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student:update_7_1000

ASCENDER 7.1000

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:

  • SGR1400 - Elementary Report Card
  • SGR1401 - Elementary Principal's Proof List
  • SGR1410 - Elementary Standard Based Report Cards
  • SGR1411 - Elementary Principal's SBG Proof List

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:

  • BIL/ESL: Parental Permission is required.
  • BIL/ESL: Bilingual or ESL Program Type must be selected when the student is selected as EB.

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:

  • Updated the Student Information section with the following:
    • Added an Ethnicity checkbox
    • Added Race checkboxes
    • Added a School District of Residence field
  • Added a Student Identification section with the following:
    • S-Number field
    • Renamed Student Identification to Texas Student Unique Identification
    • Added a My child has never been enrolled in Texas public schools. checkbox
    • Added an SSN Disclaimer
  • Added an Additional Information section with the following options:
    • I have another child applying to this charter school.
    • If offered by the school or programming, my child prefers an A.M. or P.M. schedule.
    • My child may qualify for free prekindergarten, based on the following criteria:
  • Updated the Primary Guardian Information section with the following:
    • Added a Preferred contact drop-down with options for for Phone/Text Message/Email

Charter school Application demographics inforamtion

❏ 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.


Registration > Utilities > Charter School Waitlist Import

❏ Added Charter School Waitlist Import to the sidebar menu. This option will be visible when the District Type is Charter on Registration > Maintenance > District Profile > District Maintenance > Demographic Info.

Charter School Waitlist Import menu


Registration > Reports > Create Registration Reports > Graduation

❏ Modified the Graduation group box to add an option for Texas First Early HS Completion Pgm.

Graduation group box with Texas First Early HS Completion Pgm option circled.


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.




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ASCENDER ParentPortal

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:

  • Updated the Student Information section with the following:
    • Added an Ethnicity checkbox
    • Added Race checkboxes
    • Added a School District of Residence field
  • Added a Student Identification section with the following:
    • S-Number field
    • Renamed Student Identification to Texas Student Unique Identification
    • Added a My child has never been enrolled in Texas public schools. checkbox
    • Added an SSN Disclaimer
  • Added an Additional Information section with the following options:
    • I have another child applying to this charter school.
    • If offered by the school or programming, my child prefers an A.M. or P.M. schedule.
    • My child may qualify for free prekindergarten, based on the following criteria:
  • Updated the Primary Guardian Information section with the following:
    • Added a Preferred contact drop-down with options for for Phone/Text Message/Email

Updated Charter School Application


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. 




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ASCENDER TeacherPortal

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:

  • TeacherPortal > Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Manage Elementary Skills-Based Report Cards > Preview Report Card
  • TeacherPortal > Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards for Campus
  • TeacherPortal > Admin > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards for Campus > Print
  • TeacherPortal > Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards
  • TeacherPortal > Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Cards > Print
  • TeacherPortal > Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Print Elementary Report Card as IPR

❏ Corrected an issue in the program that caused the order of skills within different skillsets to display incorrectly on the following ParentPortal pages:

  • ParentPortal > Summary > Skills-Based Report Card
  • ParentPortal > Summary > Skills-Based Report Card > Print
student/update_7_1000.txt · Last modified: 2023/06/09 18:58 by emoreno