Tailored Solutions for Every Role: Drive District-Wide Success
Experience the power of ASCENDER’s role-focused applications, meticulously designed to streamline tasks, eliminate data clutter, and deliver actionable insights to every member of your district. From superintendents and teachers to business managers and registrars, each role benefits from customized tools—so your entire school community can focus on one shared goal: helping students thrive.
Empower Superintendents with Real-Time Insights
Our software provides superintendents with the tools they need to effectively oversee campus and district operations. The customizable dashboard features intuitive widgets that offer real-time visibility into campus and district-level attendance, as well as purchase order information, enabling data-driven decision-making at a glance. Additionally, the software supports the creation of custom reports tailored to the unique needs of both student and business applications. With these powerful features, superintendents can efficiently manage resources, monitor performance, and support their schools in achieving excellence.
Streamline Classroom Management with TeacherPortal
TeacherPortal offers teachers powerful tools to enhance classroom management and streamline daily tasks. With customizable assignment categories, educators can tailor grading to suit their unique instructional needs. The platform supports discipline referrals and medical alert information, ensuring student safety and well-being remain top priorities. Substitute teachers benefit from features like photo seating charts and access to essential student details, making transitions seamless. TeacherPortal also includes skills-based report cards to provide meaningful feedback on student progress and a variety of teacher reports to support data-driven decision-making. These features empower educators to focus on what matters most—teaching and student success.
Comprehensive Tools for PEIMS Personnel
ASCENDER equips PEIMS personnel with robust tools to efficiently manage and report critical student data. The Registration application serves as the foundation for building comprehensive student records, capturing essential information such as demographics, parent and guardian contact details, participation in special and local programs, and Core Collection data. Additionally, the OCR application simplifies compliance with federal reporting requirements by providing districts with an efficient system for submitting Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) information to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. Together, these tools empower districts to maintain accurate records and meet critical reporting obligations with ease.
Enable Counselors with Comprehensive Planning and Support Tools
The Graduation Plan application equips counselors with robust tools to guide students toward academic success while addressing their individual needs. Counselors can create and assign graduation plans, add courses, and generate course requests directly from the plans. The application also supports the development of Personal Graduation Plans, tracking of earned Performance Acknowledgements and Certifications, and seamless integration with Scheduling to automate course requests. Additionally, counselors can enter and maintain Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and manage next-year program information for students enrolled in special education, including related services and hearing or visual impairments. By consolidating tools for graduation planning, IEP management, and mandated reporting into one platform, the application simplifies maintenance and ensures all student needs are efficiently addressed. Optional StudentPortal integration provides students with controlled access to decision-making tools, fostering their active participation in the planning process.
Streamlining Financial and Operational Management for Business Managers
Business managers benefit from a suite of applications designed to provide transparency, efficiency, and control over financial and operational processes. The Finance application offers complete financial transparency and expense management, collecting and streamlining detailed information in accordance with the Financial Accountability System Resource Guide. Features such as GL summary drill-downs, 1099 processing, invoice matching, automatic balancing, and easy corrections ensure a balanced financial history month after month. Budget Amendment Request (BAR) tools accommodate adjustments even after final approvals.
The Bank Reconciliation application simplifies account management by maintaining multiple accounts and fiscal years in one location. Its flexible drill-down features, merging tools, and recalculations ensure accurate balances with ease. The Accounts Receivable application automates invoicing and seamlessly integrates with Finance to maintain accurate billing records. Built-in flexibility allows for full or partial payments, overpayments, adjustments, credit memos, and approvals, keeping the general ledger in sync.
With Asset Management, business managers can effectively manage risks and maintain accurate inventory records. The application ensures precise tracking of capital and inventory assets, transferring purchased item information directly from Finance and simplifying inventory oversight. From depreciation to GASB 34-compliant reporting, the tools are designed for straightforward asset management.
The Grants and Projects application facilitates comprehensive oversight of grant and project data across entire grant periods, regardless of the fiscal year. It supports SSA Fiscal Agent Management, allowing fiscal agents to efficiently handle budget amendments and reimbursement requests from SSA members. This application accommodates grants and projects that operate outside the LEA’s fiscal year or involve external grantees, providing robust tools for managing budgets, reporting, and payment reimbursements.
This integrated suite empowers business managers to maintain accurate records, ensure compliance, and optimize financial and operational workflows.
Enhancing Efficiency and Precision for Human Resources
Human Resources professionals benefit from a comprehensive suite of applications that simplify workforce management and enhance operational efficiency. The Payroll application streamlines payroll processing with tools such as employee calendars, automated pay rate and deduction calculations, and leave balance tracking. It supports multiple pay concepts and frequencies, ensuring reliable and accurate paycheck processing. Built-in TRS processing and payroll simulations further enhance accuracy and predictability.
The Personnel application provides practical employee lifecycle management, offering an intuitive interface for entering, updating, and viewing employee data. HR teams can effortlessly retrieve certifications, salary verifications, and generate essential reports, ensuring quick access to critical information.
Position Management supports workforce oversight by guiding HR departments through processes such as filling, changing, vacating, or separating positions. The application also includes forecasting features, helping organizations plan for next year’s budget and benefits with confidence.
Together with Purchasing, EmployeePortal, and CareerPortal, these applications provide a seamless and integrated approach to managing HR tasks, empowering teams to focus on what matters most—supporting employees and driving organizational success.
Empower Your School with ParentPortal
ParentPortal simplifies communication and enhances engagement between schools and families with an intuitive design and robust features. Parents and guardians can seamlessly manage student information with paperless enrollment, registration, and student data updates, including custom forms. They can access electronic report cards and progress reports anytime, dive into detailed assignment grades for better insight into student performance, and review both detailed and summary attendance records. The platform provides timely attendance and grade alerts, along with easy access to immunization, discipline, and assessment data, ensuring families stay informed about every aspect of their child’s education. With full Spanish language support, ParentPortal ensures accessibility for all families, making it easy to connect, track, and support student success.
Health Management Tools for School Nurses
ASCENDER provides nurses with efficient tools to manage and monitor student health information seamlessly. Nurses can enter and track students’ immunizations and vaccinations, with the ability to generate reports identifying those missing required immunizations. The Nurse’s Log streamlines daily entry of student health information, while health-related letters can be quickly generated for parent communication. Specialized features, including spinal and acanthosis mass screening pages, as well as vision, hearing, and tuberculosis screening tools, simplify data entry and save time. Integration with ParentPortal ensures parents stay informed about their child’s immunization records, fostering collaboration between schools and families for student health and well-being.
Empowering Technology Administrators with Control and Flexibility
Technology administrators leverage District Admin and Security Administration applications to effectively manage user access and maintain system security within the ASCENDER platform. The District Admin application enables administrators to create, edit, and delete users, assigning tailored roles and permissions to align with district-specific needs. Each user can be assigned one or more roles, pay frequencies, campuses, and warehouses, allowing districts to customize workflows for approvals and other processes while maintaining flexibility and control.
The Security Administration application further enhances management by providing robust tools to oversee roles and users within ASCENDER. Roles can be assigned to groups with shared job duties or tailored for individuals with specialized responsibilities. Role-based and user-level security ensures an efficient new user setup while maintaining confident control over system access. Comprehensive audit logs and inquiry tools offer valuable insights into user activity, enhancing transparency and accountability. Together, these applications empower technology administrators to maintain secure, streamlined operations across the district.
Comprehensive School Management Tools for School Leaders
Administrators rely on a suite of applications to efficiently manage critical aspects of campus and district operations. The Attendance application provides principals and stakeholders with real-time tracking of attendance percentages for each campus, enabling data-driven decisions to support student engagement and compliance.
The Discipline application simplifies the management of discipline incidents, including those required for TSDS submissions. Integration with TeacherPortal allows teachers to submit referrals, ensuring administrators are promptly informed. The application also integrates with ParentPortal, enabling secure sharing of discipline incidents and comments with parents. Administrator tools further enhance communication with secure notifications, while PEIMS code crosswalks ensure accurate reporting to the state.
With Grade Reporting, administrators can maintain district and campus master schedules, manage student schedules, and oversee student grades, grade averaging, and academic achievement records. These tools provide a comprehensive solution for managing and supporting academic and operational success across campuses.
Supporting School Registrars with Robust Tools
School registrars rely on powerful applications like Registration and Grade Reporting to efficiently manage student data and academic records. The Registration application serves as the foundation for creating and maintaining comprehensive student records, capturing essential information such as demographics, parent/guardian contact details, special and local program participation, Core Collection data, and more. It streamlines enrollment processes, allowing registrars to add, delete, or modify records individually or in mass. Online registration enables new student enrollment requests and the ability to accept or reject updates submitted by parents or guardians. Automated features, such as First Day Attendance Mass Activation and enrollment by Attendance Zone, save valuable time and reduce administrative workload.
The Grade Reporting application supports registrars in maintaining district and campus master schedules, managing student schedules, and tracking student grades, grade averaging, and academic achievement records. This application simplifies the generation of electronic interim progress reports (IPRs) and report cards, which can be seamlessly delivered to parents. With tools like the walk-in scheduler, transfer student management, and support for skills-based grading, registrars can efficiently manage student placement and performance tracking. Integration with TeacherPortal, ParentPortal, and StudentPortal ensures assignments and grades are accessible to all stakeholders, fostering transparency and engagement. Together, these applications empower registrars to effectively manage data and support student success.
Plan for Success with StudentPortal
StudentPortal equips students and families with the tools to plan and manage academic success with ease. The platform allows students to submit course requests for the next school year and offers optional view and edit access to graduation plans, helping families stay on track toward academic goals. Students can select alternate courses to ensure scheduling flexibility and easily track their attendance, grades, and assignments in one convenient location. With StudentPortal, academic planning and progress monitoring are simpler and more efficient than ever.