1. TCU Mini-Sessions August 29, 2013

2. What report do you use most frequently?

3. What do you want to know about your students?

4. Review of Viewpoint Layout Active Students Queue (this is for Batch printing) Show Report in New Window Short Overview of Available Reports Full Explanation of Reports Open/Close Left Side Panel

5. Filters  Demographic Ethnicity Gender LEP Special Education

6. Creating Groups within Your Class  Choose Your Class  Use Student Demographic Explorer (this is the quickest)  “Check” box by students’ names you want in the group  Click “Save” button at top right of panel  New Window – Add Selected Students to a Group  Name your group  Click Save  Click box by key symbol to choose this group for future reports

7. Viewpoint Reports  Favorites  Demographic  NCLB/AYP Reports (MCA)  Growth Reports (NWEA)  Assessment Reports (DIBELS, ACT, MCA, etc.)  Custom (created within District, list only)  Grade Reports (Course Grades)

8. Side by Side Views of Reports (new)  Load a Report  Load Left or Right Side Panel  Load another Report  Load the other Panel  Refresh

9. Mail Merge  Create a Word Document to communicate to parents, student goal setting, etc.  Choose the data from Viewpoint  Save into an Excel Spreadsheet Click Mailings Tab Click Start Mail Merge – choose letter Click Select Recipients – choose Use an Existing List Locate your Excel Spreadsheet Click Insert Merge Field – list of your top row of spreadsheet will show, click in the Word Document where you want each piece of info Continue to do so for every spot you want merged. Click on Preview Results if you want to see what it's going to look like When ready, click on Finish & Merge and open a new document or print.