Pinnacle SIS System
Agenda
 Philosophy of TSDL
 Challenges Involved
 Documentation Available
 Preparation Steps
 Generating Files
Philosophy of TSDL
 Report performance information for each class a
student takes, linked to the teacher
 Report the information in a consistent manner across
all districts
 Report the information as an “end of year” snapshot
 CEPI will consolidate information and send back to
districts for use in evaluations
Challenges Involved
 Entry of Subject Codes, Course Codes, Course Types,
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Virtual Courses and Mentor Status
Entry of PIC codes for all teachers
Gathering course and grade information for all grade
levels (especially elementary)
How to identify completion status for all courses and
how to store that information
How/whether to include withdrawn and exited classes
Summer School Students and SIS Roll-Over
Students in a class with mixed subjects (NovaNet, etc).
Documentation Available
 CEPI Website (www.mi.gov/cepi)
 Component specifications
 NCES Code Documents
 Training Videos (Last year’s videos)
 MiCase Website (www.mi-case.org), Support>Pinnacle
State Reporting>MSDS State Reporting Files
 Michigan State Reporting in Pinnacle SIS 2012-2013
 Revised MSDS Tool and Scripts
 This PowerPoint and pending Video Recording
Deadlines
 Certified by August 1, 2013
 Reopens mid-August, 2013
 Final certification August 27, 2013
 Any course without a final grade by August 27th should
be reported with a grade of “I” incomplete
Preparation Steps
 Enter PIC codes for
all teachers in the
View>Teachers
Confidential tab.
 Enter Multiple PIC
Codes for a class by
adding Secondary
Teachers in
Schedule tab
Preparation Steps
 In View>District Courses
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General tab
Enter NCES Subject Codes
NCES Course Codes (now
required for elementary)
Course Types
Virtual Delivery (new)
Mentor Teacher (new)
Exclude from State
Reporting
Preparation Steps
 Enter Virtual Course
and Mentor Teacher
fields in the
View>Classes screen
 Right click on the
section row and choose
Class Properties
Preparation Steps
 Completion Status determined by scripts when file is
generated if not already set
 CP – Completed passed is set by having Passing
checkmark in Letter Grade config
 CF – Completed failed is set by having Passing
unchecked in Letter Grade config
 State code field can be used to explicitly set completion
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AU-Audited
I-Incomplete (automatic if grade missing for HS)
 WE - Withdraw exited selected for classes dropped
Preparation Steps
 Where will course information be pulled from
 Grade History
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Allows for grade information to be reported
Completion status added here along with added fields for
Virtual Class and Mentor Teacher
Will use Calendar Grade Periods to link Grading
Terms/Reporting Levels to Scheduling Terms
Preparation Steps
Preparation Steps
 Where will course information be pulled from
 Student Schedule
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May be needed for elementary
Grade not submitted
Can be used for withdrawn courses
Need to have one Reporting Level flagged for Transcript in
Grade Configuration
Generating Files
 New and modified MSDS SQL scripts
 Modified MSDS Tool to generate
 Will consider all students who had classes this year
 Primarily will look at Grade History
 If no grade history (Elementary for instance), will look
at schedule
 Data pulled from schedule will determine completion
status from retention (promoted=CompletedPassed,
retained=CompletedFailed)
 Planning not to Begin New School Year (BNSY) until
TSDL submission completed
Generating Files
 Use date range
 Start Date 7/1/2012
 End Date 8/27/2013
 Count Date 8/27/2013 (not used)
 Edit with XML Pad 3
 www.wmhelp.com
 Press F7 to Validate
 Double click on error to locate
Troubleshooting
 Missing PIC Codes
 Filter for StateId is null
 Missing NCES Codes
 NCESSubjectCode is null
 NCESCourseCode is null (except subject code 00)
 District Course Summary Report
 Course Type
 This can be done through ad-hoc Query tool
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MiCase – District Courses
 Should be defaulted to 01-Regular
Troubleshooting
 Missing Grades
 Locate CourseSectionId to determine term
Questions