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New User Guide

Welcome to Equity Analytics. This is a guided tour of the platform for anyone just getting started:

  • Users who are new to the Mississippi accountability model
  • New training staff getting up to speed on the platform
  • First-time platform users finding their way around

You do not have to read it top to bottom. Each section links to the canonical doc for a feature, so you can either follow the tour in order or jump straight to the piece you need. The order below roughly follows how a district actually works: get your data in, set things up, read your results, then act on them.

Pick your path

This tour is ordered the way a district sets up, so the first sections are admin-only. Jump to where your role starts:

District admin: start here School user: start here Teacher: start here

Skipping ahead

Teachers and school users can skip onboarding, getting your data in, and district setup. Go to your view above, then read Understanding Impacts, Working with Individual Students, and Cross-Cutting Tools, which apply to everyone.

Getting Started: Onboarding

New districts come online through the onboarding wizard. Two checkpoints tell you where you stand:

  • Before you submit: the Status step shows a completion table (green/red badges and files-uploaded counts) so you can confirm everything is done before clicking Onboarding Complete.
  • After you submit: your district moves through importing, validating, and live. After You Submit walks through each phase and how you know which one you are in (the maintenance screen while importing, the "Verify your data" email when validation opens). For the full email sequence, see Onboarding Emails.

1. Getting Your Data In

Everything in Equity Analytics starts with your data. Scores come from your assessment vendor and your roster comes from your SIS.

2. District Setup and Tools

These are the tiles on your district page. They are where you configure how your accountability model is calculated and where you manage the data behind it.

3. The School View

A school page carries the same tiles as the district, scoped to a single school. The docs above apply; the data is just narrowed to that school.

A few differences to know:

  • The numbers reflect one school's students rather than the whole district.
  • PDF Score Cards are generated at the school level (by grade), not the district level.
  • District-only setup, like Banked Patterns and Benchmark Ranges, is configured once for the district and applies to every school.

4. The Teacher View

A teacher page focuses on one teacher's students and results.

5. Understanding Impacts

An impact is how Equity Analytics represents an accountability result, broken into the components the state adds together to produce a rating. Start with the overview and the point weights, then dig into a measure:

Related: Acceleration Metrics and Readiness Standards feed the Readiness Index.

To see every score type at once, use All Impacts. To see impacts split out by grade, use Grade Impacts. To follow a single component across years, use Historical Performance.

For the printable rating summary, see Report Cards. To compare against the state's official published results, see MDE Impacts.

Set and track targets with Impact Goals at the district, school, and teacher level, and lock them once they are final.

6. Working with Individual Students

7. Cross-Cutting Tools

These tools work across the district, school, and teacher views.

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