RDS Regional Data Services, Inc.

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Parent Access General Information

Regional Data Services has developed an easy way to provide information to parents with a direct link from each teacher's gradebook. No more homework hotlines. No more special "posting" of information by teachers. Parents will know immediately that their child is late for school or not at school at all, and will have the comfort of being informed on their student's grade progress in between report cards. The RDS Parent Access Software interfaces directly with the RDS Teacher Gradebook and Student Information System. All information is available to parents the moment it is recorded, and parents can login from work, home or school!

• Providing information to parents requires no intervention by teachers such as batch updating, uploading or downloading.

• Eliminates the need for extra software such as homework hotlines

• Keeps parents informed between report cards

• Parents view real-time information for students

• Current grade for each course

• Grade summary by category

• Current, completed and future assignments for each course

• Status of each assignment, such as late, incomplete etc.

• List of missing assignments

• Detailed description and teacher notes for each assignment

• Current schedule

• Attendance

• Discipline incidents

• Detailed transcripts

• Standardized test scores

• Emergency contact information

• All information is available to parents the moment it is recorded, such as period by period attendance

• Optional link to teacher email

• Requires no special software for parents

• Parents access information for all of their children with one login

• Parents manage their own passwords

• "Forgot my password" feature automatically emails a temporary password

• Control which parent(s) can view a student's information

• Student information can be accessed by multiple parents/guardians using separate logins provided by the system administrator

• Verify each parent's identity using information from the Student Information System

• Parent accounts can be enabled or disabled individually

• Create accounts to access groups of students for use by resource teachers, coaches, counselors or building administrators

• Take system offline for scheduled downtime or to grant access seasonally

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Can school administrators track how often a parent accesses their child's/childrens' data?

A. Yes, they can see the number of times visited as well as the date/time of the last login.