Learn about the new Returning Student Enrollment on SMC.

Note: Guardians and self-guardians now can fill out and submit a returning student application from within StrongMind Enrollment after being prompted in StrongMind Central.

Guardian and Self-Guardian View

Returning Student Application

Upon logging in to SMC, all guardians and self-guardian roles will see a banner that informs them that it's time to register for the next school year. This banner displays on all tabs to ensure visibility.

• Clicking on the Remind me later button will hide the banner for 7 days, and then it will reappear. There is no limit to how often this can happen within the enrollment period.

• Clicking on the Get Started! button will push the user to StrongMind Enrollments (aka what is known as Enrollment Dashboard today), allowing the user to fill out the returning application(s).

• Selecting a student on the dashboard will push the guardian/self-guardian to the first page of the returning application which is the Intent to Return page. The main purpose of this page is to understand if the student in question plans to return for the following school year.

• If Yes is selected on the first question, two additional required questions will be displayed for the user to answer to proceed to the next page.

• If No is selected on the first question, two different required questions will be displayed for the user to answer to proceed to the next page.

  • The user will be pushed to the Summary page (the application's final page) if No was selected on the Intent to Return page.

Intent To Return

The second section of the application is the Student Information section. There are two pages in this section.

• The first page asks for the student's demographics.
• The second page asks for the student's residential and mailing address.

Student Information

The third section of the application is the Contacts section. This section has at least three pages but could have more if more than one contact is present or added.

• • The first page asks for the contact's demographics.

  • The second page asks for the contact’s residential and mailing address.

  • The third page will display all the contacts that are present, allow the user to add more, and ask to identify a primary contact.

Contacts

The third section of the application is the Contacts section. This section has at least three pages but could have more if more than one contact is present or added.

• • The first page asks for the contact's demographics.

  • The second page asks for the contact’s residential and mailing address.

  • The third page will display all the contacts that are present, allow the user to add more, and ask to identify a primary contact.

Federal Information

The fourth section of the application is the Federal Information section, which has three pages.

• • The first page asks the user to complete the Household Income Survey with two questions.

  • The second page asks the user to complete the Active Military Survey (which has three questions) and the Migrant Worker Survey (which has one question).

  • The third page asks the user to complete the McKinney-Vento Act and Foster Care questions.

Enrollment Questions

The fifth section of the application is the Enrollment Questions section, which has at least one page but could have two pages.

• • The first page asks some questions related to their enrollment type and other miscellaneous enrollment aspects.

  • The second page will only display if the user selects the Concurrently option on the first page. This page asks the user to fill out the subjects and courses they are interested in taking.

Education and Career Action Plan

The sixth section of the application is the ECAP section, which is one page and will only display if the student is entering 9, 10, 11, or 12 grade.

• • The questions that are asked are related to the students plans after high school, the college or universities they are interested in going to, the careers they might be interested in pursuing and any other aspects they might want to learn more about.

Documents

The seventh section of the application is the Documents section, which has two pages.

• • The first page is related to the Proof of Residency document. This is not required.

  • The second page is related to the Immunization Record document. This is not required.

Agreements

The eighth section of the application is the Agreements section, which has four pages.

• • The first page has the Student-Parent Handbook Acknowledgement, Communication and Learning Coach Agreement.

  • The second page has the Attendance Agreement.

  • The third page has the Academic and Testing Agreement.

  • The fourth page has the Directory Information Release Authorization.

Summary

The ninth and final section of the application is the Summary section, which has one page.

• • This page displays all the sections and the information filled out allowing the user to review it all and edit if need be.

  • To submit the application, two attestations, an e-signature, and a date need to be acknowledged and checked at the bottom of the page.

Note: Once the application has been submitted, the user is pushed back to their dashboard view, and a success message displays. Also, the student card(s) will show a status of Submitted and the progress will be 100%

Additional Information

• The left navigation displays each application section for the specific student and indicates which sections are complete or incomplete.

• Every page displays a progress bar at the top of the page that helps the user understand how much they have accomplished and how much is left in their application.

• If the user clicks on the Next button on any page and there are required fields that have not been fulfilled, errors will display allowing the user to understand which fields need to be filled out in order to proceed to the next page.

• The user is able to navigate through the application in a linear fashion meaning in the chronological order of the sections and pages within those sections or they can jump around to the different sections by clicking on the section from the left navigation.