The MSCS Compass is a 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.  

Support Resources: Check out the DAIM Support SharePoint site, complete with additional video tutorials, walkthrough guides, and more!  
 

NEW Releases and Features: 

Check out our release plan, available here!  

Reports that are now available:  

• Suspension Ratios have been added back to the Student Discipline Overview and District Quick Report pages!
   
• RTI2 – SOAR Report is now available to help school data teams track performance across SOAR cycles!
  
   
• RTI2 – A: Student Progress Report is now available! Use this report to assess actual vs recommended instructional level and skill deficit movement for Progress Monitoring!
  • Check out the user guide here!
     
• RTI2-A – Universal Screener report now contains Early Warning System data for high school students!
  • Check out the user guides here! 
  • NOTE – Due to an issue with exports coming in from i-Ready, Characteristics of Dyslexia and Benchmarking Next Steps reports are currently not populating for high schools. We are working on a fix and apologize for any inconvenience.
     
• A new user guide is available to help navigate the Current School Flag in several Student Data 360 dashboards: Student Assessment, Student Attendance, Student Discipline, Student Grades. This allows you to toggle between the Current Enrollment and Total Enrollment (including withdrawals and transfers) for a selected school. The guide explains how to use the filter and the different ways it can impact the data you are seeing.

Coming Soon!  

• Student Surveys updates to include Panorama data.
• OAG Report updates to include Retention flag.
• Chronic Absenteeism updates to current year calculation
• Progressive Discipline Rate updates to incorporate BrightBytes interventions.

Data Quality

We are working on a fix to the Ready Graduate dashboard resulting in an undercounting of EPSOs for some students. We will provide updates as soon we can and apologize for any inconvenience.

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

• Student Attendance – Current Load Time: 00.05.42 seconds  
• Student Assessment – Current Load Time: 00.05.89 seconds  
• Student Discipline – Current Load Time: 00.07.68 seconds  
• Student Enrollment – Current Load Time: 00.06.47 seconds  
• Student Grades – Current Load Time: 00.07.39 seconds  
• Student Snapshot – Current Load Time: 00.03.63 seconds  
• Student Surveys – Current Load Time: 00.04.40 seconds  

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:  See our Training Calendar available here!

Virtual Office Hours: 

• This week (4/11 and 4/13) – we will cover the RTI2-A Screener and Benchmarking Reports.  Next week (4/25 and 4/27), we will have an Open Forum Q&A session.
• 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 look wrong? Check our Data 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 OAG compliance, RTI-B compliance and Progressive Discipline information in PowerBI.

For more information on how to remove the Protected flag, look here.  

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.

Additional time is available to students on this year’s TCAP Achievement and End of Course tests. As a district, we have decided to give all students the available additional time rather than asking students if they need additional time. Additional time is available for each subpart of the grades 3-8 TCAP Achievement tests and the End of Course (EOC) tests. Additional time is also available on some parts of the second grade TCAP, but there are parts of the second grade TCAP for which additional time is not allowed.

Additional time is in addition to the required time (sometimes called recommended time) for each subpart.

A detailed email explaining the protocol to follow was sent to Building Testing Coordinators on Wednesday, April 5.

All students should get the allowed additional time, but test administrators MUST NOT give students more than the required (recommended) time plus the allowed additional time. The only exception would be for students who already get extended time based on an IEP, 504, or ILP because these students would get required time plus additional time plus extended time. 

Giving more time than the state allows would result in a testing irregularity and nullification of the student’s test and would count against a school’s participation rate.