DOWNTIME for Odyssey
Starting Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 6:00pm CT
Ending Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 6:00am CT
To help improve overall performance of Odyssey, they will be performing database optimization tasks and routine maintenance to the Odyssey hosted site starting on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 6:00pm CT for up to 12 hours. Odyssey will not be accessible during this time.

Harrison County School District has changed to a new student information system called InformationNow (INOW). We are now accepting applications from parents and guardians for online accounts that will allow them access to their children’s attendance, grades, discipline, etc.  Simply click on the link below to display the form in Adobe Reader format.  Once the form opens, print the form, fill it out completely according to the directions on the form, sign it and return the form to any school in the district with any one of your children.  Once the signed form is approved by the school district, within a few days you will receive a welcome email with your login name, password and directions for accessing the INOW website.   

Parent Access Registration

Home Portal

Our district has chosen to use Compass Learning Odyssey®, a Web-based curriculum, to enhance your child’s educational experience.  This program is linked to the Northwest Evaluation Association’s (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) to provide individualized instruction.  The activities are designed to meet your child’s needs based on the MAP score in each tested area.

Your child will use his or her HCSD user name and password to log in.  We are requesting that all students in grades 2—8 spend at least 15 minutes of home use per day working in this program.  Summer usage will help maintain skills and prepare your child for the upcoming school year.  

Parents can now access the HCSD Student Data through a link on the INOW home page.  Once a parent clicks on the new link in INOW, they will be directed to the site and allowed to log on using their INOW logon name.  Once logged on, parents will be able to access all the same data for their children that they would normally see in INOW (schedules, attendance, grades, discipline) plus other data they cannot access in INOW (including Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) scores, MCT scores and Cafeteria balances).  More data for parents will be added in the future.

Students can now access the site using either the internal or external address.  Students will log on using the same logon name and password they use to access any desktop at school   Once a student logs in, they will see the same data that parents see (restricted of course to the single student’s data).  Students can use this access to keep up with their assignments, grades, etc. in the same way they used the old Gradebook.

The internal address for the website (http://cofapps2/harcoapps) will still function for all users accessing the site from desktops connected directly to our district network, and this address is the preferred one for internal access.  In addition, we have opened an outside address for the site (http://apps.harrison.k12.ms.us/harcoapps) that will allow access from outside the district.

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS!

Please check STUDENT RESOURCES or your high school web page for summer assignments.