Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Parents, guardians and public school students can access grades, attendance information and more through the Campus Mobile Portal app, the first in a series of fully-integrated, easy-to-use mobile learning tools.

The new Campus Mobile Portal is available for free from the App StoreSM. Once the app has been installed on an Apple iOS device (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad), parents and students can access grades, attendance and schedule information virtually anywhere.

The Mobile Portal offers several functions:

• Daily Planner lets students to know exactly when and where they need to be and to see the assignments coming up in each of their classes.
• Assignments provides detailed information about what students are, were or will be expected to do in each class.
• Attendance provides summary and detailed information about absences and tardies.
• Grades provides immediate access to the important metrics of success and allows parents and students to “drill down” to the assignments that make up a particular grade.
• Notifications, once enabled by the district, allows parent and student subscribers to receive notifications regarding changes to assignments, grades and attendance according to their individual notification preferences.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky awarded a contract to Infinite Campus Inc. in December 2006 to provide and manage the student information system for the state’s 174 public school districts and schools. In the Kentucky Student Information System, student data is managed through a centralized database, providing real-time information to those who are authorized to view it. The Web-based system allows authorized users to access grade books, lesson plans and Individual Education Plans and manage student transfers, grade promotions and more from almost any workstation with Internet access.

Infinite Campus also offers new features without additional cost as part of the existing contract, including the Campus Mobile Portal.

For more information, call (502) 564-2015 or email lisa.gross@education.ky.gov.