Below are recent updates made in between official releases for v11.1. As always, if you have any questions about a feature, please contact your Implementation Manager or Customer Support.
DNA
NEW!
Q Gradebook Standards Integration
Illuminate Assessments now push into Q Gradebooks! This integration formally only pushed overall scores, but now will include Standard Scores or both Overall and Standards scores as well!
Push Standard Scores
- This will push the Standard Scores from Illuminate into Q Gradebook
Push Overall Scores
- No changes made to overall scores at this time
Push both Overall and Standard Scores
- Pushes both overall and standard scores to Q Gradebook
For integration details, visit Manage Q Gradebook Integration.
Enhancements
Flexible Assessments
Improvements have been made to Flexible Assessments on allowing for succesful upload of multiple file types when uploading materials.
- DOC
- PPT
The following file formats can be uploaded and attached to the assessment, but will now be available to view during Online Testing:
- CSV
- TSV
- TXT
- MP4
- JPEG
- PNG
- GIF
ISI
NEW!
Available Meta Data for Custom Reports
The following meta-data has been added for:
- Reported First Name
- Reported Last Name
- Reported Middle Name
- Reported Gender
- Military Family Indicator
Enhancements
Early Childhood Program
- The "Additional Eligibility Factors" field on the Early Childhood Programs screen for MI clients needs to be updated to a multi select option
Exporting Option for Attendance Letter Results
- Attendance Letters now provide Excel & PDF as downloadable options to list of students when running search of students matching threshold for attendance letters
LA SIS-130 504 Plan
- Updates have been made to SIS 130 504 Plan State Report to match the new spec for Louisiana instances
STS-050 IBC Credential State Extract
- Updates have been made to filter results and with enhancements made to the following:
- "Semester IBC Earned" column now pulls the value that is populated in the assessment
- Option to generate the state extract by session year and filter the students by current enrollment being represented by the site code field
- "Beginning School Session Year" column now pulls from the enrollment session year
- "Year IBC Earned" column now pulls the value that is populated in the assessment
SIS-010 Demographic | Country of Birth Code
- Updates made to "Country of Birth Code" logic and value correctly pulls into the "SIS-010 Demographic" state extract as expected
MSDS | TSDL Filter Options
- An additional filter option to choose to report the required students listed below or all students.
Fixes
CALPADS (CA): SDEM "Hispanic Ethnicity Indicator"
- The "Hispanic Ethnicity Indicator" field in the SDEM extract previously displayed values of "false" and "true" for users, but now show values of "Y" or "N" or a blank value
Exempt from GPA State Report Radio Buttons
- "-" option has been removed from the Student Demographic Details field called "Exempt from GPA State Report", leaving only Yes or No as radio button options
Language Details Display
- The label for the follow-ups has been corrected to display "follow up" instead
- The "s" and "u" for the "satisfactory" and "unsatisfactory" fields are now capitalized
Ten/Thirty Day Report-For State Reporting
- Ten Thirty Report is now generating a pdf as expected
Attendance Search Records Report
- The Attendance search records is now reflecting grade level when ran for more than one site at the same time
Secondary Report Card Printing Without Custom Report Data
- Secondary Report Card downloaded from Portal have beene fixed to pull custom report data like it does when printed from a user's account, as expected
ELPAC Initial Assessment Fields and Values Corrections
- ELPAC Initial Assessment page previously displayed Summative fields and values, but needed to represent Initial Assessment values
MSDS | Provider License Number
- Provider license numbers are now available in the format of 2 letters followed by 9 numbers, or begin with tribal
- The following MSDS reports have been updated
- MSDS Early Childhood - End of Program
- MSDS Early Childhood - Fall
- MSDS Early Childhood - Spring
ISE
Fixes
- SE State Reporting: The final bug for SE Extracts has been fixed as of the evening of 10.18.18.
- Medicaid: A fix has been released for those sites affected by the following: As an admin the provider context doesn't seem to stick to the selected user/role when you navigate away from Provider Encounters, for example, and then navigate back to the previous page. (This would only occur for those providers who have multiple roles.
- Medicaid: The Category Filter will now yield results in the Service Type Dropdown for Providers with multiple roles and who have the field Category Filter on the encounters details page.
- Adjusted the PDF for SLD METs to remove the large amount of white space on page two.
- If a site within Site Management has been checked YES to exclude from State Reporting the School Facility Number will not be included in the SE Extract moving forward.
NEW!
- The date entered on the Permission to Place in the Most Recent Initial/Reeval IEP Date will now push to the Historical Eval Date as the Evaluation Date when the Permission to Place is published.
- The UIC will now print on the Progress Report PDF.
- Change the types of claims included (see specific window/time frame below & claim types) when "Yes" is selected for the field, "Limit to claims that the state uses for volume comparisons?"
- Updated services included in the Claim Analysis Breakdown Report to include speech and psych service types for determining claim volume (beginning April, 2016, forward).
Reports
NEW!
M STEP and MI PSAT
The following State Data sets are now available to import:
- M-STEP 2014-2015
- M-STEP 2015-2016
- MI PSAT 2015-2016
- MI PSAT 2016-2017
TX TELPAS
The following State Data sets are now available to import:
- 2017-2018 TELPAS
- 2017-2018 TELPAS Demographics
PA PSSA
The following State Data sets are now available to import:
- 2017-2018 PSSA English Language Arts
- 2017-2018 PSSA Mathematics
- 2017-2018 PSSA Demographics
- 2017-2018 PSSA Science
- State Assessment - Performance Summary/Overview widget has been updated
- State Assessment - Question Groups widget has been updated
PA Keystone
The following State Data sets are now available to import:
- 2017-2018 Keystone Demographics/Accommodations
- 2017-2018 Keystone Algebra Exam Results
- 2017-2018 Keystone Biology Exam Results
- 2017-2018 Keystone Previous Admin Data
- 2017-2018 Keystone Literature Exam Results
- State Assessment - Performance Summary/Overview has been updated
Enhancements!
PA PSSA
- Test taken text values for 15-16 PSSA or 17-18 PSSA have been updated to not have leading zeros for the grade level
CMAS
- Multi-year reports can now run with 2017 and 2018 data sets for science and social studies
MI Early Lit & Math Benchmarks Updates
Additional fields have been added to 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Early Literacy and Mathematics Benchmarks - Demographics/Accommodations Data such as:
- Reporting Code Label
- Military Connected
- Foster Care
Fixes
SBAC Smarter Balanced Report Widget
- The View Details link on SBAC results widget in Student Portal will now display data for 2018 data and earlier years as expected
NWEA BR Lexiles to Negative Value
- NWEA 2018-2019 Combo Student Assessment import tool has been updated that any records with a leading "BR" in columns 64, 65 and 66 get translated to a negative value
- NWEA Documentation Reference
AZ AIMS
- SES/SED Data has been removed
Home Connection
Data
Enhancements
Exclude Headers Option in Extracts
- A boolean option to exclude the headers is now available when extracting data.
- An "Exclude Headers?" area with options as "Yes" or "No" in both existing and new data extracts
- Default is set to "No" for the majority use case for clients
Datasets Moved from Core to Other
The following data specs have been moved from Basic Core Data to Other Core Data:
- sites.txt
- terms.txt., and
- student identifier
UI/UX
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