🗃️ ALE Connect Data Administrator

These instructions walk users through configuring a new school year or updating the current one.Configure School Year Start under Configure School Year in the left navigation menu and click School Years. Double-click in the Start Date or End Date colum...

Here, you will learn to set the defaults for initiating written Student Learning Plans.Start by going to Configure School Year in the left navigation, then choose Initiate wSLP Default Values. In the Essentials section:  Click the magnifying glass in...

In the ALE Application, the Data Administrator Role can configure the list of assessments available for inclusion in written Student Learning Plans. The available assessments are based on assessment data imported from your district's Student Information...

Here, you will learn how to manage class designation settings. Select which class designations create weekly contact records when students are marked present or tardy. By default, all class designations create weekly contact records.Start by going to Co...

Here, you can learn to configure notification settings in the Data Administrator Role.Configure Class Add/Drop NotificationsStart by going to Configure Settings in the left navigation menu, then choose Class Notifications.To enable notifications, enter ...

Here, you will learn how to use this interface to configure ‘create class’ defaults that will be used when scheduling a class from a course or when creating classes via Courses/Classes >> Create Class or All Classes >> Add Class button. When scheduling ...

Here, you will learn to set course defaults when creating new courses via Courses/Classes> Create Course. Fill in only the fields that apply to all courses you will be creating.Note: Fill in only the fields that apply to all courses you will be creating...

Here, you will learn how to add prompts to the monthly progress text boxes that parents see when reporting monthly progress.Note: Prompts are tied to the state course code subject area of each course template. Example: State Course Code WA0007 (Elementa...

Here you will learn how to configure parent wSLP settings in the Data Administrator Role.Configure Parent Proposed Course Settings Start by going to Configure Settings in the left navigation menu, then choose Parent Proposed Course Settings.You will see...

Here, you will learn to configure the default values when manually adding courses to wSLPs. You can also configure the default values for courses that are automatically generated as a result of enrolling in ALE Classes in Enrollment Method 2 or for cour...

Here, in the Data Administrator Role, you will learn to configure which monthly progress fields surface on the Certificated Teacher > Update Monthly Progress page.Start by going to Configure Settings in the left navigation menu, then choose Monthly Prog...

Here in the Data Administrator Role, you will learn to configure grade selections. Gradebook Grade Selection options are surfaced from your SIS data.Start by going to Configure Settings in the left navigation menu, then choose Grade Selections.Click the...

In the ALE Application, if more than one State or SIS course code is assigned to a single course, there is a utility that will allow you to define exactly which course code should be used for which student grade level. For example, if a single Piano cou...

The ability to activate and deactivate Certificated Teachers is restricted to users with the ALE Data Administrator Role. Deactivating a Certificated TeacherDeactivating a Certificated Teacher removes them from Certificated Teacher selectors and inactiv...

Here in the Data Administrator Role, you will learn to manage class data.Add/Edit Campuses Every program must have at least one campus to schedule classes. By default, we create your initial campus when the ALE application is first configured and use yo...

In the Data Administrator Role, there is a tool to copy a set of classes by term or year, so that once the class schedule is established, it does not have to be built from the ground up each year. Multiple Classes can be copied, along with all associate...

Here, in the District Administrator Role, set up a survey for parents to complete that indicates their interest in class offerings for the upcoming term or school year. Programs can use these results to plan which classes to offer and, in larger program...

Here, you will learn to manage the selections for the course categories selector on a course details page. Course categories are used to further categorize or group your courses. For example, some schools may use this feature when they offer several pro...

A Learning Credit enrollment limit can be set and enforced at parent enrollment for programs that limit the classes parents can register for. This limit can be applied across the program to all students or customized on a per-student basis in the indivi...

The Initial Enrollment Year field records the first school year in which the parent had a student enrolled in the ALE program. The SIS does not automatically populate this field and must be set manually for each parent. This information can be used when...

These are the building blocks for the system's courses and student learning plans. They include the State Course Codes, Learning Activities, Objectives, and Standards, etc. If you want to change any available data, you can do so in the Data Administrato...

Here in the Data Administrator Role, you will learn to manage ALE users.Manage Users and PeopleHelpful Resource: 🪪 Manage Person Roles & Application User Role Overview (Connect)Set ALE User Permissions Here, you will learn to activate guardian accounts,...

If your teachers record ALE class attendance in your district's SIS daily, you can enable the system to automatically create weekly contact records in the ALE application. Please read the FAQs below before enabling this feature. This feature must be set...

Here in the Data Administrator Role, learn to initiate ALE Courses based on data from your Student Information System (SIS).Manage SIS Courses  Start under Manage ALE Data in the left navigation menu, choose SIS Data, and then Manage SIS Courses. Click...

When the application is initially set up, parent accounts are automatically created using the parent's email address from the Student Information System (SIS) as the username. You will want to ensure that the names and email addresses in your Student In...

Here you will learn to add courses to wSLPs based on a student’s class schedule in your district's Student Information System (SIS). We have a tool that allows you to populate wSLPs with courses based on a student's SIS schedules. This can be done simul...