Student Alerts

Student alerts are important bits of information about a student that are represented by an icon next to the student's name on student pages. These icons alert users to information they should know about a student.

Create the following types of alerts for students:

• Medical alerts  can inform users about a student’s medical condition.
• Legal alerts can inform users about certain legal situations they should be aware of.
• Other alerts can inform users about any other important information staff members should know about a student. When you create an Other alert, you select the icon you want to appear. For example, you might create an Other alert to let users know that a student has a change in transportation this week, and use the Transportation Alert icon .

  Notes: The system contains over 150 icons you can use to represent Other alerts. You must add these icons to the Alert Icons reference table to make them available. The Alert Icons reference table is also where you enter the description that becomes the icon's hover text.

The following alert icons are standard Aspen icons and appear next to a student's name, if your district defines them to:

• Quick Status alerts  can be used to quickly view where a student currently is in the school, based on their schedule.
• Education Plan alerts, such as a 504 Plan alert , appear if a student has an active education plan. Your district can select which alert appears for which education plan.
• IEP alerts are used to indicate that a student has an IEP.

• Cross-Enrollment alerts indicate that a student is taking classes or receiving services at more than one school.
• Daily Absence alerts indicate that a student has been marked absent for all or part of a day.
• At-Risk alerts let you identify students whose success at school might be at risk.