Aeries Academy

Aeries Academy is an opportunity to improve your skills in Aeries. Self-paced online learning and certification courses to prepare for job roles that use Aeries SIS.

Aeries Academy general courses offer focused, self-paced courses that have been created for school site (administrators, teachers and office staff), and district office roles that use Aeries for a wide variety of job tasks.

Courses are strands of Modules that have been combined based on common school or district job roles. Academy participants who enroll in a course will be certified as an Expert, Proficient or Novice Aeries user on the course content.

These courses are a great training tool for users new to Aeries, for those that are changing job roles that will require new Aeries skill sets, or to certify user skill level in certain areas of Aeries functionality.

Learn by using Aeries Sandbox to practice (with user account)

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Elementary School Management

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The Aeries Elementary School Management Certification includes seven modules that cover a wide range of topics related to the management of Elementary School applications: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, Daily Attendance, Discipline, Standards Based Grade Reporting, Scheduling, and Query. This course will address attendance, grade reporting, and scheduling for both Elementary and Elementary with Master Schedule school formats. This course is attended for Elementary Office Managers, School Secretaries, Clerical or similar positions.

Secondary School Management

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The Aeries Secondary School Management Certification includes eight modules that cover a wide range of topics related to the management of Secondary School applications: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, Period Attendance, Discipline, Secondary Grade Reporting, Scheduling, Student Success Tools and Query. This course is attended for Registrars, School Secretaries, Clerical or similar positions.

Secondary Counseling Applications

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The Aeries Secondary Counseling Applications Certification includes six Modules: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, Discipline and Scheduling. This course is intended for Counselors, Registrars, Assistant Principals and other secondary school site staff, as well as district level student support service roles.

Attendance

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The Aeries Attendance Certification includes three Modules: Basic Overview, Student Data, and Attendance. This course is intended for district staff who oversee Attendance Accounting procedures, as well as school level staff who typically use Aeries on a daily or weekly basis for accessing student information and managing Attendance data. Both daily and period attendance reporting are addressed in this course.

Scheduling

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The Aeries Scheduling Certification includes three Modules: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, and Student Scheduling. This course is intended for school level staff who manage student placement and scheduling, including those who build or maintain the school's master schedule, assign students to classes, and/or manage student schedule changes.

Discipline

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The Aeries Discipline Certification includes three Modules: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, and Discipline. This course is intended for school level staff who typically use Aeries on a daily or weekly basis for accessing student information and managing Discipline data.

Data Management

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The Aeries Data Management Certification includes five Modules: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, Query, Testing and Assessment, and Data Management. The course is intended for district Aeries users who manage CALPADS, importing and exporting of data, and district testing and assessment coordination.

Student Health and Wellness

Student Health & Wellness

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The Aeries Student Health & Wellness Certification includes three Modules: Fundamentals of Aeries, Student Data, and Student Health & Wellness. This course is intended for school level staff who typically use Aeries on a daily or weekly basis for managing student medical data including daily health needs, health history, immunizations, screenings such as vision, hearing and physicaals. This module also covers ways to monitor self-reported student wellness indicators.

Fundamental of Aeries for Teachers

Fundamentals of Aeries for Teachers

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The Fundamentals of Aeries is a one-module course designed to be an overview of how to use Aeries Web. Course participants will learn how to use the Navigation tree, search for students, gain a basic understanding of the forms and reports housed within the nodes and branches, and how to access a variety of Aeries support resources.

Teacher Portal Fundamentals

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This Teacher Academy course provides a general overview to the Aeries Teacher Portal including how to navigate around the portal and access demographic and other information for students in your classes.

Teacher Academy - Elementary Attendance

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This Teacher Academy course will provide all of the ins and outs of submitting elementary school attendance and managing seating charts in the Aeries Teacher Portal.

Teacher Academy - Secondary Attendance

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This Teacher Academy course will provide all of the ins and outs of submitting secondary (middle and high) school attendance and managing seating charts in the Aeries Teacher Portal.

Teacher Academy - Elementary Gradebook

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The Aeries Elementary Gradebook module will take you through the basics of creating a gradebook, configuring options, building student rosters, adding assignments, and entering and managing student scores for elementary teachers. Specific topics covered include: • How to create new Aeries Gradebooks • Setting up Gradebook options including rubric grading, categories, and display options • Defining the final marks for your grading scale • Creating assignments and associating standards to assignments • Using the Scores by Class, Scores by Assignments, Scores by Student and Scores by Standard pages to enter and manage student scores • Generating Aeries Gradebook reports to demonstrate information about individual students or about your class as a whole

Teacher Academy - Secondary Gradebook

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The Aeries Secondary Gradebook module will take you through the basics of creating a gradebooks for each of your class sections, configuring options, building student rosters, adding assignments, and entering and managing student scores. Specific topics covered include: • How to create new Aeries Gradebooks • Linking gradebooks to streamline the management of similar gradebooks • Setting up Gradebook options including defining weighting and categories, and display options • Defining the final marks for your grading scale • Adding assignments into your gradebooks • Using the Scores by Class, Scores by Assignments, and Scores by Student pages to enter and manage student scores • Generating Aeries Gradebook reports to demonstrate information about individual students or about your class as a whole