Save the Date!

Below are the dates for the Spring Focus Group meetings.  All meetings will have registration beginning at 9:30 and the meeting will run from 10:00 – 12:00. We will send out a registration email sometime in early April.

• Wednesday, May 6, 2015 – Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12
• Friday, May 8, 2015 – Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit #19
• Tuesday, May 12, 2015 – Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22
• Wednesday, May 13, 2015 – State College (Ramada Conference Center)
• Thursday, May 21, 2015– Midwestern Intermediate Unit #4
• Wednesday, May 27, 2015 – Allegheny Intermediate Unit #3
• Thursday, May 28, 2015 – Intermediate Unit #1

IEPWriter Enhancements

Below is a list of enhancements that we will be making for the 2015-2016 school year and which will be previewed at the Spring Focus Group meetings.

• Progress Monitoring module re-written so that it is now part of IEPWriter and has the same look and feel
• Ability to enter multiple accommodations to the 504 service agreement
• Have the dates of the 504 accommodations and other items default to the start and end dates of the agreement
• Create a report of all documents not finalized
• Have the ability to choose which columns appear on the guardian list page
• Add 504 evaluation and service agreement due dates to the dashboard
• Create report of 504 due dates
• Add middle name and suffix to student demographics page
• When a student exits 504, close all other areas (assignments, related services and compliance dates)
• Have all document signature pages print on separate page
• Add created on date, created by who, edited on date and by who fields for documents and common data areas such as students, staff, guardians and assignments
• Create IEP at a glance form along with district and print options
• Add disciplinary events to data bridge
• Allow users to better categorize custom roster reports
• Create new education path for students of regular education which will change what is required for entry
• New rich text control to better work with browsers (especially Internet Explorer)
• Adding Special Transportation billing to STaR

Upcoming Events

A/CAPA (Attendance/Child Accounting Professional Association of PA) – Hershey Hotel – 2/26 – 2/27

PDE Data Summit at the Hershey Lodge - March 23 to March 25

OnHand Schools’ EdInsight Instructional Management System

For those schools that also use this software, we are working on additional ways of sharing data between our systems.  We are passing roster information to OnHands and will be adding a way to get testing information that can be brought into forms in any rich text area (a new icon will be added for those schools to pick which data they want).  We will continue to work together to increase the amount of information shared between our two systems. Read more about OnHand Schools' EdInsight Instructional Management System at www.onhandschools.com.

In Closing…

We hope everybody is staying warm and look forward to showcasing our changes at the Spring Focus Group meetings and seeing everybody again!