MiSiS Training & Support / MiSiS Updates (2024)

MiSiS Announcements:

MiSiS School Checklists

The MiSiS End of School Year and Opening of the School Year Checklists are now available on the MiSiS website, under “Other Resources”. Please review the End of School Year Checklist to review tasks to be completed by the end of the school year and the Opening of the School Year Checklist before August 12, 2024.

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• The Parent Educational Level field on the Enrollment screen has been enhanced and is now a required field.
• The Withdrawal History screen has been corrected to no longer display the attendance message.
• TheGrade Level Change screen has been enhanced with the addition of the Kindergarten Continuance Date Field for TK Grade Level Changes.

Scheduling

• The Section Assignments screen has been enhanced with a new Period Seat Tally screen that tabulates total student requests by period when sections are created and assigned. The updated Master Scheduling - Section Assignments Screen job aid is available on the MiSiS website.
• The Walk-In screen has been enhanced with a new filter, “Unfulfilled Course Requests”. This filter identifies students whose course requests were not scheduled. The updated Walk-In Screen job aid is available on the MiSiS website.
• The Concurrent Term Editor screen has been enhanced to prevent the mapping of student sections to out-of-classroom sections.

Attendance

• The Update Attendance screen has been corrected to display the Attendance Codes accurately.

English Learner

• The RFEP Monitoring Letter has been enhanced with a new parameter, “Campus”, a multi-select option on the “School(s)” and “RFEP Years” parameters. The updated Generate and Print the RFEP Monitoring Letter job aid is available on the MiSiS website. The letter has also been corrected to accurately display student tests in chronological order.

Graduation Standards

• The formatting on the Individualized Graduation Plan (IGP) High School report has been enhanced.
• The Middle School Certificate Completion Eligibility report has been enhanced to align with current LAUSD Middle School policy which mandates that students earn 50 credits in 8th grade to be eligible for middle school culmination.

Student Support

• The Behavior Emergency screen has been corrected to allow users to select dates ranging from the incident date to the current date.

The following items have been enhanced/corrected in MiSiS:

Enrollment

• The Student Cumulative Record Label report has been corrected to accurately display thestudent name.
• The Exclusion and Mass Exclusion screens have been enhanced with a new exclusion option, First Grade Savings Account.

Scheduling

• The Repeating Courses report has been enhanced to include a multi-select option on the “School Term” parameter.
• The Class Enrollment report has been corrected to ensure that the report hyperlink is removed when the report is downloaded in Excel format.
• The Course Request screen has been enhanced to include an additional screen: Core Courses for students in Grades 6-8. The updated Course Request job aid is available on the MiSiS website.
• The Change Student Section screen has been enhanced to provide more information to users attempting to create a Level 2-4 request. Additionally, the screen has been corrected to prevent users from creating Level 2 requests.
• The Concurrent Term Editor screen has been corrected to properly filter by Section Type.

Attendance

• The Manage Teacher/Class Attendance screen has been corrected to display teachers who were previously assigned to class schedules but are no longer active or assigned.

English Learner

• The Annual English Learner Letter report has been corrected to:
  • Exclude SBA-ELA records that are invalid.
  • Properly display the LTEL designation in bold in the Spanish and Korean templates.
  • Display the Alternate ELPAC levels and the performance levels for students on the alternate curriculum.
• The RFEP Monitoring Roster report has been enhanced to display students’ year-to-date enrollment and absence counts.
• The Multilingualism Awards screen has been corrected to allow users to update a student’s award when logged in to the campus school. Additionally, the screen has been enhanced to include a “3rd Grade Pathway to Biliteracy” award for qualifying students in Grade 3. The updated Entering Multilingualism Awards job aid is available on the MiSiS website.

GATE

• The GATE Identification Process screen has been enhanced to consider current year SBA scores.

Graduation Standards

• The Graduation Requirements rules forLAUSD A-G, as well as the CSU and UC admission eligibility rules have been enhanced so that Subject Area F – Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) courses no longer need to be taken sequentially to fulfill the requirement.
• The Graduation Requirements rules for LAUSD A-G have been enhanced so that Subject Area E – Language Other Than English (LOTE) will consider LOTE 2 Waiver in place of the second year of LOTE courses to meet the requirement.
• TheMS Culmination screen has been enhanced to align with current policy, mandating that students earn 50 credits in 8th grade to qualify for middle school culmination.

Independent Study

• The Master Agreement/Record of Assignment report has been corrected to display all students without an MA.
• The Daily Participation Not Submitted report has been enhanced to include the list of students for which participation has not been submitted.

Student Support

• The Intervention Mass Entry screen has been enhanced to allow users to type intervention time and EnteredBy Titles.
• The Counseling Communication screen has been enhanced by removing the Comprehensive Academic Assessment (Foster Youth Only) from the Services Provided field.
• The Suspension screen has been enhanced to limit suspension for 3.95 - Disrupted school-wide activities (Admin issued, gr 9-12) to Grades 9-12.