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Viewpoint Training. Greeneville City Schools August 31, 2007. What is a Data warehouse?. Culmination of 2 ½ Years of Work Stores data on all our students Pulls demographic data from SASI We input data via disks for all our “big” assessments TCAP Gateway and End-of-Course Explore PLAN
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Viewpoint Training Greeneville City Schools August 31, 2007
What is a Data warehouse? • Culmination of 2 ½ Years of Work • Stores data on all our students • Pulls demographic data from SASI • We input data via disks for all our “big” assessments • TCAP • Gateway and End-of-Course • Explore • PLAN • ACT • AP • Possibility of adding other data • Star Reading and Math • Princeton Review • Edusoft Data
Logging IN • Once you are on Internet Explorer, type in analytics.gcschools.net/viewpoint • Log in using your username: Lastnamefirstinitial, for example: kirkv • Your password for this training is password; you should change your password after training
Upper Left Corner • Choices • School Year • Grade • Teacher • Course • Period • Student • Your options are based on your user status • District – all schools, all teachers, all students • Principals – their school, all teachers, their students • Teachers – their school, themselves, their students
Getting reports • After making selections in upper left corner you must select a report • Example: Student Demographics Explorer • Gives you • Grade • Gender • Ethnicity • Special Education • LEP • Free/Reduced (Disabled) • Can sort by clicking on the header • 25 students per page
Upper right corner • Save Feature - Diskette • Select Group First (check boxes by student names) • Then save the group – make sure you name the groups in meaningful ways • PDF – Acrobat Symbol • Puts the page into a PDF file you can then print or save • Excel Spreadsheet – Excel Symbol • Puts the page into an Excel spreadsheet that you can then manipulate
Demographic reports • Brings up a pie chart for the demographics of the group you have selected at the top left • Can click on the portion of the pie and get the names of students • Demographic Breakdown has a dropdown box for selecting other demographic groups. • Demographic Comparison will compare your class to the whole school or your school to the system.
Assessment reports • Test Performance - Charts of proficient, below proficient, and advanced • Scores by percent – Bar chart of performance in each strand for each test • Scores by subject and strand • Color coded for below proficient, proficient and advanced • Gives breakdown of scores on strands
Class reports • Must select a course • Contact list gives phone numbers, addresses, parent names, etc… • Grades by course – pie chart breakdown • Grades vs Test Performance – Chart showing number of students, for example, who made and A in the course but were classfied as below proficient
Student details • Must select a student • Student summary gives everything about that student – former test performance, grades, schedules, etc… • Can click on hyperlinked address to get a map