This is a basic annual district/site checklist to ensure you are ready for the new school year with your SIS. Click on any of the links below for detailed instructions.
Per school site you must:
- Create new Sessions and Terms.
- Create Timeblocks and Timeblock Occurrences (contact us if you would like assistance 'copying over' timeblocks and occurrences help@illuminateEd.com)
- Add new Staff and give them proper permissions and affiliations
- Complete Rollover of Students
- Complete Rollover of Staff (if you did not roll them over already)
- Complete the school Calendar for the new year (once the calendar is finalized)
- Set Grading Periods (for report cards and gradebooks)
- Set Reporting Periods (for attendance reporting periods)
- Schedule Students
- If you use Houses for master scheduling, you'll need to Create Houses in the new year. For assistance rolling over your students into their house, contact us at help@illuminateEd.com.
- Review student contact/dwelling/households data and cleanup all duplicates
- Setup Elementary or Standards Based Report Cards for the new school year or if they have already been created, Rollover Elementary/Standards Based Report Cards for the new year.
- If you use site specific Secondary Report Cards, review Create/Manage Secondary Report Cards.
- If seniors are graduating, contact us for graduation and un-enrollment assistance at help@illuminateEd.com.
- CALPADS codes have been updated in Code Management for any changes that have been made for the upcoming school year.
Support
For assistance or to answer any questions you may have, please do not hesitate to contact us at help@illuminateEd.com.