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Information Services and Applications (ISA)

Posted by September 28, 2018

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, Ann Sempe met with the high school registrars to discuss upcoming mark

reporting processes they are responsible for in eSchoolPLUS . Also discussed was how to run reports in

Cognos that will help them and their counselors analyze problems with schedules before report cards go out

to parents. Making sure schedules are synchronized with report cards is a team effort.

Ann Sempe, Support Specialist SIS

High School Registrars Training


Posted by October 4, 2018

On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Norma

Blenderman attended the 2018 Committee

Connect PEIMS Committee Meeting in Pflugerville,

Texas. This was the first time Norma has had the

opportunity to attend a TASBO committee

meeting. The purpose of the meeting was

to select courses for the 2019 Annual Conference

to be held in San Antonio, Texas. The committee

reviewed and prioritized course offerings. It was

also decided who would present each class at the

conference. We reviewed the course content to

ensure the material was up to date. The second

order of business was to propose new courses to

be developed for future conferences.

Norma Blenderman, PEIMS Coordinator

TASBO 2018 Committee Connect

Chet Garner - The Daytripper

Chet Garner, the Daytripper was the guest speaker

for the meeting. He talked about one day

adventures exploring the food, culture, and history

of Texas. Watching his presentation reminded me

of all the places I would love to visit in this great

state we live in.

Norma Blenderman



Registrar and Attendance Training

Marta Bott, PEIMS Specialist/Trainer

The High school Registrar meeting was on Wednesday,

September 28th here at ISC and Marta Bott met with

them to go over new procedures for PEIMS and to

review others.

Wednesday was also the Enrollment Verification to be

done by each campus to verify the enrollment in their

building. They then send it to Marta and Norma to

reconcile.

Yeager Elementary school hired a new registrar after

theirs left the second week of school. Marta Bott

worked with Bianca Ruiz Thursday, September

27th. They reviewed all procedures for registration and

attendance. Congratulations Bianca on your new

position and welcome to the CFISD family!

Marta Continues to work on all of the Calendars for

the reporting of attendance to the state.

Marta Bott

Windfern Night School


Posted by September 28, 2018Norma Blenderman, PEIMS Coordinator

Kenya Turner, Director of HS Curriculum

and Instruction met with Rodney White

and Norma Blenderman on Thursday,

September 27th to discuss the possibility

of setting up night school courses in

eSchool for Windfern. The Windfern

program will be moving to the original

Matzke building once renovations are

complete. The additional building space

will provide an opportunity to expand the

choices available for our students.

Norma BlendermanKenya Turner

Rodney WhiteWindfern Night School

CFISD Opportunity

for All

Career Transition

Frankie Jackson



On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 Frankie Jackson,

CTO, announced to the Technology Staff that she will

be making a career transition in December.

Frankie shared that she will be leaving CFISD as their

CTO and begin the next chapter in her career. She will

work at the Local, State, National and most recently

the International Levels influencing and assisting the

implementation on technology in the school system.

Her legacy will be full and bright with the

accomplishments she has achieved at CFISD.

John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and Applications

Human Resources



Katie Corbet, Director of Human

Resources (HR), met with Geoffrey

Brown to discuss HR Onboarding.

This is particularly exciting as Geffrey is

the newest member of the ISA team. He

was brought onboard to assist with the

implementation of technology into the

Business Services of CFISD.

Geoffrey quickly adjusted to his new

environment and began producing

beneficial systems that are enhancing

the way CFISD does business.

Just a few weeks into his new role,

Geoffrey is comfortable hosting

collaboration meetings with executive

level leadership.


Onboarding

Community Programs



The CFISD Technology Onboarding Team joined the Community Programs Team,

along with the Payroll team and the Human Resources (HR) Team, for a project

update and status check.

Due to the excellence of the Community Programs Team, we are pleased to share

that the project is ahead of schedule and has entered the testing phase of the project.

The testing phase is the preliminary step to full release.


Upgrading eSchoolPLUS



The ISA eSchoolPLUS Team attended an online training session for eSchoolPLUS version 4.1.

The new features in this version far exceed the previous version. To gain access to these great

additions, and provide extraordinary support to our counselors, CFISD is coordinating with

PowerSchool to move to this version. Though as with all upgrades, it comes with risk, the teamwork

for CFISD and PowerSchool and the added features out weighs the risk. We have the best and

brightest minds working on the upgrade.


Technology Toastmasters

Of CFISD



On Wednesday September 26, John Crumbley, Vice

President of Membership, attended the Technology

Toastmasters of CFISD meeting.

It is exciting and encouraging to see the group continue

to come together as a high functioning team and mature

as a Toastmaster Club.

John has the honor of serving as the club’s

Vice President of Membership.


Word of the day: Substantial

Reneé Peel

PEIMS Support

Katherine Hernandez and Renee' Peel have worked

together to bring the number of student's needing

state ID#'s to under 200. We will definitely make our

deadline of October 26th for Snapshot.

Renee' Peel continues to support several campuses

with their TREx requests for records.

Texas Records Exchange (TREx)


Posted by: Renee' Peel, PEIMS Specialist

Due to the shrinking numbers, Renee' has been able

to start the clean up process with TIMS to eliminate

duplicate UIDs.

October 5, 2018

Business Services

Neetha Chada


Posted by: September 28, 2018Neetha Chada, Senior Programmer Analyst

Neetha Chada's contributions enhanced the disticts Business Services.

• Worked with Joanna Oppelt from Human Resources and Kimberly Osborn from

Technology Services on issues with the incorporating SBEC code in the resignation system.

This feature will aid in communicating to TEA about employees when they resign from the

district.

• Worked with Trachelle McDaniel Grade Counselor/Testing Coordinator Dean Middle School

with an issue she had submitting the employee wellness information. Since this is a new

feature it will have some specific issues/conditions that they may not come up when the client

was testing.

• Working with Mark Flores to move some of the employees who he used to approve to their

direct supervisors. In the process another issue came up where he is seeing an employee who

is under a different supervisor who is also able to see that employee.

• Working with Jennifer Thibodeaux on a transfer memo issue she had when submitting an

employee inter department transfer .

•

Business Services

Son Nguyen


Son Nguyen, Senior Programmer AnalystPosted by

Contributions for this week include:

eFinancePLUS• A very light support week: a few users Punchout issues with Amazon,

Finance Access issues, ID-Automation issues with Private Music

employees, Enhance the Stipend 4GL Load program to populate the

contract start-end date, HR Location module cashes caused by PS TX

TEAM August/EAC updates, Investigate PO in FY17 incorrectly posted to

Project/Project-Account

• Built and Deployed the OSS Finance Public Information Request PIR

module for Finance to run On-demand

• .NET One-on-One with Dava developing the first of its kind C-sharp,

ADO.NET Console application that performs Upload CSV files (with

TexfFieldParser VisualBasic Assembly) to database, Logging (to text file

with StreamWriter), and Move files for Backup after completion

• .NET One-on-One with Donna initiating the Web Application development

Enterprise Application Framework with C-sharp, ADO.NET, Telerik

ASP.NET AJAX Controls

• CFISD Operation Support System (OSS) - Music School

(MOSS)• .NET Object technology with C-sharp, N-tier Application Architecture,

Telerik UI Controls for building Winform, Webform, Mobile Enterprise Apps

• Finishing up Attendance module, Constructing the Invoice module

• Built and deployed the Teacher – Student List Extract module that pull data

from both eSchoolPLUS and eFinancePLUS – OSS databases

September 28, 2018

Birthday with most favorite Finance Bosses

Business Services

Son Nguyen


Son Nguyen, Senior Programmer AnalystPosted by

Contributions for this week include:

eFinancePLUS• A very light support week: a few users Punchout issues with Amazon,

Trace and Fix issues with Payable system error that causes a PO, its

Invoice, and Ledgers out of balance. Populate Stipend employee's Contract

Start-End dates that save 3-4 users 3-4 days to manually online update, and

enhanced Program for next year processes.

• .NET One-on-One with Donna initiating the Web Application development

Framework with C-sharp, ADO.NET, Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Controls –

Introduction to the ASP.NET architecture, building prototyped web

application(s)

• CFISD Operation Support System (OSS) - Music School

(MOSS)• .NET Object technology with C-sharp, N-tier Application Architecture,

Telerik UI Controls for building Winform, Webform, Mobile Enterprise Apps

• Complete the construction of the Attendance module. Continue the

construction of the Invoice module

• Built and deployed the Teacher – Student List Extract module that pull data

from both eSchoolPLUS and eFinancePLUS – OSS databases

October 5, 2018

Birthday with most favorite Finance Bosses


Laserfiche User Group


Dava Clark, Programmer Analyst

Dava Clark and Geoff Brown attended a Laserfiche user

group on October 3rd at Bryan ISD. The user group

consisted of other districts and private sector

corporations that utilize Laserfiche for automating

processes.

Dava and Geoff were able to connect with users at

Humble ISD, New Caney ISD, Galena Park ISD, and

Bryan ISD.

Cypress Fairbanks ISD will host the next user group in

April!

Posted by

During Wednesday's Laserfiche User Group, Dava Clark and Geoffrey Brown volunteered to host a future

User Group meeting specifically for K-12 School Districts. They envision each attending district spending

time showcasing their use of Laserfiche, allowing other districts to learn from their experiences and for

districts to provide each other with feedback from an outside perspective.

Laserfiche User Group Planning

Information Services and Applications

Geoffrey Brown, Assistant Programmer/Analyst October 5, 2018

Valuable features discussed with

other Laserfiche clients include:

• Laserfiche Connector for

integration with eFinancePlus

• Docusign for their eNotary piece

• Laserfiche Mobile App for GPS-

tagging forms and documents

• Security Tags and their utilization

to provide secure access across

student or employee transfers

ISA Management

Reflection


John Crumbley, Director of Information Services and ApplicationsPosted by October 5, 2018

John Crumbley

This week has an exciting fast-

paced week full of meetings and

events. The main event was the

go / no go upgrade of eSchool. To

provide support to the secondary

counselors, we needed to

upgrade. However, after surveying

our stakeholders, it became

evident that we could not upgrade

this weekend, as UIL Eligibility

Verification was taking place. A

special THANK YOU to everyone

that helped with this decision.–

John Crumbley

#CFISD

ISA eSchoolPLUS Reflection


Posted by October 5, 2018Rodney White, Manager of ISA Operations and Support

Next Steps

Since the upgrade to eSchoolPLUS 4.1 has been

postponed indefinitely, a calm now settles over my

team and myself. We will be working diligently to

have a custom program in place toward the end of

October that will help counselors determine the

number of students in a physical classroom and also

how many of those students are special ed. Then we

look toward the future for the release of

eSchoolPLUS 4.2 and it’s connectivity to Unified

Classroom. As always, next steps.

- Rodney White Rodney White

This week I reflect on how fast the

week passed.

I am having a problem

remembering all of the problems

and issues I resolved or delegated.

I’ve been working on a new

method of reporting and project

tracking. What I need to develop is

an easy way to record the small

challenges that can take a lot of

small chunks of time in one day.

Then I would have something

great.

We are always looking for a better

way.

- Eric May

ISA Business Services

Wrap Up


Posted by October 5, 2018Eric May, Assistant Director of Information Services and Applications

Eric May

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