MiSiS Announcements:

MiSiS Ad-Hoc Reporting and Dashboards

Due to a feature addition, there will be a service interruption to the MiSiS Ad–Hoc Reporting and Dashboard today, Thursday, August 17^th, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. Users will not be able to log in during this time.

Access to MiSiS

In preparation for the school opening, the MiSiS team granted temporary Teacher access to staff members who had sections assigned to them but had not applied for access. This was done to lower the number of Help Desk calls and to ensure that teachers could submit attendance on the first day of school. If you have not applied for access to MiSiS using the EZ Access application (http://ezaccess.lausd.net), you are strongly encouraged to do so. Your temporary access will expire on October 9, 2017.  

No Show Reminders

Directions for the No Show Process are available here:  No Show Process.

Students must be marked absent with the reason code of Unresolved for every period to be flagged as a No Show.

1. Do not withdraw a student flagged as a No Show. The nightly process will update the withdrawal for the student.
2. The No Show process runs every night at 6 pm.  
3. The No Show Report (Reports > Enrollment > No Show Report) generates a list of No Show students.  

MiSiS Announcements for the Start of the Year

The MiSiS team has developed some suggestions for the opening of the new school year.  Please be sure to review the Opening of the School Year 2017-2018 Checklist.

Preparing for the Opening of the 2017-2018 School Year

The suggestions have been posted here.  Please review the document.

Turning Off the MiSiS Gradebook

The MiSiS secondary Gradebook has been transitioned to the Schoology Gradebook effective immediately for the 2017-18 school year. The historical records in MiSiS will still be available to teachers throughout the 2017-2018 school year. The new Gradebook can be accessed through Schoology’s Learning Management System (LMS) using your District SSO at: lms.lausd.net.

Elementary Schools

The MiSiS Gradebook is not available to elementary schools due to the implementation of California Content Standards (CCS).

Enrollment

• Bugs Impacting Enrollment in TK and Kindergarten
  • A bug is preventing schools from enrolling students in TK with a birthdate of 9/2/12 and Kindergarten students with a birthdate of 9/1/2012. This bug only impacts students with those specific birthdates. 
  • A second bug is preventing schools from entering an E7 First School code if the student has a prior enrollment with an Entry Code of E Pre K/TE.  The workaround is to enroll the student with another E Code, save the record, and then edit the record to the correct E7 code.  The MiSiS team is working to resolve these issues.  Refer to the MiSiS job aide for complete directions for enrolling a student: Enroll a Student and Assign Classes.

• Auto withdrawal tips
  Auto withdrawal allows schools to enroll a student currently enrolled at another school.  During the enrollment search, when clicking on “Enroll Student” you will be prompted when the student has a current enrollment at another school. Please check that you have searched for, and have selected, the correct student before proceeding. You can click on the Profile link to verify a student’s and parent’s information if needed: birthday, language etc. Do not click OK until you are positive you have the correct student record. When the enrollment is saved, the student will be automatically exited from the previous school with the correct L code and exit date for the previous day.
  
  To generate a list of students who have been auto withdrawn from your school, use the Auto Withdrawal Report.

• No Show Students
  Schools may enter No Show flags before school starts.  For directions,  refer to the job aid: No Show Process.  No show students are processed nightly at 6 pm.  For a list of students flagged and processed as a No Show, use the No Show Report.

• Re-Enrolling No Show Students
  If a student has been processed as a No Show, he/she will need to be re-enrolled and scheduled.
  The enrollment screen will now display the address and permit information, if applicable, for a returning No Show student. A new report, No Show Schedule Summary Report, provides the last scheduled section for No Show students.

Schedules

• To run the Students Without Schedules report, please refer to the following job aid: https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/3467.   

MiSiS Announcements:  

The MiSiS team has developed some suggestions for the opening of the new school year.  Please be sure to review the Opening of the School Year 2017-2018 Checklist.

Preparing for the Opening of the 2017-2018 School Year

The suggestions have been posted here.  Please review the document.

The following items have been updated/fixed in MiSiS: 

Enrollment

• The School Experience screen will no longer allow data to be entered for students in grades TE, TK, or PK.  Data should be entered for students when they enter Kindergarten.

Scheduling

• Scheduling Post-Commit Screens and Reports:
  • Walk-In Screen – The Add/Drop and Student Program reports will run successfully on the first day of school; when hovering over a section which displays the capacity, the system will include the capacity for students enrolled for a future date.
  • Sections Editor Screen – Sections will display with current capacity and future capacity.
• The Parent Notification Screen found in Student Profile > Services > English Learner no longer includes students enrolled in PS, PK, or Infant Centers when determining a student’s initial enrollment for initial language classification.
• The CELDT Test Discrepancy Report will now display “No Data Found” if there are no eligible students for CELDT testing
• The EL Student Schedule Summary Report will display the courses in italicized font when students are enrolled in courses at other schools.

Attendance

• The Uncleared Absence Letter, located under the Reports menu, is no longer generating an error.
• The Teacher Attendance Verification Report now displays the correct student’s grade level.

Grades

• The selection parameter values for Group Category have been modified for the following Grades Reports to now include “All”, “Counselor”, “Learning Community”, “Others”, and “No Group Assigned”:
• Counseling List Report
• Cumulative Grade Labels – Secondary and Options Schools
• Distribution of Marks
• Grade Summary Report
• Honor Roll Report
• The Grades Audit Report now displays correct labels.
• The Cumulative Grade Labels Report for Secondary Schools now includes the Summer Term code, in the ‘Term Code’ selection parameter dropdown, at all schools in order to allow the printing of Cum Labels for students who completed Summer Session courses at other campuses.

Graduation Standards

• The selection parameter values for Group Category have been modified for the Graduation.
• Progress Report to now include “All”, “Counselor”, “Learning Community”, “Others”, and “No Group Assigned”.

State Reports

• The Secondary Classification Report will now display students with more than one section enrollment.

MiSiS Ad Hoc Reporting and Dashboards

• Update to Grad Progress Dashboard to Display Students with Waivers - Grad Progress Dashboard has been updated to display current data, which now includes summer school courses and AB167/216/1806 Waivers. Current 2016-2017 data will display through August 14, 2017. 2017-2018 data will display beginning August 15, 2017.
• New Local District Monitoring Report: No Attendance but Not Marked No Show (Will begin to display data the day after the new school year starts) - This report is now available, providing a list of students who have no attendance recorded for the previous day of school, but have not been marked as a “No Show.” To access, go to Dashboards in the navigational menu > Local District Reports > click the No Attendance but Not Marked No Show tab.
• New Local District Monitoring Report: No Show (Will begin to display data the day after the new school year starts) - This report is now available, providing a list of students who have been marked as a “No Show” for the previous day of school. To access, go to Dashboards in the navigational menu > Local District Reports > click the No Show tab.
• New CMS PIN Column - This column is now available to produce reports including student CMS (Cafeteria Management System) PIN Numbers. It can be found in the Student Detail Subject Area > Programs folder > Meal Code subfolder > CMS PIN. The updated subject area guide is available on the MiSiS Ad Hoc Reporting job aids webpage http://achieve.lausd.net/Page/11833.
• New English Learner Columns - New English Learner columns are available in the Student Detail Subject Area. The columns added include EL Years, ELD Level, LEP Profile Code, and LTEL Flag. They can be accessed by navigating to the Programs folder > English Learner subfolder.
• Update to Master Scheduling Commit Status Report - This report has been updated to refresh with new data every day until August 14, 2017.
• Update to Attendance Rates - All Attendance Rate columns in the application have been updated to exclude Summer School Attendance Rates.