EduTech Essay
September 2018
Welcome to the Essay!
From the Director.........
The Summer of 2018 proved to be a very busy one for EduTech. We assisted our school districts in ordering hardware, software, upgraded systems, delivered goods and installed equipment.
This past year we.......
- had 26 districts participate in Computer Based Testing (CBT) for 2017-2018.
- 16,922 students participated in CBT in the EduTech Region.
- CBT exams were taken on: 6,373 Chromebooks, 234 iPads, 1,380 Desktops and 2,057 unknown devices.
- processed over $5,000,000 in product renewals for districts.
- procured over $15,000,000 in hardware for districts.
- trained teachers and staff on a variety of applications.
- added new staff for district requests in many shared staff areas such as: Data Coordinators, Instructional Technology Specialists, and Technical Services.
- deployed new PCs, Laptops, and Chromebooks in numerous districts.
- conducted data migrations for multiple districts migrating from physical to virtual machines.
- piloted and deployed a single server VMware solution in 2 districts.
- performed network core and/or switch upgrades in multiple districts.
- performed SAN/backup hardware upgrades in 3 districts.
A Faster Internet Connection
E-Rate - You may be eligible! Access your category 2 funds today!
- In October 2018, districts will be receiving email requests for 470 Information
- All Information for 470 submitted by Feb 8, 2019
- Regionally there is over $4,000,000 available!
If you are unsure if you have any remaining funds please contact your EduTech Erate Coordinators.
Kelly Buirch
315-332-7327
Andy Richardson
315-332-7401
EduTech Courier Service
The service will start up again on Wednesday, September 12th.
Computer Based Testing
The SED Fall Tour is an opportunity for SED to promote CBT to new schools and districts as well as to discuss the previous year’s CBT implementation. This year SED will also be focusing on NYSED’s response to the technical difficulties experienced during CBT ELA and also provide some details about what’s new for CBT 2019.
CBT Fall Tour Timeframes: Thursday, October 4, 2018
Morning Session: 8:30 am to 10:30 am at WNYRIC
CBT Fall Tour Timeframes: Friday, October 5, 2018
Morning Session: 8:30 am to 10:30 am at Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES
Instructional Technology Training
Mark your calendars for "Applied Digital Skills G-Suite: Prepare your Students For Life In and Out of the Classroom" by renowned Google Trainer, Eric Curts. Workshop is free to EduTech districts.
Business Operations - Purchasing
Cafeteria Systems ( Nutrikids Support)
- 54 NutriKid end of year rollovers
- 9 Server Installs
- 24 Equipment Installs
- 54 Student File Imports
- 177 Support Calls (7/1 to 8/28)
Data Warehouse/Services
Staff Evaluation Training:
We will be covering how to access your district's state approved APPR Plan, how to use sub-component scores to arrive at an overall rating & what codes to report for each. We'll also talk about how to format your data for load into Level 0 and what L2RPT reports to verify.
GVEP | LeRoy
Wed. | Sept. 12th | 8:30-11:00am
The Conference Center | WFL
Thurs. | Sept. 13th | 8:30-11:00am
Staff Evaluation Walk-In Session:
An open invitation to all data coordinators and others involved with Staff Evaluation Data Reporting - Please come in for help and Q&A provided by the Data Warehouse/Test Scoring Team.
The Conference Center | WFL
Wendesday | Sept. 19th | 8:30am-3pm
Registration Not Necessary
The Conference Center | WFL
Thursday | Sept. 20th | 8:30am-3:00pm
Registration Not Necessary
Important dates to know:
August Regents, RCT and August Graduation Data
- Applicable To: Public School Districts, Charter Schools
- Level 0 Lock Deadline is Wednesday, October 10th
- Templates Required – Demo (New Field – Career Path), Enroll, Assessment Fact
- Verification in L2RPT:SIRS-309 Annual Regents Report, SIRS-310 Annual Regents Competency Report – Entered into Level 0 by District Staff, SIRS-308 Annual Graduation & Post Graduation Plans Report
BEDS (Personnel Master File) – Teachers
- Applicable To: Public School Districts, BOCES, Charter Schools, State Operated Schools
- Deadline for Teachers to Complete ePMF Forms (in TAA) – Friday, December 14th
- Deadline for Administrator Review of ePMF Forms (TAA) - Friday, February 1st, Staff Snapshot and Staff Assignment Level 0 Lock Deadline is Wednesday January 30th for Federal Reporting, Verification in SIRS-320 Staff Snapshot and SIR-318 Staff Assignment in L2RPT
- Templates Required – Staff Snapshot
- Verification in TAA: ePMF
BEDS Day Enrollment – Including Pre-K and FRPL due for preliminary state aid calculations (Snapshot #1)
- Applicable To: Public School Districts, Charter Schools
- Level 0 Lock Deadline is Wednesday, January 2nd
- Templates Required – Demographics, Enrollment, Program Services
- Verification in L2RPT: SIRS-312, 313, 314, 316, 319, 323
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions please send them to datawarehouseextracts@edutech.org.
Medicaid
Special Education/Medicaid is working with the Data Warehouse Team to ensure that the required Special Education data is accurate and loaded to the state Data Warehouse.
Help Desk
- Hired 2 summer interns: They assisted at various Districts with MTS staff on Installs/Network Upgrades
- Assisted Shared staff in Districts with various projects/Wiping chromebooks, moving Technology from classrooms, assisted in burnin on District SAA’s
- Assisted Warehouse in Tagging
- Hired a Replacement CSA for the EduTech Help Desk (Rebecca Vermeulen)
- Currently working on upgrading ticket system HEAT to Service Manager powered by HEAT now owned by IVANTI.
- Help Desk: is working through all documented procedures to verify and update. Created Summer School WFL K-12 Student accounts.
- Deactivate and reset all student accounts at end of summer school.
- Created over 1500 student accounts for the new year.
AccelerateU
- Supported students taking 52 online courses during the summer
- Hiring two new part-time online teachers
- Retooling – moving teachers to Outlook email; updating courses; improving our information system; updating site and materials
- Renewing College Board AP Course approval
- Professional development meetings with our online teachers
- Highlights of our new online courses:
American Sign Language I
Robotics
Video Game Design
Digital Filmmaking
Stop Motion Animation
Digital Animation
Digital Comic Book Creation
Scriptwriting
Python Multi-player Game Creation
Introduction to Coding
Digital Music
About EduTech
Email: helpdesk@edutech.org
Website: www.edutech.org
Location: 131 Drumlin Court, Newark NY 14513
Phone: 1-800-722-5797
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EduTechTraining/
Twitter: @GVWFL_EduTech