Delivering Data You Can Trust

With the release of PowerSchool 22.7 (released on 7/28/2022), it is required that our State Data Validation Suite and RealTime Reports customers update their Level Data Core plugin to a minimum version of 5.1.0.

Introduced in the 22.7 version of PowerSchool are a new set of restrictions that prevent any existing versions of the Level Data Core plugin from functioning. Any customers whose PowerSchool server is updated to 22.7 will experience a disruption of Level Data State Validation and RealTime Reports services until the Level Data Core plugin version is updated.

Please note that the Level Data Core plugin 5.1.0 is only compatible with PowerSchool versions 21.11 and later. Earlier versions of PowerSchool will reject the new Level Data Core plugin 5.1.0.

Level Data applications integrate tightly with PowerSchool. These include page enhancement applications like RealTime Validation, and full page applications like State Data Validation and Validation Reporting.

Each of these applications has options available to help District Administrators apply the appropriate security options, as per their district policies and following PowerSchool security guidelines.

This document outline how Level Data’s PowerSchool applications integrate with PowerSchool’s security mechanisms in order to properly secure the applications.

Several months ago, we made significant updates with respect to respect PowerSchool’s two main security mechanisms: Page Level Security and Field Level Security. Please be sure to update your SDVS bundle soon. Version 2.x will no longer be supported as of April 1, and will be deactivated entirely on July 1, 2020.

The only way to prevent disruptions to your service is update your bundle to the latest version.

This document outlines three methods of installing Level Data’s PowerSchool applications, and provides a brief overview of the security configuration settings.

Contact data from the original core contact fields in PowerSchool were automatically migrated to the new contacts structure in PowerSchool 11.1. Contact data was migrated for all students that have ever existed within a PowerSchool database - both active and inactive.

The State Data Validation Suite (SDVS) generic contacts rules consist of 21 rules on a “Contacts” tab and 15 rules on a “Contacts Reports” tab. These rules are provided to help users clean up existing and/or new contact data.