Skyward Summer Training Sessions are
available for campus administrators, support staff, campus gradebook
trainers and new teachers. Training sessions include both initial
training and refresher sessions. New teachers will receive gradebook
training information during their contract signing. The courses are
offered throughout the summer. The Skyward Summer Training Schedule is
now available by clicking the appropriate link(s) below.
Spring Branch ISD Skyward Summer Training Sessions
Demographics Refresher (1 Day)
The Demographics refresher session
will review how to add a new student which includes searching for the
student, adding required information as well as adding enrollment,
family and emergency information. This session will also cover important
processes such as withdrawing a student, transferring a student,
changing a student's grade level and changing family information. The
user will be taught how to run several reports such as Student
Information Reports, Race/Code Distribution Reports, Entry/Withdrawal
Reports, and Student Withdrawal Forms.
Target Audience: Returning
High School Registrars, Middle School
Registrars, Middle School Attendance Clerks who process registration and
withdrawals, Elementary Attendance Clerks, and any assistants for the
groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
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Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Demographics Refresher
|
15
|
7/22/2014
|
8:30 – 3:30
|
150
|
Skyward Demographics Refresher
|
15
|
7/24/2014
|
8:30 – 3:30
|
150
|
Demographics (1 Day)
The Demographics training session will
cover how to add a new student which includes searching for the
student, adding required information as well as adding enrollment,
family and emergency information. This session will also cover important
processes such as withdrawing a student, transferring a student,
changing a student's grade level and changing family information. The
user will be taught how to run several reports such as Student
Information Reports, Race/Code Distribution Reports, Entry/Withdrawal
Reports, and Student Withdrawal Forms.
Target Audience: NEW
High School Registrars, Middle School
Registrars, Middle School Attendance Clerks who process registration and
withdrawals, Elementary Attendance Clerks, and any assistants for the
groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Demographics
|
15
|
7/17/2014
|
8:30 – 3:30
|
150
|
The Attendance training session will
cover how to add, change and delete absences for individual students by
using different processes such as Attendance by Date, Attendance by
Student and Attendance by Class. The Attendance Mass Change process used
for posting Field Trip and Extracurricular absences will be reviewed in
detail. The user will be taught how to run several reports such as Day
Summary Reports, Period Detail Reports, and Unrecorded Class
Attendance. Many Texas State reports will be covered, such as ADA
Reports, Daily Funding Absence Reports and Six-Week Attendance reports.
Target Audience: New
High School Attendance Clerks, Middle
School Attendance Clerks, Elementary Attendance clerks, and any
assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Attendance
|
15
|
7/28/2014
|
8:30 – 11:30
|
150
|
Attendance Refresher (1/2 Day)
The Attendance refresher session will
review how to add, change and delete absences for individual students by
using different processes such as Attendance by Date, Attendance by
Student, and Attendance by Class. The Attendance Mass Change process
used for posting Field Trip and Extracurricular absences will be
reviewed in detail. The user will be taught how to run several reports
such as Day Summary Reports, Period Detail Reports and Unrecorded Class
Attendance. Many Texas State reports will be covered, such as ADA
Reports, Daily Funding Absence Reports and Six-Week Attendance Reports.
Target Audience: Returning
High School Attendance Clerks, Middle
School Attendance Clerks, Elementary Attendance clerks, and any
assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Attendance Refresher
|
15
|
7/28/2014
|
1:30 – 4:30
|
150
|
PEIMS Start of School (2 Hours)
PEIMS activities and procedures for the start of the new school year will be discussed. Topics include an overview of campus PEIMS responsibilities, PEIMS coding changes, PEIMS Funding Issues, Student Attending Accounting Handbook issues, TREx issues, Day 1 Procedures, PEIMS 6-Week Cycle Verification Procedures, Attendance, Leavers, and Compliance Audits.
Target Audience: New and Returning
All campus attendance clerks and registrars
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
PEIMS Procedures Overview
|
30
|
7/16/2014
|
9:30 – 11:30
|
275
|
PEIMS Procedures Overview
|
30
|
7/16/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
275
|
PEIMS Procedures Overview
|
30
|
7/17/2014
|
9:30 – 11:30
|
275
|
PEIMS Procedures Overview
|
30
|
7/17/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
275
|
Current Year Scheduling- Secondary Refresher (1/2 Day)
The Current Year Scheduling session
for Secondary campuses will review how to add/drop student classes
during the school year (how to make student schedule changes). Courses
and Sections will be reviewed as well as how to add sections to the
master schedule during the school year. The user will also be taught how
to add new staff members and make those staff changes on the master
schedule. The Walk-In Scheduler process used for scheduling students
that enroll after school starts will be reviewed. Many scheduling
reports will be covered such as Printing Student Schedules and Printing
Class Rosters.
Target Audience: Returning
High School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, and any assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Secondary Scheduling Refresher
|
15
|
7/30/2014
|
8:30 – 11:30
|
150
|
Current Year Scheduling- Secondary (1 Day)
The Current Year Scheduling session
for Secondary campuses will cover how to add/drop student classes during
the school year (how to make student schedule changes). Courses and
Sections will be reviewed as well as how to add sections to the master
schedule during the school year. The user will also be taught how to add
new staff members and make those staff changes on the master
schedule. The Walk-In Scheduler process used for scheduling students
that enroll after school starts will be reviewed. Many scheduling
reports will be covered such as Printing Student Schedules and Printing
Class Rosters.
Target Audience: NEW
High School Counselors, Middle School Counselors, and any assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Secondary Scheduling
|
15
|
7/31/2014
|
8:30 – 3:30
|
150
|
Current Year Scheduling- Elementary Refresher (2 Hours)
The Current Year Scheduling session
for Elementary campuses will review how to add/drop student classes
during the school year (how to make student schedule changes). Courses
and Sections will be reviewed as well as how to add sections to the
master schedule during the school year. The user will also be taught how
to add new staff members and make those staff changes on the master
schedule. The process of Adding Requests by Course Group will be covered
in detail. Many scheduling reports will be covered such as Printing
Student Schedules and Printing Class Rosters.
Target Audience: Returning
Elementary Attendance clerks and any assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Elementary Scheduling Refresher
|
15
|
7/30/2014
|
1:30 – 3:30
|
150
|
Current Year Scheduling- Elementary (2 Hours)
The Current Year Scheduling session
for Elementary campuses will review how to add/drop student classes
during the school year (how to make student schedule changes). Courses
and Sections will be reviewed as well as how to add sections to the
master schedule during the school year. The user will also be taught how
to add new staff members and make those staff changes on the master
schedule. The process of Adding Requests by Course Group will be covered
in detail. Many scheduling reports will be covered such as Printing
Student Schedules and Printing Class Rosters.
Target Audience: New
Elementary Attendance clerks and any assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Elementary Scheduling
|
15
|
7/21/2014
|
1:30 - 3:30
|
150
|
Discipline Refresher (1/2 Day)
The Discipline session begins with a
review all of the offense, action and location codes used by Spring
Branch ISD. The user will learn how to enter discipline incidents by
Student or by Discipline Officer and how to enter office visits. The
process of Merging Discipline incidents will also be reviewed. Many
Discipline reports will be covered such as Discipline Detail, Discipline
Summary and Number of Occurrences.
Target Audience: Returning
High School Assistant Principals,
Middle School Assistant Principals, Elementary Assistant Principals, and
any assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Discipline Refresher
|
15
|
8/4/2014
|
8:30 - 10:30
|
150
|
Skyward Discipline Refresher
|
15
|
8/5/2014
|
1:30 - 3:30
|
150
|
Discipline (1/2 Day)
The Discipline session begins with a
review all of the offense, action and location codes used by Spring
Branch ISD. The user will learn how to enter discipline incidents by
Student or by Discipline Officer and how to enter office visits. The
process of Merging Discipline incidents will also be reviewed. Many
Discipline reports will be covered such as Discipline Detail, Discipline
Summary and Number of Occurrences.
Target Audience: NEW
High School Assistant Principals,
Middle School Assistant Principals, Elementary Assistant Principals, and
any assistants for the groups listed.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Discipline
|
15
|
8/4/2014
|
1:30 - 4:30
|
150
|
Skyward Discipline
|
15
|
8/5/2014
|
8:30 - 11:30
|
150
|
Gradebook Refresher (2 Hours)
This class is a refresher of Educator
Access Plus and the Skyward Gradebook. Educator Access Plus is a web
based program that allows teachers to view and maintain data on
students. Participants will learn how to enter daily attendance,
discipline referrals and how to create and grade assignments. Many
features of the gradebook will be covered including how to create
on-line assignments and how to run grading reports from the classroom.
Target Audience: Returning
Campus Gradebook trainers and at least one campus administrator.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Elementary Gradebook Refresher
|
15
|
7/10/2014
|
2:00 – 4:00
|
150
|
Secondary Gradebook Refresher
|
15
|
7/16/2014
|
9:00 – 11:00
|
150
|
Gradebook New Teachers (2 Hours)
This class is a presentation of
Educator Access Plus and the Skyward Gradebook. Educator Access Plus is a
web based program that allows teachers to view and maintain data on
students. Participants will learn how to enter daily attendance,
discipline referrals and how to create and grade assignments. Many
features of the gradebook will be covered including how to create
on-line assignments and how to run grading reports from the classroom.
Target Audience:
New Teachers
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Elementary Gradebook – New Teacher
|
15
|
6/11/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Secondary Gradebook – New Teacher
|
15
|
6/18/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Elementary Gradebook – New Teacher
|
15
|
6/25/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Secondary Gradebook – New Teacher
|
15
|
7/9/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Elementary Gradebook – New Teacher
|
15
|
7/15/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Secondary Gradebook – New Teacher
|
15
|
7/23/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
This class will cover the basic procedures for pulling data in Skyward.
Target Audience:
Anyone who needs to pull custom data from Skyward.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Data Mining
|
15
|
06/18/2014
|
8:30 – 10:30
|
150
|
Data Mining
|
15
|
07/29/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Data Mining
|
15
|
08/12/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
Advanced Data Mining (2 Hours)
This class will cover more advanced procedures for pulling data in Skyward.
Target Audience:
Anyone who has attended the Data Mining Course and wants to create more advance reports in Skyward.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Advanced Data Mining
|
15
|
06/25/2014
|
8:30 – 10:30
|
150
|
Advanced Data Mining
|
15
|
08/13/2014
|
1:00 – 3:00
|
150
|
General Overview (2 Hours)
This class is an overview focused on system navigation and functionality.
Target Audience:
Any users new to Skyward.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward General Overview
|
15
|
07/29/2014
|
8:30 – 10:30
|
150
|
This class will cover how to manage and collect student fees.
Target Audience:
Campus personnel in change of fee collection.
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Fee Management
|
15
|
As Needed
|
TBD
|
150
|
Activity Training (2 Hours)
This class focuses on the creation and assignment of student activities.
Target Audience:
Activity Coordinators
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Activity Training
|
15
|
As Needed
|
TBD
|
150
|
Report Card/Progress Report (1/2 Day)
This class covers the procedures on how to print the progress reports and report cards.
Target Audience:
Report Card Coordinators
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Report Card – Sec
|
15
|
As Needed
|
TBD
|
150
|
Report Card – Elem
|
15
|
09/10/2014
|
8:30 – 10:00
|
150
|
Report Card – Elem
|
15
|
09/11/2014
|
1:00 – 2:30
|
150
|
Report Card – Elem
|
15
|
09/15/2014
|
8:30 – 10:00
|
150
|
Administrator Overview (1/2 Day)
This class is an overview focused on system navigation and functionality. It will also cover how to process lockers.
Target Audience:
Principals and Assistant Principals
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Administrator Overview
|
15
|
As Needed
|
TBD
|
150
|
This class will cover how to print the
Family Access letter for parents. It will also cover how to look up and
reset parents' passwords.
Target Audience:
Family Access site coordinators
Course Name
|
Class Size
|
Date
|
Time
|
Room
|
Skyward Family Access
|
15
|
As Needed
|
TBD
|
150
|
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