Skyward Country of Birth prior to sis upload at start of sy

Prior to uploading at the start of the year do these steps.

For state reporting, district just needs to focus on the Country of Birth Code- the other codes are informational and have no effect in State Reporting.

Currently, we are importing the Birth Country field. You will need to verify that the students who have the Birth Country populated with anything BUT United States will need to confirm that their Country of Birth is populated.

You can navigate to the Student Browse screen, switch the Views to "General-Birth History". Focus on the Birth Country column to review. If there is a student that has the Birth Country field populated different than Once you select Edit the Student's profile window will appear. You will need to navigate to Birth History and populate the corresponding Country of Birth Code

 If the Country of Birth Code is anything but US, the US Entry date is REQUIRED. You will also need to navigate to the IL/NCLB tab and enter in the US Entry Date.

Custom Forms do have the ability to populate US Entry date and can be also utilized via Online Registration and/or New Student Online Enrollment.

Other notes for editing a student record. 

US, highlight name and select Edit to the right

Skyward 

Student brouse 

Only Active Students

General Birth History

Sort by clicking on “Birth Country”

Look at the families without USA as their birth country

Edit

Birth History

Make sure the “Birth Country” matches the country of birth number in the field below that

If it does not edit on the right and enter the correct code.

We also need the US Entry Date for the student 

Enter the US ENTRY DATE in the Student profile under IL/NCLB edit and enter the student US entry date. This represents the students first day in a US school. It is important to have this date so they are exempt for their first year of testing (IAR)