ASCENDER 9.0505 Update Installed 1/31/25:
ASCENDER Student Highlights:
Release 9.0505 Fixed incorrect ACHVMNT_CAT_CD values in prior-year leaver records to ensure proper reporting. Updated API logic for StudentTitleIPartAProgramAssociation to include all Title 1 entries when a student changes campuses. TSDS Fatal Errors Addressed: 40100-0129
ASCENDER Business Highlights:
Release 9.0505 addresses updates related to TSDS Fall Finance Data. This ensures that budget staging data records update automatically to reflect the snapshot date +1 day for consistency and accuracy. Provided fix for budget staging data updates to align with snapshot date requirements. Adjustments to TSDS Fall Finance Data handling for improved accuracy.
ASCENDER Admin Highlights:
Release 9.0505 includes modifications to the TR_SR_STU_LEAVER_DTS_UPDATE trigger to ensure proper deletion logging when a student’s prior-year leaver record is updated to be excluded from PEIMS reporting. Now, when an exclusion occurs, a record is inserted into the EDFI_DELETE_LOG, ensuring that the data reflects accurate student status updates. Modified trigger logic to log delete actions when a student is excluded from PEIMS reporting. Ensured accurate record deletions across related staging tables.
NOTE: A reminder that a successful extract and send and promotion and validation is necessary to confirm if software updates fix the fatals and reports in question.
Fix Applied - SPPI-14 Fatals - 40203-0037 and 49010-0010 Contact Priority
ISSUE: LEAs are receiving SPPI-14 fatal error message: 49010-0010 For a particular student, if information is provided for more than one parent, then ContactPriority must be reported.
SPECIAL NOTE: A fix to update the PriorYearLeaverStudentParentAssociation Entity to 'Resend' in the staging tables has been applied to all Region 16 districts ASCENDER databases.
Action Needed: Please ensure a successful extract and send is completed and a SPPI-14 promotion and validation is successful.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS ABOUT SUBMISSION DUE DATES:
Fall PEIMS Resub due date is February 6th - See TAA letter here for more information. Please take the extra time to ensure validation errors and Fall PEIMS Reports have been reviewed. Click here for a suggested list of reports to review.
Other Submission due dates quickly approaching:
SPPI-14 due February 20, 2025
ECDS Kindergarten Submission due February 6, 2025 (Same date Fall Resub is now due)
PEIMS Mid-Year First Submission due February 13, 2025
PEIMS Mid-Year Resubmission due February 27, 2025
TAA letter here regarding the above submission deadlines sent on January 16, 2025