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1. Middle School Student Withdrawal Guide
   For a comprehensive guide to withdrawing middle school students in Aeries, please see the file link below. These are very important instructions that must be followed closely by attendance secretaries. Topics covered include: Mid-year withdrawal End-of-year withdrawal Students who complete grad ...
2. High School Student Withdrawal Guide
   For a comprehensive guide to withdrawing high school students in Aeries, please see the file link below. These are very important instructions that must be followed closely by registrars. Topics covered include: Mid-year withdrawal End-of-year withdrawal Students who graduate/complete grade 12 ...
3. Master Scheduling Documentation
   Links to Master Scheduling documentation from Eagle Software (Aeries) are shown below. The documents include: "Student_Scheduling" includes an overview of the scheduling process. Updated April, 2011. "Course_Request_Packets" provides instructions for creating packets that will allow groups of ...
4. Grading Schedule for Comprehensive Middle and High Schools
   We use a common district-wide grading schedule for all comprehensive middle and high schools. Please see attached documents (links below) for two versions of this grading schedule. "Grading Schedule 2010-2011" is color-coded to indicate the start and end dates of each quarter. It also shows Pr ...
5. Secondary "No Show" Procedures
   Near the beginning of each year it is necessary to use "No Show" procedures in Aeries to inactivate students who were enrolled in a school, but did not attend this year. Procedures differ somewhat depending upon the situation, so it is imperative that instructions are followed closely. Please ...
6. Starting the Year in Aeries for Secondary Schools: Timeline for MST and Attendance
   To successfully begin the year in Aeries at secondary schools requires coordination between Master Schedulers and Attendance Secretaries. Please remember: The Master Schedule MUST be rolled over from SMS to MST before attendance may be initialized. Normally it is best to wait as long as possibl ...
7. Initializing Attendance - Secondary Schools
   Right before the start of a school year, attendance must be "initialized" in Aeries. This is normally done the day before school starts. Waiting to initialize attendance makes it much easier for those that must make changes to student schedules. Important: DO NOT initialize attendance until the ...
8. Printing and Mailing Secondary Report Cards
   There are two links below that provide instructions related to the printing and mailing of report cards. Look for the links under the "Attachments" section. Description of links: "Instructions to Install PrimoPDF" will be needed if you wish to create an electronic copy of all report cards and s ...
9. Master Scheduling: Rolling Over from SMS to MST
   Master schedulers use the SMS (Scheduling Master Schedule) to develop the master schedule. Normally, only one or two people at each site have access to the SMS module. Shortly before school starts they must "roll over" SMS to the MST (Master Schedule). MST is then the only working version of the ...
10. Setting Up and Processing Progress Reports in Aeries - for Office Staff
    Before teachers enter progress report grades in ABI, office staff must prepare Aeries to receive those grades by setting up progress reports. Then, after grades are submitted by teachers, office staff must run grade verifications, list missing marks, make corrections and print out progress repo ...
11. Report Card Comments - Secondary Schools
    Report card comments have been standardized for all secondary schools. They may be viewed by clicking on the attachment link below. You will see comments in English and Spanish.
12. "Redesignating" Students in Aeries
    Each year some high school students must be "redesignated" to an appropriate grade level, based on credits earned. This must be reflected in Aeries. For full instructions about using Aeries to record redesignations, please click on the attachment link below. Here is a brief summary of the steps ...
13. Concurrent Enrollment - High Schools
    These instructions are for high school registrars who need to concurrently enroll students. This is meant for situations where there is an established "home school" and a student must then enroll for less than half of a day (usually one or two periods) at another school for some special reason. ...
14. CrsAttDate: Important Observe Closely When Changing Student Schedules
    For any secondary office staff person that changes student schedules: be very careful to make sure that the "CrsAttDate" (Course Attendance Date) is filled in correctly whenever you change a student's schedule. Doing this incorrectly can result in faulty attendance data. The CrsAttDate field sho ...
15. Scan Sheets for Secondary Attendance
    Now that all or most secondary teachers will be using ABI for attendance, there should be little need to print scan sheets. If an attendance secretary needs to print scan sheets and would like assistance, please contact the Aeries Help Desk.
16. Printing Student Schedules in SMS (for Master Schedulers)
    For Master Schedulers Only: please see the attached file for instructions about printing student schedules while still in the SMS (Scheduling Master Schedule) module in Aeries.