For those of us who work in the college and career access field, it comes as no surprise that students who participate in college visits have an advantage in the admissions process over students who do not participate in college visits. A recent article on InsideHigherEd.com reinforces that, “A student who visits campus,…
Standard Course Management Standard courses can now be mapped to an Instance. Previously, all standard courses in SCRIBE were available to all Instances. Standard courses created for a specific Instance would appear for everyone. In addition, SCRIBE now allows users to manage their own standard courses. You can choose to…
It’s that time of year when students are back at school and GEAR UP is in full swing. The beginning of the school year is a great time to do some SCRIBE housekeeping. Managing your list of active users is critical. This type of maintenance ensures only those who should…
Vendor Only Attachment Access We have some grants that provide vendors user accounts in SCRIBE in order to upload/download attachments at the instance, district, or school level. In order to access attachments in SCRIBE, a user must have view sensitive info permission at the appropriate level. This is required since…
As part of the 2017 GEAR UP Annual Conference in San Francisco, Xcalibur team members Julie Jaramillo and Tricia Brainard partnered with Becky Young from GEAR UP Maine to challenge participants to Think Beyond the Pie Chart. The group developed the Five C’s to See Your Data as…
Xcalibur’s Director of Data Quality, Julie Jaramillo, traveled to Bangor, Maine for the GEAR UP Maine Data Steward Training. The team met to discuss SCRIBE Reports, Service Naming Conventions, the GEAR UP Maine Service Taxonomy, and learn about the 5 C’s for Visualizing Data. In the picture above, GEAR UP…
