 Last SMS Core Release August 2012:  66+ enhancements, plus 85 Ready to Go (or already gone), 7 New Features and 1 New Module  … Previous Year 135+ enhancement  … Previous Year 7 new features  15 Connect Releases AC,TC,PC,SC  115 Stu Connect enhancements  … Previous Year 45+ enhancements  Comment: We continue annually to make adjustments to the Report Card.. Hard for schools but NECESSARY – very very dangerous to go to a custom report card. Student Road Map

 6 Webinars (New Release, Scheduling, )  Forum Updates.. (great resource)   20 Adds/changes to support documents, updates to  Gradebook Training Series (3 videos)  How to for ParentConnect Video  Online Video Thoughts?  Advanced Gradebook Student Support

GOAL OF THIS SESSION  Review of the top student adds and/or changes since CIMS Conference 2012  Orange, italicized text indicates available but not released changes  Review Goals for 2013 Student Best Adds

School Office Growth  eFiling : Most customers doing - estimate storage now at 15-20Meg per Student  1,500 to 33,000 images (not including REP) … WOW!  ing : Huge amounts of  Activities : **New** but great success at ? Districts who is using???  eFile Report Cards : Confirm all districts are eFiling.. How many not printing report cards?  Gradebook : 4 Districts actively using gradebook 100,000 assignments!  Web Form/BB : 4 Districts actively using these utilities  ParentConnect/SC : Not good.. Largely under 50%  SADE (In BC) : Concern for accuracy.. From 230 to 19,300 bad records  Elementary Report Card : 2 Districts onboard, 1 Going  Analyzing the data: (.894’s, Pivot tables, ATT.520, GRD.558): Still Low Student Product Growth

 Reminder: SES.900 To search for Items Student Best Adds

Student Activities Demo/Review Usage at schools, other departments? Comments from users?!  Viewable only in AC, TC, potentially PC - not in CORE  Limitation of only ONE activity per student per day for the same activity type  Reminders: If a student is at multiple locations – all records are stamped with registered at school  Reminders: In TC any teacher teaching that student can edit any/all records for that student – even if student does not belong to that school Enhancements, Thoughts  Currently non-annual meaning entries continue to grow - district choice to start afresh each year and house the old records in the frozen libraries  Special Category Activity that would HIGHLIGHT that student to TC,AC - not sure whether activity is the right place, needs date sensitive! Student Management

 Details report STU.512 – kids and details  How many and what summaries - STU.515 Student Management Student CON DET PAR MTG SMITH, SCOTT SANTOS, JULIE 3 4 SICKET, DAVID 1 5

MANAGEMENT  STU.389 Print Student PSR Cards  Added option to PDF to student’s file (one student)  STU.255 Parent Authorization Codes  Added option to inactivate an ID so it cannot be used (delete would rebuild it every night so this blocks usage)  For security purposes do not display password IF parent has signed in and has an address on file  STU.551 Student Guardian/Emerg Contact Listing  Added option to include students scheduled in your school but not enrolled Student Best Adds

MANAGEMENT  STU.649 Update Tag/Attrib Based on Web Form  New option to update/add a tag and/or an attribute to students based on the response indicated on a specific web form  Reminder: has been rewritten - Send Message works awesome in Core and in AC, TC. Look for your own to confirm progress. Look to STU.526 Log of activity Student Best Adds

SCHEDULING  SCH.410 Course Requests  Remove “block” of attendance updates on dates owned by another school  When sending a message to the ADMIN GRP using F8 and the “admin” is defined as , then the message to them vs. sending as a Teacher Connect message  SCH.515 Print Potential Conflict Matrix  Added exclude district group so you can mark “OT” (out of timetable) courses and not have them appear Student Best Adds

SCHEDULING  SCH.570 Master Sched Tchr/Blk Enrollment Report  New report for BC Bill 22 that gives peak enrollment by teacher and block for a specified date range with a breakdown of enrollment for each day in the range  SCH.630 Remove Unscheduled Requests  Added limit to request type (Elective, Alternate, etc)  Added report and report only function so you know what will be/was deleted  Did significant work with SCH.551 catalogue so you would not have to maintain a 2nd time in Word, Publishing package!  Scheduling Flowchart is your BEST FRIEND Student Best Adds

GRADING  GRD.572 MB Grad Requirement Status Report  GRD.573 BC Grad Requirement Status Report  If student has GRA tag but is short credits then indicate with a message on the report  GRD.559 Print Stus with Specific Comment Codes  New report of students with a specific comment code and/or having no comment code. Great for finding who is missing performance indicators!! Student Best Adds

GRADING  TCH.610 Copy Tchr Course Assign. to New School  New option to copy all of a teacher’s assignments from another school (previous or current year) including attachments to another school. Great for when teacher changes schools!  TRA.928 Mass Drop Unfinished TRAX Course Reqs  New option mainly for BC alternate schools to drop all unfinished TRAX course requests at yearend so that they are not carried forward. Student Best Adds

STUDENT FEES  SGH.430 Student Assessment/Payment  Disallow an assessment line to be changed once payment has been made against it  SGH.535 Assessment/Payment Edit Listing  Added option to include only fees with outstanding balances  SGH.530 Student Assessment/Payment Grid List  Added “O” option only those with a balance owing (exclude credits) … had Y for balance (owing and credits) or N includes all Student Best Adds

PROJECTS ON THE LIST … Any others ??  PayPal Online Payment and integration to school fees and schoolbooks (not Kev)  Parent Teacher Interview requester … through parentconnect (details in PC session)  Online approval process for Elementary Report Card between Teacher and Admin.  Ability for Parents to edit more information (health text, call sequence order, absence reason??) Student Goals 2013