Recent updates
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Pennsylvania Reports Setup
Updated onArticleUse this operation to build/edit a Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS) School Calendar export file. This operation is used to set the default daily instructional minutes and the special case dates for the district, school, and calendar levels.
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Civil Rights Data Collection
Updated onArticleCRDC (Civil Rights Data Collection) consists of district-wide school data counts and district counts. There are over 100 data categories with disaggregate group elements for each tracked in Focus. Focus generates the actual compliant file for upload, but supports a “student listing” combined with a “use field titles” to audit the counts found in the CRDC file.
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Extract Field Defaults
Updated onArticleThe Extract Field Defaults screen displays a list of fields in DOE (Department of Education) format, which identifies the table name and field number from which the field is extracted. If set up, the field’s default value also displays; this is also dependent upon whether there is extract logic used when extracting the value of the field for reporting to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
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Census Block Entries
Updated onArticleThe Census Block Entries screen is used to update census block entries with the appropriate GEOID, which are used for TSDS reporting.
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Returns
Updated onArticleThe Returns screen allows users to create return requests for items that were ordered, but are no longer needed and should be returned to the Warehouse. If you are a part of the Return Request approval chain as set up by the district, you can also review, approve, and deny requests, as well as review approval history.
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Create Questions
Updated onArticleThe Create Questions screen is used to create questions that can be included on assessments students will complete in Focus, printed assessments, or assessments with bubble sheets. Standards can be attached to questions, and questions can be tagged for cognitive complexity, difficulty, and depth of knowledge. Features, such as calculators, reading passages, and video players, can be added to questions. Questions can also be shared with other administrators and teachers, depending on profile permissions.
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Health and Nurse
Updated onArticleHealth related tabs can be accessed from a student’s demographic screen. On the left side, there are series of tabs that allow for student data to be recognized by specific categories.
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Resource Browser
Updated onArticleIf another user has selected to share uploaded resources with other users while creating Web Pages, users can search for and share the same resource on their web pages using the Resource Browser.
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Automatic Course Requests
Updated onArticleThe Automatic Course Requests screen allows the district and individual schools to automatically add course requests to a specific group of students. ACRs may be rolled over year-to-year.
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Focus - USDE ESSER Data Collection Report – PDE - Release and Instructions
Updated onArticleAs a PIMS Administrator, you would have received an announcement from PIMS re: EANS & ESSER 2020-21 Collections. This communication announces the Focus School Software update for this collection due before April 29th. It leverages the new [PIMS Student Programs] log field called “methods intervention activities” released March 18th through email and in the Focus State Reporting Release Notes. Unlike your Focus Pennsylvania PIMS Extracts, this update is a compliance report, which will generate counts by activities and then subpopulations. The state has provided an excel data collection tool, which you’ll use to transcribe the counts from the new Focus report. (see snippet below)
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