NRS Nugget #4 Finding a Student Name

This tip may save you the time of searching an ASISTS Report for one student name. When you prepare a report from ASISTS, as you have the report on the screen in front of you, on your keyboard, hit "Ctrl" and "F". This will bring up a small "Search and Find" dialogue box. There will be a blank field where you can type either the first or last or both names of the student you wish to find in the report. The cursor will highlight that name in the report regardless of how many pages the report contains. It's a much faster way to verify when a student appears on a report or if the student name is missing from a report.

NRS Nugget #3 Printing Reports

Oftentimes, the reports generated from ASISTS are very lengthy. There are times when you may only wish to print one or several pages but not all the pages in a report. Instead of clicking the "print" icon on the tool bar, use your keyboard and hit "Ctrl" and then "P". This will bring up the print dialogue box in which you can select only the pages you wish to print. For example, you can select Pages 1 -3 or you may wish to isolate only Pages 12 - 15 or print only one page, Page 21. This method can save paper and will also allow you to focus on the data that needs attention.

NRS Nugget #2 Distance Learning

While managing data in preparation for NRS Reporting, special attention should be given to Distance Learning programming. Under NYS Policy, if a teacher prepared the first two packets for a student but the student did not return either of those first two packets, the student may be removed from NRS Reporting but the 24 hours of contact time may be accrued under EPE Policy. Instead of recording a 2 or a 4 under the contact hour attendance on the Instructional Activity, simply type in the code 9999. This code will cue ASISTS to count the 24 hours for EPE purposes but will remove the student from the NRS calculations. This will only be valid if the student was not actively enrolled in any other NRS eligible Instructional Activities in that same fiscal year.