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End of Year 2018-2019/Beginning of Year 2019-2020 documentation and software versions are not yet available. You will be notified via RSS feed once updates have been released. |
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The following document will guide the user through the End of Year procedure for Franklin. |
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Do I need to be running a particular version to perform an End of Year?
Version 89.0.0 or higher is recommended.
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This should already be enabled in last year's DataCenter database if you have completed End of Year in DataCenter. |
- It is normal to see critical alerts once the End of Year process has completed. This occurs because the system's Scheduled Jobs have not yet been completed for the new database. The critical alerts will clear once the scheduled jobs have completed (typically at midnight) or you may choose to manually run Scheduled Jobs after you have completed the end of year processes.
What should I do if I am unsure how to proceed?
In the event you have any questions or are unsure how to proceed before or during this process, it is recommended that you contact your District's point of contact (POC) for this application. If the District's POC has questions or needs assistance, they should contact Support for assistance.
What is SIS?
SIS it the acronym for Student Information System. Your district may refer to it as the student enrollment system, student data system, student records system, or another term. SIS is where the student's enrollment information is stored.
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End of Year Process Details
The end of year process for Franklin will perform all of the following actions:
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Ensure you are running Franklin 79.0.0 or higher. Locate the version you are running in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
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Establish End of Year Options
- From the Admin & Maintenance tab, select System Settings.
- Locate and click on the End-of-Year tab in the window.
- Establish End of Year preferences. Then, click Ok.
- Keep Statuses for Inactive Students - Gives prior-year statuses to inactive students. Unchecking this box will cause inactive students at end-of-year time to lose prior-year statuses.
- Set Students at Provision 2 schools to Prior-Year Free - Students enrolled at Provision 2 schools are to be given a prior-year status.
Set Students at Community Eligibility Option schools to Prior-Year Free - Students enrolled at Community Eligibility Option schools are given a prior-year free status.
Warning title Set Students at Provision 2 schools to Prior-Year Free If you have at least one CEP school in your District, you must Set Students at Community Eligibility Option schools to Prior-Year Free in order to maintain the student's free status if promoted to a non-CEP school in order to apply the prior-year expiration days.
- Clear SIS Overrides - All SIS Override flags will be reset at end-of-year. Students who have data fields marked to be ignored during the Student Information System (SIS) Update, such as an address or head of household change, will have these values reset. The next SIS Update that is run will import the values currently on file in the SIS System and will no longer ignore the data values on a per student basis.
Clear Manual Special Circumstances - All manually set special circumstance flags are to be cleared at end-of-year.
Note For additional clarification in regards to Clearing Special Circumstances, click here.
Clear Automated Special Circumstances - All automatically set special circumstance flags are to be cleared at end-of-year.
Note title Clear Automatic Special Circumstances A combination of special circumstances applied with a 3rd party import file as well as SIS special circumstance imports are cleared. If you do not want SIS special circumstance to import back in from the SIS file you must make sure the scheduled tasks have been disabled in the Microsoft Task Scheduler. Failure to first disable jobs in the Task Scheduler could result in the circumstances becoming re-enabled when the Beginning of Year process is run.
- Clear Information Release - All information release flags will be reset at end-of-year. Release information is collected from online or scanned applications. If your District chooses to share information with other programs such as Medicare or Medicaid, do not clear this information.
Run End of Year Process
- From the Utilities tab, locate Advanced. Then, click End-of-Year.
A window will appear informing you an archive will be made of the current year database and will then clear information for the upcoming year's database. Review the Prior-Year Expiration Date and make changes if necessary.
Info Per-School and Per-Track Expiration Dates override the global prior-year expiration date.
- Prior-Year Expiration Date - Use the calendar tool to establish a prior-year expiration date If all the schools in your District have the same start and expiration date.
Expand title Per-School Expiration Dates i. Click the Per-School Expiration Dates button.
ii. In the New Prior-Year Expiration Dates window, a list of schools will appear. For each school that has a different prior-year expiration date from the global prior-year expiration date, click in the New Expiration Date column and establish a new expiration date.Note If you have ran run End of Year processes in Franklin last year and established expiration dates, the old date will appear in the Old Expiration Date column. You may establish new expiration dates by clicking in the appropriate cell under the New Expiration Date column. To establish the new expiration date exactly one year from the old expiration date to all affected schools, click the Automatic (+1 year) button. Then, click Ok.
Expand title Per-Track Expiration Dates i. Click the Per-Track Expiration Dates button.
ii. In the New Prior-Year Expiration Dates window, a list of tracks will appear. For each track that has a different prior-year expiration date from the global prior-year expiration date, click in the New Expiration Date column and establish a new expiration date.Note If you have ran run End of Year processes in Franklin last year and established expiration dates, the old date will appear in the Old Expiration Date column. You may establish new expiration dates by clicking in the appropriate cell under the New Expiration Date column. To establish the new expiration date exactly one year from the old expiration date to all effected tracks, click the Automatic (+1 year) button. Then, click Ok.
- When you have completed any changes, you must check the box verifying you have read the end-of-year instructions. Note that there is no undo available once these processes have completed. Click Ok.
You will see a series of processes run while End of Year attempts to complete.
Once the End of Year process has completed, a window will appear notifying you if the process was successful. Click Ok to exit the program.
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