September 5, 2012
Dear customers,
You asked for some changes to Homeroom for the start of the school year. We are happy to say that we’ve obliged. We added some great new features, like downloading assessment scores, and viewing assessment and strand results on the same tab. And we fixed some bugs, like popovers and menus wandering around the screen.
A list of fixed and known issues is below.
Thank you,
School Data Solutions
Improvements You Asked For
Assessment Widget
- Clicking the new “View Strands” link shows an assessment and it’s strands as a set
- Clicking the new Download Icon sends assessment scores, assessment set scores, district aggregates, and school aggregates to your desktop
- The “My Assessments Set” tab has stopped hiding
- The performance level icons for strands work better
- IE8 sometimes broke when the student group selector was pulled down again
CAA/CIA Widget
- The Help Center link now works
Logins and Links Widget
- Broken logins are now fixed
Profile Widget
- We now show students’ cumulative GPA and the number of credits they’ve earned and failed, as well as their language and ethnicity
Services Widget
- Records that were missing are now found
Student Assessments Widget
- The new Download Icon sends the student’s entire assessment history to your desktop
Student Groups
- The class’s term is now in the name of class groups
Student Learning Plan Widget
- You can now: view and print historical plans; add notes to qualifying conditions; delete communication entries; and create accommodations
- Edits to communication methods display correctly
Assessments Widget
- Clicking the Plus Icon on Performance Level Tabs returns just user defined groups
- Assessment scores at performance level thresholds are color-coded better
- Creating student groups from school aggregates works better
Student Group Selector
- If there are no student groups for a year, there is “no student groups” message
Multiple Widgets
- Popovers and menus are much better behaved
- A message is shown when there is nothing to print
Known Issues
Assessments Widget
- In IE9, the page still sometimes scrolls up (full screen mode helps)
- The refresh button only works once
- Score colors are sometimes incorrect
- If “met” and “not met” scores are entered as “1” and “2”, then the system isn’t processing them correctly
CAA/CIA Widget
- In IE9, the page still sometimes scrolls up
Lookup Widget
- The refresh button only works once
Smart Student Groups
- You must add a grade level before adding a content area
Student Groups Widget
- The refresh button only works once
Improvements that we haven’t forgotten about
Assessments Widget
- Add student name search to the assessment results tab
- Add tooltips to tabs
- On performance level tabs, display the percentage of students at that level
- On the school aggregates tab, allow for some teachers to be hidden
Attendance History Widget
- Show the number of absences for the year and for the last two weeks
CAA/CIA Widget
- Only show the widget to high school employees
Logins and Links Widget
- Create a login for an all Flash site
My Student Groups
- Order classes by period, and group them by term
Profile Widget and QuickProfile Popover
- Add the Spotlight icon to the top
Student Learning Plan Widget
- Let communication entries be edited
- Lock records so that only one person can edit them at a time
Student Spotlight Tab
- Print all of the student’s data with one click
Multiple Widgets
- Allow permissions to be more granular
Signing-In
- Give a helpful message to users who login but don’t have any roles assigned to them
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