Below are recent updates made in between official releases for the month of September. As always, if you have any questions about a feature, please contact your Implementation Manager or Customer Support.
DNA
09/30/18
Fixes
- When Manual/hybrid Explicit Constructed Response questions are administered through online testing, scoring was failing, has now been resolved
09/25/18
Enhancement
Auto Apply Filtered Selections in Flexible Assessments
In Flexible Assessments, the standard selector will now automatically apply any standards selected, as opposed to waiting fo the user to click on Apply to save and continue.
Fixes
- Custom Standards were missing in the Standards Drop Down has now been resolved
- Centerpoint items were missing from the itembank have now been redirected and stored as expected
- Missing rationale information in varioius itembanks have now been restored
- KDS Spanish itembank items are now correctly organized with the language of Spanish rather than English in the language attributes
- Measured Progress NTSR (non-traditional selected response) items were not auto-scoring and has now been resolved
09/19/18
Enhancements
Text to Speech
- When student starts the player, then stops the player, the player restarts from the entire beginning. A Student IS able to pause but must STOP the player in order to have reader show the item on the right to work. Now, students can move "forward" and "backward" as needed.
Fixes
- In the Assessment Panel, Teachers could see non-rostered students using district-level quick code has now been resolved and fixed to match teacher's visibility
- Using dollar sign and different special characters (those available in keyboard like asterisk, ampersand, percent sign, etc), words and phrases that are present in standards will now return correct results within a flexible assessment and searching for standards
09/14/18
Fixes
NGSS Assessments
There were duplicates of National KDS assessments (not State) that have been organized and
09/11/18
Enhancements
- GradeBook assignment titles can only be 24 characters long, including spaces, and ANSI. To assist users, a warning message that tells the user the title will not work, or, have the title accept ASCII characters rather than ANSI characters, along with an informational button to see criteria for gradebook assignment titles.
Fixes
Gradebook
- When trying to remove students from a custom roster in a Gradebook, an error would occur, which has been resolved
- Gradebook Usage Report now correctly pulls teachers with CURRENT site and role affiliations, ignoring teachers who were affiliated to the site in previous years
Flexible Assessments
Changes made to essential assessment building steps have been applied:
- Continue button is now named as "Done" (pictured above)
- When user clicks "Done" but no question has been added, modal appears (pictured above)
- Tooltips include "Yes, I'm done!" (Done); "No, take me back!" (Back)
- Users are redirected to landing page when "Yes, I'm done!" is clicked
- The modal closes when user clicks "No, take me back!", staying on the page
- The modal closes when user clicks outside of it, staying on the page
- Adding and setting up of questions continue to work/behave correctly
- An elipse now displays and does not overlap in Flexible assessment's answer key screen, tags (like scope, subject) are displayed up to 14-15 characters only including spaces. Given the browser's zoom level is default or 100%, the tags and "Upload Materials" overlap. This has been resolved.
Response Frequency Report
- In Flexible Assessments when visiting the Response Frequency Report, you can now drill down to a student list and even Create a Student Group!
General
- Duplicating an Assessment View with an existing eduCLIMBER link will now not duplicate the same link to eduCLIMBER
- When adding a Question Group to a Flexible Assessment, a user was unable to create a Question Group with only 1 or 2 characters, now allows for at least 1 character in the title
- In Flexible Assessments, question groups were layering on top of the standards menu when selected
- When creating a Flexible Assessment that includes quotation marks anywhere in the title, the user could not get past the initial creation screen to add questions, but rather lead to a blank screen
- Measured Progress Non-Traditional Selected Response item types were not auto-scoring as expected and have now been solved
09/04/18
Choice Matrix Items
- A Choice Matrix item type in support of Key Data Systems Inspect Plus items and assessment building
Flexible Assessment Added to Create Assessment Options
- Creating a Flexible Assessment is now an option on the original Create New Assessment menu, in addition to Create a Flexible Assessment starter
General
- Additional audio items have been added to the itembank the following passages: Master ID 113967, Master ID 113965, and Master ID 113966
- When creating tiles based on search results in View Assessments, assessments now display as expected for all users
Flex Assessment Question Type
- In Flexible Assessments, the Question type dropdown list now re-ordered and updated to fit the question type.
Multiple Tags Cut Off from View
- Flexible Assessments with multiple tags than can fit on the Assessment Edit page, now shows a hidden dropdown of all Selected Tags
New!
- A Math Equation Editor (MEE) is now available as a tool in online testing with three different versions available: Grades 3-5; Grades 6-8, and High School
ISI
09/25/18
Fixes
- P223 Report Not Showing TBIP Exited Headcounts has been resolved
- Attendance letters will now display grade level field as expected
- The 2018-2019 ISBE SIS Demographics and Early Childhood extracts have been updated in the areas of Dual Language and Language of Instruction
- 2018-2019 ISBE SIS Teacher Course Assignment Entry extracts have been updated
- Rollover 2018-2019 ISBE SIS Demographics/Enrollment extracts have been updated to ni the areas of Dual Language and Language of Instruction
- An error has been resolved when trying to duplicate extracts with input variables
09/19/18
NEW!
- Motivations and Interventions now available for Minor Incidents!!!
09/11/18
Fixes
- Rollover completed for 2018-2019 ISBE SIS Homeless reports, state reporting
- Correct End Date displays for MSDS Early Childhood Collection End of Program or EOP
09/07/18
Fixes
- (WA P-223) Grade Level and Admission Reasons were showing up blank in P223 audit reports when run at the site level versus the district level
09/04/18
Fixes
- (WA CEDARS) Updates made to logic for the "Ethnicity Collection Method" column to default to "3 Student has not yet been resurveyed" value. This should only change if a different option is selected from the "Ethnicity Collection Method" field.
- (WA P-223) Calculation updates have been made to have Total columns consistently appear at the bottom of the list of school sites
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Attendance Letters have been updated to:
- If the client only is affiliated to one site, they should only have visibility to the one site
- If the client has multiple affiliations, they should only have access to the students based on the control panel
- If the client has district access, the user should see all students in which they have access, based on the site and academic year affiliation assigned
ISE
09/11/18
Enhancements
The NEW Transition Goal Page has been released! Please see below for resources:
1. The new Add/Edit Transition Goals Page Help Doc
2. Changes to Transition Section of the IEP
3. To see a vIdeo on the changes please click this: LINK
Fixes
Made changes to custom reporting data for Early Childhood Outcomes to allow all fields to be used in a custom report.
09/04/18
The meta data field of "IFSP Is Current" has been adjusted to be used with the bolean filter for custom reports.
UX and UI (User Experience and Interface)
09/11/18
- Updated images on library to replace image for special education on Illuminate login screen
09/04/18
New!
Inline Help Center
- Our Illuminate Help Center is now inline in your Illuminate account
Data
09/04/18
New!
General
- Additions to Core Data imports have been released for Behavior Incidents and Participants
- Data validation added to users.txt imports
- Update made to FAST meta-data for FAST automation and imports
Delightful Enhancements
General
Fixes
General
Reports
09/30/18
09/25/18
New!
The following State Data Imports have been added to the State Known Data Import Tool
- OH AIR 2018-2019
- WCAP 2017-2018 updates include additions to State Assessment Performance Summary and Question Group widgets
Enhancements
Skills Assessment Reports
- Now when selected one or multiple assessments in the Skills Assessment Reports, the assessment "picker" has been updated to increase ease of use and make it easier to find assessments
- Skills Assessments come with a series of reports, but untili now, Skills Assessment Item Analysis was separetly shared report that was not housed withini a skills assessment
Fixes
- Aimsweb reports have been updated to include 2016-2017 and 2017-2018
- i-Ready Reading and Math (Diagnostic and Instruction) files no longer include field 33 in the import files and the import has been updated
- (MI Only) Student Learning Objectives Growth Summary and Roster Growth Objective data has been updated ot match that of the report
09/19/18
NEW!
The following State Data Imports have been added to the State Known Data Import Tool
- 2017-2018 CAA English Language Arts
- 2017-2018 CAA Mathematics
- Widget updates include: State Assessment - Overview (student profile) and State Assessment - Performance Summary (dashboard)
- SAT 2018-2019
- MN ACCESS 2017-2018
Fixes
- An Oops Error has been resolved when generating the Physical Fitness Test Healthy Fitness Zones report
- An issue with the Multiple Assessment Performance Report was not returning data
- AIMSweb Grouped Tier Student List report now will return data as expected
- The ELPAC Student list resulted in an oops error when trying to open the report has now been resolved
09/11/18
New!
- WA SBA Prelim 17-18
- PA Accountability Data 2017-2018
Fixes
- GA Milestones EOC Colors Missing for 17-18 on Widget colors will not displaying for 17-18 Milestones EOC data on the State Assessment Question Groups Widget
- Multi Year SBAC Report showed Visibility to All Students as opposed to students under the user's affiliations
- Custom Reports category "Interventions Session" was not pulling the correct minutes value when adding Teacher Name column to reports.
- Filtering on the Hearing Screening Type Pass/Fail Status column was not filtering as expected and now allows for proper filtering
09/04/18
New!
General
- 2018-2019 Renaissance STAR Early Literacy meta data and
State Known Data Import Tools
The following State Known Data sets have been added and are available to import:
- 2017-2018 PARCC English Language Arts
- 2017-2018 PARCC Mathematics
- 2017-2018 SBAC Spanish Language Arts
- 2018-2019 AZ AZELLA
Delightful Enhancements
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IL PARCC Assessments have been added to the following widgets:
- Student Profile: State Assessment - Overview; State Assessment - Question Groups
- Data Dashboard: State Assessment - Performance Summary; State Assessment - Question Groups
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2018-2019 AZ AZELLA have been added to the following widgets:
- Student Profile: State Assessment - Overview; State Assessment - Question Groups
- Data Dashboard: State Assessment - Performance Summary; State Assessment - Question Groups
STAR Renaissance
- Additional 2018-2019 Renaissance STAR Early Literacy meta data has been added
General
- 2018-2019 GA Milestone assessment year has updated test taken from 2017 to 2018 for the
- NWEA GrowthMeasureYN field has been added to NWEA MAP Student Roster import
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