Below is the list of required and recommended actions for Iowa districts to complete related to the myIGDIs, FastBridge and Panorama Student Success systems, as the school year comes to a close. This article is intended for end of year use and there is some overlap with the Iowa Back to School Checklist for Schools.
Important Dates:
See the full list of EOY/rollover tasks below the table
May 12-June 6 (tentative) |
Select your district's default assessments for the next school year in CASA. Jump to more info... |
May (TBA) |
Select FastBridge rollover date. Jump to more info... |
After last day of school year |
Before your district's selected FastBridge rollover date, export FastBridge reports not available after rollover, as needed. (optional) Jump to more info... |
June 15 |
Deadline to complete the form for purchase of FastBridge Math and Behavior for grades K-6 and/or Reading, Math and Behavior for 7-12th. Jump to more info... |
June 20-22 | Early FastBridge rollover date. Not recommended as a rollover date so should rarely be selected. Students and rosters will likely not populate until later in July. |
July 1st (or after) | Set student information system (SIF agent) to send 25-26 school year data after all state SRI tasks have been completed. |
TBA | Reports become limited (frozen) in Panorama Student Success and will not resume updating until Student Success rollover is complete. This includes student progress monitoring reporting. |
TBA Year round schools |
Review and mark all interventions in Panorama Student Success as Completed before this date. Delete any static or smart groups not needed for next school year. Jump to more info... |
TBA Year round schools |
Tentative Panorama Student Success rollover to 2025-26 school year. It may take a few weeks for rosters to populate for the new school year and requires that the district's student information system send 25-26 data. Jump to more info... |
July 25-27 | Default FastBridge rollover date, for districts that did not select a rollover date. Students and rosters will not populate until several days after the district's student information system and SIF agent is rolled forward to send 2025-26 enrollment and schedule information. |
August 1-23rd | Opportunity to review and correct your district's default assessments for the school year. Jump to more info... |
TBA All schools, except year round |
Review and mark all interventions in Panorama Student Success as Completed before this date. Delete any static or smart groups not needed for next school year. Jump to more info... |
TBA All schools, except year round |
Tentative Panorama Student Success rollover to 2025-26 school year. It may take a few weeks for rosters to populate for the new school year and requires that the district's student information system send 25-26 data. |
August 22-24 | Late FastBridge rollover date for districts that selected it. Students and rosters will not populate until several days after the district's student information system and SIF agent is rolled forward to send 2025-26 enrollment and schedule information. |
General EOY
Action Required (Building Principal and Superintendent): Team Discussions and Default Assessments Selections
- Team discussions - We recommend working with your administrative team now to discuss your default assessments for the next year and to coordinate a plan for timely completion of this task. If any changes in administration is expected over the summer, please be sure to make those changes in the School Information Update application in EdPortal.
- Default assessment selection - Tentative timelines this year will allow districts to select their default literacy selection May 12-June and select math default assessment (from reviewed/approved assessments) and review and make changes to literacy selection (if needed) August 1-15th.
Action Required: Report Changes for Next Year
Report changes on the following:
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Changing student information system (SIS)
If your district is changing student information systems (SIS) for the next school year, please submit a support ticket in FastBridge, Panorama Student Success, or email connor.hood@iowa.gov. Communicating the intended change ASAP is recommended so we can work with you to set up the new data connection. -
Changing district email domain
If your district is changing email domains, please let us know via a support ticket in FastBridge, Panorama Student Success, or email connor.hood@iowa.gov. We can walk you through the steps to ensure access to the system and resources during the transition. Changing email domains can break user permissions and rosters and must be planned carefully. -
Changing building and/or grade configurations
If you are changing building and/or grade configurations, etc. please make sure that you enter the changes ASAP in the School Information Update application under the Iowa Education Portal. Also, make sure that your building name and grade setup in your district's student information system matches the new configuration. FastBridge uses the building names to identify buildings, so spelling and format is critical.
Action Recommended: Preparing for Summer School
FastBridge
Action Suggested: Confirm District FastBridge Rollover Date
Renaissance will likely send a few different emails about this year's FastBridge rollover. In general, the ONLY instruction Iowa users should follow in those emails is to select a rollover date. Remember, Iowa is set up different from nationwide FastBridge users. If additional action steps are needed by Iowa users, we will add them in this article. Instructions you may see that do not apply to Iowa users:
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- Updating default screening windows (Iowa districts do not set their own)
- Master Account Administrators/MAAs (Iowa doesn't have those)
- Do not enable roster sync, even though it may be included in the instructions from FastBridge. Iowa does not enable district sync in FastBridge, however, you will need to work with your student information system manager to ensure that your SIF agent is set to send the new school year data and that data entry (including student schedules) has been completed for the new school year before the data will populate in FastBridge.
FastBridge District Managers: Please work with your district team to select the appropriate rollover date. Multiple submissions will override all previous submissions. The date selected will be for the whole district and should be after summer school has ended, if PM will be collected during summer school. Below are the rollover date options for this year; it would be a good idea to begin your team discussions regarding selecting a date now. If you do not select a date, your district will be rolled over on the default (primary) rollover date. No matter which rollover date is selected, your student data will not populate in FastBridge after rollover until your district's SIF agent is set to send next year's student data (not just enter it).
2025 FastBridge Rollover Dates
- June 20-22, 2025: Early Alternate rollover date
- July 25-27, 2025: Primary rollover date unless otherwise chosen
- August 22-24, 2025: Late Alternate rollover date is available as an option but is strongly discouraged for Iowa districts. If you opt for late rollover, expect that you will have NO rosters until sometime in September. If your district is considering selecting late rollover, please contact FastBridge Support.
How to select your rollover date (2024 instructions but should be similar)
In FastBridge, on the District Manager tab, you'll see the 'Action needed!' alert. Click More, select the desired district rollover date, and click Save.
Once a FAST District Manager has selected a rollover date, the notification will turn green and confirm the date selected.
Rollover Reminders
The Iowa support team will handle most of the new school year setup steps for you but here are a few quick reminders of things that you may see in FastBridge instructions that are not intended for their Iowa users.
- DO NOT upload a roster file, as may be indicated in communications from FastBridge. Iowa rosters will continue to be managed as a part of the regular automated rostering process already in place using your student information system. We will be in contact with your district to coordinate the student information system and SIF rollover process, if necessary.
- DO NOT change the screening window or screening period dates. Those will be set up for the entire state. See Iowa: Screening Windows
- DO NOT change assessment definitions. They will already be set up for each district. However, if you have prior assessment selections you would like to remove (such as earlyReading in upper grades), please use the support ticket system before the system rollover and we will help. This must be done immediately after the rollover.
- Only districts that purchase additional services directly from FastBridge may need to complete the end user license agreement. Most Iowa schools do not have a Master Account Administrator (MAA) because the FastBridge literacy assessment service was purchased by the Iowa Department of Education and/or optional K-8 math/behavior through contract with the Area Education Agency. Therefore, most districts do not have to worry about the End User License Agreement.
- For a full list of Iowa 'What NOT to change" see: A newbie (& veteran) guide to system and process differences for Iowa
- It can take a week (possibly more) for the complete rollover process and population of student data. Student data is populated using the data entry in the district's student information system, which requires the district SIF be rolled forward to send the new school year data and the enrollment and scheduling data entry for the new school year be completed. See also: Iowa: Back-to-School Checklist
Optional: Complete form for purchasing FastBridge math and behavior (K-6) or reading, math, and behavior before June 15, 2025.
Public school districts who desire access to the optional supplemental FastBridge components need to complete this form. Non-public schools need to complete this form. This is for supplemental licenses for math/behavior and 7-12th literacy, math and behavior only. All schools will continue to have access to K-6 literacy provided by the state.
The form must be completed before 6/15/2025.
For questions, please reach out to:
Kim Curry, Account Manager
Email: kim.curry@renaisance.com
Cell: 515-218-6389
Optional: Export FastBridge Reports
There are certain FastBridge reports that districts may prefer to retain, as the current year's data will not be available in report format (with graphical content) after the rollover. Those reports are listed below.
Individual student literacy, assessment and progress monitoring data/graphs will continue to be available in Iowa's MTSS data system, Student Success, after rollover and will follow students that move to another Iowa district. Nothing will need to be exported from Student Success.
FastBridge Reports Not Available After Rollover
Once rollover has occurred, the data from the previous school year will be archived and will only be accessible through some reports. See Accessing Data from Previous Years for more details.
Historical data will be available through the Data Download and as line item or summary data in some reports, but if you want to retain graphical reports with tables, graphs and color-coded scoring info, you should retain those reports by printing or saving them as a PDF before your selected rollover date.
- Screening to Intervention (S2i) Reports
- Impact Report
- Group Growth Report
- Detailed Group Report
- Individual Skills Reports
- Group Skills Report
- Family Report
Panorama Student Success
Action Suggested: Review and complete student interventions
Completing interventions and leaving notes about how a student progressed, even if a goal was not met, is a good way to ensure that the students' future teachers will have the information necessary to support them. Any notes made stay with the student's intervention so are particularly helpful for students changing building or district for the next school year. This should be completed before before Panorama Student Success is rolled forward to the new school year, which is TBD but generally around July 15th for year round schools and around August 7th for all others.
How to complete interventions
Individual (not group) Intervention Plans
- On the Students tab, select Intervention Plans from the left menu.
- Click the Actions button for the appropriate student and select Complete plan in the drop down menu.
Group Intervention Plans
Each student must be marked as Complete individually within a group plan. There is no option to mark the whole group as complete.
- On the Students tab, go to Group Plans on the left menu.
- Click on the appropriate intervention plan group.
- Click the student's name to expand the view and then click the More Actions next to that student and select Complete plan from the drop down menu.
Action Suggested: Clean up your static and smart groups
If you have any static groups that you will not need to reference next year, such as a Lunch Bunch or extracurricular group, you may want to delete them to have a clean slate for next year. If you would like to keep the groups for reference, you may want to add the school year to the title so you can tell that the group is not one that you need to reference regularly. Smart groups should continue to update once the new school year starts, but you may want to review the criteria you have set to decide if it will still be important to track next year. Learn more about managing groups here.
Log any supports you put in place for students before the end of the year
Support notes are tied to the current school year and are always available on a student's profile. If you are supporting a student in any way, such as a phone call home, you can log this support note now so that educators who visit the student's profile in the future can see what supports were provided.
Note: Although, your student data (including academics, attendance, behavior) will not be updated over the summer, you can continue to use Student Success when preparing for the new school year. To view previous year's data, you can use the year drop down in the top right corner of a page to view snapshots of data from the end of that school year.
Communication Plan
If you're a district or school leader hoping to share these recommendations with your team to ensure you and your team are able to prepare your data in Student Success for the next school year.