Acorn User Guide

The guide screen gives you some basic instructions, and helps guide you to what you want to accomplish with Acorn. You have three options:

Extract Data
Extract Data, will begin extracting data for all of the schools you have already setup. If you have no schools set up, then you can ignore this option.

Setup
Extract Data, will begin extracting data for all of the schools you have already setup. If you have no schools set up, then you can ignore this option.

Contact Support
Clicking this button will begin a support request on our website. This feature is only available if you have internet access from the computer you are running Acorn from.

The connections page is where you begin setting up how Acorn will connect to your school’s SIS. The connection page has three main sections:

Connections Table
The connections table will contain a list of possible connections to any of your SISes. You can have multiple connections set up to each SIS as needed.

If there are no connections listed in the table, you can create a new one by clicking the “Add” button.

If you have one or more connections listed in the table there should be an icon beside each Connection Name. This icon indicates the status of the connection.

Settings
In the Settings section we modify each of the parameters for a given connection. To modify a given connection, click on its listing in the table. This should change the information listed in the Settings section.

On every connection you will see these two parameters:

• Name: This is the name of the connection, it will appear in the Connection Table, it is only for reference and can be anything you want.
• Bridge: The Bridge parameter indicates which bridge this connection uses to connect to your SIS. Available bridges are listed in the drop-down. If there are no bridges available or the bridge for your SIS is not listed, you may need to download the bridge from the Discovery Software website ( http://www.discoverysoftware.com/support/bridges/ ), or click on the “Get New Bridge” button.

Once you choose a new bridge for your connection, a new group of parameters will appear below the Bridge parameter. These parameters and their use will be detailed in the Settings section for each Bridge.

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