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Defining Address Validation boundaries

To define boundaries, district users set up school and district boundaries in PowerSchool SMS using Google Maps [Figure 309]. After boundaries are set up, district and school users can run the PowerSchool SMS boundary validation process, which identifies student addresses as being inside or outside the defined district or school boundary.

When you define boundaries, a geographical boundary is captured within Google Maps, called an encoded polyline. The encoded polyline is made up of sets of latitude and longitude pairs that mark the boundary. When you define a boundary, the encoded polyline [Figure 310] is created and displayed on the District Setup > District Profile page and the District Setup > School Info > School Info Detail page (for schools).

When the planning calendar is created for the new school year, the Next-Year Preparation task will copy the active calendar boundaries to the planning calendar.

When the planning calendar is created for the new school year, the Next-Year Preparation task will copy the planning calendar boundaries to the next year planning calendar.

For further information about calendars and about the Next-Year Preparation task, see Next-year preparation [>>].

To define district and school boundaries:You can do this if your role is District Administrator.[DA]

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In the Admin menu, click District Setup. The District Setup page appears.

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To define a boundary:

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For the district boundary, under District, click Profile and scroll down to District Boundary Definitions .

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For the school boundaries, under Schools, click Schools. On the School Info page, click a school name. On the School Info Detail page, scroll down to School Boundary Definitions.

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Click Edit Boundary next to the Active Boundary (encoded) or Planning Boundary (encoded) . The Boundary Definition dialog appears [Figure 309]. Note: If you have a Google Maps encoded polyline from another system, enter it in Active Boundary (encoded) or Planning Boundary (encoded) and go to Step 9.

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In Map Center [Figure 309], enter the name of the city and state or province for the district or school (e.g., Seattle, WA), and then click Map Center.

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In the map in the right-hand window [Figure 309], click the area where you want the district or school boundary to begin. A point marker appears .

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To move the point marker, select it and drag it to the beginning of the district or school boundary.

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Click Add Point [Figure 309].

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The latitude and longitude for the point appear in the Point List.

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Continue adding points until you have defined the district or school boundary.

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You do not need to enter the last point for your boundary. When you click OK, the last segment of the boundary that closes the loop back to the first point of the boundary is automatically inserted.

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Click OK.

Figure 309: Boundary definitions

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Point list: - Displays the latitude and longitude for the points on the boundary.

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Add Point - Click this button to add a point marker.

Use the following buttons to navigate within the map:

Table 62: Boundary validation buttons

To	Do this
Zoom in	Click or scroll upwards with the mouse wheel.
Zoom out	Click or scroll downwards with the mouse wheel.
Move the map north	Click or click the map and drag it down.
Move the map east	Click or click the map and drag it to the right.
Move the map west	Click or click the map and drag it to the left.
Move the map south	Click or click the map and drag it up.
View a street-map	Click Map.
View a satellite image of the map	Click Satellite.

For further information about navigating in Google Maps, see the Google Maps User Guide at http://maps.google.com/support/.

Figure 310: Encoded polyline

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