STUREC© Current Build Date is 08/31/2010 Please read the notes on the Download page.
Summer graduates need to be reported via the RecordMaintenance collection as
part of the
end-of-summer snapshot. Ask your local district expert for help. The schema
for this collection
previously published for this year has been superceded by
last year's schema. Please read the notes
to learn how to do it.
Fall STUREC© Workshop is coming to Royal Oak on Friday September 17th.
The new STUREC© License year begins August 1st
STUREC© License / Support for 2010-11 School
Year No Surcharge this year!
08/01/10 - Start of another new school year.
I'm sure you are all aware of all the 'little' changes that CEPI made to our beloved MSDS reporting
system this summer. We
learned of the draft changes on July 15th. Believe me folks, those little changes are not as 'little' as CEPI would like us
to believe. At least not for us. Last year we spent the entire summer rebuilding the SRSD reporting system into the MSDS
reporting system. An interesting challenge. We were under the mistaken impression that they knew what they were doing and
the database and structure would remain stable. Not so!
They removed a little here, added a little there and moved some stuff around. Just when we had everything working pretty
good, the rules got changed. Ugh.
Anyway, this year's version 0.95 has most of the changes incorporated. The 'Request for
UIC', the 'Fall General
Collection', 'Record Maintenance', 'Supplemental Nutrition' and 'Early
Roster' collections have been tested and several
validation tools
report success. We use "XML Notepad 2007", "Altova XML Spy"
and "Stylus Studio 2009" as our checkers.
XML Notepad is available for FREE from Microsoft, the others are inexpensive
and all can be found on the Internet.
I'm sure we will discover some gotcha's as we approach the Fall count, but hang in there with us and we will all get
through this with honor. We have tested with mostly made-up data for this Fall, well, because
we don't have any 'real' data yet
to test with. If you find something not behaving as you expect, please let
us know right away (and send your data) so that
we can 'fix' it right away, eh?
Ask your district Pupil Accounting Expert for guidance regarding the 'little changes' to the MSDS system.
Will your program participate in any of these Early Childhood programs this year?
If your district will participate in any of these, please send me a note
telling me
which programs, no later than September 15, 2010.
Send Dr.
Bob an email.
These additional facilities are now available...
We have preliminary approval from Docufide for the eTranscript project.
We have had good results in testing with DataDirector.
The one district using KeyTrain has been successful.
A good reason for Adult Education?
"We don't know how to retrain workers who are not well-educated to begin
with," said Robert J. LaLonde, an expert in
work force retraining at the University of Chicago. "It (No Worker Left
Behind) has to leave workers behind because the
people who benefit the most in the program are those with higher skills to begin
with. We don't know how to do adults
with no education."
From an article in the Detroit News http://www.detnews.com/article/20100701/METRO/7010396/Job-retraining-efforts-sputter-in-Michigan
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Did you get a new computer? Is your STUREC© too little? Don't wait for the IT folks, do it yourself. How to get the IT guys to help. New lesson: How to create an Excel spreadsheet from a report print file. STUREC© Manual now on-line thru Menu 7 Downloading updates
Roscoe the 10 pointer! Dear STUREC© users and friends: I am working on a new invention. It is a
device that will connect to your USB port on the
We
are now in the license cycle for
the 2010-11 school year. Downloading an update after August first will trigger an invoice Are you ready to welcome the new MSDS (Michigan Student Data System). This new reporting methodology will be in play beginning with Fall 2009 reporting cycle. Brought to you by your friends at CEPI, it's all new and different. It will replace your old friend SRSD (Single Record Student Data). What else is new or different in this year's program? Click here to find out. STUREC© is able to capture all of the data required by the new
system and it will offer you a unified editing dialog for all of the |
