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eSchoolPLUS™ Feature Release Notes

Software Version: 3.1 Release Date: Q1 2014

eSchoolPLUS Q1 2014 Features Release Notes

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Contents Attendance Features ......................................................................................................... 6

Added Option for Taking Emergency Attendance ........................................................... 6 Added Field and Tab to Teacher Access Center Configuration Update Page ............ 6 Added Emergency Attendance Page in eSchoolPLUS ............................................... 7 Added Emergency Attendance Report Window .......................................................... 8 Added Emergency Attendance Report ........................................................................ 9

Discipline Features ......................................................................................................... 11 Enhanced Conduct Referral Report to Include Discipline Actions ................................ 11

Added New Fields to Conduct Referral Report Window ............................................ 11 Added a Detailed Action Section to Conduct Referral Report ................................... 12

Added Responsible Administrator for Discipline Offenses ............................................ 13 Added Responsible Administrator Fields to Discipline District Setup Page .............. 13 Added Responsible Administrator Field to Offender Detail Page .............................. 14

Enrollment Online Features ........................................................................................... 15 Added Email Acknowledgement When a Form Is Submitted ........................................ 15

Added Parent Form Submission Acknowledgement Fields....................................... 15 Added Ability for Registrar to Enter Pending Email Text ............................................... 16

Student Fees Features .................................................................................................... 18 Improved Performance for Single Student Prorate ....................................................... 18

Home Access Center Features ...................................................................................... 19 Improved Display of Competencies on Classwork Page .............................................. 19

Added Field to HAC Building Configuration in eSchoolPLUS ................................... 19 Modified HAC's Classwork Page to Show Average as Percentage or Mark ............. 20 Reorganized Display of Competencies in HAC's Classwork Page ........................... 21 Modified Assignment Information Pop-Up ................................................................. 22 Added Average Details Pop-up ................................................................................. 22

Improved Course Averages and Assignment Scores on Week View Page .................. 22 Added Field to HAC Building Configuration in eSchoolPLUS ................................... 23 Improved Display of Assignment Scores on Week View Page ................................. 23 Improved Display of Scores in Assignment Averages Window ................................. 24

Improved Scores in Assignment Window Accessed from Calendar Page .................... 25 Modified Calendar Day View to Begin at 6 A.M. ........................................................... 25 Improved Interface for FrontStream Payments ............................................................. 26 Added Grace Period Processing for Immunization Alerts ............................................. 26 Added Ability to Specify Unsupported Browser Message for HAC ............................... 26 Redesigned Enter Requests Buttons in HAC's Career Plan Page ............................... 27 Removed Alternating Gray Lines from List Pages in HAC ............................................ 28

Sample List Pages ..................................................................................................... 28 Mark Reporting Features ................................................................................................ 29

Added Free Text Comments for Report Cards.............................................................. 29 Added Fields to Mark Reporting Configuration to Enable Free Text Comments ...... 29 Added Free Text Comments Fields to the Mark Entry by Student Page ................... 30 Added Free Text Fields and a Related Button to the Mark Entry by Course Page ... 30 Added a New Page for Entering Comments for Students in a Course ...................... 31

Added Filter Options for Printing Report Cards ............................................................. 31 Provided Ability to Exclude Certain Dropped Courses from Transcripts ....................... 32

Added Field to Generate Transcript Data Warehouse Page ..................................... 32 Added Field to Print Transcript Page ......................................................................... 33

Provided Ability to Print Secondary Teachers on Report Card ..................................... 33 Added New Accumulators for Calculating Competency Marks ..................................... 34

Added Overall Competency Accumulator Types ....................................................... 34 Added Power Law Accumulator Type ........................................................................ 35 Added Accumulator Type Options to Competency Setup ......................................... 35

Modified Rubric Setup to Support Sum or Average for Total Points ............................. 36 Medical Features ............................................................................................................. 37

Added Option to Calculate Status After Entering Student's Immunizations .................. 37 Modified Medical Building Setup ................................................................................ 37



Added Immunization Validation Option to Student Center's Immunizations Page .... 38 Modified Immunization Validation to Run from Immunizations Page ........................ 38

Added Out-of-Compliance Immunizations Alerts for Parents and Teachers ................ 39 Added Fields to Medical Building Setup .................................................................... 39 Added Medical Alert Option to TAC Building Configuration ...................................... 40 Modified Immunization Validation .............................................................................. 40

Sample Immunization Alert Email .......................................................................... 41 Added Fields to Immunizations Page ........................................................................ 41 Modified the HAC Immunization Alert ........................................................................ 42 Added Immunization Alert for TAC ............................................................................ 42

Registration Features ..................................................................................................... 43 Added Ability to Create Rules for Applying Entry/Withdrawal Codes ........................... 43

Added Entry Withdrawal Criteria Tab to Registration Configuration Update Page ... 43 Changed Processing in Entry/Withdrawal to Enforce Rules...................................... 44 Modified Copy Setups Page to Copy Entry/Withdrawal Rules .................................. 44

Added Ability to Upload and Display Staff Photos ........................................................ 45 Added Tab to District Configuration for Uploading Staff Photos ............................... 45 Added Upload Staff Photo Button to Staff District Information Page ......................... 46

Added Ability to Upload and Display Student Photos ................................................... 47 Added Student Photo Directory to Registration Configuration Update ...................... 47 Added Upload Student Photo Button to Registration Information Page .................... 48

Reorganized IEP Fields on Personal Information Page ................................................ 49 Moved IEP Fields to Bottom of Page ......................................................................... 49 Improved Integration with IEPPLUS .......................................................................... 49

Personal Information Page with IEPPLUS Integration ........................................... 50 Special Education Management Pop-up Window .................................................. 51

Added Option to Specify Name for Student List Report File ......................................... 51 Added Security for FERPA Fields on Personal Information Page ................................ 52 Added Security Resource for Mass Update from Student List ...................................... 52 Added Next Year Filter Area for Registration Mass Update .......................................... 53

Scheduling Features ....................................................................................................... 55 Provided Scheduling Synchronization from Student Schedule Options ....................... 55

Added Synchronize Button to Student Schedule ....................................................... 55 Added Synchronize Button to Mass Entry ................................................................. 56

Provided Ability to Print Secondary Teachers on Student Schedules .......................... 56 Added Secondary Teacher Options to Student Schedules Report Prompts ............. 56 Sample Student Schedules Report ............................................................................ 57

Added Semester Scheduling for Study Halls ................................................................ 58 Improved Control of Course Integration for PLUS 360 ................................................. 58

Changed District Course Catalog and Building Course Catalog ............................... 58 System Features ............................................................................................................. 60

Improved eSchoolPLUS's My Home Page .................................................................... 60 Replaced Dashboard Items with Customizable "Widgets" ........................................ 60 Introduced Window for Selecting and Defining Widgets ............................................ 61 Introduced Enhancements for Editing and Re-Ordering Widgets ............................. 62

Improved Appearance of eSchoolPLUS's User Interface ............................................. 62 Redesigned eSchoolPLUS Banner for Consistency with Other Plus 360 Products .. 62 Redesigned Graphic Features on eSchoolPLUS Pages ........................................... 63 Added Graphics to Improve Organization and Look of eSchoolPLUS Pages ........... 63 Modified Available Theme Options ............................................................................ 64

Provided Interfaces to Support Career Cruising Integration ......................................... 65 Added Options for New Validation Tables for Registration ....................................... 65 Added Career Cruising Mark Types Validation Table ............................................... 66 Added Career Cruising Building Type Validation Table ............................................ 66 Added Career Cruising Download Option.................................................................. 66 Added Career Cruising Upload Option ...................................................................... 67

Added Option to Specify High Priority Instant Notifications .......................................... 68 Added New Tabs to District Configuration Utility for HAC and TAC Options ................ 69



Added Browser Support Tab ..................................................................................... 69 Added Password Maintenance Tab ........................................................................... 69

Teacher Access Center Features .................................................................................. 71 Updated Gradebook Page for New Features ................................................................ 72

Modified Several Options on Gradebook Entry Page for New Features ................... 72 Added Assignment Detail Page to Drill Down to An Individual Assignment ................. 72

Added Assignment Detail Page ................................................................................. 72 Redesigned Actions Menu to Clarify Options ................................................................ 74

Comparison of TAC 3.0 Action Menu to TAC 3.1 Actions/Reports Menu ................. 74 Differences Between TAC 3.0 and 3.1 Menu Item Names ........................................ 74

Added Standards-Based Gradebook Improvements .................................................... 74 Added New Competency Accumulator Types ............................................................... 75 Added Features to Improve Competencies and Rubrics Options ................................. 76

Added Average and Sum Options to Competencies and Rubrics Pop-up Window .. 76 Added Simple Rubric Option ..................................................................................... 77

Improved Rubric Score Entry Options ........................................................................... 78 Modified Full Rubric Score Entry Page ...................................................................... 79 Added Simple Rubric Score Entry Page .................................................................... 79

Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group .................. 80 Modified the GB/SBGB Mode Selector ...................................................................... 80 Added SBGB Summary Mode ................................................................................... 80 Added SBGB Summary Mode Average Details Pop-up ............................................ 81

Improved Classwork Summary View of Student Details Drawer .................................. 82 Modified Classwork Summary Page to Display Average as a Percentage or Mark .. 82 Improved Display of Classwork for Competencies .................................................... 83

Average Details Pop-Up Window ........................................................................... 83 Added Ability to View History of Gradebook Score Changes ........................................ 84

Added View Score History Option to Gradebook Entry Page ................................... 84 Added View Score History Pop-Up to Gradebook Entry Page .................................. 85

Improved Gradebook Student Averages Report ........................................................... 85 Modified Student Averages Pop-Up Window ............................................................ 86

Redesigned Copy Assignments Page ........................................................................... 87 Changed Gradebook Copy Assignments Page ......................................................... 87

Gradebook Copy Assignments Page with Selected Assignments & Categories ... 87 Added Free Text Comments to Report Card Page ....................................................... 88

Added Free Text Comment Options to Report Card Page ........................................ 88 Added Load from Gradebook in Multiple Class Mode on RC and IPR ......................... 89

Activated Load From Gradebook Icon While in Multiple Classes Mode .................... 89 Added Mass Update Feature for Marks and Comments for RC and IPR ..................... 89

Modified Report Card Page ....................................................................................... 89 Modified Interim Progress Page ................................................................................ 90 Added Mass Update Marks and Mass Update Comments Pop-Up Windows ........... 90

Added Ability for Teachers to Change Passwords from TAC ....................................... 90 Improved Student Test Scores Display/Entry................................................................ 91

Modified Test Summary View .................................................................................... 91 Added Edit Test Scores Pop-Up Window .................................................................. 92

Added Ability to Limit Teachers to Only Access Their Students ................................... 92 Modified Teacher Access Center District Setup Page ............................................... 93 Modified Bulletin Page ............................................................................................... 93 Modified Student Search ........................................................................................... 93

Added Emergency Attendance Feature ........................................................................ 93 Added Emergency Attendance Page ......................................................................... 94

Added Medical Alert for Overdue Immunizations .......................................................... 94 Added More Information to Referral and Classroom Issues List Pages ....................... 94

Provided Additional Information in Administrative Action Column ............................. 95 Provided Single Sign On Access from TAC to Employee Access Center .................... 95

Added Financials Tab to TAC Building Configuration ............................................... 95 Added Employee Access Center to TAC's Tools Menu ............................................ 96



Changed Home Page View Menu to Distinguish Classes with No Students ................ 96 Changed Show All Checkbox to Distinguish Classes with No Students ....................... 96 Added Ability for Teachers to Save Page Display Settings ........................................... 96 Improved Access to Show/Hide Columns on Recommendations Page ....................... 97 Moved Show/Hide Notes on IPR and Eligibility Pages to the Settings Menu ............... 97 Added Keyboard Shortcuts for Time and Date Fields ................................................... 97 Improved Design and Function of Drop-Down Fields ................................................... 97

eSchoolPLUS 3.1 Database Table Changes ................................................................. 98 New Tables ................................................................................................................ 98 Modified Tables .......................................................................................................... 98



Attendance Features The following feature has been added for the Attendance package:

Added Option for Taking Emergency Attendance ................................................. 6

Added Option for Taking Emergency Attendance An option has been added to the Attendance Center menu for taking attendance during emergency situations. Generally, the attendance process should be implemented as follows, although the specific steps depend on your district's emergency policies and procedures:

1. When an emergency is declared for a building, a designated office staff member should turn on the feature by checking the Activate Emergency Attendance box on the Teacher Access Center Configuration Update page.

2. The staff member should clear the Emergency Attendance page of any previous data by clicking the page's Clear Emergency Attendance button.

3. Teachers should be directed to take attendance for their classes using Teacher Access Center's Emergency Attendance page. For more information, refer to Added Emergency Attendance Feature on page 93.

4. Once teachers submit attendance, the office staff should review and update the attendance entries in eSchoolPLUS's Emergency Attendance page.

5. The Emergency Attendance report should be generated. The report can include telephone numbers of students' contacts if it is necessary to call guardians regarding their children.

The following changes were made to implement the Emergency Attendance feature:

• Added a field and tab to Teacher Access Center Configuration Update page in eSchoolPLUS.

• Added Emergency Attendance pages in eSchoolPLUS and TAC.

• Added Emergency Attendance Report window in eSchoolPLUS.

• Added Emergency Attendance report in eSchoolPLUS.

Added Field and Tab to Teacher Access Center Configuration Update Page The building-level TAC configuration has been changed to include a new field and tab for activating and setting up the Emergency Attendance feature.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Teacher Access Center



The Activate Emergency Attendance box has been added to the building-level TAC configuration.

The Emergency Attendance tab has been added to the configuration page.

The tab's fields specify the contact types and phone types to use in the Emergency Attendance report. When the report is generated, the user can choose whether to include contact phone numbers.

Added Emergency Attendance Page in eSchoolPLUS The Emergency Attendance page has been added to eSchoolPLUS to enable office staff to review and update the emergency attendance teachers entered in TAC's Emergency Attendance page.

Path: Attendance Center > Emergency Attendance



The Emergency Attendance option has been added to the eSchoolPLUS menu's Attendance Center options. Users who need to access this option must be granted ATT MAINT EMERGATT security.

Clicking the Emergency Attendance Report option displays a page for generating a report. For more information, see the section below.

Clicking the Clear Emergency Attendance option erases all checkbox entries in the Accounted For and Absent columns. This option should only be used when the emergency attendance process begins. If it is used at any other point and the page is then saved, all entries made by all users will be deleted.

Users can search for students using either the Student ID or Student Name field. If a student is found by entering the ID or Name and then clicking OK, a box displays indicating whether the student is accounted for or not accounted for. For example:

In this case, checking Student is Absent and clicking Yes will mark the student both accounted for and absent. If the student is not found using either the Student ID or Student Name field, the standard Student Search window automatically displays for entering a more detailed search.

Students can also be located by their last names using the appropriate alphabetic tabs. If a student is present, the student's Accounted For box should be checked. If the student is known to be absent from school, both Accounted For and Absent should be checked.

The Not Accounted tab stores all students who do not have their Accounted For boxes checked.

Added Emergency Attendance Report Window The Emergency Attendance Report window enables users to define the format and data for generating the Emergency Attendance report. Before generating the report, users must click Save on the Emergency Attendance page. Otherwise, their entries will not appear in the report.

Path: Attendance > Emergency Attendance > click Emergency Attendance Report



The window's options include:

Output Format - enables printing the report in PDF or Excel format.

Print Only Not Accounted For - if checked, limits the report to students who are not accounted for. If the box is not checked, all students are included.

Print Contact Information - if checked, includes the telephone numbers of students' contacts.

Added Emergency Attendance Report The Emergency Attendance report should be generated after emergency attendance is taken in TAC or eSchoolPLUS for reviewing and updating by the office staff.

Path: Attendance > Emergency Attendance > click Emergency Attendance Report > enter report settings > click Yes

If the Emergency Attendance Report window is set for printing all students regardless of whether they are Accounted For and Not Accounted For, the Accounted For section appears at the end of the report.



Students' phone numbers display by default. The type of phone numbers (for example, cell or home) is specified in the Teacher Access Center Configuration Update page.

Contacts and their phone numbers only display if the Emergency Attendance Report is set for printing contact information. The types of contacts and phone numbers are specified in the Teacher Access Center Configuration Update page.

The Att(endance) column indicates whether the student was marked absent on the Emergency Attendance page, as indicated by a Y.

The notation NR (Not Registered) indicates the student attends classes in the current building but is registered in another building.



Discipline Features The following features have been added for the Discipline package:

Enhanced Conduct Referral Report to Include Discipline Actions .................... 11 Added Responsible Administrator for Discipline Offenses ................................ 13

Enhanced Conduct Referral Report to Include Discipline Actions The Discipline Center's Conduct Referral report has been enhanced to include the following features:

• Discipline actions can now be included as an option.

• Header and footer text can be excluded as needed. The Conduct Referral report can be generated from the following pages: Conduct Referrals List, Incident Summary, and Incident Detail. The report can only be generated from the Incident Summary and Incident Detail pages if the incident in question began as a conduct referral.

Added New Fields to Conduct Referral Report Window Fields have been added to the Conduct Referral Report window to:

• Add details on discipline actions to the report.

• Include or exclude header and footer text. Path: Click Printable in the Conduct Referrals List page or Referral Report in the Incident Summary or Incident Detail page

The Include Incident Action Details checkbox has been added to the Include Sections on Report options. Checking the box adds a section to the report displaying details on the actions taken.



The Include checkboxes give the user the option of including or excluding header and footer text. The text is included for a section if the box is checked and excluded if the box is unchecked.

Added a Detailed Action Section to Conduct Referral Report A section has been added to the Conduct Referral report, providing details on the actions taken in response to a discipline incident. The detail section displays if the user checks the new Include Incident Action Details box in the Conduct Referral Report window. The section's data includes Incident and Action codes, the Duration of the action, and the action's Scheduled Dates and Times. Note that dates only display if the district uses occurrences (rather than durations) to track discipline actions.



Added Responsible Administrator for Discipline Offenses Users can now assign an administrator to an offender for coordinating actions and other details related to a discipline incident.

The following pages have been changed to enable the enhancement:

• Discipline District Setup - Added fields to the configuration for setting up the feature.

• Offender Detail - Added a field for assigning an administrator to an offender.

Added Responsible Administrator Fields to Discipline District Setup Page Two fields have been added to the Discipline District Setup page to enable the responsible administrator feature.

Path: Administration > System Setup > District > Discipline

The Responsible Administrator field includes three options related to assigning a discipline administrator in the Offender page's Responsible Administrator field: No Default - enables the field to remain blank when an offender is added. Default Academic Disciplinarian - assigns the Disciplinarian identified on the student's Academic page. Default Current User - assigns the Staff ID of the user who is adding the offender to the incident. If a default is assigned, the user has the option of selecting another staff member as the responsible administrator.

Checking the Responsible Administrator Required box forces the user to assign a responsible administrator before saving the Offender Detail page. If the box is not checked, the Responsible Administrator field is optional.



Added Responsible Administrator Field to Offender Detail Page The Responsible Administrator field has been added to the Offender Detail page's General tab for assigning a responsible administrator to an offender.

Path: Discipline Center > Incident Detail > select an incident > click the offender's link



Enrollment Online Features The following features have been added for Enrollment Online:

Added Email Acknowledgement When a Form Is Submitted ............................. 15 Added Ability for Registrar to Enter Pending Email Text .................................... 16

Added Email Acknowledgement When a Form Is Submitted When a guardian submits a new or update form, an email will be sent to confirm that the form has been successfully submitted. You can define the text of the email that will be sent.

For this feature, the following changes were made:

Enrollment Online's Administrator Module E-Mail Translation Page - Added fields to define the successful submission email text.

Enrollment Online's Parent Module - Modified so that an email is sent to acknowledge that the parent has submitted a form.

Added Parent Form Submission Acknowledgement Fields The E-Mail Translation page now includes fields to define the text of the acknowledgement email. Default text has been provided, but can be translated as needed.

Path: Administration > System Setup > District > Enrollment Online > select E-Mail from Enrollment Online's Administrator module menu

The new fields to define the email have been added to the Language Translation > E-Mail option.

The Parent Form Submission Acknowledgement fields have been added to define the text of the email.



Added Ability for Registrar to Enter Pending Email Text When a registrar selects to set a form's status to Pending, the registrar can now enter the text for the email that will be sent to the guardian. In addition, the registrar can select to use the default text and then add information as needed.

Path: Registration Center > Enrollment Application Forms

The following images illustrate how the pending email text displays.

The registrar sets the form to a Pending status by clicking the Pending link.

The registrar can enter text explaining why the form is pending acceptance. For example, if documentation is required to confirm the student's address, this information can be entered in the text. Merge fields can be used to include form information. To send the email, click OK.



To display the default pending status email text, check the Use default Pending Status email text box. The registrar can edit the text that displays as needed. To send the email, click OK.

Merge Fields Available for Email Text

Student First Name #FIRSTNAME# Student Last Name #LASTNAME# Line break #BR# Login / username #LOGINID# Sending e-mail #FROMEMAIL#



Student Fees Features The following feature has been added for the Student Fees package:

Improved Performance for Single Student Prorate .............................................. 18 The following feature also affects the Fees options:

Improved Interface for FrontStream Payments on page 26

Improved Performance for Single Student Prorate

The Prorate Course Fees option can be run for a single student from the Student Center Scheduling and Student Fees pages. Enhancements have been added to improve the performance when prorating fees for a single student.

This feature affects the Prorate Course Fees processing when run from the following menu options:

Student Center > Scheduling > Entry

Student Center > Scheduling > Mass Entry

Student Center > Scheduling > Grid

Student Center > Student Fees



Home Access Center Features The following features have been added for the Home Access Center (HAC) package:

Improved Display of Competencies on Classwork Page..................................... 19 Improved Course Averages and Assignment Scores on Week View Page ....... 22 Improved Scores in Assignment Window Accessed from Calendar Page ....... 25 Modified Calendar Day View to Begin at 6 A.M. ................................................... 25 Improved Interface for FrontStream Payments .................................................... 26 Added Grace Period Processing for Immunization Alerts .................................. 26 Added Ability to Specify Unsupported Browser Message for HAC ................... 26 Redesigned Enter Requests Buttons in HAC's Career Plan Page ...................... 27 Removed Alternating Gray Lines from List Pages in HAC .................................. 28

Improved Display of Competencies on Classwork Page Changes have been made to the Classwork page and related windows to improve the listing of competencies, including the display of assignments and course averages.

The changes include:

• eSchoolPLUS Home Access Center Building Configuration - Added a field for improving the display of course averages in HAC.

• HAC Classwork Page - Reorganized the page's competencies section.

• HAC Assignment Information window - Improved the display of scores.

• HAC Average Details window - Added a window to provide details on a student's averages.

Added Field to HAC Building Configuration in eSchoolPLUS The Home Access Center Building Configuration page has been modified to include a new field to select to display the course average as a percentage or a mark on HAC's Classwork page.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Home Access Center



Modified HAC's Classwork Page to Show Average as Percentage or Mark

Path: HAC > click Classes icon

The student's classwork average for a course displays as a percentage or a mark, depending on how the student's building administrator has selected to display the average.



Reorganized Display of Competencies in HAC's Classwork Page The Classwork page in HAC has been reorganized to improve the display of competencies and related scores. The page's Assignments window has also been improved, and a new window was added for providing details on course averages.

Path: HAC > click Classes icon > select Competency Groups > click Refresh View > if needed, select a Marking Period > click Continue

The competencies section has been redesigned to better display a competency's skills.

Clicking an assignment link displays the Assignment Information window, which has been improved to display additional detail on the assignment's score.

The averages for competency skills have been moved from the bottom of a subsection to the far right. The averages now appear as links. Clicking an average link displays the new Average Detail window, which provides additional detail on the student's scores.



Modified Assignment Information Pop-Up

Added Average Details Pop-up

Improved Course Averages and Assignment Scores on Week View Page

The display of course averages and assignment scores for HAC's Week View page has been improved. In addition, the assignment window associated with the page has been redesigned to show greater detail on a student's scores.

The following pages and window have been changed as part of the feature:

• eSchoolPLUS Home Access Center Building Configuration - Added a field affecting the display of course averages in HAC.

• HAC Week View page - Improved the display of course averages and assignment scores.

• HAC Assignment window - Redesigned the window to show more detail on a student's scores.



Added Field to HAC Building Configuration in eSchoolPLUS A field has been added to the Home Access Center Building Configuration page in eSchoolPLUS to improve the display of averages in HAC's Week View page.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Home Access Center

Checking the Show Average Mark Type in Week View box enables averages to display in the Week View page. Note that the new Display Percentage or Mark field determines how the average displays, for example, as 85.33% or B.

Improved Display of Assignment Scores on Week View Page The display of scores for assignments on HAC's Week View page has been improved. In addition, the current average for a course can now display as either a percentage or mark, depending on the Home Access Center Building Configuration.

Path: HAC > Home



The average can display as a percentage or mark depending on the Display Percentage or Mark setting in the Home Access Center Building Configuration. Clicking the average's link displays the Classwork for the Course window, which has not been changed.

The assignment score now displays the number of points the student earned out of the total points possible.

Clicking an assignment link displays the assignment score window, which has been improved both here and on the Classwork page. For details, refer to the next subsection.

Improved Display of Scores in Assignment Averages Window The assignment window has been improved to include more detail on a student's scores, including the listing of rubric and competency information.

Path: HAC > Home > click an assignment link

The Criteria section displays the rubric associated with the assignment. This section only displays if the assignment has a related rubric set up for Standards-Based Gradebook.

The bottom section displays the student's performance in relation to the rubric's criteria. If a rubric is not set up, the section only displays competency scores. If the assignment is not tied to a rubric or competency, only the detail section at the top of the window displays.



Improved Scores in Assignment Window Accessed from Calendar Page

The scores displayed in the assignment window accessed from HAC's Calendar page have been improved. Guardians can now view more detail on their students' performance, including competency information and the criteria set up in rubrics.

Path: HAC > Home > click Calendar tab > click an assignment link

The Criteria section displays the rubric associated with the assignment. This section only displays if the assignment has a related rubric set up for Standards Based Gradebook.

The bottom section displays the student's performance in relation to the rubric's criteria. If a rubric is not set up, the section only displays competency scores. If the assignment is not tied to a rubric or competency, only the detail section at the top of the window displays.

Modified Calendar Day View to Begin at 6 A.M. The Calendar Day View page in HAC has been modified to begin at 6 a.m. Previously, the day view started at 12 a.m.

Path: HAC > Home > click Calendar tab > click Day



Improved Interface for FrontStream Payments The interface with FrontStream Payments has been modified to allow district to track fee payments by building.

Added Grace Period Processing for Immunization Alerts The immunization alert function in HAC has been modified to allow a grace period giving students time to meet their immunization requirements after enrolling. If a student is overdue for immunizations, but the student is within a grace period after enrolling in the district, then the HAC immunization email alert will not be sent. For more information on using a grace period for alerts, refer to Added Out-of-Compliance Immunizations Alerts for Parents and Teachers on page 39.

Added Ability to Specify Unsupported Browser Message for HAC The new Browser Support tab in the District Configuration Utility allows your district to write your own HTML page content to display when a user logs in to Home Access Center using an unsupported browser. For information about the District Configuration Utility changes for this feature, refer to Added New Tabs to District Configuration Utility for HAC and TAC Options on page 69.



Redesigned Enter Requests Buttons in HAC's Career Plan Page The Enter Requests buttons in HAC's Career Plan page have been redesigned. The change is intended to simplify the buttons to reduce the possibility of guardians selecting the wrong year for viewing or editing their students' requests.

The buttons previously included the phrase "Enter Requests" followed by the student's grade and school year. The new design uses "Enter Requests" as a sub-header to identify the set of buttons. The text within each button now includes just the grade.

Path: HAC > Classes > click Career Plan tab



Removed Alternating Gray Lines from List Pages in HAC In the previous version of Home Access Center, the records in list pages were displayed against a background of alternating white and gray lines. Since the separation of individual records was already clear, the gray lines have been removed in version 3.1.

The change affects all list pages, including:

Classwork My Alerts Success Plan Discipline Report Card Test Scores Fees Requests Transcript IPR Schedule

The gray lines continue to display in the Career Plan page to maintain course groupings under subject areas.

Sample List Pages

Following is an example of the alternating gray lines that previously displayed in HAC:



Mark Reporting Features The following features have been added for the Mark Reporting package:

Added Free Text Comments for Report Cards ..................................................... 29 Added Filter Options for Printing Report Cards ................................................... 31 Provided Ability to Exclude Certain Dropped Courses from Transcripts .......... 32 Provided Ability to Print Secondary Teachers on Report Card .......................... 33 Added New Accumulators for Calculating Competency Marks .......................... 34 Modified Rubric Setup to Support Sum or Average for Total Points ................. 36

Added Free Text Comments for Report Cards Free text comments can now be added to courses on students' report cards. Previously, teachers only could add the standardized comments set up in the Mark Reporting Comments table.

The following pages are affected by the change:

• eSchoolPLUS Mark Reporting Configuration - Added fields for setting up the feature.

• eSchoolPLUS Mark Entry By Student - Added free text fields.

• eSchoolPLUS Mark Entry By Course - Added free text fields.

• eSchoolPLUS Course Free Text Comment by Student - Added the page.

• TAC Report Card - Added free text fields. For more information, refer to Added Free Text Comments to Report Card Page on page 88.

Note: For free text comments to print on a report card, buildings must edit their report card templates.

Added Fields to Mark Reporting Configuration to Enable Free Text Comments Fields have been added to the Mark Reporting Configuration page to enable the free text comments feature in eSchoolPLUS and Teacher Access Center.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Mark Reporting



Checking the Allow Course Free Text box turns on the free text comments feature in eSchoolPLUS and Teacher Access Center.

The Maximum Number of Course Free Text Comment Characters field determines the length of the comments teachers can enter.

Added Free Text Comments Fields to the Mark Entry by Student Page The Student Center's Mark Entry by Student page has been modified to include fields for entering free text comments for a student's course.

Path: Student Center > Mark Reporting > Report Card Summary > select a student > select a course

Added Free Text Fields and a Related Button to the Mark Entry by Course Page The Mark Entry by Course page has been changed to allow free text comments to be added for each student enrolled in a course. Users can enter comments directly on the page or can click the Free Text Comments button to enter comments on a separate page.

For information on the free text fields that have been added to Teacher Access Center's Report Cards page, refer to Added Free Text Comments to Report Card Page on page 88.

Path: Mark Reporting Center > Mark Entry by Course > identify a course > click Enter Marks



Clicking the Free Text Comment button displays the new Course Free Text Comment by Student page. For details on this page, see the next section.

Free text fields have been added to allow comments to be entered for each student enrolled in the current course.

Added a New Page for Entering Comments for Students in a Course The Course Free Text Comment by Student page has been added to allow users to enter comments for a course separately from the course's marks.

Path: Mark Reporting Center > Mark Entry by Course > identify a course > click Enter Marks > click Free Text Comments

Clicking Save saves the user's comments.

Clicking Return returns the user to the Mark Entry By Course page.

The Comments fields enable the user to enter free text comments for each student enrolled in the current course.

Added Filter Options for Printing Report Cards Two options have been added to the Filter section for the Print Report Cards option to enable users to print report cards for only students whose grades are below a specified threshold.

The change affects the following page:

• Print Report Cards Path: Mark Reporting Center > Reports > Report Cards > Print Report Cards



These options used in combination enable selecting courses that have marks below a specified level. The Mark Reporting Level Detail option references the Level table for converting marks to their numeric equivalents. Even though marks often display as numbers, they are actually stored as characters. If you use alpha values (A, B, etc.), you would not need this filter and can specify the mark type and value with the Student MR Course Marks filter.

In the above example, the combination of the two filter options will select marks less than 70 for marking period (MP) mark types. Report cards will print only for students who have course values below this threshold. However, the report cards will still display all of the students' courses, including those with marks of 70 and above.

Provided Ability to Exclude Certain Dropped Courses from Transcripts

An option has been provided for excluding dropped courses from transcripts, provided the courses do not have marks or absences entered. The option has been added to the following pages:

• Print Transcripts

• Generate Transcript Data Warehouse

Added Field to Generate Transcript Data Warehouse Page The Generate Transcript Data Warehouse page has been changed to include a field for excluding dropped courses from students' transcripts.

Path: Mark Reporting Center > Calculations > Generate Transcript Data Warehouse



When the Do Not Print Dropped Courses Without Marks box is checked, the data warehouse function will exclude dropped courses that do not have any marks or absences recorded.

Added Field to Print Transcript Page The Print Transcript page has been changed to include a field for excluding dropped courses from students' transcripts.

Path: Mark Reporting Center > Reports > Transcripts > Print Transcripts

When the Do Not Print Dropped Courses Without Marks box is checked, the system will exclude dropped courses from transcripts, provided the courses do not have any marks or absences recorded. Note that the Refresh Transcript Data Before Print box must also be checked to run the data warehouse function before the transcripts are printed.

Provided Ability to Print Secondary Teachers on Report Card You can print up to 10 secondary teachers per class on the report card. To print secondary teachers on the report cards, the report card template must be edited. You need to add the secondary teacher fields (sec_staff_id_01 - sec_staff_id_10 or sec_staff_name_01 - sec_staff_name_10) you want to print.



As part of this feature, the following options were modified:

• Report Card View Setup - Updated the list of Courses fields displayed by clicking the Available Fields link on the Report Card View Setup page.

• Generate MR Data Warehouse - Modified to include the staff ID and teacher name for up to 10 secondary teachers in the data warehouse.

• Print Report Cards - Modified to print up to 10 secondary teachers if the report card template includes the fields.

Added New Accumulators for Calculating Competency Marks Several features have been added to improve Standards-Based Gradebook. For a summary of the Standards-Based Gradebook improvements, refer to Added Standards-Based Gradebook Improvements on page 74.

Additional accumulator types have been added to provide more options for calculating competency marks for report cards. These accumulator types address two different methods of calculating a mark:

• Roll up averaging or calculating the mark for an overall competency where teachers use assignments to measure progress for several competencies that are related to a student's learning for the overall standard.

• Using Power Law to calculate a competency's score using a power law function. The power law score is an estimate of a student's true score based on the student's assignment scores.

As part of this feature, modifications were made to eSchoolPLUS, TAC, and HAC pages.

• eSchoolPLUS Competency Setup - Modified the Accumulator Type field to include the new accumulator type options.

• TAC Gradebook Entry SBGB Detail Mode - Changed the competency score column to support the Power Law Accumulator Type.

• TAC Gradebook Entry SBGB Summary Mode - Included the ability to see the mark that would be loaded for overall competencies, including a pop-up to detail how the student's mark was calculated. This is a new mode for the Gradebook Entry page. For more information on the SBGB Summary Mode, refer to Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group on page 80.

• TAC Report Card - Modified the Load from Gradebook to support the new accumulator types.

• TAC Competencies - Modified the Load from Gradebook to support the new accumulator types.

• eSchoolPLUS Load Unposted Averages - Modified to support the new accumulator types.

• eSchoolPLUS Published Classwork - Modified to display classwork and marks for competencies for the new accumulator types.

• TAC Student Details Drawer Classwork View - Modified to display classwork and marks for competencies for the new accumulator types. For more information, refer to Improved Classwork Summary View of Student Details Drawer on page 82.

• HAC Classwork - Modified to display classwork and marks for competencies for the new accumulator types.

Added Overall Competency Accumulator Types Previously, the Teacher Access Center only allowed teachers to calculate a competency score based on the assignments associated with that specific competency. This did not support the ability to calculate a student's mark for an overall competency to reflect the student's progress toward the more specific skills that the curriculum was designed to measure.



The example that follows illustrates a sample standard where a curriculum is designed to measure student learning for specific standards (as listed in the bullets) while still reporting a score for a primary or overall standard.

Two new accumulator types have been provided to allow you to calculate an average for an overall or parent standard based on the student's scores measured by assignment scores.

• Child Average - Calculates the mark for a competency as the average of children competency scores. A competency can only use the Child Average accumulator type if there are competencies indented below it on the Competency Setup page. This average is calculated as: (Sum of values for the child competencies) / Number of child competencies.

• Child Weighted Average - Calculates the mark as the weighted average of children competency scores, where the number of times each child competency is assessed is used to weight the competency score. A competency can only use the Child Weighted Average accumulator type if it has competencies indented below it on the Competency Setup page. This average is calculated as: (Sum of (value for each child competency * number of times competency was assessed)) / Number of times all child competencies were assessed.

Added Power Law Accumulator Type Previously, you could calculate a student's mark based on an average of assignment scores, the maximum assignment score, or the most recent assignment's score, or you could manually enter the mark. The Power Law accumulator type has been added so you can use a power law function to calculate the mark.

The power law score is an estimate of a student's true score based on the student's assignment scores. The formula considers the number of times a student was assessed, the timing of the assessment scores, and the score values. The most recent scores are weighted more heavily than the early scores. For example, if a student receives two poor scores at the beginning of the marking period, those scores will have a lower affect than more recent scores. The power law is a complex formula.

For detailed information on using the power law accumulator type in eSchoolPLUS, refer to the online help.

Added Accumulator Type Options to Competency Setup Path: Mark Reporting Center > Setup > Competencies



Accumulator Type values now include Child Average, Child Weighted Average, and Power Law. You can only use the Child Average and Child Weighted Average accumulator type if there are competencies indented below the competency.

Modified Rubric Setup to Support Sum or Average for Total Points Rubric scores were always summed to calculate a student's overall assignment score. Now, teachers can select whether the rubric scores should be summed or averaged to calculate the overall score. To provide this option, an Assignment Points field was added to TAC's Competencies and Rubrics pop-up. This field was also added to the eSchoolPLUS Rubric Setup page.

The 3.1 release includes a database update to set the new Assignment Points field to S (for Sum) for all existing rubrics. Note that the database update will also update existing rubric records so that they are defined as Full Rubrics as TAC now allows teachers to define two types of rubrics: Simple Rubric and Full Rubric. For more information on Simple Rubrics, refer to Added Features to Improve Competencies and Rubrics Options on page 76.

Path: Mark Reporting Center > Setup > Gradebook Rubrics

Select whether the total points for the assignment should be calculated by averaging or summing rubric scores. Note that if you select Average, then you will not be able to enter values in the Score field for the rightmost performance level. Instead, enter the maximum assignment score in the Total Points field at the bottom.



Medical Features The following features have been added for the Medical Records package:

Added Option to Calculate Status After Entering Student's Immunizations ..... 37 Added Out-of-Compliance Immunizations Alerts for Parents and Teachers .... 39

Added Option to Calculate Status After Entering Student's Immunizations

You can choose to display an option on the Student Center's Immunizations page to allow users to run the Immunization Validation when saving student data.

The following options were modified for this feature:

• Medical Building Setup - Added fields to set up the option to calculate the student's immunization status from the Student Center's Immunizations page.

• Immunizations - Added the On Save, Run Immunization Calculation field. If this field is checked when the user saves, then the Immunization Validation task runs for the student.

• Immunization Validation - Added ability to run the calculation for a single student.

Modified Medical Building Setup Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Medical



Three fields have been added to the configuration. You can select to display an option to run the Immunization Validation for a single student and specify the margin of error to use when running the calculation. To display the option to run the Immunization Validation on the Student Center's Immunization page, enter a check in the Allow Option to Validate Immunizations on Save box. Enter a check in the Default to Validate on Save box if you want users to calculate a student's immunization status when saving student immunization data. If this box is checked, then users must uncheck the On Save, Run Immunization Calculation box if they do not want to calculate the student's status when they save.

Added Immunization Validation Option to Student Center's Immunizations Page Path: Student Center > Medical > Immunizations

If the Medical Building Setup has a check in the Allow Option to Validate Immunizations on Save box, then the On Save, Run Immunization Calculation box displays on the Immunizations page. Additionally, the box will default to checked if the Medical Building Setup's Default to Validate on Save box is checked. If the box is checked when the user saves, the Immunization Validation task runs in background.

Modified Immunization Validation to Run from Immunizations Page When the Immunization Validation is run from the Student Center's Immunizations page, the calculation will run using the following prompt selections:

Series Types: ALL Criteria List: ALL Margin Of Error: Value specified in the Medical Building Setup Margin Of Error Doses: ALL Status List: ALL Calculate Overall Status On: ALL Generate Letters: N Generate Notifications: N Generate Grace Period Alerts: N



Added Out-of-Compliance Immunizations Alerts for Parents and Teachers

Your district can select to email parents of students who are overdue for immunizations and to display an alert in Teacher Access Center to inform teachers that a student's immunizations are incomplete. Additionally, you can provide a grace period for a student who is out of compliance when the student has recently enrolled or at the beginning of each school year.

The following options were modified as part of this release:

Medical Building Setup - Added fields to configure immunization alerts and the grace period.

Teacher Access Center Configuration Update - Added fields to determine whether immunization alerts should display in Teacher Access Center.

Immunization Validation - Added field to select to send immunization email alerts.

Immunizations - Added field to select to send immunization email alerts and fields to indicate if student has an immunization alert and the expiration for the student's grace period.

HAC Immunization Email Alert - Modified to only send the alert if the student is overdue and the grace period expiration date has passed.

Teacher Access Center Student Medical Alert - Modified to display the medical alert icon with an orange background when a student has an immunization alert and to display immunization alert details when the teacher clicks the alert icon.

Added Fields to Medical Building Setup You can select whether immunization alerts are used, define how grace periods are used, and specify how the immunization alert email should be sent.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Medical

Enter a check in the Use Immunization Records Alerts field if you want to send email alerts to parents or display immunization alerts in Teacher Access Center.



In these three fields, specify if you want to provide a grace period for students to meet immunization requirements when they first enroll or at the start of each school year. If no grace period should be allowed, enter 0 (zero) in the Immunization Alert Grace Period field. The grace period settings will be used by the Immunization Validation option to set the immunization alert grace period expiration date for a student who is overdue. An immunization alert email will only be sent for the student if the student is overdue for immunizations after the expiration date has passed.

In these fields, set up the email that you want to send to an internal user and parents regarding overdue immunizations. Note that the email that is sent to the internal user will list all students processed by the Immunization Validation who are overdue with an expired grace period.

Added Medical Alert Option to TAC Building Configuration You can select whether teachers see an alert when a student is overdue for immunizations.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Teacher Access Center

The Medical Alerts tab was added.

Enter a check in the appropriate box if you want to display the immunization alert for teachers and/or substitutes. If you select to display alerts and a student's overall immunization status is overdue, then the student medical alert will display and will have an orange background, instead of the typical yellow background used for TAC student alerts.

Modified Immunization Validation The Immunization Validation page has a new prompt to select whether immunization alert emails should be sent and the processing was changed to set grace period alert fields on the student immunization records.

Path: Medical Center > Immunizations > Validation



Enter a check in this box if you want to send immunization alert emails to the internal user and, if configured to send to parents, to parents of students who are overdue for immunizations after their grace periods have expired.

Sample Immunization Alert Email

Added Fields to Immunizations Page You can select to generate immunization alerts if you are running the validation on save. Also, three fields were added for the immunization alert and grace period.



Path: Student Center > Medical > Immunizations

Enter a check in this box if an immunization email alert should be sent if the student's overall status is calculated as overdue after the student's grace period expiration date. This field only displays if the Medical Building Setup is defined to both use immunization alerts and to allow users to validate immunizations on save.

These fields indicate the student's immunization alert and grace period information. Grace Period Alert - Checked if the student has an overall Overdue status. This field is used to determine whether an immunization alert should display in Teacher Access Center if the building has selected to show immunization alerts for teachers and substitutes. Expiration Date - Expiration for the student's grace period. The email alerts sent by the Immunization Validation and by the Home Access Center Immunizations Alert will not be sent if the student is still within the grace period. Override - Checked if the user set the Grace Period Alert and Expiration Date values and has locked them so the Immunization Validation does not update the values. Otherwise, the Immunization Validation will update the fields appropriately based on the student's immunization information.

Modified the HAC Immunization Alert The HAC Immunization Alert has been modified to use the student's grace period expiration date to determine whether an email should be sent to the parent. If the student's expiration date is after the date that the HAC Immunization Alert is processing, then no email will be sent even if the student's overall status is overdue.

Added Immunization Alert for TAC For information on how the immunization alert affects Teacher Access Center, refer to Added Medical Alert for Overdue Immunizations on page 94.



Registration Features The following features have been added for the Registration package:

Added Ability to Create Rules for Applying Entry/Withdrawal Codes ............... 43 Added Ability to Upload and Display Staff Photos .............................................. 45 Added Ability to Upload and Display Student Photos ......................................... 47 Reorganized IEP Fields on Personal Information Page ....................................... 49 Added Option to Specify Name for Student List Report File .............................. 51 Added Security for FERPA Fields on Personal Information Page ...................... 52 Added Security Resource for Mass Update from Student List ........................... 52 Added Next Year Filter Area for Registration Mass Update ................................ 53

Added Ability to Create Rules for Applying Entry/Withdrawal Codes Criteria can now be set up to ensure that the appropriate entry and withdrawal codes are entered when students register or withdraw from a building. Criteria also can be defined to require that comments be entered when a student enrolls or withdraws or that certain program-tracked fields contain data. For detailed information on how to define rules, refer to the eSchoolPLUS online help.

The changes affect the following pages:

• Registration Configuration Update • Entry/Withdrawal

• Copy Setups

Added Entry Withdrawal Criteria Tab to Registration Configuration Update Page A tab has been added to the Registration Configuration Update page for setting up entry/withdrawal rules.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Registration > select building

The Entry Withdrawal Criteria tab was added to the Registration Configuration Update page.



The tab's Entry/Withdrawal Combinations Criteria section enables users to define criteria for entry/withdrawal records to ensure that the proper codes are entered when a student registers or withdraws from a building. For example, a rule can be set up to prevent entry codes for non-resident students from being used in combination with withdrawal codes for resident students.

The tab's Required Fields Criteria section enables users to set up criteria to require that comments be entered when a student registers or withdraws or that certain fields in program-tracked records are populated.

Changed Processing in Entry/Withdrawal to Enforce Rules The rules set up in a building's Registration Configuration are enforced in students' Entry/Withdrawal pages. As a result, in cases where rules are set up, only certain codes can be applied when a student withdraws from or re-registers in a building.

Path: Student Center > Demographic > Entry/Withdrawal > select a withdrawal record or click New

In the above illustration, the student was registered with an Entry Code of E1 - Resident Student Entry. According to the first rule set up in the previous illustration, the only Withdrawal Code that would be available as a selection for withdrawal would be W1 - Resident Student Withdrawal.

Modified Copy Setups Page to Copy Entry/Withdrawal Rules The Configuration option in the Copy Setups page has been modified to enable entry/withdrawal rules to be copied from one building to another.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Registration > click Copy



To copy a building's Registration Configuration to another building, a user would identify the buildings and school years in the Copy From Information and Copy To Information sections, select the Configuration box under Registration in the Setups To Copy section, and then click Copy. All information from the original building's Registration Configuration Update page will be copied to the new building's configuration page, including entry/withdrawal rules.

Added Ability to Upload and Display Staff Photos Users can now upload staff photos for display on the Staff District Information page. The feature affects the following pages:

• District Configuration

• Staff District Information In addition, a window has been added for uploading and storing photos.

Added Tab to District Configuration for Uploading Staff Photos The Staff Photo Options tab has been added to the District Configuration page to enable staff members' photos to be uploaded and stored. The tab's fields identify the file location for storing photos and define how the files should be named.

Path: Administration > System Setup > District > District



The Staff Photo Options tab has been added to the District Configuration page.

The tab's fields include: Staff Photo Path - identifies the name of the folder where staff photos are stored. Staff Photo Directory - identifies the directory path for accessing the staff photo folder. Staff Photos File Names - provides options for naming files by either the Staff IDs or Financials Employee Numbers stored in the Registration Center's Staff Information option. Staff Photo Extension - defines the file extension accepted for staff photos, such as .jpg or .png.

Added Upload Staff Photo Button to Staff District Information Page A button has been added to the Staff District Information page for uploading staff members' photos. The button displays a window for locating a photo and uploading it from a desktop computer or network drive.

Path: Registration Center > Staff Information > select a staff member



Clicking the Staff District Information page's Upload Staff Photo button displays the Upload Staff Photo window.

In the Upload Staff Photo window (untitled), the user can click Browse to locate the photo and then Upload to store it in the location specified on the District Configuration page. After a photo has been uploaded, a confirmation message displays. If the photo has the file extension specified on the District Configuration Update page, it will display in the Staff District Information page's upper left corner, just below the banner.

Added Ability to Upload and Display Student Photos Users can now upload student photos for display on Student Center pages in eSchoolPLUS. The feature affects the following pages:

• Registration Configuration Update

• Registration Information In addition, a window has been added for uploading and storing photos.

Added Student Photo Directory to Registration Configuration Update A field has been added to specify the directory where student photos should be stored when a user uploads a photo from the Registration Information page.

Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Registration



Added Student Photo Directory field to indicate the directory where student photos should be stored. This field specifies how to upload files to the directory that is indicated in the Student Photo Path field.

Added Upload Student Photo Button to Registration Information Page A button has been added to the Registration Information page for uploading students' photos. The button displays a window for locating a photo and uploading it from a computer or network drive.

Fields on the Registration Configuration Update page's General tab enable students' photos to be uploaded and stored for a building. The tab's fields identify the file location for storing photos and define how the files should be named.

Path: Student Center > Demographic > Registration > select a student

Clicking the Registration Information page's Upload Student Photo button displays the Upload Student Photo window for uploading a student's photo.

In the Upload Student Photo window (untitled), the user can click Browse to locate a student's photo and then Upload to store it in the folder specified on the Registration Configuration Update page. After a photo has been uploaded, a confirmation message displays. If the photo has the file extension specified on the Registration Configuration Update page, it will display in the upper left corner of the student's Student Center pages, just below the banner.



Reorganized IEP Fields on Personal Information Page The IEP fields on the Registration Center's Personal Information page have been moved to the bottom of the page to separate them from the page's general fields and make them more accessible.

Additionally, for sites that integrate eSchoolPLUS and IEPPLUS, the IEP section has been redesigned to improve the integration.

Moved IEP Fields to Bottom of Page The IEP fields now appear at the bottom of the Personal Information page. The following image illustrates how IEP fields display for districts that do not integrate with IEPPLUS. If the district uses the IEPPLUS integration, refer to the Improved Integration with IEPPLUS section to see how the page displays.

Path: Student Center > Demographic > Personal > select a student

If your district does not integrate eSchoolPLUS and IEPPLUS data, the fields simply appear after the Personal Information page's other fields.

Improved Integration with IEPPLUS Several changes were made to improve the integration between eSchoolPLUS and IEPPLUS.

• The user can immediately integrate students directly from the Personal Information page by clicking the Manage button. The IEPPLUS integration is no longer triggered by the Has IEP and IEP Status fields.

• The user can immediately integrate a new student from within IEPPLUS.

• On the Personal Information page, the IEPPLUS Integration and IEP field labels and text have been clarified. Additionally, these fields are also now display-only indicators of the student's status for the integration and whether or not the student has an IEP in IEPPLUS.



• The IEP status is no longer stored as a single value for the student. Now all IEPPLUS special education history, including the type of special education, start and exit dates and exit reasons, is displayed. The reg_personal.iep_status field is not updated by the integration. The student's data is stored in the reg_iep_status table.

• The IEP Status field has been removed from the Personal Information and Student Summary pages.

• The new IEPPLUS Integration Status table has been added to the Student Search. You can also include it in download interfaces.

• For districts that use Cognos or SSRS, reports that reference the field reg_personal.iep_status will need to be modified to reference the fields in the reg_iep_status table.

• Any search favorite, saved filter, or Student Group that references the field reg_personal.iep_status will need to be modified to reference the fields in the reg_iep_status table.

Personal Information Page with IEPPLUS Integration

The Special Education Summary header has been added to organize the fields related to the IEPPLUS integration.

Previously, the labels and text that displayed for the IEPPLUS Integration and IEP fields were unclear. Now, the IEPPLUS Integration field indicates whether the student's data is integrated with IEPPLUS and the IEP field indicates if the student is an active Special Education student in IEPPLUS. The fields display the student's status based on the IEPPLUS integration and cannot be updated



from this page.

IEP Status is a list of the student's status information from IEPPLUS. Note that the Registration Validation Table IEP Status is no longer used for sites that use IEPPLUS Integration. The status descriptions that display are based on the IEPPLUS integration.

To refer a student for Special Education or add a new Special Education student, click the Manage button that displays to the right of the IEPPLUS Integration field to launch the Special Education Management page. Then, enter the IEP status information and immediately integrate the student's data with IEPPLUS.

Special Education Management Pop-up Window When the user clicks the Manage button, a window similar to the one that follows displays. Refer to the eSchoolPLUS online help for more information on how to refer a student or add a new Special Education student.

Added Option to Specify Name for Student List Report File Previously, when you created a PDF or Excel file from a student list, the file was always named Student List Report. Now you can customize the file name to help you identify the contents of the report.

Path: Student Center > Search > enter search > click Search > click Report

In the Task/Report Name field, enter the name you want to use for this report file. The default is Student List Report.



Added Security for FERPA Fields on Personal Information Page A new security resource REG PRIVATE FERPA has been added to limit access to the FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) Privacy Flags on the Student Center's Personal Information page. The FERPA Privacy Flags only display for users who have the FERPA security resource. Users who have REG MAINT PERSONAL security were previously able to see these fields without having any REG PRIVATE resources. If those users should still be able to access FERPA fields, grant the users REG PRIVATE FERPA security.

Path: Student Center > Demographic > Personal

Added Security Resource for Mass Update from Student List A security resource has been added to control the ability to mass update student information from the student list. Previously, a user could use this tool to update a field for many students as long as they had security to write to the field on the page where it would normally display. For example, if the user had security to update counselor, then the user could use the update from the Student List to change the counselor for many students at one time.

If the user is not assigned Read/Write access for the REG UTILITIES ADVANCEUPD May Update Data through Student Advanced Search resource, then the user will not see the option to include update fields in the student list.

Path: Student Center > Search > click Advanced Search



This set of radio buttons only includes the Update option if the user has REG UTILITIES ADVANCEUPD security with Read/Write access.

The list of tables displayed in the Area drop-down field is still determined by the user's REG MAINT security resources.

Users with any REG MAINT resource would have previously been able to select the Update option and update table information based on their security access. The new resource is a REG UTILITIES resource so it will not automatically be granted to users who have REG MAINT ALL, but not REG UTILITIES ALL. To allow a user to continue to mass update student data from the student list, grant them REG UTILITIES ADVANCEUPD security.

Added Next Year Filter Area for Registration Mass Update Previously, you could not filter on a student's next year information when mass updating student information. The Next Year Demographic area has been added to the filter for the Registration Mass Update so you can search for students based on next year's building, grade, homeroom, house/team, and counselor.

Path: Utilities > Mass Update > Registration > Registration Information



Added Next Year Demographic to the available areas for the filter. This option is listed if the user has REG MAINT DEMOGRAPH security access.



Scheduling Features The following features have been added for the Scheduling package:

Provided Scheduling Synchronization from Student Schedule Options ........... 55 Provided Ability to Print Secondary Teachers on Student Schedules .............. 56 Added Semester Scheduling for Study Halls ....................................................... 58 Improved Control of Course Integration for PLUS 360 ........................................ 58

Provided Scheduling Synchronization from Student Schedule Options You can now run the Scheduling Synchronization directly from the pages where you make and keep student schedule changes. A Synchronization button has been added to the Student Schedule and Mass Entry pages.

Added Synchronize Button to Student Schedule Path: Student Center > Scheduling > Entry

Synchronize button has been added to the Student Schedule page. The button is disabled if the user does not have Write access for the MR UTILITIES SCHDSYNC resource. Additionally, the button is disabled if the student has a modeled schedule.



Added Synchronize Button to Mass Entry Path: Student Center > Scheduling > Mass Entry

Synchronize button has been added to the Mass Entry page. The button is disabled if the user does not have Write access for the MR UTILITIES SCHDSYNC resource. Additionally, the button is disabled if the student has a modeled schedule.

Provided Ability to Print Secondary Teachers on Student Schedules You can print up to 10 secondary teachers per class on the student schedule. You can select whether the secondary teachers are printed and specify how many to print.

This change affects the following options:

Added Secondary Teacher Options to Student Schedules Report Prompts This change affects the prompts displayed from the following options:

Scheduling Center > Reports > Post-Scheduler > Student Schedules

Student Center > Scheduling > Entry > click Printable

Student Center > Scheduling > Mass Entry > click Printable

Student Center > Scheduling > Grid > click Printable



To print secondary staff names, enter a check in the Print Secondary Teacher Name field. Then, enter the number (1 - 10) of secondary staff names to print per class in the Max Secondary Staff to Print field.

Sample Student Schedules Report

In this sample, two secondary teachers are printed for the student's first period class. Each secondary teacher is printed on a separate row.



Added Semester Scheduling for Study Halls The Schedule Study Halls program has been modified to attempt to schedule a full semester of a study hall course-section before scheduling separate course-sections for each marking period.

Path: Scheduling Center > Student Scheduler > Schedule Study Halls

The Schedule Study Halls program used to have three ‘Passes.’ Now there are four.

• Pass 1 - The scheduler attempts to schedule a full year course-section that meets the student’s needs. If unsuccessful, the scheduler moves to the next pass.

• Pass 2 - The scheduler attempts to schedule a semester-long course section that will meet the student’s needs. This is a new pass. If unsuccessful, the scheduler moves to the next pass.

• Pass 3 - The scheduler attempts to schedule a marking period-long course section that will meet the student's needs. If unsuccessful, the scheduler moves to the next pass.

• Pass 4 - The scheduler attempts to schedule a study hall for each cycle day for the period for the marking period.

Note that the scheduler could still schedule two semester-long course-sections to fill a full year long hole in the student’s schedule.

Improved Control of Course Integration for PLUS 360 The Course Catalog included a field to control whether a course was included when integrating data with CurriculumConnector. Now the field has changed so you can determine whether the course should be included in the integration for CurriculumConnector, PerformanceTracker, both, or neither.

Changed District Course Catalog and Building Course Catalog As part of this feature, the following changes were made to the District Course Catalog and Building Course Catalog pages:

• The label for the field was changed from Include in Curriculum Connector Integration to Include in PerformancePLUS Integration.

• The input for the field was changed from a checkbox to a drop-down.

• Additionally, as part of the release update, a database update script will change all existing records where this field is set to Y (for include in CurriculumConnector) to B (for Both).

Path: Scheduling Center > District Course Setup > Course Catalog and Scheduling Center > Building Course Setup > Course Catalog



Changed the label for the Include in Curriculum Connector Integration field to reflect that the field controls PerformancePLUS integration and changed the input for the field from a checkbox to a drop-down.



System Features The following features have been added as system features for eSchoolPLUS:

Improved eSchoolPLUS's My Home Page ............................................................ 60 Improved Appearance of eSchoolPLUS's User Interface .................................... 62 Provided Interfaces to Support Career Cruising Integration .............................. 65 Added Option to Specify High Priority Instant Notifications .............................. 68 Added New Tabs to District Configuration Utility for HAC and TAC Options ... 69

Improved eSchoolPLUS's My Home Page My Home page, which is the first page to display when users log in to eSchoolPLUS, has been redesigned. The original home page featured what were referred to as dashboard items. These graphic sections have been replaced with "widgets," which are similar in appearance to dashboard items but can be customized more easily. In addition, the page can be re-ordered by dragging and dropping widgets, rather than defining the display of items by column and number.

Replaced Dashboard Items with Customizable "Widgets" Graphic sections known as "widgets" have replaced the former dashboard items on eSchoolPLUS's My Home page. Following are the widgets that can be displayed on the page:

At Risk Discipline Chart Reports At Risk Chart Enrollment Success Plan Attendance Enrollment Chart Success Plan Chart Attendance Chart Favorites Tasks: Current Calendar Lunch Counts Tasks: Scheduled Discipline News Today's Appointments

Path: Log in to eSchoolPLUS, or click Home in any eSchoolPLUS page.

Widgets have been introduced in place of the dashboard items that formerly displayed on eSchoolPLUS's My Home page. For information on ordering the display of widgets, refer to the



Introduced Enhancements for Editing and Re-Ordering Widgets section.

Clicking the Save button saves any changes to the layout of widgets on My Home page. The button only displays if a widget has been moved. If the user does not save a new layout before leaving the page, the changes will be lost.

The Settings button displays the Manage Widgets window. For information on this window, refer to the next section.

Introduced Window for Selecting and Defining Widgets The Manage Widgets window enables the user to select widgets for display on My Home page. The user can also select options to define the widget's data.

Path: Click Settings on My Home page

The window's scrolling menu displays the widgets that can be added to My Home page.

The Options section displays settings for defining the widget currently highlighted on the window's menu.

To save a widget to My Home page, highlight the widget on the menu, enter the desired settings in the Options section, and then click Add & Save.

Click Restore Defaults to restore the default widgets to My Home page and delete any widgets that have been added. The default widgets include Favorites, News, Reports, Tasks: Scheduled, and Tasks: Current.



Introduced Enhancements for Editing and Re-Ordering Widgets Users can update My Home page at any time by editing, moving, and deleting widgets. When any of these updates are made, the user must click Save at the top of the page to save the changes.

Path: Position the mouse pointer on a widget to display a border, as well as the Edit and Delete icons.

Clicking the Edit icon displays a window for changing the widget's settings. Clicking the Delete icon displays a window for removing the widget from the page. An additional icon, Add, appears on the Today's Appointments widget. Clicking this icon displays a window for setting up new appointments.

To move the widget to another location on My Home page, position the mouse pointer on the widget, hold down the left mouse button, move the mouse to drag the widget to another location, and then release the mouse button to drop the widget in place.

Improved Appearance of eSchoolPLUS's User Interface The graphic user interface in eSchoolPLUS has been redesigned. The changes have no effect on the functionality of your eSchoolPLUS software.

Menus and fields remain the same throughout eSchoolPLUS, though the graphic elements in all pages have been changed.

As part of the interface changes, new themes were created. These themes replaced the existing themes.

Redesigned eSchoolPLUS Banner for Consistency with Other Plus 360 Products The banner that displays at the top of eSchoolPLUS's main pages has been completely redesigned. The new banner is more consistent with those displayed in other PLUS 360 products.

The banner now identifies eSchoolPLUS as a PLUS 360 application and includes the PLUS 360 logo.



The user's login ID now displays in the banner. In the illustration, the first name-last name are separated by a period. However, your district's IDs may be just a single string, for example, joejones.

The banner's icons have been redesigned. The logos include (in order, left to right): Notifications, Favorites, UserVoice, Help, and Home.

Redesigned Graphic Features on eSchoolPLUS Pages While the overall functionality of eSchoolPLUS remains the same, many of the elements on the system's pages have been redesigned.

The eSchoolPLUS menu has been changed to include a light blue background and additional space between options. In addition, the expansion icon, which can be clicked to display additional options within a product center, has been changed from to . However, all of the menu's options remain the same.

Students' names continue to display in the top banner of all Student Center pages.

The title bar has been redesigned to include a new color and "look."

Users can switch environments as before by clicking the school year link that displays on the page's title bar.

The action buttons on eSchoolPLUS pages have been redesigned.

Added Graphics to Improve Organization and Look of eSchoolPLUS Pages Graphic elements have been introduced to better organize the sections on pages and improve the attractiveness of eSchoolPLUS's user interface.

The following image illustrates these changes.



Title bars have been added to provide a clearer separation between the sections on a page.

The default color scheme has been changed to dark blue throughout the software. For example, column headers were previously in light blue with white lettering. The dark blue used in 3.1 provides better contrast for the lettering and is also compatible with the color of the new eSchoolPLUS banner. Users still can change the software's base colors using the Select Theme menu option.

Modified Available Theme Options The themes available have changed. On the Theme Selection page, which allows users to customize the colors in eSchoolPLUS's pages, users can preview and select a theme. If users had selected a custom theme for eSchoolPLUS, they will be using the new Default theme after eSchoolPLUS version 3.1 is installed.

Path: Select the Select Theme option on the eSchoolPLUS menu



Provided Interfaces to Support Career Cruising Integration Interfaces and utilities have been provided to support student data integration with Career Cruising, a Strategic Alliance Program Preferred Solutions Provider. ccEngage was developed by Career Cruising to give students and schools an easy and effective way to develop skills and knowledge needed for success.

You can create download files for interfacing building, course catalog, student, and student course information. You can also upload student requests from Career Cruising to eSchoolPLUS. For detailed information on the file layouts for the integration, refer to the eSchoolPLUS online help.

This feature includes the following changes:

• Defined the CACDL download interface to create the required building, course catalog, student, and student course information files.

• Defined the CACUL upload interface to load course request data into eSchoolPLUS.

• Added validation tables to determine the mark types to include in the download and to convert the local building type to a Career Cruising building type.

• Added menu options to run the Career Cruising download and upload.

Added Options for New Validation Tables for Registration Path: Administration > System Setup > Validation Tables -> click Registration tab

Added Career Cruising Mark Types option to allow you to define the mark types that should be included in the Career Cruising Student Course download file.



Added Career Cruising Building Types option to allow you to convert your local building types to the Career Cruising building types.

Added Career Cruising Mark Types Validation Table

Added Career Cruising Building Type Validation Table

Added Career Cruising Download Option Path: Utilities > Third Party Integration > Career Cruising Download



Added Career Cruising Download menu option to the Utilities > Third Party Integration menu. To access this option, the user needs SCHD THIRDPARTY CCDOWNLOAD security.

Use these fields to select the download files to create.

Use the filter to select the students to include in the download files.

Click Run to create the selected download files.

Added Career Cruising Upload Option Path: Utilities > Third Party Integration > Career Cruising Upload



Added Career Cruising Upload menu option to the Utilities > Third Party Integration menu. To access this option, the user needs SCHD THIRDPARTY CCUPLOAD security.

Use these fields to select the school year to which you are uploading requests and to select whether you are running in verify or update mode.

Click Run to verify the upload or insert request records from the Career Cruising course request file.

Added Option to Specify High Priority Instant Notifications In addition to being able to subscribe to receive a notification via the Notifications Viewer, email, or daily digest, you can now opt to receive a pop-up notification instantly when a specified event occurs while you are logged in to eSchoolPLUS.

Path: Notification Subscription



In the High Priority column, enter a check in the box for the notifications for which you want to be instantly notified via a pop-up message.

Added New Tabs to District Configuration Utility for HAC and TAC Options

• Using the Browser Support tab, districts can now set up their own message to display to Home Access Center users who attempt to log in to HAC using an unsupported browser version.

• Using the Password Maintenance tab, districts can now enable Teacher Access Center users to change their own passwords from a menu option in TAC. Options are also available for system administrators to require users to change their password upon the next login or when the password expires.

Added Browser Support Tab This tab includes fields used by the necessary applications with regard to browser support.

Fields • Home Access: Unsupported Browser Usage Message - As of 3.1, HAC will verify that the

user is using a browser that supports the features required to properly render the web site content.

• If users try accessing the site with a browser that does not support the required features, they will be provided with a default message indicating they are using an unsupported browser.

• The district can write its own HTML page content. Only include the portion of HTML that would be inside the BODY tag.

Added Password Maintenance Tab • This tab includes fields for enabling and configuring the password maintenance features in TAC.

• If the feature is turned on, the following functionality is enabled:



• If a user logs in to TAC with a valid password and that password has expired or if a system administrator marked the account as requiring the password to be changed upon the next login, the user will be asked to change their password

• If a user wants to change their password for whatever reason, they will be able to select a “Change Password” option from the menu that displays when they hover over their login name in the banner of TAC.

Fields • Mode - There are 3 options, as follows:

• Disabled - Password maintenance is not enabled. If either of the above scenarios occurs and the mode is set to this option, the user will have no means through the application to update their password.

• Integrated - Uses pages integrated into the application to change the user’s password during the above mentioned scenarios.

• Custom URL - In the above mentioned scenarios, the user will be redirected to the URL provided to update their password.

• Integrated Mode Settings section - These fields are additional settings and are only required if the Integrated mode was selected.

• Domain Account Management Login ID - In order to make changes to an account such as password changes, those changes must be made using credentials that have the necessary administrative access within Active Directory. This is the login ID for that account. The account specified in the Domain Account Management field needs to have the “Reset user passwords and force password change at next logon” permission in Active Directory.

• Password and Confirm - The password for the login ID provided.

• Password Requirements Message - There are various password requirements that Active Directory can be configured for and that are useful to know when creating a new password. Since these requirements vary so much from one installation to another, the requirements that are used can be conveyed to the user via HTML entered into this field. Like the Unsupported Browser Usage Message, this field should only contain the portion of the HTML that is inside the BODY tag.



Teacher Access Center Features The following features have been added for the Teacher Access Center (TAC) package:

Updated Gradebook Page for New Features ........................................................ 72 Added Assignment Detail Page to Drill Down to An Individual Assignment .... 72 Redesigned Actions Menu to Clarify Options ...................................................... 74 Added Standards-Based Gradebook Improvements ........................................... 74 Added New Competency Accumulator Types ...................................................... 75 Added Features to Improve Competencies and Rubrics Options ...................... 76 Improved Rubric Score Entry Options .................................................................. 78 Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group ...... 80 Improved Classwork Summary View of Student Details Drawer ........................ 82 Added Ability to View History of Gradebook Score Changes ............................. 84 Improved Gradebook Student Averages Report .................................................. 85 Redesigned Copy Assignments Page ................................................................... 87 Added Free Text Comments to Report Card Page ............................................... 88 Added Load from Gradebook in Multiple Class Mode on RC and IPR ............... 89 Added Mass Update Feature for Marks and Comments for RC and IPR ........... 89 Added Ability for Teachers to Change Passwords from TAC ............................. 90 Improved Student Test Scores Display/Entry ....................................................... 91 Added Ability to Limit Teachers to Only Access Their Students ....................... 92 Added Emergency Attendance Feature................................................................. 93 Added Medical Alert for Overdue Immunizations ................................................ 94 Added More Information to Referral and Classroom Issues List Pages ............ 94 Provided Single Sign On Access from TAC to Employee Access Center ........ 95 Changed Home Page View Menu to Distinguish Classes with No Students ..... 96 Changed Show All Checkbox to Distinguish Classes with No Students ........... 96 Added Ability for Teachers to Save Page Display Settings ................................ 96 Improved Access to Show/Hide Columns on Recommendations Page ........... 97 Moved Show/Hide Notes on IPR and Eligibility Pages to the Settings Menu .... 97 Added Keyboard Shortcuts for Time and Date Fields ......................................... 97 Improved Design and Function of Drop-Down Fields .......................................... 97



Updated Gradebook Page for New Features Several new features required additions and changes to some of the buttons, icons, and menus on Gradebook Entry page. A menu was also redesigned to improve the user experience.

Modified Several Options on Gradebook Entry Page for New Features Path: Gradebook > Entry

An SGBG Summary mode was added to provide a view a summary of marks for all competencies in a competency group. To provide access to the SBGB Summary mode, the selector replaces the GB|SBGB buttons from version 3.0. Refer to Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group on page 80 for more details about the SBGB Summary mode.

The icon is now used to open the Assignment Detail page. This icon was used to mass update scores in the 3.0 version. Refer to Added Assignment Detail Page to Drill Down to An Individual Assignment on page 72 for more details.

A new icon is used on the Assignment header for mass score entry of non-rubric-graded assignments. This icon is also used on other TAC pages for mass update operations.

The Actions menu from the 3.0 release is now named Actions/Reports. The name was changed to better reflect the contents of the menu, and, when expanded, the menu now displays its options more clearly. Refer to Redesigned Actions Menu to Clarify Options on page 74 for more details.

Added Assignment Detail Page to Drill Down to An Individual Assignment

The new Assignment Detail page enables teachers to score and enter score comments for all students for non-rubric-graded assignments. Using this page to enter score comments saves time by allowing teachers to enter comments and publish these comments to Home Access Center without opening a separate dialog box for each score. The Assignment Detail page is opened by clicking on an assignment's header on the Gradebook Entry page. This new page features:

• Fields to enter scores, comment codes, and comments.

• Single-click publishing of individual comments to Home Access Center.

• TAC's mass update feature to enable teachers to enter a default score, clear all scores, enter scores from external files, or enter scores from PerformancePLUS.

Added Assignment Detail Page Path: Gradebook > Entry > click on an assignment's header

Note: In previous versions, this icon was used to mass update scores. For an overview of changes to the Gradebook Entry page, refer to Updated Gradebook Page for New Features on page 72.



If competencies are attached to the assignment, they are displayed in this expandable section. Click to show/hide attached competencies.

Enter student scores in the cells of this column. Click for mass update options.

Enter comment codes in the cells of this column. Cells include a search feature to select valid codes.

Enter comment for this score.

Click to publish comment to Home Access Center.



Redesigned Actions Menu to Clarify Options The Actions menu on the Gradebook Entry page was renamed Actions/Reports to better reflect the options contained in the menu. Further, the options are now displayed in separate levels (Actions and Reports) to group the selections. Specific changes include:

• Menu renamed to Actions/Reports.

• Menu is separated into levels to better organize selections.

• Names of some options changed to improve consistency and clarity.

• New option added to display score history.

Comparison of TAC 3.0 Action Menu to TAC 3.1 Actions/Reports Menu Path: Gradebook > Entry

TAC 3.0 Action Menu TAC 3.1 Actions/Reports Menu

Differences Between TAC 3.0 and 3.1 Menu Item Names 3.0 Menu Option Updated 3.1 Menu Option Enter Comment Enter Score Comments View Score History - this is a new option Run Assignment Average Report Assignment Average Run Missing Scores Report Missing Scores View Printable Printable Gradebook Run Score Threshold Report Score Threshold View Averages Student Averages Run Student Detail Report Student Detail

Added Standards-Based Gradebook Improvements Several of the new Teacher Access Center features provide more robust standards-based grading in Gradebook.



• Added the ability to calculate a student's mark for a competency using a power law function. For more information, refer to Added Power Law Accumulator Type on page 35.

• Introduced roll-up averaging to calculate a competency's mark based on multiple competencies that contribute to that mark. This mark could be for an overall subject that has specific competencies indented below it on the report card and in the curriculum guidelines. This allows you to calculate a student's domain mark from specific standard scores in the domain's cluster. In the image below, labels have been added to illustrate a domain, cluster, and standards.

In eSchoolPLUS, these types of average calculations are referred to as child averages. For more information, refer to Added Overall Competency Accumulator Types on page 34.

• Introduced a simple rubric to allow teachers to enter competency scores and calculate the overall score. Previously, teachers could only indicate that all competencies should receive the same score or use a rubric to score individual competencies. To use a rubric, the teacher had to define performance levels and criteria and associate competencies with the criteria. Now, teachers can also use a simple rubric to take advantage of rubric scoring without requiring specific performance levels and criteria. For more information, refer to Added Features to Improve Competencies and Rubrics Options on page 76.

• Provided the option to average the rubric score to calculate a student's assignment score. Previously, rubric scores were always summed to calculate an assignment's total score. This new option allows a teacher to indicate that an assignment's score should reflect the average of the student's demonstrated progress for all of the competencies being measured. For more information, refer to Added Features to Improve Competencies and Rubrics Options on page 76.

• Provided the SBGB Summary view in Gradebook Entry so teachers can see student progress based on Gradebook scores for all the competencies within a competency group. Teachers can click a student's mark for a competency to view details for the assignments related to the competency. Teachers can also click a competency's heading to display the competency in SBGB Detail mode to view or edit scores for the assignments that contribute to the competency's mark. For more information, refer to Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group on page 80.

• Improved the display of competency information on the eSchoolPLUS Published Classwork page, Home Access Center Classwork page, and Teacher Access Center Student Details Drawer's Classwork view. For more information on how this feature affects the Student Details Drawer, refer to Improved Classwork Summary View of Student Details Drawer on page 82.

Added New Competency Accumulator Types Added new Accumulator Types to provide teachers more options in evaluating students' progress and accomplishments against competencies and standards. Accumulator types are associated with competencies on the eSchoolPLUS Competency Setup page (path: Mark Reporting Center > Setup > Competencies > click New or click a Competency Group). For more details, refer to Added New Accumulators for Calculating Competency Marks on page 34.

The following changes have been made for this feature:

• Added new Power Law accumulator type to enable teachers to estimate students' true scores in formative assessments. For more details, refer to Added Power Law Accumulator Type on page 35.



• Changed the competency score column in the Gradebook Entry SBGB Detail mode to support the Power Law Accumulator Type.

• Added Child Average and Child Weighted Average accumulator types so a competency's mark can be calculated based on the student's score for its child competencies. These are especially helpful when an overall competency or standard is composed of multiple skills/competencies that are used to determine an overall competency/standard score. For more details, refer to Added Overall Competency Accumulator Types on page 34.

• Modified the Competencies and Report Card pages' Load from Gradebook feature to support these three new accumulator types.

• In Gradebook Entry SBGB Summary mode, added the ability to see the mark that would be loaded for overall competencies. This includes a pop-up to detail how the student's mark was calculated. This is a new mode for the Gradebook Entry page. For more information on the SBGB Summary Mode, refer to Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group on page 80.

• In the Student Details Drawer Classwork View - Modified to display classwork and marks for competencies for the new accumulator types. For more information, refer to Improved Classwork Summary View of Student Details Drawer on page 82.

Added Features to Improve Competencies and Rubrics Options Multiple features were added to improve the capabilities of TAC rubrics.

• Added an option to average or sum the rubric score to calculate a student's assignment score. Previously, rubric scores were always summed to calculate an assignment's total score. Now the Competencies and Rubrics pop-up includes a field to select whether total points are summed or averaged.

• Enabled teachers to grade an assignment based on one or more competency scores without defining criteria and performance levels for a rubric. The Competencies and Rubrics pop-up was modified to support a new type of rubric, Simple Rubric, and the existing Rubric has been renamed Full Rubric. In 3.0, only a checkbox displayed to select whether or not to use a rubric. Now the pop-up includes a Use field with three options: No Rubric - Allows teachers to attach competencies to an assignment. Each competency receives the score earned for the assignment. Simple Rubric - Allows teachers to score an assignment for one or more competencies and calculate the overall score. This is a new option in eSchoolPLUS version 3.1. Full Rubric - Allows teachers to score an assignment based on multiple criteria scores. Competencies can be associated with criteria. The name of this option was changed to Full Rubric from Rubric to distinguish it from the new Simple Rubric option. The Simple Rubric scoring tool is different from the No Rubric option in that the teacher enters scores for each competency to calculate the student's assignment score. When the No Rubric option is used, the assignment's full score is applied to one or more selected competencies.

Added Average and Sum Options to Competencies and Rubrics Pop-up Window The following image illustrates the Competencies and Rubrics pop-up as it displays when Full Rubric is selected.

Path: Gradebook > Entry > click > click icon next to Rubrics/Competencies field

Note: This pop-up window can also be opened from the Gradebook Setup page. Refer to the Competencies and Rubrics Pop-up Window help topic for more details.



To create a full rubric, select Full Rubric from the Use field. Note that all rubrics that were created prior to the 3.1 release are full rubrics.

Select Average or Sum. Average - to have the student's total assignment score calculated by averaging the competency scores. In this case, all competencies have equal weight and are averaged to yield the assignment score. Sum - to have the student's total assignment score calculated by summing the competency scores. In this case, the teacher assigns a point value to each competency, and the maximum assignment point value is the sum of these point values.

If Sum is selected, enter Score value in the rightmost column for each criterion. The Assignment Points field is then populated with the sum of the entered criteria scores.

If Average is selected, enter Assignment Points value. This value then populates the Score field for each competency.

Added Simple Rubric Option The following image illustrates the Competencies and Rubrics pop-up as it displays when Simple Rubric is selected.



Select Simple Rubric from the Use field.

Click to add competencies.

Select Average or Sum. Average - to have the student's total assignment score calculated by averaging the competency scores. In this case, all competencies have equal weight and are averaged to yield the assignment score. Sum - to have the student's total assignment score calculated by summing the competency scores. In this case, the teacher assigns a point value to each competency, and the maximum assignment point value is the sum of these point values.

If Sum is selected, enter Points value for each competency. The sum of all entered Points values then displays in the Assignment Points value.

If Average is selected, enter Assignment Points value. This value then populates the Points field of each competency.

Improved Rubric Score Entry Options The following changes have been made:

• Changed the title of the existing page to Full Rubric Score Entry page to reflect that the assignment uses a full rubric.

• Added fields for Comment Code and Comments to enable teachers to enter comments in parallel with score entry.

• Added the Publish field to enable teachers to publish score comments to Home Access Center while entering scores. This saves multiple keystrokes.

• Moved mass score update icon from upper right of page to top of each score column to simplify entry.

• Changed mass score update icon from to . • Added new Simple Rubric Score Entry page to score assignments that use a simple rubric.



Modified Full Rubric Score Entry Page The rubric scoring page now supports direct entry and a publish option for score comments. It is now called the Full Rubric Score Entry page to distinguish it from the new Simple Rubric Score Entry page. Mass entry of scores was also streamlined. The new Simple Rubric Score Entry page is similar and includes the mass update, comment and publish features described below.

Path: Gradebook > Entry > click in the header of an assignment graded with a Full Rubric

Click for mass update options for each criterion. In 3.0, the mass update icon was in the page header, it looked different, and a score needed to first be selected to both select a criterion and enable the icon.

Enter Comment Code. Click magnifying glass icon to display valid codes.

Enter score comments.

Click to publish comments to Home Access Center.

Added Simple Rubric Score Entry Page This new page is used to grade assignments that use a Simple Rubric.

Path: Gradebook > Entry > click in the header of a Simple Rubric graded assignment



Click to hide/show Competency Detail Table

Click any score cell to enter competency scores.

Click for mass update options for any of the assignment's competencies.

Enter Comment Code - click magnifying glass icon to display valid codes.

Enter score comments.

Click to publish comments to Home Access Center.

Added View of all Students' Competency Marks for a Competency Group

The SBGB Summary mode was added to the Gradebook Entry page. It gives teachers a view of student marks for all competencies in a selected competency group. Each student's mark is displayed, and options are provided to show both the competency detail and the calculation of each student's mark.

Modified the GB/SBGB Mode Selector The TAC 3.0 Gradebook Entry page supported two modes: Entry and SBGB. As part of this release, the Gradebook Entry page now supports three distinct modes selected by clicking one of three icons on the Gradebook mode selector :

GB Entry mode - used for entering assignment scores SBGB Summary mode - used to view competency groups and student marks SBGB Detail mode - used for entering scores for specific competencies or standards

Added SBGB Summary Mode The new SBGB Summary mode features:



• A header that displays all competencies in the selected competency group with a visual display of child competency nesting.

• Single-click access to the details of all assignments that contribute to a competency's score.

• A read-only grid with each student and their competency marks.

• Single-click access to the details of how each student's mark is computed.

Path: Gradebook > Entry > then click on the Gradebook mode selector

Click to change to GB Entry mode, or click to change to SBGB Detail mode.

Competencies display hierarchically in header for selected Competency Group.

Competencies are displayed as links. Click a competency to switch to SBGB Detail mode with the competency displayed as the Competencies filter selection.

Mouse-over any competency link to display the competency's full title.

Click any mark to display a pop-up window with details of how the mark was computed. An example is shown in the screen shot below.

Added SBGB Summary Mode Average Details Pop-up This pop-up was added to show the accumulator used to calculate the mark and the assignment details for the competency.



Path: Gradebook > Entry > click on the Gradebook mode selector > then click on a student's score.

Improved Classwork Summary View of Student Details Drawer The Classwork Summary View was redesigned to display information more clearly and to provide details on how competency grades are calculated. The following changes have been made to this view:

• For both the Courses and Competencies options of the View Classwork For option, the display has been improved for readability.

• For Courses, the student's average will display as a percentage or a mark, based on the option selected in the Home Access Center Building Configuration. For more information, refer to Added Field to HAC Building Configuration in eSchoolPLUS on page 19.

• For the Competencies option, competency grades have been moved to the header and display as links. Clicking a grade displays the Average Details pop-up window which shows all scores used to compute the grade.

Modified Classwork Summary Page to Display Average as a Percentage or Mark Path: Display any page with a class roster > click on student > click Classwork button to display Classwork Summary view.



The student's average will display as a percentage or a mark.

Improved Display of Classwork for Competencies

Click hyperlink to display the Averages Details pop-up window. This window displays both the calculations and assignment scores used to calculate the grade.

Average Details Pop-Up Window This window displays the accumulator used to calculate the competency's mark and displays the competency's assignment details. To open this window, click the student's competency grade link in the Classwork Details.



Added Ability to View History of Gradebook Score Changes Provided the ability for teachers to view the history of Gradebook score changes.


• Added View Score History to the options displayed after selecting a score cell and right-clicking.

• Added View Score History to Actions/Reports drop-down menu to provide access for platforms that do not support right-click.

Added View Score History Option to Gradebook Entry Page Path: Gradebook > Entry

Click on a score cell to select it and then right-click to open the cell's menu.

Click View Score History to display the cell's score history.

For systems that do not support right-click, click on the score cell and then select Actions/Reports > View Score History.



Added View Score History Pop-Up to Gradebook Entry Page The screen shot that follows shows the View Score History pop-up for a score that has 4 changes recorded. The date/time, old value, new value, and the user login of the person who made the changes are displayed.

Path: Gradebook > Entry > select score cell > right-click and select View Score History

or

Gradebook > Entry > select score cell > Actions/Reports > View Score History

Improved Gradebook Student Averages Report The Student Averages report was updated to be consistent with other Gradebook reports. Rather than displaying a page with options listed at the top, the new Student Averages report displays a Student Averages pop-up window with two tabs: Prompts and Report.

The following changes have been made for this report:

• Name of option was changed from View Averages to Student Averages for consistency and clarity.

• New report features tabs for Prompts and Report rather than listing of options at the top of the page.



• New report tab uses browser utilities to fit page in view, expand to 100%, shrink/magnify, save to excel file (user choice of destination), or print.

Modified Student Averages Pop-Up Window Path: Gradebook > Entry > Actions/Reports > Student Averages

Enter selections for the Student Information fields.

Click Run to run report and select Report tab.



Click to save Excel file to TAC Reports folder.

Mouse-over to display browser options for viewing options, saving to specified location, and printing.

Redesigned Copy Assignments Page The Copy Assignments page was redesigned to greatly simplify and streamline its operation. This includes:

• New option to display Copy Assignments page was added to the TAC Navigation bar.

• Copy was simplified by always beginning with the Copy From destination.

Changed Gradebook Copy Assignments Page Path: Gradebook > Copy Assignments

Click Change to select both the class and school year to copy from.

Select the marking period to copy from.

From the Assignments & Categories menu, choose either All to copy all assignments and categories from the class and marking periods selected or Selected to display individual categories and assignments.

Select additional options.

Click Add Course to select to which course(s) to copy the selected assignments and categories.

After all selections are made, click Copy.

Gradebook Copy Assignments Page with Selected Assignments & Categories The screen shot below illustrates how selected categories and assignments are displayed.



Choose Selected from the Assignments & Categories field to display all categories for the current class and Marking Periods selection.

Assignments in a category can be displayed by clicking the category's row. Selected categories and/or assignments display below the category and can be copied by clicking to enter a check in the appropriate box(es).

Added Free Text Comments to Report Card Page A new feature was added that turns on/off free text comments fields for each student on the Report Card Page. This feature must be enabled in eSchoolPLUS; refer to Added Free Text Comments for Report Cards on page 29 for details.


• The icon was added on the Report Card page toolbar to toggle the free text comments fields on/off.

• The page was updated to display free text comment fields for each student.

Added Free Text Comment Options to Report Card Page Grade Reporting > Report Card

Click to toggle free text comments on/off.



When free text comments are enabled, comments can be added/edited for each student.

Added Load from Gradebook in Multiple Class Mode on RC and IPR Teachers can now click the Load from Gradebook icon while in Multiple class mode for both the Report Card and Interim Progress pages. In previous versions, the icon displayed but was disabled when in Multiple class mode

Activated Load From Gradebook Icon While in Multiple Classes Mode Path: Grade Reporting > Interim Progress or Grade Reporting > Report Card

Select M on the Multiple/Single mode selector.

The Load from Gradebook icon is now active in Multiple mode. In previous versions, this feature was not available in Multiple Class mode, and the icon was inactive.

This update applies to both the Report Card and Interim Progress pages.

Added Mass Update Feature for Marks and Comments for RC and IPR The ability to mass update both marks and comment codes was added to the Report Card and

Interim Progress Pages. The icon was added to the column headings to support this feature.

Modified Report Card Page Path: Grade Reporting > Report Card

Click to display Mass Update Marks pop-up window.

Click to display Mass Update Comments pop-up window.



Modified Interim Progress Page Path: Grade Reporting > Interim Progress

Click to display Mass Update Marks pop-up window.

Click to display Mass Update Comments pop-up window.

Added Mass Update Marks and Mass Update Comments Pop-Up Windows

Path: Click next to a mark or comment code on the Report Card or Interim Progress page

Enter value in Update marks with field or check either Override Existing Marks or Clear all marks. You can click magnifying glass icon to display valid marks to select or enter.

Enter value in Update comments with field or check either Override Existing Comments or Clear all comments. You can click magnifying glass icon to display valid comment codes to select or enter.

Added Ability for Teachers to Change Passwords from TAC • The new Password Maintenance tab in the District Configuration Utility includes fields for system

administrators to enable and configure password maintenance features in Teacher Access Center. For more information, refer to Added New Tabs to District Configuration Utility for HAC and TAC Options on page 69.

• If the feature is turned on, the following functionality is enabled in Teacher Access Center:

• If a user logs in to TAC with a valid password, and that password has expired, or if a system administrator marked the account as requiring the password to be changed upon the next login, the user will be asked to change their password.

• If a user wants to change their password, they will be able to select a Change Password option from the menu that displays when they hover over their login name in the TAC banner.



Improved Student Test Scores Display/Entry The Student Tests view of the Student Details Drawer received some styling updates to improve clarity, and the ability to add test scores and edit existing test sores was added. In TAC version 2.5, users were able to add/edit test scores, but this feature was not available in releases after 2.5. If enabled in eSchoolPLUS, teachers can now click a link to add new test scores or click an existing test's Test Date hyperlink to edit existing scores.

A teacher's ability to view or write/update test scores is configured on the eSchoolPLUS Test Definition page for each test (Test Score Center > Setup > Test Definition > select a test).

Modified Test Summary View Path: Open any page with a class list > click on a student's name > Click the Tests icon

Click on a student name on any TAC page that displays a student roster to open the Student Detail drawer.

Click the Tests icon to open the Test Summary view.



Click to add a new test to the test category.

Click the Test Date of an existing test to edit scores.

Added Edit Test Scores Pop-Up Window

Path: Refer to or in table above to open the Edit Test Scores pop-up window.

Added Ability to Limit Teachers to Only Access Their Students Provided ability for administrators to limit teachers to only display students that they teach on the attendance bulletin and from the student search.


• Added the Student Access tab to the Teacher Access Center District Setup to provide the option to enable or disable access to all students.

• Modified the Teacher Access Center Bulletin page to hide the All Students option if teachers cannot access all students.

• Modified the Student Search to hide the Show All box if teachers cannot access all students. Note that the Teacher Access Center Building Setup controls whether the teachers can access the Student Details drawer for all students.



Modified Teacher Access Center District Setup Page A new Student Access Tab with the Allow Access To All Students field was added to the eSchoolPLUS Teacher Access Center District Setup page.

Path: Administration > System Setup > District > Teacher Access Center > Student Access tab

By default, both Teachers and Substitutes are checked.

Modified Bulletin Page Path: Attendance > Bulletin

You can select whether the All Students option displays for teachers and substitutes. If this option is enabled, a teacher can see attendance for all students in the building, including students that the teacher does not teach.

Modified Student Search The Show All box will not display on the search results if the district has not selected to allow teachers to access all students. If the box displays, the teacher can check it to include students that he or she does not teach in the search results.

Added Emergency Attendance Feature An Emergency Attendance button was added to the Home page. The button displays when emergency attendance has been activated for the building in eSchoolPLUS. A teacher can click this button to display the Emergency Attendance page and record which students are currently in the room during an emergency situation.


• Emergency Attendance button added to TAC Home page.

• For information on setup, refer to Added Option for Taking Emergency Attendance on page 6.



Added Emergency Attendance Page Path: Home > click Emergency Attendance button

Click Change to change to a different building than what is currently displayed.

Select Room. A room must be selected before emergency attendance can be taken.

Teachers can enter parts of student names to display a pop-up window of potential matches. Teachers can mark students in this pop-up window as present.

Click any alphabetic tab to list all students assigned to the selected building within the range of the tab's label.

Check all students present in the selected room.

Click to display a list of all students in the room that are marked present.

When attendance is complete, click save icon. This makes the attendance information entered available to administrators. Additional students can be marked present, and a subsequent save will update information available to administrators.

Added Medical Alert for Overdue Immunizations On all pages that display alerts, if a student has any overdue immunizations, their Medical alert icon

displays with an orange background . Note that this alert only displays if the building administrator has selected to show it in Teacher Access Center. For more information on alerts related to overdue immunizations, refer to Added Out-of-Compliance Immunizations Alerts for Parents and Teachers on page 39.

Added More Information to Referral and Classroom Issues List Pages Enhanced Classroom Issues and Conduct Referrals list pages to include additional incident detail for escalated referrals. When present, the additional details for the issue or referral display in the Administrative Action column.



Provided Additional Information in Administrative Action Column

Path: Interventions > Classroom Issues > click or Interventions > Conduct Referrals> click

Added the offense and category information to the Administrative Action column. Previously, this column displayed only the action assigned to the student.

Provided Single Sign On Access from TAC to Employee Access Center

If your site has an eFinancePLUS Integration license, you can select to include the Employee Access Center option on TAC's Tools menu. When the menu option is selected, the teacher's credentials are passed to eFinancePLUS to provide single sign-on capability and the teacher's Employee Access Center page opens in another window. This functionality requires that the site is also running eFinancePLUS version 5.1.

As part of this feature, the following changes were made:

• Added a field to control whether Employee Access Center menu option displays to the TAC building configuration.

• Added an Employee Access Center option to TAC's Tools menu. The option only displays if the teacher works in a building where an administrator has selected to show it on the TAC building configuration. Before the teacher can sign in to Employee Access Center using this link, the teacher needs to use the PLUS 360 Notification Viewer's Application Link option to link the eSchoolPLUS and eFinancePLUS logins. Refer to the "PLUS 360 Application Link" topic in TAC's online help for additional information on linking the applications.

Added Financials Tab to TAC Building Configuration Path: Administration > System Setup > Building > Teacher Access Center

Added Financials tab. This tab only displays if the district has a license key for eFinancePLUS Integration.



Added field to control whether teachers and substitutes can access the link to eFinancePLUS's Employee Access Center.

Added Employee Access Center to TAC's Tools Menu

The Employee Access Center link displays in TAC's Tool menu.

Changed Home Page View Menu to Distinguish Classes with No Students

The My Classes option of the View menu on the Home page was changed so that it now displays only classes with students enrolled. A new All Classes option was added to the menu; it displays all classes assigned to the teacher whether or not students are currently enrolled.

Path:Home > View > My Classes

Changed Show All Checkbox to Distinguish Classes with No Students The Class List pop-up window was changed so that the list of courses initially only includes classes with students enrolled. To display classes with no students enrolled, enter a check in the Show All box.

As in previous versions, when unchecked, classes that do not match the Marking Period selection are not displayed.

Path: Click on the toolbar any TAC page that displays based on a class selection.

Added Ability for Teachers to Save Page Display Settings Added option that allows teachers to save their display settings for most TAC pages. Saving display settings allows teachers to retain customized data sets, selected columns, column order, column width, and prompt selections where appropriate. A complete listing of all pages that support this feature and what settings are saved can be found in the online help topic "Display Settings Saved by TAC Pages."

On pages that support this feature, the settings icon (on the page's header) displays two options:

• Save Current Settings - saves the available settings as described in the online help referenced above

• Restore Default Settings - returns the page to its default settings On some pages, the settings icon has additional options.



Improved Access to Show/Hide Columns on Recommendations Page

Added the ability to show/hide columns to the Settings menu for the Recommendations page to provide access for users working on devices that do not support right-click. In the 3.0 release, this was only possible by right-clicking the column header and selecting from the menu that displayed.

Path: Recommendations > click

Moved Show/Hide Notes on IPR and Eligibility Pages to the Settings Menu

Moved the option to Show/Hide Notes on the IPR and Eligibility pages to the Settings menu for

the IPR and Eligibility pages. In the 3.0 release, an icon in the toolbar toggled the display of notes on/off.

Path: Grade Reporting > Interim Progress

The Show/Hide Notes option also displays on the settings Menu of the Eligibility page (Path: Grade Reporting > Eligibility).

Added Keyboard Shortcuts for Time and Date Fields Teachers can now use single-keystroke shortcuts for Time and Date entry fields. They can now quickly set the current time/date or increase/decrease the values in these fields with keystroke shortcuts. This feature was present in releases before 2.5 SP1 and was restored in version 3.1. Refer to the "Keyboard Shortcuts for Date and Time Fields" help topic for more details.

Improved Design and Function of Drop-Down Fields The drop-down fields used throughout TAC were improved to make selection and entry of data clearer and consistent from page-to-page. If pre-defined selections are available, a magnifying glass icon can be clicked to both view and select from a list. If the teacher knows what entries are valid, they can also enter data directly.

Path: All TAC pages with drop-down input fields.



eSchoolPLUS 3.1 Database Table Changes

New Tables The following tables have been added to the database:

ATT_EMERGENCY ATT_EMERGENCY_CFG HAC_TRANSLATION_BKP MR_GB_STU_COMP_STU_SCORE_HIST MR_GB_STU_SCORE_HIST MR_PRINT_STU_CRSTXT MR_PRINT_STU_SEC_TEACHER MR_STU_RUBRIC_COMP_SCORE_HIST MR_STU_RUBRIC_SCORE_HIST MR_STU_TEXT REG_IEP_STATUS REG_STAFF_PHOTO_CFG REGTB_ACCDIST REGTB_CC_BLDG_TYPE REGTB_CC_MARK_TYPE REGTB_SCHOOL SPI_INTERGRATION_STUDATA_DET SPI_INTERGRATION_STUDATA_HDR SPI_USER_GRID

Modified Tables The following tables have been modified.

GDBK_POST_CLS Add column ATT_COMMENT GDBK_POST_DAT Add column ATT_COMMENT HAC_BUILDING_CFG Add column AVERAGE_DISPLAY_TYPE MR_CFG Add columns ALLOW_COURSE_FREE_TEXT,

MAX_COURSE_FREE_TEXT_CHARACTERS MR_GB_RUBRIC_HDR Add column RUBRIC_STYLE, RUBRIC_MODE REG_CFG Add column PHOTO_DIRECTORY REG_CFG_ALERT_DEFINED Add column CRIT_STRING1, CRIT_STRING2 SCHD_COURSE Add column SIF_CREDIT_TYPE, SIF_INSTRUCTIONAL_LEVEL SPI_USER_OPTION Modified columns: Page code to varchar(255), Option code to

varchar(255) TAC_CFG Add column TEA_EFP_BP, SUB_EFP_BP TAC_DISTRICT_CFG Add column ALLOW_TEACHER_STUDENT_ACCESS,

ALLOW_SUBSTITUTE_STUDENT_ACCESS TAC_MSG_CRS_DATES Added index on Change_Date_Time column

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