April 25, 2025
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MSCS Compass Updates and New Releases


 

The new Scholarship & GPA report in High School Progress is now available. You can use this report to track scholarships offered and amounts awarded, as well as weighted and TN Lottery GPA information. See the user guide for more information.


The Grad Tracker report in High School Progress has been updated with Grad Plan information. See the user guide for that report here.


The District Quick Report in High School Progress has been updated with scholarship, GPA, Student Intervention and Grad Plan information. See the user guide here.


We’re making updates to the Ready Graduates Dashboard and we need your feedback! If you use the Ready Graduates dashboard, please fill out this survey.

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Upcoming Training Sessions:

We’re back this week (4/29 and 5/1) with sessions on the RTI-A Screener Reports.

Next week (5/6 and 5/8), we will cover the new Scholarship & GPA report in High School Progress.

For more information on Virtual Office Hours, check outthis flyer! Sessions are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 PM on Microsoft Teams.

Check out our Training Calendar for all upcoming District Trainings.

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Monthly Newsletter: 

Check your inbox! On the first Wednesday of every month, the DAIM team sends out a monthly newsletter to all Power BI users. In it, you will find more information on upcoming trainings, new releases, and how-to guides. 

To see this month’s edition (and all archived editions), visit our support page
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Check out our page of new/updated features and releases on ourDAIM Support Page! 

You can reach out to us at DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org if you need support.   
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MSCS Compass Access: 

Principals can give school staff members access through the MSCS Compass Access AppFor more information about how to use the app, see this user guide

Student Information
AllElemMidHigh PLC, Counselors, Librarians, Teachers, Other, Admin, Coordinators, Required, Reminder, All
Q4 Report Card Checklist for Administrators & Teachers

Q4 (Semester 2) Report Card Checklist and Instructions: Quarter 4 Report Card period ends Friday, May 23, 2025 and the Checklist document is available on SharePoint

Reminder: May 23, 2025

AllElemMidHigh PLC, Counselors, Librarians, Teachers, Other, Admin, Coordinators, Required, Reminder, All
Year End Procedures in PowerSchool

The 2024-2025 End of Year Procedures documents are available on SharePoint.

Reminder: May 30, 2025

High Counselors, Other, Admin, Required, Reminder
Graduation Data

A critical piece in determining graduation rate is ensuring graduate rosters are submitted to EIS. With the exception of Summer School graduates, the rosters must be complete and accurate by June 26, 2025

Procedures on completing and submitting EIS Grad data for the 2024-2025 school year are available on SharePoint. Please share the memo with the Senior Counselors & Graduation Coordinators. Final graduate rosters, including Summer School, must be submitted to the SDE by August 14, 2025.

Reminder: August 15, 2025

High Counselors, Other, Admin, Required, Reminder
Distributing Cumulative Folders (Graduates)

Instructions on how to distribute cumulative folders to the 2024-2025 graduates can be found on SharePointThe title of the document is Distributing Cumulative Folders to GraduatesDO NOT distribute cumulative folders to students who are not graduating or students who will receive a Special Education, Occupational or Alternate Academic diploma. Special education students, who are aging out, can receive their cumulative folders.

Reminder: June 6, 2025

High Counselors, Other, Admin, Required, Reminder
High School Principals and High School Master Schedulers

The deadline to complete your school's 25-26 master schedule is May 9. Schedules are not complete until all students are scheduled with students without conflicts to be at least 92% as indicated on the PowerScheduler home page for the 2025-2026 Build Scenario.

Reminder: May 9, 2025