Homeroom 1.0.59 Release Notes

A New Help Center

We are very excited that in addition to the many great improvements in Homeroom, this release provides all users with a completely new Help Center.

Our previous Help Center contained many helpful support articles for each of our Applications. We moved over all of the articles and improved upon many of them. The articles are now searchable and the new Help Center contains many great community features.

The Help Center is available from the question mark icon in the upper-right corner of Homeroom. It enables you to:

Also, the help links in each widget now point to the specific articles in the Help Center.

Videos

In addition to the support articles in the Help Center we have also started creating videos to better explain certain concepts or procedures within Homeroom. New videos are being created as quickly as we can so check back for more and watch for future announcements. For now, here are a few articles which contain videos:

Assessments Widget

• Video: Creating Localized Assessment Tests
• Video: Uploading Localized Assessment Scores

Student Groups Widget

• Video: Creating a User-Defined Smart Group

Activate Account

• Video: How to activate your account

Securable Additional Services Permissions

• Video: How to enable Free/Reduced and Homeless displays
• Video: How to set Access to Free/Reduced and Homeless data

Features Added

Student Groups Widget

• Allows users to share student groups with others, either by name or by role
• Allows for the list of students in a group to be printed

Data Extracts Widget

• Redesigned the Home Screen for the Data Extracts Widget

Discipline History Widget

• Created a new Discipline History Widget 

Bugs Fixed

Account Management

• If a username was stored with a leading or trailing “space” character, then the Account Activation and the Reset Password pages would not work

Assessments Widget

• If a user-defined Assessments Set was given the name of an existing set by the same user, there was no duplication warning
• When choosing a student group in the Assessments Widget, if a text filter had been applied, and then a new school year was chosen, then the text filter was no longer being applied
• The Performance Level Menu in the Assessments Widget sometimes displayed levels in the wrong order for user-defined assessments
• In the assessments chooser of the Assessments Widget, the text filter was keying on the name, instead of the label which is displayed in the list
• If an assessment had no performance levels and the student score was “0”, then the Assessment Widget had trouble with downloading and paging
• A “grade-level/subject area” automatically generated assessment set was not displaying in the Assessments Widget
• If there were services that had numbers in their names, then the District View tab of the Assessments Widget would not display the service data
• Sometimes the Assessment Set view would not load

Attendance History Widget

• The zebra striping in the Attendance History Widget did not always line up
• A couple of students did not have data in their Attendance History Widget

CAA/CIA Widget

• Filters would not reset after refreshing the CAA/CIA Widget

Data Extracts Widget

• The clickable area for My Data Extracts did not include the icon or the description
• The Guardian Contact Information type of Data Extract would sometimes display some information twice
• The Annual Service Participation Rates Per Demographic type of extract would show data for both male and female students when only one gender was requested

Gradebook Viewer Widget

• The Gradebook Viewer Widget would not print from the Fullscreen View

Multiple Widgets

• Full-screen mode was not working for some widgets
• Current year enrollment data was missing for a few schools

Observations Widget

• The Observation Widget wasn’t printing

Risk Indicators Widget

• An unnecessary data call was made after toggling "currently enrolled" in the Risk Indicators Widget

SLP Manager Widget

• The print notification emails for the SLP Manager Widget sometimes do not get sent

SLP Widget

• Some relevant assessments could not be deleted in the SLP Widget 

Student Assessments Widget

• If a student took an assessment that allowed alternate scoring, and they did not get an alternate performance level, then sometimes their score would not display in the Student Assessments Widget
• If a stranded assessment did not have the same subject as the parent, then sometimes it would not display in the Student Assessments Widget
• The 2B (alternate) performance level breakpoints were not always being shown

Student Groups Widget

• When a browser is zoomed, sometimes Smart Student Group filter would not be visible
• When changing a student group's name another group's name, the "replace" warning appeared twice
• Sometimes the print view of the Attendance History Widget would display an extra period
• When editing a Smart Student Group, sometimes filter text would not display
• If a static student group already had many members, then when editing it, no more members could be added 

Improvements Made

Assessments Widget

• When defining assessments for upload via the Assessments Widget, restrict which the test scopes are available per each role 
• Use the Label instead of the Name in the Assessment Chooser
• Allow for aggregate service data to be suppressed If the size of the student group is below a threshold
• In the District View of the Assessments Widget, for previous years student groups, we now use the group's year to calculate additional services
• In the print version of the Assessment Set view, wrap (instead of truncate) long assessment labels so they are completely visible as column headers
• Allow for "Currently Selected" groups in the Assessment Set View
• When a user tries to create an assessment set with more than 10 assessments, notify them that only 10 can be viewed/downloaded at a time

Attendance History Widget

• Add print support for the new Attendance History Widget, including a yearly attendance summary

Data Extracts Widget

• In the Data Extracts School/District selector, alphabetize the options
• Remove the "Not Met" lines in the "Annual Assessment Percentages By Demographics" and the "Annual Assessment Percentages By Services" types of Data Extracts

Directory List Widget

• Alphabetize the list of schools

Gradebook Viewer Widget

• Add print support for previous years in the Gradebook Viewer Widget

Login Screen

• Allow Internet Explorer 11 users to login, with a warning that the browser is not yet supported 

Multiple Widgets

• Allow for widgets to be resized via Datashop

Risk Indicators Widget

• Risk Indicators Widget now downloads to a spreadsheet

Site Navigation

• If the browser is paged back, ask if the user wants to leave the site
• After the user has confirmed that he indeeds wishes to navigate away to the site after clicking the logout button, please refrain the browser from asking again

Student Groups Widget

• Add a "select all" button to the classes filter for Smart Student Groups
• Improve the appearance of the Activities list in the Smart Student Groups
• Tighten name matching for preselecting services in Smart Student Groups
• In the Enrollments Filter group, only show the withdrawn toggle when on the current school year

Student Learning Plan Widget

• Allow users to edit or delete their communications entries in the Student Learning Plan widget
• Increase the font size to in the print version of the Student Learning Plan

Student Schedule Widget

• Added print support for the new Student Schedule Widget