Podium Release Notes
For a sense of upcoming enhancements, please see Upcoming Work.
Date: June 5, 2026
Release version: 2026.6.5
Summary: The June release of Podium includes updates to the Predictions, Metric Comparison, Chronic Absenteeism, and Attendance dashboards.
Breaking Features: None in this release
New Features: None in this release
Improvements:
Predictions Dashboard:
The Predictions Dashboard has been updated to provide probabilities for meeting targets.
Metric Comparison Dashboard:
Users can now filter by time period in the Metric Comparison dashboard, allowing for increased understanding of the time frames in which each metric category (like Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate, etc.) occurred.
Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard
Chronic Absenteeism dashboard had been updated to include additional information. Now percentages by Chronic Absence group and implementation of a third category which combines the two non-Chronic Absence are visible on the dashboard.
Attendance Dashboard
Calendar code has been added as a filter to the attendance dashboard. This will allow users additional granularity when viewing the dashboard.
On-Track-to-Graduate and Predictions Dashboards
Views of pivot tables that have hit the maximum row count now implement sort query method so that random values are not dropped.
Bug Fixes: None in this release
Advanced Add-ons: None in this release
Date: May 5, 2026
Release version: 2026.5.5
Summary: The Podium release for May includes dashboard enhancements to improve visibility of students and functionality for users. Dashboards impacted are the Behavior, Chronic Absenteeism, Student Detail, Student and Section Profile dashboards, and Predictions and Targets Dashboard.
Breaking features: None in this release.
New features: None in this release.
Improvements:
Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard: The Chronic Absenteeism dashboard will now default to all students when the dashboard loads. Previously, this was only enrolled students.
Student Detail Dashboard: All assessment year views are shown YYYY-YY instead of YYYY in the Assessment: Student Detail Dashboard.
Student Profile Dashboard: Student profile tables show the date format YYYY-MM-DD and no longer display unnecessary timestamps.
Section Profile Dashboard: Section Profile dashboard now includes a course code filter along with local course code. This will enable users to narrow down course sections for administrators.
Behavior Dashboard: Behavior dashboard has updated logic to correct for possible NULL action codes when calculating discipline actions. The dashboard will now show these behaviors in the "Other Actions" count.
Advanced Add Ons:
Predictions and Targets Dashboard: Updates to better display students who only have one prediction type (beginning of year or current best). This allows users to get a consistent sense of how students are predicted to perform on end of year exam.
Bug Fixes: None in this release.
Date: April 6, 2026
Release Version: 2026.4.6
Summary:
The April release of Podium provides users with improvements to the Attendance, Predictions & Targets, and Behavior dashboards. There are two new dashboards which feature Key Performance Indicators across a state, with the capability to filter down to a district or school, and one that allows state-level users to compare across districts.
Breaking Features: None in this release
New Features: None in this release
Improvements:
Predictions and Targets dashboard improvements:
Proficiency has been added as a Target.
Grade levels have been added to the Student Table, which will help teachers with understanding trends for their students and identifying which exams students will be taking.
Average Daily Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism Dashboards improvements:
Information about consecutive absences of students has been added to these dashboards. This includes a chart that shows the distribution of consecutive absences as of selected date. Student-level information about max and current consecutive absences is also shown.
Users can now see the distribution of absence charts which display the percentage and number of absence types up to a selected day.
All schools will now show up in the school table whether they have attendance data or the selected day or not. A new column has been added to show the most recent day of attendance for that school.
Cross-Tenant Assessment Support
If cross-tenant assessment sharing is enabled in Stadium, they will be displayed in Student Profile and Assessment: Student Detail dashboards. There will be a filter in the Assessment: Student Detail dashboard that allows users to select whether or not to include these records. These records will also surface in Student Profile.
These records will not be included in the Assessment dashboard as that includes a lot of summary metrics on school/district performance and these records may not be appropriate for that.
Bug fixes:
The In-School-Suspension and Out-of-School-Suspension (ISS/OSS) charts have been updated for one action ID to be associated with multiple students. This update has been added to the Profile Dashboard
Advanced Add-ons:
KPI Dashboard: A dashboard that cleanly displays Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from pre-aggregated District/School Metrics dashboards is available for Podium users.
Metric Comparison: A dashboard that allows users to compare metric results across time and student groups. Metric results can be compared across districts or schools depending on data access.
Date: March 4, 2026
Release Version: 2026.3.4
Summary
The March release for Podium contains improvements on the Predictions and Targets dashboard to improving usability. Additionally, some bugs and other fixes improve the overall view of dashboards, enrollment information, and grading periods views.
Improvements
Update axis title on behavior chart in Behavior Dashboard
The Behaviors chart x-axis title has been updated to read "Count of Actions that Result from Behavior"
CSS Changes to hide the intermittent filter errors
Bugs and other fixes
Underlined Elements are not displaying as underlined
Visuals on the "About this Dashboard" modal are corrected, showing as underlined or bolded where needed.
Order of Grading Periods in Course Grades dashboards
The Course Grades dashboard has a reordering of the grading periods to more closely match chronological order. Starting with earlier periods and progressing through the school year.
Exit date filter in the Most Recent Enroll of Exit Date chart in Enrollment Dashboard
Enrollment dashboards for users will now show the most recent enrolled date for students instead of no data. This is a bug fix.
Advanced Add-Ons
Add numerators to P&T summary table
Users will now be able to more easily identify number of students who have met a target or predicted to meet a target with the addition of the numerator to the Summary table in the Predictions & Targets dashboard.
Update Prediction Type in P&T dashboard to default to Current Best
The Prediction type filter in the Predictions and Targets Dashboard now defaults to Current Best when the dashboard is opened.
Date: February 6, 2026
Release Version: 2026.2.6
This month's release will include backend and user experience improvements across Podium dashboards. Some of the updates improve data accuracy and consistency (including incident identification, student counts, and suppression logic), expand cross-district visibility through enhanced filtering, and refine dashboard usability with clearer filters and corrected table layouts. Documentation has also been updated to reflect the support portal and updated training documentation.
Improvements
Users can now see a currently enrolled student's cross-school within-district assessment history in the Student Profile dashboard, which will allow them to get a deeper understanding of prior assessment performance.
The Course Grades Snapshot now has separate filters for Grading Period and Grade Type.
Users with access to multiple districts can now view district information in the School table across all dashboards.
Counts of students by subgroup in the Profile Dashboard has been updated to count unique student - district associations.
An update has been made to ensure Incident IDs are uniquely counted by school rather than district. This may cause small changes in incident ID numbers that better reflect the number of incidents.
Suppression of district metrics was altered to suppress results if the total number of students included across selections <= 20 rather than suppressing if one district in the selection had <= 20 students.
The instruction page on Accessing and Navigating Podium has been updated to include the new Portal login for Podium.
Bugs and Other fixes
A bug that showed the order of columns as incorrect on the Enrollment Dashboard has been fixed to show the corrected order.
Updated charts to reference grade level indicator in Profile and Section Profile. This was not a bug impacting any current implementations.
Date: January 8, 2026
Release version: 2026.1.8
The January release for Podium includes several dashboard enhancements that were completed to improve performance, scalability, and usability. Updates include more sustainable data models, expanded access to state-level growth results, improved filtering and table views, clearer chart labeling, alignment of dashboard layouts and color mappings, increased data capacity for large districts, and added context in student assessment views.
Improvements
Profile Dashboard: Users with access to multiple districts can now view district information in the Summary table when multiple districts are selected
Some chart labels have been updated to ensure consistency across dashboards. Chart labels ask a questions, which the chart answers.
Section Information tables in the Section Profile dashboard have had row limits increased to 100,000 to account for larger districts.
District Metrics in the Assessment and Behavior Dashboards have been updated, allowing for main metrics to come first.
Models for the Behavior, Course, and Enrollment dashboards were completed to increase model performance and sustainability.
The WI Forward exam has updated color mapping to align to performance levels.
Advanced Add-ons
State level growth results will now load through district warehouses. Users in a state with District dashboard access will now be able to view Growth results from the state.
Legends have been added to identify student group charts in the Growth dashboard when charts are downloaded, or the chart is shown in full-screen format.
Bugs and other fixes
A bug in the Growth dashboard interrupted filters after the "Lowest Performing 20% of Students" was selected in the "Select Growth Metric" filter. This issue has been resolved to ensure uninterrupted filter selection functionality for users.
The Student Profile Assessment table has had subject and grade columns added to make a more stable view for users.
Date: December 4, 2025
Release version: 2025.12.04
The December Podium release includes new filters for Gifted & Talented and Homeless student groups, enabled multi-district users to select multiple LEAs, and improved error pages for clearer troubleshooting. The Assessment Dashboard now features updates to performance distribution and refined performance colors. Enrollment Status filtering is now more intuitive, and backend model updates improve overall performance. We also introduced the new Predictions and Targets Dashboard and resolved several issues, including API credential stability, behavior chart errors, and table ordering in downloads.
Improvements
Filters for Gifted and Talented Status and Homeless Status were added to all dashboards to allow exploration of metrics by these student groups.
Users who have access to data from multiple districts will be able to select more than one district in the Select LEA filter in order to see a holistic picture across districts. This feature will not be added to the Student or Section Profile dashboards.
Error pages have been updated when a user encounters an error on the dashboard to provide more information on troubleshooting.
The assessment dashboard now has a chart that shows performance levels distributed across selected schools. This is used to understand student performance across schools or districts.
Performance colors for IREAD and ILEARN have been updated to reflect the assessment levels.
Enrollment Status Filter has been updated to default to "Enrolled" if there are enrolled students and "Not Enrolled" when there are no enrolled students.
Models for demographics and student groups were refactored in order to increase model performance and sustainability.
Advanced Add-ons
Predictions and Targets Dashboard: This will provide users with an in-depth look at students' prior performance meeting targets and predictions of future assessment performance.
Bugs and other fixes:
API credentials have been updated to service email credentials to ensure more stable application usage.
Fixed a bug in the section profile dashboard that was causing the behavior charts to error for some users.
A bug which caused an error in table order when downloaded from the Student Detail section of the Assessment and Course Grades dashboards has been fixed.
Date November 4, 2025
Release Version: 2025.11.4
Summary: The November release for includes a variety of small improvements to the Average Daily Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism dashboard such as adding additional parent contact information.
Improvements:
Physical address and display of home and cellphone numbers for parents of students has been added to the Chronic Absenteeism dashboard.
The models were refactored in order to increase model performance and sustainability.
Bug Fixes:
The "Select Calendar Date" filter on the Average Daily Attendance dashboard was not being applied to charts throughout the dashboard on the initial load. The bug has been fixed so that the date filter will now apply to charts on load.
Dashboard titles on the left navigation sidebar were not wrapping, but ending after the width of the left navigation sidebar. This has now been fixed so that the dashboard titles will wrap and users will be able to see the entire title of the dashboard.
Advanced Add-Ons:
The Podium team is happy to announce the launch of a Growth Dashboard. This is available as an advanced dashboard add-on. The Growth Dashboard provides users with the annually calculated value added results at the school, district and state levels and the ability to compare across years, subjects, and student groups.
This release introduces a feature that allows an implementation to exclude students and schools from Podium dashboards based on partner-specific rules. These exclusions must apply to all base Podium dashboards.
Date October 6, 2025
Release Version: 2025.10.6
Summary: This release contains improvements to the assessment filtering experience, addition of student transcript information to the student profile, and the resolution of a duplicate student issue in courses.
New features:
A table displaying students' course transcript as been added to the student profile to provide more insight into a student's academic history. The table will display underneath current student grade list.
Assessment Over Time chart has been modified so users are better able to track progress across seasons and years.
The assessment filter has been split in order to provide an easier filtering experience. Assessment labels have been updated to be divided into the categories of
Title of assessment (or Family of assessment)
Assessment subject
Assessment grade level
Bug fixes:
The bug showed a grade showing up multiple or duplicate due to co-teaching or teacher transitions. Duplicates were eliminated with a refined filter. Tables will display all teachers associated with a section in one row in all course displays.
Errors occurred when filtering for specific LEAs that had special characters in the name. Pre-filter values and datasets were updated to fix this issue.
Extra spacing was removed in the Race/Ethnicity label on the Attendance dashboards.
Date September 4, 2025
Release Version: 2025.9.4
Summary: This release introduces several enhancements aimed at improving usability and providing more detail across the Podium platform.
New Features:
The Enrollment dashboard now has an "enrollment type" filter. This allows users to select one or more enrollment types.
Improvements:
All Dashboards:
School year will now be displayed as academic year (e.g., 2024-25). This is configurable by implementation if you prefer a different format.
Assessment: Student Detail:
Fixed a bug that caused the Select Student filter to be NULL
Average Daily Attendance
Add percentages to the tooltip of the Attendance Category Over Time chart to allow users to better understand the breakdown of the attendance categories at a point in time and over time.
Ongoing issues:
We are aware of duplicates in the course dashboard due to co-teachers. We are aiming to release a fix in October.
Date August 6, 2025
Release Version: 2025.8.6
Summary: Improvements were made to the Assessment dashboard to enable multi-season selection and update the order of assessment seasons to chronological order (Fall, Winter, Spring). A race/ethnicity indicator that allows for custom variables was created.
New Features: Podium now includes a standard race/ethnicity indicator that can point to a custom race column. This was a partner feature request.
Improvements:
Assessment Dashboard:
Enablement of multi-season selection for educators to analyze the trends across multiple seasons of tests, for example, ACT and SAT.
Order of Assessment Seasons in the dashboards was updated to follow the chronological order of Fall, Winter, Spring.
Dashboard Descriptions: Descriptions now include a date for the last time the description itself was updated
Bug Fixes: A bug that duplicated courses in the BI model was originating in Stadium. This was fixed, but we are still tracking duplicates caused by co-teaching. We will aim to address that issue in the September release.
Ongoing issues:
We are aware of duplicates in the course dashboard due to co-teachers. We are aiming to release a fix in September.
Date July 1, 2025
Release Version: 2025.7.1
Summary: Added discipline rate metrics and the number of incidents to the Behavior Dashboard, enhanced the Course Grade Dashboards with course and teacher information, implemented grade level ordering for clearer data organization, and loosened the required numeric grade filter to improve flexibility in grade reporting.
Breaking changes:
All dashboards: Added grade to the list of student groups that can have flexibility with the backing variable in order to enable ordering. This will cause a break if the dashboards are update before
edu_ext_podiumBehavior Dashboard: Added count of incidents to dashboard which relies on an
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Improvements:
Behavior Dashboard
Added a metric to display discipline rate (number of students with a discipline action out of the total number of students overall).
Added the number of incidents to the Behavior dashboard, this includes:
Number of incidents in school table, student table, and as a district metric
Over time chart now just displays number of discipline actions per day for clarity
Distribution of behavior and actions charts now displays Top 15 most frequent items for clarity
Course Grade Dashboards
Course Grades Snapshot no longer requires a numeric grade. Users can now select either a range of numeric grades or letter grades.
Users can now filter to specific courses by course information, local course information, or teachers.
All Dashboards
Grade levels now can be ordered across all dashboards
Bug fixes (if any):
Ongoing Issues (if any):
Date June 2, 2025
Release Version: 2025.6.2
Summary: Improved the Section Profile dashboard to match the unique section definition across dashboards. Added flexibility to the handling of gender and birth sex in Podium. A set of minor user feedback based improvements across dashboards. Please see the "Improvements" and "Bug Fixes" sections for a more detailed list.
Breaking Changes:
All dashboards: Added gender to the list of student groups that can have flexibility with the backing variable.
Improvements:
Behavior Dashboard:
In Student Table, replaced Yes/No with number of In-School Suspensions and Out-of-School Suspensions for each student
Section Profile & Course:
Improved resilience of the Section Profile dashboard by matching Section definition with Ed-Fi definition ( Section ID, Local Course Code, Session Name)
Also added the new section definition to the filter in the Course Grades dashboards
Enrollment Dashboard:
Add enrolled grade to the Student Table alongside the most recent enrolled grade
All Dashboards:
Student tables now use a new interactive table format with improved filtering, sorting, and ordering capabilities
Recognizing that this may take some time for users to get used to - we added some guidance on interacting with this table in the Student Information section here.
Infrastructural changes:
Introduced a feature to the CLI Tool that allows implementations to swap the language used for student groups/programs
Bug Fixes:
Assessment dashboard:
Fixed a bug introduced in May release that caused all assessments rows to be deleted if an implementation was using the default deduplication rules.
Ongoing Issues (if any):
Date: May 7, 2025
Release Version: 2025.5.7
Summary: The Podium dashboard received a number of minor visual enhancements. Please review the “Improvements” section for a more detailed list.
Breaking changes: None in this release
New Features (if any): None in this release
Improvements:
Search in filter values will now search across all values.
Assessment dashboard tables will now reflect custom assessment labels
Rename “School Year” to “Assessment Year” in Student Profile Assessment chart
Assessment dashboards can now display assessments that have overall performance levels, but no scale score
A variety of small visual enhancements:
Severity of attendance categories and/or category of chronic absenteeism indicated by stoplight color scheme.
Improved consistency of color palette across student group charts
Clarified language of most recent date across dashboards
With the exception of Section Profile
Uppercase titles on all section separators.
Added separator in Profile dashboard below School table
Updates to Chronic Absenteeism and Attendance dashboards:
Added Absence Percentages to Student and School (ADA only) tables
Changed metric name in School table from “Number of Students” to “Total Number of Students”
Updated chart descriptions for Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism to clarify data availability by selected date
Updates to Behavior dashboard:
Clarification of subtitle of number of students in the district metrics
Changed filter name from “Discipline Type” to “Discipline Action”
Updated “Discipline Rate” metric name to “Actions per Student”
Enhancements to the custom assessment label logic to allow for labels to be set at the assessment or assessment family level
Bug Fixes:
Profile dashboard: Fix bug that restricted discipline data from surfacing in dashboard consistently
Ongoing issues (if any):
Added a temporary fix that will default assessment and grades dashboards to the data available for the user. School-level users may continue to have intermittent loading issues. Preset is working to implement a permanent fix.