schedule report to re-enable the Preview button.
Release Date: 9/3/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0100 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 6.0100
Form Management > Form Usage > Usage Statistics
❏ Updated the program to display correctly updated statistics (matching the Dashboard - Online Registration widget).
Form Group Management > New Student Enrollment > Home Language Survey Form (TEA)
❏ Modified the program per TAC §89.1215 to provide the Home Language Survey (HLS) in Spanish as well as in English.
Additionally some fields were modified from drop-down menus to text fields.
Added fields:
Removed field:
❏ Corrected a link on the Home Language Survey that takes the user to the English Learner (EL) Identification/Reclassification Flowchart.
Release Date: 9/3/21
ASCENDER Update: 6.0100 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 6.0100
❏ Corrected an issue on some pages that was causing student names to not sort alphabetically when they were in mixed cases.
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing teachers from posting attendance if Tracks are different and end on different days.
❏ Corrected an issue on the Student Information page where the Close Window option was not functioning. Sub-pages of the Student Information page should close when Close Window is selected.
District Administration > Tables > District Logos
❏ Modified the program to display the district image on the TeacherPortal Campus Home page.
❏ Modified the program to display the district image when printing report cards on Print Elementary Report Cards for Campus.
The Texas Computer Cooperative (TCC) is committed to making its websites accessible to all users. It is TCC policy to ensure that new and updated content complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. We welcome comments and suggestions to improve the accessibility of our websites. If the format of any material on our website interferes with your ability to access the information, use this form to leave a comment about the accessibility of our website.