1. Coursework Completion System (CWCS) Jan Haven Susan Rose-Adametz Sarita Jha

2. Outline 1)How Far We Have Come 2)Right Here, Right Now 3)Where We Are Going 4)Moving for The Customer 5)Building the Momentum 2

3. Purpose of CWCS CWCS (Coursework Completion System:  An extension of the Individual Student Enrollment System (ISES) CWCS intended to capture:  data on all K3 –12 students  The courses a student takes (using standard codes)  The teacher(s) teaching the course and  Other characteristics of the section and course 3

4. So…? Learned lessons from previous roll-outs Got the right people with the right background around the table Gave districts a voice Closed the communication gap Executed a plan Reflected and revised 4

5. CWCS Phase 1 (SY2010-11) Pilot I and II: January/February (8-10) districts Dry run training with pilot districts First collection period March – May 2011 for –first quarter, semester, trimester Second collection period May - August 2011 –second or third quarter, semester, trimester –annual 2010-11 course data 5

6. Known Issues In a course/teacher file there were extra spaces after the former last name. The CSV files does not contain 03, 04, 05 records and file returns Success. A user friendly error is not thrown back to the screen, if no schools are present in XML file first quarter, semester, trimester. Wrong message is thrown if a WSN is deleted from WSLS which is being used in CWCS. In student file there were extra space after WSN, and it did not return a friendly message. Blank space in the list screens. 6

7. File Upload (Bad File ) "01","03-24-2011 11:25:13 CST","00001","CW1", "0001" "02","0020","WCT","2011","2T" "06","EOF" 02-16-2011 11:47:44 CST 00002 CW1 0001 7

8. File Upload (Good File ) “01”,”02-10-2011 13:00:05 ST”,”00001”,“CW1”,“0001” “02”,”0002”,”WCT”,”2011”,”1S” “03”,”ALG206B”,”S”,”NA”,”N”,”N”, ”B”,”N” “04”,”02069B”,”ALGEBRABILING206B”,”N”,”NA”,”NA”,”NA” ”05”,”ST”,”000009”,”BROWN”,”” “06”,”EOF” 8

9. <!DOCTYPE CWCS_TRANS SYSTEM "TR_CWCSWCT.DTD"> 03-29-2011 15:53:29 CDT 00001 CW1 0001 0160 WCT 2011 1S 25195 S N NA N 22E01G 01 Homeroom N NA ST 065886 Wagner 9 File Upload (Good File)

10. Issues Resolved Recently Expanded High School and College Credit Earned Values –Valid values are.0,.125,.166,.167,.25,.333,.375,.5,.625,.666,.667,.75 and.875 Last Name and Former Last Name combination with DPI Educator File Number Making Record Type dropdown consistent on all screens Results screen comes up fine on Firefox now Business rule SC14 is now thrown during school validation and lock process Districts should now be able to acknowledge warning SC40 and lock their district 10

11. Training for CWCS Success

12. Training 12 14 total workshops March 3 rd to present 12 three and one half hour on-site workshops -528 on-site participants -from Administrative Assistants to District Administrators 2 Webinar trainings held by DPI staff -97 webinar participants Trainings on deck -CESA 5 and 2R Charter Schools

13. 2 Webinar trainings held by DPI staff -97 webinar participants Trainings on deck -CESA 5 and 2R Charter Schools 13

14. Support Working For You DPI Help Desk Customer Support for Questions and User Issues 14

15. CWCS Landing Page – User Friendly 15

16. Training –Recorded Web Conferences –Posted Presentations –Web Tutorials – in the future –User Guide 16

17. Progress Report Right Here, Right Now

18. 18 Progress

19. 19 Progress

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21. Locking Down 21 Locked defined as: −Performed when all the data for that school/district has been submitted, validated and found to be error free −Number of schools locked: 110 −Number of districts locked: 13/442 (2.94%)

22. School Course Enrollment Report 22

23. Teacher Workload 23

24. Section Review Report 24

25. We Are Listening… Application Development: Putting the Pieces In Place Example –Emergency Fix: a. An emergency fix is being implemented today to support HTML formatting for report viewing in Firefox 3.x. b. An emergency fix is being implemented to correct an issue with teacher last names. These errors were created by the system pulling suffix (Jr., Sr., Dr., etc.) information in the last name field. This fix will go into effect next Monday, March 21. 25

26. Communication

27. Weekly Communications Since January 28,2011 to March 25, 2011 Now Bi-weekly and As Needed

28. WSLS – ISES – Discipline – CWCS Collection Windows WSLS CWCS CW 1 CWCS CW 3 ISES CD/YE Phase 1 - School Year 2010 - 2011 Phase 2 - School Year 2011 - 2012 ongoing 3/14–5/23 CWCS CW 2 Summer School (NA) 9/16 8/1–10/17 10/1–11/30 CWCS CW 1 6/1–8/31 8/1–11/30 Discipline 3 rd Friday ISES CC 1/15–4/30

29. Process Check CW1 data collection closes on May 23 rd, 2011 Suggested Benchmarks for week of April 11 th : (Completed or participated in trainings) Completed district course mapping process to Wisconsin Course Codes (NCES) Uploaded the latest version of SIS software Extracted section/course/teacher data file(s) from SIS system Uploaded section/course/teacher data file(s) to DPI CWCS If completed section/course/teacher file have uploaded successfully aim for: Extracted section/student/completion data file(s) for upload from SIS Uploaded student data file(s) to DPI CWCS 29

30. Next Steps: CWCS Phase 2 (SY2011-12) Planning sessions beginning mid April 2011 with modification regarding –optional data fields to required –NCES prior to secondary course codes –teacher role –eliminate PI-1215 Course Offerings Report 30

31. Our Customers

32. The Customer CWCS Focus: –A customer-centric approach; a dedication of the entire team with a commitment to the user –Everyone matters in the delivery of product and service with CWCS 32

33. The Customer 33 Dr. Evers’s Quotable Quotes from our Customers: “Knowing you are willing to support me.” “Assurance from DPI staff to assist districts!” “The help being offered and knowing we need help. The willingness to work with the vendors and people entering CWCS. The handouts are great.” “The three presenters today did a great job. Keep putting these kinds of people out to lead us!” “I love the idea of connecting new users with more seasoned users so they can be mentored.” “The opportunity to ask questions and network.” “Keep the communication coming in all forms…the more frequently I read, view or participate…the more I get it!” "

34. TOGETHER as a TEAM we WILL make the difference for ALL LEARNERS across Wisconsin! ONWARD! Thank You! 34