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June 2018

05 June 2018

DIRS Update

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Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has modified the Disciplinary Incident Reporting System (DIRS). Modifications were made to comply with Minn. Stat. § 121A.53. This statute identifies added data collection requirements when an incident is identified as a “physical assault of a district employee by a student.” Two new fields were added – ‘Physical Assault’ which refers to an incident which included a physical assault of a district employee...

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May 2018

03 May 2018

Minnesota Common Course Catalogue (MCCC) 2017-2018

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MDE has the site open for you to submit your Courses and Staff files. Wait with the Student files until your school year has ended and the grades have been posted to student course history.Here are the top ten things you must absolutely do! Roll your 2017 calendars forward to 2018 on the MCCC site. This is the easiest and most efficient way for you to create your 2018 calendars. Create and/ or edit all calendars before you update any staff files. This includes editing all dates...

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02 May 2018

Year End Checklist

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Year End Status – Graduation Status and DateThe Year End Status field is no longer used for MARSS graduation reporting. The MARSS extract automatically insertsthe code ‘08’- graduated into the file for any student in grade 12. If you have seniors not graduating, update the NextGrade and Next School on the Other Info tab. If next grade is equal to 12, the extract inserts code ‘40’ - End of Year.To determine if a student has met all of the graduation...

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02 May 2018

STAR Assignment Codes

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We have updated STAR Assignment table with the 2017-2018 valid codes and inactivated over 300 that should no longer be used.A process has been put into place here to keep that table maintained starting the 2018-19 school year.If you do generate the Licensed Staff assignment file from Synergy, you may want to review your codes.An easy way to do this is to open the District Course view, and put an asterisk into the following fields: Course Id, Course Title, STARAssignment and STAR Grade Level. The...

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April 2018

04 April 2018

Minnesota Common Course Catalog (MCCC) 2018

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MDE closed the 16-17 (2017) school year on 03/23/18 and just opened the 17-18 (2018) school year for MCCC reporting.Major changes have occurred for this reporting year and will require schools to recode a number of courses. All K-8 Math and Language Arts courses will need to be recoded, as well as Grades 9-12 World Language courses. New subject areas were added to the K-8 world, PE/Health, Art, Music, Social Studies and Science. To report these new subject areas, K-8 s...

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04 April 2018

NEW Status End Code

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MDE has released a new status end code (leave code) that you need to use starting 2018-2019. This is used when Pre-School screening students (grade PS) that may not qualify for a referral, but are tagged for a later date (planned pre-school re-screening), and their state aid category is a 41-45. This new code is coming from the Department of Early Childhood Screening. The department's email and phone number are mds.els@state.mn.us and (651) 582-1136.Here is how you add...

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March 2018

05 March 2018

Patch MN.O Installed on February 24th Enhancements and Corrections

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Report Interface options – This patch corrects the ability to use $DATE as the current date when looking at date fields. STU416 – Student Enrollment Validation, found in Student/Reports/List, verifies that students are enrolled in at least one class for each day they are enrolled in school. This is an important check for MARSS funding. Also, it verifies enrollment dates are within the school calendar. Prior to the installment of the patch, the enrollment validation wa...

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February 2018

06 February 2018

Requests for Transcripts in Synergy

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On the Student Course History view use the Request Tracking tab to document where, when, and for what purpose transcripts are sent. In the detail section include the delivery type and the Transcript Option Name.

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06 February 2018

Mass Scheduling

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From the HELP menu in SYNERGY navigate to the 2017 Conference Handouts menu. A Mass Scheduling Handout is available with a walk through step by step for Mass Scheduling.

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06 February 2018

Attach Documents in PVUE/SVUE

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A new feature has been added to allow users to view and attach documents to students in ParentVUE and StudentVUE. In addition to attaching documents, you can add an acknowledgement window to confirm that a parent has viewed the document. To Configure navigate to System > ParentVUE > ParentVUE and StudentVUE Configuration. Select Documents in both the Parent Active Modules and Student Active Modules sections. NOTE: To disable the option for individual schools, u...

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