Upcoming LBL ESD Synergy Training Events
Synergy Sections
ParentVUE
District Considerations:
- The ParentVUE will allow parents to do online registration, communicate with the school, upload documents, view their students progress and choose which notifications they would like to receive about their students progress.
Analytics
District Considerations:
- In the first year the analytics tool will have limited dashboards created by LBL ESD.
- LBL ESD will be creating a process to work with districts to determine what dashboards are needed.
Attendance
District Considerations:
- Schools can utilize both AM/PM-Daily and Period attendance within the same building as attendance type is designated by grade level.
- Front office staff and administrators can have the ability to see who has taken attendance and quickly send reminders to teachers who have not.
Enrollment
District Considerations:
- Students will be available to schedule the moment they are enrolled.
- Students will be available in the gradebook the moment they are scheduled.
Grading
District Considerations:
- District Level Gradebooks will replace “Templates” in Wazzle, can only be created before the start of a school year.
- Dual enrolled students will show at the primary enrolled school and print on primary report card with no manual transfer required.
- Teachers will have the ability to connect their gradebook to Google Classroom.
- Teachers will be able to send communications to students and parents through the gradebook.
Reporting
District Considerations:
- CRDC reporting will be available out of Argos for the 21/22 reporting period and out of Synergy for the 23/24 reporting period.
- There will be some standard reports available when Synergy launches.
- LBL ESD will be creating a process to work with districts to determine what reports are needed.
- State reports will be created in Synergy but will need to be manually uploaded to the state.
Special Education (SE)
In order to become more familiar with Synergy, we recommend following these steps:
- Read through the Introduction to Synergy guide.
- Gain access to your district’s TRAIN environment and follow along with the Introduction to Synergy guide.
- Contact your district’s Synergy SE System Administrator so they can coordinate with LBL ESD Support staff for SE Provider (New User) training, and SE System Administrator training.