Davis School District outlines myDSD upgrades, promises real‑time Canvas sync and expanded language support

At a Davis School District Board of Education workshop, Technology Director Brett Singleton and members of the district information‑technology team presented usage data and a roadmap for myDSD, the district’s parent and student portal, and told the board they plan to implement real‑time syncing with Canvas and expand language and security features.

The presentation matters because myDSD is heavily used by families and students and the district said delays in syncing grades between Canvas and myDSD have caused confusion. "Our student information system ... is customized to the programs we use and we feel like it's really awesome and effective for us and we think that myDSD is really the best parent student portal out there the money could buy," Technology Director Brett Singleton said.

Singleton said the district logged nearly 80,000 unique visitors on the last day of school and roughly 450,000 page views on that date, and that mobile devices are the primary access method—hence the district’s “mobile‑first” approach when it rewrote myDSD about a decade ago. Tyler Bradovich, the district’s Lehi analyst for the student information system, told the…