NJSMART SID Management Updates 2020 (Video)

NJSMART has asked districts to collect several new SID data fields in 2020-2021. To help your district accurately report on these elements, OnCourse has released several new updates which are detailed below. Your district must take action as soon as possible to reduce data remediation going forward.

On-Demand Webinar Training

If you missed our webinar on Friday, October 22^nd, here is the recording hosted by OnCourse’s Chris Contini and Tre Gonzalez.

NJSMART SID Management Webinar

Updates Released Include:

• "Remote Learning" Attendance Code setting
• New Batch Updater fields
• New SID NJSMART Fields
• Updated SID Reports 

OnCourse Basecamp Discussion

We strongly encourage you to “Follow” this discussion in the OnCourse Basecamp community. This is where we’ll be posting updates as they happen, and we also encourage you to communicate with each other directly. If you’ve never used this area, we recommend checking the community rules.

Discussion: 2020 SID Management Updates (Login Required)
https://ocu.oncoursesystems.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360050979314-SID-Management-Updates-for-2020

DOCUMENTATION

• NJSMART SID: Setting up Remote and In-Person Attendance Codes
  Included in this guide are steps for modifying your attendance codes in order to accurately calculate Remote Days for submission to NJSMART. https://ocu.oncoursesystems.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058124853-NJSMART-SID-Setting-up-Remote-and-In-Person-Attendance-Codes

• Introduction to Active Attendance
  For cleaning up your historical attendance codes, we recommend using the Active Attendance tool, which is covered in the webinar at the 48 minute mark. If you need further documentation:
  https://ocu.oncoursesystems.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002009453-Active-Attendance

• Batch Updater
• For updating the Student Learning Environment and other new codes, we strongly recommend using the Batch Updater. See minute 15:46 in the webinar, or see documentation: https://ocu.oncoursesystems.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016065754-Batch-Updater

FEATURE ACTIVATION SURVEY

If you did not complete the Feature Activation survey during the webinar, you can complete it here https://share.hsforms.com/1V_oGfvezT7GF7U6kKIuE1Q15r19