H/R Best Of BEST STUDENT ENHANCEMENTS Student and WEB Release Information Customer Statements Best Adds Goals and Directions

Best of Student Student Release August enhancements, 15 new features Student Release March enhancements, 10 new features enhancements prev year Student WEB Releases Aug 2010-March WEB Parent/Student Connect features 90+ WEB Teacher Connect features 10+ WEB Admin Connect features for student.. 39% increase in changes this year

Best of Student 2 huge years of new modules and features - customers in general are not utilizing new feature: 7 of 7 districts using TeacherConnect 5 Districts using PC but only CR and SD37 have over 10% utilization 4 of 7 districts using Teacher Gradebook 3 of 7 districts using online calendar 2 of 7 districts using Bulletin Board 3 of 7 districts using eFile to store documents 1 of 7 using new Elementary Report Card

Best of Student REMINDERS! EMS reports to a list or yourself (eg: daily attendance ATT.515 to all teachers) SES Can’t find a CIMS option! DOS Download report to a File

Best of Student BASIC Student STU.301 Basic Student Information New mandatory original entry code and description that is completed on ADD and same day changes Added Synrevoice call/ selection options New concept of safety plan indication if SAF is used as a health code Updated address validation to ensure single, proper addresses are maintained for contacts IMG.301S Display Student Images New option to see history of all images on-file for a student and view them without having to login to Admin Connect Accessible if student is yours or takes courses at your school STU.552 Student e-Filed Images Report New school report of e-filed images added in a date range based on categories. Also points out any missing images, i.e. logged in file but image is not in folder. STU.830 Mass Delete e-Filed Images New option to mass remove images filed, i.e. you filed report cards but weren’t ready yet OR you found a huge error and want them gone while you correct it

Best of Student Basic Student STU.376 Cumulative File Insert Allow access for former, current and now FUTURE (based on next year line) students Allow multiple records for the same year for students going in & out STU.557 Parent Connect History Report New report to indicate what parents have not signed in, what parents have signed in and how many times STU.890 Student Picture Roster New option to run whole school with sort selection (homeroom, class or alpha) STU.996 School Class/Register Total Report Adjusted class subtotals and order on homeroom sort to be alpha with all classes not just first 5

Best of Student New Feature STU.325 Maintain WEB Bulletin Board Msgs New option to maintain bulletin board messages with date controls for admin, teacher, parent and/or student connects STU.901 Mass Delete Bulletin Board Msgs New option to mass delete “expired” bulletin board messages to keep history clean. For repeat messages (parent teacher interviews, etc) change dates to next timeframe to show first so that they do not get removed in the delete STU.328 Maintain WEB Form Information New option to maintain authorized form records for PC and/or SC which can be responded to online Allows display/edit of responses for manual info that comes in STU.558 WEB Form Permissions Report New report to identify details of responses for a form … indicates who should have responded and what their response was A summary of responses is indicated at the bottom

Best of Student SCHEDULING SCH.101 Scheduling Options Once Sept. 1 st has passed schools can no longer change their term dates for the current school year. Make sure to check/confirm dates in August! SCH.551 Course Full Description Catalog (or.pdf if you EMS.900) New report to print a full description catalog (based on SCH.310/317 info) in a visually appealing format with a variety of sort and selection options SCH.590 Course Verification Worksheets Link courses will now show with their course breakdowns

Best of Student ATTENDANCE ATT.515 Print Student Absence Information Print detail “O” option which includes the details same as Y but without the grand total summary page at the end SYN802 Nightly Synrevoice Download Uses new phone and selections in student to indicate if phone number is included, excluded and/or what address is included if any ATT.518 Print Student Attendance ALL YEARS Huge new option to print multi year attendance details for a single student that attended your school in the current school year (registration line)

Best of Student GRADING GRD.201 – Grade Titles New flags to control which grade titles will appear in TC grade and which they can upload to. All the “normal” buckets should always be available but only the current term’s should allow upload. GRD.211/GRD.511 Report Cards Changed how “B” alternate symbol print works … allow selection in GRD.211 under the grade title of how to translate failing marks F = prints F letter grade I = prints I letter grade O = override percentage with I and print no letter grade Reminder: GRD.511 use Sort ‘1’ by Custom not by Student in order to include report cards for all students not enrolled in your school ***

Best of Student TEXTBOOKS TXB.520 Textbook Issues/Outstanding List Added ability to statements to guardians with addresses. Textbook Issues/Returns – ALL OPTIONS Disallows a textbook to be re-issued to another student on the same date as a previous issue, i.e. book X is issued to Jane Doe today and then returned later that same day. You cannot then issue that same book out to John Smith today.

Best of Student ASSESSMENT SGH.103 Cash Code Maintenance Added option to mark which cash codes get posted to school books. Use this with codes like RFD (refund cash) or RFC (refund cheque) so that cash receipt postings will not affect school books incorrectly SGH.905 Fee Course Definition Report Added option to print of all master schedule not just fee courses to verify if courses that should have fees are “missing” their fee codes.

Best of Student ADMIN CONNECT Access can be restricted to students with a tag, i.e. user signs in and is presented with a list of only students with that tag School calendar allows include/exclude of specific calendar types for view and print Enhanced schedule print to allow term selection Added course assignment summary so office/admin can see by teacher/course how students are doing on their assignments Enhanced STUDENT LIST ALL SCHOOL view previously allowed view for current & previous students … now allows view for incoming students (based on next year line) Added elementary report card options Added ability to attach a document to a web form for parents/students to respond to online

Best of Student PARENT/STUDENT CONNECT Bulletin board launches as main screen … has personal alerts (per student) as to last day absent, fees owing, last report card e-filed, overdue assignments, parent interview times and last course change date PLUS school messages New Acceptable use authorization (AUA) process … if an authorization statement is found and the parent has not agreed to it then the document will appear forcing them to agree else they cannot get into PC Grades tab allows view of teachers’ e-filed assignment and/or interim report cards Added WEB forms with response options Added graduation profiles and checklists

Best of Student TEACHER CONNECT Sub access restricted to student list and attendance access. No reports, tabs or view inside student details Sub access has new display pictures checkbox to compare names to faces when doing attendance Added WEB forms permission report so teachers can report on their own approval forms (homeroom or course/section) New ‘all my students’ tab to list all teacher’s students in a single list to select from instead of having to into a course Grades/Schedule Added transcript print All course request verification form from within a student in pick courses Improved narrative and topic input to listen to line breaks and allow copy/paste from Word Added graduation profile prin

Best of Student TEACHER CONNECT Attendance Added all years attendance report from within a student Messaging Automatically s a copy of the message to the teacher Assignments New marks spreadsheet to allow multiple assignments to be marked for multiple students on one screen New print option on course summary to allow only a range of assignments by task#/assignment# Elementary Report Cards New options for elementary schools to maintain “marks”, progress, comments, etc for students Allow edit marks and comments for an entire subject (all students) on one screen Added mark and comment summary by homeroom so teachers don’t have to print out report cards to review information

Goals Goals and Statements for 2012 Provide more webinars to review features and learn more about features Use Camtashia to create online training snippets to fit into our Web Update to new Web programming tools and Visual Studio provide a better enduser experience We believe that training and product growth is an issue. Learning to work more efficiently, using CIMS Connects, promoting online are important. Is your district committed to CIMS training/discussion?

Goals Programming Goals for 2012 Enhance Gradebook to accommodate for strands Exploit Elementary Report Card to customers Provide walk in scheduling on Web - Counsellors will then be Web only! Blackberry Student Lookup web app? Parent Teacher Scheduling in PC?