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Release Date: 7/17/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.1110
Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Calendar
❏ Updated the program to allow waiver minutes to be 0 for Calendar Waiver Event Type 05 (specific to JJAEP campuses) when the Instructional Program Type is 13.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented LEAs from adding new PK students after running after running the Annual Student Data Rollover (ASDR) process. The following message occurred: “PK Enroll record is required to match enrollment record when grade level is PK. Please add a matching record in the PK Enroll tab for this new student after you save the enroll record.”
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-11 > Demographics/Enrollment
❏ Renamed the Absences Within Timeframe field to Evaluation Delay Days. The updated field (Evaluation Delay Days) calculation was changed to consider prior year attendance. For TSDS extract purposes, the following is true:
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-11 > Child Find Data
❏ Modified the Evaluation Campus Id field to allow nine campus digits instead of just three digits.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-12 > Child Find Data
❏ Modified the Evaluation Campus Id field to allow nine campus digits instead of just three digits.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > All > SRG5010 - Child Find SPPI-11 Student Roster Report
❏ Renamed the Student Nbr Absences column to Evaluation Delay Days.
NOTE: Since the Evaluation Campus Id field on the Child Find Data tab was updated to support nine-digit campus IDs instead of only three, the report logic was modified to retrieve data based on the last three digits when a three-digit campus ID is selected from the Evaluation Campus ID report parameter ellipsis.
Prior Release Notes for ASCENDER 9.0
Release Date: 7/10/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.1105
Release Date: 7/2/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.1100
Release Date: 6/20/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.1010
Discipline > Maintenance > Tables > District Level > Offense Codes
❏ Modified the program to ensure that all user-entered offense codes are retained and displayed correctly after running Annual Student Data Rollover (ASDR).
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo 3
❏ Removed the requirement for grade levels KG, 01, and 02 to have an Early Reading Indicator record. This change is effective starting school year 2026.
Release Date: 6/13/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.1005
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Accelerated Instruction
❏ Per TEA guidance, modified the program to allow Completed Hours to be greater than Assigned Hours.
Scheduling > Maintenance > MSALGO > Process > Utilities
❏ Corrected an issue with the utility that prevented the Move MSALGO Sections to ASCENDER from processing correctly and gave some users an error message.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG5000 - Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA) Roster Report
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented some students 8 years of age on and/or before September 1st from being reported.
Test Scores > Utilities > Import Test Scores
❏ Modified the program to conform to new 2024-25 SAT® Suite of Assessments electronic score report data file layouts for the 2024-2025 school year.
Release Date: 6/6/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.1000
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Section
❏ Modified the utility to set College Credit Hours for dual credit courses after the student has completed the course.
Registration > Utilities > Create Leaver Tracking Records
❏ Updated text on the page from “This process will run automatically during Move-to-Grade Reporting” to “This process will run automatically during “Annual Student Data Rollover”.
Release Date: 5/30/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0920
Release Date: 5/23/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0915
Health > Maintenance > Student Health > Immunization
❏ Updated the program so nurses are able to document a Titer test to show they are in compliance with Texas Department of Health Services.
Added two options to the Series # dropdown menu:
Health > Reports > Health Reports > Immunizations
❏ Updated the SHS0102 - Immunization Report Due report to calculate information for added Series # options:
Release Date: 5/16/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0910
Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Calendar
❏ Modified the Calendar Reporting Period extract Begin Date and End Date to allow a Waiver day for the end of a reporting period.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3 > Early Reading Indicator
❏ Modified the Registration > Reset Values utility to correctly update the Begin Date of a new Early Reading Indicator record or the End Date of a previous record on Demo3.
Release Date: 5/8/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0905
Discipline > Maintenance > Student > Maintenance
❏ Modified the program to enable clients to update the Bully Reason dropdown and Cyber checkbox for all Offense reasons so those counts are more accurate.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Title I
❏ Corrected the issue that caused a Duplicate Record Found error message to appear on the extract error report.
Release Date: 5/2/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0900
Attendance > Maintenance > Rural Pathways (R-PEP)
❏ Created a page to collect R-PEP information so districts can enter NumberOfHoursInRPEP by reporting period.
Data Element: NumberOfHoursInRPEP (E3090) captures the number of hours during a particular reporting period a student participates in the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program.
Release Date: 4/25/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0815
Attendance Extracts
❏ Modified the CTE Attendance extract to decrease runtime and to reduce the possibility of tables locking.
❏ Modified the Special Education Attendance extract to decrease runtime and to reduce the possibility of tables locking.
Attendance - Special Education Attendance Extract
❏ Modified the Special Education Attendance extract to decrease runtime and to reduce the possibility of tables locking.
Attendance > Maintenance > Campus > Campus Calendar
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Calendar Event code to incorrectly populate, signifying a Waiver Day when Waiver Day 01 is selected for the full day.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Corrected the issue that gave users an internal server issue, prevented student's graduation data from being retrieved and prevented the user from being able to update data as needed.
❏ Updated the Associate Degree drop-down option with current values.
Release Date: 4/17/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0810
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Updated the page with the following new options for sy 2025 and beyond:
IndividualGraduationCommitteeReview (E1563) - Indicates whether an Individual Graduation Committee (IGC) has been established for a student regardless of which graduation program type is being pursued. This is collected for students in grades 11 and 12.
IndividualGraduationCommitteeGraduateIndicator (E1562) - Indicates whether a student for whom an Individual Graduation Committee (IGC) was established has graduated based on an IGC decision.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule Generator > Generate Campus Schedule > Create Mstr Sched
❏ Modified the program to add SPED Student Age Range to the program. When the NY Master Schedule is created, this field will also populate.
Release Date: 4/11/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0805
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Corrected an issue in the program that prevented Dyslexia Services from extracting to the staging table.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Modified the Graduation section to add an IGC Reviewed checkbox and an IGC Graduate checkbox for sy 2025 and beyond.
IndividualGraduationCommitteeReview (E1563) indicates whether an Individual Graduation Committee (IGC) has been established for a student regardless of which graduation program type is being pursued. This is collected for students in grades 11 and 12.
IndividualGraduationCommitteeGraduateIndicator (E1562) indicates whether a student for whom an Individual Graduation Committee (IGC) was established has graduated based on an IGC decision.
Release Date: 4/4/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0800
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > District Schedule
❏ Added and deleted Service IDs for sy 2026.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > Assign Pass Fail Indicators
❏ Modified Course Completion utility so it will process KG students participating in the TxVSN.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo1
❏ Modified Student Indicators with the following changes for sy 2025 and beyond:
Release Date: 1/29/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0500
TSDS Updates
❏ Modified the program to allow Graduation Type codes to be updated for graduates in the prior year on the Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation tab.
Release Date: 1/27/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0420
Registration > Maintenance > Prior Year Leaver Tracking
❏ Corrected the issue on the page that caused incorrect values to be saved for the Achievement Category field.
Release Date: 1/10/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0415
Grade Reporting > Maintenance> Tables > TSDS Crosswalks
❏ Renamed new crosswalk trigger from dr_tsds_xwalk_dts_update to tr_dr_tsds_xwalk_dts_update per new standards.
Release Date: 1/7/25 ASCENDER Update: 9.0410
OCR > Maintenance > School Part 2 > Discipline
❏ Modified the following pages so the error message appears at the bottom of the screen:
Release Date: 12/19/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0405
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Contact
❏ Allow the Receive Mailout checkbox to be editable for prior year leaver students for sy 2023-2024.
Registration > Maintenance > Prior Year Leaver Tracking
❏ Modified the Prior Year Leaver extract table student name fields to allow for 60 characters.
Release Date: 12/13/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0400
ASCENDER Student Known Issues: https://help.ascendertx.com/releasenotes/doku.php/student/update_9_0400_known_issues
Registration > Maintenance > Prior Year Leaver Tracking > Leaver Tracking
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the Prior Year Leaver extract to incorrectly extract endorsement information for Graduation types 35 and 40.
Registration > Utilities > TREx Export
❏ Modified the utility for 2024-2025 with new codes in the GreenLight export.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Create Grade Reporting Report
❏ Updated the page to add a check box for ADSY in the Course Meet CYR section.
When generated, the column on the report will populate with a Y if ADSY is checked on Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Section.
OCR > Maintenance > School Part 1
SCHR: School Characteristics
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
PSCH: Preschool Enrollment
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
PENR-4
❏ Corrected the issue in the program that caused some information to not save when making a change to population data.
PENR: Program Enrollment (Gifted & Talented)
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
COUR: Courses & Classes
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
APIB: Advanced Placement (AP) & International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB) Enrollment
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
OCR > Maintenance > School Part 2 > Exam, Staff, and Retention
STAF: School & School Support Staff
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
OCR > Maintenance > School Part 2 > Discipline
DISC: Student Discipline (Corporal Punishment, Expulsion, Suspension)
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
HIBS: Harassment or Bullying
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
RSTR: Restraints & Seclusion
❏ Updated the program with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
See the OCR Extract Information link for more information and changes.
OCR > Extracts > Perform Extracts
❏ Updated the extracts to add new columns for sy 2024 OCR submission.
OCR > Utilities > Create OCR File
❏ Modified the utility with new elements for the 2023-2024 Civil Rights Data Collection.
OCR > Reports
❏ Updated the following OCR 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection Reports to reflect new survey questions:
OCR > Reports > OCR0100 - School Part 1
❏ Updated the report with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
OCR > Reports > OCR0200 - School Part 2 Exam, Staff, and Retention
❏ Updated the report with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
OCR > Reports > OCR0300 - School Part 2 Discipline
❏ Updated the report with new information for the 2023-2024 OCR submission.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo2
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented users from deleting Census Block data or from manually entering the Census Block begin and end dates.
Registration > Utilities > Reset Values
❏ Modified the utility so all local programs assigned to a campus will display in the Item to Reset drop-down menu and none will be excluded.
❏ Modified the utility to reinstate Economically Disadvantaged for those students who match the parameters.
❏ Modified the utility to reinstate Early Reading Indicator for those students who match the parameters.
Registration > Utilities > Title 1 Code Conversion
❏ Corrected the issue with the utility that caused it to code all students with Code 0 which is no longer valid.
Test Scores > Utilities > Import Test Scores > SAT Test
❏ Modified the program to read the SAT data file layout changes for school year 2024-2025.
Release Date: 11/13/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0306
Registration > Utilities > TEA Census Block > Export Address
❏ Corrected the file required to generate the Census Block .csv so each LEA process views their own information.
Release Date: 11/11/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0305
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Program Report Group > SRG1200 - Student Status Changes by Program
❏ Modified the report parameters to add the following new report options:
❏ Modified the following report sections:
Release Date: 10/28/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0200
Grade Reporting > Reports > Create Grade Reporting Reports
❏ Added Sped Stu Age to the Course Section CYR group box.
❏ Modified Child Care Operation Number to allow for new information.
Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance
❏ Updated the program to add a previously missing CTE Program of Study so that the drop-down menu will correctly populate with all valid values.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Title I
❏ Updated the program per TEA to remove 0/00 descriptor for sy 2025.
Registration > Maintenance > Prior Year Leaver Tracking
❏ Updated the user interface to allow a blank Attribution Code and Asylee Refugee Code.
Registration > Utilities > TEA Census Block > Export Address
❏ Corrected the issue with the utility that caused students on the Missing/Invalid Data report to be listed as Homeless.
Release Date: 9/19/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0105
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Cumulative Courses > Print AAR
❏ Corrected the issue that caused some student's Graduation Program Type to not print on SGR2047 when the student has a graduation plan selected on Graduation Plan > Maintenance > Student Individual Maintenance.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Corrected an issue with the program that did not allow students to be re-enrolled from the Historical Directory.
Registration > Utilities > Set Student At Risk Indicators
❏ Modified the utility so it will not generate students that were erroneously marked as Homeless.
❏ Updated the utility to clean up At-Risk records for student's who did not have At-Risk criteria.
Registration > Utilities > TEA Census Block > Import Census Block
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the utility to import the 1-digit group number instead of the 12-digit census block number.
❏ Updated the utility to clean up 1-digit census block numbers so they will not be imported.
Release Date: 9/11/24 ASCENDER Update: 9.0100
Registration > Maintenance > Online Registration > New Student Enrollment
❏ Corrected the issue that caused the program to create default records that are no longer valid for the following data elements:
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