Before being hired for the MCCC position at MDE I worked at a district in Central Minnesota as a teacher that also including reporting the MCCC data. This is interesting because I had never used a student information system for anything other than attendance and grading. MCCC on the... Read More →
Monday February 26, 2018 10:10am - 11:00am CST
Larpenteur Room
Mounds View recently transitioned to standards-based reporting in their elementary schools. Learn about their processes for reporting in Synergy, the lessons learned from their first year and how they improved on this in their second year.
Instructional Technology Coordinator, Mounds View Public Schools
Susan is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Mounds View Public Schools. A former middle school science teacher, she supports the integration of classroom sets of Chromebooks at all levels and provides support to the professional learning communities around this initiative... Read More →
Monday February 26, 2018 11:10am - 12:00pm CST
Hamline Room
This session will provide a general overview of the power of the Synergy Rules Engine. Participants will see how to use the Rules Engine to prevent entry of bad data and automate Person Notifications.
Learn about edSpring, see a live demo of all the new features including an updated Student Profile Page, and new reports. If you are considering a transition from iCue to edSpring, this is a great chance to see the new product!
Talk with me about increasing operational excellence in your MTSS implementation, quality indicators of effective interventions, and monitoring student progress across domains!
Monday February 26, 2018 1:15pm - 2:05pm CST
Larpenteur Room
Learn more about Synergy Assessment! Synergy Assessment is a powerful tool that enables teachers to create formative, summative, and benchmark assessments with ease, align to standards and store centrally for shared access by co-teacher or department. Students can take assessments through the StudentVUE portal using a computer or mobile device, or using paper-and-pencil. The interactive results screen updates in real time as each student completes an assessment, so teachers can immediately adapt instruction to eliminate learning gaps.
District Technology Integrationist, Pine City Public Schools
Dihanna is a mother of two sons and one four-legged genius. Dihanna is a new grandmother and will happily share pictures of her beautiful grandchildren! She taught Spanish for 26 years and holds a MEd in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on technology from the University... Read More →
Monday February 26, 2018 1:15pm - 2:05pm CST
Lexington Room
Learn how to use property overrides and user-defined data to customize your Synergy screens. Also, learn about something new coming soon: Feature Assist!
Learn how to use Synergy to create custom workflows for district staff to use. Once created, the workflow will guide users through the steps in a process such as suspending or enrolling a student.
Come and explore Cognos Dashboards! We will tour through some of our new hits along with a couple of golden oldies and why they are still on my favorites list.
There are many reports in Edupoint Synergy to generate data on various aspects of students and the services they receive. Reports in Edupoint Synergy can be generated in Excel format for further manipulation and analysis. Troy Cherry and Mary Mehsikomer will offer a fun, informative, and sometimes hilarious take on some tips and tricks from Excel that can help you use your student data more efficiently and effectively.
Mary Mehsikomer is Outreach Facilitator at Sourcewell. Mary has been working with Minnesota educators on technology issues for over 30 years in various capacities including time at the Minnesota Department of Education, Region 1, TIES, and now Sourcewell. She holds a CoSN Certified... Read More →
Monday February 26, 2018 2:15pm - 3:05pm CST
Lexington Room
This session will provide an overview of the functionality for all the Synergy mobile apps on their supported platforms. Syenrgy mobile apps include AdminVUE, TeacherVUE, CounselVUE, and HealthVUE.
