Webinars

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

Webinars Offered:

Allentown Diocese Teacher Portal and Grid 

You've asked for it and we've done it. Enter student assignment scores in a fast and easy grid format. Limit which assignments you see and what order they are in. Print a summary report and export the information. Set category weights by marking terms. See what's involved with configuring the Portal. Enter Skill Standards and Subject Grades from the same Portal.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/15/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
09/17/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
09/20/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
09/21/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
09/23/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
09/29/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
10/01/10 3:00pm-4:30pm
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Friday Forum 

Expand your knowledge! Have an area you would like to explore? Want more detail about how something runs? Whether it's building a better filter or adding a new user, this webinar will handle it. Bring your questions and issues. We will go over any and all areas of the software. If possible, please send your questions to training@cri-mms.com prior to the session.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/10/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
09/24/10 9:00am-10:30am
10/08/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Friday Forum-Custom Report Writer 

Every school has unique requirements for reports and requests. This open forum is tailored to your specific needs. Bring your questions and formatting needs so we can help you produce the results you want. If possible please send your questions to training@cri-mms.com prior to the session.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/17/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
10/01/10 10:00am-11:30am
10/15/10 9:00am-10:30am
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PA PIMS October Submissions 

Get the information needed for the first set of Templates to the state. Find out what you are missing for the Student, Student Snapshot, School Enrollment and Program Fact exports due in October.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
10/05/10 10:00am-11:30am
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MA SIMS & EPIMS Expansion 

Get ready for the Student Course Schedules Export. Match your Course offerings with the required State information. Make sure student grades will export properly. EPIMS changes involve Highly Qualified, Subject Matter Competency and Work Assignments.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/10/10 9:00am-10:30am
09/13/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
10/06/10 9:30am-11:00am
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State Electronic Submissions 

The states are looking for more and more information. What information is your state looking for? Demographic, enrollment, discipline, staff and other information. We'll show you where to get a list of what your state is looking for and where to find it.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/20/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
10/12/10 10:00am-11:30am
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Getting Ready for Next Year 

Now is the time to get next year off and running. Streamline the process by copying much of the current year information into next year. Add returning students and those coming from other schools in your district. New student registrations can then be entered directly into the database. Update the information specific to the new school year and get going.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/14/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Keeping the Database Healthy 

Performing periodic maintenance on the database will help it run smoothly and efficiently. Knowing the backup and restore procedures will give you peace of mind. Learn how to use administrative utilities to solve problems.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/30/10 11:00am-12:30pm
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Discipline Reporting & School Safety 

School Safety is important. Track offences for either individual students or incidences involving multiple people. School personnel can easily enter Infractions and associate multiple consequences to the same infraction or offence. Print detention lists.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/21/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Parent Notification for Attendance & Discipline 

Notify parents by email or letter about excessive absences or discipline actions involving their children. Track when those letters and emails were sent.

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Ramp Up Basic Student Information 

This webinar explores how to manage contacts, mass edit demographics, and update records in multiple school years. Find a returning student, even if they were in another school year or a different school in your district.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
10/12/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Importing and Exporting 

Transfer data from several different file formats into MMS. Extract data into spreadsheets, text files and graphs.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/21/10 8:30am-10:00am
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Customizing which Students to Work With 

The concepts of Filters may at first seem confusing. A filter shapes your MMS Generations experience by allowing you to work with a specific subset of students. You can create filters to allow you to work with just students with IEPs, students with 10 or more absences, students with missing schedules, etc. There are thousands of possible ways to customize student criteria and sort order.

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Dates, Dates & More Dates 

Start the new School Year with the correct dates. Get your Term Dates ready for Scheduling and Attendance. Set up your Calendar Dates and give students their initial Attendance Entry. Find out how to track the Section Entry/Exit Dates in student schedules. Configure the Web Portal with Grade Book Bin Dates and Skills Dates.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/14/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Getting around MMS 

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):
10/06/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Honor Roll Explained 

Reward students for their efforts. Set up any number of honor rolls with limits by GPA range or minimum and maximum grade counts. Even set up a rule for ineligible students with too many failures.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
10/07/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Historical & Summer School Grades 

A new student enters school and you need to get their prior history into your system. Discover ways to enter this and summer school grades.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/23/10 10:00am-11:30am
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Grade Point Averages & Class Rank 

Calculating GPAs and Class Rank are essential functions of Grade Reporting. In this Webinar you will learn how set up, calculate and store as many different GPAs as you need. They can cover a single term or multiple years, weighted by course credits or course level. When GPA's go bad, narrow down where the issue is and how to fix it.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
10/07/10 9:00am-10:30am
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Are You Ready for Report Cards? 

Join us for an overview of the steps needed to prepare for Report Cards. This will include getting attendance totals, finding missing grades, calculating honor rolls and more.

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Bridging to Popular Third-Party Grade Books 

The MMS bridges to five popular third-party Grade Book software packages (Classroll, Making the Grade, Grade Machine, Grade Quick and Pinnacle Grade 2). The Teacher Grade Book Manager creates transportable files known as "grade book files" containing each teacher's list of courses, and students enrolled in them. The MMS/Classroll Auto-Link streamlines the transfer of information between MMS and Classroll.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/23/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Scheduling Elementary Schools 

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

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Standards Setup for Grade Reporting 

Standards. Competencies. Skills. Whatever you call them, MMS can track and report them. Use your own grade scale to measure progress to mastery. Do the set up for the district in one school and copy to others.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
10/15/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Standards Based Report Cards  

Learn how to design report cards with your standards and skills so that they are compatible with your district needs. Print the appropriate report cards for students at all grade levels.

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Health Screenings 

Screenings from Hearing to Lead Toxicity can be tracked and recorded. Enter growth information and print BMI charts. Quickly add hearing screenings for a group of students and then go back and change the few that failed.

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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 history and see how it can impact the state immunizations.

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Medications and the Log 

Start with a list of prescriptions and over the counter medications grouping by type. List orders for medications the student is taking at school or at home. Track when medications are brought to school and by whom. Log when medications are given.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/24/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Make the Health System Work for You 

Learn how to streamline your codes for efficient information entry. Customize these codes to simplify producing reports and tallies needed on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/29/10 9:30am-11:00am
10/14/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Immunizations & State Requirements 

Quickly and easily track immunizations given to students. Add new ones as they are required. See how both can impact state immunization compliancy rules. These rules can go from the number of doses the student has received, to looking at the intervals between doses.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/29/10 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Custom Reporting: The Basics of PRW 

You will appreciate our easy-to-use custom report writer, Precision Report Writer. This sophisticated reporting and query tool sorts, groups, and filters information the way you want it. Results are automatically formulated and displayed as reports, labels, graphs, and spreadsheets. This webinar starts you on your way with the basics.

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Custom Reporting: Summaries, Cross-Tabs & Labels 

This class is a continuation of 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. Also explore the Summary, Cross-Tab and Label requests.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/16/10 10:00am-11:30am
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Custom Reporting: Deeper into the Details 

This is a continuation of Precision Report Writer 1 & 2. Get deeper into the nitty-gritty of the requests. This class will work with variables and calculations.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
10/01/10 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Follow the Money: Fee Tracking Transactions 

Follow the money from tuition to lost book fees. Mass edit the registration fee to multiple students. Enter a single payment to a specific student and print a receipt. Import electronic payments from a text file. Post billing transactions based on a date range.

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Fee Tracking Setup 

Set up the foundation for tracking the money flow. Define which fees and payments you want to track and any comments to clarify them. Set up your periodic billing schedules with posting dates and percentages. Create commonly occurring billing scenarios that can be assigned to students.

Schedule (Eastern Time):
09/30/10 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.