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Assigned User Report
Updated onArticleThe Assigned User Report allows users to review a report of all assigned assets and the corresponding users. The report includes the assets' information as well as the assigned users' information.
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Add/Drop Report
Updated onArticleThe Add/Drop Report displays students who have had sections added or dropped from their schedule during the specified time frame.
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Create Assessments
Updated onArticleThe Create Assessments screen is used to set up assessments, or as it is also called on this screen, activities. An activity is a group of items that are presented to the student as a single assessment. Individual items set up on the Create Questions screen are added to the activity.
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Attendance Calendar
Updated onArticleThe Attendance Calendar screen is used to set the days that classes are in session, as well as set school holidays or in-service days. Setting up the attendance calendar correctly is imperative for attendance to function properly in Focus. If your school uses a rotation schedule, the rotation days are also set on the attendance calendar. For Texas districts or other districts where the FTE period for attendance varies by day, the FTE period is set on each school day on the attendance calendar. Multiple attendance calendars can be set up for a school, which is especially useful for schools that have multiple rotation schedules or post-secondary schools where students have different school days. Attendance calendars and/or calendar dates can be copied from one school to another. It may be useful to create a default district attendance calendar in one school and copy the attendance calendar and/or calendar dates to the rest of the schools using the Copy School feature. A calendar is assigned to a student in the Enrollment record, while a calendar is assigned to a section in Courses & Sections.
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Login History
Updated onArticleThe Login History feature tracks IP addresses and whether login attempts were successful. The Login History also includes a report that tracks any hack attempts (non-existent user names) to a Focus SIS. The report displays the data and time that a login attempt was made, the IP address, and the user agent string in the non-existent users tab. User accounts that have experienced multiple failed login attempts are locked; administrators can unlock user accounts on the Login History screen.
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Print Letters
Updated onArticleThe Print Letters screen is used to email or print Pending Acceptance, Acceptance, Waitlisted, and Declined status notification letters. Each letter type must first be created on the Letterhead Templates screen and must use the Available Template Placeholders contained in the drop-down on the Print Letters screen.
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Third Party Systems
Updated onArticleThe Third Party Systems screen is used to set up integrations between Focus and other applications, including OneNote Class, ALL in Learning, Canvas, and Schoology. Grade passback is available through several partners, including ALL in Learning and Canvas. Partners should be OneRoster 1.1 REST certified. The Focus API is OneRoster v1.1 certified.
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Regenerate Onboarding Images
Updated onArticleThe Regenerate Onboarding Images screen allows users to regenerate missing or outdated PDF files for employee agreements via Human Resources > Employment Agreement Maintenance.
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Teams
Updated onArticleIf your school uses team scheduling, the Teams screen is used to set up the teams for the school. Teams can also be randomly assigned to students from this screen. Teams are assigned to sections in Courses & Sections.
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Attendance Instruction Method Calculation
Updated onArticleThe Attendance Instruction Method Calculation screen is used to calculate the instructional method types to update attendance.
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