MiSiS Announcements:

Users who may have bookmarked specific student profiles will need to refresh the link as the Student Profile screen was recently updated to meet Section 508 requirements. Users are advised to review and update their bookmarks for MiSiS related pages to ensure the links are still active.

The following items have been updated/fixed in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• The fields on the enrollment/withdrawal screen have been updated to match the enrollment screen so that the values are consistent.

Scheduling

• The Sections Editor screen will now prevent the overlapping of periods when students are added to off-site sections.

Attendance

• The Initial Notification of Truancy Letter has been translated into Tagalog and Farsi.
• At secondary schools, the Attendance Summary Report now considers reason code 3 under the Days UnExc column.
• Continuation High Schools now have access to the Uncleared Absence Screen, located under the student profile ‘Attendance’ tab.
• At City of Angels, the Teacher Attendance Roster now displays correctly when sorted by a student’s last name.

Athletics

• The Nursing Office Admin Role now has the ability to read the Athletic Screen located under Student Profile Miscellaneous tab.

Census

• The Out of Home Care screen now includes the fields listed below which are populated by the IODS Foster Youth Inbound interface:
  • Attorney Name 
  • Attorney Phone Number
  • Attorney Address
  • Attorney Title 
  • Attorney Email Address 
  • Supervising Social Worker Name 
  • Supervising Social Worker Phone 
  • Supervising Social Worker Email Address

English Learner

• The Master Plan Roster will now display students’ master plan program information.
• A new report, the Individual Reclassification Plan, is now available for elementary and secondary schools with PLTEL and LTEL students.  The report is available in various languages and is intended to be used to discuss the academic progress of English learners.  A job aid has been made available at https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/9877.

GATE

• The student’s school of enrollment, at the time the GATE referral was created, is now saved in the MiSiS database. 
• The GATE Student Search and GATE Referral screens now include a poverty indicator if a student is enrolled at a Community Eligibility Provision school.
• The Teacher Notification report is now working for a teacher assigned to complete GATE Checklist.  The Notification appears on the top right corner of screen if teacher is assigned to complete a GATE checklist.

Grades

• The Manage Grades by Class student roster will now display single entries that displayed duplicate entries for some students.

Graduation Standards

• The Middle School IGP Report will now display in Alpha order by the student’s Last Name.

Groups

• The Manage Groups report will now display from the Manage Groups screen.

Student Support

• The Student Support Admin can now enter, edit, and delete Contact Log entries they create.
• The Student Support Admin user role now has access to the Academic Interventions screen.
• Student Health and Human Service records are now being interfaced into MiSiS.
• Students with these services will have an SH Alert on the student profile.  When a user hovers over the alert, the message “Student Health and Human Services (SHHS) Record Summary available” under the Support Tab or via Social Adjustment.
• A new screen has been added under the profile Support tab, SHHS Service Summary, which displays all SHHS services for a student.
• The Social Adjustment Report now include SHHS records.
• A selection parameter has been added to the Social Adjustment Report to include an Enrollment Status (Enrolled, Not Enrolled, Both).

Transcripts

• A new refresh button that updates a student’s Graduation Eligibility Status, has been added to the Transcript Details Screen.  Authorized users (Principal, Scheduling Admin, or Counselor Plus) can now refresh the Graduation Eligibility status for any student. This is used whenever an update to a course grade or new Transcript entry has been made.

Reports

• Inline reports will open in new tab in the same browser.  There is no change to the data displayed or export options of the report.  This is done for 508 compliance.
  • Attendance → Attendance Audit
  • Attendance →   Attendance Referral
  • Attendance → Attendance Totals
  • Attendance → Uncleared Absences Report
  • Graduation Standards → Graduation Progress Report
  • Graduation Standards → IGP Report
  • Graduation Standards → SP Grad Exempt Notification Letter
  • Transcript → Transcript Report
  • Student Support → Social Adjustment Report
  • Grades → Report Card - Mailer
  • Grades → Report Card - Non-Mailer

MiSiS Announcements:

Training

The MiSiS School Front End (Office Procedures) and Term Rollover training is currently available for registration in MyPLN, Search Keyword = TrainITD

Immunization 

Due to a bug, the immunization screen is displaying a pink bar on the top of the screen. If there is not a message in the box regarding MiSiS not being able to connect with Welligent, the screen is working, and immunizations may be entered. 

The following items have been updated/fixed in MiSiS: 

Enrollment

• The bug impacting PK and TE enrollment has been fixed.  Schools are now able to enroll students previously enrolled in Special Education Infant and Preschool locations.
• The following screens have been updated for Section 508 compliance:
  • Parent/Guardian
  • Contact Information
  • Identifying Information
  • Transfer
  • Records Request
  • Summer School
  • No Show

Attendance

• The Saturday Makeup School – Enter Recovery Date job aid is now available.
• The following screens have a new design for compliance with Section 508:
  • Student > Attendance > Update Attendance
  • Student > Profile > Contact Log

Athletics

• The Athletics Screen now displays the Nurse's Office Visit History dates as mm/dd/yy.

English Learner

• The EL Progress Profile report will display students’ Master Plan Program information.
• The Reclassification Letter will display accurate data for reclassified students.

GATE

• Teachers may now enter GATE Referral Checklist.
• GATE Psychologists may now enter test scores with decimal points.
• GATE Referral and GATE Checklist print function is now working correctly.

Grades

• The Elementary Schools CCS Report Card will now display the new ELPAC Summative test performance levels for students, when applicable.
• The Secondary Schools Cumulative Grade Labels Report will now display the correct name of the school where Summer Session courses were completed.
• Fixes were made to reported students’ grades data.

Schoology

• The Learning Management System (LMS), Schoology, now displays a student’s “preferred” first name entered in MiSiS.

Transcripts

• The Generate the Academic Decathlon Transcripts Report job aid is now available.