Webinars

These instructor-led virtual classes use the Internet to provide a convenient and cost-effective learning experience.

Webinars Offered:

Teacher Portal 2.1.03 and the Grid 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/12/10 9:00am-10:30am
03/16/10 1:30pm-3:00pm
03/17/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
03/18/10 2:00pm-3:30pm
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Friday Forum-PRW 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/19/10 2:00pm-3:30pm
04/02/10 1:30pm-3:00pm
04/16/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
04/30/10 10:00am-11:30am
05/14/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
05/28/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Friday Forum 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/12/10 2:00pm-3:30pm
03/26/10 1:30pm-3:00pm
04/09/10 10:00am-11:30am
04/23/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
05/07/10 9:00am-10:30am
05/21/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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PA PIMS February Submissions Refresher 

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.

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PA PIMS Special Education Export  

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

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PA PIMS School Safety Exports 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/13/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
05/05/10 11:00am-12:30pm
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PA PIMS April Submissions 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/05/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
04/13/10 8:30am-10:00am
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PA PIMS Staff File Reporting 

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.

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Electronic Submission Preparation  

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!

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/18/10 9:00am-10:30am
05/10/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Setting up for Next Year 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/17/10 10:00am-11:30am
04/14/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
05/27/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Keeping MMS Healthy 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/14/10 9:00am-10:30am
05/12/10 11:00am-12:30pm
05/26/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Getting around MMS, Basic Navigation 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/27/10 9:00am-10:30am
05/17/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Importing and Exporting 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/17/10 1:30pm-3:00pm
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Discipline Reporting 

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.

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Advanced Student Management 

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.

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Mail Merge for Attend. & Disc. 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/27/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Scheduling Features 

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!

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/24/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
05/03/10 8:30am-10:00am
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Middle School Team Scheduling 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/07/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
05/07/10 11:00am-12:30pm
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Scheduling Study Halls 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/16/10 9:00am-10:30am
05/14/10 9:00am-10:30am
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ASB 2: Constraints 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/22/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
04/05/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
05/04/10 10:00am-11:30am
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ASB 1: Section Patterns 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/22/10 9:30am-11:00am
04/05/10 9:00am-10:30am
05/03/10 11:00am-12:30pm
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ASB 3: Automated Scheduler 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/24/10 9:00am-10:30am
04/07/10 10:00am-11:30am
05/04/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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When GPAs go Bad 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
05/21/10 8:30am-10:00am
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Setting Up Transcripts 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/01/10 10:00am-11:30am
05/19/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Calculating GPA 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
05/18/10 8:30am-10:00am
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Calculating Honor Roll 

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

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Graduation Requirements 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/30/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
05/19/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Transfer & Summer School Courses 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/01/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
04/20/10 10:00am-11:30am
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Grade Averaging 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
05/18/10 11:00am-12:30pm
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Mail Merge for Grade Reporting 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/30/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Scheduling Elementary Schools 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/25/10 11:00am-12:30pm
04/15/10 10:00am-11:30am
05/25/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Skills Based Grade Reporting Set-Up 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/23/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
04/12/10 9:30am-11:00am
05/24/10 10:00am-11:30am
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Skills Based 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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/25/10 9:00am-10:30am
04/15/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
05/25/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Web Based Course Registration 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/18/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
04/20/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Health Screenings 

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.

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Health History 

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.

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Health Tally Reports 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/30/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
05/12/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Medications and the Log 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/02/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Immunizations & State Req. 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
05/13/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Mail Merge for Health 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/26/2010 9:00am-10:30am
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Health Office Visit Logs 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/29/10 10:00am-11:30am
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Precision Report Writer 1 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/06/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Precision Report Writer 2 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/12/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Precision Report Writer 3 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/21/10 11:00am-12:30pm
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Fee Tracking Setup 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
05/13/10 9:30am-11:00am
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Fee Tracking Reports 

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

Schedule (Eastern Time):
04/29/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Mail Merge for Fee Tracking 

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.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
03/19/10 9:00am-10:30am
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How It Works

Registrants will be provided a web address and sign-in that allows them to join their class with a live trainer at the scheduled date and time. You will be able to interact with the trainer and other participants in real time - just as if you were in a classroom! All you will need is a connection to the internet, voice will be delivered over the phone.
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Unlimited Webinar Subscription

A webinar subscription would enable your school or district to participate in an unlimited number (via 1 connection) of the various courses offered. Webinars are offered throughout the year on a variety of focused 1.5 hour training topics. In addition to topic-focused sessions, we also hold open Friday Forums that allow participants to direct the focus of the session. This allows for flexibility to receive training on any other topic relevant to the group.

How to Register

We offer several pricing options. You may register for just one webinar or you may choose our cost-saving Unlimited Webinar Subscription plan.

You may either register on-line through this website or may call training 1-888-641-9925, Monday through Friday, during regular business hours.