WDM Staff: 5 new reports available in Campus

For WDM staff, there are several new reports available through Infinite Campus.  The first two reports are available only to classroom teachers – and the remaining reports are available to teachers, nurses, counselors, and esl staff.

If you are using Internet Explorer and receive a Security Warning, ie  “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”  select NO.   We’ve found that Internet Explorer isn’t that great at handling these custom reports –  Typically, they work much better in Mozilla Firefox or Chrome.

If you really, really want to Internet Explorer for these reports, then we recommend the following settings changes:  Go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > SECURITY > Select LOCAL INTRANET and move the Security Level bar to the LOW position.  Then click OK, then close Internet Explorer – then you can reopen IE and test it again.

#1.  Ability to export your class roster to excel

This report is ONLY available to classroom teachers that are assigned to a section of students.  The report allows for exporting of your entire class roster to Excel format – and it includes student names, birth dates, student numbers.  Exporting into Excel allows you to add extra columns to the roster for doing easy recording of assessments.

Step 1: Select your class/section with the SECTION pull down at the top

Step 2: Select   INSTRUCTION > REPORT > * STUDENT ROSTER EXPORT

Step 3: Click VIEW REPORT

Step 4: Use pull down menu to select the format (we’d recommend Excel for this report)

Step 5: Click EXPORT.

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#2  Ability to export a class roster with parent information.

This report is also ONLY available to classroom teachers who have a section of students. It allows teachers to export their class rosters along with parent/family contact information.  This report is best displayed in PDF or Word document format.

Step 1: Select your class/section with the SECTION pull down at the top

Step 2: Select   INSTRUCTION > REPORT > * STUDENT ROSTER W/ PARENTS

Step 3: Click VIEW REPORT

Step 4: Use pull down menu to select the format (we’d recommend Word for this report) and then click EXPORT.

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#3.  Find all students who are new to your school

This report will be helpful for teachers, counselors, nurses, and ESL – it generates a list of all students who are new to your school.  Keep in mind that all Kindergarten students are listed- as they are considered new to the school.  This is also true at grades 7, 9, and 10 due to how our schools are organized.

Step 1: Select   STUDENT INFORMATION > REPORT > * NEW TO SCHOOL BUILDING

Step 2: Select your school year calendar from the pull down menu.

Step 3: Click VIEW REPORT

Step 4: Use pull down menu to select the format (we’d recommend Excel for this report) and click EXPORT

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#4.  Identify all students with Non-English primary language

This report will extremely helpful to ESL educators, as this displays all students who have something other than English listed for their primary language.  Keep in mind this does NOT mean they are in the ESL program – it just means they have non-English listed as their primary language.

Step 1: Select   STUDENT INFORMATION > REPORT > *NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING STUDENTS

Step 2: Select your school year calendar from the pull down menu.

Step 3: Click VIEW REPORT

Step 4: Use pull down menu to select the format (we’d recommend Excel for this report) and click EXPORT

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#5.  Identify all guardians with Non-English primary language

This report is also helpful for ESL educators – it displays a list of all guardians that have their primary language listed as non-English.  Again, this does NOT mean their children are receiving ESL services, it is strictly about their personal primary language.

Step 1: Select   STUDENT INFORMATION > REPORT > * NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING GUARDIANS

Step 2: Select your school year calendar from the pull down menu.

Step 3: Click VIEW REPORT

Step 4: Use pull down menu to select the format (we’d recommend Excel for this report) and click EXPORT

School Board asks for committee to study the “why” question related to 1:1

This past week, our district’s Teaching & Learning Advisory group (which contains admins, teachers, parents, and a few board members) received a request to form a committee to study 1:1, or the ability to provide a technology device to students.  After discussion, the request was approved – but with some very significant guidance and expectations.

The committee’s task is to report back on…

1) What are the pros / cons of providing devices to students?

2) What are the benefits and anticipated results of going 1:1? If we did 1:1, what do we expect to see as results?

3) What specific benefits are other districts seeing as a result of 1:1?

4) Gauge community (staff, parents, community) interest in 1:1

What tasks are NOT to be done by the committee…

1) No discussing devices: There is no need to compare technology devices – we do NOT have approval for deploying 1:1, there is no need for this discussion yet.

2) No discussing roll out or training plans:  There is no need to discuss which grade levels and/or which schools are impacted.

3) No discussing time frames:  There is NO approval for 1:1, so the time frame / deployment options does not need to be discussed at this time.

Q1.  Why are there all these restrictions/limitations, what’s the concern?
A1.  Any 1:1 implementation is a major project involving significant time and resources.  We must be very clear about WHY it should or should not be done – and to help us focus on the “Why”, we are removing the discussion points about  “when”, “how”, and “what device”.

Q2.  Is there an assumption that “new” money will be available for a 1:1 project?
A2.  First, there is no assumption that 1:1 will happen – but the committee is to take the angle that NO new money is available.  Instead, we are focusing on “Would we be willing to use our existing resources and change what we currently do to have this?”

Q3,  Who will be on the committee?  How are individuals being selected?
A3.  This has not be answered yet.  However, the advisory committee has asked that that group consist of individuals from a variety of audiences (not just staff).  In addition, they have requested that it be a mixture of technology experiences.

Q4. When is the study committee meeting?
A4. Dates/times have not be set, but will be published when the process is finalized.  We’re hoping to get information out in the next week.

Even though the details haven’t all been worked out, you’re welcome to drop me an email or respond in the comments section of this blog if you have thoughts, idea, etc.

Brian Abeling
abelingb@wdmcs.org