iiQ Resources is a dedicated Incident IQ module designed to manage the district’s instructional materials and automate requests associated with instructional materials.
An asset is a record in iiQ Resources that allows the district to keep track of a specific resource. iiQ Resources supports serialized, generic, and consumable assets. Each asset has an asset name. A free text field or a model name can be used as the source of the asset name. If the model is chosen as the asset name, the asset's name can’t be edited. Examples of asset names include HMH Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, HMH Biology - Student Edition 2017, Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE Color Graphing Calculator, Bright White.
A resource group includes all assets a specific department oversees (Curriculum and Special Education teams will have separate resource groups). iiQ Resources can support an unlimited number of resource groups.
An asset type describes the resource and is used for reporting and filtering purposes. Examples of asset types include calculators, workbooks, textbooks, teacher editions, novels, science kits, etc.
Inventory type describes how inventory for a specific asset type is managed. When creating an asset type, an inventory type must be defined: serialized resources, generic resources, or consumables. Below is a high-level overview of each inventory type:
Serialized resources are unique, durable goods that are managed individually. They are generally of higher value, may possess a serial number, and are repairable. Examples include microscopes, musical instruments, and electronic equipment. In iiQ Resources, each serialized resource has an individual record with information about that resource (including a unique asset tag, asset status, owner, a unique serial number (when applicable), price, date of purchase, etc.). If the district wants to keep track of all 300 microscopes individually, 300 records should be created in iiQ Resources. When checking serialized assets out to students and district employees, they will receive a unique, easily identifiable asset (either by an asset tag or a serial number). When checking a serialized asset from students and district employees, the district expects students or employees to return the specific serialized resource distributed to them previously.
Generic resources are interchangeable and managed in bulk, these assets can generally be checked in and out between users, and most of these goods are handed out or exchanged in bulk. Examples of these goods can be novels, sporting goods, or chairs. Generic resources in Incident IQ are represented by one record for each generic resource with inventory information. Generic resources will have the same asset tag that applies to all inventory of that specific generic resource. When checking generic assets out to students and district employees, there’s no indication of which one of the 500 generic resources the student or the district employee received. If the district wants to keep track of all 500 “The Catcher in the Rye” novels in bulk, only one record should be created in iiQ Resources.
Consumables are generic resources meant to be used up and not returned. Examples include workbooks, art supplies, and dissection kits (if the district wants to keep track of all 500 workbooks in bulk, only one record should be created in iiQ Resources).
A model describes an asset and can be used as an asset name. Examples of models include “Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE Color Graphing Calculator, Bright White”, “McGraw-Hill Reveal Math Integrated I, Student Edition”, and “Reveal Math Integrated I, Volume 1, Teacher Edition.”
A model category is used to group models together. For instance, all Math Integrated models can be grouped under one model category, “Math”, and all Texas Instruments calculator models can be grouped under one model category - “Calculators”. iiQ Resources has two levels of model categories: parent and child. Parent categories are used to group child categories and are the highest level of the model hierarchy. Examples of parent model categories: Textbooks (that include child categories: “Math”, “Science”, “Social Studies”), Instructional Equipment (that include child categories: “Microscopes”, “Calculators”). So for a model “McGraw-Hill Spanish II Workbook”, the parent category can be “Textbooks,” and the child category can be “Worlds Languages”.
A manufacturer is the vendor of the asset. Examples of manufacturers are HMH, McGraw-Hill, and Texas Instruments.
A due date is the date when a specific resource needs to be returned by the student or a district employee.
Example:
Resource group: Curriculum
Parent model category: Instructional Equipment
Child model category: Science Equipment
Asset type: Microscope (inventory type - serialized)
Manufacturer: AmScope
Model: AmScope B400 Series Biological Binocular Compound Microscope 40X-1000X Magnification with LED Light
Asset name: AmScope B400 Series Biological Binocular Compound Microscope 40X-1000X Magnification with LED Light