MiSiS Announcements:

Student Photos

Access to the LAUSD Photo Portal will end on 06/30/23 for all photo vendors.

Beginning July 1, Principals may begin granting access to next year’s photo vendor by assigning the Expire Date to 06/30/24.

• If your school will be continuing partnership with an existing photo vendor, Principals may extend the date to 06/30/24.
• If your school will be seeking partnership with a new photo vendor, Principals may add the new vendor and assign 06/30/24 as an ending date.

Please note that only the Principal may change this date.

For additional information, please visit the MiSiS website for Student Photos job aids (https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/11923).

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• The Withdrawal Screen has been corrected to allow users to view previously entered withdrawal records.
• The Withdrawal Screen has been enhanced to include a Comments field.

Attendance

• The Update Attendance Screen has been corrected to allow teachers using the Class Attendance 2.0 screen to submit attendance irrespective of school of enrollment.
• The Evaluation Period dropdown in the Student Truancy Report has been enhanced for the 2022-2023 school year.

Graduation Standards

• The Graduation Standards Summary Screen has been enhanced to apply substitution rules in the B Subject Area for students in grades 9-12 who were enrolled during the 2020-2021 school year. As a result of AB104, students were given the option to change F grades to NP (Not Passed) for their grade-level English course. The English substitution rules will apply to NP grades the same way they do to F grades.

Student Support

• The Support Referral Suspension Screen has been corrected to allow users to select at least one period or any combination of suspension days/periods within the specified “Effective and End Dates.”
• The Student Health & Human Services (SHHS) Summary screen has been enhanced to include Contact Method.

Student Testing

• The OLSAT 8 Assessment Report has been enhanced to display “Age or Grade Percentile” as a test score type.

Summer School

• The Bus Schedule Screen has been enhanced to allow schools to submit transportation requests for the Summer ETK-8 Program. Please visit the MiSiS website for the Transportation Request Summer School ETK-8 job aid (https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/4836).

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• The Office Summons Report may now be accessed by those with the Nursing Office Admin user role.
• The Emergency Roster Report may now be accessed by users with Pupil Services School Based and Student Support School Based user roles.
• The Exclusion Screen has been enhanced to include California Student Aid and National Clearing House information.

Scheduling

• The Sections Editor Screen has been enhanced to display prior years’ Independent Study Section Attributes.
• The Change Student Section Screen has been enhanced to process repeated courses where the final grade was a D or Fail.

English Learner

• The Mass Reclassify Screen has been enhanced to include students’ reclassification dates.
• Alignment issues have been corrected in the ELPAC Labels and the Individual Reclassification Plan.
• When a student is reclassified, specific master plan programs will end on the prior instructional day.

Grades

• The Graduation Progress Report has been corrected to display completed courses with final grades for all terms including AF, AS, A1, A2, A3 and A4.

Independent Study

• The Independent Study Master Agreement (MA)/Record of Assignment (ROA) Report has been enhanced to include deleted and void records.
• The Daily Participation Report has been enhanced with a new Min # Non-Participation Days parameter.
• The Independent Study (IS) School Manage Teacher/Class Attendance Screen has been enhanced to include a Mass Daily Participation Screen.
• The Mass Daily Participation Screen has been corrected for periods with more than one section where not all records submitted were saved.
• The Update Attendance Screen has been enhanced to allow IS Supervising Designees at IS Schools to submit attendance for students on their rosters regardless of section or teacher assignment.
• The ROA Screen for Long-Term/Full-Time and Part-Time IS have been enhanced to default and disable the Issue Date to the ROA Start Date.
• The Master Agreement (MA) Screen has been enhanced as follows:
  • New Amendment Screen and In-Line Report to enter and track MA changes
  • New Audit Log Screen to track MA and ROA changes
  • Ability for IS Administrator to edit the MA/ROA End Dates

State Reports

• The COA Statistical/SMASR Report titles on Reports menu and report headers have been enhanced by replacing COA to IS Schools. These reports now also include Master Agreement validations.
• The Opportunity, Continuation, comprehensive Secondary, Elementary and Secondary IS Schools (formally COA) Statistical/SMASRs have been enhanced with an IS column on the Statistical and IS attendance validations on the SMASR.

Student Support

• The Support Referral Screen has been corrected, and now displays submitted referrals.