District Settings (Texas)

Courses listed here are courses that have been imported from your SIS, and can be marked as Dual Credit or Dual Enrollment here.

When courses are imported from the SIMS, they are compared to the State Department of Education Course Catalog and then aligned to the diploma requirements accordingly. When a student transfers in from another school, there could be a course that is not recognized by Pathways because the course code is not found in the system. This page will allow you to map the unknown course to an existing one.

In the Grade Manager and in a few of our Pathways Reports we display courses that are either “In Progress” or are “Scheduled” so the viewer knows if said courses are already in the student’s plan but are not completed. Users need to indicate which semester is the current semester and which semester is the scheduled (upcoming) semester. This will identify in the system which courses should be indicated with “In Progress” or “Scheduled”. Users can click here to check their current settings.

Email templates can be used to send messages to students and can contain customized forms to be completed and submitted by the student (or by someone else for the student). To add to or edit your district’s templates, click here for detailed instructions.

This page simply allows you to preview the list of forms that you have available to add to emails or email templates. If you would like a new form added to the list, send a request via the Support Ticket system.

All of the available Programs of Study for your state are included in the Pathways system; however, your school may not offer all options. You can choose which Programs of Study are associated with your specific school by selecting/deselecting them from the list here.

The Manage Diploma Types page will allow the school to add to the minimum requirements needed for each diploma type offered in the state. The approved diploma types in the state are listed as “Stock” diplomas. However, each one can be edited (only added to but not minimized) and customized for a school’s specific needs. Additional diploma types can be created by the school as well. Click here for detailed instructions on how to make these changes.

Just like with the selection of the available Programs of Study, you can select/deselect the individual courses that you offer at your school while still offering the Program of Study. You can review the courses from your list here.

Flags provide a way to group students across the district, and is a different method of grouping students than in caseloads. Flags are seen by all users, where caseloads are created by individual users and are only viewable by that user. For detailed instructions on how to set flag definitions, click here.

Various parts of the Personal Graduation Plan can be included or excluded from the plan, and those changes can be made on this page.

There are two methods to create users in Pathways: manually and via data import. Click here for detailed instructions on how to complete either task.

Once a user has been added to Pathways and their rights have been established, they must be given permission to access students. Users can be restricted from viewing students' information, can be granted permissions to specific cohorts or alpha groups, or to specific students only. To edit permissions for a user, click here to access that page in Pathways.

Pathways System Administrators can give certain permissions to users who are themselves NOT administrators in the Pathways system.

• “PW System Admin” users have access to do everything within the system.

• “User” (I.e., Counselor, CTE Coordinator, Guidance Secretary, etc.) can be given additional permissions as assigned by a PW System Admin.

• “View Only” users cannot be given any additional permissions other than access to view a student’s account.

For more information on this topic, click here.

Many districts follow the exact guidelines for graduation required by the State DOE; however, some districts have additional local requirements for their students. This page allows for additional electives or coursework requirements beyond the minimum for the state.

The grading scale for the Programs of Study GPA that is calculated for each student and set on this page, but you can also determine how high school courses that are taken before 9th grade will be handled. For more information on this topic, click here.