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.

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS: 

Enrollment 

• The Military Connected Family Report is now available to the Student Support-School Based user role.  

 Scheduling 

• The Scheduling Screens now have two new Section Attributes (Sections Editor and Teacher Section Assignments) to support the identification of “Target Language Teacher” and “Team Teacher” at Dual Language elementary and secondary schools offering Dual Language Programs. The “Target Language Teacher” and “Team Teacher” attributes will be available for selection at elementary dual language schools.  The “Target Language Teacher” attribute will be available for selection at secondary schools offering Dual Language Programs.  New job aids will be made available soon for specific guidance. 

• The Section Attributes report will include both Section Attributes at elementary Dual Language schools and secondary schools offering Dual Language Programs. 

 Attendance 

• The Advanced Search screen has been corrected to display all uncleared absences when the user selects this option, located under the Attendance tab.  
• All school calendars have been updated to mark June 11^th as an instructional day.   
• Blackboard Connect interface has been corrected to omit invalid attendance records.  
• The Attendance Summary Report legend has been corrected to count partial day absences as present.   
• The Classroom Attendance Totals by Date Range – Continuation Report has been corrected to display absences with reason codes of present, as “present”. 

GATE 

• The GATE Notification Letter may now be generated in the Parent Portal.  

 Grades 

• The Counseling List Report has been corrected and will now display the students’ classes correctly when selecting ‘FULL SCHEDULE’. 

Graduation Standards 

• The Graduation Progress Report has been updated and now the 'Eligible for Graduation' section will display each subject area correctly. 

Health 

• Immunization records for COVID-19 and Meningitis B (MenB) are now available on the Immunization screen.  

Manage Groups 

• The Manage Groups screen has been enhanced to allow the Student Support School-Based user role the ability to create, edit and delete Administrative > Behavioral Intervention and Case Management groups. 

 NCLB 

• The Assignment Monitoring Report has been corrected such that a staff's expired credentials will no longer display. 

 Special Education Placement Portal  

• A link to the ArcGIS map is now available in the Resource Section. To view the map, users must have access to ArcGIS.  

Student Support 

• The SSPT Referral Form in-line report has been updated to display the correct attendance. 

Transcripts 

• The Transcripts Details screen has been updated with a new column titled ‘Partial Credits’ and will display ‘Yes’ for courses that were awarded partial credits. 
• The High School Transcripts Report has been updated to allow courses that have been awarded partial credits, to now be identified with a superscript lower case ‘p’, located to the left of the course title. 
• The High School Transcripts CSV Report has been updated with a new column titled ‘Course Awarded Partial Credits’ and will display ‘Y’ for courses that were awarded partial credits.