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Bureau of Indian Education
The Federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) selected Infinite Campus to build their Native American Student Information System (NASIS). NASIS manages student data for the 184 Bureau funded schools spread across 23 states, has real-time data collection as a national transactional student data warehouse and provides data analysis tools for federal administrators.
Infinite Campus is providing all software and application hosting needed for the project, as well as project management, data conversion, onsite training and ongoing support services.
For nearly 27 years, the BIA has been trying to successfully launch a single, coordinated student system for its member schools. Now, with the help of Infinite Campus, they will have a fully functional system in place less than one year from contract signing to completed implementation.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky selected Infinite Campus to manage their student information system needs for each of their 630,000 students statewide and to manage state level needs for the department of education. The Commonwealth purchased both the Infinite Campus State Edition and the Infinite Campus District Edition for each of its 170+ districts statewide.
The selection of Infinite Campus statewide provides an optimal environment for the Commonwealth's department of education. The department can now rely on the data to be accurate and assured that it is entered based on state-defined best practices. With the data being entered and managed by the actual end user or "data expert," the integrity of the data is high. Finally, with complete integration the Commonwealth can be assured that the data is not lost or out of date.
The system eliminates state reporting for all districts as the data is available in real time at the department of education. This will give the department of education the ability to securely access data to answer the questions that policy makers are asking of them.
The Department of Education and the first district went live on the Infinite Campus State Edition and Infinite Campus District Edition in July 2007 – six months after contract signing. Infinite Campus is currently implementing the rest of the districts with an expected completion spring 2009.
State of Maine
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) selected Infinite Campus in February 2008 to replace its existing Maine Education Data Management System (MEDMS), a student and staff data collection and reporting system. Although MEDMS met the initial reporting requirements established in 2001, the DOE leadership, along with the Data Management Team, determined it was no longer capable of meeting growing state and LEA data requirements and needed to be replaced with a more comprehensive statewide student information system.
The DOE chose Infinite Campus State Edition and will be offering the Infinite Campus District Edition (ICDE) to districts as a no cost option. Usage of the ICDE will give the DOE access to the student data required at the state level, eliminating traditional state reporting. The Details.
State of Montana
The state of Montana’s Office of Public Instruction (OPI) selected the Infinite Campus State Edition to manage accountability statewide in June 2006. Montana’s unique challenge of managing its 331 geographically dispersed school districts is ideally suited to Infinite Campus.
In June 2007, OPI signed another contract with Infinite Campus for the purchase of the Infinite Campus Montana Edition provided to all districts statewide at no cost. The Montana Edition is the localized version of the state’s software. The Details.
Infinite Campus will complete implementation and training of the Montana Edition districts through Fall 2008 when the OPI will require new IEP documentation for students to be entered Infinite Campus. Districts choosing to move to the Infinite Campus District Edition will receive a discount from the OPI towards the purchase of it or towards a maintenance contract and will join other districts currently enjoying the benefits of using the Infinite Campus District Edition.
State of South Dakota
In 2001, the South Dakota Department of Education selected Infinite Campus for its state level needs and offered the Infinite Campus District Edition to the state's districts. 166 of the 168 districts accepted the offer and are benefiting from unique student ID assignment, district-to-district data transfers and the elimination of state reporting, since the state has immediate access to the district-level data. The system also collects data from non-Infinite Campus districts via the state's SIMS.net to compile the state's NCLB report card.
The state has benefited from the simplified federal reporting and built-in NCLB report card that is published to the Web in real time. South Dakota is exploring how to use Infinite Campus in new ways by providing e-transcript service, assigning student IDs at birth and creating individual learning plans for all students. The Details. |