SVS+Student+Information+Systems+Survey+-+Responses+by+State


 * SVS Student Information Systems Survey - Responses by State **


 * ALABAMA **

John Halbrooks Distance Learning Specialist Technology Initiatives Section Alabama Department of Education johnh@alsde.edu (334) 242-9594
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Custom-designed and built
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * Vendor contracted and written
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Contractor
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * Student and staff records are imported from the state SIS.
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * District/school personnel have secure login accounts for our SIS.
 * 10. What LMS (learning management system) do you use?**
 * D2L
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * Yes
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * Yes. Half term averages and exams (if required) are sent nightly from the LMS to our SIS.
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No. Unfortunately only grades are sent from our LMS to our SIS. We are working on gathering and communicating this type of data from our LMS for stakeholders.
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * LMS account creations, course enrollments, and withdrawals are automatically initiated by our SIS via nightly integration.
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * Correcting bugs will continue, but money limitations will not allow significant feature changes.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * ARKANSAS (1) **

Michael Lar Program Coordinator ADE Distance Learning Center Arkansas Department of Education mike.lar@arkansas.gov (501) 803-5400
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * Moodle
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * No
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * Yes. If the state would permit us to access to the SIS database, this could be accomplished.
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * Yes. If the state would permit us to access to the SIS database, this could be accomplished.
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * ARKANSAS (2) **

· Yes Sandy O'Reilly Arkansas Virtual High School avhs@windstream.net (501) 849-3548
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * No
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Combination of custom-designed and built/off-the-shelf
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * Blackboard
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * Yes
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * FLORIDA **

Jeff Edison Director of Administration Levy County edisonj@levy.k12.fl.us (352) 486-5231
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * Yes
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * Educator
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * No
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * We use the LMS provided by the FLVS.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * GEORGIA **

Justin Rogers IT Specialist Georgia Department of Education Georgia Virtual School jrogers@doe.k12.ga.us
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Custom-designed and built
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * VB and asp.net, sql server 2005
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Developed locally/in house
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * No
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * We submit files to our FTE system.
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * Facilitators have access to the data of the students who take courses with us. We do not grant credit. The facilitators get the final grade from our SIS and the school transcribes the grade earned.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * D2L
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * Yes
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * Yes. Our credit recovery system has more integration that our face to face course system. We are working on more real-time integration through a web services project currently in progress.
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No. We are working on this through a new web services application we are developing. (Our credit recovery program does have this.)
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * We are working on this through a new web services application we are developing.
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * All of our course shells, enrollments, teacher assignments are sent automatically through overnight integration to our LMS. We are working on automatic copy of course content into new semester shells and grade reporting in a current project.
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * We are working with a newly released web services skd that will allow us to expand our real-time data communication between our SIS and LMS. We have several tasks defined in this project.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**

//Responded to Survey:// Lynne Whitley Technology Specialist Georgia Virtual School lwhitey@doe.k12.ga.us (678) 743-1216


 * LOUISIANA **

Tandra Oubre IT Programmer Analyst Louisiana Virtual School LA Dept. of Education tandra.oubre@la.gov (225) 219-0449
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Custom designed and built
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * MySQL database, MySQL Administrator, MySQL Query Browser
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Developed locally/in house
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * No
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * We provide various reports upon request.
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * The only information that we report to districts is the invoice, which is generated from our Fiscal department. We submit a spreadsheet of our enrollments to Fiscal.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * Blackboard
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * Yes
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * No. The course instructors use Blackboard to determine the grade percentages. Then the instructors input the corresponding letter grade into our SIS via a Blackboard Building Block (Bb feature that allows integration).
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * The course instructors use Blackboard to determine the grade percentages. Then the instructors input the corresponding letter grade into our SIS via a Blackboard Building Block (Bb feature that allows integration).
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * We use our SIS as the source of information. All student enrollment information is recorded in our SIS and we run a Bb Building Block to update Blackboard.
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * We are not planning on making any major modifications.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**

NORTH CAROLINA
Chanin Rivenbark CTO NCVPS NC DPI chanin.rivenbark@ncpublicschools.gov (919) 218-6290
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * Yes
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Custom-designed and built
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * Java software developer’s kit
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Contractor
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 7. If you answered “Yes” to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * The state’s SIS feeds student personal data into our SIS, then we ask further questions needed in the virtual environment.
 * 8. If you answered “No” to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * Internal to our SIS, we have a grade reporting tool. The same userID and password that a school representative uses to enroll students is used to retrieve grade reports.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * Blackboard
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * No
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * None
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * Our custom SIS also serves as a registration system. It formats files to import into Bb to enroll students into courses, as needed.
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * We are waiting on RTTT decisions before we make significant plans to upgrade.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * SOUTH CAROLINA **

Tracy B. Sanders Technical Program Manager South Carolina Virtual School Program South Carolina Department of Education tsanders@ed.sc.gov (803) 734-8039
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered “No” to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Combination of custom-designed and built/off-the-shelf
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * Using our own instance of Virtual School Administrator from FLVS.
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Contractor
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * No
 * 7. If you answered “Yes” to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 8. If you answered “No” to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * By pulling reports and reporting findings.
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * Districts have their own login and can run reports.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * Moodle
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * No
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * Course registrations are uploaded using a UIB file.
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * None
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * TENNESSEE – HAMILTON COUNTY VIRTUAL SCHOOL **

Debi Crabtree Coordinator Hamilton County Virtual School Hamilton County Department of Education crabtree_d@hcde.org (423) 209-8804
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Off-the-shelf
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * No
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * Student data is reported to individual schools who add credits to individual transcripts.
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * Data is reported directly to the Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, and the Federal Programs Director.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * CompassLearning Odyssey – a hosted solution
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * Yes
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * No. Compass courses do not currently allow for weighting of grades according to district policy, so gradebooks are managed by a third party vendor and exported to the SIS.
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No. Indications of On Pace, Behind Pace and Ahead of Pace are all indicated via the third-party vendor as explained above.
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * Auto-enroll is a feature of the LMS/SIS integration.
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * We are working with Compass to upgrade the gradebook function of their hosted solution in order to facilitate direct reporting of grades and pacing status to the SIS.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * HCVS uses the GeniusSIS solution. It has extensive communication, recording and reporting capabilities that are very useful to the Virtual School.
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * TENNESSEE – e4TN **

Wendy Oliver, Ed.D. Director E4TN Tennessee Department of Education Wendy.oliver@e4tn.org 423-209-8832
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Custom-designed and built
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * It is a custom database
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Developed locally/in house
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * Technically no, but we are in a redevelopment to push and pull student information and course code information.
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * The LEA awards the credit, so it goes through their local LEA SIS.
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * They receive the grade and data electronically and can run a dump or manual input of the information.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * D2L
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * Yes
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * Teacher/Student communication is automatically logged into the SMS from the LMS. User statistics are also automatically logged.
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * Auto enroll, auto unenroll, auto drop, auto withdrawal, auto creation of course shells
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**


 * TEXAS **

Angela Clark Operations Director TxVSN, HCDE aclark@hcde-texas.org (866) 938-9876
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * No
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * TxVSN has a registration system that does collect student information; but, does not track student test and other assessment scores, student grades, building student schedules, record attendance, and or all program eligibilities.
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Developed locally/in-house
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * No
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * CSV report template
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * TxVSN provides basic student registration data to its course providers. Providers in turn report success data (pass, fail, incomplete) back to the TxVSN at the conclusion of each semester.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * n/a (each provider has its own LMS)
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * No
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * If TxVSN moves to become a diploma granting entity, then it will acquire a student’s information that is PEIMS compatible.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
 * //{did not answer}//
 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**

Barbara Smith Project Director TxVSN, Region 10 barbara.smith@region10.org (972) 348-1440


 * WEST VIRGINIA **

Marshall Patton Acting Executive Director Office of Information Systems WV Department of Education mlpatton@access.k12.wv.us (304) 558-3927
 * 1. Do you use your state's SIS to manage your student records?**
 * No
 * 2. If you answered "No" to Question 1, does your SVS have its own SIS?**
 * Yes
 * 3. Is your SIS:**
 * Custom-designed and built
 * 4. If you developed your own SIS, what product(s) did you use?**
 * Microsoft SQL Server (database); ColdFusion (application)
 * 5. Who developed your SIS?**
 * Developed locally/in house
 * 6. Is it integrated with your state's SIS?**
 * No
 * 7. If you answered "Yes" to Question 6, please briefly describe how your SIS is integrated with your state's SIS.**
 * //{NA}//
 * 8. If you answered "No" to Question 6, please briefly describe how you report your student data to your state's department of education.**
 * Student information is extracted from the state SIS and included in the virtual school database. Data is reported back to the Department of Education via regular reports.
 * 9. Please briefly describe how you report student information to districts.**
 * Data is reported to the districts via regular reports.
 * 10. What LMS do you use?**
 * D2L
 * 11. Is your SIS integrated with your LMS?**
 * No
 * 12. Is your LMS able to collect current student grade averages and automatically record them in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 13. Is your LMS able to collect course percent complete per assignment on students and automatically record it in your SIS?**
 * No
 * 14. Please provide additional information on instructional data that is automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * No information is automatically recorded in the SIS from the LMS.
 * 15. Please provide additional information on administrative operations (i.e., auto-enroll in course shells and end-of-course grade reporting) that are automatically recorded into your SIS from your LMS.**
 * No information is automatically recorded in the SIS from the LMS.
 * 16. Please briefly describe any plans you may have for upgrading or making significant changes to the features and services of your SIS in the next 12-18 months.**
 * The SIS will be rolling out a web-based portal statewide in the next year. Opportunities for integration with the virtual school database will be explored.
 * 17. If there is any additional information you think would be useful to your SVS colleagues, please provide it here. If you are providing additional information related to a specific question, please include the number of the question.**
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 * 18. Please provide detailed contact information for the person responsible for maintaining the SIS.**

Anne Meadows Assistant Director Office of Instructional Technology WV Department of Education ameadows@access.k12.wv.us (304) 558-7880