(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Parents, guardians and public school students can access grades, attendance information and more through the Campus Mobile Portal app, the first in a series of fully-integrated, easy-to-use mobile learning tools.
The new Campus Mobile Portal is available for free from the App StoreSM. Once the app has been installed on an Apple® iOS device (iPod Touch®, iPhone®, iPad®), parents and students can access grades, attendance and schedule information virtually anywhere.
The Mobile Portal offers several functions:
- Daily Planner lets students to know exactly when and where they need to be and to see the assignments coming up in each of their classes.
- Assignments provides detailed information about what students are (present), were (past) or will be (future) expected to do in each class.
- Attendance provides both summary and detail information about absences and tardies.
- Grades provides immediate access to the important metrics of success and allows parents and students to “drill down” to the assignments that make up a particular grade.
- Notifications, once enabled by the district, allows parent and student subscribers to receive notifications regarding changes to assignments, grades and attendance according to their individual notification preferences.
An FAQ about the app, including instructions, is available here.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky awarded a contract to Infinite Campus, Inc. in December 2006 to provide and manage the student information system (SIS) for the state's 174 public school districts and schools. In the Kentucky Student Information System (KSIS), student data is managed through a centralized database, providing real-time information to those who are authorized to view it. The Web-based system allows authorized users to access grade books, lesson plans and Individual Education Plans and manage student transfers, grade promotions and more from almost any workstation with Internet access.
Infinite Campus also offers new features without additional cost as part of the existing contract, including the Campus Mobile Portal.
The Campus Mobile Portal has been designed from the ground up to intelligently interact with the information stored in a school district’s Infinite Campus database. Because it’s informed by Campus Census, parents/guardians with more than one student in their family can easily switch from one to another’s information with the flick of a fingertip. Because it’s also integrated with the advanced, object-oriented Campus Security system, each student in the family can only view his/her own information.
“The Campus Mobile Portal is a powerful tool that gives parents and students access to key educational information from anywhere at any time”, said Charlie Kratsch, CEO/Founder of Infinite Campus. “The Mobile Portal also provides ‘push notification’ that automatically alerts users of grade, assignment and attendance changes. Once again, Infinite Campus reinforces its position as the industry’s technology leader.”
About Infinite Campus
For more than a decade, Infinite Campus has successfully implemented its solutions for customers of all sizes. Today, Infinite Campus applications manage more than 4.5 million students in 43 states. Infinite Campus customers range from districts with fewer than 100 students to those with more than 100,000 as well as regional consortia, state departments of education and the federal government. www.infinitecampus.com
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