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Latest Enhancements to Student Management Suite

Learn about the latest enhancements to the Student Management Suite and how they can benefit your district.

Latest Enhancements to School Business Suite - Finance

Learn about the latest enhancements to the finance area of our School Business Suite and how they can benefit your district.

It’s All About ME? It’s All About MEssages!

Oak Ridge Schools, Tennessee

Learn how Oak Ridge Schools are taking advantage of the several options Skyward has available to teachers when it comes to

communicating with students both during and after the school day. See how teachers can utilize Family Access Message Board and its email feature to attach PowerPoints and lesson handouts along with using Online Assignments as a tool for test review, homework or even assessments. These features augment teacher to family communication.

AESOP & Skyward Interface Workshop: Save Hours of

Data Entry and Increase Accuracy

Join David Faith, Integrations Specialist at Frontline Technologies, and Shelly Miller, Certified Aesop Administrator at Canyons School District (UT) for a practical workshop on best practices for using Aesop and Skyward. Through the interface, users of Skyward and Aesop, the most widely used automated substitute placement and absence management system, benefit from the automatic sharing of employee leave, sub pay, and absence information between the systems. The interface helps districts save hours of dual data entry and increase accuracy.

Planning Process for a Single Database

Looking to merge and run off one single database for your entire district? Learn more on the planning and implementation process to take advantage of this unique option only available to Skyward customers.

Workflow

See the latest when it comes to customizing your district’s workflow processes with Skyward. Lean how to set up step-by-step processes, assign shortcuts that jump you directly to the area of work, and add notifications on each workflow item.

Latest Enhancements to the School Business Suite -

Human Resources

Learn about the latest enhancements to the human resources area of our School Business Suite and how they can benefit your district.

Benefits of Upgrading to OpenEdge 10.2B (Advanced)

We will discuss Skyward’s upgrade to OpenEdge 10.2B and discuss the benefits of running Skyward in a true 64 bit environment.

Employee Surveys

Rapid City Area Schools, South Dakota

Tired of trying to track down employees to complete necessary paperwork? This session will demonstrate a new option in Employee Access that allows districts to collect information from their employees electronically.

Scheduling - Best Practices (Advanced)

Learn more about the best practices to meet your scheduling needs, including new features.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

WEDNESDAY SESSION 2 3:30 - 4:30 pm

WEDNESDAY SESSION 1 2:15 - 3:15 pm

Sessions and times are subject to change

One-on-One Help Room

Again this year, sign up for the chance to sit one-on-one with a member of the Skyward team. Sessions are limited so sign up today as part of your registration.

New this year!

Administrator Boot Camp

Special 3-session interactive series for administrators that will ensure you are getting the most out of your Student

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THURSDAY, MARCH 8

Latest Enhancements to Student Management Suite

Learn about the latest enhancements to the Student Management Suite and how they can benefit your district.

Data Warehouse for Business Suite (Advanced)

Data Warehouse is successfully deployed for our Student Management Suite and this session will cover the latest

improvements that support data from the School Business Suite.

Looking at the Big Picture: Peripheral Products That Will

Help You Maximize Use of Your Skyward Software

STAi

This session will discuss many different applications and technologies that schools are using for their staff and students. This includes our Skyward integrated ID badging software, time clocks for TrueTime (clock in an out for employee management), Food Service, Activity Fees and other applications for building security and control. Woodland Schools (IL) will present specific ways they use some of these solutions in their district.

Special Education (Advanced)

This session will cover the latest changes in Special Education and recommendations on how to use Skyward in your district for all your special education needs.

Highly Qualified and Out-of-Field Reporting

St Lucie Schools, Florida

Learn how to maximize highly qualified and out-of-field reporting efficiencies through the integration of Skyward’s Student Management Suite and School Business Suite as a solution to this time-consuming task. A variety of options will be discussed designed to help you become more efficient in your day to day business practices in order to meet DOE survey reporting requirements.

WEDNESDAY SESSION 3 4:45 - 5:45 pm

Online Registration (Advanced)

Ensuring family information is current is an ongoing challenge. Learn more on using the online registration tool to verify existing family information.

Advanced SQL Options for Data Access (Advanced)

Looking to learn more about how to access your Skyward data? This session with cover tips and tricks and open discussion for advanced users.

Operational Tools: TrueTime, FastTrack, and More

The School Business Suite offers numerous options to improve your operational efficiencies. This session will cover an assortment of options that can help your district.

Automating Student Record Processing and Eliminating

Inefficient Paper-based Processes

Advanced Processing and Imaging

Join our session to see how St. Lucie County Schools expedites student record processes with Advanced Processing & Imaging’s Electronic Document Management Solution, OptiView. Through OptiView’s seamless integration with Skyward Solutions, St. Lucie is able to boost productivity, decrease costs, securely store records electronically and heighten employee, parent and student satisfaction. Thanks to OptiView’s simple and powerful search capability, processing a request for a record takes only minutes. Additionally, with the recipient’s permission, records stored in OptiView or Skyward can be e-mailed, saving the time and cost of mailing.

Creating Custom Transcripts

Oak Ridge Schools, Tennessee

Participants will be shown how to create a professional-looking custom transcript that will allow students to be more favorably reviewed by college admission boards.

THURSDAY SESSION 1 9:15 - 10:15 am

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Learning Management Suite

See the latest changes to curriculum mapping, lesson plans, and scorecards as Skyward expands its solution to meet your needs in a learning management system.

Advanced Tools for Online Assignments (Advanced)

Geared for districts currently using online assignments, this session will cover advanced capabilities for assignment creation, use of district-defined assessments, and more.

Employee Management - Key Features You May Not be

Using (Advanced)

Managing positions, assignments, and personnel can be complex and ever-changing. This session will cover those not-so -familiar options that can make your job easier and improve your employee management utilization.

Advanced Scanning Technology for Fixed Assets

Inventory (BMI)

BMI, along with DeSoto County Schools, will be demonstrating the very latest scanning technology for the fixed assets inventory that interfaces to the Skyward Fixed Asset Module. Inventory procedures, Barcode Tags and Radio Frequency Tags will be discussed in detail.

Practical Deployment of a Data Warehouse Initiative

LeHigh Career & Technical Institute, Pennsylvania

Attendees will learn how to be better equipped when it comes to creating a cohesive approach to meeting the data needs of their district’s personnel. Determine the right tools for the job, how to achieve total buy-in of your deployment, and decide what access levels you want to provide your users with.

THURSDAY SESSION 2 10:25 - 11:25 am

Teacher/Student Scorecards

A new analysis tool for monitoring performance measure of both teachers and students. Includes custom layouts and

components to meet your district’s specific needs.

SMS 2.0 - Now and the Future! (Advanced)

Web performance is critical to moving from PaC to a 100% Skyward web environment. In this session we will discuss the benefits of running Skyward on a single server, database tune-ups, and best practices to improve the speed of your Skyward products.

Update on the Web - School Business Suite

See the latest update on the web version of our School Business Suite including how you can begin using it right now.

Crystal Reports - New Features/Installation

This session will demonstrate new features/changes/installation of Crystal Reports 2011 and Business Objects Enterprise. Current Crystal Reports/Enterprise customers will be shown how to get the updates from Skyward.

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Administrator Boot Camp (1 of 3)

This special three-session series will focus on all the tools available for administrators within the Student Management Suite including general functionality, data analysis and reporting, communication, and cost savings options.

SkyCoder and SkyBuild (Advanced)

SkyCoder and SkyBuild are unique options to customize the solution to meet your needs. Find out more about these options and how you can go back and implement at your district.

School Based Activity Accounting

Learn more about School Based Activity Accounting, including new features that support multiple funds, purchase orders, and more.

Paperless Registration - The Future of Online Enrollment

SRC Solutions

Imagine not having to do any data entry into Skyward? Come see how it happens at our breakout session with the Wilkes-Barre Area School District who has been using Registration Gateway for four years. Learn how the Registration Gateway saved time, eliminated data entry, money and improved the student enrollment process for parents and administrators.

Skyward Server Management Options

Skyward & Minnetonka Public Schools, Minnesota

Session includes an overview of Managed Services and OpenEdge Management and how these server management options can make server management simple. James Rohwer will include his real life experience using OpenEdge

Management to manage Skyward at a district of nearly 9,000 students.

THURSDAY SESSION 4 1:15 - 2:15 pm

Administrator Boot Camp (2 of 3)

Standards GradeBook for Secondary Schools (Advanced)

This interactive session will cover best practices for

implementing the Standards GradeBook in high schools and will cover common hurdles impacting the use at the secondary level such as GPA, class rank, and others.

Advanced Federal Reporting and Data Analysis Review

(Advanced)

This advanced session will cover all the intricacies of various federal reporting needs in Skyward’s School Business Suite.

Online Enrollment and Registration is a SNAP!

infosnap & Dr. Brenda Duhon of Port Neches Groves ISD, TX

Are you still registering new students on paper forms? How about that packet you send home every year to continuing students' families to update their information? Is your student health and emergency contact information in your database current and accurate? Come see how Port Neches – Groves ISD (TX) partnered with infosnap, the leading provider of customized online Re/Registration forms for Pre K-12 public schools, to create a custom, online enrollment solution with Skyward integration. A Skyward team member will be on hand to demonstrate how the Skybuild module allows a seamless transfer of data between these two solutions.

Online Assignments

Geneseo CUSD, Illinois

Want to reduce or eliminate the need of scanned sheets for assignments and save on paper and printing expenses? This is the session for you. View a demonstration of the features and benefits of Online Assignments, including: setup, teacher training, and student use. Attendees will also learn about the auto score and post feature which reduces teacher errors and decreases the time between when students take a test and when the grade is entered.

THURSDAY SESSION 5 2:25 - 3:25 pm

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Administrator Boot Camp (3 of 3)

Workflow

See the latest when it comes to customizing your district’s workflow processes with Skyward. Learn how to set up step-by-step processes, assign shortcuts that jump you directly to the area of work, and add notifications on each workflow item.

Data Warehouse for Business Suite

Data Warehouse is successfully deployed for your Student Management Suite and this session will cover the latest

improvements that support data from the School Business Suite.

SMS 2.0 - Now and the Future! (Advanced)

Web performance is critical to moving from PaC to a 100% Skyward web environment. In this session we will discuss the benefits of running Skyward on a single server, database tune-ups, and best practices to improve the speed of your Skyward products.

Transitioning to Electronic Applications: It’s Easier Than

You Think!

Clovis School District, New Mexico

Transitioning from a paper application system to an electronic application system using the FastTrack program is easier than it may sound! This session will help anyone involved in the hiring process make a smoother transition to an electronic system. Attendees will learn from “School of Hard Knocks” lessons in order to help them plan and implement transitional plans.

THURSDAY SESSION 6 3:35 - 4:35 pm

Student Round Table (Advanced)

An open discussion on Skyward’s Student Management Suite.

Skyward: ‘The Way Forward’ - A Best Practices

Implementation Case Study

Leon County School District, Florida

This session will discuss strategies, best practices and lessons learned by the Leon County School District during the planning and implementation of the Skyward School Business Suite. Project manager, Johnny Nash, of Leon County will discuss topics related to project governance, project management, fit gap sessions, organizational change movement and more.

Attendees will leave with a greater understanding of the necessity to internally organize around project management fundamentals to ensure the successful implementation of the Skyward School Business Suite.

Human Resources Round Table (Advanced)

An open discussion on the human resources area of Skyward’s School Business Suite.

Finance Round Table (Advanced)

An open discussion on the finance area of Skyward’s School Business Suite.

Online Registration

Eanes Independent School District, Texas

This session is intended to educate capus and district administrators, board members, and campus registrars of the cost and time saving benefits of moving a paper registration process to Skyward’s Online Registration module. Attendees will leave the session having gained knowledge in the following areas: Online Registration set-up, communication to families of upcoming dates, deadlines, information, receiving and

processing data at the campus level, and more!

FRIDAY SESSION 1 8:00 - 9:00 am

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GradeBook - Next Stage (Advanced)

Looking to expand the use of Skyward’s Gradebook module? Switching from traditional to standards based grading? Learn techniques that have been successful in other districts tackling these objectives.

Steering Committee Presidents Round Table

Special round table discussion for Steering Committee presidents only. Share ideas and learn from your peers.

Operational Tools: TrueTime, FastTrack, and More

The School Business Suite offers numerous options to improve your operational efficiencies. This session will cover an assortment of options that can help your district.

Advanced SQL/ODBC Configuration (Advanced)

We will cover all aspects of ODBC including why you may need ODBC. In this session you will learn all the steps required to configure ODBC for a skyward database. We will also discuss ODBC security, creating and testing ODBC connections, and scheduling ODBC tools such like Update Statistics and DBTool using Monolith 2.

District Assessment Creating/Analysis - Secondary

GradeBook

Consolidated High School District 230, Illinois

With the standardization of assessments in some districts, having students’ classroom test results in your database can assist all members of the Professional Learning Communities to improve the students learning experience. This session

demonstrates a new Skyward feature that imports state, federal, and local standards, attaches curriculum, creates assessments, attaches benchmarks to questions, attaches assessments to assignments, and much more!

FRIDAY SESSION 2 9:15 - 10:15 am

Building Powerful Assessments

There are numerous options for creating and sharing assessments, including district assessments with standards analysis. This session will cover how to create, share, and evaluate electronic assessments through Skyward.

Employee Survey and Registration Tool

Learn about the latest tool added to Employee Access that provides an extremely flexible tool for gathering information.

Online Payments with Skyward Family Access and

RevTrak

Find out how RevTrak can save your staff and families valuable time by allowing parents to pay for school meals and fees through Skyward Family Access and RevTrak. We will demonstrate how other Skyward districts are taking electronic payments, and discuss strategies for how your district can implement this technology.

Integrating the Classroom with Home

Minnetonka Public Schools, Minnesota

Minnetonka School District has expanded their use of family and student access over multiple year projects to help engage teachers, students, and families into the classroom. See how the district is utilizing Family and Student Access to deliver

assessments, standards-based grading, and real-time communication. Learn how the district is planning to expand access through mobile solutions and the next steps for delivering information to families.