SPSM-MI_24.8.1.0 Release Notes

Date of Release: August 23, 2024

Reference	Summary	Release Note
SPEDSM-101782	Eligibility Recommendation Document & Visual Impairment Qualifying Criteria	Visual Impairment (VI) Section Updates for Summer Model Release In the upcoming summer model release, the following changes will be implemented when the user selects the Visual Impairment checkbox under the Purpose area. This will trigger a new VI section to appear. These changes will not be mandatory, meaning any non-finalized document will inherit these updates upon deployment. MI customers are recommended to finalize all “Completed” ER documents before the model release. Changes to the Visual Impairment Section: Diagnostic Assurances Update: Updated text: This student manifests a visual impairment that, even with correction, adversely affects educational performance. Orientation & Mobility Recommendations: When the user selects the “Select to Include Orientation & Mobility recommendations” checkbox, the Orientation and Mobility recommendations must be selected. Qualifying Criteria Adjustments: Removed the following hard-coded values from the document: Acuity of less than 20/200 Restricted peripheral vision Deteriorating eye condition Added a new value: “Adversely affects educational performance.” This will be the only value selectable in Qualifying Criteria when Visual Impairment is checked. Removed the functionality that currently assigns default values for Qualifying Criteria when a student is eligible for Visual Impairment. Guidance Statement Modification: Removed the guidance text “(for visual acuity of 20/200 or less)” from both the “Select to Include Orientation & Mobility recommendations” checkbox and the Orientation and Mobility recommendations option. New Red Guidance Statement: Added the following red guidance statement below the third checkbox: “For visual acuity of 20/200 or less, peripheral field of vision restricted to 20 degrees or less, or based on the recommendation of a teacher of students with visual impairment, ophthalmologist, or optometrist.” This statement will always be displayed and will not be controlled by the checkboxes that appear. Assurance Statement Area Update: Removed the checkbox and sub-checkboxes for the “The student manifests all of the following” statement. Added a new checkbox: “The suspected disability is not due to limited English Proficiency.” Eligible/Not Eligible Checkbox Logic: Auto-check “eligible” only when all four criteria under the Assurance Statement area are selected. Otherwise, “No” will be selected.
SPEDSM-106562	IEP - Consent and Commitment section	Fixed the error message when the Special Education parent consent field is blank, even though the student is only eligible for Early On services, not Special Education, and the staff opted for a manual Signing process.
SPEDSM-101654	IEP Form	The following updates were made to the ESY section within Programs and Services: Addition of ESY Area: An ESY section is now included and will only appear for newly created IEPs after the summer ’24 release. Amendments to IEPs created before the summer release will retain the old format without this new section. Updated text for Guidance: Add needed ESY services to this document's Programs and Services section. Document how the team decided ESY, including data used to make the determination, in the box that follows. For students who need ESY services, specify which area(s) they qualify under and what goal(s)/objective(s) will be worked on during ESY. New Checkboxes and Logic: When the user selects “The IEP Team has considered the anticipated needs of this student including the need for extended school year (ESY) services including the areas of regression/recoupment, critical stage of learning, and nature/severity of disability,” the following checkboxes appear: The student qualifies for ESY based on Regression/Recoupment. The student qualifies for ESY based on Critical Stage of Learning. The student qualifies for ESY based on Nature/Severity of Disability. Based on the selection of these checkboxes: If all three checkboxes (3.1, 3.2, and 3.3) are selected Yes, the following prompt appears: “ESY services are needed to address a specific goal or need. Describe data/process that determined services were necessary based on the areas of regression/recoupment, critical stage of learning, or nature/severity of disability.” If any of the checkboxes (3.1, 3.2, and 3.3) are selected No, the following prompt appears: “ESY services are not needed. Describe data/process that determined services were not necessary based on the areas of regression/recoupment, critical stage of learning, or nature/severity of disability.” The following updates were made to the PLAAPF Section: Added five new checkboxes within Resulting Need area: Goals and Objectives Supplementary Aids and Services Transition Plan Personal Care Plan Programs and/or Services Specialized Transportation These checkboxes are optional and will not flow data to profiles. Unchecked values will have their labels and checkboxes suppressed. Supplementary Aids and Services Logic: If the “Supplementary Aids and Services” checkbox is selected, the system will require that the "Supplementary aids and services are needed at this time" checkbox on the Special Factors page is also selected. Validation will ensure that at least one goal has the Supplementary Aids checkbox selected. If this is not met, the user cannot set the document to review or final, and the message will display: “The IEP Special Factors section indicates Supplementary aids are needed. However, there are no goals that have the Supplementary Aids box selected. Or there is at least one goal that has Supplementary Aids selected, however on the Special Factors section, no supplemental aids are needed.” Personal Care Plan Logic: If the “Personal Care Plan” checkbox is selected, a message (not a constraint) will display at the top: “Please ensure that a Personal Care Plan is completed.” Specialized Transportation Logic: If at least one PLAAPF item with the “Specialized Transportation” checkbox is selected, and the “Yes, Specialized transportation is required due to the following” checkbox in the Programs and Services section is selected, a warning message will appear: “Specialized transportation is selected as a need on the PLAAFP, however, specialized transportation is not indicated on the Programs and Services section.” The user cannot set the document to review or final. If the Programs and Services checkbox is checked but no PLAAPF item has the ST checked, no warning message will appear, and the user can set the document to review/final. Stylized Text: Applied stylized text for the “Progress on most recent goals and objectives” field. The following updates were made to the Transition Considerations section: Non-Amendment IEP Documents Only: When the user selects Yes for considering the transition plan, the system will automatically check for the existence of a finalized [InviteIEP] document within the same school year folder as the IEP. If the finalized document exists, it will pull in the Signature Date from the special education eligibility profile. If the finalized document does not exist, a message will appear: “A finalized Consent to Invite Community Agencies document must be finalized and exist in the same school year document folder where the IEP resides.” Amended Documents: For amended documents, the entire section within the Community Agency Involved (checkboxes and text boxes) will be read-only. The Consent Signature Date is read-only and will not flow data to the profile.
SPEDSM-105940	K-12 Nonpublic Service Plan document	The ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ checkboxes do not appear in the signature field when DocuSign and Digital Signature are turned OFF/ON.
SPEDSM-105812	Other Health Impairment dropdown	On the Transfer of Student, IEP, and K-12 Non-Public Service Plan document pages, choosing "OHI (Other Health Impairment)" from the Primary Disability dropdown now triggers a required entry in the Medical Diagnosis field.
SPEDSM-102907	Revocation of Consent Document	Introduced labels “Revocation of Parent Consent for Special Programs and Notice of Cessation” for document differentiation in our automated workflow system.
SPEDSM-105786	Transfer Of Student	Implemented an enhancement to the form functionality: When a user selects an option for the Most Recent IEP Purpose, the Disability and Qualifying Area fields becomes editable.