MCOECN AND SOFTWARE ANSWERS

Partnering to provide

excellent software to our

schools!

April 14, 2015

Suite Retreat 2015

Working together for the Schools

Getting Acclimated

Sometimes the grass will appear greener on

the other side of the fence because it has

been fertilized by manure

Trends (Slide from last year)

Districts have returned!

Our Side is Greener

Our Side

The Parts of the Whole

• Multi-Tenant• Grade Cards• Cycle Days• Calendars• GPA• Transcripts• Schedule• Fees• Discipline • Proven SIS

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

• Validates• Communicates• Up-to-date• Best State

Reporting System for Ohio

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

• Integrated with SIS• Single Sign On• Rich Text

• Graphs• Tables• Pictures

• Up-to-date• 15.0

• Rewrite of Banks• SIS Contacts

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

GB

• Live Integration with SIS

• Single Sign On• Attendance• Grades• Standards Based

Practices• Lesson Plans• Seating Charts• Many mark

types• Proven Grade

Book

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

PA

• New Responsive Design Technology

• Mobile Friendly• Alerts• Real time into GB

• Attendance, Homework & Grades

• 15.0• Report Cards• Contacts

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

• Build on GB• New Responsive

Design Technology

• Mobile Friendly• District Sharing• Single-Sign-On• Standards Based• Growing Fast

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

VL

• Rewritten• REST Protocol• 140+ APIs• Security in SIS

The Parts of the Whole

The Parts of the Whole

DM

• Rewritten New Responsive Design Technology

• SIS Security • SIS Data• Excavator• Value Add• SLOs• Interventions

The Parts of the Whole

One Awesome Suite

Built in Ohio

Goals 2014/15 (Slide from last year)

1. Actual Report Cards from ParentAccess

2. Ability to “Submit” student contact changes

from ParentAccess

3. Rewrite Banks in SpS

4. SLOs and PARCC in DataMap

5. Expecting a big EMIS year

6. Continued forward movement with VC

7. Implement Master Header in GB/VC/DM/SpS

Goals 2014/15

Actual Report Cards from ParentAccess

Ability to “Submit” student contact changes

from ParentAccess

Rewrite Banks in SpS

SLOs and PARCC in DataMap

Kept up with EMIS changes

Continued forward movement with VC

Implement Master Header in GB/VC/DM/SpS

What are we currently working on?

Current Projects – Page 1 of 4

Report Cards from ParentAccess

(StudentInformation and GradeBook)

Update Student Contacts from ParentAccess

Using SIS Student Contacts in GradeBook

Current Projects – Page 2 of 4

Continued forward movement with the new

report writer

Central report creation and distribution process

Scheduling framework

APIs/Partnership with 2 student registration

companies

Hosting Initiative in partnership with MCOECN

Redoing Banks and Student Contacts in SpS

Current Projects – Page 3 of 4

Rewrite of Academic Standards Selection Screen

GradeBook

VirtualClassroom

SpS

The whole VirtualClassroom Project

Discussion Question

Fix impersonation

Current Projects – Page 4 of 4

SLOs – DataMap providing support for SLOs

Code Sharing between products

Auditing in SIS

Team working on standardizing the UI and UX

between all products

Bonus: Report Cards in PA creating:

Vault/Electronic File Cabinet

Report Cards from ParentAccess

GradeBookStudent

Information

ParentAccess

Report Cards from ParentAccess

GradeBookStudent

Information

ParentAccess

ElectronicFile Cabinet

Update Student Contacts

Contact Info

CommonLibrary

GradeBookStudentInformation

SoftwareCode

SoftwareCode

Data

SI GB

StudentInformation

Contact(Person)

GBAccount

Linked

Roadmap to the Future

Building the Suite

Long term goal is to get rid of all square

pegs and round holes between applications

Continue with Partnerships

InfoSnap

Registration Gateway

Vendor Specific APIsAcknowledging that some

“data” square pegs and round holes will exist

Continue with VendorLink

Where tight Partnership does not make sense

Generic APIsAcknowledging that more

“data” square pegs and round holes will exist

Continue with HTML5/MVC

Replace UI in GB

Replace UI in SIS

Model

Controller

Views

Views

ViewsViews

Enhance VC

Replace UI in SpS

Better User

Interface

Move from Product Based to Role Based Interface

Continue to Eliminate Duplicate Data

Code Sharing

Web Services

Easier to get Data Out

Implementing the Report Writer Across the

Suite

Continue Central Authorization

Initiative

Move Central to SIS

Use SIS for Authorization of all Products

Continue Common User Interface

Initiative

Master Header

Standard Menu Interface

Standard Controls

Standard Experience

HTML5/MVC Technology

Continue Significant Investment in

VirtualClassroom

Add Features

Public Library

Continue Hosting Initiative

Environment Standardization

No longer need to write and maintain code for

different hosting environments

Binary upgrades process (1, 2, 4, 8, …)

Retrospect on any downtown

Implement a proactive solution

Continuous monitoring

Build Message Notification System

External Sending a message to mass number of people

Voice Mail eMail Text Push Notification

Internal to the suite Staff to Staff Staff to Parent Parent to Staff Student to Staff Staff to Student

Mobile App Space

Better Use of Data

Vault/Electronic file cabinet

Public Library

Data Warehouse

Collect and Monitor

Response time

Screen usage

10 Gigabyte

Short Term Future - Granular

Framework

Move Central into SIS

Mass Message Notification System

VendorLink throttling/metering

StudentInformation

Auditing – SQL Server Enterprise

Ad-hoc reporting (Getting Data Out)

Another step in integration between GradeBook

and StudentInformation

Move ParentAccess authentication and

management to StudentInformation

GradeBook

Interface prior year GradeBook data via Vault

Curriculum Mapping and Weekly Planner

Move Banks to Library

Add a handful of mobile friendly screens in GB

VirtualClassroom

Auto grading with auto publishing

Incorporate New Report Writer

Integration with Google Docs / Office 365

More Question Types Select multiple on multiple choice

Fill in blank with multiple correct

Multiple answer question (paragraph)

Add more…

SpecialServices

Move Banks to the library

Expected Ohio Forms Rewrite

Start planning/design the UI rewrite

DataMap

Assessment Manager Project

Store Assessments data only once

Reuse Data for SIS, State Reporting and DataMap

Use the DataMap data loader to load all third

party assessment data

Student assessment data can follow the student

SA SupportJuly 14 - Mar 15

Minutes Cases On Time

Assign Critical 24/7 60 0 100.0%

Critical 120 13 100.0%

High 480 112 99.1%

Normal 960 585 99.7%

Low 1440 277 100.0%

Total 987 99.5%

Escalate Critical 24/7 240 0 100.0%

Critical 240 1 100.0%

High 960 5 100.0%

Normal 1920 30 93.8%

Low 2400 19 92.9%

Total 55 94.8%

Resolved Critical 24/7 480 0 100.0%

Critical 480 15 100.0%

High 1920 120 100.0%

Normal 3840 589 99.7%

Low 1200 285 100.0%

Total 1009 99.8%

Average 98.05%

We have the Suite

We have the Support

We have the Future Road Map

Development Momentum

Rewrite of ParentAccess with Responsive Design

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Rewrite of DataMapImbedded into SIS

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Discipline System in SISwith Letter Generator

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Rewrite of VendorLinkWith over 140 APIs

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

DataMapAbility to do SLOs…

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

SIS – Student ContactsEliminating Duplicate Data

APIs into GradeBook & ParentAccess

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

DataMapSupports Interventions

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Keeping up with EMISAll those Calendars…

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

SuiteAbility to share code between products

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Rich Text in SpSPictures, Graphs and Tables

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Family Groups in SISEliminating duplicate data…

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

SIS JVS Integration ProjectSyncing Student Information between

different Districts

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

New ParentAccess SystemResponsive Design

Very Mobile Friendly

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

Electronic File CabinetNo need to print Report Cards

All within the last 3 years!!

Development Momentum

The VirtualClassroom ProductSupports Standards Based Practices

All within the last 3 years!!

Awesome Suite keeps getting better

MCOECN AND SOFTWARE ANSWERS

Partnering to provide

excellent software to our

schools!