MSCS Compass Updates and New Releases
As part of the monthly newsletter, the DAIM team has started publishing the Empowering Your Data Story report to promote Power BI usage. This report highlights schools that go above and beyond in their use of Power BI and the MSCS Compass. You can find more information about this campaign here.
Empowering Your Data Story: February Winners
- Top School Overall: Lucy Elementary
- Top K8/Middle School: Cummings School
- Top High School: Melrose High
You can also see pictures of recipients, with their awards, on our Hall of Fame page.
Featured:
- The RTI Universal Screener Spring Window for grades 9-12 opens this week. You can use the EWS and Screener reports to track completion. Click here for the user guides.
- You can use the reports in the MSCS Compass to easily pull a list of Overage for Grade students. Check out this user guide for more details.
Report Updates:
- Digital Citizenship has been updated so that Alternative Schools can now track completion for remanded students. Click here for the user guide.
- The Third Grade Exemption Report has a new visual to support tracking for the exemption request process. Click here for the user guide.
- Data for the 6th 20-Day Period is available in the Show Up for Greatness report. The 6th 20-Day period ended March 10, with data available on March 11. This was due to schools being out two weeks due to inclement weather. Click here to see the user guide for this report.
- Student Enrollment has been updated to include Date of Birth and Age columns in the Overview, Raw Data, and Enrollment Details reports. Click here to see the Enrollment user guides.
- Advanced Course Scheduling has been updated to include student subgroup filtering in all reports and some reports have been modified to consolidate data tables. The All Data page has been renamed Raw Data, to keep consistent with other dashboards. A District Quick Report for aggregated metrics has been added. And Pre-ACT and Spring TVAAS results for AP and ACT Probability of Success data have been added. Additionally, Charter schools now have access to this dashboard and can see data for their students. Central Office staff can filter between District Managed and Charter students by using the Filter Pane. Click here to see the Advanced Course Scheduling user guides.
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Upcoming Training Sessions:
Virtual Office Hours this week (3/31 and 4/2) will be a review of the RTI2-A EWS and Universal Screener Reports.
For more information on Virtual Office Hours, check out this flyer! Sessions are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. on Microsoft Teams.
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Each month, we will have a training session on the High School Progress Dashboard (Course Code 49628 in PLZ) and on the Student Discipline Dashboard (Course Code 49629 in PLZ). Sign up today!
| Topic | Dates |
| High School Progress Dashboard | 4/7, 5/5 |
| Student Discipline Dashboard | 4/9, 5/7 |
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Check out our Training Calendar for all upcoming District Trainings.
| Date | Training | Sign Up |
| 3/31 & 4/1 | Virtual Office Hours: RTI2-A EWS and Universal Screener Reports | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/6 | School Counselors Virtual Training: K-8 and High Schools | |
| 4/7 | MSCS Compass: Exploring the High School Progress Dashboard (PLZ 49628) | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/9 | MSCS Compass: Exploring the Student Discipline Dashboard (PLZ 49629) | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/7 & 4/9 | Virtual Office Hours: Student Grades and Summer School Eligibility | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/14 | MSCS Compass: New User Training (PLZ 34810) | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/16 | MSCS Compass: Refresher Training (PLZ 34812) | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/14 & 4/16 | Virtual Office Hours: Open Office Hours Q&A | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/21 & 4/23 | Virtual Office Hours: RTI-A Universal Screener Reports | Click here to sign up. |
| 4/28 & 4/30 | Virtual Office Hours: Overage for Grade Student Lists | Click here to sign up. |
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Check out our page of new/updated features and releases on our DAIM Support Page!
You can reach out to us at DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org if you need support.