Overview of Version 10.1 We are pleased to announce the move to a new release, District Edition 10.1. With this new release, you will find some new features in NASIS that are outlined below. Please be aware that you may have to modify tool rights for your users to have access to some of these new features. CENSUS Employee Self Service of Demographic Data
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 Are You Ready? Scheduling (Without the Schedule Wizard) Scheduling students is the foundation to get your attendance data into NASIS for BIE reporting. Schools often anguish over scheduling. Never fret. Help is available to ensure your students are scheduled. The first thing you should decide is if you want to mass schedule students using the Request Wizard (Scheduling>Request Wizard) or the Roster Setup tool (Course>Choose Section>Roster Set Up). The Request Wizard works well for scheduling large sets of students who meet the same criteria, into a course with multiple sections, or for use with middle schools and high schools. The Roster Setup tool works well for self contained classes, or elementary schools.
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Do not miss your opportunity to participate in the ongoing dialogue of NASIS users from your region. Mark your calendars now. Schools are invited to attend the first monthly NASIS teleconference call for the 2009-2010 school year. They will begin in September. These calls afford you and your staff a way to connect with the BIE, Infinite Campus, and other schools using NASIS. The monthly calls are a great opportunity to ask questions, express concerns, and learn how other schools are using the system. You are invited to attend the scheduled call that is specific to your region (East, West, and Navajo). We strongly encourage your school to attend these meetings! If you have any questions about the schedule, or other details listed below, please don’t hesitate to contact Infinite Campus or your BIE NASIS Education Specialist.
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It is recommended that a school have three types of user groups:
Given that a user may fill several roles within a school, it is likely they could belong to more than one group. The distinction between role-based groups and calendar rights is that Tool Rights (access to different areas of the application) are assigned to role-based groups whereas calendar rights groups have no Tool Rights associated with them, only access to school, year and calendar. You can assign tools and calendars to individual user accounts but it is not recommended because of the extra time and effort it will take to maintain that type of setup. |
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Setting the Active Year and Using the Reports Roll Forward Wizard We hope that by the time you read this newsletter you have successfully rolled forward your calendar and enrollments into your 09-10 Calendar. If you have not set up your 09-10 Calendar and rolled forward your student enrollments from 08-09, please contact NASIS Support as soon as possible. For those that have rolled forward and closed out the 08-09 school year, we would like to remind you to activate your 09-10 Calendar. It is important to activate your 09-10 Calendar before the start of your new year. Only one school year can be marked as the active year at any given time. The School Years tab (System Administration > Calendar > School Years) lists all of the years for which data is stored in the Campus program.
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The student locator may not function correctly when schools enter the suffix of a student in the name fields (Example - Jr, Sr, I, II, III, and V). Please make sure that you use the suffix dropdown list. This ensures you don’t have duplicate students to clean up at the end of the year and that BIE data is clean and accurate.
If you currently have students with suffixes in the name fields, they should be corrected through the student’s Identity tab. If you need assistance in identifying which students need this correction please contact NASIS Support.
The student locator tool was recently updated to search your district edition to see if your student was historically enrolled at your school, but was never on the state edition. For example, the student was enrolled prior to 06-07. However, the tool only searches for students; therefore it is still possible that you already have this new student as a contact (sibling, cousin, emergency contact) in your system. To avoid creating a duplicate on your district edition, be sure to perform an All People search for your student prior to using the student locator.
If you would like more information on using the Student Locator please click here. |
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Please remember to verify that your staff has successfully completed Security Awareness Training (SAT). All BIE employees with access to government computer systems and other individuals (BIE contractors and contract/grant school staff) with access to BIE computer systems, operating systems or by maintaining digital information on behalf of BIE are required to take the security awareness training. The Security Awareness Training is delivered though the DOI Learn (Department of Interior Learning Management System) at https://doilearn.doi.gov. If you have trouble logging in or using the training, you can call the DOI Learn help desk at 866-466-1998 or send an e-mail to doilearn@geolearning.com. |
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