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THE K12 DATAMINE

PARENT ACCESS MANUAL

The Merrillville Community School Corporation Data Warehouse

M.C.S.C INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

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Contents Accessing and Logging in to the Parent Viewer ............................................................................................ 3

Viewing Daily Grades ................................................................................................................................ 6

Viewing the Student Schedule .................................................................................................................. 8

Year to Date and End of the Year Attendance .......................................................................................... 9

Viewing Discipline ................................................................................................................................... 10

Viewing Student Assessments .................................................................................................................... 11

Comparing Student Scores with Corporation and School Averages ....................................................... 13

Surveys ........................................................................................................................................................ 14

View Goals............................................................................................................................................... 15

View Study Habits ................................................................................................................................... 16

Enter Interests – Enter Goals – Enter Study Habits ................................................................................ 17

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Accessing and Logging in to the Parent Viewer

To access the parent viewer, type the following address in your browser address space:

https://merrillville.k12datamine.com

When the login screen opens, type your username and password. Remember: usernames are not case

sensitive, but passwords are case sensitive (capital letters should be typed as capitals and lower case

as lower case) For example: if the password is ELEPHANT – it may not be typed elephant.

After typing your username and password, click Login.

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After you have typed your username and password and clicked Login, the following page will open.

At any time if you wish to log out, click the “padlock” in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

To view attendance, discipline, grades, progress report and schedule, click Trends.

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This is the trends page. It shows the student’s quarterly and semester grades, daily grades, schedule,

attendance and discipline history.

Viewing Grades

To view your student’s grades, click the gold icon under Grades

This will show a grade summary for each class/subject by grading period.

Remember to click Close This Window to return to the Trends page

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Viewing Daily Grades To view your student’s daily grades, click the green icon under Daily Grades.

You will see the following security alert box, asking if you wish to

display the information. Click Yes.

Because you are linking to the teacher’s live grade book, there may

be a short delay before the grade book page displays. The following page will display, showing your

student’s grade summary for each quarter by subject.

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To view individual daily grades by subject, select

the subject (Class)

Report (Student Assignments)

Marking period.

Then click Get Report

The following page will

display, showing the

student’s assignments for

that class, the grade

received and a summary of

the final grade to this point

in the grading period.

To return to the Trends page, click:

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Viewing the Student Schedule

To view your student’s daily schedule for the year, click the red schedule icon.

The schedule will display in a separate window. Click the Print icon to print a copy of the schedule.

Click Close this Window to return to Trends.

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Year to Date and End of the Year Attendance

These are basically the same. Click on either number to display your student’s attendance for this school

year in each class.

Please note that the attendance summary includes absences not counted toward state attendance, such

as doctor’s appointments and tardies.

Click Close this Window to return to Trends.

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Viewing Discipline

To view your student’s discipline history, click either the number under Year to Date Discipline or End

of Year Discipline.

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Viewing Student Assessments

To view your student’s ISTEP and NWEA tests, click Assessments on the top menu bar

The following page will open.

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Use the dropdown menus to the left to select ISTEP or NWEA, school year, sub-test and measure.

Test type Test Year

SubTest Measure

To view a breakdown of the graphed

information, select Standard IP under

Measure.

If you lay your

cursor over a bar,

you will see what

the test is and the student’s score.

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Comparing Student Scores with Corporation and School Averages

To see how your student did on each test relative to the Corporation and the student’s home school,

check the Show Averages box.

The chart now displays first the Corporation average for the test, then the school average and finally the

student

average.

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Surveys

Click on the Surveys link on the menu bar.

The survey section allows parents, teachers and students to contribute survey information, with results

stored separately so that data can be charted and analyzed. Surveys information can also be used to

Personalize Instruction

Understand Learning Styles

Create Learning Centers

Motivate and Inspire Teaching and Learning

Create Interest Groups

Connect Students to School Activities

Differentiate Instruction

And Much More!

Create Learning Contracts

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View Interests

Click View Interests to see how your student responded to the Interests survey.

View Goals

Click View Goals to see how your student answered the goals questions

Click one of the arrows or

“Here’s how I rate…” to see how

your student answered the

questions.

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View Study Habits

Click View Study Habits to see how your student responded.

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Enter Interests – Enter Goals – Enter Study Habits

Parents and students can enter information into the surveys by

clicking the Enter Interest, Goals and Study Habits buttons.

The survey will open in a separate window.

Click the drop down

arrow to select an

answer.

Click Next Question to answer the

next question in the survey

To view all questions in the survey,

Click Show All questions

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You can answer all the questions in the survey without having to click the Next Question tab.

When you

have completed the survey, click

Save & Close at the bottom of the

survey.

Note: If you do not complete the

survey, your answers will not be preserved.

You must take the survey again from the

beginning.