When setting up the 2026-2027 School Year, the Daily Attendance Setup will DEFAULT to use "Homeroom" attendance to drive your daily attendance. If you use a period to drive daily attendance, remember to set this in
Maintenance > Attendance > Daily Attendance Setup.
Spring Forward on Sunday, March 8th
Friday, March 20th
Census- Resolved an issue that caused no changes to appear even after appropriate configuration in Census > Receive Student Data > Update Students.
Counseling- The "Highest across years" transcript setting will respect any legacy exams that have been renamed.
Counseling- Incorrect assessment dates that were associated with Regents Common Core English Language Arts and Regents Common Core Algebra II have been removed. If scores have been associated with any incorrect dates, the dates will not be removed.
Counseling- Traditional grades for Hybrid courses are available to be retrieved in Counseling > Retrieve Student Grades.
Counseling- SchoolTool Transcript 003 will now show custom activities if the "Show Custom Activities Section" prompt is checked in the report format.
Counseling- Transcripts will generate without error for students that are enrolled in a non-numeric grade.
Maintenance- In the Student Infraction Response template, Field 36 will only contain data if the disposition is configured as OSS. For all other disposition types, Field 36 will be blank.
Teachers- Resolved an issue where scores from imported assignments could not be copied from one section to another due to conflicting assignment times.
Teachers- Resolved an intermittent issue where the comment box did not appear for some students on the Submit Progress Report Grades screen.
Teachers- Resolved an issue that allowed users to add categories for work-based learning hours when the permission was disabled.
Teachers- Teachers attempting to sync a Google Classroom from the roster will see a message that prevents the sync from occurring if the Google Classroom has already been used.
Teachers- The grade book editor score entry screen will only recenter when navigating to a tile that is not currently visible.
Teachers- When there are no standard scores associated with a category, the category will not be considered when calculating the marking period grade for that standard.
Teachers- When using the report button to the right of the student name in the grade book editor, the grade book report will display all assignments associated with the marking period.
Calculate Standard Marking Period Grades Using Overall Assignment Scores: On the Submit Descriptor/Standard Marking Period Grades screen, standard marking period grades can now be calculated based on the overall assignment score instead of individual standard scores.
Google Classroom Syncing Message: When syncing with a Google Classroom from the class roster, a message preventing the sync will appear if the selected Google Classroom is already linked to another course section.
School Year Drop-Down Updates: School Year drop-downs throughout SchoolTool have been updated to display in descending order and default to the current School Year, unless specific user preferences have been configured.
Hybrid Report Card Section Updates: For each course, the Hybrid Report Card will only display sections relevant to the course configuration and/or submitted grades. For example, a course that is descriptor graded only will not include a grid for traditional grades.
Forgot Password and Multi-Factor Authentication Email Updates: Automated forgot password and multi-factor authentication emails that provide login codes have been updated to general Mindex product branding.
Updates to Support Online Registration Configuration: In preparation for the upcoming online registration functionality, changes to support this configuration are being made to SchoolTool. These include a new security user group, a new permission, and related infrastructure changes.
Note: The full Online Registration feature is not available in this release.
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