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Homeroom 1.0.60 Release Notes [VIDEO]

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Tom Kasperson
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Our Spring Break release of Homeroom has a massive number of new features, improvements on existing features, and bug fixes. Many changes resulted from discussion forums, so we certainly appreciate all of the great suggestions! Please see below for a list of all of the changes.

 

Video Release Notes

You will find five videos below which make up our Video Release Notes.

 

Assessments Widget

Assessment Set View

  • allow for a strand assessment to have a different subject than its parent assessment  [HOMEROOM-955]
  • organize automatic assessment sets better  [HOMEROOM-762]
  • add the ability to make a student group based on Advanced Filtering  [HOMEROOM-1199]
  • When a user views an assessment set that has more than 10 assessments with student scores, notify the user than the widget is only displaying 10 assessments  [HOMEROOM-820]
  • if the name of performance level happens to be "Met", then the score is represented by a checkmark icon on the assessment set view, instead of a color/number combination  [HOMEROOM-691]
  • update the Assessment Set view so that students with “Not Taken” records are listed below students with scores of zero  [HOMEROOM-1065]
  • if the widget is refreshed, then an assessment set is chosen, the data is not presented in tabs  [HOMEROOM-1074]
  • assessments with old definitions needed to be updated to be part of state assessment sets  [HOMEROOM-1062]
  • clarify the Edit Active/Visible Assessments messaging [HOMEROOM-1157]

District/School View

  • optimize the performance of the District View tab [HOMEROOM-1009]
  • allow hidden Teachers to be saved as a preference on the School View tab [HOMEROOM-648]

Downloading Files

  • add options to include additional student information in the download [HOMEROOM-1071]
  • allow the downloaded file of the assessment set view to honor any Advanced Sorting and/or Filtering configurations [HOMEROOM-706]

Item Analysis View

  • the Item Analysis by Assessment view was not displaying the color provided for the Student Score Percentage [HOMEROOM-975]

Printing Views

  • allow the print version of the Assessment Set view to honor user-defined in-widget configuration changes [HOMEROOM-667]
  • honor the number/percent toggle in the print version of the District View [HOMEROOM-668]

Single Assessment View

  • Add scope filters to the Assessments Chooser [HOMEROOM-1156]

 

CAA/CIA Widget

  • data was not displaying for some students in one district CAA/CIA Widget [HOMEROOM-1090]
  • in the student group chooser, filter the list of grades to only be 9-12 [HOMEROOM-40]
  • display three graduation year fields: Grad Year, Expected Grad Year, and Grad Requirement Year [HOMEROOM-1121]
  • add options to include additional student information in the downloaded file [HOMEROOM-1072]
  • if un-enrolled students are filtered out, also omit them from the print view and the downloaded file [HOMEROOM-598]

 

Charts Viewer Widget

  • remove redundant information from the chart header [HOMEROOM-1153]

 

Data Extracts Widget

  • Add options to include additional student information in the downloaded file [HOMEROOM-1071]
  • add a popover to the Assessment Test Annual Performance Level Percentages chart that lists student information [HOMEROOM-402]
  • order performance levels based their score ranges, not on their ordinals [HOMEROOM-968]
  • create an Enrollment Report Data Extract [HOMEROOM-921]
  • allow for the types of extracts available to be restricted by role [HOMEROOM-1069]
  • remove the export link from the GPA Distribution chart [HOMEROOM-1203]
  • remove the export link from the Student Group List Assessment Percentages chart * [HOMEROOM-1077]
  • allow the header of the the Student Group List Assessment Percentages chart to display the names of more than three student groups * [HOMEROOM-1107]
  • improve being able to navigate through tabs when many are open [HOMEROOM-1191]
  • increase the number of chart styles available [HOMEROOM-1050]

 

Discipline History Widget

  • Add print support [HOMEROOM-927]

 

Gradebook Viewer Widget

  • if assignment doesn’t have a grade, but it does have a score, display the score * [HOMEROOM-1038] [HOMEROOM-1095]
  • scores were not displaying for some students in one district [HOMEROOM-1129]

 

Logins & Links Widget

  • updated the SWIS login with their new URL [HOMEROOM-748]

Option Menu

  • allow users to opt into receiving SDS notification emails [HOMEROOM-1049]
  • display a message to users that missed notification emails [HOMEROOM-1035]
  • allow users to update their passwords within the application Profile Widget [HOMEROOM-1135]
  • do not display the birthdate and gender of educators [HOMEROOM-1126]

 

Risk Indicators Widget

  • Add options to include additional student information in the downloaded file [HOMEROOM-1164]
  • add a tooltip that displays threshold and supporting evidence information [HOMEROOM-1103]
  • allow server side sorting on many attributes, so that every page of data is sorted [HOMEROOM-1147] [HOMEROOM-1080]
  • if un-enrolled students are filtered out, also omit them from print view and downloaded file [HOMEROOM-598] [HOMEROOM-1202]
  • Do not display "undefined" in the indices picker if there are no indices configured [HOMEROOM-1180]
  • if there is only one Risk Index, then bypass the index selector [HOMEROOM-1041]
  • better handle cases when multiple consequences are applied for a single discipline incident [HOMEROOM-1085]
  • create a risk index with a scale of 1-100 for a district [HOMEROOM-1040]
  • update risk indicators for a district’s elementary school [HOMEROOM-1093]
  • optimize the performance of the widget [HOMEROOM-1010]

 

SLP Manager Widget

  • Allow commitments to be mass assigned [HOMEROOM-898]
  • Improve the reliability of the file delivery service [HOMEROOM-1110]

 

Student Assessments Widget

  • Add options to include additional student information in the download [HOMEROOM-1166]
  • Display all scores for all years a student took an assessment in the student assessment widget [HOMEROOM-325]
  • Student Assessments Widget -- Print View: the color for the student's score bar does not match their performance lev [HOMEROOM-1054]

 

Student Groups Widget

Assessments Filter Group

  • cannot have an OR match of an assessment with one status of "not taken" and the other status for a specific performance level [HOMEROOM-1043]

Behaviors Filter Group

  • add date ranges for behavioral filters [HOMEROOM-1167]

Copying Groups

  • when a user copies a static group by role, and the user also has that role, then they also get a copy  [HOMEROOM-1084]
  • If a student group is copied to multiple roles, and a user has those roles, then they get multiple copies of that group [HOMEROOM-1001]
  • add better duplicate name detection when copying groups [HOMEROOM-974]
  • When copying groups to other users, display person names, instead of usernames [HOMEROOM-1138]

Downloaded File

  • Add options to include additional student information in the downloaded file [HOMEROOM-894]

Enrollments Filter Group

  • the "include withdrawn students" filter is not available when editing a group [HOMEROOM-1194]
  • allow the last names of teachers to be searchable in the classes list [HOMEROOM-1124]

Grades and Credits Filter Group

  • In the Grades and Credits filter group, update some wording from "Use Current Grades" to "Restrict to Classes Currently Meeting" [HOMEROOM-1144]
  • allow for decimal values in the credits earned filter, and allow users to enter in a range [HOMEROOM-1114]
  • Update "Low Current Grades" Filter [HOMEROOM-1097]

My Groups Tab

  • list student groups that were created during previous school years [HOMEROOM-796]

Risk Indicators Filter Group

  • Add a filter group for Risk Indicators with simple filters [HOMEROOM-876] [HOMEROOM-1177]

Services Filter Group

  • Add date ranges for services filters [HOMEROOM-937]

Smart Groups

  • Smart groups can be saved without a name [HOMEROOM-1028]
  • some existing groups had a filter that was no longer valid [HOMEROOM-1068]

Static Groups

  • allow students to be added to a static group via an uploaded file [HOMEROOM-1142]
  • display the student’s middle initial when searching for students to add to group [HOMEROOM-1089]
  • allow for a list of students found via filters to be saved as a static group [HOMEROOM-1125] [HOMEROOM-1127]

 

User-Defined Assessments

Assessment Strands

  • allow assessments to be strands [HOMEROOM-947]
  • allow for the Assessment Set View of stranded tests to be available immediately  [HOMEROOM-1189]
  • only allow strands to be of assessments that the user has defined [HOMEROOM-1173]
  • the assessment test selector should select both the assessment and its strands for ease of upload [HOMEROOM-1092]

Defining Assessments

  • allow assessments to be pass/fail [HOMEROOM-1174]
  • remove "state" from the scope selector [HOMEROOM-1183]
  • display all error messages in a single popover * [HOMEROOM-1082]
  • Add duplicate name detection [HOMEROOM-1030]

Editing Assessments

  • only allow the user who defined an assessment to edit [HOMEROOM-1079]
  • allow the user who defined an assessment to clone that assessment [HOMEROOM-1109]
  • allow the user who defined an assessment to delete that assessment [HOMEROOM-1128]
  • allow performance levels to be deleted [HOMEROOM-1108]

Uploading Scores

  • allow all users to access confirmation email links [HOMEROOM-970]
  • add a link in the confirmation email to delete the scores from that file [HOMEROOM-1182]
  • allow all users to upload scores to assessments with a scope of District [HOMEROOM-1078]
  • if another score for a student is uploaded, override the old score, and allow a null score to delete the old score [HOMEROOM-1198]
  • add an optional Administration field to the upload file [HOMEROOM-1208]
  • when a user asks to select a template to upload scores, but they haven’t defined any assessments, display messaging [HOMEROOM-1019]

 

Services Widget

  • A services field was not displaying for a district [HOMEROOM-1083]

 

etc…

  • If a user who hasn’t been assigned a role logs in, message how to get the problem fixed [HOMEROOM-1056]
  • Allow widgets to be collapsable, and save it as a user preference [HOMEROOM-1134]
  • Add support for Internet Explorer 11 [HOMEROOM-1115]
  • If a user goes to the site on an unsupported browser, display a warning message and links to supported browsers * [HOMEROOM-1116]
  • Reduce the Homeroom header space [HOMEROOM-1094]
  • Some widgets were not displaying for the Firefox 27 browser [HOMEROOM-1091]
  • Create a new Application User Person Role: Activity Supervisor  [HOMEROOM-1066]
  • Add grade banding for a district [HOMEROOM-1087]
  • Automatic student groups were not being created for a district [HOMEROOM-1086]
  • update the criteria for automatic student groups [HOMEROOM-702]

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