We have been informed by our vendor that the issue impacting grading interfaces and site slowness has been resolved.
We sincerely apologize for the delay and issue or intrigue it caused.
Our teacher teams will work today and tomorrow morning to put us back on our expected turnaround time for assignments.
We thank you for your patience, and especially those that sent encouraging emails!
We are experiencing issues related to our grading interfaces, site slowness, and site timeouts. All available staff is working on a resolution with our vendor, but, we have no ETA on a solution.
We sincerely apologize about the issue.
We will email when it is resolved.
The MTDA website will be down for maintenance Saturday, June 23rd from 8 am – noon.
Thank you,
MTDA
All grades, except for a handful of incomplete enrollments, are available now in GeniusSIS. Below is a link to the tutorials in the site facilitator handbooks on running grade reports on your students:
http://mtda.link/finalgrades
If you have any questions, please contact our support desk, support@montanadigitalacademy.org!
Proctoring Information
Students in many MTDA original credit courses are required to take final exams in a proctored, secure exam environment.
Rationale: Per the request of both MTDA teachers and participating school district administrators and teachers, MTDA will ask local districts to create a proctored environment for class finals should that be necessary in specific MTDA courses. You can see a list of exams that require proctoring starting April 13, 2018 on this page: PUBLIC Link.
Procedures for proctored exams:
- MTDA will offer student finals during their final exam period, scheduled for May 21-23, 2018.
- NEW this semester, expected exam time frame will be included with passcodes and other exam instructions.
- Proctor exams must be monitored by an adult (for example, a counselor, teacher, administrator or paraprofessional) named by the local site facilitator or school. We have created a document with “best practices” for test proctors (see below). It may not be proctored by a parent or another student.
- The designated proctor must supervise the student for the entire duration of the final exam.
- All proctored exams are passcode protected. The passcodes will be sent to the primary contact from each school, and that person should distribute passcodes to the designated proctors the week of May 7, 2018. It is the responsibility of the local site facilitator to share appropriate passcodes with designated proctors. Passcodes are to remain secure, and shared only with appropriate school personnel.
- Proctored exams mean that students have access to no other materials during the exam, including notes, textbooks, translators or other course materials. Some courses ask for additional factors as noted on the digital passcode sheet.
- Designated proctors must also monitor students to make sure that additional browser windows are not open and that electronic devices like cell phones, iPads, tablet PCs, etc are not being used during the exam.
- No finals will be available before May 21, 2018, with the exception of prior arrangements made for early exiting seniors. All final exams must be completed by May 23, 2018. There will be a makeup day for exams on May 24-25, 2018 for students with verifiable medical excuses only.
** Spring Tests Only: As in past semesters, some AP courses will require earlier final examinations based on the AP exam schedule for students. **
Finals Proctoring Information Best Practices
Please print this document for sharing with your named proctored linked HERE.
Please direct questions about proctoring to Christen Cole, MTDA Instructional Registrar, christen.cole@montanadigitalacademy.org, 406-203-1812. Thank you for your cooperation.
An update: MTDA systems appear to be up and functioning as normal. The total outage was less than an hour. We are investigating the cause of the issue along with our vendor.
If you are still experiencing issues, please contact the help desk, support@montanadigitalacademy.org.
Good morning from the MTDA offices. Moodle, the primary location for all MTDA classes, is currently down with a reported “fatal error.” MTDA staff is aware of the problem and we are currently working on a solution with our partner. Please check back in this space for updates.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Montana Digital Academy offices will be closed on Monday, February 19, 2018 for Presidents’ Day. No teacher services are available on that day and the help desk will not be monitored.
Reminder: Enrollment will remain open for high school original credit classes until the end of business today, January 26, 2018, with the exception of classes that fill. At this point, we have room in the vast majority of courses! Enroll away!
The Spring 2018 initial course request deadline has passed and we have sectioned off courses and assigned teachers.
Enrollment remains open for Spring 2018 with remaining course capacity open for your students.
The vast majority of our courses have additional capacity for enrollment.You can see an always-updated list of available courses by clicking
here.
For the handful of courses that have hit enrollment caps, that course will no longer appear for enrollment in GeniusSIS. We don’t have a means of keeping a waitlist, however, we will process any drop we receive at 9:59 am each weekday so that you can check for open slots at 10:00 am each morning, first come, first served.
Please don’t hesitate to contact our staff if you have any questions!
Enrollment will remain open for high school original credit classes until January 26, 2018, with the exception of classes that fill. At this point, we have room in the vast majority of courses! Enroll away!