Identified: 03/18/26; Resolved: Targeting January 2027; Issue: In the Grades 6–8 Speaking DFAs (Forms 1–6) for the Summarize an Academic Presentation task, the first SAY line in each of two passages contains partially incorrect wording. "You will listen to another recorded presentation," and the incorrect text in the second passage SAY line reads, "In this part of the test, you will listen to a recorded presentation." Resolution: The DFA will be corrected for the 2026–27 administration. Workaround None. This is a directional issue only. It does not impact the student’s ability to answer the question. 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: Targeting April 2026; 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.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION for Canvas LTI 1.1 Instructors – Connect Integration Due to a security breach incident on Canvas/Instructure's end on April 30th, enhanced security measures were introduced by Canvas that impacted the LTI 1.1 integration between Canvas and McGraw Hill platforms. You can view Canvas's status update here: https://status.instructure.com/. Following McGraw Hill's latest release, you may experience one of two scenarios: Scenario 1 – Authorization prompt appears immediately: You may see an "Authorize" message from Canvas when accessing your course. This is expected. You will only need to authorize once per course. After authorizing, we recommend performing a manual grade sync to ensure grades begin flowing. Once completed, the "Authorize" screen will no longer appear for that course and grades will sync automatically as students complete their work. Scenario 2 – Authorization prompt does not appear right away: If you do not see the "Authorize" message, please revisit your course after 1 hour and click "Sync with my Connect section." You may see an error — this is expected. After that, click the McGraw-Hill link in the left navigation, and the "Authorize" screen should appear. It is important that you authorize the token for each course to ensure our fix works correctly. These steps are necessary due to enhanced security measures Canvas introduced following last week's incident. WHAT OUR FIX DOES: After a one-time authorization per course, grades and data will flow seamlessly between Connect and Canvas without requiring you to re-authorize every hour. For SIMnet and ALEKS Users: We are actively working on an identical solution for Canvas LTI 1.1 SIMnet instructors and Canvas LTI 1.0 Classic ALEKS instructors. We expect to provide an update by May 6th and appreciate your continued patience.
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Title: Some users may not receive results when performing searches in SharePoint Online User impact: Users may not receive results when performing searches in SharePoint Online. Current status: We've determined that multiple concurrent issues, including unexpected spikes in user traffic and an overloaded search request queue, are causing a subset of service infrastructure that processes SharePoint Online search requests to enter an unhealthy state, which is resulting in impact. We're redirecting and rebalancing traffic within the affected infrastructure subset and optimizing the amount of search requests that our service can handle simultaneously to alleviate impact while we continue developing long term remediation solutions. Scope of impact: Some users attempting to perform searches in SharePoint Online may be impacted by this event. This section may be updated as our investigation continues. Start time: Monday, April 20, 2026, at 12:00 AM UTC Root cause: Multiple concurrent issues, including unexpected spikes in traffic and an overloaded search request queue, are causing a subset of service infrastructure that processes SharePoint Online search requests to enter an unhealthy state, which is resulting in impact. Next update by: Wednesday, May 06, 2026, at 7:30 PM UTC
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Issue: In the Grades 6–8 Speaking DFAs (Forms 1–6) for the Summarize an Academic Presentation task, the first SAY line in each of two passages contains partially incorrect wording. "You will listen to another recorded presentation," and the incorrect text in the second passage SAY line reads, "In this part of the test, you will listen to a recorded presentation."; Issue: In the High School CAST Interim Assessment–Life Sciences I, item number 3, there is a typo in the image depicting a formula.; 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.
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