FOCUS-43587- feat(budgets): display historic spent amount in budget planning

See District Budget Planning for more information.

FOCUS-43620- Add System Setting For Job Transfer Indicator

System improvement adding a system setting to allow for Job Transfers to be shown on the View Paystubs and Pay History page. To enable: Setup > Settings > Payroll > Paystub options > Show Job Transfer.

See Setup > Settings > Payroll > Paystub Options section.

FOCUS-42307- Employee Agreements in HR > Files

System improvement to store employee agreements in Human Resources > Employee > Files.

See Setup > Settings > Employee Files > HR File Folders tab, Profiles, and Applicant Tracking for details.

FOCUS-43285 - HR > Leave Maintenance > Hours, multi-select on Pay type

System Improvement adding multi-select functionality to Human Resources > Leave Maintenance > Hours > Pay Type.

See Leave Maintenance > Hours for more details.

FOCUS-43725- Student Search: Improve Scheduled into Course More Search Option

With this update, the "Scheduled Into Course" More Search Option in both New and Legacy Search will no longer require the effective date to be between the schedule and enrollment start and end dates if the end dates are null or the same.

FOCUS-43684- Graduation Requirements Report: Improve Display of Course Hover on Detailed Report

This update resolves the issue with the graduation tooltip on the Graduation Requirements Report detailed view, which previously obscured the filters and made it difficult to filter columns. The tooltip will now only appear on the cells themselves and not on the filter fields.

FOCUS-43654- Communication Platform: Prevent Time Fields From Forcing Changes in Settings

Before the branch if you attempted to click in and click out of the time field on the communication settings the field would turn yellow like a change had been made. With the branch the cell will only turn yellow if a change is actually made.

FOCUS-43649- Class Requests: Display Only Distinct Subject Titles for Duplicate Requests

Previously, on the Student Requests screen in the Parent/Student portal, the course subject title was displayed when a duplicate request was entered. Moving forward, this additional description will only be displayed to the end-user if the subject is different between the duplicated requests. This update ensures that only relevant information is shown, reducing unnecessary duplication.

FOCUS-43646- Communication Platform: Add Compose Icon to Parent & Student Replies

This feature enhancement to the Communication Platform for students and parents introduces a new compose icon in the editor area of their inbox. If an email allows parents or students to reply, a small compose icon will now be displayed, similar to the icon available for admins and teachers.

See Communication (Parents/Students) > Inbox and Sent for details.

FOCUS-43635- Select Student/User Tooltip: Add Age to Birthdate Enhancement

With this update, if you have the birth date included in your customized list so that it shows on the hover in the top left, the age of that user or student will now appear next to the birth date.

See Student Info, Searching for Students, and User Info for more information.

FOCUS-43621- Scheduled Jobs: Do not Override Next Grade Value in Set Next School

This update modifies the Set Next School built-in Scheduled Job to ensure that it does not override the next grade if it is already set in the student's enrollment record. This preserves the specified next grade and prevents unintended changes.

See Scheduled Jobs for more information.

FOCUS-43595- Ed-Fi: Resolve Retrieving Local Descriptors

Previously, local descriptors did not work due to an error with local URLs for customers in Arizona. With this update, local descriptors will load as expected, resolving the issue with local URLs.

FOCUS-43594- Transcripts: Resolve "Save Setting as Default" Setting

This update resolves an issue where the "Save Setting as Default" option in Transcripts did not default the settings. With this branch, the settings are now correctly saved and applied as default.

FOCUS-43588- Gradebook: Prevent Error Editing Gradebook Rubric

Previously, deleting a Gradebook Rubric did not perform a full deletion in the database, causing errors when editing the rubric. With this update, when a rubric is deleted, it will be fully removed from the database, preventing any related errors.

FOCUS-43572- Community Mobile App: Allow Student ID Scanning

This update restores the scanner icon on the mobile app student list for iOS and Android. With this enhancement, users can now scan a student's barcode while viewing a list of students on the community app. When scanned, the detailed student record opens, providing quick access to student information.

See Using the Mobile App for Administrators and Using the Mobile App for Teachers for more information.

FOCUS-43564- Transcripts: Pull Transcript Title from Course Catalog for Year & Course and CTE Grouping

When generating transcripts and selecting the Group By options of Year & Course or CTE, the Course Titles were previously being generated from the current year's Course Catalog "Transcript Title." With this update, the generated transcript will now use the "Transcript Title" from the applicable grade record year's Course Catalog, ensuring accurate historical titles are displayed.

FOCUS-43563- New Search & Student Groups: Improve Search Results with 'Scheduled Into Teacher' More Search Option

This update ensures accurate search results when using the 'Scheduled into Teacher' in New Search. Previously, when a group was created using 'Scheduled into Teacher,' the More Search Option was ignored, and all students were returned. Now, the student search results display correctly, reflecting the intended criteria.

FOCUS-43544- Communication Platform: New Message Quick Link on Scheduling Add/Drop Report

This feature enhancement adds a message quick link to the Scheduling Add/Drop Report. When used, this quick link directs the end-user to the Communication Platform compose screen with the student recipients pre-selected, streamlining the communication process.

See the Add/Drop Report for additional information.

FOCUS-43543- Proficiency Gradebook: Resolve Grade Calculation with Blank Scores with Comments

This update fixes an issue in a proficiency-based gradebook where a gradebook entry with a comment but no grade still affected the grade calculation. With this update, entries with comments but no grades will no longer impact the grade calculation, ensuring accurate grade reporting.

FOCUS-43533- Print Badge: Minimum Width for QR Codes

This update improves the Print ID Badges feature leveraging QR codes. It sets a minimum width for the QR code element in the badge printer template to prevent it from being cut off, ensuring the QR codes are printed correctly and fully visible.

FOCUS-43509- School Choice: New Choice Priorities

This update adds four new built-in priorities for the School Choice Module, which customers can leverage in their Priority Charts: -Sibling Anchor School: If one sibling/step-sibling is accepted, the other sibling/step-sibling qualifies for this status if they are applying to the same school, for the same application year, and the same application type (spa/choice/magnet). -Sibling Anchor Program: If one sibling/step-sibling is accepted, the other sibling/step-sibling qualifies for this status if they are applying to the same school, for the same application year, the same application type (spa/choice/magnet), and the same program. -Sibling Anchor: If one sibling/step-sibling is accepted, the other sibling/step-sibling qualifies for this status if they are applying to the same school and the same application year. -Linked Sibling: This works similarly to the existing Sibling Guarantee status but includes both siblings and step-siblings. If the linked student has the same choice for the same program, they qualify for the linked sibling status.

FOCUS-43507- Online Enrollments: Improve Sorting on Completed At in Unprocessed Application Report

This update implements a sort order improvement to the "Completed At" column on the Students Online Enrollments, Unprocessed Applications report. This enhancement ensures that entries are displayed in a more organized and logical sequence based on the completion date and time.

FOCUS-43497- System Preference: New "Allow Public Access to Student Photos" Preference

This enhancement adds a new default system preference called "Allow public access to student photos." When enabled, student photo URLs can be accessed without being logged into Focus, regardless of profile permissions, making them available for applications such as PowerBI.

See Setup > System Preferences > List of Default School Preferences and School Preferences > General for details.

FOCUS-43476- Graduation Requirements Report: Correct Semester 2 Marking Period Enrolled Credits Logic

This update fixes an issue in the Graduation Requirements Report where an enrolled Semester 2 marking period course incorrectly displayed full-year credits (e.g., 1 credit) instead of the allotted semester credits (e.g., 0.5 credits). Previously, the report calculated the full-year amount of credits for future courses, which is appropriate for Semester 1 but not for Semester 2, where only two quarters remain. The update ensures that Semester 2 courses are now correctly calculated to show 0.5 credits.

FOCUS-43460- Assessments: Respect Score Type Sort Order in Test History Report

This update corrects an issue in the Test History Report under the Assessments menu where the sort order of the score types was not being respected. The report will now correctly display score types in the specified order.

FOCUS-43456- Attendance: Improve Logic of Teacher Completion for Combined Sections by Period for Attendance

With this update, an individual entry will be made in the database for each course period attendance taken when the "Combine Section for Taking Attendance" preference is in use. This change ensures a more accurate Attendance Teacher Completion Report.

FOCUS-43432- Attendance: Adjust Perfect Attendance Report to Respect Marking Periods

This update corrects an issue with the Perfect Attendance report, which was not pulling in the correct teacher for Semester 1 courses. The report now correctly references the dates built into the marking period, ensuring the accurate assignment of teachers for Semester 1 courses.

FOCUS-43417- Scheduling: New Prevent Scheduling Enhancement to Victims

This update adds a checkbox called "Prevent Co-Schedule" to the Victims system student logging field. If checked, running the Scheduler from the Student Requests screen will prevent victims and aggressors from being scheduled into the same section if they have the same course request. This enhancement to Students' Schedule Requests ensures that victims and aggressors will not be auto-scheduled into the same course and section when a student is flagged as a victim.

See Students > Student Info > Adding a Victim Entry for more information.

FOCUS-43415- Communication Platform: New Send to Staff Profile Permission

This enhancement adds a new profile permission to Communications called "Send to Staff." This permission determines which Admin and Teacher profiles can message staff in the Communication Platform. To maintain current functionality, this permission will be enabled by default for profiles that previously had access to sending messages through the platform. If this new permission is deselected, the end user will no longer have access to the Staff Pulldown in the Communication Platform. Additionally, when the option is not selected, the message button will be disabled on User Advanced reports, District Reports including the Staff ID, and Teacher Completion Reports for both Attendance and Grades. Staff members can still reply to messages sent to them, but they will not be able to compose or start a new conversation using the Staff Pulldown.

See Communication (Admin), Profiles, Users > Advanced Report, Teacher Completion (Grades), and Teacher Completion (Attendance) for details.

FOCUS-43376- Re-Enrollment Forms: Resolve Previous Year Inactive Students

This update resolves an issue with checking enrollments for optional forms, allowing students to enroll through Apply regardless of their status. Additionally, it addresses a problem with inactive optional forms. Previously, if you accessed the student portal of an inactive student and the inactive student portal was not selected, the form would still be displayed. This issue has now been corrected.

FOCUS-43323- Communication Platform: Resolve Teacher vs. Student School Displaying in Inbox Subtitle

Before the branch when a parent or student would send a message to a teacher who was a teacher a multiple schools it was possible that the teachers other school would appear in the header of the conversation. With the branch the school is based on the students enrollment.

FOCUS-43193- FLShots: Add New Student Immunization Identifier

This enhancement adds a new system field called "State Immunization Identifier," which will be associated with the Immunization Student Category if one exists. When utilized, this unique ID can serve as an alternative to the student's social security number for uniquely identifying students when importing immunization records with FLShots.

See Florida Shots Integration for details.

FOCUS-43177- Communication Platform: Apply Partial Templates & Edit Entire Template/Announcement with Edit Template/Announcement Permission

Previously, if a template was shared with a profile that did not have access to one of the communication types, the user could not select any recipients to send the message to. With this update, users can now send messages using the template, and only the communication types they have access to will be used. This ensures that users can send messages without being restricted by unavailable communication types.

FOCUS-43045- Scheduling: Support Rotation Days in Planning Periods

This update enhances Planning Periods by supporting Rotation Days for Teacher Planning Periods. When Rotation Days are enabled in your Scheduling System Preferences, a Rotation Day column will display on the Teacher Planning tab. Duties, Planning, and Department Meetings can now be defined by both Rotation Day and Period. Once planning periods have been set, they will display on the Teacher Schedules Report. Leveraging the Rotation Day option on the Teacher Schedules Report results in more accurate schedule displays for the end user.

See Scheduling > Planning Periods > Setting Up Teacher Planning Periods for more information.

FOCUS-43029- Assessments: Adjust EWS Report to Display Correct ELA Course (Florida)

This update resolves an issue in the Early Warning System (EWS) Reports where students were incorrectly showing their Intensive Reading teacher as their ELA teacher when both courses were scheduled. This fix ensures that the correct ELA teacher is displayed and is specifically applicable for Florida customers.

FOCUS-42944- Attendance: New Hourly Attendance Schedule Preference

This enhancement introduces a new system preference called "Period or Hourly Attendance" that allows postsecondary schools to enable sections with both period attendance and hourly attendance at the same site. Previously, this capability was managed through school-level permissions. This new preference provides greater flexibility and control over attendance tracking methods at the institutional level.

FOCUS-42883- Report Card Comments: Adding "Report Card New Line Length" System Preference

This update introduces a new system preference called "Report Card New Line Length." This preference works with long comments for report cards, restricting how many characters a new line can contain. It helps maintain report cards within a specific page length based on comment size. Additionally, the update corrects an issue to ensure teachers receive an error when attempting to enter a long comment that exceeds the "Max Length for a Comment" system preference.

See System Preferences > Grading tab for details.

FOCUS-42720- Student Info: Clicking "Address & Contacts" No Longer Considered a Record Update

This update addresses an issue where merely clicking on the Addresses & Contacts tab was incorrectly registered as an update to the record, despite no changes being made. The fix prevents these false recordings by comparing the last parsed date with the last updated date.

FOCUS-43733- Error when sending communication message

FOCUS-43394- De-dup fields_viewed user_audit_trail records

FOCUS-43676- SSS: Resolve Date Error Saving Goals with Goal Bank Enabled

Previously, when saving a goal with the goal bank enabled, users encountered an error because the validation process incorrectly checked for dates that do not exist with the goal bank. This issue has been addressed in the latest update. Now, users can save goals with the goal bank enabled without experiencing any errors, ensuring a smoother and more reliable workflow.

FOCUS-43618- SSS: Caseload & Services Enhancements (Service Screen & Inactive Students)

This update implements two main features. First, it enhances the Student List in the Caseload & Services Screen by adding recent inactive students and displaying "Active" and "Inactive" tags to distinguish between active and inactive students. Second, it introduces several modifications to the Service Form in SSS > Caseload and Services > Add a Service/Add Group Service. The Service Date field is now mandatory when saving as a draft or submitting, and it is restricted to disallow the selection of future dates and weekends. Additionally, when the "The student was absent on this day" checkbox is checked, the "Time In" and "Time Out" fields are disabled, the field values are cleared, and the duration is set to 0 minutes and 0 units. The Service Date remains required. Lastly, after setting the default template, when loading a draft from the template, the service date will be checked initially.

See Caseload & Services (admin) and Caseload & Services (teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-43616- SSS: Resolve Goals & Objectives Validation with Enabled Goal Bank

Previously, Goals & Objectives did not validate if the Goal Bank was enabled, resulting in the green checkbox not displaying before the step name. With this update, Goals & Objectives now validate as expected when the Goal Bank is enabled, and the green checkbox will correctly display before the step name.

FOCUS-43501- SSS: Goals & Objectives Improvements for Missouri

This update makes the following changes to the Goals & Objectives for Missouri: - Removes the Responsible Implementers and Service Type dropdowns. - Removes the "Responsible Implementers" dropdown from the create/edit goals screen. - Adds a free text area titled "Baseline" above the goal categories.

FOCUS-43429- SSS: Make IEP Goals Required in Caseload & Services

When adding an SSS Caseload Service, this update makes the IEP Goals dropdown a required field if the student has IEP Goals defined. An asterisk will appear next to the dropdown, and an error message will be displayed if a selection is not made.

See Caseload & Services (admin) and Caseload & Services (teacher) for more information.

FOCUS-43183- SSS: Support Dynamic Steps in Event Reporting

Previously, if a step was added via a form trigger, it would not display in the list of Forms & Steps in the SSS Event Reporting screen. With this update, steps added via form triggers now correctly display in the list of Forms & Steps in the SSS Event Reporting screen as expected.

FOCUS-42614- SSS: Improve Display of Caseload & Services Service Dates

Previously, if a user saved a caseload service record without the required service date field, the Last Serviced column in SSS > Caseload & Services > 'Caseload' tab would display today's date as the service date. With this update, the Last Serviced column will display no date when there is no service date. If a service is submitted with a blank date, it will default to today's date.

FOCUS-40870- May 2024 SSS Snapshots Missouri & Ohio