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Print Absence Summary
Updated onArticleThe Print Absence Summary feature enables administrators to print the data generated in the Absence Summary Report to be distributed as letters or as emails.
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12.0.17 - 09/16/2023
Updated onArticleFOCUS-39894- chore(accounts-receivable): add allocation description to Receivables Report System enhancement adding the product description to Item column on Accounts Receivable > Receivables Report. FOCUS-39850- feat(accounts-receivable): default Receipt Amount to Outstanding for invoice-derived receipts System improvement defaulting the Invoice Outstanding Amount into the Receipt Amount in Accounts Receivable > Receipts. FOCUS-39827- feat(accounts-receivable): add GLs to convenience fees System enhancement to Setup > Settings > Accounts Receivable > Convenience Fees adding a new column to select a General Ledger Cash Account. This setting will override the system setting in Setup > Settings > Internal Accounts when selected. See Setup > Settings > Accounts Receivable > Convenience Fees for additional information. FOCUS-39634- Adding Tab Specific Permissions for Government Codes System enhancement adding a profile permission to each sidebar menu in Setup > General Ledger > District Codes. See Setup > Government Codes for additional information.
Release Notes and State Reporting Updates Release Notes Version 12.0.X
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12.0.10, 12.0.11, 12.0.12, 12.0.13, 12.0.14, 12.0.15, 12.0.16 - Revision - 09/16/2023
Updated onArticleAdded FOCUS-39455 - Communication Platform: Respect Active Permissions when Displaying School Name This branch rectifies an issue in the Communication Platform where users' inactive school enrollments were being displayed. With this update, only the users' active school enrollment will be visible on the side menus and the banner header, ensuring clarity and accuracy when sending or receiving messages. Added FOCUS-39942 - Communication Platform: Remove Linked User Requirement for Contact Replies via Email This branch enhances the Communication Platform by allowing contacts, not linked to a user/parent account, to reply to emails sent by either a teacher or an admin. This functionality is activated for admins when the sender selects the "Allow Student/Parent Reply" option during the email composition. Thus, ensuring a two-way communication even if the contact doesn't have a linked user account. See Communication for additional information. Added FOCUS-39804 - Communication Student Info Letter Not Printing Values Added FOCUS-39593 - Communication: Profile permissions for contact drop down This enhancement introduces finer-grained permissions for options available in the Students dropdown within the Communication Platform compose interface. The new Profile Permissions are: 1) Student 2) Student Personal 3) Primary Contacts 4) All Contacts 5) Once Per Family 6) Teachers Of If a profile is granted access to both "Students" and "Primary Contacts" individual permissions, it will automatically be awarded the combined permission of "Students & Primary Contacts". This ensures streamlined access control and minimizes redundancy in permission assignments. See Communication (Admin) and Communication (Teachers) for details. Added FOCUS-39864 - Communication Platform: Respect Min/Max Year Settings in School Selections This branch updates the Communication Platform compose screen to exclude Inactive Schools, specifically those set with a max or min school year, from the School Filters dropdown. This ensures that users only see relevant active schools when selecting Student and Staff Recipients. Added FOCUS-39847 - Communication Platform: Enhance "Once Per Family" Feature with Recipient Address Deduplication This branch refines the "Once Per Family" functionality to deduplicate messages based on the recipient's contact details, such as email or phone number. Although queue records will still be generated for duplicate entries, they won't result in actual email/call transmissions. This ensures that when a parent accesses the system to view messages related to any of their children, the message will be consistently displayed, regardless of which child's record they're viewing. Additionally, the Communications Report has been enhanced to indicate a "Duplicate" status when examining the recipient details for a given message. See Communication Reports (Admin), Communication Reports (Teachers), Communication (Admin), and Communication (Teachers) for more information. Added FOCUS-39837 - Communication Platform: Better Handling of Invalid HTML Attributes This branch provides a solution to the issue of invalid HTML attributes being entered into the source code in Communication Platform messages. Instead of producing an error when encountering these attributes, the system will now automatically remove or "strip" them, allowing the code to be saved without any hindrance. Furthermore, this update rectifies a problem related to automated cron messages, which previously used an attribute that was considered invalid. Now, such issues will be preemptively addressed, ensuring smoother operations within Focus.
Release Notes and State Reporting Updates Release Notes Version 12.0.X
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12.0.10, 12.0.11, 12.0.12, 12.0.13, 12.0.14, 12.0.15, 12.0.16, 12.0.17 - Revision - 09/18/2023
Updated onArticleAdded FOCUS-39782 - Communication Platform: Associate Student with Migrated Parent Chat Messages Before the branch was implemented, messages that were transferred from the older Focus chat system might not have been associated with a specific student when they came from a parent. This oversight treated these messages as staff-to-staff communications, inadvertently allowing teachers to continue messaging the parent of a student who had moved on from the school. With this new branch, the migration process ensures that each parent message is correctly tied to its respective student. If the student is not scheduled in the current year, it restricts the teacher from continuing communication with that parent. Removed FOCUS-39638 - Communication Platform: New District Options on Compose
Release Notes and State Reporting Updates Release Notes Version 12.0.X
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12.0.16 - Revision - 09/16/2023
Updated onArticleRemoved FOCUS-33699 - E-signature size/display issue
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Generate FES Extracts
Updated onArticleThe Generate FES Extracts screen makes generating, viewing, and downloading data for multiple surveys possible, as well aiding in meeting state reporting needs for the Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) program.
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Standardized Tests
Updated onArticleThe Standardized Tests screen is used to set up the parameters of a district's standardized tests, including each test part and its corresponding score type. From the Standardized Tests screen, administrators build the outline of the standardized tests’ scores that will be imported into Focus with the Import Tools. After setting up Standardized Tests and Score Types, the Focus Importer can be used to Match Student IDs and/or migrate Standardized Test data into Focus, where the data can be reviewed, tracked, and analyzed in a number of other Focus features, including Test History, Test History Report, Test History Breakdown, State Performance Reports and Advanced Reports.
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12.0.10, 12.0.11, 12.0.12, 12.0.13, 12.0.14, 12.0.15, 12.0.16 - Revision - 09/14/2023
Updated onArticleAdded FOCUS-39963 - Communication - Attendance - Once-Per-Day should be evaluated per student, not per configuration See Communication for additional information.
Release Notes and State Reporting Updates Release Notes Version 12.0.X
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Health and Nurse
Updated onArticleNurses are able to navigate through Focus to view, enter, and update new and existing medical data. This document will guide nurses to understand the fundamentals of Focus, how to change and update addresses and contacts, the district specific health tabs for each student, updating individually and in mass, and various reports to run.
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Add / Drop Report
Updated onArticleThe Add / Drop Report is used to track students enrolled and students withdrawn during a set timeframe.
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