MiSiS Updates – January 13, 2021

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS: 

Scheduling 

• The Walk-In, Sections Editor, Course Request and Mass Request Editor screens have been enhanced to prevent ineligible students from being scheduled in service-like courses.  Students in grades 8, 11 and 12 are eligible to take no more than one service-like course per semester. 

Attendance 

• The Attendance Not Submitted Report has been corrected to correctly consider meeting patterns and attendance that has been invalidated due to data clean-ups. 
• The Uncleared Absence Report, located under the Reports menu, has been corrected to display all teachers in the Teacher dropdown menu.  The excel portion of the report also lists teachers accurately. 

Family Portal 

• The Middle School and High School IGP Reports and the Transcript Reports are now available for parents to generate.

Manage Groups 

• The Manage Groups screen has been enhanced to include a new group sub-category of “Health” under the Administrative group category. 

Student Support 

• The Student Profile has been enhanced with a new alert, RA Risk Assessment. This alert will display if one of the conditions listed below is present from the current to the previous 12 months: 
  • User enters a MiSiS Counseling Communication selecting any option under Communication Purpose Risk Assessment and Service Provided of Risk Assessment
  • User enters a Welligent record with the following SHHS services:  
    • Self-Injury Assessment  
    • Suicide Assessment  
    • Threat Assessment Investigation 

Student Testing 

• The ELPAC Summative Test, found under Academics > Test Scores, has been enhanced to load and display “E” (Exempt) for students who were exempt from any of the ELPAC Summative sub-components of Listening, Speaking, Reading, or Writing. 

MiSiS Announcements:

As a reminder, users should clear their browser cache throughout the year before logging on to MiSiS.  Directions for clearing cache for various browsers may be found in the MiSiS FAQs: Q. How do I clear my browser cache?

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• A new enrollment screen is being piloted by five schools. The new screen allows users to save an In-Progress enrollment and streamlines data entry.  All schools will begin using the new screen in February 2021. 
• The ITI Form Report now generates for all classrooms.
• The PO Box addresses format was corrected to meet US Postal Service requirements.

 Scheduling

• The Sections Editor screen has been enhanced to load sections in a timely manner.

 Attendance

• For the current school year, all submitted Present records have been converted to “Distance Present” and Absent records have been converted to “Distance Absent”.
• The Continuation Teacher Roster for Independent Study screen has been corrected to display the student's photo popup.
• At Magnet Schools, the teacher parameter on the Master Absence Report now displays all teachers.
• The Manage Teacher Class Attendance screen has been corrected to allow users to change the date after a period has been selected, and to only display the periods that meet on the selected date.
• A new report, Enrichment Program: Student Roster, is now available and allows users the option of printing the report to view all students currently enrolled in an Enrichment course/section or allows school staff to take attendance on paper.

Census  

• The Foster Youth interface bug has been fixed. Cases that are closed in DCFS database are now closed in MiSiS. 
• The First US Enrollment dates were corrected to match CALPADS.

 Special Education Placement Portal

• The SPED Placement Portal report has been corrected and no longer displays duplicate records.

 State Reports

• The Carlson Hospital Classification Elementary and Secondary Reports have been enhanced to count students if scheduled in homeroom.
• The following reports have been enhanced to consider additional distance learning absent and present codes:
  • Statistical/SMASR - Elementary
  • Statistical/SMASR - Secondary
  • Statistical/SMASR - Opportunity
  • Statistical/SMASR - Continuation
  • Statistical/SMASR - Elementary CDS
  • Statistical/SMASR - Secondary CDS
  • Statistical/SMASR - Elementary Carlson Hospital
  • Statistical/SMASR - Secondary Carlson Hospital
  • Statistical/SMASR - Elementary Carlson Home
  • Statistical/SMASR – Secondary Carlson Home

Student Support

• The Behavior Emergency screen and In-line report have been enhanced to allow users to enter and print original and revised versions. The screen also includes new fields to link interventions and referrals related to the behavior emergency record, as well as a new field named “Incident Results”. The report now also includes the Local District, based on the student's address.
• The SHHS Service Summary screen, located under the Support profile tab, has been enhanced to include Welligent School Mental Health services.
• The Social Adjustment Report has been enhanced to include Welligent School Mental Health services.

 Transcripts

• A new tab has been added to the Transcript Detail screen that will allow schools to indicate that a student has earned the State Seal of Biliteracy and/or the LAUSD Seal of Biliteracy awards.