Sixth Annual Conference - Monday February 9th, 2004 Schedule

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Session 1 Presentation Descriptions 

Bullpen (Drop-in anytime)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users SASI Users
Description: Want 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.

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* Basic Applications/Elementary (Double Session) - Carrie Sullivan (Littleton) 
Session Target Group: Elementary School Personnel
Experience Level: Beginning SASIxp Users
Description: Learn SASIxp application atoms available with the basic package, such as, the enrollment atom, Student atom, Parent/Guardian Atom, Emergency Atom, Sibling Atom and others time permitting.

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* Basic Query (Double Session) - Jason Packer (Brighton)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: Beginning SASIxp Users
Description: Basic elements of designing SASIxp queries, including data export, conditional queries, label printing and basic filters.

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** Advanced Query (Double Session) - Liz Mobley (Widefield)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover doing calculations, counting totaling, multiple file joins, exports, drag & drop, concatenation, and changing field headings. Bring questions you would like answered.

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* Making SASI Yours - Jamie Collins (Aurora)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: Beginning SASIxp Users
Description: This session will help users to customize SASIxp. The session will cover building toolbars, placing atoms on your desktop, organizing data, naming custom atoms, choosing a custom view, arranging atoms, using the personal data center, setting screen resolution, student pictures, desktop pictures.

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** Using the Import/Export Atom - Rex Carter (Aurora)
Session Target Group: SASI Administrators 
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: Use the import/export atoms for more than test history. Session will provide a fly-over review of the atoms and several examples of  “outside the box” uses of import/export. Not for the faint of heart.

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* Basic Applications/Secondary (Double Session) - Peggy Carlson (Aurora)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: Beginning SASIxp Users
Description: Basic Applications / Secondary will start with login and changing passwords, the desktop and workspace elements. Next we’ll cover creating and managing folders, toolbars, menus, forms and the use of different atoms. Last we’ll use the find matrix for graphs, sorting and saving data atoms for reports and exporting information.

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Discipline - Ann Godfrey (Brighton)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: 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. 

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Concert Instruction & Assessment - (Pearson)
Session Target Group: Central Office/General Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Simply put, Concert gives you a better way to achieve the goals of education. Concert is a comprehensive family of Web-based applications—integrating standards-aligned instruction, lesson planning, assessment, and educational content—to help the education community achieve success. Concert allows you to manage a district curriculum, including lesson plans, test items, and learning resources, using state and national standards from the comprehensive Pearson Core Standards database.

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Vendor Presentation: EduStructures
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: SIF Integration with SASIxp  Discuss the benefits of the Schools Interoperability Framework specification (SIF) using Edustructures SIFWorks® Zone Integration Server and the SIF Agent for SASIxp.  
Edustructures is the leading provider of Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) products for the K12 market.  Our marketing and technology partners include Pearson Digital, Follett Software, Novell, Horizon Software, and VersaTrans Solutions.   Our products include SIFWorks® Enterprise ZIS, the Edustructures SIF Agent for SASIxp and the Edustructures Agent Development Kit.  

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Standard Reports - Janece Rogers
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Going into “Help” and walking through where Standard Reports are in SASI Help as well as using standard reports in your day.  We’ll also cover customizing reports, saving reports to your desktop, and tips on reports that may save you time.

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** Activities Eligibility - Debbie Cooper (Jeffco)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: 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.

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Colorado State IDs & RITS/End-of-Year Reports - Mike Wilcox & Jan Petro (CDE)
Session Target Group: SASI Administrators
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover solutions for the bounce generated on student October this year; statistics on the quality of data we receive state wide, and future collections using SASID's. There will be a discussion on how data collections using SASIDs play into the bigger picture. In addition, information regarding notices on duplicate funding issues from October 2003 will be addressed. We will also discuss the progress of and schedule for the automation of the End of Year state report, including the 2002-03 data pilot and going live with all districts for 2003-04 EOY data. Updated information for Report Card March and Safety and Discipline Indicator ADEP submissions will be briefly covered as well.

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CIC Score Analyzer - Steve Bohlender (CIC)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Reduce the time needed to analyze and communicate student achievement scores (CSAP, NWEA, TerraNova, etc.) 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).

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Session 2 Presentation Descriptions 

Student Groups - Peggy Simpson (Boulder)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: 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 create data atoms and student groups to view student grades, schedules, attendance and discipline.  You will also learn how to create report atoms and custom queries that can be saved to your desktop and used to run reports for random groups of students.

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Schedule Pro/Secondary - Mark Johnson (Windsor)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will introduce users to Schedule Pro, and discusses how it might be a beneficial alternative to Mass Scheduling in your school.  

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Exports/Mail Merge - Cherie Noble (Summit)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Learn how to export query data from SASIxp into Microsoft Word Mail Merge. This allows you to personalize letters, certificates or labels without having to create a word document and make changes for each student. Some knowledge of Word is helpful.

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Concert Inform - (Pearson)
Session Target Group: Central Office/General Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Concert Inform is the latest in Pearson’s suite of instructional tools. Concert Inform allows schools and district to quickly and easily view assessment information online in a variety of formats.

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Vendor Presentation - Tranquility Solutions
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Tranquility Solutions, Inc provides a preview of their new comprehensive web-browser based district wide Special Education Software.  Tranquility automates your documentation, case management, and reporting needs throughout the Referral, Evaluation, Placement, and IEP processes.

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Daily Attendance -Tony Dorado (DPS)
Session Target Group: Elementary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will describe the atoms used to enter and maintain attendance, and the use of generic selection in combination with update attendance will be covered. The class will look at and discuss all reports pertaining to each atom.

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** District Standardized Training - Kathy Green (DCSD)
Session Target Group: SASI Administrators
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: Schools, Districts, BOE’s,  and State Departments, all want accurate and timely student information.  Learn how Douglas County School District, one of the fastest growing districts in the nation, addressed the need for standardization of data entry procedures and the positive impact seen at the site, district and state levels.  Learn how this has changed the way DCSD does business a year after implementation, and what additional units have been added as a result of the data produced by this exciting initiative.          

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Using Proficiency & Community Service - Phyllis Dickerson (DCSD)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Community Service Atom/Proficiency Atom –An overview of the new Community Service atom.   There will be examples and tips on how to set up the tables that are attached to the file.   I will explain the fields used in the atom and how to report the information using the built in report and helpful queries.  We will look at the Proficiency Atom as a tracking tool for graduation requirements. 

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Standards/Skills-Based Report Cards - (CIC)
Session Target Group: SASI Administrators
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: 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.

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Session 3 Presentation Descriptions 

Exports/Mail Merge - Kay Taullie (DPS)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will demonstrate how to put SASIxp and Microsoft Word Mail Merge to work for you. Merging student information i8nto useful documents for professional communications will allow more time to focus on other projects. The demonstration will include merging SASIxp discipline information into a standard letter format. Attendees will be given useful quick reference guides for use in their environment.

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* Basic Query (Double Session) - Joseph Novak (Jeffco)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: Beginning SASIxp Users
Description: This session is for SASI users who are ready to learn the basics of writing queries in SASI. This session includes techniques for creating basic queries, creating filters, using SASI matrices, and creating custom reports.

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** Advanced Query (Double Session) - Rosemary Perkins (Jeffco)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: This session is recommended for Version 4.5 SASI Users who are familiar with general Query functions, and have experience writing queries. The presentation includes discussion, and invites audience participation, on the follow topics: Student Matrix, Files most often used for query, Counting, Totaling, Sorting, Query Qualifiers, Saving values to UserNum fields for reporting, Drag and Drop Queries and Headings.  We will discuss queries as they apply to Student, Parent/Guardian, Scheduling, Grade Reporting, Course History, and Attendance.  Also included is an overview of saving, naming, and sending queries to other users.   Export will be briefly discussed.

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Grading Setup Options - Carol Enslow (Jeffco)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: How to setup all the atoms required for grade reporting and progress reporting.  Grading Setup, Mark Definition, Credit Definition, GPA Definition, and Grading Comments.  This session should be taken before the Grading Processes session.

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** Advanced District Integration (Double Session) - Mario Angotti (Pearson)
Session Target Group: SASIxp Administrators
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: This session is geared toward those individuals at a district level who maintain District Integration processes. If you have questions as to how or why things happen as they do in DI, this is the session for you.

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Period Attendance - Jim Anderson (DPS)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover the setup and maintenance of period attendance, shortcuts for entry of attendance data using Update Attendance and Mass Change, as well as the numerous reports available through the period and class attendance atoms.  We’ll also discuss how you can pull attendance percentages by school, grade and teacher.

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Elementary Tips/Tricks - Melissa Schunk (CIC)
Session Target Group: Elementary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover several topics that will help elementary schools enhance their use of SASIxp! Topics include: Scheduling at the elementary level, exporting features, attendance suggestions. We will also address overall maintenance items.

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What's New in SASIxp - (Pearson)
Session Target Group: Central Office/General Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover the future of SASIxp and the new and exciting innovations to which we may look forward.

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Vendor Presentation: BMI
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: BMI Systems Group is a leader in developing and marketing some of the most innovative, reliable and cost effective barcode-based systems available. Since 1986 we have specialized in implementing inventory-tracking systems for fixed assets, stockroom, tool crib, and anything else you can count, anywhere you want to count it! We also have an easy, cost-effective method for making photo ID cards and a simple, inexpensive way of applying security measures for your organization. With an installation base in over 40 states, we are capable of servicing your organization's unique requirements.

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Secondary Scheduling [Mass, Walk-in, & Basic] (Double Session) - Jennine Saulino (Adams 12)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This presentation will cover the scheduling process in SASIxp from start to finish. Included will be system setup and options; course and teacher creation; course request processing; section building; rolling to and from Basic; and Walk-In scheduling.

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Health/Immunizations - Von Kiyomi (Falcon)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This class will be an overview of adding, modifying, compiling information in the Health and Immunization atom.  The participants will learn to build and run query's for the Health atom. In addition, the class will look at and discuss the report interfaces pertaining to this atom.

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Colorado State IDs & RITS/End-of-Year Report - Mike Wilcox & Jan Petro (CDE)
Session Target Group: SASIxp Administrators
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover solutions for the bounce generated on student October this year; statistics on the quality of data we receive state wide, and future collections using SASID's. There will be a discussion on how data collections using SASIDs play into the bigger picture. In addition, information regarding notices on duplicate funding issues from October 2003 will be addressed. We will also discuss the progress of and schedule for the automation of the End of Year state report, including the 2002-03 data pilot and going live with all districts for 2003-04 EOY data. Updated information for Report Card March and Safety and Discipline Indicator ADEP submissions will be briefly covered as well.

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IGPro/CLASSxp Secondary - Roy Saye (Lewis-Palmer)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Delve into the tools that will make a teacher's life easier!  This session will first look at CLASSxp, the module for teachers to take attendance and access student information and reports.  Then we'll play with InteGrade Pro, the teacher gradebook program that interacts with SASIxp.  The workshop 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, emailing progress reports, importing tasks, combining tasks, offering extra credit (the right way), preserving your setup profiles from term to term, and locking your grade book data.

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Session 4 Presentation Descriptions

Elementary Academic Grading  - Patty Roundy (Aurora)
Session Target Group: Elementary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Elementary students can have subject areas assigned and grades awarded for each subject in the Elementary Academic Grading module.  The system will allow you to award up to two marks (achievement and effort) for every subject for each grading period as well as marks for effort.  Subjects and marks can be developed around your current curriculum and grading process.  Marks can be either alpha or numeric.  Subject and grade level comments can be developed and given to every student for each grading period.  See how Aurora Public Schools assigns homeroom and special subjects to students and how we award grades and generate Report Cards.

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Grading Processes - Carol Enslow (Jeffco)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: 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.

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Secondary Tips/Tricks - Doug Bradley (DPS)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Queries are powerful but are you overlooking the convenience of canned reports and matrices? Learn tips about manipulating reports and matrices to simplify and customize tasks and data collection. Often overlooked features, tricks and atoms will be reviewed. Tips, tricks and resources will be shared to enhance your SASI skills.

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Elementary Scheduling - Melissa Schunk (CIC)
Session Target Group: Elementary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Create a master schedule for your elementary school. CIC provides helpful tips and techniques make the process easier.

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** Report Writer - (Pearson)
Session Target Group: Central Office/General Personnel
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: This session will cover the basics of using the recently released Report Writer/Designer in tandem with SASIxp. An overview of the setup and use of both the JEnterprise server and the Report Designer will be discussed.

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Concert Inform - (Pearson)
Session Target Group: Central Office/General Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
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Vendor Presentation: EduLink
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Edulink Systems will present the latest versions of its Intouch software for SASIxp. Learn how to extend the functionality of your student information system, and how Intouch software can help your district implement the requirements~laid out by the No Child Left Behind initiative.The presentation will demonstrate benefits for schools and districts, go over technical details of the software, and include a live demonstration of the Intouch products: Intouch Online (formerly ISIS) the~premiere~Internet-based parent communication system designed to~provide up-to-the-minute~SASIxp information~to parents and school personnel.~Users can view attendance, homework assignments, gradebook data, student grades, and other academic information safely and securely. Intouch Online can also provide e-mail addresses for school staff members, enhancing communications between parents and teachers. 
Intouch Autodialer - a 100% automatic parent communication calling solution.~ Intouch Autodialer allows for completely automatic dialing of student absences and provides "true" SASIxp database integration features.~ Query the SASIxp~database directly to build call lists for student activity groups, grade levels, progress report deficiencies, discipline incidents, fees, and much more. Build notifications in under a minute and bolster parental involvement.
Intouch Reports - an integrated reporting solution built with~Microsoft NET, SQL Server 2000, and Crystal Reports~technologies, using business intelligence and data warehousing architectures.~Intouch Reports will help identify the factors that are affecting student performance in your district with historical analysis of SASIxp and CSAP data. With Intouch Reports, it’s easy to create and modify queries and reports to display complex data across several years for multiple schools in the district.

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* Beginning Troubleshooting - Sue Warrick (Littleton)
Session Target Group: All School Levels
Experience Level: Beginning SASIxp Users
Description: This session will provide basic troubleshooting tips and tricks for SASIxp users.  The areas that will be addressed include Student Enrollment, User, Attendance and Grading issues.

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Enrollment/History/Secondary - Liz Mobley (Widefield)
Session Target Group: Secondary School Personnel
Experience Level: All SASIxp Users
Description: Ever wonder why the Ethnic Distribution Report (STU98) and the Student Distribution Atom don’t agree on how many students there are? Are there students who don’t show up on the Monthly Attendance Report (ATP52)? Come to this class learn what is wrong and how to fix it.

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** Advanced InteGrade Pro - Patrick Mount (Windsor)
Session Target Group: SASIxp Administrators
Experience Level: Advanced SASIxp Users
Description: Advanced IGPro will offer something for both teachers and SASIxp Administrators. We will discuss such features as creating seating charts, emailing progress reports, importing and combining tasks, use of templates, the IGPro Admin tool, master password generators, and troubleshooting tips.

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