| Welcome to the new look and format for the NASIS News. Issue 3 focuses on end of year processes such as student enrollment roll-forward and creating new calendars. Please be sure to contact your NASIS Technical Account Manager at 1-800-605-7570 should your school have any questions regarding any of the processes discussed in the newsletter. The Infinite Campus Support portal also maintains documentation with an end of year checklist in the “documentation” section under the main menu. Enjoy the News! |
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| Meet Melissa Goodwin BIE Account Manager
Melissa graduated from the University of South Dakota with a master’s in technology for education and training. She joined Infinite Campus in 2005, has worked with the NASIS project from its inception and recently became the BIE account manager. She was one of the principal trainers in Albuquerque during the implementation and then served as the corporate support for NASIS. |
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| Tech Focus Spring has sprung! Now is the time to focus on those “end of year processes” and prepare for next fall. There are three major processes required to create schedules for students in next year’s calendar.
**Remember that your Technical Account Managers are available at 1-800-605-7570 to assist you in any of these processes** Creating a New Calendar/ Roll Forward Data Elements
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| Best Practices Roll students forward before ending enrollment. Otherwise you lose the names of students to roll forward. Before rolling forward the calendar on your production site, try it out on your training site (https://training.bie.infinitecampus.com/campus/<yourschoolname>_training.jsp). What’s a training site? It’s a site you heard about back im Group Training and it exists for you to practice on - so don’t be a fool, stay in school and use your training site. The Calendar Roll Forward tool is found in the System Administration module > Calendar Wizard. Once you open the Calendar Wizard read the instructions carefully and roll the appropriate data into the new calendar. Click here to view a quick reference guide on high level items that should be performed before the school year ends. |
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| Defining the Lingo The School Years tab lists all the years for which data is stored in the Campus program. Only one school year is marked as the active year at any given time. The Calendar tab lists the start and end dates of the calendar, student and teacher day minutes, and whole and half day absence thresholds. Once the calendar information is established, schedule structures, period schedule, terms and grade levels can be connected to that calendar. Schedule Structures are used for setting up course rotations. It allows a school to have different types of schedules in one calendar. Period Schedule is the list of the start and end times of the periods meeting throughout a school day. You may have more than one period schedule to accommodate regularly scheduled abbreviated days
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| Cowbells and Eagle Whistles Here are a few tips to set up the NASIS calendar and structure for next year. When creating a school calendar for the 07-08 school year, decide whether or not your school needs multiple calendars, schedule structures, or period schedules. This is the time to make any changes for the next school year. When setting up your school’s calendar for 07-08, consider the following:
Structural Flow
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Melissa’s experience and interests range from working as a corporate trainer and chemist to having an avid interest in music and learning the guitar. But her real passion is making jewelry. She has taken full advantage of her trips to the southwest to visit bead shops, galleries and Native American art shows. 
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