UTIPS Solutions

Theresa Wilson from SESC sent along this information and thought that it might be useful information for this audience:

I worked on uploading SIS student data to UTIPS and kept having the file show up with problems when I checked the file in the UTIPS Admin tool. Turned out that I was saving the text file as Unicode in Notepad and it was putting some kind of invisible data in front of my first line. When I saved the same file as ANSI and checked the file in UTIPS it worked and uploaded great! Now the next big questions about the upload for me are:

1. How to remove the previous term student data without removing test data,


2. How to rearrange the information in the “class_title” column so that it makes sense for the student login (in most schools it is nice to have it say “1st Hour Math 7” instead of “TeacherName – Class Name – Period” because it alphabetizes the way the data is imported)

Please leave a comment if you have further questions or information about uploading student data to UTIPS from SIS.

Thanks, Theresa!

Did this happen to you when you first set up your UTIPS account?

"I was wondering if I can change my title. I got lazy and didn't read as carefully towards the end, and well, now I have a stupid title. It makes my site a little confusing. Is there a way to change that after the fact? If you could let me know. I would appreciate that. Thanks again."

This happens a lot. The account set up IS a little confusing. When you are normally asked for your title, you respond with what you do - Teacher, Educator, Principal... etc. The title in UTIPS should be what your students usually refer to you as - to YOU, not to your back. :)

Click the Read More! link below to learn how to change your UTIPS title.

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"When my students log on for UITPS, why are the tests listed in the middle and on the left? Does it make a difference which one they use?"

Mary E. from Washington Co.

Good question, Mary. I really don't know why the tests are listed in the two places, except for the fact that you can set up your student page to either show the test/folder structure or "tree" on the left or not. If you set it not to show the tree, then the only place the tests will be listed is in the middle of the page.

To learn how to fix it so that tests only appear in one list, click the Read More! link below.

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Have you ever heard this when your students go to take a test, "Hey, this isn't you, IS IT???" or some other remark to this effect? I know that I have.

Follow the steps below to change that default teacher image to something that is more YOU. Click the Read More! link to continue.

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Here is the latest interesting question that I have been asked about UTIPS:

"What does it mean when the folder is "red" on the teacher side of UTIPS?"

I was not sure myself, but upon further investigation, it indicated that the folder is a shared folder of tests that have been created by another user. If you have a shared folder & any tests in it, you will not be able to edit them - only the original creator of the folder and it's contents can edit or modify them.

Thanks for the question!