Parent & Student Technology Orientation

  • FACTS Student Information System
  • Google Workspace for Education
  • DIS Network

Dear DIS Parent & Student: The DIS Department of Information Technology is ready to help you during your program of studies at DIS. Below is a list of IT resources that will help you while pursuing your studies at DIS.

 

Quick reference

FACTS Student Information System
FACTS SIS Provides DIS families with the information they need. The system automates the seamless flow of information between school administrators, teachers, and parents through state-of-the-art solutions that provide convenience and efficiency.

FACTS Family Portal gives families and students access to Health information, Attendance, Gradebook, Report card and other important information.

 

Google Workspace for Education
Google Workspace for Education is used by over 120 million students and educators around the world. These tools help educators and students communicate, collaborate, and manage classrooms. Google Workspace also has built-in accessibility features to support students with diverse needs and learning styles, which helps create more inclusive classrooms.

DIS Network
DIS students have a secure internet access through wireless high speed internet connection that helps them browse the internet safely and access the local learning resources.

FACTS Student Information System

FACTS Family Portal gives families and students access to Health information, Attendance, Gradebook, Report card and much more important information.

  • How to create account and log into FACTS Family Portal?

All parents and students can create FACTS Family portal account using the personal email that registered in the FACTS SIS by following the below steps

  1. Go DIS website daisegy.com , click on login menu, then click on FACTS students & Parents login
  2. In Sign in page, click on Create Account
  3. Enter your personal email that registered in the FACTS SIS and click on CREATE ACCOUNT
  4. The message indicate that an email sent to you, check your email box
  5. You will receive email message from FACTS SIS Customer support, open it
  6. Open the message and click on Register to create your Family Portal account
  7. A new page will open to Write a username, password and confirm the password (ensure that the password entered meet the password requirement on the right), then go down to select the security questions and answer them, then click on save.
  8. A message will appear to choose between PASSKEY or Multi-factor authentication, the passkey method will use your device security method or your preferred pin, the multi-factor authentication method will send a verification code to your email or authentication app to be entered each time to sign in to family portal.
  9. When you choose to use Multi-factor authentication the below message appear to choose between Authentication app or Email code to receive the verification code, to receive the verification code by email, click on use email code.
  10. You will receive email message with one-time verification code.
  11. Enter the one-time verification code and click submit.
  12. The Sign In page appears to enter the username and password that you created, and click on Sign In.
  13. The Family Portal home page will appear, including announcement, events and calendar in the middle of the page and navigation menu the left side of the page, feel free to navigate through.
    • How to Reset your FACTS Family Portal account password?

    In case of forgotten username or password, you can reset it by following the below steps:

    1. Go to Family Portal login page (refer to the step 1 in previous section) and click on Next then click on Forgot Username

    2. Enter your username or email, you will receive email message from FACTS SIS with a link to recover your account, follow the instruction to create a new password.

Google Workspace for Education

Google workspace for education makes collaboration easier, streamline instruction, and keeps our learning environment secure.

  • How to get Google workspace student account information?

In order to make the student account info available for parent and student at any time, the account info has been placed in FACTS Family Portal to make it easy to access; follow the below steps

1- Log into FACTS Family Portal (refer to previous section if you don’t have an account)

2- In the left side navigation bar, click on family and family home, then select the student name from the family members drop down menu, the student’s information will appear, you will find the student email address in front of Email address title and the email password in front of ID Number: school:

Student’s email address is student (first name) (dot) (student id) @daisegy.com

Student’s password is student First name followed by 4 digits (in some cases 5 digit)

3- Write down the account info to use later when needed to sign into google workspace account.

  • How to log into Google workspace?

To log into google workspace, you can simply go to google.com and click on sign in button and enter the student full email address (student FirstName.StudentID@daisegy.com), click next, enter the account password and click next (you can find the student email address and password in FACTS Family Portal).

Or go to DIS website www.daisegy.com , click on login menu, then click on Google workspace login.

The sign in page will appear with school domain prewritten in email field, here you have to enter the student email first part (FirstName.StudentID) without @daisegy.com as it written already for you.

  • How to navigate between Google Apps

After you have successfully logged into google workspace, you will have the right to navigate and access other google apps like Gmail, Drive, Classroom, etc…

To navigate and use Google Apps, click on the Dots menu in upper right side and click on the needed app to open it, for example (Classroom)

Google Classroom

Students do not need to ask for class code or invitation to join the classroom. After the integration between FACTS SIS and Google workspace, DIS student will find his/her classrooms for the current academic year without the need to join.

DIS Network

DIS students have a secure internet access through wireless high speed internet connection, that helps them browse the internet safely and access the local eLearning resources.

WIFI Access

WIFI network Name SSID is: DIS-Student

Password: Ask the school stage supervisor to provide you with the WIFI password.

local E-Learning resources

DIS Students can access local eLearning resources that are hosted in the school data center through wireless network. Students will find more eLearning resources including eBooks and software utilities.

To use DIS local eLearning resources:

  • Open internet browser that you prefer
  • Write in the address bar http://courses/ and click enter, then feel free to browse and download the resources needed