Day 1 - The Multiple Views of Aspen

Day 1 - The Multiple Views of Aspen

Aspen allows the end user to see multiple views within the Aspen Instructional Management System(IMS). The views that you're able to see depends on the security settings established by your system administrator. Aspen provides the following views:

• District
• School
• Staff
• Health
• Build
• Special Education
• Personnel
• Student
• Family

The District View is primarily for system administrators, district support personnel or school department members that need to access data connected to the District View. In the WWPS teachers and administrators can access the District View to see district wide student assessment data, global data tables or curriculum mapping data. 

The School View contains all of the data connected to the members of a school. This data pertains to students, staff, and contacts within a particular school. In the WWPS all teachers, administrators and staff members have access to the school view. This data is used by School Improvement Teams (SIT) to make programmatic decisions about students and curriculum.  

The Staff View allows you to view information that pertains to you as a staff member. You can view a whole host of information under each of the top tabs associated with the Staff View. Staff members can view specific data that connects to the students in their schedule. In addition to the information associated with their students, staff members can view additional information pertaining to their personal information found in Aspen. Teachers and staff members can view their individual information regarding the details kept in their personnel record. Staff members can review their own schedule, their attendance history, licensure information, and a historical view of their positions.

The Health, Build, Special Education, and Personnel Views in Aspen are views that very few people in a district have access to due to the sensitive nature of most of the data found in those views. I'll most likely leave those views to a specialized blog in the future. 

The Family View in Aspen allows parents and guardians access to the Family Portal. Parents and guardian members can view information about students in their family. Individual student information about academics, discipline data, and attendance information can be viewed by parents and guardians in the Family Portal. Group pages are also accessible to adults via the Family Portal. Schools and teachers can share resources, and engage family members in discussion forums. It is a view in Aspen that has a lot of potential for growth. 

The Student View in Aspen allows students access to the Student Portal.  Individual student information about academics, discipline data, and attendance information can be viewed by students in the Student Portal. Students can also submit student work and artifacts in the Student Portal. Students also have access to Quest, Aspen's resource collection tool.

In future blogs I will dig deeper into each of the views listed here, and create some step by step instructions to help Aspen IMS users to dig deeper on their own. It is my hope that you find the blog posts helpful.