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February 6, 2011

Postponing Mandatory Teacher use of Madison's Infinite Campus System

Superintendent Dan Nerad:

Background information: In 2010, the Board approved a number of administrative recommendations geared toward increasing usage of the Infinite Campus System. The current timeline requires all high school teachers to use grade-level appropriate Infinite Campus teacher tools by the end of the fourth quarter of the 2010-2011 school year.
The administration has been notified by the vendor that significant changes will be made to the Infinite Campus interface in July 2011. Accordingly, if training sessions were to continue as required to meet the current deadline, those same teachers would have to be trained on a new interface only months later.

It would be more prudent to wait until the new interface is available and require full implementation of the Infinite Campus teacher tools at the high schools by the end of the second quarter of the 2011-2012 school year.

D. BOE action requested: Postpone mandatory use of Infinite Campus teacher tools at the high schools until the end of the second quarter of the 2011-2012 school year.

Much more on the Madison School District's implementation of Infinite Campus, here.

A January, 2010 usage survey.

The system originally lifted off during the fall of 2007. I wonder how much has been spent on it without full use? This type of system can be a useful way for parents, teachers and students to communicate - if it is used.....

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 6, 2011 3:55 AM
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Ask me if I am surprised. How much has been spent on this, and how much development time has been wasted training teachers on it, when they never even try to use it? Most of our high schoolers' teachers use it as much as possible. Our middle schooler's teachers do not use it AT ALL. When the kids were in elementary school (through last year), there were literally no avenues to use it for teachers below 6th grade.
It is really too bad. It had such potential. Now we have wasted four years on it with very little to show for it at all.

Posted by: Millie at February 9, 2011 3:51 PM
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