Release Date: 9/11/23 ASCENDER Update: 8.0100
ASCENDER Homepage
❏ Added the LEA News element to the Quick View dashboard. This feature allows LEA personnel to add and manage important news, announcements, or upcoming events, and display them on the ASCENDER Homepage Quick View dashboard. Each news entry includes a start and end date, a summary (topic), and a description. Additionally, if needed, entries can be limited to a specific audience based on their permission to an application and breadcrumb (menu item). This functionality is managed on the new District Administration > Tables > LEA News page.
❏ Added the Daily Attendance by Campus element on the ASCENDER Homepage Quick View dashboard. This feature allows LEA personnel to quickly and conveniently view in a pie chart, the attendance totals for an authorized campus or the sum of all authorized campuses for the day. This listing will be updated each day at noon.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus Schedule > Copy Course Section
❏ Modified the page to add Child Care Operation Number(s) to the page logic.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Sched Inquiry
❏ Modified the page to allow up to 60 characters in the street address field when printing the schedule inquiry.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > Student > Individual Maint > Cumulative Courses
❏ Modified the printed inquiry to allow up to 60 characters in the street address field when selecting Print AAR or AAR/Test Scr.
Grade Reporting > Maintenance > TeacherPortal Options > Campus > Categories
❏ Corrected the issue that prevented clients from deleting categories after successfully running ASDR.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract
❏ Modified the utility with the new Cambium file format for school year 2023-2024.
❏ Updated the Cambium file layout and added a telpas_sife value to TELPAS and TELPAS Alternate for school year 2024.
❏ Modified the utility to remove the STAAR Interim option from extracting with Cumulative.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Grades Report Group > SGR2047-AAR Multi-Year
❏ Modified the report to allow up to 60 characters in the street address field.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Master Schedules
SGR0110 - Master Schedule PEIMS (Grd Rpting)
SGR0120 - Master Schedule Sched Info (Grd Rpting)
SGR0130 - Master Sched Section and Grd Rpting Info
❏ Updated the following reports with the following changes:
❏ Removed the PK Prog Eval Code column from the reports.
❏ Added a column for Child-Care Oprn Nbrs to reports.
Grade Reporting > Reports > Grade Reporting Reports > Report Cards Report Group > SGR1160-Interim Progress Report
❏ Modified the report to allow up to 60 characters in the street address field.
Grade Reporting > Utilities > Online STAAR/TAKS EOC Extract
❏ Modified the utility with the new Cambium file format for school year 2023-2024.
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Demo3
❏ Modified the page with the following:
Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > Graduation
❏ Modified the program to allow duplicate entries in the Industry Based Certification group box.
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-11 > Child Find Data
❏ Removed the Parental Consent Date field from the Child Find Initial Evaluation group box and replaced it with the Consent to Evaluation Received Date field starting in 2023-2024.
NOTE: The Parental Consent Date field is still available for SY 2023 and prior.
❏ Deleted the following rules for SY 2023-2024 and beyond:
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Child Find: SPPI-12 > Child Find Data
❏ Removed the Parental Consent Date field from the Child Find Initial Evaluation group box and replaced it with the Consent to Evaluation Received Date field starting in 2023-2024.
NOTE: The Parental Consent Date field is still available for SY 2023 and prior.
❏ Deleted the following rules for SY 2023-2024 and beyond:
Registration > Maintenance > Core Collections > Charter School Waitlist
❏ Modified the page to make the following required field changes:
❏ Modified the School District of Residence field to allow up to 300 characters.
Registration > Utilities > Charter School Waitlist Import
❏ Updated the program to add the following fields to the import for school year 2023.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Copy Course Section
❏ Added a code to the page logic to copy Child Care Operation Number(s) when a course section is copied.
Scheduling > Utilities > Create NY Master Schedule > Campus
❏ Added a code to the page logic to copy Child-Care Operation Number(s) when a campus section is copied.
Scheduling > Utilities > Delete NY Master Schedule > Campus
❏ Modified the utility to add a Child Care Operation Numbers table to the delete Campus Sections logic.
When the user selects Campus Sections, rows from the CR_SEC_CHLD_CARE_PRTNR_NYR table (Child Care Operation Numbers) are successfully deleted.
Release Date: 9/8/23
ASCENDER Update: 8.0100 ASCENDER TeacherPortal Update: 8.0100
Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Elementary Letter Skills
Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Elementary Numbers Skills
Grades > Elementary Report Cards > Elementary Word Skills
❏ Corrected an issue with the Retrieve button so users are able to retrieve more than one student.