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2 | Infinite Campus Terminology | PowerSchool Terminology | Explanation (if necessary) | Group |
3 | PowerSchool Applications | Other applications available from the SIS (Campus Community, etc.) | Navigation | |
4 | Context (School Name & Calendar) | School Name & Terms | The selection you make from the dropdown menu on the Landing page (Start page) to view school data. | Navigation |
5 | Help (Question Mark Icon) | Help (Question Mark Icon) | Selecting the Help feature will give you more information for the tool/screen currently in use. | Navigation |
6 | Campus Instruction | PowerTeacher | Navigation | |
7 | Main Landing Page | Start Page | Infinite Campus has an Action Bar (orange or green banner), Main Menu (left hand side of screen) & Workspace (white space directly below the banner) | Navigation |
8 |  | Clicking on Infinite Campus logo will take you back to home page. | Navigation | |
9 | Learning Tools | N/A | Outside programs that provide learning materials or content. These tools can be accessed through the Learning Tools list, or teachers can create links between specific learning tools and individual assignments, depending on district setup. | |
10 | Tools | Sub-Menu | Clicking on Infinite Campus logo will take you back to home page. | Navigation |
11 | Production (Live) Site (Green Banner) | Live Side | The live side of Infinite Campus where users do the day-to-day work. | Navigation |
12 | Sandbox Site (Orange Banner) | N/A | A replica of the production site, offering users a space for practical/training exercises. It will be refreshed with data from the production site at the customer’s request | |
13 | Staging Site (Orange Banner) | N/A | Space where PSUs can review new releases prior to updating the live site to see how new functionality works within IC | |
14 | Training Site (Orange Banner) | N/A | This site allows users to practice Infinite Campus processes with fictitious(fake) data. | Navigation |
15 | Trial Site (Orange Banner) | N/A | A pre-production site that offers a preview of the PSUs data migrated to IC from the legacy system. Helps PSUs identify items that may require additional cleanup in the legacy system PRIOR to the final data export for the production data conversion | Navigation |
16 | Recent Tools (Broken Clock Icon) | N/A | Lists the last 10 recently used tools by user | Navigation |
17 | Favorites (Star Icon) | N/A | Favorited tools designated by the user | Navigation |
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19 | Calendar | School setup (Years & Terms, Days, Period info) | Includes grade level setup, term setup, period setup, and day setup. How data is grouped. | |
20 | Day Setup | Calendar | ||
21 | Period Schedule | Bell Schedule | ||
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24 | Batch | Mass | Term for updating, adding, or changing data by a group or larger number. | General |
25 | Category | Used throughout Campus to group related items, like a group of assignments, a type of inventory item, an area of responsibility for a staff person, or a set of fields to filter report results. | General | |
26 | OLR | Online Registration; a customizable toolset in Campus that provides districts with the ability to manage the registration of new and returning students. | General | |
27 | Pleat | A section of the user interface that can be expanded or collapsed. | General | |
28 | Wizard | Used throughout the product to quickly modify student information. Users need to access just one tool for changes needed for several students or courses, rather than manually accessing individual student records or course records. Some examples are Attendance Wizard, Census Wizard, and Schedule Wizard. | General | |
29 | Campus Parent | Parent Portal | General | |
30 | Campus Student | Student Portal | General | |
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32 | Census (also Person) | Students, Staff, Parents | Consists of 3 key data elements: People, Addresses, & Households. All changes to students, staff, & parents are tracked through Census. | People |
33 | Households | Contacts | Inclusive of students, other people, relationships, and addresses | People |
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35 | Attendance Entry Wizard | N/A | Allows the entering or changing of attendance codes and comments for an individual or group of students using a variety of modes. | Attendance |
36 | Caller Report | Absentee Report | Report listing students based on an attendance event that can include contact information. | Attendance |
37 | Classroom Monitor Tool | Teacher Attendance Submission Status/PowerTeacher Attendance | Displays which teachers have and have not submitted attendance. | Attendance |
38 | Daily Attendance Tool | Attendance Data Grid | Displays student attendance events for a given day. Attendance may be processed from this tool. | Attendance |
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42 | Birth Country | Country of Birth | Demographics | |
43 | Birth Verification | Proof of Age | Demographics | |
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46 | End Comment | Exit Comment | Enrollment | |
47 | Local Start Status | Entry Code | Enrollment | |
48 | Local End Status | Exit Code | Enrollment | |
49 | Resident District | District of Residence | PSU of residence | Enrollment |
50 | Resident School | School of residence within PSU | Enrollment | |
51 | Serving District | PSU where student attends | Enrollment | |
52 | Serving School | School where student attends | Enrollment | |
53 | Start Comment | Entry Comment | Enrollment | |
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55 | Course | Calendar level course that is copied from the course master | Scheduling | |
56 | Course Master Catalog | NCDPI provided list of current course codes (masters) (This is just a “bucket” that holds the course masters.) | Scheduling | |
57 | Course Master | District level course “templates” received from the state that are contained in the Course Catalog-Master list. | Scheduling | |
58 | Max Students | Maximum Enrollment | Maximum number of students in a section | Scheduling |
59 | Periods | Periods | Number of periods in one day a course is taught. Typically one. | Scheduling |
60 | Period Schedule | Bell Schedule | Determines the period layout for the day | Scheduling |
61 | Primary Teacher | Teacher - Section Lead | The primary teacher of the section. | Scheduling |
62 | Schedules | The total number of period schedules the course meets | Scheduling | |
63 | Seats Taken | Current Enrollment | The number of students currently enrolled in a section. | Scheduling |
64 | Section Editor | Edit Section | The location to edit information for a given section. | Scheduling |
65 | Section Schedule Placement | Schedule (Expression) | The grid is used to mark in which term and period the course section meets. | Scheduling |
66 | Section Staff | Teachers/Staff Additional | Other staff assigned to sections. | Scheduling |
67 | Student Schedule > Calendar - Day, Agenda, Week | Bell Schedule View | Single day view of a student's schedule | Scheduling |
68 | Student Schedule > Requests | Request Management | Tool storing/displaying courses a student has requested | Scheduling |
69 | Student Schedule > Term | Matrix View | Full terms view of a student's schedule | Scheduling |
70 | Student Schedule > Walk-in Scheduler | Modify Schedule & Automated Schedule | Allows the modification of a student's schedule | Scheduling |
71 | Terms | Term | The length a course will be (quarter, semester, etc) | Scheduling |
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74 | Discussion | A threaded conversation started by a teacher and responded to by students through Campus Student. Discussions may be aligned to assignments and therefore scored, aligned to resources and not scored, or created without curriculum in the Discussions tool. | Grading | |
75 | Engagement Check-In | N/A | Tool that allows teachers to create and post check-ins to gauge student well-being and engagement in their class and with curriculum. Teachers with the appropriate tool rights can create check-ins by clicking the smiley face icon in the Control Center. | Grading |
76 | GPA Weight | Multiplier that represents how a grade is included in the GPA (this should be equivalent to the number of potential credits for the course) | Grading | |
77 | Grading Tasks | Reporting Terms | The collection points that a district creates to gather and report on Grades received in courses. Ex: quarter, semester, final grade | Grading |
78 | Grading Window | Defines whether a teacher can post a final grade for a Grading Task. | Grading | |
79 | Posting to Transcript | Storing Grades | The Transcript Post locates scores students received at the end of a course - a semester grade, for example - and posts them to the student's Transcript. | Grading |
80 | Progress Monitor | Allows teachers in standards-based classrooms to view students' proficiency at a glance and easily manage assignments across all standards in a section. | Grading | |
81 | Score Analysis | A distribution of student scores on an assignment with the options to visually break down how each student scored. Additional question-level analysis is available for assignments with quizzes. Access Score Analysis from the graph icon when scoring an assignment or from the Grade Book Settings menu. | Grading | |
82 | Score Group | Score Groups are aligned to grading tasks and are made up of the possible grades a student could receive for that task. | Grading | |
83 | Terms | Supports both length of terms and reporting terms. | Grading | |
84 | Transcript Page | Historical Grades Screen | Grading | |
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86 | Campus Community | PowerSchool Community | News, Forum, Knowledge Base - areas that include a web-based index of supporting documentation, threaded discussions, and articles | Help |
87 | Campus Passport | N/A | On-demand self-paced courses, videos, simulations, and training material | Help |
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89 | Tool Rights | Page Permissions | Tool Rights are assigned by Module - in the ‘Group Tool Rights Editor’ - sometimes down to specific fields within the Module. | Security |
90 | Tool Rights | Access Permissions | Gives users access to read, add, edit, or delete data in Infinite Campus | Security |
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92 | Behavior Event | Behavior Incident | Discipline | |
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