Tools consists of two major components:
Textbook Tools allows you to make specific customizations for the instructional materials distributed and tracked within your district. Some changes in this area are applied district wide (campuses and the district level will see your changes within TIPWeb-IM).
Global Tools allows you to make TIPWeb-IM changes for your campus version of TIPWeb-IM. The changes you make within this area not only affects the district view but also the campuses’ TIPWeb-IM settings.
Master Titles - allows the selection and addition of new instructional materials from lists of approved materials within adoption states (as available) into the district's inventory
Material Types - allows the creation of new material types and changes to the description of existing material types
Subject Areas - allows the creation of new subject areas and changes to existing subject area information
Funding Sources - allows the creation of new funding sources and changes to existing funding source area information
Regions - allows the creation of new areas to group campuses within and changes to existing regions
Bins - allows the creation of labeled locations within the district warehouse and changes to existing bins
Charge Types - allows the creation of district wide approved charge types for minor damage to usable instructional materials district wide and changes to existing charge types
User Management - allows the creation and alteration of campus users/administrators in order to gain access to TIPWeb-IM
TIPWeb Settings - allows the establishment of district level contact and shipping information
District Preferences - allows district specific customizations of several functions available in TIPWeb-IM
Initialization - allows the approval and the establishment of a beginning inventory count for an ISBN on a campus (only available for ISBNs not currently approved for the campus)
Change ISBN - allows editing an existing title's ISBN to an ISBN not currently in use within TIPWeb-IM
Form Letter Editor - allows the creation and personalization of form letters available to be run on the campus view when communicating with students and/or parents
Closing - allows closing out an academic year/term's worth of non-essential data by removing and archiving it to the Archives
Reset Course Enrollments - allows the district to reset all course enrollments district wide (current and max)
Transfer Book-Course Relationships - allows the push of district established book-course relationship percentages down to respective campuses in order to calculate ISBN specific eligibility counts
Change Campus ID - allows editing existing campus IDs to a campus ID currently not in use (WARNING: This can affect the accessibility of the data imported daily from the district's student information system)