February 17, 2023
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PowerBI Dashboard Releases and Updates

The MSCS Compass is a new one-stop shop for all your PowerBI reports, including the new and improved Student Profile, which is now called Student Data 360. Watch our introduction and navigation video here - Intro to MSCS Compass  
   

What’s in PowerBI? Check out all of the reports we have available, here.  

  

NEW Releases and Features:  

Check out our release plan, available here!  

Reports that are now available:  

  • Advanced Course Scheduling - Use this dashboard as part of the Master Scheduling process and easily identify students for enrollment in honors, AP, IB, DE, and DC courses.
    • Check out the overview video here! And the user guides here!
  • Student Surveys – Insight and District Quick Report – Use this dashboard to easily pull Insight School Climate Survey data at the Domain and Prompt level. And to see change in ratings over time.

     

Coming Soon!  

  • RTI-A – Student Progress - (New report)  
  • OAG Compliance report in Student Grades  
  • Ready Grad – updated ASVAB data  
      

System Optimizations: Student Data 360 reports have been optimized to load at a much faster rate. These include:  

We are working on optimizing performance on as many reports as possible and your feedback is crucial. Please reach out if you experience any issues so that we can identify major pain points. Email us at DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org  

 
Trainings:  

Virtual Office Hours 

  • This week (2/21 and 2/23), we will discuss the new Advanced Course Scheduling Dashboard. Check out the overview video here! And the user guides here!
  • Next week (2/28 and 3/2) – we will have an Open Floor Q&A session. Bring your questions! 
  • VOH is held every week on Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30 PM  
  • The format alternates every other week between an Open Floor Q&A session and an overview of a new and/or relevant report.  
  • Recordings of any tutorials go out to everyone on the calendar invite and will be available on our Support Page.  
  • Sign up at this link today!  

  
Under Construction:  

Does something in a dashboard look wrong? Check ourData Quality Updates.  

  

ATTENTION Counselors:  We need your help! Please go in and check your intervention plans in BrightBytes and remove the “Protected” access flag. This is very important and impacts the ability to see accurate RTI-B compliance and Progressive Discipline information in PowerBI.  
  
For more information on how to remove the Protected flag, look here.  

 
Support:  

Power BI Access Principals can give school staff members access through the PowerBI Access App. If you see someone in the Access App that should be removed from your school, contact DAIM Support (DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org) and we can assist.  

Support ResourcesCheck out the DAIM Support SharePointsite, complete with additional video tutorials, walkthrough guides, and more!