Homeroom 1.0.51 Release Notes

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