eSchoolPLUS 4.0 Upgrade Information Services and Applications (ISA) Posted by October 27, 2017 The ISA Student Team members, Ann Sempe, Belinda Smith, Richard Hoffman, Lee Honeycutt and Rodney White held a meeting to discuss the timeline for eSchoolPLUS 4.0. John Crumbley and the PEIMS team were invited to meeting. This change will affect the whole district. Everyone from receptionists to Curriculum Department at ISA. Bi-Weekly meetings will be held to discuss what the progress is from start to finish. The future of eSchoolPLUS is in our hands. Belinda A Smith; Technology Communication Facilitator Pat Maldonado, Norma Blenderman, Marta Bott, Tammie Bartkowiak, and John Crumbley joined our T5 meeting. Belinda Smith, Ann Sempe Richard Hoffman ,Dorothy Tong, Donna VanHooser. Lee Honeycutt and Rodney White
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eSchoolPLUS 4.0 Upgrade
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 27, 2017
The ISA Student Team
members, Ann Sempe, Belinda
Smith, Richard Hoffman, Lee
Honeycutt and Rodney White
held a meeting to discuss the
timeline for eSchoolPLUS 4.0.
John Crumbley and the PEIMS
team were invited to meeting.
This change will affect the whole
district. Everyone from
receptionists to Curriculum
Department at ISA.
Bi-Weekly meetings will be held
to discuss what the progress is
from start to finish.
The future of eSchoolPLUS is in
our hands.
Belinda A Smith; Technology Communication Facilitator
Pat Maldonado, Norma Blenderman, Marta Bott, Tammie
Bartkowiak, and John Crumbley joined our T5 meeting.
Belinda Smith, Ann Sempe Richard Hoffman ,Dorothy Tong,
Donna VanHooser. Lee Honeycutt and Rodney White
eSchoolPLUS & Tardy Calculator
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 27, 2017John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications
Rodney Whiteand John Crumbley care
working with Mark Gabehart, CTO for
Round Rock ISD and fellow
PowerSchool eSchoolPLUS customer,
to develop an interface between
eSchoolPLUS and Tardy Calculator, a
leading force in recording student
tardys and returning the student back to
the classroom more quickly.
This is a revolutionary concept. If this
integration can be fully developed and
implemented, it will transform the way
CFISD records the tardy events for
students, yielding less time away from
class as well as time savings for the
attendance clerks .
eFinance Virtualized
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 27, 2017John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications
This week, John Crumbley and the ISA
Business Services Team met with Paula Ross
and the NIC team’s talented engineers to plan
the path to the completion of the
eFinancePLUS / VM migration.
This new environment assures secure access
to disaster recovery services and business
continuity for CFISD’s Finance / HR systems .
This is transformational for CFISD.
Renee Peel
Posted by John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications October 27, 2017
Renee Peel
Thank You Renee for
everything you do to make
CFISD a better place!
I wanted to say how much I appreciated Rene’s
help this week with staff name changes in the
TSDS system. Due to position changes in our
area and summer personnel budgeting
processes, completion of our part was
backlogged. Rene worked diligently with an
amazing attitude to make the changes in a
timely manner.
The customer service was outstanding.
Lisa Nevins
Compensation Analyst
Records, Leave, Credentials & Compensation
Cypress-Fairbanks I.S.D.
2017-2018 First Report Card Processing
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 27, 2017John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications
Lee Honeycutt printed, sealed and
prepared to mail 63,000 report cards for
each middle school and high school
student.
It is critical that report cards are
distributed correctly and on-time so that
parents can remain engaged and
informed in their child’s education.
Lee Honeycutt
Report Cards ready to be mailed.
Blank report card paper ready
to be printed
Training Options for Updates
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 27, 2017
PEIMS department joined
Rodney’s Team T5 meeting.
Collaborating on the upgrade of
eSchoolPLUS.
We are already planning on how
our training sessions will be
structured. We have so many
options to work with that we want
to make sure our customers are
ready for all the changes.
John Crumbley, Pat Maldonado, Norma Blenderman,
and Marta Bott, joined SIS T5 meeting.
Norma Blenderman, PEIMS Coordinator
DataCenter3 Maintenance
With Evolve
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 10, 2017
Richard Hoffman monitors Ariel Ramos
of Evolve Data Center Solutions during
Bi-Monthly maintenance. This service
and inspection of Cy-Fair’s Computer
Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) ensures
air quality, room temperature and
humidity in the Network Operations
Center at ISC.
Richard Hoffman, Programmer Analyst
Ariel Ramos
Business Services Support
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 24, 2017Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017,
Eric May, Mark Flores and Kala
Holler met with PowerSchool for our
bi-monthly TEAM meeting. Kala
and her staff posted last month but
were required to hand correct over
3000 error. One fix from TRS was
the increase in rounding. This
issues because CFAIR is so large.
Thank you TRS for supporting
CFISD through this process !
Friday October 27, 2017 the
updates to correct the errors will be
installed.
Business Services
Son Nguyen
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Son Nguyen, Senior Programmer AnalystPosted by
Son’s Contributions this week include:
eFinancePLUS Supports• The Expenditure Ledger Account Activity Fund Balance report for the 461
Pubic Fund and 865 Agency Fund is not producing 'correct' activities
balances for both funds – Time to revamp (John H., Mable I.). Virtualize
the Application Servers and SQL server will need to be fine-tuned for
better performance and efficiency
A day in the life of an ISA’er at Cy-Fair ISD• Mastering the Art and Science of Enterprise Application (EA)
(Architecture) Development - The EA must be able to share across
enterprise departmental user groups to support and to improve the
productivity of the enterprise's business processes. The EA must be built
with current technologies and trends, and flexible to adopt & adapt new
technologies and trends. Simply put, the EA must work seamlessly and
beautifully! Implementing best practices of technologies and trends. So
what are the challenges of building such beautiful EA?
• Application Security Architecture - Simple to Implement and Maintain,
Flexible but yet powerful Roles & Privileges-based Security Architecture
• User-Friendly with Modernized and Smart UIs Designs – the UIs Designs
that are consistent through-out the systems (fonts, colors, messages, etc.),
beautiful, easy to use, and high performance
• Developer-Friendly Application Framework Architecture – the Framework
that provides Plug-and-Play Built-in Utilities & Functions, Easy-to-Build
Maintain and Deploy, Standardized Coding & Documents
October 27, 2017
Son Nguyen
Business Services
Rich Crishock
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Richard Crishock, Senior Programmer Analyst, Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by October 27, 2017
Rich’s contributions this week
include:
• Imported 486 staff and 7,965 new student
photos from Lifetouch for 8 campuses.
• Continued Development / Testing of new
features in the Campus Badge-In Android app.
• Supported Mary Suderski with tablets for
paperless attendance for the LLI Conference
on Thursday, Oct. 26th.
Rich Crishock
Met with Mark Flores, Kala Holler, Colleen Wechsler,
and TCG to discuss improvements to the 457 deduction
change process.
Laserfiche Projects
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Dava Clark, Programmer/AnalystPosted by October 27, 2017
Dava Clark and Lisa Nevins met to discuss a new Laserfiche project. Currently, all Personnel
Budgeting information is stored either on paper in cabinets, or in excel documents on Lisa’s
computer.
We will create a new folder structure, and a new Personnel Budget template in Laserfiche to
house these documents.
This will save time spent searching through documents for information from previous years, and
save cabinet space in the Human Resource office!
Data Analytics and Student Success
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Donna Van Hooser, Senior Programmer/AnalystPosted by October 27, 2017
This week Senior Research Specialist Dr. Christina
Arroyo-Giner met with Donna Van Hooser to discuss
changes to the Education Resource Group (ERG)
process. CFISD began using the ERG Analytics system
at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year. District
and campus personnel were very excited at the
additional level of insight that is gained by using ERG.
District Performance Monitoring (DPM) test data for 1st
through 12th grades and STAAR data are loaded into
ERG’s system. Student progress is easily tracked and
performance strengths and difficulties are easily
pinpointed through charts and graphs. Campuses are
then able to individualize instruction and help students
be successful.
Business Services
Neetha Chada
Information Services and Applications (ISA)
Posted by October 27, 2017
Worked with a customer
service specialist from
Talented on the background
check issues their system has
in updating the file which is
affecting our HR by not
getting the current data .Neetha Chada
Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications
