Infinite Campus Releases Assessment Score Publishing Tools for State Edition

August 24, 2011 – Blaine, MN. – Infinite Campus, Inc.® today announces the release of new enhancements that enable state departments of education to easily and accurately publish standardized assessment results to the districts in their state. These new enhancements are included in the core Infinite Campus E.1134 release of Infinite Campus State Edition. Infinite Campus has five state edition customers: Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Dakota and the Bureau of Indian Education.

"The assessment publication tools in this release will save each district many hours of manual work and/or a considerable sum in custom development fees. That really adds up when you add the expense across an entire state," noted Jon Berry, Infinite Campus Lead Product Analyst for State Solutions. "States will benefit as it automates a formerly manual process and at the same time provides the kind of validation and monitoring that states' accountability systems have come to require."

The new tool set satisfies multiple needs. First, it allows a state to define the structure of an assessment and to publish this structure out to all its districts. Test structures may include state-defined subtests, achievement standards, and proficiency levels.

Second, the new tools transmit assessment results for each individual student from the state to each child's district. Scores are automatically imported into the district local database in accord with the state-published test structures and are immediately available for reporting and analysis.

Third, the tools include score verification screens and reports that allow users to verify that state-published assessment results do not vary between the state and district. These verification features assure greater data integrity and enable districts and states to conduct audits in accordance with their unique policies and standards.

Test structure and score publication is facilitated by Campus Data Interchange Services (DIS), a proprietary Infinite Campus system that is included in the core Infinite Campus product. DIS works behind the scenes to manage data exchange, including data object synchronization and messaging between applications. DIS is the engine that allows for real-time data synchronization between state departments of education and local school districts; assessment result publication is but one of its many applications.

States make sizable investments in the delivery of standardized tests to their students and the processing of test results. Traditionally, the process of reporting assessment results to districts required a significant commitment of time and resources for state departments of education and local school districts. Storage media were distributed and the data they contained was imported into local information systems at great cost to the district and state. The new Infinite Campus assessment publishing tools make that tedious and expensive process a thing of the past.

Campus Assessment Publication is available today to all Infinite Campus State Edition customers. Contact your Infinite Campus representative for details.

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For over a decade, Infinite Campus has successfully implemented its solutions for customers of all sizes, managing more than 4.5 million students in 43 states. Infinite Campus customers range from those with fewer than 100 students to more than 600,000 including school districts, regional consortia, state departments of education and the federal government.