Complete tasks for the beginning of the school year

At the beginning of each school year, there are a number of tasks you must complete in Aspen. The sequence you complete these tasks is important, since some tasks are dependent on others. Click on a task below for more details:

Step

 Task Date Completed
1 Commit schedules.

 

2

Initialize district and school calendars.

 

3

 Define grade terms.  

4

Run the Start-of-School Readiness report, and correct any issues found.

 
5

Create secondary school associations.

 

6

Clear retained fields on the Student table by running a Mass Update.

Note: When running a Mass Update, enter the name of your retained field (for example, Retained) at Field, and leave the Value field blank.

 

7

Use Mass Update or Modify List to update homerooms, if you did not transfer students to their next homeroom on Step 3 of the End-of-Year Rollover wizard.

 

8

Assign lockers.