MiSiS Announcements: 

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS: 

Enrollment 

• The Enrollment App has been enhanced to allow the parent/guardian email to be selected as Unknown.  
• The Parent/Guardian screen has been enhanced to allow a PO Box to be entered for Parent/Guardian Mailing Address.  

Scheduling 

• The Sections Editor screen has been enhanced to prevent a section’s period from being changed when students are enrolled in the section.  This prevention will ensure that students do not have overlapping section enrollments during the same period for another course. 

Attendance 

• The Continuation Update Attendance screen has been corrected to display the Distance Absence: DA as default value for Future Attendance dates. 
• The Continuation Teacher Roster screen “Absent Today” column has been corrected to consider Hour2 absences.  
• The Carlson Home Manage Teacher/Class Attendance screen has been corrected to display the attendance details when navigating to previous week.  
• The Uncleared Absence Report has been corrected to display the incorrect address. 

Census 

• The Homeless screen has been enhanced to allow school-based users to edit the end date of a student’s record.  

English Learner 

• The Master Plan Program screen has been enhanced to default to the student's school enrollment entry date when adding a new record for a newly enrolled student (either to LAUSD or a new school). 

Grades 

• The Options Schools Report Card will no longer include any courses that have a section attribute of "Exclude Grades". 

Graduation Standards 

• The following screens and reports have been enhanced with the logic such that A-G courses in the LOTE and Math subject areas, taken in the Spring or Summer of SY 2019-2020, that have been awarded the mark of 'P', will validate lower-level courses:
• The Graduation Standards Summary screen 
• The Graduation Eligibility Status for Class of 2016 and Beyond Report
• The Graduation Progress Report
• The High School IGP Report

NCLB and CTC  

• The ESSA Parent Notification Letter - Report has been corrected to only display courses that a student is enrolled in. 

Student Support 

• The Student Support-School Based user role has been corrected to allow the user to edit an SSPT Intervention created at a previous school of enrollment.  
• The Pupil Service - School Based user role has been corrected to allow access to create/edit SSPT Interventions. 

Summer School 

• The Summer School Counselor user role has been removed for staff assigned to 2020 summer term.  
• The Student Schedule screen has been enhanced to display summer school students on the Academic menu. 

Transcripts 

• The Academic Decathlon Transcripts Report has been updated such that the GPA Calculation logic and the sections that display the courses will now exclude courses taken in the Spring or Summer of SY 2019-2020. 

MiSiS Announcements:

LAUSD Photo Portal

Principals are encouraged to review their designee(s) annually in the LAUSD Photo Portal.  To view the staff member(s) who currently has/have access to the school site, click on the Designee tile.  If a staff member should no longer need access, click on the “remove” button under the Action column.  Refer to the Granting Access to Photo Vendors and Assigning Designee job aid for instructions on how to add a designee.

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• The MiSiS enrollment screen has been updated with a new look and feel. Refer to the job aid for more information: Student Enrollment

Scheduling

• The Sections Editor and Concurrent Term Editor screens have been enhanced to prevent scheduling of students in more than one service-like course per semester. Students in grades 8, 11 and 12 are eligible to take no more than one service-like course per semester, for a maximum of two per year, for the selected grade level.

 Attendance

• The Continuation Teacher Roster will no longer display an asterisk on periods tabs that do not meet.
• The Independent Study Weekly Manage Teacher Class Attendance screen, used primarily by City Angels, has been corrected and will no longer display an error message.
• The Student Attendance Totals In-line Report has been corrected and will now display 'Days Abs Unexcused', 'Days Abs Excused' and 'Days Present' column counts.
• The Period Group screen, located under the Admin > Configuration menu, has been corrected and will no longer display an error message.
• The Contact Log screen has been enhanced to allow users with the Pupil Services-Homeless user role, the ability to create, edit, and delete their own entries.

Athletic Eligibility

• The Attendance Daily Check Report has been corrected to accurately display the present records.

English Learner

• The Individual Reclassification Plan (IRP) has been fixed to display only active master plan programs.

 Health

• The Immunization screen includes a new exemption type, “Conditional Enrollment Per BUL 1660”. This exemption type is intended for students in special populations who cannot produce proof of immunization, at the time of enrollment.  The exemption expires after 30 days.  Refer to BUL 1660 for more information.

 Student Support

• The Option School Referral screen has been enhanced to allow users with the Pupil Services School Based user role the ability to read, create, and update the option school referral screen for the Referring School.
• The in-line Suspension Report has been corrected to properly display the student demographic and suspension information.