1. Teacher Connect Admin Connect Best Adds Who/how are districts using & deploying Key Topics Discussion about future potential and projects

2. Teacher Connect Uses for TeacherConnect Homeroom or course reports (class lists, attendance lists, picture roster, new forms permission list) student information (demographics, attendance, grades, eFile, discipline, assignments, emergency, IEP) Report on a student (attendance, grades, report cards, grad checklist) Download fields of information to Excel Take Attendance Update demographics (email address, cell#) Do report card (marks, comments, TOPICS) Use Teacher Gradebook/Assignment Module which creates interim report cards and autoposts to school official report card Manage Textbooks (Issues, Returns) Email Students/Parents School Calendar Bulletin Board Internal Messaging * Could attach documents * Could maintain discipline incidents

3. Teacher Connect Best New Adds Email: Sender gets a copy of the email that got sent - getting that email confirms the emails were successful New Elementary Report Card module Great enhancements to assignment/gradebook features plus new ability to efile Interim Rep Cards New approved online web reporting for teachers Change to textbook - inability to assign same book out twice in the same day Huge improvements to report card narrative and topic entry (now allows for copy/paste, formatting) New grad profile print, grad checklist print, enhanced grade screen to include efiled report cards New “grant other teacher” access feature to your course/sec New tab to preview all the students you teach in one big list New Safety Plan flag and efolder New thumbnail checkbox New inside view student

4. TC Usage Can’t know how many are using it. Can only comment on student assignments & Features RETSD – Using all schools for attendance, class lists NO OTHER Seven Oaks – Many schools, basics, Westk P/T Interviews, major email communication, starting textbook, no assignments Mystery Lake – Many schools, Campbell River – Many schools, textbooks, assignments: 485 SD22 - Many schools, elem report card, textbooks, Assignments: 991 Course/Secs (100+teachers), up to 95 assignments in one course/section! SD83 - Many schools, some assignments: 60 Course/Sections defined Delta - Lots of training and working with schools, using in most schools, textbook, assignment: 1358 course/sections (150+ teachers)

5. Considerations Training.. How to get teachers using all of the features.. Longterm strategy for growth! Updating them on features, again thinking about more than the one time slam-bang thank you mam! This is a tool for Elementary Teachers and High School. For sure this should receive equal success at Elementary School Level!

6. Teacher Connect Customer Statements 5 pilot schools using Elementary Report card and all schools onboard for Sept 2011. In schools that have initiated teacher gradebook … Parents want to know why all of their kid’s assignments for all courses are not showing in PC.. Creating quite the peer pressure for teachers My teachers love it

7. Discussion Topics Promoting using Bulletin Board … for what purposes? New Web Approval Forms … potential? What impact would this have on teachers? TIP: Print course verification summary … - go into any student … new

8. What’s Next? School Books accounts view/report on those accounts that you should be able to see Should we be considering Send Text (like send email)???? Should teachers be participating in the internal calendar (be able to add/edit) Teachers be able to edit tags Teachers be able to post their own web forms for approval? Add symbols &He/&She for narrative so if used, upon save the system will automatically resolve as appropriate for that student.

9. Admin Connect Uses for AdminConnect Reports (class lists, attendance lists, picture roster, new forms permission list) student information (demographics, attendance, grades, eFile, discipline, assignments, emergency, IEP) student information (Print attachments) for students who are no longer registered at your school Report on a student (attendance, grades, report cards, grad checklist, assignments) Download fields of information to Excel Attach documents (incident reports, IEP, Legal) and online form approval docs Update demographics (email address, cell#) Maintain discipline/student incidents Email Students/Parents/teachers School Calendar - Edit, View, Print Bulletin Board Internal Messaging to Teachers

10. Admin Connect Best New Adds Email: enhanced selections including by bus route, by tag. New attach document button. CAREFUL - all students, big attachment.. Email services may NOT be able to handle this Formatting in incident narrative is now allowed. Easier to copy/paste and leave spacing etc. New web form browse and attach New calendar types and selections/colours to enhance use for internal and external use New access to AdminConnect by TAG (to allow access to only certain students, eg: FNS) Elementary Report Card and checklist by homeroom (or kid) Ability to students that have been yours (no longer registered at your school) and students that will be yours next year.

11. Fact?! AdminConnect for secretaries, Administrators, Resource Teachers, Counsellors, anyone else? Should be signing in everyday!!! AdminConnect should be active alongside regular CIMS and should become your viewing tool!

12. What’s Next? Online Approval/Admin Signature on Report Cards? (Elem and High School) … or do we just need to add signatures to last page for printed and efiled copies? Walk In Scheduling ‘P’ SCH.410 Where are these students … these two things should mean counsellors could go Web Only! Do we need more numbers/statistics on the dashboard (enrollment? Students currently failing? Incidents to date?) Add Last Parent and Student Signon Dates to view so you are aware if there has been online access Be able to edit tag information from within AdminConnect? ** allow if student is taking courses at your location **HUGE! Re-do Email: Fill the prompts into STU.525 or something - that way PC won’t die with large mailouts as iseries will be doing it AND can then take advantage of batch and one email per person as STU.525 pays attention to sending to an email addr only once.