SIRAS Admin Fall Refresher
Aug 19, 2025
Agenda:
Resource Links
UPDATES
- August 2025 Newsletter Link
- CALPADS changes for 2025-26
- Degree of support is required by 10/1/2025
Learning SIRAS Refresher
- How to navigate in SIRAS.
- How to navigate in SIRAS when working with a team on same record
- Finding students by name, initials, birthdate, local ID, SSID, eligibility etc.
- Help listing data in SIRAS
- Importance of Active Status
- Creating New Student Records
Beginning of year SIRAS tasks
- Manage Users Help
- New users
- Requesting existing users
- Leaving users
- Managing caseloads (How staff can assist with self assign/remove assignments)
Fall 1 Reporting Overview and Reminders
- Rollover clean-up
- Preparing for Fall 1 Review: Suggested Fall 1 Planning Tasks
- Plan adoption
- Census day search
- Due Dates
Compliance Overview
- Projections of annuals and tri’s for the year
- SSID requirements for referrals (CDE YouTube) (PPT)
- Reporting beginning of the year Initials
- Verifying meeting delay reasons on meetings held late
- Pending Meetings vs Meeting in Progress
- Program setting updates for students turning 5 before census
- Transition Reg survey questions for students who are 15+
Recurring Tasks and Topics
- Onboarding students
- Leaving students
- Data Monitoring
- TOMS and Assessment Information
- Reviewing the 16.21 report in CALPADS
- Error resolution concepts
