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Basic setup for California

The complete setup reference

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)

 

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