Get Started With SIS Compliance

Setup Level	Link (Specifics and How-To)	Implication
District	Define School Years & Terms
	Enter District Info	Enter necessary info about your district, at the bottom of the page, all the state-specific data should be filled out.
	Transitional KG Setup	Districts should decide an unused grade level that is less than 0 and set it as TK. All the state reports will consider this grade as TK.
	Set up District Courses	The district courses can be referenced at the school level later when the individual schools are working.
	Set up Truancy Reporting
	Enter the Emergency Closure School Day Type	Used in State Reports
	Verify Incident Management Setup	Make Sure all the codes are state reportable Behavior and action codes are set up and available. User for Discipline Reports
	Define Districts of Residence
	Add Enrollment Entry Codes
	Add Enrollment Exit Codes
	Define Federal Ethnicity and Race Codes
	Add Special Programs
	Create Citizenship Codes for Grading
	Health: Set up Immunizations, Screenings, and Certifications
	Create GPA Calculation Methods	GPA Calculation methods specific to your school district
	How to Add a California School	Add all the schools in your district
	Set up Sub-Districts	If your district has sub district, define them and add the schools into these subdistricts

School	Set Up School Years and Terms	These dates may or may not be different from districts
	Configure the School Calendar	School level Calendar, holidays, staff only days, etc. Pertaining to state recognizable codes
	Configure School Attendance	Set up Attendance codes, FTEs, Exclusions Specific to your school. This affects many state reports.
	Set Up Attendance Tracking
	Set Attendance Backfill Preferences
	Specify School Attendance Preferences
	Create Course Sections
	Create Bell Schedules	Create Bell Schedules based on the created sections
	Create Segments for Non-Monthly Reports	If you do not want the reporting segments to be automatically created by the system, you can set it up here. These segments will be used by attendance and other reports.
	Define Winter Break Exclusion Weeks
	Define Course Sets for Graduation	Grad requirements and associated course groups set up on your school

Staff Setup	Staff Demographics
	CALPADS Staff Demographics	CALPADS specific fields to be populated for Staff
	CALPADS Staff Assignment	Staff Assignments must be set up for either each school, or the district, to which the staff member is assigned. Staff Assignments are required for the following Staff Job Classifications: (12) Teachers, (10) Administrators, (11) Pupil services, (25) Non-certificated Administrator, (26) Charter School Non-certificated Teacher, (27) Itinerant or Pull-Out/Push-In Teacher.
	CALPADS ORA Classified and Bilingual Paraprofessional Setup	Data is used for CALPADS ORA Staff reports
	CBEDS Staff Assignment	Used for CBEDS reports
	California PAIF Setup

Student	New Student Enrollment (State Fields)	Add all the state reportable fields for a student while enrolling
	Student Demographics	Add the state required fields for student after enrolling
	Student's Parent Info
	Student Contact Info
	Guardian Information (State Specifc Page)	Add info only if you are NOT using the state fields.
	Guardian Info (FROM CONTACTS)	If contacts are being used for reporting guardian, set the "guardian" flag for contacts identified as guardians, out of all the contacts
	ELA and Immigration Info
	CALPADS ELA Status and History Information
	Student's Program Eligibility Information	Add CASEMIS, SERVICES or Lunch Program Eligibility Info
	Concurrent Enrollment Setup	Add info about concurrent enrollments of this student
	Student Waivers Information
	Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathway Information
	UC/CSU Graduation Requirements	Add information pertaining to the Graduation Requirements of University of California/ California State University specific requirements
	Pre-ID Exam Information
	Student Fitness Test Information
	Student With Disability
	CSIS Information
	Student Health Info	Add medical/health info regarding emergency and other
	Historical Grades State Fields Setup
	Student Test Results
	New Student Enrollment (State Fields)