2003 Annual Conference - Tuesday February 11th Schedule

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Session 5 Presentation Descriptions 

Report Wizard by Steven Bohlender 
Need to generate skills / standards-based report cards for elementary and / or secondary schools?  Take a look at our innovative ReportWizard (skills / standards-based report cards) application.  Track student achievement on standards with SASIxp, InteGrade Pro, and / or ABACUSxp, and create high-quality report cards for parents, customized to your specifications. Save teachers time entering standards information, and incorporate traditional “A, B, C” grades with skills / standards on a SINGLE report card.  Automatically transfer report card data back to SASIxp, and archive results with student records longitudinally for retrieval by teachers and administrators for the student’s academic career!

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End of Year Reporting - Jan Rose Petro, Colorado Department of Education
This session will cover new data requirements for the electronic submission of end of year data.

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Basic Query (Double Session) by Elena Hayes and Helen Delaney
This class is designed for those who have not used query or are uncertain about using queries.  We will take you step-by-step on developing a basic query, manipulating the data, organizing, filters, labels, drag & drop and building your confidence in using query. Never used query?  Have seen others use query and wondered how they work? Be a doer and come learn step-by-step in developing your own basic queries, advantages in using filters, making labels, mass change your elementary school classes, and building your confidence to "I can do". Presentation

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Exports & Mail Merge by Chris McQuain
Learn how to export query results to Microsoft Word mail merge, to send out form letters.  This is designed for PC users and some knowledge of Microsoft Word is helpful. Presentation

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Activities Eligibility by Debbie Cooper
Activities Eligibility can be used to allow school, district, and state reporting from season to season, year to year, school to school.  It can be used to create an athletic/activity history for each student as he or she progresses through his or her high school career to assist the student in future goals, awards, and scholarships. Many advanced query techniques will also be presented. Presentation   Handout

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Secondary Tips & Tricks by Ruth Dukeman
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Course History & Transcripts by  Gail Harding
Explore the process of updating grades to course history and producing transcripts for your students.  We'll also look at Graduation Requirements.  This course reviews some of the concepts covered in the Grading Choices workshop offered Monday (4th Session).  Presentation

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Integrade Pro/CLASSxp Secondary by Roy Saye
In order to maintain your grades in IGPro, there are a few fundamental skills you must learn.  This session will guide you through the process of creating a grade book, alphabetizing your rosters, setting grading profiles, creating tasks, locking scores, printing progress reports, exporting grades, and taking attendance with SASI.

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Standard Reports by Janece Rogers 
The session will include the use of standard reports and which ones might be most beneficial to elementary and secondary users of SASI. We will also examine how to save a report atom and how to use drag and drop functionality with standard reports.
Elementary Outline    Elementary Reports    Secondary Outline    Secondary Reports

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SASI Versions 5.0 & 5.5 by Jane Lewis
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Importing CSAP Scores into Extended Test History (Double Session) by Sue Warrick
Have you been asked to put Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) scores into SASIxp? Using Microsoft Access, SASI's Import/Export atom, and SASI's Extended Test History atom, you can put CSAP data into SASI the way your district would like to see the scores.

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Vendor Presentation: Tranquility Solutions, Inc
Tranquility is a comprehensive District-wide Special Education Management System.  Tranquility interfaces with Pearson's SASIxp to automate all case management processess (Referrals, Evaluations, Placements, IEPs) and reporting (Colorado's FTE) without duplicate entry of information.

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Session 6 Presentation Descriptions 

Maintaining a Healthy SASI by Mario Angotti
Presentation   'Gotchas!'

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Elementary Academic Grading by Patty Roundy
The Elementary Academic Grading module provides elementary schools a convenient way to enroll students in multiple subjects.  See how Aurora Public Schools assigns homeroom and special subjects to students and how we award grades and generate Report Cards. The Elementary Academic Grading module provides you with the ability to: Award Two Marks for Every Subject (for example, Achievement and Effort Marks); Award Marks for Work Habits; Award Alpha or Numeric Marks; Assign Subject Comments and Grade Level Comments to Students; Generate Report Cards and Transcripts. Presentation   Sample Report Card

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Student Groups By Peggy Simpson
Have you ever wanted to print a report for just a few students but can't find a way to select just those students?  Come to this session and learn how to use the Student Groups atom to view student grades, schedules, attendance and discipline for a group of students or to run reports, labels and queries for random groups of students. You will also learn how to customize reports by using data atoms and report atoms by saving them to your desktop. Presentation

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Period Attendance by Marian Woodward
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Elementary Tips & Tricks by Ruth Dukeman
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Advanced IGPro Secondary by Roy Saye
IGPro includes features that are designed to make your life as a teacher easier.  This session will open your eyes to such features as creating seating charts, emailing progress reports, importing tasks, combining tasks, offering extra credit (the right way), and preserving your setup profiles from term to term.

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Mass Scheduling Presentation By Shirley Brown
This presentation will be a review of the scheduling steps used in Mass Scheduling and will include advanced tips and techniques to make the scheduling process more efficient.

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Report Writer by Ryan Meissner
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Vendor Presentations: US Netcom-PhoneMaster
PhoneMaster delivers automated notification for virtually any school event by phone or email.  Powerful features include school or district wide emergency notification calls, a 24-hour Classroom Connection, staff voicemail, talking grades, lunch balances and more.

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Session 7 Presentation Descriptions 

Maintaining a Healthy SASI by Mario Angotti
Presentation   'Gotchas!'

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Enrollment History/Elementary By Elizabeth Mobley
Learn what causes the differences between the ATP02, the Ethnic Distribution Report and the Enrollment Report. Learn what you can do to prevent these errors and how they can be fixed.

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Advanced Query (Double Session) by Jennine Saulino
Designing reports, building complex queries, using numerical equations, exporting from SASIxp, using $ signs and affecting a mass changes.  Presentation  Query Handbook

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Exports & Mail Merge by Chris McQuain
Learn how to export query results to Microsoft Word mail merge, to send out form letters.  This is designed for PC users and some knowledge of Microsoft Word is helpful. Presentation

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Activities Eligibility by Debbie Cooper
Activities Eligibility can be used to allow school, district, and state reporting from season to season, year to year, school to school.  It can be used to create an athletic/activity history for each student as he or she progresses through his or her high school career to assist the student in future goals, awards, and scholarships. Many advanced query techniques will also be presented.  Presentation  Handout

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Secondary Tips & Tricks by Ruth Dukeman
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Course History & Transcripts by  Gail Harding
Explore the process of updating grades to course history and producing transcripts for your students.  We'll also look at Graduation Requirements.  This course reviews some of the concepts covered in the Grading Choices workshop offered Monday (4th Session).  Presentation

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SASIxp Import/Export - Use It For More Than Just Testing History by Rex Carter
Session provides a fly-over view of the SASIxp Import/Export Atoms, a walk-through of one import of Free/Reduced data into the Student Atom, examples of some REALLY COOL IMPORTS/EXPORTS, and how to auto-schedule import/export processes.  Not for the faint of heart - prepare for mach speed.  Presentation

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Walk-In Scheduling by Phyllis Dickerson
Learn how to use Basic (Walk-In) Scheduling to schedule individual students into classes. This session is great for counselors or registrars who are responsible for the day-to-day scheduling of new students. It is also ideal for small schools who find Mass Scheduling to be “overkill” for their needs.

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Score Analyzer by Steven Bohlender
Concerned about meeting requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act?  Reduce the time needed to analyze and communicate student achievement scores from DAYS to MINUTES with CIC ScoreAnalyzer software (used by teachers and administrators to “slice and dice” student achievement data). Extremely easy to use (train administrators and teachers in ONE HOUR or less), and visual representation of achievement data; scores are color-coded to quickly identify trends and communicate results.  Bar graphs and pie charts are dynamically updated to display selected data (test parts / scores). Use Score Analyzer to take student demographics and achievement data from your student information system and summarize into easy to use graphs and totals, with the ability to “slice and dice” the information for School Improvement Plans / NCLB requirements “on the fly”. Use this slick tool to quickly and easily identify trends in student achievement!

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Vendor Presentations: TetraData Corporation
EASE-e Data Analyzer is a web\browser based data mining tool wit unlimited objects, attributes and number of years of data.  With "drag and drop" technology and "Report Designer" everyone can take advantage of data.

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Session 8 Presentation Descriptions

Security By Peggy Simpson
Learn how to add a new user to SASIxp and give them the appropriate access to do their job.  What is the difference between an individual user and a group?  How do you assign a user to a group and what are the advantages to using groups?  We'll look at SASIxp Modules Setup as well as the Security atom.  Learn how to setup appropriate access in SASIxp Modules Setup and when to go into the Security atom.  Presentation

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Health/Immunizations by Gina Hebert
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Discipline by Ann Godfrey
The ins and outs of discipline reporting: Setting up the Discipline Codes and Tables; entering discipline incidences and dispositions; and available reports with the discipline atom.  I will also discuss querying discipline/disposition information, and provide a variety of query statements for discipline reports.  State Reporting requirements will also be discussed.  Presentation

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Use your PDA with SASI and IGPro! by Steven Bohlender
Administrators wanting access to student data (schedules, student information, grades, attendance, discipline, etc.) with their PDA?   P.E. teachers need to enter attendance data from a Palm / Pocket PC device on the athletic field / gym floor?  Teachers want to enter gradebook data on a PDA? If any of the above apply to you, attend this session!  Mobile Administrator / Mobile Teacher applications enable administrators and teachers to access their student, attendance, and gradebook data from ANY PDA that supports a browser, including Palm, Pocket PC, Handspring Visor and others. MSS is the ONLY vendor on the market today that offers a unique browser-based application running on PDA’s; any PDA that can support a web browser will do!  MSS’ two-way (import and export) data integration allows data to be entered on the PDA and moved back, unlike competitor’s products that provide “view only” access to data.

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Grading Processes Session by Carol Enslow
How to use the Grading Control atom to run a smooth grade reporting process. We will cover:  Update Grades; Update absences for report cards;  Grade Scanning; how teachers enter grades in Classxp; importing grades from Integrade Pro; Teacher Verification report to be sure all grades were entered correctly; printing Report Cards and other reports; sorting report cards for distribution during a class; extra mailings; honor roll reports; fixing kids who are in a class for grade reporting but shouldn’t be; updating GPAs for report cards or honor rolls; helpful queries for grade reporting; Tips. Using the Progress Atom for progress grades such as weekly D’s & F’s for athletic eligibility or phone notification to parents. Presentation

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Daily Attendance by Judy Hawkins
This session will describe the atoms used to enter and maintain attendance data at the elementary level. Class Attendance and Daily Attendance and the use of generic selection in combination with update attendance will be covered. In addition, the class will look at and discuss all report interfaces pertaining to each atom. Presentation

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Data Quality Management by Dave Drobnett
This session will explore the use of error analysis and reporting two schools via web-deployed electronic reports. Interaction with school personnel and customer service strategies will also be covered.

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Data Quality Roundtable hosted by Jeremy Felker
This roundtable discussion session is being provided for those interested in the various Data Warehousing solutions currently in use in the state, and the future of data analysis solutions in Colorado. Moderator Jeremy Felker has been deeply involved in the current efforts underway in the state to create some data warehousing tools that can be used across Colorado districts, as well as, the need to transfer student data between districts. These efforts would be discussed, as will other items of interest on the topic of data warehousing.

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Concert Assessment and Instruction by Helene McMurphy
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Elementary Tips & Tricks by Ruth Dukeman
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Bullpen (Drop-in anytime)
What to practice a tip you just learned? Have a specific SASIxp question you would like to have addressed?  The bullpen is your opportunity to play with sample SASIxp data on a drop-in basis.  Twelve stand-alone computers will be available for your use, with assistance available to help you address your needs.