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eSIS Quick Tips and Hints                                                        Getting Around in eSIS

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Logging on to eSIS . . .                           If you have incorrectly entered a line of             Found in most screens, the Navigate
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                                       information, or activated an ADD function             to… button allows you to enter the title
1 The URL – eSIS - will take you to the AAL
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                                       the application may not let you leave the             of a screen go DIRECTLY to it.
  Release Management eSIS Testing Area where
                                       screen. Go to the Record menu and
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  you may select the version of the eSIS release                                               Found in Student Course Selections -
                                       select Clear or Remove and then exit
  and the platform in which you will be working.                                               STU541, takes you to a popup screen
                                       through the door. This step is used                where you may select specific Student
                                       BEFORE you SAVE a record - not after
  Click on the appropriate      button.                                                related screens – Activity, Details, etc.
                                       you have successfully saved one.
                                                                        On the START screen, there are a
2  Enter your User Name and Password and the
                                       If you wish to delete a previously entered            number of Demographic buttons that
  database you wish to work with.
                                                                        take you directly to the screen indicated
                                       and SAVED record - use the DEL key
                                       found on most screens. Records NOT                for the student selected.
                                       already in use in Student tables or other             Found in some screens - indicates you
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                                       eSIS tables will be deleted - otherwise              may go back to a previous screen or
                                       you will receive notification as to why the            forward to the next screen in the Loop.
                                       record cannot be deleted.
                                                               <ALT> + X     <ALT> + the underlined letter of a Menu
                               Querying. . .                                   allows you to scroll through a pull-down
                                                                        menu using arrow keys.
                               F7 / F8     F7 enters the query mode and F8
                                       executes the query.               F1        May offer additional information on an
                                                                        error message.
                                       F7 followed by Shift+F2 tells you how
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                                                                        Copy down feature. In an eSIS table,
                                                               F3
3                                      many records the query will return.
                               <Shift> F2
  Click on      or type Enter.                                                     if you need to enter the same data in
                                                                        the same cell in each row, enter info in
                                       Allows for wildcard querying:
                               %
                                                                        the first row & cell, then use the cursor
Exiting Screens. . .                             xx% = finds all entries starting with xx
                                                                        down arrow and F3 in subsequent cells.
        This button takes you out of most               %xx   = finds all entries ending with xx   F9        Displays a list of values when <List>
        screens. On the START screen it takes             %xx% = finds anything containing xx                prompt is active in the Message line.
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        you out of the eSIS application. It is
                                                                        Save button - Always use this button to
                               <Control> +   Cancels the query mode - interrupts a
        important to use the exit door NOT
                                                                        save your work.
                                       query
                               Q
        the   or other exit methods to                                                Indicates that you may add or modify
        ensure that updates to the database              Find Student icon - On the Start screen –             information on this screen.
        are correctly recorded.                    clicking on this icon will tell you where the           Information button - found on the
                                       currently selected student is scheduled to            START screen. Contains District or
        If you need to exit and the door does not
                                       be at this time. Note: Period Start and              School announcements.
        appear to be allowing you to do so –             End Times must be entered first.
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        eSIS is probably looking for additional                                             Advisory buttons will appear on Student
                                       Menu item on START screen works in the
        information. If you don’t have it, or don’t                                           screens. Some of the buttons - like the
        wish to enter it, select the Action menu           same way as the F7 / F8. Enter to enter              Alert – may contain important
        and Exit from here.                      query criteria / Execute to begin search.             information. Click to open.
        You may, at times, use this button at the                                            The printer icon, when seen on a
                                                                        screen, indicates that the information
        upper right of a screen. It is NOT the
        recommended approach.                                                      can be printed.
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                               Getting around in eSIS - Some Hot Keys. . .
Clearing an item in a table. . .


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                                        eSIS Quick Tips and Hints

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 eSIS Quick Reference Guide                                                       eSIS - Typical Screen Outline



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                                     A Typical eSIS Screen / Window / Canvas
                                                          Access On Line Help OR locate Program
               Lock your system for security                             Name and version number through sub menu
                                                          item ‘About’.
Menu Bar


                                                                                Alert button - click on it
Screen / Program Title
                                                                                to view Alert entries for
School Information                                                                       selected student
Line

Student Information
                                                                              Active Scroll Bar - will
Line
                                                                              display horizontal fields
                                                                              not currently visible
List of Values – LOV -
Indicator. Populates with
information set up and
stored in System Code
tables.

‘Add’ will open up a row or                                                                Scroll bar - vertical fields / rows
field to enter new info.                                                                  - will become active if there are
‘Delete’ will remove info.                                                                 more records than there are
                                                                              viewable rows.

 Pull down list indicator
 (similar to LOV in
 function.)




    Go to the Previous or
    the Next screen in                  If available, selecting this button will                             Exit door
                               display a photo of the selected student.
    the loop




                  Message line                                    Navigate to. . .    SAVE

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                                                                           eSIS Quick Tips and Hints