Podium Release Notes

For a sense of upcoming enhancements, please see Upcoming Work.

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_podium

• Behavior Dashboard: Added count of incidents to dashboard which relies on an edu and edu_ext_podium update. This will cause a break if the dashboards are updated before edu and edu_ext_podium

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.