Campus Mobile Portal for Students and Parents

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Developed in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), Infinite Campus® is releasing a new application for Apple®iOS devices (iPod Touch®, iPhone®, and iPad®) called Campus Mobile Portal. The app gives parents and students mobile access to the same Campus Portal content they have access to today. Support for the app is part of the E.1138 release, which will be available to your district on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011.

The app contains the following primary features:

	Daily Planner lets students know exactly where they need to be and when. It also shows them upcoming assignments for each class.
	Assignments provides detailed information about what students are, were, or will be expected to do in each of the classes. It’s also great when their teacher uses the newly-enhanced Infinite Campus Assignments tool.
	Attendance provides both summary and detail information about absences and tardies specific to Kentucky attendance calculations.
	Grades provides immediate access to the important metrics of success and allows parents and students to “drill down” to the assignments that make up a particular grade.
	Schedule provides schedule information for every term no matter how complex the schedule.
	Notifications, once enabled by your district, allows parent and student subscribers to receive notifications about assignments, grades and attendance changes according to their individual notification preferences.

One Touch. Tons of Info.

The interface is easy to use and requires no training.

Left to right: Daily Planner, Assignment Detail, Schedule, Settings with notifications, Grades

Connecting a Student or Parent with Their Data

Students and parents are walked through the process of obtaining the app, connecting it to your district’s Infinite Campus system and signing in successfully.

Portal Link – Students and parents see the familiar App Store icon indicating the presence of an iOS application.

After clicking on the App Store^SM icon, the user will be shown the screen below. The information walks the student or parentthrough getting their device connected to their data in three simple steps.

Go Mobile – The simple steps involved to connect a student or parent’s device to their data. The access code on this screen isvery important.

Portal Permissions - Same Data. Different Device.

The Campus Mobile Portal follows the preferences your district has set for the Campus Portal.

· If Schedule is enabled, students and parents will be able to view the Schedule and Daily Planner tools.

· If Grade Book is enabled, they will be able to view assignments in the Daily Planner, assignment detail via the Assignments tool, and Grades.

· If Attendance is enabled, this information will be available in the Campus Mobile Portal as well.

Further Information

Enabling Push Notification

The district’s technology staff will need to enable Push Notifications for the Campus Mobile Portal. Notifications are triggered by user actions. If a particular type of change (Attendance, Grades, Assignments) is modified, a Mobile Portal user will receive notifications for those areas where the user has chosen to receive notifications. Notifications are only delivered for Active Year calendars.

The Portal flag is used to determine who can view and receive notifications about certain students. Each Mobile Portal user can have one or more devices. For each device, the user can select different notification settings. Notification functionality is not guaranteed by Apple or by Infinite Campus.

Districts may need to open Port 5671 on their firewall to let notification messages out from their district.

Use the Portal Preferences tool within System Administration to enable Push Notification to mobile devices.

Creating a Banner Message for Stakeholders

The district may wish to alert staff members, students, and parents about the new Campus Mobile Portal. An easy and effective way to accomplish this is via User Notices.

Use the User Notices tool within User Communication to create an announcement.

For example:
Coming soon: Campus Mobile Portal for Students and Parents. Developed in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), Infinite Campus® is releasing a new application for Apple®iOS devices (iPod Touch®, iPhone®, and iPad®) called Campus Mobile Portal. This app, available free from the App Store^SM , will give parents and students mobile access to the same Campus Portal content they have access to today. Support for this app is part of the E.1138 release, which will be available on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011.”

Assignments Tool

Because the Campus Mobile Portal displays the same information as the Campus Portal, teachers will need to use the new Assignments tool to provide students and parents with assignment due dates and details.

Use the Assignments tool within Instruction to specify assignment detail and due dates.