Spring 2012
Out with the old. In with the new.
Ways tO PrePare fOr the
EXTREME
DISTRICT EDITION
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.” B O B D Y L A N
ON THE COVER
Centennial Independent
School District 12, located in
Circle Pines, Minn., was the first
customer to use Infinite Campus.
Members of the Centennial
Reimplementation Team
(clockwise):
Chris Ripken (teacher)
Lori O’Dowd (student system specialist)
Keith Dixon (superintendent)
Dan Huffman (business director)
Anne Thomsen (teacher)
Scott Johnson (curriculum director)
EDITORIAL
Charlie Kratsch, Founder and CEOCreative Director
Liz SchmittManaging Editor/Writer
Mary SullivanArt Director/Designer
Matt Schmitt, PhotographerMatt Schmitt Photography
Karl Beach and John MooreContibuting Copy Editors
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WelcomeLetter from Charlie Kratsch, Founder and CEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Tools for Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Messenger, Portal, Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Reporting and Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Food Service, Online Payments, Fees . . . . . . 28
National Records Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Professional Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Custom Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
EtceteraThe People Behind Our Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
It's Just the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Campus Customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ways to Prepare Your District for the Future
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Change is Good.
Even if things are running well there’s always room for
improvement. Are you taking advantage of all the new
features provided free of charge in our releases? Have you
taken a look at our Premium Products? Have you found
any good ideas from other districts by reading the case
other educators in the Campus Community? Have you
engaged our process consultants to help review your
district operations and identify areas for improvement?
Now is the time to learn more about what’s new and how
your district can get the most out of the product.
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studies on our corporate Website or by interacting with
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Take a tip from Charlie and relax. Change is good. Together we’ll build the schools of tomorrow.
Prepare for the Future.By Charl ie Kratsch, Infinite Campus Founder and CEO
CUSTOMER PROFILE // Ravenswood City School District, California
"Standards are a clear set of shared goals and expectations
for what knowledge and skills will help students succeed.
Using standards-based grading drives our decisions on
how the state standards are to be met. Targeted instruc-
tion is defined by areas of focus within the state standards.
Measuring progress is the key to improving practice and
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Cool Campus Tools
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ultimately improves student achievement. Infinite Campus
gives us the tools to use standards effectively."
Samantha Goldman, Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Ravenswood City School District, CA
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Same Standard. Several Solutions.
Field trip Individual learning Online learning
Where We’re Headed
Science Standard 1A
Infinite Campus views standards-based learning as creating
opportunities for innovative teaching & individualized learning.
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Proactive Process
Jesusita Rivera explains science concepts to her fifth grade class at Costano Elementary.
Standards Team: Amy Padilla, Jaclynn Megerian, Bronwya Alexander, Ednita Fuentes, Samantha Goldman (Not pictured: Jesusita Rivera)
Throughout the semester each standard is assessed to know
when the student can move to the next level. We can give added
support to specific areas of need, like whole number addition,
if the child is stuck there. It’s a much more proactive process,
defining a more personalized teaching and learning experience.
Bronwya Alexander, third grade teacher, Ravenswood City School District
When students are interested in what they are learning, comprehension increases.
Traditional Learning
Standards-aligned Learning
Standards-based Learning
Supports different learning styles
Able to work at their own pace
Frequent assessments to stay on track
Student Benefits
Allows flexibility in teaching activities
Manage individualized learning
Create clearly defined expectations
Teacher Benefits
International National State District Teachers Students Future
The world is just
beginning to
recognize the
potential of tech-
nology to enable
global common
performance stan-
dards, especially
in math, science
and technology.
This will eventually
lead to a global
educational net-
work wherein the
best teachers are
connected to the
most appropriate
student.
Many countries
have established
national standards.
In the U.S., the
Common Core is
a step toward this.
In today’s mobile
society, shouldn't
a sixth-grader in
Florida have the
same math skills
as a sixth-grader
in Oregon?
Infinite Campus
supports the
common core
standards, state
standards and
district standards.
The Tenth Amend-
ment ensures edu-
cation is controlled
at the state and
local levels. States
have established
learning standards
defined by grade
level or clusters of
grades. Curriculum
and assessment
systems are then
organized around
expectations in core
subject areas.
Infinite Campus
allows state stan-
dards to be easily
linked to courses.
Led by the curricu-
lum and instruction
staff, districts review
the state standards
and develop a
more granular set of
standards aligned to
the state. Essential
Learner Outcomes
drive the curriculum
design, along with
assignment creation
and assessments.
Infinite Campus
has a standards
bank with numer-
ous subsets to de-
fine the most basic
skill set and align
it with appropriate
courses.
When teachers
are assigned a
section, the course
standards are
provided for them.
They have the
flexibility to create
their assignments
and develop their
own pedagogy,
with the end result
in mind.
Infinite Campus
allows the
standards to be
aligned to assign-
ments and forma-
tive assessments
to easily track
progress and
proficiency.
Standards give a
focus to student
learning. Expecta-
tions of what is
to be learned
are clear and
proficiency is easily
determined.
Infinite Campus
collects and ana-
lyzes data about
each student and
clusters groups
of children to
assure differenti-
ated instruction.
This results in
better classroom
management
and personalized
learning.
Education buzz
words today
include “individual-
ized education.” For
Infinite Campus,
it’s our mission.
Infinite Campus is developing
tools to define
even more granu-
lar standards
and align them
to personalized
assignment and
assessments. This
will be tailored to
resources and in-
struction that will
result in the end
goal: individual-
ized education.
Creating Opportunity
Supporting Standards
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CUSTOMER PROFILE // Eastview High School, Minnesota
With Campus Scheduling, schools create their schedules
in half the time it takes with other systems and rebuilding
a schedule can take as long as – a FEW SECONDS! Designed
to simulate the familiar white board, Campus Scheduling
uses district-defined rules to quickly set up schedules and
test variations in real time.
It’s Fast. It’s Flexible. It’s Fantastic.
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Cool Campus Tools
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What’s so Great About Campus Scheduling?
LOTS! Campus Scheduler allows a school to balance classes across whatever attributes of interest a school desires. As part of an integrated
example, the course information and numbering sequences established in
Scheduling rules that accommodate the relationships between courses
rules needed to meet school or district needs. These considerations, which
visible on the computer screen when a schedule is set up.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. C H A R L E S M I N G U S
Campus Scheduler
MADE IN B L A I N E , USA
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The Campus Scheduler optimizes
the relationships among time, space,
movement, and people in real time.
hundreds or thousands of students within hard constraints on space,
scheduling is an art. It is a complex -
ing mind of a human being and the
a computer.
While much of what has been au-
the art of scheduling. Those excep-
roster builder and the thoughtful
people who established the rules. The need for additional personal input to
District Course Catalog ensures consistency throughout the districtwhen desired
Teams allows for groups of students to move together as a cohort
Scheduling Rules and Constraints allows courses and teachers to be linked
Request Wizard makes it easy to mass assign courses to students
Walk-in Scheduler allows for easy changes to the student’s schedule and maintains the audit trail of changes
Course Requests can be made by counselors, teachers, parents and students
Integrated Whiteboard Scheduler provides the tools to manage the master schedule, allowing real-time changes and conflict resolution
Student Gap Scheduler streamlines processes by providing direct access to those students who have gaps in their schedule without needing to generate a report
Scheduler Tools
Automation's strength is its ability to
explore many possible solutions to a
scheduling problem.
With multiple possible combinations
derived, the scheduler compares
them to arrive at the solutions that
best satisfy the course requests and
rules it has been given.
-tion in the Campus Portal and the
counselors, parents, and students
scheduling. The Campus Scheduler is a
to inform and expedite this complex,
the fundamental role is still that of the person orchestrating the process. Ensuring the needs of the people in a school are met within a maze of resource limitations is an amazing
Orchestrating the Process
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Scheduling is
the epitome of
blended arts and
science. It is a
complex task that
requires both the
discerning mind
of a human being
and the tireless,
blindingly fast
number crunch-
ing of a computer.
In the past, it was done with chalk-boards, cardboard boxes, and enough 3x5 note cards to paper a gym. They often got the job done over weeks of hot summer afternoons.
Using the power of Campus Scheduling, Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minn., has developed “Targeted Tuesdays” and re-schedules more than 2,000 students every eight weeks. This is used as a proactive way to redirect students who may be struggling to get them the support
are accelerating and gives them the challenges they need. Either way, it
for each student. “With this advanced scheduling
model we have learning teams and no more than a dozen students in a class-room and large enrichment lectures,” says Dr. Randall Peterson, Eastview’s Principal. “Students are connected to the grade book, attendance, interven-
tion transcripts and personalized
Campus. This is how schools should be organizing their learning.”
continue to use their main schedule, although also manage a two session intervention/enrichment/teacher collaboration schedule (on designed
7 period to a 9 period intervention schedule). Within the main sched-ule, they create an arena schedule process for students to engage in
-port and enrichment instruction.
evaluate students, assign resources, and create a new master schedule as needed. “No other system I know of can do this,” says Peterson. The note cards may be gone, but the artists remain.
Photo above: The Eastview scheduling team creates order out of chaos. Front row L-R: Jodi Hanson, intervention specialist, Nancy Snoeyenbos, data manager. Back row L-R: Dr. Randall Peterson, princi-pal, Kim Martinson and Bruce Miller, asst. principals.
Eastview High School Scheduling Success
CUSTOMER PROFILE // West Des Moines Community School District
Infinite Campus understands the important role of
teachers. That’s why we have developed a strong set
of tools for teachers. Information about students is
integrated throughout the system so teachers can
have a better understanding of their students. With
all this information at their fingertips, teachers can
develop quality learning activities and spend more
time with students.
Got it.
I see that.
Good to know.
Behavior issues?
Grades improving?
Health concerns?
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Teachers want to spend more time with students and less time
teachers in West Des Moines the extra time they need. At Stilwell Middle School, Peter Bissinger (above) is able to work smarter with his social studies students. Teachers access and copy data from previous years. They manage assignments for all classes simultane-ously. They associate assignments with multiple courses as well as create assignments or activities associated with one or more standards
them the most essential features of a learning management system.
and improved communication. And best of all, teachers now have more time to do what they do best…teach.
Teaching is demanding work.
Infinite Campus wants to make it a little easier.
The Power of Integration
Communication Improves Involvement
Classroom Efficiencies
Manage Instruction
Report and Analyze
> Information is entered once and shared across the district in real time. The teacher’s roster displays pertinent student information including contact information and special concern flags. Campus Behavior Referral allows real-time entry and noti-fication of students being referred to other staff members.
> Grades and assignments are posted to the portal to increase parent and student involvement. Teachers create newsletters and emails. They have access to a letter designer and the phone dialer helps teachers, parents and students collaborate on classroom activities.
> Scores entered in the grade book are automatically incorpo-rated into the end-of-term grades. Teachers can request courses for next term based on student progress. Teachers can define student groups when creating an assignment and designate which group is required to complete that assignment.
> The Campus Assignment tool, in conjunction with the Campus Daily Planner, manages instruction for multiple sections. Campus Daily Planner makes it easy to view assign-ment due dates and student absences in calendar views.
> Good decisions are founded on accurate information and indepth analysis. Teachers have access to real-time data with built in reports and data analysis tools that provide the foundation for good classroom management.
Align assignments
to multiple standards
and access assign-
ments via the daily
planner.
Teachers can
provide assigment
content, including
hyperlinks,
to students.
Increased com-
munication with
parents and
students keeps
students on track
and conferences
more productive.
Campus integration
allows teachers to
access information
from anywhere,
including the com-
fort of their home.
Five Reasons to Use Campus Tools for Teachers
Mark assign-
ments as “turned
in,” which is
posted to the
Campus Grade
Book and Portal
in real time.
“Progress reports are such a breeze now. It saves so much paperwork.” Peter Bissinger, 7th grade social studies teacher, Stilwell Middle School
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Teacher Sara Krzyczkowski (8th grade social studies, Stilwell Middle School) spends time with each student.
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Spend more time with students
Classroom Prep Let’s make this easy.
Assignment tools allow you to create, manage and score assign-ments quickly. Align assignments to multiple grading tasks, assignment marks, rubrics or points while also aligning the assignment to multiple
parents of select groups to alert them about missing assignments or failing grades. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Assign-ments can be copied from current or prior years as often as needed using an intuitive editor. Merge assign-ments and categories by copying from multiple sections to a single destination section. Sort assign-ments by date, name, term, standards tasks, categories and student groups.
Hey Mom, I got an A in English! Walk the talk. Teachers can enter grades, comments and mark assign-ments as turned in, all of which are
immediately available to students, parents, counselors and administra-
-ments? Parents can check this daily. An exam on Thursday? Better crack the books tonight. Teachers have more proactive communication with parents that helps keep students on track. Integration rocks! The power of
to all parts of the product, including the grade book to improve commu-nication and collaboration between students, parents and teachers.
What’s Cool for Teachers?
Accountability matters.
with classroom management. Using federal, state and district standards that are pre-aligned to courses for accelerated lesson planning is one way. Others include the ability to cre-
district-set grading scales, and group grading items into categories. Teach-
ers can determine which assignments, grades, standards and comments to
can enter grades, comments and
and use real-time enrollment data to streamline initial data entry and demographic information updates. Beyond the basics. Other oppor-
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groups, using the Daily Planner to share with substitute teachers, and viewing and entering summative and formative assessment data via multiple interfaces.
Ed Wong prompts his Stilwell Middle School art students to discuss their drawing project.
Brian Abeling, West Des Moines Community School District Director of Technology, keeps it all working.
CUSTOMER PROFILE // Moore Public Schools, Oklahoma
Communication . Integration . Real Time
> An automated phone call service confirming a child’s absence
> A way to send an emergency message in minutes
> A place for parents to check grades
> A tool to gather feedback for decision making
Infinite Campus does all this, and more.
MessengerPortalSurvey
with Voice
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Oklahoma knows bad weather. The 1999 Oklahoma tornado
outbreak brought violent storms to the Midwest. On May 3, 66
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do tore through Bridge Creek, Oklahoma City, Moore, Del City, Tinker
Voice Email Text
Campus Messenger Options
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WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT CAMPUS PORTAL
Get the word out quickly
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as missing grades, late assignments,
I can login when I'm doing homework at
midnight!
IT keeps me on track for graduation
I love it! It's cool.
IT's helped me improve my grades
I can check if i'm behind in any classes
I can see which assignments i'm missing
Campus Messenger with Voice Access information any time, from anywhere
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I don't think I have homework...
Broccoli, beans or burritos?
welcome bienvenido
Districts choose which information to display: demographic information, assignments, assessment
scores, grades, completed standards and credits, atten-
dance, behavior, health, learning plans, transportation
information, fees, to-do lists, district and school notices,
reports, classroom newsletters, schedules, unofficial
transcripts, and direct messages from staff
Campus Portal
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Campus Mobile PortalCampus Mobile Portal
One Touch, Tons of Info
A student was at the mall when she
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Daily PlannerUse the Daily Planner to know
Assignments
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Schedule
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The more information you can get, the better decisions you can make.
motivated them to work harder and
build distribution lists, distribute
CUSTOMER PROFILE // Menasha Joint School District, Wisconsin
Campus Customers can capture a variety of test scores,
including summative, benchmark, interim and formative test
data. Analysis of this information drives decisions, promotes
early interventions and informs instruction.
This information is used for:
> Tracking student proficiency
> Finding patterns of strengths and weaknesses
in student performance
> Populating accountability reports
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Ascending the Stairway to Mastery
Doug Dahm, principal at Nicolet Elementary School (pictured at right), exemplifies the Bluejay Way with enthusiastic support for students.
Assess Often
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data for directing our decisions
and analyzing how we can
better close achievement gaps.
Doug Dahm, principalNicolet Elementary School
Doug Dahm, principal at Nicolet Elementary School and Scott Dyreson, internet database developer, work closely together to use assessments to inform instruction.
Campus Intergration
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>> IDENTIFY AT-RISK STUDENTS SO THEY DON’T DROP OUT
>> HOW THE UNITED STATES RANKS INTERNATIONALLY
>> DRIVE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES >> USE DATA TO INFORM
STUDENT INSTRUCTION
Annual drop out rate for high school students
Nearly 90% of public schools used their district network or the Internet to provide standardized assessment results and data for teachers to individualize instruction
3,22255555222,,000000000000 Projected high school graduates in 2012
Public high school graduates are projected to increase 6% between 2010 - 2017
Private high school graduates are projected to decrease 4% between 2010 - 2017
>> TRACK PROFICIENCY THAT CORRELATES TO COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS
1.662222 mmmmillliioooonnnn high school students
took the ACT exams
in 2010
1.555555 mmmmilliioooonnnn high school students
took the SAT exams
in 2010
B C D E A B C D B A B C D E A B C D E AE
Campus Customers can capture a variety of test scores, including summative, benchmark, interim and formative test data. Analysis of this information drives decisions, promotes early interventions and informs instruction.
SCORE >> 100% Shanghai-China >> 575
United States >> 502
Kyrgtzstab >> 330
Understanding what a student has learned is captured with assess-
ments. Without this continued evaluation, we could not understand
what is working and what isn’t and make the required improvements.
How can schools identify at-risk students so they don’t drop out?
How can schools track proficiency that correlates to college entrance
exams? That’s what Campus Assessments helps districts track.
TRACK STUDENT PROFICIENCY
FIND PATTERNS OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN STUDENT PERFORMANCE
POPULATE ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTS
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Reporting and
Data AnalysisCUSTOMER PROFILE // Norman Public Schools, Oklahoma
Infinite Campus provides what is by far the best
fully integrated reporting and analysis solution in
the industry. Our integration goes beyond tacking
on an external analysis suite to the core student
information system (SIS.) We didn't just tack on
reporting and analysis tools; we built up our own
in-house data analysis tool set. Check it out.
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The Hub of District Decisions Making good decisions is at the core of a successful district. With Campus Reporting and Analysis, all
your data is integrated and easily reported for up-to-date analysis. Because Campus can house virtu-
ally unlimited amount of data, administrators can use it for longitudinal analysis, identifying trends
and understanding results. Reports can be generated right out of the system.
for instruction, accountability, communication and other essential business processes. An intuitive
Ad Hoc Reporting
Integrated State Reporting
MS SQL Reporting Services
Standard Reports
ANALYSIS TOOLSREPORTING TOOLS
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Data Warehouse Export
You don’t drive a car without checking to see if there is gas or if the oil pressure is low, why drive district decisions without gathering information?Campus Reporting and Analysis gives you the tools to reach well-informed decisions.
Ad Hoc Reporting
Integrated State Reporting
MS SQL Reporting Services
Standard Reports
ANALYSIS TOOLSREPORTING TOOLS
Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Data Warehouse Export
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Justin Milner, Norman Direc-
2,300 students with disabilities throughout 14 facilities across the district. These include residential facilities and juve-
Campus provides essential information for tracking behav-ior, graduation progress and support services. It is a critical
tool for federal reporting. “Using Campus Data Analy-sis, I get important behavior in-formation when I need it,” says Milner. “In the past, we had to wait for information to be up-loaded and because data input was inconsistent, the reports were not always accurate. Now,
recognize trends of behavior
issues before larger problems occur and can implement appro-priate interventions. It has been an essential tool to accurately assess our complex population of special needs students.”
Special Services Generates High Volume Reports
Fisher, Norman’s Data Processing Manager, creates thousands of reports each year. “We use the Campus Reporting and Data Analysis tools all the time,” says Fisher. “Our high-stakes statewide assessments are
track graduation progress and I’ve set it up in the grad planner so they can have this information in a visual display as well as a grid. It’s a good snapshot of infor-mation that is easily understood.”
to track behavior incidents on buses. In fact, after analyzing these transportation reports, it was decided to be collaborative with the bus drivers. Instruction
doesn’t stop at the end of the day. Driv-ers are invited to be partners in entering and accessing stu-dent data and com-municating this to the administration.
This has helped to decrease inappropriate behavior and increase communication. And with several years of data available, when Nor-man considered opening a new elementary school and hired an outside company to help manage the logistics, Campus demographic data was instrumental in deter-mining the appropriate boundaries. “We use Campus reports and analysis for everything from daily assessments of attendance to complex state and federal reports,” says Fisher. “But the more impor-tant focus of our analysis is making good decisions for our students.”
The important focus of our analysis is making good decisions for our students.
We can recognize trends of behavior issues before larger problems occur.
Norman Public Schools Knows Data
Justin Milner and Christie Fisher work closely together to gather, analyze and use data every day.
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It’s about integration. The same teams of engineers who
write the code for attendance, behavior and census also write
the code for our pivot table and charting solutions. Add to that
the Campus Data Warehouse Export tool and you get an analysis
pipeline that starts with Campus and ends in Campus, with no
intermediation by external vendors' formats and applications.
You ask: How many teachers will we need in the new elementary school two and three years down the road? You can do that with Infinite Campus. Let's say the new school, Central Elementary, will consolidate the students from West and North, while the kids at East will stay put. You can limit your analysis to
you're almost done.
line graph or pie chart, and you'll get a sense of the story you need to understand.
TABLEAU
MORE VISUALIZATION OPTIONS:
Pre-definedTemplates
Combine data from multiple databases
View an assortment of student data as a unified whole
Shift perspectives easily to find patterns
Tableau is an optional product provided by Campus Channel Partner, CIC
Bar ChartGrid Line Chart Pie Chart
120 Standard Reports available
Select any combination of fields, including custom fields
Use Report Designer to create letters and formatted reports
Use Report Builder to format and print customized reports
CAMPUS REPORTING
Create cubes with summary counts
Facilitate detailed data analysis and charting
Pivot-table functionaliity familiar to Excel users
Access snapshot data with the Data Warehouse Export
CAMPUS DATA ANALYSIS
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> Districts manage free and reduced lunch tracking
> Parents know what their children are eating
> Parents pay for lunch and fees electronically
> Parents know student food and fee balances
> Students move through the lunch line quickly
> Reports are submitted accurately and on time
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Food ServiceOnline PaymentsFees
CUSTOMER PROFILE // Hopkins School District 270, Minnesota
Lunch Time: Fast, Fun and Functional Campus Food Service
Hopkins School District 270 (Minnesota) serves lunch to more than 7,000 students. In 20-25 minutes a student gets food, gets through the payment line,
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Take a peek at their food choices via the Campus Portal.You'll know her choices before she takes her first bite!
Think your kid's a healthy eater?
No nutritional value? Mom and
Dad will know before lunch is
even over.
Busted!
Schedules are tight.
Students are busy.
They get in and out
of the lunchroom
in 25 minutes.
Campus Food Service makes it possible.
No nutritionalvalue? Mom and
Dad will knowbefore lunch is
even over.
Busted!
You'll only see healthy food options at Hopkins!
Take a peek atk theirfood choices viathe Campus Portal.You'll know herchoices beforeshe takes herfirst bite!
Think yourk kid'sr ashealthy eater?y
A thunderous roar of tennis shoes -
lasagna, steamed veggies and apple
School lunch programs are more than serving nutritious meals to rav-
-ties, high volume money manage-ment and transparent communica-
Campus Point of Sale
Get immediate, secure access to all the cafeteria information you need.
include cash transactions. Cafeteria professionals can create an unlim-
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they can perform end-of-day cashier
Students get assigned a PIN
students can access the lunchroom
stays assigned to them throughout their time in the district. “Students
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Hopkins Cafeteria Buzzes
Students punch in their PIN number and move through the line quickly.
In the cafeteria, students enter
code scanners to move through the lines quickly. Some districts even
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Parents can access student meal -
Campus Cafeteria Serve
You can easily track and report
menu layouts, and support single or
and scanners
Campus Class Serve
of items. Class Serve is tied to atten-
Campus Offers Three Food Service Solutions
Easily track and report mealswith Campus Food Service
Check the Portal – Know Your Child
A mom had checked
the Campus Portal to
see how her daughter
was doing in choosing
healthy food. She
discovered her daugh-
ter, Ella, was taking
twice the amount of
food she would have
expected. Mom knew
Ella wasn’t THAT big
of an eater.
Mom questioned Ella
and learned that she
had a friend, Sasha,
who could not afford
lunch and was embar-
rassed to ask for help.
Ella’s mom reported
this to the district.
Staff contacted Sasha’s
family and arranged
financial assistance for
meals. Lunch selection
returned to normal for
both Ella and Sasha.
Infinite Campus
integration and
real-time communica-
tion make all
the difference.
“There has been a gigantic increase in portal usage (have 95% usage) because of Campus Food Service and Online Payments – at the elementary school especially. It has resulted in a cleaner email data-base for parents.”
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Campus Online Payments
schools. Paying for food services,
through Campus Portal eliminating the
much money is left in the account.
PaySchools as its third-party online
Campus Online Payments, Hopkins took advantage of the seamless
their online payment functions. In addition, Campus Online Payments is fully integrated to their Campus Food Service and Fees. "After only a
to use and parents love it."
parental response after promoting Campus Online Payments on the
Parents appreciate the real-time accuracy of account information
Monitoring food purchases gives parents an opportunity to encour-age healthy eating and ensure that
-mation for the entire family.
jeopardy from lost checks or delayed district uploads of just-in-time pay-ments made to a third-party online payment system. Parents can make
checking or savings account, or even
school trip. Deposit information is -
record keeping accurate and easy. Hopkins administrators see the advantages of Campus Online Pay-
are increased through an integrated
uploads from a third party online payment system. Audit information
Cha-ChingCampus Fees
Many activities have additional
have. Campus Fees makes it easy.
so parents can add payments and -
Campus Fees gives districts the -
activities.
Linda Wareham and Jared Switch support Infinite Campus technology for Hopkins School District.
Stash the Cash
Campus Food ServiceNewly enrolled students are in the system in real time. They show up for their first day of class at 8 a.m. and can use their assigned PIN number immediately. The PIN number stays with the student every year through-out their schooling.
Campus Online PaymentsParents make payments anytime via the secure Campus Portal for one child or the entire household on one easy-to-use screen. They can use credit or debit cards, checking or savings accounts. This reduces cash han-dling, lost checks and improves cash flow.
Campus FeesParents use online payments to pay fees for school labs, field trips, athletic participation, etc. Managing the account on the Campus Portal is easy. Districts can extend reporting and auditing capabilities and view the last person to modify a transaction.
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Parents make payments with a credit or debit card, check-
ing or savings account, or even multiple bank accounts
National Records Exchange
Campus National Records Exchange allows for
electronic transfer of student records from one
Infinite Campus school to another. Within seconds
after requesting enrollment records, schools
know if the newly enrolled child requires special
services, what classes are still required, and if there
are health concerns to address.
CUSTOMER PROFILE //
Geary County Unified School District 475, Kansas
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EIGHTYFIVE PERCENT of the student popula-tion in Geary County USD is military. The nearby base, Fort Riley, houses 30,000 people, with more expected next year. On the
elementary schools and one middle school. Enrollment transfer requests are at an excep-
collecting, sending and
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ticipates in the Campus Records Exchange, which makes the transfer process easy with other participating schools.
Amy Downs, head secretary, greets a new student at Fort Riley Middle School, Kansas.
Transient SocietyMoving to a new district is hard work. Infinite Campus alleviates some of that stress. Whether the student is moving to the next district, the next state or across the country, NRE makes records transfer easy so when students show up the first day, they’re not wasting time completing forms. They sign in, walk to class, and begin learning.
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Nationwide District-to-District Data Transfers
PEOPLE IN THE ARMED FORCES WHO MOVE ANNUALLY
WHERE AMERICANS MOVE
GEARY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENT TRANSFERS IN 2010-2011
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Student Records in Seconds
Mom’s got a promotion. Dad’s been deployed. Aging parents require that the family relocate to be near them. So much on parents’ minds; only one of which is enrolling their child in a new school. “Working on the base, we have transfers coming and going all the time. Often, it can be weeks, even months, before we get the student records from the previous school. Parents forget these documents are needed and they’re packed away,” says Amy Downs, head secretary at Geary County USD. “We don’t know the child’s history so we do the best we can to place them in the right classes and provide the best support. The NRE is the perfect tool to man-age this process better.”
Join the Campus Network of Users
Because Geary is such a highly transient district, Wayne Hess, Geary County USD Application Developer,
“I’ve been a strong advocate to get Campus schools to activate NRE. We have suc-cessful transactions with our colleagues in Manhattan, Kansas, and others but would like to see more Campus Cus-
it. It’s so easy and it’s free.” Most dis-tricts may not have the high volume of transfers like Geary County USD, but
to handle student records. Anita McLean, Geary County USD
Registrar, gives a quick demonstra-tion of NRE. “I have a request for student transfer in my process inbox,” she says, pointing to her computer
I go ahead and approve the transfer of records. The documentation is immediately sent to the new district. It has saved me hundreds of hours of
How it Works
-pus customers and participation is voluntary. A registry of participat-
Campus. The receiving district requests the student’s records and the sending district approves the request. The approved request and student data is messaged through the National Computer Router to the receiving
routes data – no data is stored. The -
proval. The receiving district can view and import the student information.
Data Available for Transfer > Transcripts
> Enrollment history
> Assessments
> Immunizations
> Health summaries
Student Data Available in Read-only PDFs
Transcripts, census contact sum-mary, enrollment history, schedules, attendance period details, assess-ment summaries, behavior summa-ries, health condition summaries, health screening summaries, im-munization summaries, report cards, IEP, special education evaluations.
Campus National Records Exchange
Anita McLean and Wayne Hess show how transfers take only seconds to do.
It has saved me hundreds of hours of data entry and plowing through files.
National Records Exchange
(NRE) is free to all Campus
Users who activate this
functionality and join the
national community of
Infinite Campus users.
It's FREE!
BENEFITS
Eliminate hours of data entry; files are sent electronically
Ease student transitions; grades, behavior and health issues are known so support services are available
Relieve family stress; no need to dig through boxes to find student records
Obtain most current information; files are sent in real-time for most com-plete and accurate info
Create a welcoming environment; with records received, staff and teachers can focus on making the student comfortable in a new school
tomers across the country start using
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Professional Development
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CUSTOMER PROFILE // Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools, Minnesota
In a world of accelerating technological change, Infinite Campus is
committed to providing you with a continually evolving product.
This commitment is what allows us to maintain market leadership
year after year. It is our greatest strength, but it also presents our
customers with one of their greatest opportunities: the ability to
provide staff with continual professional development. Because of
its comprehensive integration and extensive feature set, Campus is
arguably the most powerful SIS on the market. If there’s an important
educational business process, now or in the future, Campus has (or
will have) a tool to support it. But that tool will only truly be useful if
your staff knows how to use it to its full potential.
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Carol Reis is serious about learning. Not only about students learning in her district, but also about her professional develop-ment. She is a leader in keeping up-to-date with the continuous
-munity to discuss issues with peers or to view a video tutorial. She attends user group meetings and attends the Lunch and Learns. She then shares her knowledge with administrators, registrars, secretaries, health professionals and teachers. “Districts that do not take advantage of the ongoing learning activities miss out using all the features within the robust prod-uct they’ve purchased. Accessing these learning activities helps me work smarter, not harder."
Carol Reis, information services coordinator at Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools, takes advantage of the many learning opportunities offered by Infinite Campus.
Sign-up for core course webinars
Join User GroupsConnect
with others via forums
View Video Tutorials
Receive One-on-One
Training
Access the Campus
Community
Attend virtual Lunch and
Learns
Subscribe to ICU
Find answers immediately with
Help Text
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evolve with the new enhancements delivered on a monthly basis. To help
a variety of training options through a low-cost annual subscription.
LUNCH AND LEARN SESSIONS
-sions to teach you about the new enhancements recently released in the product, what they mean to your users, and how they improve your processes. These events are held every month after the new enhance-ment release is announced.
CORE COURSE WEBINARS
These courses are a convenient way to learn. Simply register, boot up and tune in. Topics include: scheduling, report and transcript templates, and data analysis. A variety of topics are
calendar roll forward, or throughout the year, like ad hoc reporting.
FAST TRACK TO TRAINING
Get your how-to issues resolved quickly when calling about a support
automatically routed to a designated trainer as high priority, giving you the personalized attention you need.
Gathering together with col-leagues to share tips and tricks
extremely productive learning
are scheduled across the country several times a year. Topics include
-ic issues and a format for custom-
PERSONAL ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING
Receive training on any part of the product to meet your individual needs. Hours included in your subscription depend on your student count.
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The Campus Community is an interconnected group of forward-
and administrators – sharing knowl-edge, providing product tips and tricks, and promoting peer-to-peer networking. This user-friendly site provides single sign-on access from the
knowledge base, forum discussions, learning tools, support site, custom-er event calendar and news stories. It’s the place to be on Campus!
IT'S FREE!
This essential resource is free for all Campus Customers.
KEY FEATURES
> Campus Knowledge Base provides comprehensive product information.
> Campus User Forums connect you with others to ask questions and share ideas.
> Virtual Video Library explores product tools and tasks.
with your thoughts about products and services.
> Campus News gives you up-to-date information on what’s happening.
when questions arise. In addition, the Campus User Outline now features a
in-depth online documentation about the Campus tools they are using.
Recently, customers who have
years realized they are not using the product to its fullest and are missing out on a lot of really cool functional-ity – mainly because having the time to retool is so limited. A new process has been developed
district could save time and cost by using functions already in the Campus product. With an eye to keeping costs low, the implementa-
-rable combination of in- person and self-paced courses. Simulations are available for product-wide topics to
features and bring the district up to
decreased district help desk tickets, replaced costly external functions,
-tive in their jobs. If you’re interested in exploring this further please con-tact your Campus Representative.
Join the Campus
Community!
Learn new product features
Share tips and tricks with colleagues
Discover new learning
opportunities
Promotepeer-to-peernetworking
Find answers immediately
Custom Development
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Cool Campus Tools
Infinite Campus is sold as a commercial-off-
the-shelf system which gets the district up and
running quickly. However, one size does not fit
all. That’s where Campus Custom Development
comes in. This team of developers works closely
with you to understand your specific require-
ments, reports and processes that need a little
“extra something.” They build the additional
tools your district wants to capture the data,
manage the analysis, and provide the efficien-
cies to make the best decisions.
CUSTOMER PROFILE // Jefferson County Public Schools, Kentucky
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Data imports from special educa-tion and food service applications
Data exports to food service, library, transportation, SPED, and data analysis systems via FTP, SMB, FTPS, and SFTP
Extend the behavior functionality with behavior Matrix rules
Report cards in multiple languages
Custom reports to include: atten-dance, behavior, report cards, tran-scripts and missing assignments
An online registration system for new and returning students
Build a Custom SolutionRegardless of the size of your district or the complexity of your special needs,
Campus Custom Development can help fine tune your system to work the way
you need it to. The Campus Custom Development team will work with you to
ensure that your solution is created in the most efficient manner possible. Our
goal is to ensure the success of Campus in your district, not bleed you to death
by burning through consulting time. Just dream it – just do it!
Tracking of community service hours for students
Extended the transportation functionality to allow for the importing of routes
Before and after school day care tracking program including day care fees and payment
Various GPA calculations for district specific needs
Mass import tool for students enrolled into feeder schools
And more...
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JCPS wanted their elementary
schools to use Infinite Campus
for grade reporting. This was not
set up in a district specific way, so
JCPS turned to Campus Custom
Development. “We needed a new
report card that looked exactly
the same as the PDFs teachers had
been using for years. We wanted
it generated within the Infinite
Campus system and viewable
and printable from the Campus
Portal,” said Amy Mueller, JCPS
Training Specialist.
“The Campus Developer
went above and beyond
my expectations to get us
exactly what we needed.”
Campus is the Customizable Off-the-shelf Solution
JCPS IT Team: Rick Mosley, Ruth Ann Reteneller, Amy Mueller.
Still wonder about the benefits?
Consider this:
The Campus Multi-language Editor, now available to all Campus districts as a premium product, was built to meet the needs of a district with a very diverse group of stakeholders. The Campus Multi-Language Editor provides support for multiple languages when a district builds custom SQL Reporting Services reports about grading tasks, standards, and courses. The district is then able to increase communica-
-holders by outputting these custom reports in their own languages. Another district uses Microsoft SRS reports created by Campus Cus-tom Development for report cards,
summer school registration mate-rials. All of these reports are high stakes, public-facing documents that have to be exactly right and ready on
And the Campus Custom Devel-opment Team provides even more services to create:
Visualization analysis tools
Custom transcripts
Automated data extracts
Fees consolidation and district-wide fee reporting
Application customization and development
all. While most districts are alike most of the time, most districts also have certain unique business processes that aren’t applicable to others and that aren’t supported by standard Campus functions. What to do? Call the “Campus Cavalry”: Campus Custom Development! Leveraging years of experience gained during the successful comple-tion of within-budget, on-time proj-ects, Campus Custom Development
-tion system by creating unique tabs, connectivity tools, and dynamic reports that meet your precise needs
shelf framework of Campus. It’s the best of both worlds! If you can imagine it and your data supports it, Campus Custom Develop-ment can most likely build it for you. For example:
Reduce redundant data entry by automating data exchange
third-party systems
Provide your stakeholders with dy-
Implement custom tabs, with spe-
logic, to manage and utilize your data in creative ways
It’s all about service. It’s about developing a state-of-the art product. It’s
about having a real person on the phone when you call. It’s about choosing
from a variety of learning tools to keep current on the product. It’s about
communication, connection and continual progress. It’s Infinite Campus.
Training
Support
Total Number of Employees
(all counts include partners)
The People Beh
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ClientExecutives
Technical Services
Developers
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ind Our Product
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Infinite Campus District Edition
AdministrationThe tools you need to manage students
and administrative processes.
CurriculumA variety of curriculum planning and management tools for setting standards, managing courses, and effective scheduling.
Instructional ManagementIntegrated sets of tools for
managing classrooms.
School ServicesDaily operations to streamline school services.
CommunicationsStrong communication with stakeholders.
ReportingPopulate standard reports, build custom-ized ad hoc reports and take advantage of
the integrated state reporting capabilities.
AnalysisCreate a transactional data warehouse to analyze information.
It’s Just the Beginning…
Premium Products
Campus Food ServiceEstablish food service accounts, track food purchases, and manage payments.
Campus Online PaymentsEliminate cash handling, reduce lost checks, and enhance internal controls.
Campus Online RegistrationStreamline new and existing student registration with a configurable, flexible solution.
Campus Messenger with VoiceDeliver daily and emergency voice messages to students, parents, and staff.
Infinite Campus University (ICU)Maximize your investment by relying on a wide variety of training and networking options.
Campus Data Health CheckDetect costly data entry errors and optimize the data integration efficiencies of Infinite Campus.
Campus Student FeederImplement a standard file layout and automate the movement of students between districts.
Campus Data Warehouse ExportAmplify the power of your data to find patterns and relationships that facilitate decision making.
Campus National Record ExchangeRequest electronic transfer of data when a student transfers from another member district.
Campus Data Extract UtilityAutomate data integration with external data bases and third-party systems.
Campus Multi-language EditorSupport multiple languages when building custom reports.
Campus Continuous BackupRetrieve almost 100% of your data after a disaster in less than an hour.
MillionStudents
Districts1,134
StatesSTATEWIDE SYSTEMSInfinite Campus State Edition
1. South Dakota
2. Montana
3. Kentucky
4. Maine
5. Bureau of Indian Education
ALL SHAPES AND SIZESCustomers range from those with
fewer than 100 students to more
than 600,000 students and include
districts, regional consortia, state
departments of education and the
federal government.
SUCCESS STORIESHaving a fully integrated solution
has given districts proven success
to manage administrative work,
support curriculum and instruction,
and improve communication.
Current customers across the U.S.
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