News/Relevant Memos and Postings

Memos:

• As referenced in January 4, 2022 and February 1, 2022 memos, certain Accountability surveys will be administered through eCollect in PowerSchool. School Climate surveys will be released directly to respondents to complete and submit. Please see the Climate Surveys and eCollect page for information related to operating eCollect and issuing the student, teacher, and parent School Climate surveys: https://ed.sc.gov/data/information-systems/accountability-resources/climate-surveys-ecollect-forms/

• Seals of Distinction Contacts: Per this memo from February 15, please ensure that your district has  designated a staff member (or multiple staff members) and added that person to the Seals of Distinction Contact role in the District Entity Management System (DEIM).

ORDA Office Hour Webinars

ORDA Office Hour webinars take place monthly! Recordings of these webinars are available on our website:
https://ed.sc.gov/data/information-systems/other-resources/orda-office-hours/

April 20, 2022
Register now, and join us live for our April ORDA Office Hour from 9:00-10:00 a.m. EST. This session will provide an opportunity for discussion with the ORDA Data Collection Team on recent topics of interest.
 

Statewide Collaboration and Support

DSAG meets monthly. Remember to send topics for discussion to your DSAG reps and lookout for those reps to send meeting minutes afterward. 
 

PowerSchool

Link of the week:
Remember to bookmark our link of the week! In our last post, we linked to the District Ed-Fi Integration in PowerSchool documentation. This week’s featured document is the eCollect Portal Access document provided by PowerSchool:
https://ed.sc.gov/data/information-systems/power-school/sis-documents/ecollect-portal-access-sc/
 

Ed-Fi

Reminders:

• Code Set Mapping Workshop:
  The recording for our rescind Code Set Mapping workshop will soon be available. Stay tuned!
• Remember to run Load Server Reports every time you install State Reporting and Compliance (SRC) updates with EdFi content.

 

Data Collection Deadline Changes

Continued Reminder
As we approach the 135th day, it’s a good idea to begin running preliminary funding reports. Be sure the reports execute correctly for the schools and are pulling reasonable data, etc. Updated Academic Assistance file coming out sometime over next couple weeks.
 

Athena Plugin

Reminder:

• Reach out to Wyatt if you would like to help us pilot attendance data collection via PowerSchool API.