1 TransQUAL Online: Improving Student Transitions to Life After School Version 3.0 Employment and Disability Institute Cornell University ILR School Extension Division 201 ILR Extension Building, Garden Avenue Ithaca, New York Telephone: (607) TTY/TDD: (607) Website address: Employment and Disability Institute

2 What is TransQUAL Online? Getting a TransQUAL Online Account Team Assessment Work Plan Development Online Resources -- Links, Discussions Progress Reporting TransQUAL Online Main Menu Account Information and Settings

3 What is TransQUAL? TransQUAL Online is a tool to support school district teams as they collaboratively review and improve their practices in career development and transition. Intro: 1 of 9

4 Features of the TransQUAL Web Site Password-Protected Accounts Intro: 2 of 9

5 Collaborative Self-Assessment Features of the TransQUAL Web Site Intro: 3 of 9

6 Features of the TransQUAL Web Site Work Plan Development Intro: 4 of 9

7 Features of the TransQUAL Web Site Progress Reporting Intro: 5 of 9

8 Features of the TransQUAL Web Site Funding, Links, Sharing, and Connecting with Others Intro: 6 of 9

9 Yearly Growth of TransQUAL Teams and Plans Intro: 7 of 9

10 Numbers of school district planning teams who have saved TransQUAL Online Work Plans in New York State from January 2000 through December 2005 Intro: 8 of 9

11 TransQUAL Resources Project Maintain and Enhance the TransQUAL Web Site Provide Technical Assistance Statewide Summarize Data on the Uses of TransQUAL Continually Add New Resources for Planning Back to Menu Intro: 9 of 9

12 Click here to get a Username and Password Click here for a test drive of TransQUAL DownIoad TransQUAL documents Register: 1 of 6

13 Select the your user type Select your Transition Coordination Site region Click here to continue… Register: 2 of 6

14 Select your BOCES/NYC Region Click here to continue… BOCES/ NYC Region Register: 3 of 6

15 Select your school district Click here to continue… Register: 4 of 6

16 Click here if your team is district- wide, or… Select your school, or… Click one of these and fill in text to describe your program Register: 5 of 6

17 Click here to complete your registration Completely fill in your remaining contact information Register: 6 of 6 Back to Menu

18 Back to the start To go to Self- Assessment and Work Plan Explore Online Resources View and edit your account information Log out of TransQUAL Assess: 1 of 7

19 Step-by-step instructions View previous records Assess: 2 of 7

20 Click here to continue… Select the month and year of your meeting Assess: 3 of 7

21 Click here to continue… Type the name of a team member, select a role, or type in the “Other” box, then click on “Add new member” Assess: 4 of 7

22 Click on these links to learn more about each Topic Click here to continue Check one or more of these check boxes for your team assessment Assess: 5 of 7

23 Rate each indicator: 5 = Exemplary, can educate others about this issue 4 = Indicator evident across all situations 3 = Indicator evident across some, but not all, situations 2 = Indicator not evident, planning is underway 1 = Indicator not evident, no planning has been initiated Check here if the team wishes to create a plan to improve this indicator Assess: 6 of 7

24 “Quality” indicators represent promising practices, “Compliance” indicators represent State/Federal regulations Click here frequently to save your work during discussions Assess: 7 of 7 Back to Menu

25 Click on one of these Indicators to develop a Work Plan Plan: 1 of 7 To begin Work Plan development, click here

26 What is the need? How will this issue improve? What will be your 1-5 rating when your work is done? Information entered automatically Plan: 2 of 7

27 What will your team do, overall? Who will do what, by when? Plan: 3 of 7

28 How will this Work Plan be supported? How will your team measure success? Plan: 4 of 7

29 Create a chart to track your progress toward a goal Plan: 5 of 7

30 Click here to create an additional Work Plan Click here to view or edit an existing Work Plan Plan: 6 of 7

31 By closing your record, your team will have a printer-friendly document Plan: 7 of 7 Back to Menu

32 Select a Work Plan to review Impact: 1 of 6 To complete a Progress Report, click here

33 Information entered automatically Impact: 2 of 6

34 Indicate names and roles of your review team members Impact: 3 of 6

35 Update your team’s task completion Enter additional tasks or changes here Impact: 4 of 6

36 What worked? What didn’t work? Impact: 5 of 6

37 Impact: 5 of 6 Reflect on your measurement process Update your chart data and consider your team’s progress

38 Select a new 1-5 Rating What evidence supports your new rating? What’s next? What do you need to keep going? Click here frequently to save your work during discussions Impact: 6 of 6 Back to Menu

39 Click here to locate and communicate with other teams Search for teams by entering keywords or browse by location Help: 1 of 6

40 The Funding resources are organized by the five TransQUAL topic areas Click on these to navigate to each web site listed Help: 2 of 6

41 Links to information resources are organized by the five TransQUAL topic areas Click on these to navigate to each web site listed Help: 3 of 6

42 Click on these to post a question, reply to someone else or learn from previous discussions Help: 4 of 6

43 Download documents shared by other TransQUAL Users Help: 5 of 6

44 Work Plans that have been posted by other teams can be viewed by clicking on the titles Help: 6 of 6 Back to Menu

45 Work Plans can be moved from private to public and back to private view by selecting the date of the Work Plan and clicking the appropriate button Help: 1 of 4

46 Account Information can be edited by clicking here Help: 3 of 4

47 A contact list of other teams can be created and removed Help: 3 of 4 Messages can be sent to other contact people via the website and by by clicking on the name

48 Help: 3 of 4 Messages both received and sent can be viewed by clicking on these links

49 For More Assistance: David Brewer 201 ILR Extension Employment and Disability Institute Cornell University Ithaca, NY (607) AIM: dbrew826 Online Access to Cornell Publications Help: 4 of 4 Back to Menu