This Month's Feature-
NASIS Interchanges are always popular events, with changing themes and agendas. This year we promoted the theme of INSPIRE. We should inspire ourselves to make a difference in our industry, to change the face of education.
- Teachers: Don’t Just Instruct – Inspire!
- Administrators: Don’t Just Lead – Inspire!
- Support Staff: Don’t Just Serve – Inspire!
Interchanges are a great opportunity to meet on an annual basis and gain insight from colleagues on innovative ways to use NASIS.
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 Best Practices
Grad Planner
One goal of every high school student is to graduate. As a stakeholder in the success of your students, do you ever wonder how to track students’ progress towards graduation? The Grad Planner helps you track student progress. There is some set up to do before using the Grad Planner, which we will review here.
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Are You Ready?
Checking Transcript Data
Grading & Standards>Reports>Transcript Audit
The Transcript Audit report compares source grading data with transcript data and will list the differences in score and comments. It pulls any data that has been modified in the Grade Book or on the Transcript tab.
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Helping You Help Yourself
WHO has access to WHAT?
When new tools or reports are added to the NASIS, the system will not automatically give rights to individuals for those tools, except to those who have All Tools flagged on their user account. This permission is reserved for system administrator and is designed to allow the district to review the tool, decide who should have access to it, and to provide end-user training before enabling the user rights for that tool.
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 Hot Topics
2009.1 and FRAM!
Our NASIS and Food Service teams got together recently to discuss a few of the highlights being delivered with the 2009.1 release. We hope this brief outline peaks your interest in FRAM, Class Serve and the Food Service add-on.
Q: What is the free and reduced eligibility process in NASIS?
A: The FRAM tool!
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Tech Focus
GPA Calculations
Have you ever wondered how the Term GPA, Cumulative GPA and Rolling GPA’s are calculated in NASIS? Having your Grading Tasks, Score Groups, Credit Groups and your Courses set up properly are all critical to the proper calculation of a student’s GPA. Please click on this link for GPA Tips to ensure that the above listed items are set up correctly.
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 NASIS Speak
FRAM: Free and Reduced Application Manager. Determines the eligibility of a student to receive free or reduced pricing for meals at your school.
Class Rank: Comparison of students based primarily on Cum GPA and secondarily on total course weights. A student who is top of their class of 100 students is ranked 99%. (100-1)/100
Course Group: Used in conjunction with a curriculum program to set requirements for students to take at least a certain number of courses from a specified grouping, typically within the same credit group.
GPA Value and Weight: The two key variables used in calculating a student’s Cum GPA. The value determines how much a score is worth. The weight determines how much to emphasize one course’s values in comparison to another.
Ad Hoc Shared Filter: A user group designed to contain ad hoc filters for designated staff. |
