MyData Portal Help

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Using the Unsecured Site

MyData Portal is divided into an unsecured portion and a secured portion. Only authorized users are allowed to view information in the secured portion because it contains confidential student and teacher information. However, the unsecured portion contains much information such as summary data for the district and schools. These data are said to be unsecured because they do not identify individual students or teachers.

For example, anyone can view the percentage of students who passed the TAKS in the district or in a school. The unsecured portion of MyData Portal also has demographic information (under "Enrollment Data") showing the number of students in the district and in a school by gender, ethnicity, limited English proficiency (LEP) status, etc.

Explore the home page simply by following the different links and familiarizing yourself with the information. As with any new web site, the more you use it, the easier it becomes to find the information you need.

Navigation Bars

MyData Portal has two navigation bars, a light blue and a dark blue one, which are used to organize the information on the web site into main areas. The top or light blue navigation bar has site tools. The bottom or dark blue navigation bar has links that will take you to the main content areas of the site such as TAKS , Benchmark, and more.