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Welcome to Student News 1:00 – 1:50 (call in 12:45) Please MUTE your microphones!. Make sure your K20 contact registers your district for the next month’s VTC. We will not be taking roll call, so please email a list of VTC attendees at your site to: stucoord@esd101.net.
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Welcome to Student News1:00 – 1:50 (call in 12:45)Please MUTE your microphones! • Make sure your K20 contact registers your district for the next month’s VTC. • We will not be taking roll call, so please email a list of VTC attendees at your site to: stucoord@esd101.net
IntroductionStudent News VTC • Welcome to the Sept 2011 Student VTC. • If you have comments or suggestions for VTC topics, please email them to: • stucoord@esd101.net
Director’s Discussion
WELCOME! • New Student Records Districts • Nine Mile Falls • Sprague • Lamont • NEWESD 101 Special Education Cooperative
Discussion Topics • NERDC Notes • Release Schedule Change • Security Changes • New Modules • SMS Mobile • SkyPort • CEDARS • All Districts have 2011/12 EMS Plans • Texas announcement
Service Level Agreement • Agreement between WSIPC and NERDC, and NERDC and districts. • Severity Levels: Medium, High, Critical • Response Times • Critical: 30 minutes during Normal Support Hours, 1 hour during After Hours • High: 1 hour during Normal Support Hours NERDC and WSIPC shall work extended hours in order to resolve a Critical incident. Extended work hours require that district staff who originated the incident remain available and participate in the resolution.
March 11 – 13 Bellevue, WA • Registration opens October 24, 2011 • 2012 Registration Fees remain the same as 2011 • Shooting Star Award • Nominations due by January 15, 2012 • Fill the bus to Bellevue? • November 15 deadline • Email tcolliver@esd101.net if interested www.waswug2012.org
Contact Information Tim Colliver, Director NorthEast Regional Data Center Phone: (509) 789-3584 Cell/Afterhours Critical Support: (509) 999-7183 Email: tcolliver@esd101.net Department: (509) 456-2718
News What's Happening
NewsUpcoming Workshops Sept 28th 2011 – Food Service VTC, 1:00 – 2:00 • 30 Day Expiration Process • Application Verification Process Oct 2011 - Grading trainings – Grading and Transcript in Web Access • Email announcements sent to District Contacts on 9/20/2011 CEDARS Overview – Monday, October 24 • Session to be held at NEWESD 101 and broadcast on K20
News Upcoming Releases • 2012 School Year Release Schedule • All systems will be down from 3:00 AM – 9:00 PM on these designated Saturdays: • November 5, 2011 • March 3, 2012 • July 14, 2012 • Please inform all users accordingly – including families and teachers
Scheduling Tab Changes
Scheduling Tab Changes Check the Prompt for Effective Date box to specify a date for the Schedule changes
P223 Reminders
P223 Reminders • Students withdrawn on Count Day in elementary schools (or secondary not based on schedules) will still be included in the count • Students withdrawn on Count Day from secondary schools based on Schedules will not be included in the count because they no longer have a schedule • Students enrolled at 0% are not included in your Counts at all – i.e. Full-Time Running Start, Students receiving only Special Ed services • If verifying numbers against rosters, look for students without a schedule by running the Free Period report in Current Scheduling
Security Changes
Security Changes This screen shows the NERDC recommendations for all districts.
Security Changes NERDC Recommendations: Number of Special Characters: 1 or more Minimum Password Length: 6 or more Number of Passwords Before Reuse: 2 or more Number of Days Until Password Expires: 180 or less Maximum Login Attempts Before Lock: 5 or less Other items not mentioned are optional
Security ChangesFamily Access for Employees and Secured Users This user is logged in to All Areas from the login screen. Notice for an Employee Access and Family Access user thatthe Famliy Access button is not at the top of the screen. Instead, the link is located at the bottom of the screen!
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