A change to the collaboration between Infinite Campus, the company that provides the district’s Student Information System (SIS) and Tableau, which partners to provide data analytics, has broken down. At the district’s June board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Gregg Klinginsmith updated the board on the need for a new contract to remedy the issue.
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To better support its teachers and parents, the Warren County R-III School Board is working to make the best of a difficult situation.
A change to the collaboration between Infinite Campus, the company that provides the district’s Student Information System (SIS) and Tableau, which partners to provide data analytics, has broken down.
At the district’s June board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Gregg Klinginsmith updated the board on the need for a new contract to remedy the issue.
“We’ve had some back and forth on this,” Klinginsmith said. “Last month, the Infinite Campus contract (was explored) to have Tableau (data analysis network) work with it. Previously, we’d had contracts to have CIC work with Infinite Campus but they’ve had a falling out. They (Infinite Campus) can’t even get access to the (data analysis). All that planning and working we’re doing with them is over.”
The breakdown requires us to approve an agreement with Custom Computer Specialists, a division of Infinite Campus.
The proposed agreement put before the board comes at an annual cost of $14,146.60.
“Basically, there’s a divorce between those two companies,” Klinginsmith said. “I hope I explained that okay. We were forced to pivot. This is their in-house company. It’s to help us get data to our parents.”
Klinginsmith said the reason for the agreement was simple – to protect everyone, from students to parents to faculty and staff, an analytics company is vital.
“It’s really just about security, making sure I can’t see other people’s information,” Klinginsmith said. “(It’s also about) our teachers seeing the right information, not seeing other people’s information.”
Klinginsmith said that the current iteration of Infinite Campus is live on the district’s site.
“We currently have this out on our website now,” Klinginsmith said. “Our parents can see the standards and how their kids did. Our teachers don’t have access to it yet. Our principals don’t, necessarily, have full access to it.”
He said that the importance of the system working at optimal functionality goes beyond simply grades.
“This would give us the ability to have all of the data, not just academics, but behavior, all of that stuff, available to parents and teachers, in Infinite Campus,” Klinginsmith said. “This is replacing some of the contracts we had before with this.”
Board President Jeff Schneider offered his support after having read the parameters of the agreement.
“It looks like a lot of license fees,” Schneider said. “That looks legit.”
He went further to ask about the length of the proposed deal.
“Is this an annual contract?” Schneider asked.
“It will be,” Klinginsmith answered.
Board member Franci Schwartz added her happiness with the system’s ease of use for all involved.
“It’s critical for the teachers to see all the correct data,” Schwarz said. “Being able to see it all in one platform is really helpful there. I love that parents can see it.”
The board approved the contract by a unanimous vote.
