Homeroom 1.0.51 Release Notes – School Data Solutions

December 7, 2012

Dear customers,

We have been busily fixing bugs and making improvements in Homeroom. We have added a Relevant Assessments section to the Student Learning Plan Widget. We have also simplified choosing assessments for the Charts and Graphs Widget.

A list of fixed and known issues is below.

Thank you,

School Data Solutions

Improvements You Asked For

Multiple Widgets

Moved the Spotlight Icon to the top of profiles

Assessment Widget

Added student name search to the assessment results tab
Added the percentage of students to performance level icons
Added tooltips to tabs
Improved column widths and header heights for assessment set results
Improved the display of maximum scores of 100
Fixed refreshing the widget after My Assessments Sets was open
Fixed the display of maximum scores of 100

Charts and Graphs Widget

Simplified the assessments chooser
Fix a bug around duplicate data

Directory Widget

Fix a bug around profiling students from the Teachers Dashboard

Student Learning Plan Widget

There is now a Relevant Assessments section

Student Groups

Added the school and grade level to search results, to help find the right student when there are duplicate names

Other Fixes

Multiple Widgets

Better handling of students that are part of the district but are not currently enrolled in a school

Assessments Widget

Obfuscated student names in files downloaded during Demonstration Mode

SLP Widget

Fixed a bug around using the default values for the Communication Plan

Known Issues

Assessments Widget

In IE9, the page still sometimes scrolls up (full screen mode helps)
Score colors are sometimes incorrect
If “met” and “not met” scores are not entered as “0” and “1”, then the system isn’t processing them correctly
On the School View Tab, the Performance Level Information popovers sometimes have incorrect data
Sometimes strand results cannot be seen

CAA/CIA Widget

In IE9, the page still sometimes scrolls up

Charts and Graphs Widget

Charts don’t display for devices that do not support Flash
Some attendance data is not showing

Smart Student Groups

Some classes are not showing
The reset button does not work properly

Improvements that we haven’t forgotten about

Multiple Widgets

Honor user-defined heights for widgets

Assessments Widget

On the school aggregates tab, allow for some teachers to be hidden
Show every score that a student has on an assessment
Add a percentage breakdown chart for assessment sets

Attendance History Widget

Show the number of absences for the year and for the last two weeks
Improve the accuracy of ‘present’ marks

CAA/CIA Widget

Only show the widget to high school employees

Charts and Graphs Widget

Filter-out assessments that have no data for the selected student group
Order assessments logically
Move the widget to the dashboard
Make charts more printer-friendly

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

Show parent information

Reporting Widget

Create widget to display usage metrics

Smart Student Groups

Add filters for: student names, graduation status, demographics, and SLPs

Student Assessment Widget

Show every score if the student took an assessment multiple times

Student Assignment Widget

Create widget allowing for a “Grade Bucket Viewer”

Student Learning Plan Widget

Allow menus to contain more choices
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