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IT Wire
February 2025
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Welcome to the MCPS IT Wire, a monthly newsletter that provides staff with important technology information and resources from the departments of Business Information Services, Digital Innovation, Infrastructure and Operations, and Student And Data Systems. The IT Wire has three sections: Professional Development, Tools & Resources, and Dates, Tips, & Reminders.
Professional Development
Join the Instructional Technology Insights Communication Group
The Department of Digital Innovation is launching a communication space dedicated to sharing the latest in instructional and innovative technologies.
In this group, you'll receive:
Bi-weekly updates featuring tips, tricks, and tools to help you integrate technology seamlessly into your teaching.
Insightful strategies to enhance student engagement.
Stay tuned for actionable content that will inspire new ways to use technology effectively in your classroom. Let’s work together to make learning more impactful and innovative!
Department of Digital Innovation Instructional Technology Insights Group
Spring Instructional Technology Professional Development
There are many sessions available this winter/spring on technology topics like:
ParentSquare
Canva
Lightspeed
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Canvas
Spring Instructional Technology Professional Development Flyer
Tools and Resources
High School Graduation Validation Dashboard
This dashboard was enhanced to enable:
Graduation Warning and Graduation Status Summary Letters to appear in all seven MCPS correspondence languages (in addition to English).
A brand new Print Page option which allows users to view student graduation information in a printable format and print.
The ability to display student next school year schedule requests, graduation courses, and elective credits.
K-9 Monitoring Dashboard
This dashboard provides interactive real-time literacy and math data for the current (2024-2025) and prior (2023-2024) school years. It was enhanced to also include Grade 9 MAP-R, MAP-M, and MCAP data (for assessments taken in Grade 8) along with Grade 8 pathway details.
Now this dashboard supports elementary, middle school and Grade 9 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.
Enhanced Synergy Reports
Enhanced Synergy Reports
U-ATT506: Secondary Student Tardy and Absence Counts by Class New
This report provides a student’s total number of absences and a tardy count by reason type for each period and class section for the selected school year.
U-SCD507: Student EOC Schedule and Exam Marks
This report provides a list of students scheduled with or without sections into BX courses for the second semester and highlights those with incorrect course IDs. It will also include results from the MCAP Assessment once they are available.
U-NYR502: Next Year School Assignment
This report provides a student's next year school assignment. Student Enrollment filter allows to select current students or next year's students for selected schools.
U-NYR503: Next Year School Assignment by Teacher
This report provides a student's next year school assignment based on the selected teacher/class. Student Enrollment filter allows to select current students or next year's students for selected schools.
Dates Tips and Reminders
Online Privacy
Online Privacy
Want to take charge of your online privacy? The National Cybersecurity Alliance makes it easy with their “Manage Your Privacy Settings” page! This handy resource gives you direct links to adjust privacy settings for popular platforms like shopping sites, mobile apps, email, and more.
Protect your personal info and feel more secure online—check it out today!
https://www.staysafeonline.org/articles/manage-your-privacy-settings
MP3 Interims
MP3 Interims
The posting window for MP3 Interims is 2/21/2025 through 2/28/2025.
2024 - 2025 Report Card and Interim Dates
Elementary
2024 - 2025 Elementary Grading and Reporting Guidance
ES Progress Reports & Report Cards Process
Secondary
Grading and Reporting Regulation
SGGCR and Transcript Timeline (Grades 9-12)
SGGCR and Transcript Timeline (Grades 9-12)
A brand new SGGCR and Transcript Timeline is now available for the 2024-2025 school year.
Dashboard Reminder
Dashboard Reminder
This document includes links to many of the new MCPS dashboards. All dashboard links are also available in the MCPS Resources folder of your Chrome browser.
Deactivation of Inactive Chromebooks
Deactivation of Inactive Chromebooks
As part of our ongoing efforts to maintain an accurate inventory of student devices, we will begin deactivating Chromebooks that have been inactive for 90 consecutive days, starting on Monday, March 10th.
More information, including how to reactivate the Chromebooks in the associated link.
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