MCPS IT Wire
May 2024
Technology Team
Office of Strategic Initiatives
In this edition...
Retiring, Resigning or Changing Roles?
Recommendations for Handling Your Google Drive Data
Are you changing positions or locations for next school year? Are you planning to retire or resign?
Learn more about how to handle your Google Drive data to ensure a smooth transition for you and your colleagues.
Retiring, Resigning or Changing Roles - Google Drive Recommendations
Google Takeout Procedures
If you are retiring, resigning, or changing roles you may need to utilize Google Takeout to retain your files from your MCPS Drive account. Seniors will also use the same procedure to retain their files.
Best Practices for Sharing in Google Drive
View recommendations and best practices below for sharing files and folders in Google Drive to avoid oversharing information.
Summer Technology Professional Development
We are excited to offer technology Professional Development this summer on a variety of topics.
Training will be offered in person, virtual and through online courses.
All summer technology training is voluntary.
Canva and Kami Professional Development
Did you miss either of the Canva Essentials or Kami professional development opportunities offered this year? Check out the Canva section of the MCPS Technology Resource Center for the recordings and resources! For any of the Kami PD opportunities, all sessions have been recorded and collected into a playlist. Visit the sites below for more information.
Marking Period 4 Report Cards
The report card posting window for MP4 is Saturday, June 8 through Monday, June, 17, 2024.
View the 2023 - 2024 Report Card and Progress Report Dates here.
Elementary
Secondary
End of Year Canvas Classes
If you would like to reuse the content from your 2023-2024 myMCPS Classroom courses, here is some information you need to know before this school year ends so you can start the next year strong!
New Help Desk Phone Number
The Technical Help Desk call center has a new telephone number, effective now. The new number is 240-740-9000.
Please make note of this important change as the previous number will be terminated. View the Help Desk Flyer for more information.
MCPS Internal Data Dashboard Reminder
If you are not able to see data as expected on new internal dashboards, please follow these steps to clear the browsing data in the browser used to access the new dashboard. For specific device instructions, view the Quick Guide.
Click the 3 dots in the top right corner of the screen; select menu item: Clear Browsing Data
Elementary Monitoring Dashboard
This dashboard provides interactive real-time literacy and math data to support elementary school administrators and instructional leadership teams for planning and delivery of targeted instruction.
It may be filtered by school, teacher, class, race, special services, and gender. It also displays DIBELS, MAP, and MCPS Pathway result data. Student lists are also available and able to be exported.
This self-paced professional development course is available: Elementary Monitoring Dashboard for School Leadership PDO Course # 92406
Resources:
Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard
This dashboard, developed in collaboration with the Office of Student Support and Well-Being (OSSWB), provides interactive real-time MCPS Chronic Absenteeism (CA) data for central office, school leadership teams, and teachers.
Data is refreshed nightly using MSDE rules for CA. Multiple views and visualizations can be filtered by school type, race, grade level, gender, and special services.
This self-paced professional development course is available: MCPS Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard PDO Course # 92453
Resources:
NEW Student Graduation Validation Dashboard
(2024-2025 School Year)
(2024-2025 School Year)
MCPS Internal School Safety & Security Dashboard
Coming Soon! This new internal dashboard will provide prior school year (2022-2023) safety and security information based on current MCPS Safety and Security At A Glance reports.
Synergy Outage for End of Year Process Scheduled for June 21
Synergy will be unavailable all day on Friday June 21 beginning at midnight ET for the end of year process and next school year rollover. Synergy SIS, StudentVUE, TeacherVUE and ParentVUE will not be available for the duration of the outage.
Enhanced Synergy Reports
U-SCD705 Elementary Enrollment by Section and Section Type: This report is enhanced to provide a list of courses, staff, linked staff and students for the 2024-2025 school year.
Elementary Sectioning Open Labs Continue through Thursday, June 6, 2024
Elementary Sectioning open lab sessions are available through Thursday, June 6, 2024.