Homeroom 1.0.47 Release Notes

August 3rd, 2012

Dear customers,

We are happy to notify you about the release of Homeroom 1.0.47. We have added various new features and improvements including the ability to: create Smart Student Groups, print widget data, page in the CIA/CAA and Assessments Widget, and edit which assessments are shown in assessment sets. We also created the Help Center.

A list of fixed and known issues is below.

 

Thank you,

School Data Solutions

 

Fixed Customer Found Issues

Assessment Widget

• Some school bars are not fully rendering in District View.
• A javascript error is thrown when trying to select a certain school from the District View tab
• Students are not getting added to Student Groups
• allow child assessment to be opened in a new tab from the parent assessment view within assessment sets
• if an assessment strand with a light-blue background is selected, and then the assessments container is re-opened, then the selected assessment strand does not have a dark-blue background color
• scores that uploaded successfully are not appearing in Homeroom for one teacher
• we limit the number of assessments in a group, but the user cannot edit which assessments are part of the group
• There is no District View Button
• student data for all schools is not being returned for a District Wide Specialist

CIA/CAA Widget

• Page scrolls up after clicking in a large dataset in IE9

Directory Widget

• District wide specialists and specialists who are associated to more than one school are only displaying one school in the directory widget

SLP

• The loading icon persists after choosing a goal and hitting 'save and continue'

Student Groups Widget

• there is no vertical scrollbar for the list of students

Roles & Permissions

• User account with Specialist and Teacher role is opening as teacher by default instead of Specialist.

Open Customer Found Issues

Profile Widget and QuickProfile

• Add Spotlight icon to top of entity records

Roles & Permissions

• Add messaging to help users who can login but do not have any roles assigned to them
• Allow Customers to Modify User Roles/Permissions through Admin Console

Assessment Widget

• District View - Disaggragation by teacher - Allow user to hide teacher data
• IE9 - page scrolls up when the widget contains a lot of data
• add tooltips to tabs
• in Grouping PerformanceLevel, display the percentage of students who scored at that level
• Add student name search to the All Students View
• Granular permissions per data set
• Improve display
• the ordering of assessments in the My Assessment Sets editor does not match the ordering of assessment results
• certain strands are not rendering the bar
• bar chart cut score flags display the wrong color for WLPT assessments

Logins and Links Widget

• Selecting the login for 'Homeroom Admin' returns a server error
• the user can create multiple Admin logins

Student Learning Plan Widget

• The value 'undefined' is displayed after editing a communication plan
• allow users to edit or delete communications entries
• need to have the concept of historical data, so it can be displayed and printed in future years.
• Show the student's name at the top of each printed page

Student Group Widget

• order by period, group by class term in My Student Groups Tab

Logins and Links Widget

• create a login for an all flash site

Fixed SDS Found Bugs

Activities Widget

• the name of the Activity is not shown as link text when it is linkable

Assessments Widget

• Edits to Assessment Sets are not saved
• if multiple tabs are opened, the tabs are not being re-sized
• if there are less than 5 assessments with data, then assessment sets can contain assessments with no student data
• IE8 breaks if the student group or assessment pickers are opened while a previous assessment is being displayed
• District View mode does not work for previous school years
• IE8, cannot use the page forward and back buttons
• IE8, using the 'Page <n>' button returns an error message
• if a user defined assessment set is chosen, and there is no data for the selected student group, then the loading icon persists
• in Full-Screen Mode, clicking the Edit Active/Visible Assessments button returns a blank popover
• on the print preview, hovering the mouse in the upper right hand corner (a blank area) returns the tooltip with the text '<student name>'
• selecting Item Analysis Charts returns the error message "No data. This test has no questions yet"
• the loading icon persists after clicking "add to" without choosing a student group
• selecting a School shows cohort data for the District

Attendance History Widget

• absences and tardies are not displayed for prior school years

CIA/CAA Widget

• Print doesn't work for large student groups

Directory Widget

• The Directory Widget on the District Admin Dashboard does not list any schools
• for IE8, clicking a person or entity returns an invalid argument error

Discipline Widget

• the database is not sending the previous year's data

General

• only six tabs can be displayed

Student Groups Widget

• Duplicate Student Group Names Triggering DB Error

Schedule Widget

• IE8 - Class popover not opening

Lookup Widget

• IE8, cannot select people, schools, or classes
• No vertical scrollbar in IE9

Observations Widget

• Observations made by other users can be deleted by the current user
• after creating an observation, the time value is not local
• the user is allowed to save an observation with no data in the subject and body fields

Options Menu

• The default value in the Your Role Picker is "Undefined"

Schedule Widget

• Cell borders are printed
• the widget does not recover after using the Calendar picker to choose a previous school year with no data
• no data is being returned for a school district in the (2011 / 2012) school year

Services Widget

• Hitting the Refresh Icon does not return the current year's data

Student Groups Widget

• Edits to group names are not always displayed

Student Spotlight Page

• IE8, a variety of functionality is unavailable

The Options Menu

• Unable to open the Options Menu in IE8

Open SDS Found Bugs

Activities Widget

• Messaging for no results does not match the other widgets
• a user who does not have permissions to see an Activity's Profile can open the Profile Popup
• for many high school students, a junior high school activity is shown for the current school year
• the mouse cursor is not a pointer when hovering over an activity's name

Assessment Widget

• IE8 - Trying to Spotlight a Student in Full Screen Mode does not return an error popover
• If an Assessment Set is sorted by an Assessment, then sorted by Students, paging sorts by the Assessment (not by the Students)
• If the Strand Assessment Test name wraps to a second line, then the text is truncated.
• clicking the plus icon (+) on performance level tabs should only return user defined groups
• hovering over assessments that don't have strands returns the tooltip with text 'click to toggle strands'
• in District View mode, under the Performance Level Distribution List, if you select the '+' icon or the 'i' icon twice, the popover appears in the upper left-hand corner
• in Full Screen Mode, clicking the Student Spotlight Icon does not return the 'no spotlighting in full screen mode' popover
• quickly trying to de-activate assessments breaks the widget
• A score is equal to the assessment level max, but the score color is not equal to the assessment color
• There is Zero Period in the Print View when the Student had no class then
• IE8 - if there are several years of assessment data, the widget doesn't load
• IE8 - Clicking the 'New Group' Button then the 'Save and Edit' Button does not return the student picker

CAA / CIA Widget

• If 12th graders from the school year (05/06) are chosen, then the data is returned for the current school year.
• the EntityId field is in the download
• IE8 - the column headers do not line-up with the columns
• if the user is on the first page, the 'back' button should be disabled (likewise if on the last page, the 'forward' button should be disabled)
• Teachers can see all students, not just those that they have taught
• we are not returning a message when a student group has no data

Directory Widget

• Activities are not listed under schools
• School Department staff is not listed
• Specialists are not listed under Schools
• Unable to Spotlight Students on the Teacher Dashboard Tab

Discipline Widget

• if scrolled down, and then a previous year is chosen, the list is not scrolled back to the top

General

• double-clicking the Refresh Button returns a persistent Loading Icon
• menus should close if something else on the screen is clicked

Logins and Links Widget

• selecting the login 'Homeroom Admin' returns a server error

Lookup Widget

• the icon for the district is a person
• there is no messaging for zero results

Observations Widget

• print preview doesn't have carriage returns
• After clicking the (garbage can) delete icon, then canceling, and then moving the mouse off of the observation, the observation is still highlighted

Profile Widget

• IE8 - Clicking a Student's Image does not return a larger image
• The District Profile does not contain EntityDescription or RelatedEntities
• the icon for activities is a building

Schedule Widget

• Hovering over empty class spots changes the background color
• the widget doesn't load on some student spotlight pages

School Admin Dashboard

• Assessments and CAA/CIA Widgets are not shown

Services Widget

• Data is not tied to a school year

Smart Student Groups

• After saving a group with an Assessment, then clicking Edit, the Performance Level for that Assessment cannot be changed
• Discrepancy in the count of students for Smart Student Groups
• IE8 - Clicking the Save Button does not return text in the Save Confirmation Popover
• IE8 - If you create a group, save it, and then try to create another, the form is just a white void
• IE8 - if a criteria has been chosen, then clicking the Reset Button does not return the Refresh Popover
• IE8 - the 'Both Button' in Additional Services is wrapped to the next line
• IE8, the services popover appears too low, creating a second scrollbar
• Students in a Services Group do not have a corresponding record in the Services Widget
• a group can be saved with an existing group's name
• adding a content area does not update the count of students
• if a school has no content areas, then the classes list does not populate
• there are no assessment families for Snohomish
• there is an assessment subject named '1'
• IE8 - cannot add a service then add an assessment

Student Groups Widget

• clicking "save" does not immediately add the group to the list
• IE8 and IE9 - A black square appears where the New Group Button was after it is clicked

Student Schedule Widget

• Cannot Print a certain student's schedule

Fixed SDS Found Improvements

Assessments Widget

• On the Assessment Set tab, long assessment names are being truncated in widget and in print preview
• re-order Assessment Level tabs to be match the order of Assessments Level results
• when viewing assessment results, after adding a student to a group, hovering over that student shows an add icon, instead of a remove icon

CAA / CIA Widget

• Add Graduation Year as a field to display.

Smart Student Groups

• have the default value in the performance level selector be the same on that is listed first
• hitting reset while any picker is open does not close the picker

Open SDS Found Improvements

Assessment Widget

• After adding students to an existing group, the popover does not automatically close
• Allow assessments to be activated or de-activated by dragging and dropping
• When the AssessmentSelectorBar or StudentGroupSelectorBar are open, the arrow should point up
• allow for spotlighting or schools, students, and teachers in District View Mode
• consider matching the styles of the remove icon in the Student Group manager with style of the remove icon in the Edit Active/Visible Assessments manager
• disallow the user from removing all assessments from an assessment set and message the user
• in District View Mode, the mouse cursor does not turn into a hand pointer when hovering over the 'i' and '+' icons on the Assessment Level tabs
• in District View Mode, the user cannot filter-out performance levels
• in District View mode, filter to teachers whose classes are relevant to the Assessment's subject
• performance level filters are not honored in print preview
• when the user is editing an assessment set, consider adding messaging them know that they are editing the set as it pertains to a specific group of students
• filter Student Group selections based on the user's access to data

CAA / CIA Widget

• If a previous school year is chosen, then the widget could be improved by displaying that school year
• remove the fields 'Ordinal' and 'Page Index' from the UI
• sorting does not persist after paging
• sorting should factor in pagination
• the mouse cursor does not turn into a pointer when hovering over field names
• Filter so that only currently enrolled students are shown.
• Filter the list of Schools in the student group selector to only those schools teaching 9 - 12 grade.
• Filter the list of grades to only be 9 - 12 grade.

Directory Widget

• Activities, Activity Supervisors, and Activity Students are not shown

Login Page

• Remove test and dev districts from the live login page
• add a scrollbar to the districts picker

Lookup Widget

• Message the user when they hit print and there is no data

Observations Widget

• IE8 and IE9 - the delete icon doesn't show the garbage can
• Options Menu
• changing role restarts homeroom automatically
• choosing the current role restarts homeroom

Profile Widget

• If Gender is unknown, do not display the label
• Add Cumulative GPA Data to the Entity Profile Widget for Students

SLP Widget

• Allow users to add notes to qualifying conditions
• Accommodations need to be implemented
• Associate the notes to the user who entered them, and display the association

Schedule Widget

• create static headers
• differentiate credit earning grades from status reporting grades
• for a certain student, clicking Print returns a 'No data available" error

Smart Student Groups

• group assessments into subjects better
• if a selector is manually closed (ie nothing was selected) then the count does not need to be recalculated
• the form is long and will be getting longer, so consider not displaying Content Areas and Classes until they have data
• the location of Schools, Grade Levels, and Content Areas pickers does not persist when scrolling
• filter Student Group selections based on the user's access to data

Student Profile Widget

• display guardian information (names) and quick profile links.

Students Groups

• if a student is added to a group, and then removed, they are still grayed out in the picker
• Widget widgth determined by data in the database