Class Schedule

Welcome to NEOMIN's online training and event registration system. We are committed to providing excellent software training to assist our member schools. Select a class from the calendar to begin the registration process, or browse a class list.  Complete post training and event survey here. 

 

Calendar Color Key:       Student/EMIS Services       Library Services       Fiscal Services       Other
Library Database Cleanup

This class will focus on patron maintenance issues such as expired patrons with transactions and students who have moved expired.  Cataloging clean up will be covered as well inclusing titles with no copies, no price, fixing call numbers, item statuses, material types, using last checkout date for possible removal of items, and much more!

Basic Cataloging & SmartPort

This workshop focuses on the basic topics of copy cataloging in the SirsiDynix Symphony client, Workflows. Topics include Adding/Editing Items, Call Number and Item Maintenance, Global Item Modification, Transfer Title/Call No/Items, Remove Item, Adding Bib Records, INFOhio Cataloging Method, Vendor Files, SmartPort, SmartPORT Properties, SmartPORT: Obtaining Records, and SmartPORT: Complete the Cataloging Process.

Library Barcoding 101

- User Maintenance
- Item/Patron Barcodes
- Spine Labels
- “Review my Account” OPAC Barcodes

This workshop first focuses on the topics of user maintenance in the SirsiDynix Symphony client, Workflows. User Maintenance topics include user registration, modifying user records, and removing users.

Creating barcode reports will also be covered which include generic (or “dumb”) barcode creation for items/patrons, smart barcodes (for items/patrons), and spine labels. Learn how to schedule a barcode report to receive barcodes for new students weekly. Create barcodes to ‘Mark Long Overdue Items Lost’.

Library Cataloging Open Lab

This is an open lab, that follows the Basic Cataloging & SmartPort training, to allow participants the opportunity to catalog library items.

Advanced Cataloging

This workshop focuses on advanced cataloging topics such as cataloging equipment, using cataloging templates for commercially published or locally created materials, modifying titles, general overview of cataloging series and adding genres, transferring items, and exporting MARC records for third-party services.

Library Database Cleanup Open Lab

This is an open lab, that follows the Library Database Cleanup training, to allow participants the opportunity to run reports and and analyze their collection for cleanup.

Library Inventory Process

This workshop reviews the necessary steps to plan, start, and finish an electronic inventory using the library automation system.  The inventory process is reports-driven, so some experience with reports is recommended before taking this course.  We will also discuss using MobileStaff to complete an inventory  (knowledge of MobileStaff is encouraged before this training, if interested in completing an Inventory using MobileStaff).

Library Reports

This workshop focuses on understanding reports in Workflows.  Including how to set the print pathway, review of the different report components, emailing reports, creating/scheduling reports, and reviewing most of the INFOhio tab reports.  “Report Favorites” will be reviewed as well. 

Library User Group Meeting

The purpose of the library user group is to form collaborative relationships and share expertise relative to library and information services among Trumbull and Ashtabula County library/media professionals.  Each meeting offers access to new library-related resources and information.  Specific agendas are tailored to each unique meeting.  You can view previous meetings here.

Library Year End Reporting

This workshop focuses on library circulation and cataloging statistic reports (such as Value of Collection report, Age of Collection report, New Titles report, Donated items – funding source report, Monthly Circulation Statistics report, Circulation Statistics by Grade report, Items with Highest Circulation in School Year report, and other selected reports).

Overview for New Library Staff

Are you new to the library and want to be acquainted with the library automation program and NEOMIN? This workshop will address the basics of the library automation client, Workflows (Introduction to WorkFlows, ISearch & Fetch, Circulation, and Item Searching).  NEOMIN-related procedures are covered including patron update processing, patron image loading, vendor disk processing, and the NEOMIN's web help desk.

USPS Calendar Year End

This workshop covers the following items for balancing payroll at Calendar Year End:

  1. Adding board paid Life Insurance over $50,000
  2. Reports to print
  3. Balancing W2s
  4. Running W2 Report and any errors you might find
  5. Balancing 941s to W2s
  6. Running W2s

 

Fiscal Open Lab

This is a time that NEOMIN’s fiscal staff will available to work with you on any problems or questions that you may have. Some people have asked for a little extra help with EIS Inventory system. This would be a good time for EIS, not a formal training but we will be there to answer questions.

Attendance

These sessions will cover doing Daily Attendance through StudentInformation.  It will cover entering attendance through various methods as well as printing attendance reports.

Basic Student Fees

Sessions will cover adding/editing fees to the Fee Administration screens, mass assigning fees to individual students, adding fees to individual students, and entering fee payments.  Generating various fee reports will also be covered.

College Credit Plus (CCP)

In these sessions, instruction will be given and explain how to best create CCP courses and course sections in StudentInformation, as well as how to best schedule CCP courses onto student schedules. We will also discuss entering earned CCP marks for students, and how to ensure that the correct college credits are entered in SIS, as well.

After reviewing the entire CCP Training Document, time may be available at the end of class, in order for attendees to add and/or verify their CCP student schedules in SIS.

Course History/High School GPAs/Graduation Eligibility/Transcripts

These sessions will discuss how to enter earned marks for individual students and for groups of students (student mark entry screen in SIS), which is necessary to complete when students were scheduled into and have earned final grades in certain courses (CCP/ESC/VLA courses). These trainings will also describe the process of refreshing GPA sets, viewing and manually entering course and grade information into a student’s Course History (COHI), as well as the process of creating/customizing transcripts in StudentInformation. We will also review some helpful SIS reports, such as the GPA/Ranking report.

Discipline

This training will cover EMIS rules regarding reporting discipline, entering discipline information into SIS, how to generate discipline letters, and generate various discipline reports. 

Fall State Reporting

These sessions will cover October state reporting.  These sessions are open to all personnel who will be required to enter data for Student reporting including building secretaries, EMIS Coordinators, counselors, etc.

Gifted Reporting

These sessions will provide an overview of gifted processing, including how NEOMIN performs mass updates of gifted screening information, as well as how districts can best enter assessed and identified data for their gifted students and the process of entering program codes for served students. We will also review how to generate helpful reports with which to verify all gifted information, from both StudentInformation and from the Analytics Hub.

Memberships

These sessions will cover adding program codes/memberships to students in StudentInformation. 

ParentAccess Administration

Session will also cover how to generate registration keys and maintain ParentAccess accounts. 

If attending this training and want to be able to access to ALL GradeBook ParentAccess screens beyond the screens that allow you to generate and maintain ParentAccess accounts, please be sure your district’s ProgressBook Security person has given you the GradeBook role of School Administrator prior to attending this training.  

Should the only assistance or instruction needed is regarding importing Student Google email addresses so that students can log into ParentAccess with their Google email address and password, please enter a ticket with NEOMIN.

Registration/Basic Demographics

These sessions will cover logging into eSIS, admitting/withdrawing students, and other basic demographic information.

Report Card Processing

These sessions will be an overview of the entire report card process for ALL K-12 buildings. We will discuss refreshing GPAs, generating helpful reports to verify grade entry, generating report cards from SIS, as well as generating elementary Standards Based Report Cards from GradeBook, and how to generate various reports that can be helpful to verify student earned marks. Instruction will also be given and explain how to generate an honor roll report in Excel, as well as perfect attendance report generation.

K-12 Pre-scheduling for next school year

These sessions will discuss every part of the pre-scheduling process for ALL grade levels and all buildings. Topics discussed will include mention of what items in StudentInformation have possibly been copied into your building’s 2024-25 school year already, and how and when NEOMIN will copy your students into the next school year. The sessions will also provide a complete overview of how courses should be created (elementary, secondary and CCP courses) and how they should be coded, as well as demonstrate an overview of how course sections (the Master Schedule) should be created and/or updated. We will review how to generate helpful reports that will aid in course and section verification, as well as discuss how to create and utilize course groups (blocks) in the scheduling process, and how to maintain and update homerooms, in StudentInformation. These sessions will also briefly discuss how to transfer new students enrolled in the current year, from current year to next school year, individually.

Special Education EMIS Reporting

To help assure our districts are receiving the maximum amount of funding that they are entitled to for special education students, NEOMIN is offering a training session for all staff who are involved in the entering/reporting of special education data.  This 2 hour training session will focus on the reporting of special education data in EMIS and is designed to help improve the understanding of the EMIS special education reporting process. 

Student Services User Group Meeting
EMIS Alliance - Troubleshooting Federal Child Count Reports

This class will focus on troubleshooting the EMIS FCC Reports, which are generated throughout the EMIS data submission process.  We will be reviewing YOUR live data during this class. 

The Federal Child Count data submitted generates Federal Special Education funding. 

This submission window will close Mid-December.

Grad Points Summary Screen

The Graduation Points application provides a view of a student’s progress toward their graduation requirements path. The application was built based on the rules for graduation. The Graduation Points screen is designed to provide information in both summary and detail form. The summary gives you a quick, overall status of the pathways a student has achieved or is in process. Each summary breaks into details showing the individual courses and/or assessments used in meeting the requirement. Additional college admission testing and career technical pathways provide the student’s status to determine if a student is eligible for an alternate pathway.

Grad Cohort reports in the Data Collector will also reviewed.  NEOMIN will work to ensure each user that has signed up to attend this training has a copy of appropriate Grad Cohort reports for their district for the training.

HB 410

This in-service will cover an overview of HB 410 and how StudentInformation has been designed to accommodate the HB 410 EMIS reporting requirements, running various attendance HB 410 Ad Hoc /Analytics Hub reports, viewing/entering data on the StudentInformation Absence Intervention screen, and how to generate Absence Intervention Letters for applicable students.

EFP Calendar Year End -Fund Accounting

We will cover 1099 processing for eFinance software. 

EMIS Alliance - Troubleshooting Graduation Reports

EMIS Alliance training for EMIS Coordinators and Guidance Counselors to learn how to understand/troubleshoot the data presented in graduate reports.  

EMIS Alliance - Troubleshooting Teacher Licensure Course Status (TLC) Reports

This presentation will focus on troubleshooting the TLC Status Report, which is generated during the Initial Staff and Course (L) Collection

Including:

Understanding TLC Status Report Data

CORE Educator Search and Certification and Licensure Search

Accessing and Formatting the TLC Status Report

Troubleshooting the TLC Status Report

EFP Fiscal Year End - Payroll

This training session will cover how to prepare eFP payroll for Fiscal Year End. This will cover STRS, how to change contracts for the new year, how to update leave balances

 

EFP Staff EMIS

Staff EMIS

Basic Excel for Student/EMIS

An abundant number of reports provided by ODE as well as StudentInformation Ad Hoc/Analytics Hub reports can be viewed in an Excel format.  Therefore, in order to assist users with reviewing and managing Excel report information, NEOMIN is offering a basic Excel class.  Below is a list of topics that will covered in this training.

Opening reports in Excel, parts of the screen, wrapping text in the header row, freezing top row, expanding all columns, sorting, filtering, renaming sheets in a workbook, adding sheets in a workbook, shortcut keys, and creating simple formulas.

EMIS Alliance - Troubleshooting Career Tech FTE Reports

This session is for EMIS Coordinators and we will troubleshoot the CTE FTE reports provided by DEW through the data collector.

Calendar Maintenance

This class is intended for EMIS Coordinators and will cover maintaining EMIS Sub-calendars.  It will also cover entering EMIS Calendar Exceptions through both the Calendar Exception Maintenance Screen and the Bulk Calendar Exception Maintenance Screen.

EFP - Budgeting

This course will cover opening a new year in Budget Prep and entering new budget amounts.

EFP - Salary Schedules and Calendars

This class will cover adding new salary schedules and new calendars for the next school year. 

EFP Calendar Year End - Payroll

This course will cover balancing and W2 processing

USAS Calendar Year End

This course will cover calendar year end closing procedures for USAS. This will include 1099s

EFP Fiscal Year End - Fund Accounting
ESC Scheduling Open Lab

This ESC Open Lab will not include the ESC training session, but be a dedicated Open Lab for those wishing to update and/or complete ESC scheduling for their buildings. Registrants should bring with them a list of all district ESC students, as we will work on updating or completing the scheduling of all ESC students per district.

Grad Credit Progress Verification

Ohio law outlines the course requirements all students must complete to earn a diploma.  Ohio students must earn a minimum of 20 course units in specified subject areas.  During this training, NEOMIN will work with districts to review the Core Summary records currently being reported to ODE for students to assist with accurate data reporting.  ODEW is reviewing this data to monitor a student’s progress towards graduation.

REDESIGN - INVENTORY

This training will cover entering items, reports and fiscal year end closing for the new Inventory system. 

Redesign Calendars, Salary Notices, and New Contract Training
Redesign Staff EMIS

This training will cover Staff EMIS for the beginning of the school year

USAS Budgeting/Appropriation Refresher
USAS Fiscal Year End
USPS Fiscal Year End
CrossCheck - Special Education

The course is for ALL Special Education CrossCheck users.  We will dive into the checks, where the checks are derived from and how/when to correct.  We will also look at the reports available as well as other CrossCheck features. 

This data training will cover all Special Education data being reported to DEW.

Graduate, Attenadnce, Program Codes, Gifted, EL, Assessments, Calendars, Enrollment numbers, ect... will be covered in a separate training. 

 

CrossCheck - Student

The course is for ALL non-Special Education CrossCheck users. We will dive into the checks, where the checks are derived from and how/when to correct. We will also look at the reports available as well as other CrossCheck features.

This data will Graduate, Attendance, Program Codes, Gifted, EL, Assessments, Calendars, Enrollment numbers and many other EMIS Reportable Data for Students. 

Special Education will be covered in a separate training. 

EMIS Alliance - Tools for Troubleshooting Data Associated with CTE Accountability

This EMIS Alliance course touches on the CTE Program of Concentration and concentrator reporting as well as the available reports. 

FTE Deep Dive

We will be looking at YOUR district's live data to better understand these reports and troubleshoot your FTE reports.  

This session is meant to help ensure your FTE and Federal Child Count data is correct prior to the Initial Student Collection closing. 

Introduction to StudentInformation

This session will provide a comprehensive walkthrough of key features and tools in StudentInformation, including:

  • Navigating the StudentInformation interface

  • Searching for students efficiently

  • Utilizing the "I Want To" menu for quick access to common tasks

  • Accessing resources through the Learning Center

  • Viewing data for students shared across NEOMIN districts

  • Setting up and managing ad-hoc memberships

  • Generating canned reports and reports from the Analytics Hub

  • Understanding and applying address standardization and verification procedures

  • Using the EZ Query SIS Student Search tool for custom searches

New EMIS Coordinator Training

New EMIS Coordinator Training is designed for new EMIS coordinators and other district staff who work with EMIS data and EMIS reporting. We define "new" as those with 3 or fewer years of experience with EMIS reporting. We strongly recommend that all EMIS coordinators who meet this definition plan to attend this training.

This training will be an introduction to all things EMIS.  Resources, What is EMIS, SIS, Data Collector, ODDEX and CrossCheck. 

SIS/GradeBook Security Open Lab

These sessions will consist of an open lab to work to fix issues with SIS/GradeBook User Security.

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