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Introduction Student News VTC Welcome to the October 2009 Student VTC. Our next VTC will be Thursday, November 19, If you have comments or suggestions for upcoming VTC’s, please them to:

Tim Colliver

News

News Upcoming Workshops WASL Test Score Import Workshops –November 2 nd 10:00 to 1:00 - ESD101 Lab –November 10 th 10:00 to 1:00 - ESD101 Lab Please limit this to one person per district! This person must have access to the Query site on EDS website. The WASL Test Score Import is the same process as last year. The instructions are posted on our website library. Please feel free to do the import anytime without our assistance. There are Tips later in this VTC. Remember to use the TWASL import instructions to get your High School transcripts correct.

News Important Dates CEDARS August-Begin and September Data for –Teacher Birthdates need to be entered on the Staff table for any districts not using Skyward Fiscal/HR –Data is extracted from Skyward every Thursday night and will be available for verification the following Monday.

News Fiscal Conversions November 2009 – West Valley Welcome to our new Student Records Districts

News Upcoming Release November Release Weekend 3:00 AM – 9:00 AM Saturday, November 7th Users must be logged out during this installation Release notes will be posted to the Student Website

News New name and logo Northeast Washington Educational Service District 101

Juli

New In Skyward - Teachers Teachers can now view Family Access Calendars for their students in Educator Access Plus

New In Skyward - Teachers Teachers can now view Family Access Message Center for their students in Educator Access Plus

New In Skyward – Family Access Security for Teacher to see FA Calendar/Message Center

New In Skyward - Teachers Students unique ‘Gradebook’ ID configuration. WS/EP/GB/PS/CF

New In Skyward - Teachers Students unique ‘Gradebook’ ID Mass Assign or Delete. WS/EP/GB/PS/CF

New In Skyward - Teachers Students unique ‘Gradebook’ ID inside Gradebook.

New In Skyward - Teachers Indicators for Critical Alert and Parental Consent Note can appear in Gradebook.

New In Skyward - Teachers Indicators for Critical Alert and Parental Consent Note can appear in Gradebook. A Critical Alert is indicated with a red ! If the student has a Parental Consent Note and a Student Indicator for Parental Consent Notes has been setup, the indicator will appear.

New In Skyward - Teachers Entering Critical Alert. WS/Students/Student Profile/Emergency Tab

New In Skyward - Teachers Indicator Setup for Parental Consent Note. WS/Advanced Features/Student Indicators

New In Skyward - Teachers Entering Parent Consent Note. WS/Students/Student Profile/General Tab

New In Skyward - Teachers Enhanced Multi-Class Progress Report –New Options

New In Skyward – Family Access Disable FA Gradebook by Grade Levels.

New In Skyward – Family Access Disable FA Gradebook by Grade Levels - WS/FA/FM/PS/CF

New In Skyward – Family Access Disable FA Calendar by Grade Levels. WS/FA/FM/PS/CF

New In Skyward – Family Access Ability to Hide SBGB or Sec Gradebook in Family Access. WS/FA/FM/PS/CF

New In Skyward – Student Config Configuration: PS/SA/ST/CF

New In Skyward - Attendance Critical Alert Indicators show in Attendance by Student. WS/OF/AT/BS

New In Skyward – Busing Bus Number and Bus Driver’s Name Added to Busing WS/AD/BU/BU and RE

New In Skyward – Busing Auto Renumber of Bus Stops - WS/AD/BU/PS/CF

New In Skyward – Add Student Different Display When Adding a Student – WS/ST/PR

New In Skyward – Add Student The Family Screen has also changed.

New In Skyward – Obligations New Filter titled Only Students with Obligations WS/AD/OB/SO Only students who have an Obligation record are displayed in the Student Obligations Browse.

New In Skyward – Race/Ethnicity While these fields have been added to Skyward to meet Federal requirements and additions State requirements for CEDARS, we recommend that you do NOT use these new fields until they are enhanced for CEDARS. Display change: WS/ST/PR – race now is local race

New In Skyward – Special Ed Total Time Calculates and Displays on IEP WS/SS/SE/PR

New In Skyward – Special Ed Placement Time Displays in Minutes WS/SS/SE/PR The placement time is now displayed in minutes.

New In Skyward – Special Ed WS/SS/SE/PR – Evaluation Summary Report

Juli

Skyward Tidbits Q-Print Locker Report – Student/Locker Tab/QPrint

Skyward Tidbits Get a Grade Report Quickly

Skyward Tidbits Quick Score for Prior Terms in Gradebook

Skyward Tidbits Web Access – Basic Navigation We had trainings in the afternoon of our Year Start Workshops this August. If you are having trouble in the Web or missed our demonstration, here is the link to review the demonstration! Select - Training Materials Library Web Access Basic Navigation in Web Access

Skyward Tidbits/Web Access Click Favorites and Add ‘screen selection’ To Favorites

Skyward Tidbits/Web Access Student Search by First Name WS/ST/PR

Skyward Tidbits/Web Access Student Search by Other ID or SSID WS/ST/PR

Skyward Tidbits/Web Access Quick Filter Click the (Quick Filter) to simplify the filtering. The first line is the low range, the second line is the high range. Then Apply Filter. Selecting ENG through ENG999 displays only ENG courses. Once you set a Quick Filter, Skyward remembers. You will find Quick Filters on the majority of screens with lists.

Crista

Test Score Import Good News – The process has not changed from last year! See detailed instructions at: Select Training Materials Library – Test Scores For High Schools – Use the TWASL Import Other Schools – Use the WASL Import

Test Score Import Your School District

Test Score Import After defining the data extract, the use the 10 th, 11 th, 12 th to import the TWASL scores. Use the others for WASL. First use the Export to review the TWASL and the 2008 WASL field definitions. These are from last year. All Export links take you to the same screen

Test Score Import These should be there from last year.

Test Score Import Choose the test to export. For Districts with multiple schools, choose the schools one at a time. If the Update Numbers in present – BE SURE TO UPDATE! Then select to Move the Data.

Test Score Import

Review the scores by running a Test Score Report or reviewing the Student Test Score Tab.

Test Score in Family Access

Test Scores in Family Access

Crista

Resources Northeast Regional Data Center Go to Click on Student Records Resources at the right side of the screen to access Student Records information –Training Materials This presentation and the recording of it will be posted upon completion of the VTC. –FAQS –Calendar

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