Reports

Aspen provides powerful reporting tools. The system comes with nearly 200 standard reports and, more importantly, the ability to customize these reports to suit your needs. Reports that are marked custom will never be overwritten during an upgrade. From the Reports side-tab, you can define new reports and customize existing reports by changing their details. State validation reports are also run here.

For more information on building and customizing reports with iReportClosed free, open-source software which can be used to customize Aspen reports, contact Technical Services.

Benefits

  • Modify any of Aspen's standard reports using the provided source code.
  • Get one-click access to frequently used reports by adding them to your Home page.
  • Use the free, open-source tool iReport to modify Aspen report definitions and build new reports using a powerful graphical user interface.
  • Create a professional-looking custom report in less than a minute using Quick Report.
  • Generate data exports to satisfy state reporting requirements.

Make full use of system reports

Each page in Aspen has a Reports menu from which users can select context-specific reports. For example, from the Student tab, Attendance side-tab, run the Attendance Letter and Attendance History reports. Administrators control which schools see which reports, and on which Report menus they appear.

For more information on printing labels, see Print Labels in Aspen.

Create a Quick Report

In Aspen, it's easy for users of all abilities to create their own custom report, known as a Quick Report. Select the fields and columns. Customize with sort orders, statistics, grouping, formatting, and an output type. Save your report and even share it with other users in your school or district.

Report data to the state

Aspen includes a framework for supporting state and federal reporting requirements. The system extracts data from the live database for state reports and can create a single extract for all schools in your district. As part of the implementation process, we will provide the necessary state and federal reports for you to submit to your state.

Use a dedicated report server

Aspen can be configured to run reports on a dedicated server. This option is useful for larger districts and offloads resource-intensive operations like state reporting exports, monthly attendance registers, and quarterly report cards to a separate computer. Such a configuration is transparent to users; they continue to access the application normally without suffering a performance loss.