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Introduction to e~cert

Introduction to e~cert. 26 th Annual Florida VA School Conference July 8 th – 10 th 2002. A Little VaCert History. Started in the late 80’s as a DOS application John Bates Based on the forms Converted to Windows in 93 VaNetCert e~cert : Impact Innovations. Why Make the Change?.

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Introduction to e~cert

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  1. Introduction toe~cert 26th Annual Florida VA School Conference July 8th – 10th 2002

  2. A Little VaCert History • Started in the late 80’s as a DOS application • John Bates • Based on the forms • Converted to Windows in 93 • VaNetCert • e~cert : Impact Innovations

  3. Why Make the Change? Loss of Programming Support - VaCert Modem Issues Take Advantage of New Technology Data Sharing

  4. Who’s Developing it? • School Certifying Officials [SCO] • Adjudicators [RPO] • ELR • Central Office [CO] technical staff • Impact Innovations • SAA

  5. How’s it Gonna Work • On the school’s end… • Web Portal • Supports Netscape 6, Internet Explore 5.5 • 508 Compliant • Contains validation checks • Contains Help Text • Permits users to maintain standard lists • No software updates or revisions

  6. How’s it Gonna Work cont’d • On the VA’s end… • One centralized database • Secured by VBA firewall • Protected by backup rules and recovery processes • Data extracts available for institutional use

  7. OLAF OSAP BDN school eCERT webserver eCERT server server ECAP TIMS DMZ RPO school CO firewall Internet Intranet e~cert infrastructure

  8. e~cert Highlights • Adopt - a - Student • Student benefit information • Remaining Entitlement • Delimiting Date • Fulltime Monthly Rate / Benefits received for term • Status of Certification • < 1 > No certification pending • < 2 > Cert created but not submitted to VBA • < 3 > Cert submitted to VBA • < 4 > Cert crossed over the firewall and submitted for processing • < 5 > Cert processed by ecap • < 5M > Cert sent to Adjudication • < 5A > Cert Awarded

  9. e~cert Highlights cont’d • Log entries • Filtering • Reports • Using Social Security number for ALL students • Use of school’s student number system • Use of multiple facility codes • Comprehensive flight school section • View Concurrent Enrollment information

  10. e~cert Highlights cont’d • Many Smart fields • Pre-processing of certifications • Name Your Term • Historical certification information for other institutions • RPO information requests • RPO notes and alerts • View all institutional facility codes

  11. e~cert Highlights cont’d • Create your own users with different levels of access • Chapter 31 [3X] • User defined fields • Identify who took what action • Links • Lots of Help!

  12. Development and Implementation Timeline • January 2002: Development phase of the e~cert interface • May 2002: Completion of the ‘Working Document’ • November 2002: Beta Testing begins • January 2003: System Release

  13. Q&A

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