Controlling Error visibility in Student Record application

One of our users had an interesting request:

She wants to be able to control what her school users see in terms of Errors and Warnings. SR application already allows admin users to turn an Error/Warning code on or off at System level. But, she wanted a more granular control, i.e., to be able to turn specific errors off for individual schools.

With the latest SR application update, you should be able to do this.

Turning off Errors at System level:

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New Content Completer validation report

Content Completer data element is mandatory for each Course level record. This element, though new, is a critical data element and will potentially be used for a large number of CCRPI indicators.

There is a lot of confusion out there about how this element is going to be reported and how it's going to be used for CCRPI. Information available through the DOE is complex and confusing at this point. Furthermore, 2 weeks from the end of current school year and the DOE is still trying to finalize the requirements..

Having said all that, we have added a new Course level report that validates Content Completer flag. This exception report looks for the following:

• Content Completer = P and Numeric grade < 70 or Alpha Grade = F or N for any part of the course
• Content Completer = F and no part of the course has Numeric grade < 70 or Alpha Grade = F or N
• More than 1 part of the course being reported with Content Completer = P or F

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Special Ed FTE Reporting - IEPs, Segments and Scheduling

From FTE File Layout and Edit Rules:

SPECIAL ED ENVIRONMENT must be one of the following valid values if DATE OF BIRTH is such that AGE is greater than 5 as of September 1:

• '1' Regular Class - inside regular class at least 80% of the time
• '2' Resource Room - inside regular class 40%-79% of the time
• '3' Separate Class - inside regular class less than 40% of the time

Loading Files to FteTrack

When we install FteTrack on a machine, the install process creates a Shortcut (picture 1 below) for FteTrack Load command on User's Desktop. Later on, if you login to the machine with different UserID than the one we used to install the software, you will not see the Shortcut for the load command.

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Updating FTE Track and Student Record Installation files

Download the zipped file containing all of the updated files (link at the bottom)

Unzip the file using Window's unzip utility or any similar zip utility (7-zip, WinRar, Winzip etc.)

Unzip the zipped file

.. then run the Update_FteTrack.cmd as an Administrator. For that, you first select the file, right-click, then choose "Run as administrator" from the context menu.

Run as administrator

After running an update of the software, you must run the Load commands by clicking the respective Shortcut on your Desktop.

You must do this because the update process drops and create some of the internal database tables, thus, rendering all of the reports invalid. Running the Load command rebuilds all of the reports.

Download FteTrack update 

Turning User Account Control (UAC) Off in Windows 7

We have had several problems recently when we were trying to install FTE Track on a user's machine in a GoToMeeting session, mainly because the target machine had User Account Control (UAC) turned on.

So, here is how you turn UAC off on a Windows 7 machine.

Click on Windows Start Button (ORB) and type in "User" in the search box, without quotes that is.

Select "Change User Account Control settings" under Control Panel group as shown in the picture above.
Then, bring the slider all the way to the bottom (Never notify), click OK and reboot your machine and you have successfully turned off UAC.

HOPE Track

HOPE Track s Dekstop based application that helps counselors/school IT folks preemptively clean data before they submit it to GA411college website.

It's much more effective than the official website and much more superior in terms of functionality and features.

You need to have Adobe AIR run-time installed first, then, download the zipped file from the link at the bottom of this post and unzip (you must unzip the file first) the file and just double-click on the file named HopeTrack.air and follow the prompts.