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Best Adds – To be Discussed in other sessions

Parent Teacher InterviewerStudent ActivitiesParentConnect/StudentConnectElementary Report CardTeacher Assignments Module (for High Schools & Elementary!!)eFile and Student Images

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Best Adds – Connects MessagingSend Message … using, loving it, understanding it?

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Best Adds – Connects being a TchrUnderstanding/Using the <Course/Sec> Functions or <Homeroom>

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Best Adds – Connects Safety PlanNew SAFETY PLAN recognition

Browse/attach safety plan to efolderAdd SAF Health code in emergency screen

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Best Adds – Connects CalendaringCalendars and newest District Calendar integration ideas .. Right

into the district calendar!Current and Next YearBetter work with the Day Codes

Description: SCHOOL MTG/EVENT Include in Parent Connect : N Include in Teacher Connect: Y Include in Admin Connect : Y Incl in District Calendar :

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Best Adds – Grading Time On/OffsBuckets and Timing .. Super Important to Understand GRD.21E

(High Schools) and GRE.211 (Elem)Teacher marks are in the wrong bucket – Teacher overwrote their last report card comments … should NEVER happen!

Preparing for Report Cards = Teachers Y, parents NReport Cards Ready = Teachers L, Parents Y

What stage are we at ???School Format Description TC PC 014 R1 FIRST REPORT L N 014 R21 REPORT CARD 2 L Y

Which grading period are we in?Grade titles: T1M T2M FIN Allow Changes to Grades: N Y Y

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Best Adds – ACCESS PC,SCUnderstanding STU.324 and when to change Y/N/L Items

Send Message ** Turn off to PC over summer?Next Year – working on Homerooms ** Display h/r = N Sched=N, Grades = N but that means report selections are reduced!Next Year – Schedules ** NY Sched, Grades, Schedule = N .. Direct parents to <Folder> for Reviewing Yearend Report Cards

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Best Adds – SMSCHECKLISTAs you allow more people (Teachers), Adminconnect super users (Resource, ???), Parents, Students … AND .. As you apply more features (fees, PTI, textbook, rep cards) checklist of activities … CRITICAL

Good start is our smschecklist document and then incorporate into your own calendar of events!

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Best Adds – Student SchedulingSCH.441 – Online <Pick Courses>

New OTT (out of Timetable) district group EXCELLENT for students and for other reporting (SCH.516, SCH.592)

Setup In SCH.310

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Best Adds – Mobile ApplicationsIn last week’s releases – redid the top bar to be tablet friendly ..

Meaning will work even nicer with an Ipad or AndroidMobile Friendly thoughts ….. Not a true App … but a browser app made to work/fit on a smartphone

School Admin: to approve leaves and workshops for staffEmployees: to create an urgent sick requestSchool Admin/Teachers/????: to access a student record anywhere? To add an activity? What would you deem critical to know right there?

CredentialsAccess to what info? Could this finally take out that need for a student binder in the office???

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Best Adds – eCommerceWork with Student Fees, Bus Fees … will integrate with CIMS through ParentConnect

.. On Fees page new <PAY> which would allow user to make an online payment which would return completed information to our payment screen

Any School already doing this? This would/could replace your onsite Interac/VISA costs? Thoughts, concerns ….