MMS: Comprehensive School Management System

The Grid assignment editor is here! Filter it. Print it. Find out how to use it. Find out how to set your category weights by term and other new features.

An open forum for Precision Report Writer questions, issues and discussion. If possible, please send your questions to training@cri-mms.com prior to the session.

An open forum for MMS questions, issues and discussion. If possible, please send your questions to training@cri-mms.com prior to the session.

Are you new to MMS and unsure about the PIMS Course Templates? This webinar will primarily focus on the three (3) course templates being submitted for the first time this school year. We will also cover any questions about the changes in the Student, Staff, or Enrollment Templates registrants may have in preparing the exports for the February 1st-February 24th reporting window.

This Webinar will step users through the menus, screens, data input, and exports for the new Special Ed templates.

Get ready for the new PA PIMS School Safety Exports. Find out what you need for the Incident, Person, Incident Offender, Incident Offender Infraction, Incident Offender Disciplinary Action, Incident Offender Parent Involve and Incident Victim exports.

Do you have all the information needed to upload to the state? Find out what you are missing for the Student, Student Snapshot, School Enrollment and Program Fact exports due April 7th-May 6th, 2010.

Learn how to submit these staff files supported by the MMS PIMS module(Teacher File, Teacher Snapshot, and Teacher Assignments). This webinar will cover three exports, importing your staff PPID numbers, entry screens and fields, securing staff information, enhancements, a Q & A period, and a what to expect next topic.

Learn the various ways to enter the information needed for your state Submissions. We''ll show you where to get a list of what data is used for the exports and where to find it. Find which students are missing data. All this and more!

Learn the proper procedure for transferring data to the next school year through the School Year Maintenance operation. Learn how to promote a student and assign new attendance entry information for the next school year.

Learn how to use the administrative tools within MMS to keep the system running smoothly and to troubleshoot problems.

Ever wonder what all the buttons in the menus do? Where can you find the student information you need? What's the difference between the Jobs menu and the Edit menu? What's a filter anyway? This webinar will get you from one end MMS to the other.

Importing and Exporting with MMS GE: Transfer data from several different file formats into MMS. Find out how to extract data from MMS into various formats including spreadsheets, text files and graphs using the Precision Report Writer.

Did you know you can track incidents and associate student infractions to them? Learn how to use your discipline system to it's fullest capacity.

This 1.5 hour session will cover Advanced Student Management features in MMS Generations such as Updating Records in multiple years, Mass Editing and managing Contacts.

Using the Mail Merge function, learn how to notify parents of excessive absences or discipline actions and to track who has received letters.

Need to fill a hole in a student's schedule? Want to email teachers student schedule changes? Ever use the Audit Trail? Did you know we can now track the student entry and exit dates into each section? Learn how!

The fine art of scheduling is applied to the specific needs of middle schools using a ‘team’ approach to student grouping in this webinar session. Along with detailing methods for assigning students to teams, an easy to understand technique for course code naming is presented. MMS tools used for adding courses to student schedules within the assigned teams include: • Automated Schedule Builder • Interactive Student Scheduler • Mass-Edit Student Course Records Operation Scheduling ‘Specials’ or ‘Unified Arts’ courses in addition to core academic courses is also discussed, as well as tips for scheduling non-standard or variable-length term rotations.

Using the Free Time Table, discover how many sections of Study Hall are required per Term and Period. Create the Sections and Schedule the Students.

In preparation for running the ASB, learn how to edit the Teacher and Room tables so that they contain the rules required for your schedule.
Users will gain an understanding of how the Automated Schedule Builder tool creates course sections based on guidelines that they set. Topics covered include the basics of defining course codes and descriptions, how to determine the number of sections needed per course, maximum enrollment figures per section and how to effectively allocate resources such as meeting rooms and teacher assignments. Additionally, attendees will learn which MMS reports can be used to get an accurate picture of the scheduling process and monitor it going forward.

Learn how to establish the parameters for building course sections by the Automated Schedule Builder. Learn how to apply patterns, as well as the number and size, of course sections to be built be the ASB.

Just as the name implies. Learn the most effective way to run the ASB and perfect the schedule as you go. Find out how to use Check points to run different scenarios.

Find out where to look when your GPAs do not come out as expected. Learn how to check the computations to help pinpoint the problem.

The purpose of this Webinar is to setup the MMS Permanent Transcript. Learn how to include only the information you want from the current year for students who are applying to college prior to the completion of the current year.

Calculating GPAs and Class Rank are essential functions of Grade Reporting. In this Webinar you will learn how set up and calculate and store as many different GPAs as you need: Weighted, Un-weighted, 7 Semester **or** Marking Period Averages. Dealing with Transfer Students and diagnosing bad GPAs will also be covered.

In this 1.5-hour, session participants will be walked through setting up the Honor Roll and associated Tables.

Set up the Catalog and Department table to assist in the tracking of High school Graduation Requirements.

Using the Course Transfer Module, learn how to handle Transfer Students and Summer school Grades easily and effectively.

Teach MMS to correctly calculate Semester and Final Averages based on your rules.

Use the Grade Reporting Mail Merge to notify parents of Grade Performance. Use Mail Merge to e-mail notices home.

Learn how to schedule your elementary school in preparation for generating skills-based report cards. This session will focus on how to create courses/subjects, associate teachers with their classes, and assign students to classes.

Get MMS ready to track skills-based grades. Learn how to create your own grade options and customize the skills you’ll be tracking on report cards.

Generate your skills-based report cards from MMS. Learn how to design report cards so that they’re compatible with MMS and print the appropriate report cards for students at all grade levels.

For schools with the Parental Internet Access Module (PIAM): Learn how to publish course catalogue information for the upcoming year to your site. See how students can input course requests on your site and learn how to import those requests back in to your database.

Learn how to enter screenings for Physical (including Height/Weight for BMI and Tuberculosis), Vision, Hearing, Dental, Spinal and Lead Toxicity. Find out where to set the default hearing frequencies and how to use the save/recall settings.

Ever wanted to be alerted when a student has a medical condition? Find out how to enter a student's health hisotry and see how it can impact the state immunizations.

A must attend for your school nurses! These new Health Tally Reports are only an enhancement if the nurses know how to properly record student health services in the MMS.

Track which medications the student is taking, and when someone brought in which medication. Record when medications are given, either scheduled ****or**** as needed. Find out the difference between the Medications and Health Office Visit Logs.

Learn how to enter immunizations and check for compliancy with the state requirements.

This session will address the issues involved in creating a Body Mass Index (BMI) mail merge letter. The general setup of mail merges will be covered – building a table, creating and editing the letter body, formatting letters using a master report form and the merging, printing and tracking of letters and labels. Specifics of the BMI letter will be discussed as well as techniques for creating customized mail merge letters.

Get the most from how you organize the information tracking each visit the student makes to the Health office.

Learn what Precision Report Writer can do and what kinds of requests can you produce. Get started creating a simple detail report.

A continuation of MMS Precision Report Writer. In this session, you will build upon your knowledge to modify a detailed request by using sorting and grouping functions and modify a request layout to create your own look.

A continuation of Precision Report Writer 1 and 2. Get deeper into the nitty-gritty of the requests.

Learn how to set up the codes, billing schedules and templates used in Fee Tracking.

Find out how to set up Fee Tracking Reports like a monthly statement, transaction register and the aging report.

Find out how to use the Fee Tracking Mail Merge to send letters based on aging, account summaries and statement information. Letters are available in a one-per-family format and individual student format.