🗃️ ALE Connect Data Administrator

As a Data Administrator, you can ensure your dashboards are available and configured to provide your users with the necessary data.

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure a New School Year (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Default Values for Initializing wSLPs (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ALE Assessment Settings (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure ALE Class Designations (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ALE Configure Class Notifications (Connect)

    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 ...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Default Values for Creating Classes (Connect)

    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 ...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Default Values for Creating Courses (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Guardian Monthly Progress Default Prompts (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Parent wSLP Settings (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Subject/Courses Default Settings (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Monthly Progress Settings (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Configure Grade Selections (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Manage ALE Course Code Associations (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Activating/Deactivating Certificated Teachers (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Manage Class Data (Connect)

    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.  Start under Manage ALE Data in the left navigation menu and choose Class Data. You will see the...

  • 🪪 ALE Manage ALE Users (Connect)

    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,...

  • 🗃️ALE Setting Up the Parent Class Interest Survey (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Manage Course Categories (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Copying Classes from One Term or Year to Another (Connect)

    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 selected and copied, along with ...

  • 🗃️ALE Setting Learning Credit Enrollment Limits for Parents (Connect)

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

  • 🗃️ ALE Setting Initial Enrollment Year for Parents (Connect)

    The Initial Enrollment Year field can be set for parents of students 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 to weight enrollment classes or b...

  • 🗃️ALE Configuring Reference Data Selections (Connect)

    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.   We typically load default data. If you want to change any available data, you ...

  • 🗃️ ALE Auto-Generate Weekly Contact Records from SIS Attendance Setup (Connect)

    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...

  • 🗃️ ALE Migrating Classes from the SIS to All Student Learning Plans (Connect)

    Here in the Data Administrator Role, learn to migrate classes from your Student Information System (SIS) to all Student Learning Plans.Classes must be matched with an ALE Course via the Manage SIS Classes utility before taking this action.This action ca...

  • 🪪 ALE Managing Parent Accounts (Connect)

    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. However, some may need to be manually activated if no email address is associ...

  • 🗃️ ALE Populating Student Learning Plans with Classes from the SIS (Connect)

    Here you will learn to add courses to wSLPs based on a student’s class schedule in your district's Student Information System (SIS). In that case, we have built a tool that allows you to migrate this information directly from there into the Subject/Cour...