Jody French

Educational Technology Council

Director

North Dakota Educational Technology Council (NDETC)

The mission of the NDETC is to develop technology systems and coordinate their use to enhance and

support the educational opportunities for elementary and secondary education as cited in NDCC 54-59.

NDETC Updates • Data Steward provides training, consulting and

support for SLDS to K12 community • ND Education Data Alliance

• Collaboration with REAs • Goal is “common message of data use” • Develop resources and protocols for use

• Essential Questions & Answers • Data Utilization Planning • Taking Action with Data

• Website serving as a clearing house

NDETC Updates • Grants

• BUILD - personalized learning • RUS – upgrade LEA equipment

• Student Data Protection • SLDS team, NDSBA, NDCEL & EduTech • Presentations & Resources

• IT Security Conference

• Technology Planning

• Participation in national survey on teachers’ knowledge and use of data to drive PD planning

EduTech Updates

• PowerSchool- ND’s SIS • Significant turnover in Administrators • Upgrade to Version 9.0 in planning stage • Best Practices for securing student data in SIS • State course codes and GPA calculations

standardized for e-Transcript • E-Transcript growth

• 130 schools trained/18 colleges & univ.

EduTech Updates

• Professional Development & Outreach • Back to school requests • O365 growth • Maker Education

• Physical computing & fabrication • Ask ME program

• ME= Mentors & Experts in STEM • Kat Perkins Positive Social Media Tour • ND Ed Chat • Collaboration with LFND and Advanced Ed

EduTech Updates

• Technology/Support/Training • Ongoing development of Active Directory • Retirement of SENDIT e-mail • Collaboration with DPI for a RTI initiative • Help Desk growth with AD & O365 transition • Mobile filtering pilot with 11 schools • E-rate - $10M in discounts

NDCDE Updates-Usage Data • Enrolled over 2,000 ND students in more than 150

different courses

• Served students from 170 ND schools

• Generated 1,000 credits toward ND high school graduation requirements

• Provided the teacher of record for 65 classes in 45 ND schools

• Fall 2015-17% increase in enrollments from Fall 2014

NDCDE Updates-Learning • Added over 24 courses & updated 15% of courses

• Reduced number of Learning Management Systems to improve student and teacher interfaces

• Developed Course Only Local Teacher (COLT)

• Developed College Lab for English & Math (CLEM)

• Constructed Smart Lab & held 2 pilot sessions

• Collaborated with Presence Learning to provide solutions for Special Ed Units

NDCDE Updates-Learning (cont.) • Retirement of print courses – January 2017

• Transitioned to latest version of LMS

• Updated to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra • Improved teacher and student experience

• Added Health Sciences to curriculum offerings

• Revised Drop Policy as part of student retention & completion efforts

NDCDE Updates-Communications • Implemented ticket system to improve vendor

performance

• Improved IT security of remote employees

• Enhanced student privacy in SIS-teacher segregation

• Improved staff desktop management via policy, oversight, online control & double authentication

• Developed a process to use SLDS data

• Improved internal collaboration with O365

NDCDE Updates-Communications (cont.) • Continue to extend the forms management solutions

to include digital signatures on mobile devices

• Continue to enhance enrollment automation

• Developed a method to review student profiles to check for errors

• Provided better access & control for exam admins and classroom supervisors • Developed newsletter for these professionals