Located under the Tools menu / SIRAS Admin, this page is accessible only by the users who have Administrator access and serves two functions: 1) allows you to create a district level bulletin board;  2) Allows you to plot school holidays of more than 5 days.
 

1)    District Bulletin Board:
To start developing a district bulletin board, select the 'District Bulletin' tab, then click the ‘Edit’ button.  Type text you want to communicate to all the other users within your district into the web composer.  Use the web tools above to modify the text.  

When done click the “Save” button below.  Log out then back in again and now you (as well as all the other users in your district) will see three buttons on the bulletin board on the SIRAS Home Page.  The button with the label of your district will transition the current bulletin board to the district bulletin board.

2)    Entering Calendar Events:

Entering District Holidays:

Plot school holidays using the “Calendar events / School Holiday” tool.  This should be done at the end of every school year.  Doing this will do two things: it will plot the holidays (colored green) in the District Calendar located under Tools menu; and it will adjust the 60 day evaluation completion count down for an Initial Evaluation and a Triennial, moreover it will adjust the 30 day countdown for an Interim Placement “Review (30 Days)”. The assessment timeline count down (visible on the Choose Student List right column) will be adjusted based on your district's holidays that exceeds more than 5 days.

Enter the first and last calendar days that students do not attend school.

To do this:
1st click the “Create new Calendar Event” button then under the ‘Description’ header overwrite the text ‘School Holiday’ with the name of the holiday i.e. Thanksgiving Vacation;
2nd enter the vacation ‘Start Date’ and ‘End Date’;
3rd under the ‘Event Type’ enter a further description  (optional);
4th events will save automatically.  You do not need to do anything to save the events.
Note: You can enter in all district wide holidays.  Only those holidays that exceed 5 school days will adjust the 60 day assessment count down.
 

Entering Progress Report dates:
This will add a pop down menu on the Progress Report page so staff can more efficiently enter the progress report dates instead of repeatedly entering the same dates for different student.

1)      Under the Tools menu select the ‘Site Admin’.

2)      Click the “Create New Calendar” button

3)      This will open a new row.  It may materialize in the middle, but it will noted as ‘New Event’ – ‘Please select one’

4)      Enter in the ‘Start Date’ the date of the Progress Report (which is the date that the general ed students have their report cards sent)

5)      We suggest under the ‘Description’ column replace ‘Date’ with the quarter.
 

Note: If a school has different report dates than the rest of the district, drill down to that school by clicking the little school house (located in the upper left corner) and entering the progress report dates there.  The school progress report dates will supersede the district progress report dates.

This is what users will see on their Progress Reports if the progress report dates are entered as a calendar event.