MiSiS Announcements: 

Procedures for Student Photos 

As schools are starting to hold their Picture Day, Principals are encouraged to visit the LAUSD Photo Portal (https://photoportal.lausd.net) to manage their student photos.  Student photos that are uploaded to the LAUSD Photo Portal by the school or authorized photo vendor will appear in MiSiS within 24-48 hours.  Several job aids are available, as well as a checklist, to help schools manage their photos.  Please visit https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/11923 to view the checklist and student photo job aids. 

Manage Grades by Class 

Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, the ability to enter and edit report card grades/marks in MiSiS will no longer be available to secondary teachers on comprehensive campuses. Secondary teachers must enter progress, midterm, and final report card grades and comment codes using the ‘MiSiS Grade Passback’ app within Schoology. This change only affects grade entry for teachers at comprehensive secondary campuses. Teachers at Options and Continuation schools will still be able to enter grades directly within MiSiS using the ‘Manage Grades by Class’ screen.  

Office Staff at all school types will still be able to enter grades directly within MiSiS using the ‘Manage Grades by Class’ screen. 

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS: 

Enrollment 

• The Student Exclusion Screen has been enhanced to match with the new Information Release Form. 

• The Enrollment History Screen has been corrected to save the modified date and time when changes in grade level are made. 

Scheduling 

• The Elementary Reorganization Report has been enhanced to include DIBELS 8 test results. 

Attendance 

• The Initial Notification of Truancy Letters have been enhanced with a new template.  
• The Five Column Roster Report has been enhanced to provide access to the Health Office User role. 
• The Attendance Referral Report has been corrected to display the teacher the student was enrolled with when a previous year is selected. 

English Learner 

• The following reports have been enhanced to include DIBELS 8 test results: English Learner Rosters, Annual English Learner Letter, EL Progress Profile, Individual Reclassification Plan, Reclassification Letter, RFEP Monitoring Roster and Letter. 
• The process that identifies Newcomers has been enhanced to consider students born outside of the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. 

Grades 

• Non-equivalent courses are no longer hidden. The courses will now display on the student’s Grades by Class and the Grades by Student screen as well as print out on the Secondary Schools Report Card. 

Graduation Standards 

• The Student Profile screen has been corrected such that only students in grades 9 - 12 will display a Graduation Requirements Year.  

Student Photos 

• If a photo vendor has multiple accounts for each agent, the search results will now display the multiple photo vendor accounts when searching for vendor in order to grant access to the school site. 

Student Support 

• The Referral Response Form Report link, located in the referral screen, has been corrected to display when counseling referral reasons are selected.  
• The Suspension Screen has been corrected to no longer allows users to enter more than 10 suspensions, in a school year, for special education student. 
• The Pupil Suspension Letter Report has been corrected to display the correct grade level. 

• The Intervention and Referral Screens have been enhanced to display updated referral reasons.   

Student Testing 

• When entering an Overall score of 0 for VCCALPS via the Test Score screen, the performance level “Emerging” will automatically populate.  
• The Test Score screen has been enhanced to display new condition codes and performance levels for ELPAC, and the “Alternate Assessment Description” column has been renamed as “Exemption Conditions.” 

• The calendar icon on the PFT Mass Entry screen has been fixed to allow the entering of a test date. 

 Transcripts 

• Non-equivalent courses are no longer hidden. The courses will now display on the student’s Transcript Details screen and on the Transcript Report. 

The MiSiS Opening of School Year Checklist 2019-2020 has been posted here. Please review the document.