NWRDC

Updating Secondary Custom District Report Cards SMS 2.0- Online Session
2023-11-09
This 1 hour, online-only workshop focuses on best practices for updating last year’s Secondary Custom report cards. This is not a hands-on class. Demonstration and Q/A.
Target Audience: Secondary Grading secretaries, registrars, or those responsible updating custom report cards

SMS 2.0 Historical Grade Entry Practices - Online Session
2023-11-13
This SMS 2.0 online only workshop covers historical grade entry, grading reports and utilities, Washington State transcripts and Running Start procedures in Web Access.
Target Audience: Registrars, Counseling Secretaries; other personnel who enter Scheduling or Grading information on students.

Best Practices for Schedule Changes SMS 2.0 - Online Session
2023-11-13
This 3-hour, online workshop is designed to demonstrate best practices for current year schedule changes. The focus will be on schedule changes to an individual student profile for the current school year, including the use of the Walk-In Scheduler. Reports available (individual student schedule and check out forms) will be reviewed.
Target Audience: Counselors, Admin, office staff making changes to individual student schedules
Pre Req: Video: Intro to Skyward Student Management

Payroll/Personnel Lab - In Person
2023-11-14 09:00 - 15:00 (Africa/Abidjan) | Training Lab
District staff can bring their work to the lab anytime during the hours listed below. This lab will provide both Payroll and Personnel staff a place to work on monthly tasks and processes with a coordinator available to answer any questions that arise.
Who Should Attend: Payroll and Personnel Employees, especially those within the first year of hire or migration to Qmlativ

Qmlativ Changing Grades in a Closed Grading Period - Online Session
2023-11-15, 2023-12-07
Description: During this 2.5-hour, online ZOOM session, the workshop will focus on ways to give teachers grace periods to complete score entry at the end of a Grading Period. As well as opening a locked Grading Period after it has closed for all or selected teachers to allow students to turn in missing work and/or improve their grades. We’ll look at the two options to administratively approve grade changes. Finally, we’ll finish by viewing some of the reporting options available. Note: This feature works for both Standards Based and Secondary Gradebooks. During this session all examples will be using the Secondary Gradebook.
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer). To ensure you receive the maximum benefit from your attendance, please find a quiet place while attending this session allowing you to fully participate without interruption.
Target Audience: Registrars, Office staff responsible for the grading cycle

Preparing the S-275 Report in Qmlativ - Online Session
2023-11-16 08:00 - 15:00 (Africa/Abidjan)
This session will be open for S275 questions in Qmlativ and SMS.

Attendance Reporting SMS 2.0 - Online Session
2023-11-28 | Online Session
This 4 hour online-only workshop focuses on the many canned Attendance reporting options of the Attendance Module in SMS 2.0. Attendees will; review how attendance configurations, absent type and reason codes, and the calendar impact Attendance Reporting results. In addition, they will be provided the opportunity to create up-to twenty (20) “real-life” reporting templates.
Attendance secretaries; Building staff and Administrators
User must be proficient at Attendance entry and/or have attended a Basic Attendance training.

Updating Custom Standard Based Report Cards SMS 2.0- Online Session
2023-11-29
This 1 hour, online-only workshop focuses on best practices for updating last year’s Standards Based Custom report cards. This is not a hands-on class. Demonstration and Q/A.
Target Audience: secretaries, registrars, or those responsible updating custom report cards

Student User Forum - Online Session
2023-11-30, 2023-12-14
The District Contacts User Forum meets monthly to review newly released features software updates tips for using the program effectively and the opportunity to share best business practices with peers.
Target Audience: District WESPaC Coordinators, persons responsible for the SIS system at the district level.

Data Mining Basics SMS 2.0- Online Session
2023-11-30
This 3-hour online workshop will focus on creating custom reports within the Data Mining module. By the end of the workshop participants will leave with an Active Student base report for cloning and other report purposes. Time permitting, other topics covered may include the following: how to utilize Process Lists, create Address Labels, create Custom Labels, and how to order reports from Centralized Printing.
Zoom Model: This is a (hands-on style) ZOOM session (to fully participate users should have access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in their data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer). To ensure you receive the maximum benefit from your attendance, please find a quiet place while attending this session allowing you to fully participate without interruption.
Target Audience: Users wanting to learn about Data Mining functionality in SMS 2.0

FM Pre-Migration Clean-Up Lab - Online Session
2023-12-04 09:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Abidjan)
This month’s topic will be Accounts Payable.
This on-line workshop/lab offers a real-time opportunity to work collaboratively with NWRDC’s Pre-Migration Clean Up Team to discuss and resolve problematic data concerns in preparation for migration to Qmlativ..

HR/PR Pre-Migration Clean-Up Lab - Online Session
2023-12-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-08 13:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Abidjan)
This on-line workshop/lab offers a real-time opportunity to work collaboratively with NWRDC’s Pre-Migration Clean Up Team to discuss and resolve problematic data concerns in preparation for migration to Qmlativ.

Qmlativ for Adminstrators: Viewing Basic Student Information - Online Session
2023-12-05
Description: During this 1-hour, online ZOOM session, the workshop will focus on looking up basic student information, including demographic, family, attendance, discipline, grades, and more. You’ll discover what information is available, and where to find it. We’ll also explore how to use quick prints for individual reports.
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer). To ensure you receive the maximum benefit from your attendance, please find a quiet place while attending this session allowing you to fully participate without interruption.
Target Audience: Administrators, Dean of Students

Qmlativ for Administrators: Lists, Tiles, and Reports - Online Session
2023-12-06
Description: During this online ZOOM session, we’ll review student lists, adding and rearranging fields to create individual unique lists for your needs. We’ll explore how to add filters and sorts to the list. In addition, we’ll create Live Tiles and Chart Tiles to give you instant information on your Dashboard of important data, keeping you up-to-date on what is happening in your Entity. We’ll also look at reports that you might want to use on a regular basis to give you snapshots of attendance, grades, discipline and other data for your students.
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer). To ensure you receive the maximum benefit from your attendance, please find a quiet place while attending this session allowing you to fully participate without interruption.
Target Audience: Administrators, Dean of Students

Qmlativ Explorations - Business - Online Session
2023-12-07 09:00 - 09:45 UTC | NWRDC Business Zoom
Qmlativ Explorations is a 45-minute session to introduce and explore the Qmlativ software. Each session offered includes a 10 to15 minute presentation and/or demonstration on specific product information for Finance, Payroll or Human Resources with time for questions after the presentation. These presentations will be online only.

Payroll/Personnel Lab - In Person
2023-12-12 09:00 - 15:00 (Africa/Abidjan)

Future Scheduling Parts 1 & 2 Combo - Online Session
2023-12-13
This 3.5 hour online only session is a combination course targets experienced Skyward Future Scheduling team members. Users should have a solid understanding of the course components to generate student schedules using Traditional and/or Online methods and how to update them based on the next year’s requirements.
The focus of this training will be cloning and preparing the course master, setup and preparation for student request entry. Additional setup may include course recommendations and online student requests.
Class has an optional 1.5 hour working session for users to work on their individual Course Masters.
NOTE: New users to Future Scheduling should attend Future Scheduling Part 1 and Part 2 in separate course offerings to gain the appropriate knowledge at a more detailed level.
Zoom Model: This is a (hands-on style) ZOOM session (to fully participate users should have access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in their data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer). To ensure you receive the maximum benefit from your attendance, please find a quiet place while attending this session allowing you to fully participate without interruption.
Target Audience: EXPERIENCED Counselors/Registrars/Counseling Secretaries responsible for data entry of Master Schedule and Request Processing.

SMS2Q Employee Profile - Online Session
2024-01-03 08:00 - 09:00 (Africa/Abidjan)
SMS2Q sessions allow users from districts migrating within the next 6-9 months to bring any questions they encountered when completing their Pre-Migration trainings on the designated topic. Users can obtain the Training Schedule from their Project Manager that details the various PDC courses, documentation, and video resources that are a prerequisite to attending this Q&A session.

SMS2Q Vendors & Purchasing - Online Session
2024-01-03 10:00 - 11:00 (Africa/Abidjan)

Qmlativ Managing Student Information - Online Session
2024-01-08
At the conclusion of this training, the class participant will be able to: Navigate in Qmlativ, add a new student with basic demographics (family, enrollment and emergency contact information), add Special Program records (including Military Family), update information (phones, addresses, family changes) and process a withdrawal correctly. In addition, participants will learn how to utilize browse screens to customize their vies for different purpose and generate reports directly from the browse screens.
Zoom Model: Presentation (participant only needs one screen and a headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer).
Target Audience: Building registrars and those that enter student records

FM Pre-Migration Clean-Up Lab - Online Session
2024-01-08 09:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Abidjan)
This month’s topic will be Open Topic Lab.
This on-line workshop/lab offers a real-time opportunity to work collaboratively with NWRDC’s Pre-Migration Clean Up Team to discuss and resolve problematic data concerns in preparation for migration to Qmlativ..

Qmlativ Scheduling Basics Current Year Part 1 of 2 - Online Session
2024-01-09
Description: This online ZOOM session is for buildings that do scheduling for the new year without using future scheduling tools. This can be elementary, middle schools, high schools and alternative schools that do “hand scheduling by individual students” or schedule by class roster. Learn how to clean up the course master/sections/meets, schedule by individual students and scheduling by class.
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer).
Series Includes: Scheduling Basics Current Year 1, Scheduling Basics Current Year 2.
Target Audience: Building secretaries, registrars and counselors that do scheduling.

Qmlativ Scheduling Basics Current Year Part 2 of 2 - Online Session
2024-01-09
Description: This online ZOOM session is for buildings that do scheduling for the new year without using future scheduling tools. This can be elementary, middle schools, high schools and alternative schools that do “hand scheduling by individual students” or schedule by class roster. Learn to use utilities to schedule students in bulk. Print class rosters and schedules. The remainder of the class will give users time to work on their actual schedules in live data with the instructor available for questions.
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer).
Prerequisite: Qmlativ Scheduling Basics Current Year (1 of 2)
Series Includes: Scheduling Basics Current Year 1, Scheduling Basics Current Year 2
Target Audience: Building secretaries, registrars and counselors that do scheduling

SMS2Q Time Off - Online Session
2024-01-09 08:00 - 09:00 (Africa/Abidjan)

SMS2Q AP & Credit Cards - Online Session
2024-01-09 10:00 - 11:00 (Africa/Abidjan)

Qmlativ Activities Basics - Online Session
2024-01-10
Description: This online ZOOM session is a basic overview of viewing, creating and maintaining activity records in Qmlativ. This session will include demonstration of creating an activity, adding students to an activity, reporting and activity access. This session will include some hands on activities.
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer).
Target Audience: Athletic/ASB Secretaries, Coaches and Athletic Directors

Qmlativ Grading Basics Part 1 of 2 - Online Session
2024-01-11
Description: During this online ZOOM session, we will guide you through the basics of Grade Entry and Grading Admin (accepting grade changes).
Zoom Model: This is a hands-on ZOOM session (to fully participate we recommend having access to two screens – one to see the presenter’s screen and a second to have a screen to work in the data, headset with Mic or speakers and mic on the computer).
Series Includes: Grading Basics (1 of 2), Grading Basics Reports (2 of 2)
Target Audience: Registrars, Counseling Secretaries; other office personnel who enter Grading information on students.
