WISE Application Release Notes

WISEdata Portal Updates

WISEdata Portal: Warning 7473, New Logic for ELP Code Discrepancies

Warning 7473 is a validation rule that triggers when a student’s English Language Proficiency (ELP) code does not align with ELP codes from prior school years. The finessing of the logic on this Warning now looks back at the four prior years, noticing when the student had a reported ELP code during that time. This will allow the validation rule to throw more accurately with the intention of helping our schools ensure that English Learner student data reporting is more accurate.

WISEdata Portal: Update for Career Education Exports

The names and descriptions on the WISEdata Portal Career Education Exports have been updated to reflect the current terminology used in CTE.

• Former name: Certified/Non-Certified Career Education Program
• New name: Industry Recognized Credentials/Work-Based Learning.
• The description for this export has also been updated to read:
  • “Students identified at the course and non-course level for Industry Recognized Credential/Work-Based Learning programs. Only Industry Recognized Credentials require Certificated Program status. Requirement: Report Cards.”

Other description changes include:

• CTE Participants: the addition of, “Requirement: Perkins V”
• CTE Concentrators: the addition of, “Requirement: Perkins V”
• Career Connected High School: the addition of, “Requirement: Unlocking Pathways Grant”
• College Career Readiness: the addition of, “Requirement: Unlocking Pathways Grant”

WISEdata Portal: WISEdash Extract Updates, Export for Choice Schools

WISEdash Extracts is the name of a WISEdata Portal Export used by Choice schools because they do not have access to WISEdash for Districts. WISEdash is where snapshot data is captured from and is used widely by public districts to conduct data quality auditing as schools prepare their data for DPI snapshots.

Updates to this export include:

• Removing outdated data by only displaying the three current years of data found in WISEdata Portal.
• Previously, the school year filter displayed five years. The removal of these older school year options creates a cleaner experience for the Choice school user.
• Removing the Enrollment Certified Economic Data Change extract from the exports. With the revamping of the WISEdash Extracts for Choice Schools webpage, this information is no longer needed on the export because any necessary economic data related to this information is on the webpage.

Ed-Fi Updates

Ed-Fi: Content

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WISEid/WISEstaff Updates

WISEid: Change Requests, Comment Tab

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WISEstaff: Validation Improvements

Improvements have been made to the data validations that run when contracts and assignments are submitted. These improvements will reduce the processing time, especially for larger districts, and will allow for a quicker turnaround of updates to message text when clarifications are needed.

WISEadmin Portal

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WISEdata Finance (WDF)

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WiSFiP

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WISEdata and Data Elements

Data Element List: 2025-26 School Year

The entire data element list has been reviewed, and all active data elements listed are connected to the 2025-26 school year filter.

Data Element List: Deprecated Data Elements

When data elements no longer serve to collect data required by statute/legislation, or if they are replaced by a different data element to make things easier for schools, a data element is deprecated (no longer used). Because the pages may still contain historical value, the webpages for deprecated data elements remain published five years after the year it was deprecated. These pages are removed from all filters. They are only located in the main listing and are called out using the following text:

• Deprecated, as of the 20XX-XX school year.

Two deprecated data elements have been deleted because they stopped being used more than five years ago: EL Served and Possible Full-Term Dropout.

Three deprecated data elements are still active: State Assessment Type, State Endorsed Regional Career Pathway Status Type, and Student Discipline Incident Association ID. The top paragraph for all data elements that are less than five years deprecated contain the following text on the webpage:

• Deprecated, as of the 20XX-XX school year. Information below holds historical value. Deprecated data elements remain as published webpages for five years after the year they were deprecated (i.e., this page will be removed when the 20XX-XX school year starts).
• This may be followed by a sentence or two explaining the reason for the deprecation and whether or not the data needs to be reported for any subsequent snapshots.

WISEdata Uncommon Situations: Contracts and Multi-DistrictCharter Schools

• The WISEdata Uncommon Situations: Students Under Contract page has been updated for the 2025-26 school year.

• The WISEdata Uncommon Situations: Multi-District Charter Schools webpage has been updated for the 2025-26 school year. DPI subject matter experts reviewed the content, and the page has been redesigned to improve navigation.

Snapshot Preparation Guidance Webpage Title: Updated. Again.

In the spirit of continuous improvement, the Snapshot Preparation Guidance webpage, ‘December Snapshot: What’s Collected?’ section, has been reviewed and reorganized again.

In its previous iteration, the section organized required data elements in tables, but the tables were not screen-reader friendly. The content is the same, but it is arranged differently, attempting to provide schools with everything they need to know about that data topic in one spot.

Aside from the page being screen-reader accessible, other changes include:

• Previous year data is separated more clearly from current year data.
• Each accordion section contains one specific data topic.
• Accordion headers clearly state if the data is required by Choice schools &/or public schools. Previous year data has its own image and current year data has its own image, to provide a clearer visual representation of snapshot data requirements.
• Data elements listed and linked. Steps are also provided for LEAs to use the newly improved data element collection filters to help them locate specific data elements for each data collection more efficiently.
• Webpages that can provide further detailed information about each data collection topic are listed within that same section.
• The Annual Tasks Checklist webpage closely aligns with the Snapshot Preparation Guidance page, displaying how items that DPI encourages to be completed at the end of a school year align with data collected in the December snapshot.

WISEid and WISEstaff Files and Templates Websites Updated

The WISEstaff Files and Templates webpage and the WISEid Files and Templates webpage have both been updated for the 2025-26 school year with fresh new upload and download files to assist your data accuracy.  

WISEdash for Districts:

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WISEdash for Public Portal:

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If hyperlinks are not in place for listed KBAs, please use the KBA Portal to search.

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CST and Other WISE Webpage Updates

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