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Introduction Student News VTC Welcome to the November 2009 Student VTC. Our next VTC will be Thursday, January 28, NO VTC IN DECEMBER If you have comments or suggestions for upcoming VTC’s, please them to:

News Crista

News Upcoming Trainings Data Mining – Basic and Advanced – NEW ESD101 Lab –Basic December 2, :00 to 12:00 –Advanced December 2, 20091:00 to 3:00 or –Basic December 3, 20099:00 to 12:00 –Advanced December 3, 20091:00 to 3:00 The expectation for Advanced attendees is that you have been to the Basic Training or you are already fluent in Data Mining

News Upcoming Trainings Health Records – NEW ESD101 Lab –December 8, :00 to 3:00 This training will cover basic Health records entry, in addition to more advance features such as entering IHP’s, using Student Indicators, and tracking Office Visits

News Upcoming Trainings Security Cleanup – NEW ESD 101 Lab –December 15, :00 – 3:00 or –December 16, :00 – 3:00 This will be a working session, to create position-based security groups. Districts who already have security set up this way do not need to attend.

News Upcoming Release December Release Weekend 3:00 AM – 9:00 PM Saturday, December 5, 2009 All users must be logged out during this installation - this includes Teachers and Families as well.

Shelly

CEDARS Reminders Staff DOB Teacher Birthdates need to be entered on the Staff table for any districts not using Skyward Fiscal/HR in the Staff Table Edit the name and enter the Date Of Birth Path: Student Mngmnt/Staff/Edit Name

CEDARS Reminders School # For Entities with multiple schools attached to them, at least one school must be marked as the default. Path: Student Mngmnt/Entity/Edit/Entity School Information

CEDARS Reminders District Entry Date Reminder – When transferring a student in district or doing a Status Change, do not change the Most Recent District Entry Date Path: Student Mngmnt/Student/Entry-With tab

CEDARS Reminders Status Changes Reminder – When doing a Status Change, always use the very next day as the Entry Date, regardless of what day that is Path: Student Mngmnt/Student/Entry-With tab

CEDARS Reminders CIP Code Chart OSPI has mapped CIP Codes to State Course Codes Path:

CEDARS Reminders CIP Code Chart OSPI has mapped CIP Codes to State Course Codes Path:

CEDARS Reminders Timelines  Your data is pulled every Thursday night/early Friday morning – changes made in Skyward on Fridays are not visible in CEDARS until the following week’s pull  OSPI processes the data over the weekend  Errors are available in EDS on Monday mornings – corrections made in data are not reflected until the following week  Look for communications from OSPI if data processing is delayed

CEDARS Reminders Known Issues  Sections with multiple Meet patterns are causing errors  Free/Reduced status (Special Program code 19) causing errors if the start date is prior to the first day of school These two items are being worked on between Skyward and OSPI. You do not need to change your data to correct these error messages.  School-Wide Title I programs are not being reported through CEDARS OSPI has agreed to pull School Wide Title I data from their own database. Therefore, there is no need for schools that have school-wide programs to take any further steps. (For schools with individual students participating in Title programs, you will need to continue marking those records as you have on each student’s WA/NCLB tab on the Special Programs button.)

Juli

State Report Updates Transcript In order to show new fields on individual students, transcripts must be printed from Web Access Path: Web Access/Students/Student Profile/Grade tab/Class History – Add or Edit

State Report Updates P223 – December Release New option to show Vocational detail when printing P223 from web access Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Federal State Reporting/WA State Reporting/Reports

State Report Updates P223 – December Release New option to show Vocational detail when printing P223 from web access Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Federal State Reporting/WA State Reporting/Reports

State Report Updates P223 – December Release New option to show Vocational detail when printing P223 from web access Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Federal State Reporting/WA State Reporting/Reports

State Report Updates November 2 nd Childcount Quick Pick report created to help validate the November 2 nd Childcount Path: Student Mngmnt/Student/Reports/Quick Pick Reports/Special Ed

State Report Updates November 2 nd Childcount Quick Pick report created to help validate the November 2 nd Childcount Path: Student Mngmnt/Student/Reports/Quick Pick Reports/Special Ed

Crista

New in Skyward – Dec Release District Print Queue Districts have the option to select the number of days reports will be saved in “My Print Queue” in web access Path: Web Access/Product Setup/System Administration/ District Print Queue/Report Configuration

New in Skyward – Dec Release Auto for Locked Users Districts can turn on notifications if a user attempts to log into too many times and disables their access Path: Web Access/Product Setup/Skyward Contact Access/ Security/Product Setup/Configuration/Security Configuration

New in Skyward – Dec Release Mass Delete Emergency Contacts New utility to Mass Delete Emergency Contacts based on a Range or Processing List Path: Web Access/Student Management/Students/Emergency Contacts/Product Setup/Utilities

New in Skyward – Dec Release Mass Delete Emergency Contacts New utility to Mass Delete Emergency Contacts Path: Web Access/Student Management/Students/Emergency Contacts/Product Setup/Utilities

New in Skyward – Dec Release Attendance Reporting New Recorded Class Attendance Report available in web access only Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Office/Attendance/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Attendance Reporting New Recorded Class Attendance Report available in web access only Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Office/Attendance/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Grade Posting Report New options to allow for more exclusions on this report Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Office/Grading/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Grade Posting Report New options to allow for more exclusions on this report Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Office/Grading/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Grade Posting Report New options to allow for more exclusions on this report Path: Web Access/Student Management tab/Office/Grading/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Special Ed adding IEP’s Users will now be allowed to add more than one IEP in a single day Path: Web Access/Student Management/Student Services/Special Educations/SE Profile

New in Skyward – Dec Release Special Ed adding IEP’s Users will now be allowed to add more than one IEP in a single day Path: Web Access/Student Management/Student Services/Special Educations/SE Profile

New in Skyward – Dec Release New SBGB Report Events Master report now available for SBGB users Path: Web Access/Educator Access Plus/My Gradebook/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release New SBGB Report Events Master report now available for SBGB users Path: Web Access/Educator Access Plus/My Gradebook/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Progress Reports from SBGB SBGB users can will now have the ability to Progress Reports Path: Web Access/Educator Access Plus/My Gradebook/Reports

New in Skyward – Dec Release Family Access Language Options Families will be able to select a language for display in Family Access Path: Web Access/Student Management/Families/Family Access/Product Setup/Configuration

New in Skyward – Dec Release Family Access Language Options Families will have the ability to select a language for display on the Family Access screens Path: Family Access

New in Skyward – Dec Release Family Access Key Pad Numbers Families will now be able to view student Key Pad Numbers in Family Access Account Information Path: Family Access/Food Service

New in Skyward – Dec Release Family Access Block Student Schools will be able to block selected students from displaying in Family Access Path: Web Access/Student Management/Families/Family Access/Family Access Users

New in Skyward – Dec Release Student Access Option to automatically create Student Access logins when a student in added in the database Path: Web Access/Product Setup/Skyward Contact Access/Security/Product Setup/Configuration

New in Skyward – Dec Release Student Access Option to automatically create Student Access logins when a student in added in the database Path: Web Access/Product Setup/Skyward Contact Access/Security/Product Setup/Configuration

Shelly

Web Access Tips & Tricks Teacher Access Secondary Gradebook Users can click on link to see when grades were posted Path: Web Access/Educator Access+/My Gradebook

Web Access Tips & Tricks Teacher Access Secondary Gradebook Users can click on link to see when grades were posted Path: Web Access/Educator Access+/My Gradebook

Web Access Tips & Tricks Zoom Tool The Zoom tool in the lower right hand corner of any web access screen will allow you to enlarge or decrease the display size of any screen Path: Web Access – any screen in Internet Explorer

Web Access Tips & Tricks Zoom Tool Here is the Course Master browse screen at the default 100% view: Path: Web Access – any screen in Internet Explorer

Web Access Tips & Tricks Zoom Tool Here is the same screen zoomed to 150%: Path: Web Access – any screen in Internet Explorer

Web Access Tips & Tricks Zoom Tool Path: Web Access – login screen in Firefox Zooming in Firefox

Web Access Tips & Tricks Scheduled tasks Scheduling the Lunch Count to automatically to the Cafeteria Path: Web Access/Student Management/Educator Access+/Survey/Reporting

Web Access Tips & Tricks Scheduled tasks Scheduling the Lunch Count to automatically to the Cafeteria Path: Web Access/My Print Queue

Web Access Tips & Tricks Scheduled tasks Scheduling the Lunch Count to automatically to the Cafeteria Path: Web Access/My Print Queue/Schedule This Process

Web Access Tips & Tricks Scheduled tasks Scheduling the Lunch Count to automatically to the Cafeteria Path: Web Access/My Print Queue/Scheduled Tasks

Juli

The P210 Voc is open on the EDS website under CSRS Due Date for submission is November 23 rd, 2009 The reporting period for the P210VOC collection is defined as the first day of school in the fall of 2008 to the day before the first day of school in the fall of P210 Voc Reminder from OSPI

The 2008 – 2009 P210 is open on the EDS website The P210 will be open until Thursday, Dec 3 rd. P210 Status From OSPI

Not yet available in CEDARS Will be created once OSPI is satisfied data from ALL districts is being collected and processed correctly in CEDARS This report is NOT a requirement for Federal or State reporting P105 – Annual Oct 1 Enrollment Status From OSPI

Resources Northeast Regional Data Center Go to Click on Student Records Resources at the left side of the screen to access Student Records information –Training Materials This presentation will be posted upon completion of the VTC. –Helpful links –Calendar

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