Transcript F14_Debbie_Gilliam_SIS_Updates

Statewide Student Management System
SIS Updates
September 19, 2014
Deborah Gilliam
Product Manager, SIS
[email protected]
615-253-1637 Office
2014-15 Statewide Student Management System
 101 state hosted districts
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Edupoint (26)
Follett (9)
Pearson (9)
Skyward (31)
STI (26)
Participating Addendum Reminders
You are not committed to the SSMS for life of contract
You are not committed to a vendor for life of contract
Change vendors – new PA required
Change from local/vendor hosted to DOE hosted – PA
required
 Document vendor selection process
– Maintain documentation on file locally
– Include rationale for selection (Ex: memo explaining
rationale, minutes from Board meeting, etc.)
– Required for audit purposes
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Annual Cost Billing Process
 Annual cost based on funded ADM counts (K-12 only)
 District responsible for paying district share of annual
costs
– Vendors direct billing for district share of annual cost could
begin on/after Aug 1
– Vendors required to provide DOE copy of district annual costs
invoices for verification and audit purposes
 Vendors billing DOE directly for state share of annual
cost ($2.55/ADM) for SSMS districts
Outlook for 2015-16
 The new fiscal year budget cycle will
dictate if or how many additional districts
we can accommodate in 2015-16
 Current annual cost subsidy level is
$2.55/ADM
 Could potentially adjust the annual cost
subsidy level (downward) to accommodate
additional districts
SSMS General
 Routine maintenance downtime windows as
needed
– Wednesday evenings (5PM – midnight)
– Saturdays (6AM Sat – 6AM Sun)
– Application releases/updates, etc. applied
during these times (unless emergency)
 Any other downtimes – will be notified
 New SSMS Listservs established for general
DOE communications to SSMS districts
– Per vendor and combined
SSMS General
 Extracts generated routinely by vendor
– Automated process
– 3 days/week
– Data entered/changed by 5:00 PM
SIS Vendors Create Extracts
By 10.00 PM
EIS Processes Extracts
(Close of Business)
Data Available in EIS
(Start of Business)
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SSMS General
 Extracts staggered during implementation
– Group 1: district and school calendars (5 extracts)
– Group 2: class schedule, student enrollment, staff
current assignment (6 extracts)
– Group 3: all remaining extracts – student, completion,
grades, busing, etc. (17 extracts)
 All new SIS vendors, except Follett, are now
sending all required extracts
– Follett all but 4 extracts in group 3
 SIS application releases, updates, patches, etc. applied by vendor for all districts at same time
Resources, Support and Protocol
– Data mapping document (maps state required data
elements to data fields in SIS application)
– Vendors responsible for application support
• Support staff should have knowledge of TN requirements
– EIS Help Desk – assists with data reporting errors
– Issues with application/Azure environment access
• All vendors have admin access to boxes in state hosted Azure
environment
• All vendors should be monitoring environment
• DOE has monitoring tools in place and looking at additional
monitoring tools/options (alerts)
• Will be doing routine “cleansing” of Azure environment
Resources, Support and Protocol
– Issues with your SIS should first be reported to your vendor
• If vendor cannot resolve issue – vendor notifies DOE
Vendor
Edupoint
Follett
Pearson
Skyward
STI
Customer Support
1.877.899.9111
1.888.244.1366
1.866.434.6276
1.800.236.0001
1.800.844.0884
– Overall DOE Product Support will be restructured to provide
a more integrated and streamlined process
• One stop shop for all DOE outward facing applications
• New ticketing system
• More communications and details to come as the
processes and procedures are ironed out
IMPORTANT DATES
 November 1, 2014 - All historical data must be
pulled for data conversion
 Mid – Late November 2014 – cut-off for “live”
access to Star_Student to complete state Report
Card reporting process
 November 30, 2014 – all district user access to
Star_Student will be terminated
 November 15, 2014 – deadline to submit
Participating Addendums for 2015-16
implementation
Most Common SIS Vendor Implementation Issues
 Missed deadlines during “go-live” implementation and
EIS testing of extracts and reports
– All five vendors required to test/validate generation of EIS
extracts and reports
 Poor/no QA during EIS testing
 Poor validation on required data fields and state
defined codes
– Suggests issues with mapping data during conversion and
properly mapping required data elements to correct fields in
their application
– State defined code tables should be locked down
Most Common SIS Vendor Implementation Issues
 Insufficient/lack of prior planning/preparation to
address TN specifics in application
 Assumed their vendor hosted model fit the SSMS
model (business as usual)
 Insufficient resources to handle the TN implementation
– Having the right people involved
– Underestimated the amount of work, time and effort needed
for the TN implementation
– Same resources working on multiple components
• TN specifics + EIS testing + training + application updates
• TN application development + DLP/Ed-Fi development
Things To Do…
 RUGs – continue involvement & consider
restructure
 Provide SIS vendors direct access to:
– Course Master in EIS
– Lists of valid state defined codes
 Create enhanced enrollment process
– Automated call to EIS for student state IDs
 Implement Single Sign On
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