Save the Date!

Below are the dates for the Fall Focus Group meetings.  All meetings will have registration beginning at 9:30 and the meetings will run from 10:00 – 12:00. We will send out a registration email sometime in early September. Fall Focus Group meetings are where we solicit ideas for enhancements for the next school year for IEPWriter.

Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Allegheny Intermediate Unit #3: McGuffey & Sullivan Rooms
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Intermediate Unit #1: Room 119A
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Thursday, October 5, 2017
Midwestern Intermediate Unit #4: LGI 1 & 2
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Monday, October 23, 2017
Montgomery County Intermediate Unit #23: Valley Forge Rooms A, B & C
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Luzerne Intermediate Unit #18: 3rd Floor Auditorium
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Monday, October 30, 2017
Appalachia Intermediate Unit #8: Training Rooms A & B
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Thursday, November 9, 2017
Capital Area Intermediate Unit #15: Keystone Room
Registration: 9:30 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

Upcoming Events

NASDSE – 10/14/2017 – 10/17/2017

2017 PAIU Student Services Leadership Conference – 11/1/2017 – 11/3/2017

PA CEC – 11/10/2017

PETE&C – 2/11/2018 – 2/14/2018

PDE Conference – 2/25/2018 – 2/28/2018

Stop by and say hello at our booth!

Setting up the Inter LEA User function in IEPWriter

The Inter LEA user function is for when LEAs want to share students between other districts or private schools.  This will allow staff access to the most current documents and will also mean you don’t have to keep transferring the student when new documents are created.

Student resides in your version of IEPWriter –

• You will need to setup an LEA relationship with the district that wants access to the student and their documents.  Do this by going to My District – LEA Relationships.  (screenshot below)  You would choose the district and press the Create LEA Relationship button.
• The other district will need to go to each staff person that wants access to their student or students and give those users the global role of Inter LEA User.  Do this by going to Staff then choosing to edit the specific staff member and then choosing the user account tab. (screenshot below)
• You can then roster those staff members to their students.  When looking at available staff the Inter LEA Users will have a "#" next to them to indicate they are an Inter LEA User and not one of your staff members.
• When the other district staff then login they will now have whatever roster access you have given them to their students.

LEA Relationship Screenshot

Staff Screenshot

New Server Environment

In August, we migrated IEPWriter to a new environment.  We entirely upgraded our hosting environment to blade servers from Dell with a solid state drive (SSD) storage area network (SAN).  We also upgraded our databases to the latest version of SQL Server.  What does this mean to you?  This first of all means better performance and security for the system.  It also allows greater expansion for storage and for future technology.

In Closing…

We look forward to seeing everybody again in the fall and showing some of our ideas for enhancements and hearing yours.  Aside from state changes, all other changes to IEPWriter come from the Fall Focus Group meetings.