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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.
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