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SIS 2000+ Student Banner

The Student Banner is a standardized collection of data fields that appears on the upper portion of all SIS 2000+ program screens that use student records as their primary structure. Programs that employ the Student Banner are called "banner applications" (Fig. 1).

The Banner consists of two main parts: Student Demographics on the left side and Banner Command Buttons on the right side.

Fig. 1

Student Demographics

The left portion of the Student Banner displays essential information on the selected student in the host program. These data fields are always in the read-only mode when displayed in the Banner. The data is retrieved from and can only be edited from the Student Editor program.

• Student Name -
Last Name, First Name, followed by Student ID# in [brackets]
• M/F -
Gender code
• Birthdate -
Student's birth date as entered in the "General" information screen of the Student Editor
• Age -
Student's current age rounded off to the nearest year. Automatically calculated by comparing the student's birthday with today's date.
• Grade -
Student's current grade level as entered in the current status record in the Student Editor database.
• Track/School/Year -
Student's current attendance track. If a student is enrolled in more than one track simultaneously there will be a separate record for each track.
• Advisor -
Assigned counselor for the current status record in the Student Editor database.
• Entry -
The entry date of the current status record.
• Exit -
The exit date of the current status record, if applicable.

Banner Command Buttons

In the right area of the banner are three types of command buttons:

• Student Detail Buttons

  These three buttons open pop-up windows of data and are independent of each other. From top to bottom, these buttons are Enrollment History, Student Contacts, and Student Picture. These are shortcut buttons that allow the user to access certain student information that is normally found in the Student Editor program without having to actually open the Student Editor. For instance, if the user is working with a student record in the Health program, a picture of that student, stored in the Student Editor, could be viewed in a pop-up window by clicking on the "Display student's picture" button. Three pop-up windows of remote data may be viewed simultaneously along with the host program (Fig. 2). If the student record is changed in the host program the pop-up windows will also change to reflect the new student's data.

  
  Fig. 2 - Host program "Student Health Information" is viewing student detail data using three pop-up windows
  
  

  "Display enrollment history for this student" displays a summary list of student's school enrollment (Fig. 3).

  
  Fig. 3
  

  "Display contacts for this student" displays a summary list of student's contacts with primary phone number and relationship data (Fig. 4).

  
  Fig. 4
  

  "Display student's picture" displays current digital picture of the student, if available (Fig 5).

  
  Fig. 5
  
  

• Student Group Selection Buttons

  The first button is a User-defined group. The next four are system-defined groups based on current enrollment status: Active, All, Future, and Inactive. Student records for a given school may number in the thousands. The Student Banner acts as a database filter by allowing the selection of groups of student records to search on. Four buttons are for system-defined student Groups, based on current student enrollment status. A fifth button is for selecting a user-defined Group. (User-defined groups are set up in the Group Editor program in the System module of SIS 2000+.) Selecting the appropriate Group will facilitate a more organized and efficient user interaction with the host program and will speed up the search time by narrowing the search field.

  Student records will be available only for the school site that is currently logged on, unless you are logged on to the District Office, in which case student records for all school sites will be available.

  Student Group Selection Buttons are only available in the read-only mode of the host program. They are deactivated when in the edit mode of the program.
  

  "User-defined group"
  This is a shortcut to open a list of user-defined student groups from the Group Editor program. Make a selection from the list of existing groups and return to the host program or create a new student group using the Group Editor procedures, select it and return to the host program.

  "Currently Active Students"
  Clicking this button selects only those students who currently have a Student Status of "Active". This is the default group selected whenever the host program is first opened.

  "All Students this Year (active and inactive)"
  This button selects both active and inactive students of the current school year.

  "Future Students"
  This selects only those students who have a Student Status of "Future," such as student records that are being prepared ahead of time for next year's enrollment.

  "Inactive (withdrawn) students for this year"
  This button selects only those students with a Student Status of "Inactive" in the current school year.

In the upper right hand corner of the Student Banner is the Group field (Fig. 6), displaying the current Group of student records that are selected for searching or viewing.


Fig. 6



Important: When executing a search for a student using the VCR buttons, List command, or Find command of the host program, only the records from the currently selected student group will be available for the search. If the record is not found, widen the search criteria by selecting a more inclusive Group.

 

"Synchronize"
This button will synchronize all other open program windows to the currently selected student. In cases where there is more than one program open that is accessing student records, all application windows can be synchronized to the student record of the active window by using this shortcut button. This button works as a toggle switch for turning the synchronization on and off. When the synchronization is on, the button icon will change to this:

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