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Release Date: 8/4/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.1200
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0671 - Teacher Membership Roster By Period
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a program error and prevented the report from running as expected.
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 7.0
Release Date: 6/14/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.1005
Scheduling > Utilities > Create NY Master Schedule > Campus
❏ Corrected an issue that was causing Create NY Master Schedule Utility processing to fail.
Release Date: 6/9/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.1000
Removed the Provide feedback button from all application pages. The following statement will be posted in the ASCENDER News Section to explain: “The client feedback button was introduced when the TCC transitioned from TxEIS to ASCENDER. We have removed the button and welcome your feedback through your local ESC ASCENDER support team.“
Attendance
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Calendar
❏ Corrected the issue that was incorrectly setting School Day Event Code to 01 (Instructional Day) for Waiver Code 99. The correct code is 02 (Waiver Day).
Attendance > Maintenance > Letters > Update > Letter
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the address sections on letters.
Attendance > Maintenance > Gradebook Options > Unposted Absences
❏ Corrected an issue that caused unposted attendance to not display the correct teacher for Semester 1 when the teacher is different in semester 1 and semester 2.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0600 - Student Detail Report
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the Street Name field on the report.
❏ Corrected the following issues on the report:
Issue #1: CTE Attendance is duplicated when a student has more than one qualifying enrollment record.
Issue #2: Special Education Contact Value details are not printing for Elementary and Middle School grade levels.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0900 - Campus/District Summary Report
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0920 - Campus/District Multi-Track Summary Report
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented H2 - Early Ed Lang Elig Days and H3 - Early Ed Eco Dis & Lang Elig Days information from displaying on the reports when a BIL/ESL-enrolled student has an eligibility record status change from 1 to 3.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0700 - Student Attendance Summary
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the Street Name field on the report.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0920 - Campus/District Multi-Track Summary Report
❏ Corrected an error with the report so the totals in the Career & Technical FTE rows (Q1, Q2, Q3) will calculate correctly.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT1800 Attendance Audit Report
❏ Modified the CSV file so that columns will display properly when viewed as an Excel spreadsheet.
Discipline
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Graduation Plan
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Grade Reporting
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule
❏ Added an edit to the Service ID code to ensure Local Service IDs created by the district have a unique value per course.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > Crs/Sec Change
❏ Modified the program to allow a course's withdrawal date to be the same as its entry date.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > Cumulative Courses
❏ Updated the program to remove the unnecessary 2nd page when printing the Texas Academic Achievement Record (AAR).
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > All
❏ Updated the program to accept any 3-digit number (including 000) in the Control Nbr (Blank for All) field for the following reports:
Health
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
OCR
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Registration
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Annual Student Data Rollover
❏ Corrected the issue that caused some schedules that were in an assigned status to be dropped when ASDR was executed.
NOTE: The Annual Student Data Rollover (ASDR) process has moved to District Administration > Utilities > Annual Student Data Rollover. This move will update the students to the correct new school year attendance track before calculating course entry dates, preventing the dropping of student course schedules due to invalid date.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Local Program Codes
❏ Modified the program to enable users to able to assign TEA PEIMS Code 19: Bilingual/ESL Summer School and 20: Additional Days Program Participation in a prior year.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Tables > CY Transfer Factor
❏ Modified the Annual Student Data Rollover (ASDR) process to copy the contents of the Next Year Transfer Factors to the new school year Current Year Transfer Factors and to create Transfer Factor records 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the next school year.
Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Local Program Codes
❏ Modified the program to enable users to able to assign TEA PEIMS Code 19: Bilingual/ESL Summer School and 20: Additional Days Program Participation in a prior year.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Corrected an error that caused the Grade Level tagline in the StudentTruancyExtension to be incomplete due to the student being ADA=0 at the time of the the Excessive Unexcused Absence Indicator.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Corrected the issue that triggered edits and warnings associated with industry based certifications when changes were made to the Graduation group box.
❏ Updated State Reporting > Extracts > Fall > Student with element TEXAS-FIRST-EARLY-HS-COMPLETION-PROGRAM (E1736) so users are able to access the dropdown menu when selecting an option from the Texas First Early HS Completion Pg.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Contact
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a Parent Military error when updating data for a contact that is not the Parent/Guardian.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > W/R Enroll
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented Military Connected Codes for PK students with grade level changes from being successfully saved.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL
❏ Modified the following existing red error messages to blue warning messages:
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Local Programs
❏ Updated the program so that the Summer School Bilingual/ESL indicator is coded in Local Programs for TEA.
The program must be created in Maintenance > District Profile > Local Program Codes with a Local Program to TEA PEIMS Codes set to 19: Bilingual/ESL Summer School.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-11
❏ Corrected the issue on Demographics/Enrollment that caused students who have absences to show 0 absences in the Absences Within Timeframe field.
Students absences should match Unexcused absences on Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-12
❏ Modified the Demographics/Enrollment tab to allow SPPI-12-enrolled students to make updates to the ECI Start Date and ECI Indicator Code fields.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Charter School Waitlist > Demographics
❏ Updated the page with the following sections and information:
❏ Created a new DB table named ST_CONTACT_METHOD with the following columns:
• SCH_YR (CHAR, 4)
• CONTACT_METHOD_CD (CHAR, 1)
• CONTACT_METHOD_DESCR (VARCHAR, 25)
❏ Added the following columns to SR_CHARTER_WAITLIST:
• ETHN_HISPANIC
• RACE_AMER_INDIAN
• RACE_ASIAN
• RACE_BLACK
• RACE_PACIFIC_ISL
• RACE_WHITE
• CAMPUS_ID_RES_NAME
• S_NBR
• NVR_ENROLLED_PUBLIC_SCH
• OTH_CHILD_APPLYING_CHART
• NAME_OTHER_CHILD_APPLYING
• TIME_OF_DAY_AM
• TIME_OF_DAY_PM
• PK_QUALIFY
• PHONE_PREF
❏ Removed the SEX column.
❏ Added all SQLs to DBAssistant.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Sped Ed Lang Acq
❏ Updated program logic to retrieve Assessment Info Tool/Assessment Used codes from table ET_DC166_TL_ASSESS_USED for the 2024 school year and forward.
Registration > Utilities > Create Leaver Tracking Records
❏ Modified the utility to use new procedures to create the records and run the report.
Scheduling
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District > Courses
❏ Added an edit to the Service ID code to ensure Local Service IDs created by the district have a unique value per course.
Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Post-Load > SCH2600 - School Roster (Next Yr)
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the Student Address field on the report.
Special Education
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Special Education > Reports > Student Sp Ed > Program Report Group
❏ Corrected the issue for reports SEM0800 - PEIMS Related Services List and SEM0850 - PEIMS Verification List where the primary/secondary/tertiary disability code on the reports were sometimes incorrect when there was a change made in Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Spec Ed causing a duplicate row to display.
Test Scores
❏ Modified the program to remove the Feedback button from the main page.
Release Date: 6/9/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.1000 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 7.1000
Charter School Application Form
❏ Updated the application with the following sections and information:
Student Summary > Skills Based Report Card
❏ Updated program logic to search back to Semester 1 and Cycle 1 to look for a Skills Based Report Card when the reports cards are no longer available after the semester/cycle have been updated.
Form Management > Form Creator
❏ Enabled Required checkbox for the phone preference field in New Student Contact.
Release Date: 6/9/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.1000 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.1000
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected the issue that allowed pre-posted attendance entries to be changed.
Student Information > Schedule
❏ Corrected the issue for P/F (Pass/Fail) grades showing incorrectly on the student information page.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Modified the page so users cannot mark a course “Ready to Post” when there is an error in the Exam field with no validations in place.
The user should receive an error message forcing them to enter an acceptable value.
Grades > Print IPR
Grades > Print IPR by Average
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the percentage weight for transfer averages to display incorrectly on IPRs printed in TeacherPortal.
Grades > Print IPRs by Average
❏ Corrected issues in the program that caused an error message when attempting to run IPRs by Average for a large number of students.
Reports > Admin Reports > Blank/Missing Grades by Grade Level
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the Blank/Missing Grades by Grade Level report from correctly displaying all students with missing/blank/incomplete grades for all course/sections for the given Semester/Cycle.
Settings > Manage Categories
❏ Updated the program so the # Drop field will populate a zero in the field when information has been deleted or when the field is left blank.
Settings > Manage Course Groups
❏ Modified the program to enable clients to enter grades when an apostrophe is in the Course Group Name.
Admin > Copy Teacher Settings
❏ Corrected the issue that caused courses in the Eligible Course Groups group box from not copying from one teacher to another when the user clicks the Move button in the Move Group to Teacher group box.
Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Manage Elementary Skills-Based Courses
❏ Corrected the issue on Set Up the Elementary Skills-Based Course that prevented lower case grades e,s,n,u from converting to upper case when saving.
Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards for Campus
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Prior Year Skills Based Report Card to print incorrectly if the current year course/instructor information doesn't match the previous year.
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that caused the order of skills within different skillsets to display incorrectly on the following TeacherPortal pages:
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that caused the order of skills within different skillsets to display incorrectly on the following ParentPortal pages:
Release Date: 5/4/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.0805
Health > Maintenance > Student > Demo
❏ Corrected the issue that caused an error if a check box for race is not selected for a student on Registration.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected an issue on the following pages that caused an error when the Reason code is EP- Exit from Special Program:
Release Date: 4/21/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.0800
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Instructors
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the ellipsis for the Staff ID field to not retrieve employees from Personnel.
Scheduling > Maintenance > MSALGO > Process
❏ Corrected the issue that caused an error when users tried to run processes on the Utilities tab.
Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > TELPAS
Updated test scoring layouts for the school year 2023 according to information provided by the Texas Education Agency.
Added the following values to the Rater Info drop-down menu:
• 8 - Centralized rater for grades 2-12 (only valid for years prior to 2023).
• 9 - No domains rated (E or X in every domain)
❏ Added a Writing Raw Scr field for writing domain raw score.
❏ Added a Writing Scl Scr field for writing domain scale score.
❏ Added a Writing Holistic HOLISTIC RATING TEST ADMINISTRATION** field for writing domain
Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC (Alternate)
Updated test scoring layouts for the school year 2023 according to information provided by the Texas Education Agency.
❏ Added a Performance Level Indicator option with a drop-down menu to indicate student’s growth from the previous year in Algebra I, English I and English II. The menu will have combined values for STAAR EOC and STAAR EOC ALTERNATE.
❏ Modified the Progress Measure drop-down menu to not accept any values if administration year is 2023 or later. Only a blank is accepted.
Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > EOC
Updated test scoring layouts for the school year 2023 according to information provided by the Texas Education Agency.
❏ Score Default drop-down menu updated so that 1 no longer indicates multiple gridded values since there are no scanned paper tests.
❏ Added a Performance Level Indicator option with a drop-down menu to indicate student’s growth from the previous year in Algebra I, English I and English II.
❏ Updated the Student Passing Standards, Level II: Approaches Grades drop-down menu to add option 3: Level II Approaches Grade 2023+ Passing Standard as an acceptable value for students taking an EOC in Spring 2023 and beyond.
❏ Modified the Student Passing Standards group to add an Approaches Grade 2015-2022 option with a drop-down menu.
Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > STAAR 3-8
Updated test scoring layouts for the school year 2023 according to information provided by the Texas Education Agency.
❏ Modified the Score Code drop-down menu to add a validation to not accept * : No information available for this subject if administration year is 2023 or later.
❏ Updated the Reading group box to add a Performance Level Indicator option with a drop-down menu to indicate a student’s growth from the previous year in Reading Language Arts.
❏ Updated the Math group box to add a Performance Level Indicator option with a drop-down menu to indicate a student’s growth from the previous year.
❏ Modified the Reading and Math group boxes Progress Measure drop-down menu to not accept any values if administration year is 2023 or later. Only a blank is accepted.
Test Scores > Individual Maintenance > STAAR 3-8 (Alternate)
Updated test scoring layouts for the school year 2023 according to information provided by the Texas Education Agency.
❏ Updated the Reading group box to add a Performance Level Indicator option with a drop-down menu to indicate a student’s growth from the previous year in Reading Language Arts.
❏ Updated the Math group box to add a Performance Level Indicator option with a drop-down menu to indicate a student’s growth from the previous year.
❏ Modified the Reading and Math group boxes Progress Measure drop-down menu to not accept any values if administration year is 2023 or later. Only a blank is accepted.
❏ Modified the Progress Measure drop-down menu to not accept any values if administration year is 2023 or later. Only a blank is accepted.
Release Date: 4/21/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0800 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0800
Release Date: 3/6/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.0705
Release Date: 3/6/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0705 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0705
Attendance > Attendance Rosters
❏ Corrected the issue causing the Attendance Roster Report Selection Periods drop-down menu to not function properly for combined periods.
Release Date: 3/3/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.0700
❏ Modified the dashboard Online Registration group box to display campus information only if the # Pending approvals is greater than zero.
If there are no approvals pending, the user will see a No pending approvals message.
StudentPortal
ParentPortal
TeacherPortal
❏ Updated the programs so they will no longer generate individual StudentPortal application log files. This change will not delete the existing folder automatically and will not delete the contents of the folder.
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Period
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Individual
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Date/Control Number
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Date/Grade
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Date and Code
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Date/Course
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Posting > By Local Program
❏ Corrected the issue that caused attendance to display incorrect Course/Course information when the courses are taught on different days of the week.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports
❏ Updated LEP to EB on the following Attendance reports:
Attendance > Reports > Create Attendance Report
❏ Modified program logic to filter the report by any Attendance code chosen. Only students with the chosen Attendance codes will show in the report.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > Grade Reporting Tables > Grade Averaging Table
❏ Updated the program to allow grades of 0 to be averaged into the student's total average in the Cumulative Grade Average.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Grades Report Group > SGR2060 - Grd Avg & Class Rnk- Info ONLY no Update
❏ Corrected an issue when running the report for students who have a credit of .5 that the credit does not display correctly on the report. Any credit earned should display on the report.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards > SGR1400 - Elementary Report Cards
❏ Corrected the issue when printing the report so that Retained and the retained reason will print when Year End Status is set to 02: Retained Same Grade on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo 3.
Graduation Plan > Maintenance > District > Tables > Credentials or Certification
❏ Modified the program to allow prior year(s) PEIMS Code and IBC Vendor codes to be saved regardless of the school year when the certification was attempted.
Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > PGP
❏ Modified the Industry Based Certification group box to allow more than one row with the same Certification as long as the information in the Date Taken field is different.
❏ Removed validations for Vendor Nbr to allow for previous year.
❏ Modified the program so users get a warning message if the Vendor Nbr selected is not available for the current school year but is available for previous school years.
The warning message can be hidden/shown using Hide or Show button.
❏ Modified report SGP1000 - Student Personal Graduation Plan to correctly display information for students who were missing information for example, if the student left the district for an amount of time then returned.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Modified the Industry Based Certification group box to allow more than one row with the same Certification as long as the information in the Date Taken field is different.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused an error for the user when changing drop-down options in the Foundation Crswrk and the Multi Disciplinary Studies fields if the Vendor Nbr in the Industry Based Certification group box is from the previous year.
❏ Modified the Industry Based Certification group box so the pop-up message that prevented the client from selecting a vendor code using the ellipses will not display.
❏ Modified the program to add a Texas First Early HS Completion Pgm field with a drop-down menu.
01: Student Graduated Two or More Semesters Early
02: Student Graduated Less Than Two Semesters Early
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL
❏ Correct issues with the program not saving information entered in the Yrs US Sch and Date HLS Admin fields.
Registration > Utilities > TREx Export
❏ Modified the program so TREx Export Types Transfer and Transcript extract the PERFORMANCE-ACKNOWLEDGMENTCERTIFICATION-LICENSURES record with the maximum date for any duplicate PERFORMANCE-ACKNOWLEDGMENTCERTIFICATION-LICENSURES codes.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District > Courses
❏ Modified the program to remove the “D” options from the Crs Seq drop-down menu. Only single-digit options 1-9 are available.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Proxies
❏ Updated the error message users receive when adding records for a course that already exists in a Match proxy.
Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Post-Load > SCH2200 - Class List (Next Yr)
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the Student Address column on the report.
❏ Corrected the issue when printing the report that it does not correctly print the Priority 1 contact identified on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Contact.
Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Post-Load > SCH2300 Grade List (Next Yr)
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the Student Address column on the report.
❏ Corrected the issue when printing the report that it does not correctly print the Priority 1 contact identified on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Contact.
Scheduling > Reports > Scheduling Reports > Post-Load > SCH2400 - Homeroom List (Next Yr)
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters to display in the Student Address column on the report.
Release Date: 3/3/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0700 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 7.0700
StudentPortal User Interface
❏ Updated the program to correct various User Interface issues on the Create Account pages.
Release Date: 3/3/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0700 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 7.0700
ParentPortal > Summary
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that caused the Texas Assessment button to display for students who do not have a record or unique access code in the TEA Single sign-on.
ParentPortal Admin > Form Group Management > Returning Student Registration
ParentPortal Admin > Form Group Management > Student Data Maintenance
❏ Corrected the issue that caused forms not set up in ParentPortal Admin > Form Group Management > Returning Student Registration and ParentPortal Admin > Form Group Management > Student Data Maintenance to display on the report when the Form Name field is left blank on Registration> Reports > Registration Reports > All > SRG0700 - Student Missing Forms.
ParentPortal > Grades > Cycle & Semester Grades
❏ Corrected the program so the order of skills for Skills-Based report cards on ParentPortal Grades > Cycle & Semester Grades matches the skill set on TeacherPortal > Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Manage Elementary Skills-Based Report Cards.
Release Date: 3/3/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0700 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0700
TeacherPortal User Interface
❏ Updated the program to correct various User Interface issues on the Create Account pages.
TeacherPortal > Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected the issue that was preventing attendance from being entered for combined courses when one of the courses has multiple teachers assigned to it.
❏ Disabled radio buttons for courses that are already posted.
TeacherPortal > Reports > Admin Reports > Blank/Missing Grades by Grade Level
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the report to incorrectly print for the dates entered in the View all assignments due after field.
TeacherPortal > Settings > Manage Student Groups
❏ Corrected the issue that was preventing teachers with campus-wide group access from viewing the Student Information page for student's they do not teach.
TeacherPortal > Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards for Campus
❏ Corrected the issue when printing elementary report cards that prevented the Promoted/Retained message from printing on Skills-based report cards when printed by the campus Admin.
Release Date: 3/3/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0700 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 7.0700
StudentPortal > Graduation Plan > Credit Detail
❏ Corrected the issue on the page so the screen will display all grades when students are enrolled in different sections of the same course.
Release Date: 1/13/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.0420
Release Date: 1/13/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0420 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 7.0420
ParentPortal > Summary
❏ Updated the existing Texas Assessment URL to direct parents to the new Texas Assessment single sign-on website.
Release Date: 1/13/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0420 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0420
TeacherPortal > Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected the error that prevented teachers from posting attendance if a student in the Course-Section had a pre-posted absence.
Release Date: 1/13/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0420 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 7.0420
StudentPortal > Grades > Texas Assessment
❏ Updated the existing Texas Assessment URL to direct parents to the new Texas Assessment single sign-on website.
Release Date: 1/5/23 ASCENDER Update: 7.0415
Release Date: 1/5/23
ASCENDER Update: 7.0415 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0415
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected the issue that caused ESNU grade types to not save for Core Courses (from Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Course) set to this grading type.
Release Date: 12/15/22 ASCENDER Update: 7.0410
Release Date: 12/15/22
ASCENDER Update: 7.0410 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0410
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Corrected the issue in the program so the user will not receive an error message when multiple spaces exist between words in a course title when teachers posted grades.
Release Date: 12/14/22 ASCENDER Update: 7.0400
ASCENDER Homepage
❏ Added the ASCENDER News dashboard element to display important announcements or upcoming events. Each dashboard element tile has the drag-and-drop feature enabled along with column x row layout options to allow the logged-on user to customize the layout of their dashboard elements. The user's selected layout preferences are automatically saved upon logging out of the software.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > Audit > SAT0600 - Student Detail Report
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented signature pages from displaying for all campus levels when running this report.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Instructors
❏ Updated the page to make the Texas Unique ID field a non-required field.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule > Available Courses
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Course
❏ Modified the pages to update references of txGradebook to TeacherPortal.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > Crs Assign
❏ Modified the program so that No Show students who are withdrawn on the same date as their entry date will be automatically withdrawn from courses when they are withdrawn on W/R Enroll.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > TeacherPortal Options > Campus
❏ Changed LEP to EB in the Display Program Information group box.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > ParentPortal Report Cards > Create Report Cards
❏ Updated the utility when printing secondary report cards from ParentPortal Report Cards so the label Counselor is now Counselor/Homeroom Teacher.
Elementary report cards will keep the Counselor label.
Health > Maintenance > Student Health > Screening
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the Help (?) icon from displaying on the following screens:
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Instructors
❏ Corrected an issue that caused users to receive an error message when updates were made to the Texas Unique ID field and Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance > Control Info - Student Application Staff ID is set to SSN.
Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Demographic Info
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented users from adding a new campus.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the mailing address on Demo1 to change when the user navigates to W/R Enroll, makes a change and then saves.
❏ Corrected the UI color for the Save button.
❏ Disabled the calendars for Economic Disadvantage, Foster Care, and Military Connected group boxes when users have Read-only access.
❏ Corrected the issue in the Foster Care Descriptor field that would not allow users to enter and save a 1 (Student is currently in the conservatorship of DFPS) for PK students.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Modified the program so the Truancy Indicators fields will clear when a student is re-enrolled through the Historical Re-enrollment process. Truancy Indicators (including campus and date) from the prior year will not transfer to the current year.
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented users from correctly updating the Early Reading Indicator descriptor code when a student has a grade level change from PK to KG.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Local Programs
❏ Added Code 1, Code 2, Code 3, Code 4 fields to the Local Programs for TEA section of the screen.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > PK Enroll
❏ Corrected the issue that caused an error message that prevented users from updating the date when exiting a student and then re-enrolling the student.
Registration > Utilities > Reset Values
❏ Corrected the Cohort auto populate function on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2 and Registration > Utilities > Reset Values.
Registration > Utilities > TREx Export
❏ Updated the exported file with the following 2022-2023 TREx Data Standards:
❏ Added Industry Certification result code and Prior Year attendance tags in the GreenLight export.
Registration > Utilities > Set Student At Risk Indicators
❏ Modified the utility to use STAAR 3-8 Reading scores, passing at 110% and taken in school year 2022 or later, to unflag students for Criteria 3 who failed STAAR 3-8 Writing.
STAAR 3-8 Writing is no longer administered starting school year 2022.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > SRG1700- Leaver Tracking Report
❏ Modified the SRG1700- Leaver Tracking Report so it will display PEIMS Code 08 for Withdrawal Code 08 and PEIMS Code 20 for Withdrawal Code 20.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Instructors
❏ Updated the program to ensure the Section field only accepts numeric 2-digit values.
Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance > AP
❏ Added the following new codes for school year 2022 and 2023:
Award Type
Code: 13 Description: AP Capstone Diploma
Code: 14 Description: AP Seminar and Research Certificate
Irregularity Code
Code: 10 Description: Score Delayed - will be reported as soon as possible
Release Date: 12/14/22
ASCENDER Update: 7.0400 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 7.0400
ParentPortal > Navigation > Summary
❏ Modified the program so the Skills Based Report Card button will display for students in EE and PK.
ParentPortal > Charter School Application Form > Apply
❏ Modified the Charter School Waitlist Application form to exclude campuses that have not been set to participate in the Charter School Waitlist option.
The application form will only display campuses that are coded as Participating Charter Admission Waitlist.
ParentPortal Homescreen > Apply
❏ Modified the Charter School Application Form to default to the correct school year.
Release Date: 12/14/22
ASCENDER Update: 7.0400 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 7.0400
❏ Modified the program to enable batch processing and importing of assignment grades from a file.
❏ Updated the program to correctly point to the following Help pages for Skills Based campuses:
Attendance > Post/View Attendance
❏ Corrected an issue when the Combine Courses in Attendance checkbox is checked on Settings > Update Profile that caused attendance to be unposted after teacher has already successfully posted.
Reports > Student Group Reports > Attendance Summary
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Attendance Summary Report to show an incorrect period for absences if the number of periods for the campus is greater than 10.
Admin > Reports > User Log Report
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the report from generating when the user chooses any options under User Log Report Selection.
Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented the district logo from printing on Skills-based report cards when the report card is printed by the teacher, or when an admin prints the report card impersonating a teacher.
Grades > Assignment Grades
❏ Modified the program to add an Error column to the Step 3 - Review Data section on the Assignments Grades Import screen when there are problems with the data.
❏ Corrected an issue with the .csv import that was causing information to not map correctly.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused assignment grades for one course section to be replaced by grades from a different course section if the instructor has not clicked Retrieve before saving.
❏ Added an error message to remind instructors to click Retrieve before making changes.
❏ Updated the program to add validations for numeric and pass/fail grade-types to prevent entering invalid grades of E,S,N,U or A,B,C,D,F. The only valid values for numeric and pass/fail grade-types should be numbers, M, I, and X.
Grades > Cycle Grades
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented exam grades from being accepted when Rpt Card Grd Typ is set to A,B,C,D,F, E,S,N,U, or Pass/Fail in the Options group box on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Course.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused averages entered on Grades > Assignment Grades for a future cycle to update incorrectly on Cycle Grades.
Reports > Attendance Verification
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a student to not appear on the report when they withdraw from a course in one cycle and re-enroll in that same course in the next cycle.
When the Include Withdrawn Students check-box is selected, students withdrawn during a specific period should still show on the Attendance Verification Report.
Reports > Student Group Reports > Attendance Summary
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Attendance Summary Report to show an incorrect period for absences if the number of periods for the campus is greater than 10.
Settings > Manage Seating Charts
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented seating chart designations entered on a blank seating chart from saving when the user selects PIN and Save Seating Chart.
❏ Added validation to the page to prevent users from saving successfully when the Rows and Columns fields are left blank.
❏ Corrected the issue that caused an Invalid PIN error message to appear when Columns is left blank for an existing seating chart.
Release Date: 10/21/22 ASCENDER Update: 7.0205
Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > PGP
❏ Corrected the issue that was causing data saved in the Industry Based Certification group box to clear when making changes to the page.
Release Date: 10/18/22 ASCENDER Update: 7.0200
Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Maintenance > Restraint Information
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a program error when selecting Seclusion as the Restraint Type.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > TSDS Crosswalks
❏ Modified the 044 PE Responsibilities - Campus/Crs/Sec Crosswalk to extract valid Service IDs for 2023.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the date entered in the Financial Aid Application Met Date field on Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance > Student > PGP to be transposed on Graduation.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Modified the program to allow editing on the page for one prior year.
Registration > Utilities > Set Student At Risk Indicator
❏ Updated the utility with new values for the 2022-2023 school year for At Risk assessments. The new values will determine if a student passed a an assessment by at least 110% in order to not be classified as at risk for previously failing the this subject.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student
❏ Removed the SRG6000 - Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) Report.
❏ Updated SRG6010 - Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) report and file export per TEA requirements.
❏ Updated the parameters for SRG6010 - Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) with the following:
Release Date: 9/30/22 ASCENDER Update: 7.0100
ASCENDER > Homepage
❏ Added a 60-minute session timer to the homepage (Main Menu). This timer redirects the user to the ASCENDER Login page and requires them to log on again if they attempt to launch an application after being inactive on the homepage for more than 60 minutes.
Note: This timer is separate from the individual application session timers that are set up in District Administration.
Attendance > Maintenance > Student > Student Inquiry > Attendance Audit
❏ Modified SAT1200 with the following changes:
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT0500 - Campus Attendance Summary
❏ Modified the report to allow historical data to be retrieved.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT1200 - Excessive Absence Report
❏ Modified the report to allow historical data to be retrieved.
Attendance > Reports > Attendance Reports > All > SAT1800 - Attendance Audit Report
❏ Modified the report to allow historical data to be retrieved.
Grade Reporting
❏ Modified the application to correct a flashing issue users experienced when navigating from tab to tab when the user elects to have the left navigation menu collapsed.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Instructor
❏ Modified the program to add the following:
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Tables > TSDS Crosswalks
❏ Added this screen to create the TSDS Crosswalks page.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance
❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing clients from being able to post Cycle 2 Standards-Based grades from TeacherPortal, to the Grd Update tab using the Grade Posting From ASCENDER TeacherPortal utility.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract
❏ Modified the utility to remove the Algebra 2 and English 3 options from the Course(s) To Extract: box when all subjects are selected.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > STAAR/TAKS Precoding Extract
❏ Updated the program with the new file layout from Cambium.
❏ Enabled the buttons for the following:
❏ Enabled the buttons for the following:
Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maintenance
❏ Modified the PGP tab to add an Industry Based Certification group box with the following fields:
Graduation Plan > Reports > SGP1000 - Student Personal Graduation Plan
❏ Modified the parameter description Current Grade Level (Blank for All) to be Current Grade Level (Select Grade Level or Student ID).
❏ Corrected an issue in program logic when a student is enrolled in a course in the current year that does not exist in the prior year. The report will use the correct school year for course lookup.
Health > Maintenance > Student Health > Emergency
❏ Modified the Contact Information pop-up window to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Health > Maintenance > Student Health > Contacts
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Address field(s).
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance > Demographic Info
❏ Modified the program to make the District Name and ESC County District Number field titles bold.
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance > State Reporting
❏ Modified the page to add a State Reporting tab.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile
❏ Modified the program to disable Annual Student Data Rollover until updated functionality has been deployed to production for the current year process.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Attendance Zones > CY Attendance Zones
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Attendance Zones > NY Attendance Zones
❏ Modified the screen to change the Transportation Eligibility dropdown value of from J to I in order to match to the import utility.
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > Local Programs
❏ Modified the page to add the Local Program to TEA PEIMS Codes field for student related programs.
❏ Added a Local Program to TEA PEIMS Codes column to the report.
Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Demographic Info
❏ Modified the program with the following:
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Information Maintenance > Control Info
❏ Modified the program with the following:
Registration > Maintenance > Campus Profile > Campus Programs
❏ Modified the Expanded Learning (ELO) tab with the following:
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1
❏ Modified the program with the following:
❏ Updated the page layout.
❏ Modified the page to create the following group boxes:
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Mailing and Physical address fields.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Modified the program to reconfigure the Dyslexia Services group box.
❏ Modified the program to remove the following fields from the Status Indicators group box:
❏ Modified the program to create the following individual group boxes:
❏ Modified the Truancy Indicators group box to match other group boxes on the page.
❏ Moved the following group boxes from the Demo3 tab to the Graduation tab:
❏ Modified the program to add a Graduation (read-only) check box to Security Administration > Manage Roles > Manage Permissions.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > At Risk
❏ Modified the page to add the Begin Date field to indicate the date on which the district determined that the student is at risk.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Contact
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Bil/ESL
❏ Modified the page to remove Home Language and Student Language fields.
❏ Modified the page to create the following group boxes:
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Local Programs
❏ Modified the page to add the Local Program for TEA group box for student related programs.
❏ Modified the page to label the Other Local Programs group box.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > PK Enroll
❏ Added PK Program title to the PK Program group box.
❏ Modified the PK Program group box with the following:
❏ Added a PK Funding Source group box with the following:
Registration > Maintenance > Prior Year Leaver Tracking
Modified the program with the following:
❏ Disabled the Save button and the ability to add/delete documents for users with Read-Only access.
❏ Bolded the following fields to identify that these data elements are used in State Reporting:
- First Name
- Middle Name
- Last Name
- Generation
- SSN
- Texas Unique Student ID
- Sex
- DOB
- Attribution Cd
- Hispanic/Latino
- Grade Level
- Military Enlistment
- Asylee/Ref
- Eco Disadvan
- Migrant
- Withdrawal Code
- Graduation Type
- Graduation Date
- IGC
❏ Added the following labels, drop-down menus and/or checkboxes:
- Associate Degree
- Adult Prev Attend
- Last Friday of October Status
- Homeless Status
- Unaccompanied Youth
- Parental Permission
- Achievement Category
Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment > Register Student
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-11
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-12
❏ Modified the program to allow special characters to be used for First, Middle and Last name.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > State Performance Plan 14 > Demographics
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > State Performance Plan 14 > Contact
❏ Modified the details Add Contact window to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Charter School Waitlist
❏ Corrected an issue with the Texas Unique Stu ID field so that it will auto-complete.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Charter School Waitlist > Demographics
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Spec Ed Lang Acq
❏ Corrected an issue that was preventing some students from appearing in the Directory when their record has a status change on Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Spec Ed.
Registration > Utilities > Reset Values
❏ Disabled the following Item to Reset drop-down menu options:
Registration > Utilities > Cafeteria Import
❏ Modified the utility to add a Begin Date field that will be used to update the Economically Disadvantaged Begin and End dates on Demo1.
Registration > Utilities > Set Student At Risk Indicators
❏ Added a Begin Date column to the Set Student At Risk Indicator and Criteria report that will update the At Risk Begin Date if it is blank.
Registration > Utilities > Attendance Zones Address Change
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name field.
Registration > Utilities > Import Campuses Attendance Zones
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters to be imported into the Street Name field.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > All > SRG5010 - Child Find SPPI-11 Student Roster Report
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > All > SRG5020 - Child Find SPPI-12 Student Roster Report
❏ Modified the report to add a new data element to the report.
ELIGIBILITY-DELAY-REASON (E1731) (Code Table DC164) refers to the reason why the eligibility determination was completed beyond the required timeframe.
- For SPPI-11, the required timeframe is 30-calendar days from the date of the completed full individual and initial evaluation (FIIE).
- For SPPI-12, the required timeframe is by the third birthday for a child receiving early childhood intervention (ECI) services.
❏ Corrected an issue to prevent duplicates from appearing when students have been scheduled to another campus.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District > District Control
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Address field.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Campus Control
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the Address field.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Instructors
❏ Added a Texas Unique ID field that will be available to Student-only clients using the social security number.
❏ Added an ESC/SSA option with drop-down menu that will be available to Student-only clients using the social security number.
Security Administration > Manage Roles
❏ Modified the program to create a State Reporting (read-only) security setting option for Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance.
Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Current Year > Program Information
❏ Modified the program to create an IEP Continuer group box with the following fields:
Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Current Year > Child Restraint
❏ Modified the Child Restraint pop-up box to save the Instructional Setting code and the non-membership code as of the Restraint Date.
Special Education > Maintenance > Student Sp Ed Data > Next Year > Program Information
❏ Modified the program to create an IEP Continuer group box with the following fields:
Test Scores > Maintenance > Individual Maintenance
❏ Modified the program to add the TEA Unique Access Code field to the page when the test selected is EOC, STAAR 3-8, or TELPAS.
Test Scores > Reports > Test Scores > STS2100-Student TEA Unique Access Code
❏ Added the STS2100-Student TEA Unique Access Code report to print a list of students who have or who do not have TEA Unique Access Codes.
Test Scores > Reports > Create Test Scores
❏ Modified the program to add a Unique Access Code check box to the following sections:
• EOC
• STAAR 3-8
• TELPAS
Release Date: 9/30/22
ASCENDER Update: 7.0100 ASCENDER ParentPortal Update: 7.0100
ParentPortal > Summary
❏ Modified the program to add a Texas Assessment button to ParentPortal so students and parents are able to access the TEA's Texas Assessments Results Student Portal using a single sign-on when the student's TEA Unique Access Code is entered in Test Scores.
ParentPortal > New Student Enrollment > Step 3, Address & Contact
❏ Modified the program to allow up to 60 characters in the Street Name (Physical) and Street Name (Mailing) fields.
Release Date: 9/30/22
ASCENDER Update: 7.0100 ASCENDER StudentPortal Update: 7.0100
StudentPortal > Grades
❏ Modified the program to add a Texas Assessment button to StudentPortal so students and parents are able to access the TEA's Texas Assessments Results Student Portal using a single sign-on when the student's TEA Unique Access Code is entered in Test Scores.
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