Turlock Unified School District

Identified: 02/15/26; Resolved: Targeting August 2026; Issue: In the High School CAST Interim Assessment–Life Sciences I, item number 3, there is a typo in the image depicting a formula. Resolution: The image will be corrected for the 2026–27 administration. Workaround None. This is a display issue only. It does not affect test delivery, student responses, scoring, or reporting. Identified: 07/25/25; Resolved: TBD; The California Educator Reporting System (CERS), Custom Aggregate Reports for high school mathematics are displaying “NA” for the Target description. In this case, the NA stands for “Not Available” meaning the data is not available to render in CERS. Resolution: Smarter Balanced is working towards a solution that will make these descriptions available in CERS. Workaround Users may utilize the Smarter Balanced Content Explorer to access the relevant target descriptions.

*Investigating – Intermittent Integrated Excel Loading Issues in Connect* We continue to investigate an issue affecting some users loading Integrated Excel within Question Bank assignments in McGraw Hill Connect. Our engineering teams are actively working with our technology partner to identify the root cause and restore normal functionality as quickly as possible. The issue appears to be intermittent and is currently affecting a subset of users. We understand the impact this may have on teaching and learning activities and appreciate your patience while we work toward a resolution.

We are impacted by a capacity issue within Azure data centers affecting Cloud NGFW in the West Europe and South Central US regions. Customers may experience failures during autoscaling, panorama migrations, migrations to premium instances, software updates or the deployment of new resources. Until the capacity issue is resolved by Microsoft: - Maintain Steady-State: Keep current resource configurations intact and postpone premium SKU migrations or panorama migrations. - Normalize Traffic: Maintain your current traffic baselines where possible to avoid triggering sudden autoscaling needs. - Defer New Deployments: Hold off on launching new resources until full capacity is restored.