As New York State continues to increase accountability standards across the state, districts are now required to submit more data to the warehouse. These data elements include student to teacher minutes, grades, teacher and principal information which all contribute to the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) plan. schooltoolIQ is determined to help districts access, view, and analyze their data in a way that helps users spot areas of strength and find areas that may need attention in order to increase their districts’ productivity.

schooltoolIQ improves this ability to analyze data by providing easy-to-use Dashboards that give both technical and non-technical users the ability to filter and link key educational terms. By doing so, they will be able to review cross-sectional data elements.

“How can we analyze factors that contribute to drop outs so we can be proactive in keeping our current At-Risk students in school?”

“How can we check student infraction data to look for trends in times, locations and types of infractions?”

“How can we trend student assessment yearly progress and analyze teacher performance?”

Our Dashboard suite provides users with a way to view data and analyze trends. Each Dashboard includes a base selection of data filters that can be easily modified and configured with additional custom data filters to find specific sets of students. Users will be able to quickly navigate through any Dashboard and obtain the desired information. Once a trend is identified schooltoolIQ provides access to drill down to the actual students that are included in that data set.

Dashboards contain a number of interactive charts, including bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, or tables that can show one or multiple ranges of data. Each chart can easily be exported to spreadsheets, documents or PDF’s for distribution.

schooltoolIQ obtains data nightly from your student management system. After working with our customers to identify key metrics, schooltoolIQ can extract and synchronize data from your district’s existing data sources. schooltoolIQ launches from a user’s desktop with just an internet browser. Its unique design allows any user with proper access to dynamically analyze important business information without the constant involvement of an IT professional. All capabilities within the application are “point-and-click” and are easily mastered by users of varied experience levels. A user needs no familiarity with Excel or statistical-based modules to be successful with this product. Support and training programs are available to increase your comfort and knowledge of schooltoolIQ features.

schooltoolIQ provides monthly releases in order to get enhancements to our users as soon as possible. With each new release, our team makes any necessary bug fixes and adds new enhancements to the product. Following each release, a reporting community meeting is held in order to show our end users what is new to the product and what they should expect to see very soon. During these meetings we solicit feedback from our users in order to continue to improve the quality of our product and make sure we are fulfilling the needs of our districts.