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OME-RESA NEWSLETTER Ohio Mid-Eastern Regional Education Service Agency An Information Technology Center (ITC) of the Ohio Education Computer Network (OECN) Serving an 11 county area and 45 school districts in Mid-Eastern Ohio OME-RESA Insight Student Services Update 2 - 3 EMIS Update 4 Fiscal Update 5 - 7 INFOhio Update 8 - 13 Network/System Update 14 - 16 Inside this issue: OME-RESA PHONE EXTENSIONS ANGIE UNDERWOOD 116 ADAM TRUEX 120 BERNIE GRABITS 106 BRENDA HARTLEY 103 CINDY ALBAN 150 CINDY BONI 115 DAVE SAVASTONE 102 DIANE MCAFEE 126 JEFF KRZYS 128 KATHY DUNLEVY 122 MICHELLE MILLIKEN 107 MISSY SUTHERLAND 104 SAM FLEDER 110 SANDY PETROZZI 109 VALERIE KEOUGH 105 Issue 10 Spring 2012 I am guessing that at some point over the last 15 years you have received an email from me. You may also have noticed my signa- ture saying, "The strength of the wolf is the pack, the strength of the pack is the wolf." -- Rudyard Kipling. We are in a unique area of Appalachia and a strength that I have seen is fierce determination and the ability to survive and thrive in an economic environment that is extremely trying at times. In the current difficult economic and fiscal situations everyone is facing, I stand by this quote even more. I see tough decisions being made because there is an urgency to move forward and not enough time to investigate if their direction may lead to a slippery slope that is hard to come back up. I believe that we need to take a minute to NOT focus on how things HAVE been done, but how things SHOULD be done. We each have strengths and resources in different areas and we are good apart, but we can excel if we work together. Please contact me if you are interested in making a difference, have ideas for improved collaboration and are willing to participate on working committees in various subject areas. Leveraging Current Investments and Knowledge By Angela Underwood, ExecuƟve Director

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Page 1: Leveraging Current Investments and Knowledge 2012 Newsletter.pdf · DIANE MCAFEE 126 JEFF KRZYS 128 KATHY DUNLEVY 122 MICHELLE MILLIKEN 107 MISSY SUTHERLAND 104 SAM FLEDER 110 SANDY

OME-RESA NEWSLETTER

Ohio Mid-Eastern Regional Education Service Agency

An Information Technology Center (ITC) of the Ohio Education Computer Network (OECN)

Serving an 11 county area and 45 school districts in Mid-Eastern Ohio

OME-RESA Insight

Student Services Update 2 - 3

EMIS Update 4

Fiscal Update 5 - 7

INFOhio Update 8 - 13

Network/System Update 14 - 16

Inside this issue:

OME-RESA PHONE EXTENSIONS

ANGIE UNDERWOOD 116

ADAM TRUEX 120

BERNIE GRABITS 106

BRENDA HARTLEY 103

CINDY ALBAN 150

CINDY BONI 115

DAVE SAVASTONE 102

DIANE MCAFEE 126

JEFF KRZYS 128

KATHY DUNLEVY 122

MICHELLE MILLIKEN 107

MISSY SUTHERLAND 104

SAM FLEDER 110

SANDY PETROZZI 109

VALERIE KEOUGH 105

Issue 10

Spring 2012

I am guessing that at some point over the last 15 years you have received an email from me. You may also have noticed my signa-ture saying, "The strength of the wolf is the pack, the strength of the pack is the wolf." -- Rudyard Kipling.

We are in a unique area of Appalachia and a strength that I have seen is fierce determination and the ability to survive and thrive in an economic environment that is extremely trying at times. In the current difficult economic and fiscal situations everyone is facing, I stand by this quote even more. I see tough decisions being made because there is an urgency to move forward and not enough time to investigate if their direction may lead to a slippery slope that is hard to come back up.

I believe that we need to take a minute to NOT focus on how things HAVE been done, but how things SHOULD be done. We each have strengths and resources in different areas and we are good apart, but we can excel if we work together.

Please contact me if you are interested in making a difference, have ideas for improved collaboration and are willing to participate on working committees in various subject areas.

Leveraging Current Investments and Knowledge

By Angela Underwood, Execu ve Director

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STUDENT SERVICES UPDATE

ProgressBook Suite Releases are now on a standard cycle start-ing with the 12.1 release last fall. A 6-8 week release cycle has been implemented to minimize hotfix releases and updates. These releases will include updates in all applications within the suite such as StudentInformation (formerly DASL), Spe-cialServices, GradeBook (formerly Progress Book), ParentAc-cess, VendorLink (formerly known as Cornucopia).

StudentInformation Highlights

StudentInformation was recently enhanced with the capability to transfer students between and within an ITC.

If districts are within the same ITC, basic student demographic data, attendance, assessments and course history can be trans-ferred from one district to another.

If districts are not within the same ITC, basic student demograph-ic data and attendance can transfer from one district to another. Currently, student course history and assessment data will not transfer between districts not within the same ITC.

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Report Builder (currently available within GradeBook) will be available within the StudentInformation system for the upcoming school year.

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Continually check the OME-RESA homepage under UPCOMING EVENTS for New Trainings. Student Services will be posting trainings continuously in order for you to better prepare for the new school year.

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EMIS UPDATE ODE is extending the close of the October reporting period to May 3, 2012 and delaying the start of

the March reporting period until April 24, 2012.

The FY12N repor ng cycle will begin on May 1st.

 

 

October Reporting Maintenance – You will want to export and save a copy of the final reports generated in the data collector by creating a Zip file and saving this to your PC or another storage device. You may also want to pass along final copies of certain reports to coordinators within your district. Your special educa-tion coordinator may want a copy of the Disability Not Funded report so that they make sure any events that didn’t get reported last yearend are reported this year with the 09 out of compliance code. Be sure to check the ODE web site (under Resources and Tools) and print out the FY12K report period sign off sheet and send that to ODE. If your district has a Corrective Ac-tion Plan to complete make sure that is submitted so that you do not have funds withheld.

March Reporting – The FY12D reporting period for the CTE Follow Up information will close on June 8th. Please make sure you are reporting data for all stu-dents that have been added to the Flat File Editor. That information will then need to be uploaded into the data collector for submission to ODE.

Yearend Reporting – The FY12N reporting period be-gins on May 1st and will close on July 13th. Once the manifest for the FY12N reporting period is added to the data collector districts can begin submitting their data to ODE. The FY12N Yearend checklist has been posted. At this time you will want to run all of the verifi-cation programs and update your courses and mem-berships prior to transferring your data to the data col-lector. Even though you do not have your attendance completed for yearend, you will still want to update the attendance when you begin submitting data to ODE. Once your school year has ended and final report cards have been issued, you will need to rerun the At-tendance Update procedure. Please check with your Special Education coordinators and remind them that any IEP events for students that were enrolled during the 11/12 school year that were completed prior to June 1st 2012, need to be reported during the FY12N reporting period. You should have this information en-tered into Student Information/DASL before summer break begins. Also, Special Ed. needs to provide you with the information from the Preschool Transition conferences held during the past school year.

Communication is key to getting your Special Educa-tion students reported correctly and funded!

Upcoming Trainings

Trainings for the Yearend Reporting Period will be held in May. Email notifications will be sent out once these are posted and you can register for the trainings by going to the OME-RESA web site under Upcoming Events.

Assessment Data

The following dates are when the Assessment data will be available to download into Student Information/DASL for Yearend Reporting. We will attempt to down-load the scores as soon as they are available.

April 30th – OAA and OGT Alternate Assessment Tests

May 9th – OTELA

May 14th – OGT

May 18th – OGT Late Batch

June 15th – OAA

June 25th – OAA Late Batch

July 12th and 13th – OAA and OGT Appeals

August 6th – OGT Summer Scores (G reporting period)

Graduate Reporting – The FY12G reporting period begins May 21st and will end November 16th. A proce-dural step by step checklist will also be available. Training for the Graduate reporting period will be held in June. Before your Guidance Counselor leaves for summer vacation, you will want a copy of your com-mencement program listing all of the students who graduated along with a list of students that may gradu-ate over the summer if they pass required course work or summer OGT tests.

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FISCAL SERVICES UPDATE

Fiscal Year End Treasurer’s Inservice Scheduled

The annual fiscal year end treasurer’s inservices have been scheduled for Thursday, June 7th at Buckeye JVS in New Philadelphia, and Thursday, June 14th at the Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville. Both meetings are set to begin at 9:30 a.m., with refreshments being available at 9:00. The meeting should last until approximately 12:00.

Meeting topics will cover a complete review of the payroll and budgetary fiscal year end close out procedures, as well as EMIS topics/changes that affect NEWCNT and financial submissions. A brief review of the capital as-set reporting that occurs with your EMIS financial submission will be discussed as well as the goals ODE will implement for reporting period H. These are much like the existing goals that your district must meet for staff and student reporting. There are goals listed for elements of the June 30th financial reporting, with districts getting out of compliance letters if those goals are not met within the timeline set by ODE. More information on this new topic will be provided at the meeting where we can discuss the change and field questions that may apply to all districts, giving everyone a chance to hear the responses and ask additional questions as need-ed.

Changes that have occurred over the past fiscal/calendar year will be reviewed to ensure everyone is ‘on topic’ and is accurately reporting data to all entities involved, such as ODE, AOS, EMIS, IRS, ODJFS, etc.

Please plan to attend, if at all possible, so that you can hear all the information we have in order to assist you in doing a more timely close out and having records in place, if need be, to comply with state and federal man-dates.

New Contract Program – Reminder of Changes Due to EMIS Reporting Timelines

This time of year districts are entering new contracts for staff for the upcoming school year. The first group of staff whose contracts will change will take place as of 7/1/2012. Because June staff and stu-dent reporting does not end until the latter part of July, AND most if not all districts will have purged new contracts for classified staff whose new contract begins July 1, staff data collections for EMIS done up through the close of the June EMIS reporting period will pull the NEW contract information for the next school year if you do NOT move the old contract amounts to the EMIS fields on screen 2 of the NEWCNT program.

Failure to place the old salary amounts in the EMIS salary fields will cause the June staff extraction to pull the next year’s contract amount and that would make your staff look like they got a raise between Octo-ber reporting and June reporting. If you have questions or need assistance to ensure the new contract information is correct, in regards to EMIS reporting, please email [email protected] for help.

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Staff Who Leave at the End of the School Year

Now is the time to start tracking staff members who have resigned or who will leave employment, for what-ever reason, AFTER the last day of October count week. ODE has specific rules for how to report staff that leave employment, and these have changed slightly since last June, so please make sure that you report the staff’s departure from employment at the right time and with the right fields of information. Some scenarios include:

Scenario 1: Staff member was employed during October count week, but left employment prior to the last day of scheduled instruction for students in the district

STAFF MEMBER IS TO BE REPORTED AS SEPARATED, WITH THE APPROPRIATE CODE AND LAST DATE OF WORK on each JOBSCN that has been reported to EMIS for the year. When June EMIS reporting is closed, the staff member’s job(s) and biographical screens should be changed to NO for EMIS reporting. They do not need reported in October of the following school year if they are properly reported in June as separating employment. **If you do not report them in June, you must still change all records to NO to report to EMIS, but you must also request a staff override by using the override spreadsheet out in the Knowledge Book, under FISCAL, USPS – EMIS topics.

Scenario 2: Staff member worked the entire school year, up to and including the last scheduled day of instruction for students

Staff member should be reported as separating from employment in June, on all jobs reportable to EMIS. However, if you do not, you may report their records in October with the separation date and reason code and change their POSITION STATUS to a U, but ONLY if they have no attendance records at all during that fiscal year. For example, if a teacher works the whole school year and retires June 1, but comes back as a substitute for your district, they HAVE attendance due to the substituting job and cannot have their position status changed to a U. You would leave it as a C for continuing, but enter their separation date and reason code on all EMIS reportable jobs, then change them to NO when October closed. **EMIS tracks attendance by person, not by job, so if they work even one day, they have attendance and cannot have the U status. The POSITION STATUS of U can only be used when the staff leaves prior to July 1st and does NOT come back and work for the district in ANY capacity.

Scenario 3: Staff member worked the entire school year, up to and including the last scheduled day of instruction, but was not reported in June as separated from employment

Employee’s bio screen and job screen(s) are changed to reflect separation reason and date and their POSITION STATUS is changed to a U only if they have not come back to work for the district in any capacity. Once October reporting has been closed, the staff’s records should be changed to NO to report to EMIS. **This scenario is similar to #2, but the question is always asked “what if I should have reported them in June and I did not?” so for that reason, I am listing the response to that exact scenario.

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Kiosk Trainings Continue to Increase

Requests for districts to begin implementation of the employee Kiosk continue to roll in, with a list longer than can currently be accommodated in a ‘quick’ manner. Please be aware that if you ask to be put on the list for Kiosk implementation and fiscal staff begin to work with you to update your payroll files for the process, you must continue to work on the updates so training can be provided and we can move forward or you will be removed from the schedule and the next district on the list will be given your slot. Once the process with your district begins, if the district lags for more than 2 weeks on updating spreadsheets provided, they will be removed from the implementation order and placed at the bottom of the list.

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INFOhio Announces New One-Stop Research Site

INFOhio is proud to announce our latest online service: GO! INFOhio: Ask! Act! Achieve!, a site designed to help students just learning research skills manage the process step by step.

GO! INFOhio Highlights

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URL: http://go.infohio.org

GO! INFOhio breaks the research process down into three major phases: Asking question, Acting by finding sources and taking notes, and Achieving a final product.

Each phase is broken down further with key research questions that link to IN-FOhio resources, forms, and trustworthy websites to help with that step.

All resources in GO! INFOhio are FREE to Ohio students.

The site includes a comprehensive Teach-er’s Guide that gives in-depth information on the websites, forms, and databases used.

While the site is designed for 6th-10th grade, it works for any student who can read and who needs structure to stay focused during a long-term research process.

Ask! takes students through the first phase of research-choosing a topic and asking good questions.

Act! takes students through the second phase of research-finding reliable resources, checking which ones meet the need the best, and taking notes.

Achieve! takes students through the final phase of presenting the project, either as a paper or a presentation.

GO! INFOhio: Ask! Act! Achieve! was funded by a grant from the Ohio Department 

of Educa on and went live on February 13, 2012, to coincide with the Ohio Educa-

onal Technology Conference. 

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New SirsiDynix Symphony Upgrade Coming

Summer 2012

SirsiDynix Symphony Workflows 3.4.1 will be installed this summer by our Lima Tech Staff. The new upgrade will include new features and “bug fixes” which will enhance the product and make cer-tain processes easier for the end user.

I will be sure to keep everyone updated on these NEW FEATURES once OME-RESA is upgraded with the new Symphony Workflows 3.4.1 sometime during the month of June.

The INFOhio Documentation team will have all new documentation ready for the start of the 2012/2013 school year.

INFOhio Resources and the Common Core Standards

INFOhio works closely with the Ohio Department of Education to provide students, teachers and parents with resources that support and supplement Ohio's Academic Content Standards. The following resources will help Ohio's educational community stay up-to-date on revisions to the Ohio standards and how INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources align with each of the Academic Content Stand-ards.

In June 2010, the State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics as well as the revisions to Ohio's academic content standards in science and social studies. The standards will be effective in 2014-2015 when newly aligned assessments also will be implemented.PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) has been select-ed as the assessment organization to design the assessments correlated to the Common Core and Revised Standards.

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Research and Informa on  Literacy skills are in Wri ng 

Standards 6-9.

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Online Path to Information Literacy Thirteen-year-old Jared is stuck. His social studies teacher has assigned him a project on Prohibition and he doesn't know where to start. Typing "prohibition" into Google yielded 41 million hits, the top two from Wikipe-dia. His teacher promised an "F" to anyone who cites Wikipedia, but how can he begin to sift through the over-whelming number of links? This scenario plays itself out every day, not just with students working on school pro-jects but with adults who need to research financial, healthcare, or consumer infor-mation. The skills needed to ask the right question, find the right information from a reliable source, and evaluate that information is called "information literacy." Infor-mation literacy, which is a conglomeration of traditional reading literacy with tech-nology skills, research skills, critical thinking, and ethics, is becoming more important as people are inundated with information. Unfortunately, information literacy skills are hard to develop. "It's a mistake to think our 'digital natives' are born knowing how to process all the information in their path, or that they pick it up through osmosis by holding a smartphone," said Jennifer Schwelik, INFOhio consultant. "Information litera-cy is not something you learn simply by watching someone else. It's something that has to be taught." But while the need for information literacy is on the rise, the peo-ple who have traditionally taught it in schools--library media specialists--have found their positions eliminated during the last decade. And the trend has accelerated in the wake of more recent budget cuts. Now, teaching research and thinking skills is falling to classroom teachers, who already face larger class sizes and heavier work-loads. The deficit is already showing itself. A 2010 survey of college librarians showed that almost 90 percent of them think that only 40 percent of freshmen arrive on campus with the research skills needed to manage college-level work. Objective tests of the students themselves confirm those results. Kent State's Tools for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS) tests students in 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade to determine weak areas. Of the approximately 55,000 students around the country who took the test last year, only 50 percent scored proficient in measures such as developing a research strategy, evaluat-ing sources, and using online technology wisely. "These skills will be even more important in Ohio as the new Common Core standards come into effect by 2013," said INFOhio Executive Director Theresa M. Fredericka. "We're finding research and inquiry learning com-ponents--that is, information literacy--in the standards of all the subject areas, not just English and social stud-ies."

To bridge the gap, INFOhio received a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) special grant through the State Library of Ohio to create online information literacy course mod-ules designed around those standards. The modules provide tools and support to incorpo-rate information communication technologies (ICT) skills into instruction and are aligned with the standards found in the new English Language Arts Common Core Standards, the Association of School Librarians Standards for 21st Century Learners, and the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Students.

I.L. Umbrella from the National Federation on

Information Literacy

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"We're excited about this project because it's something that's going to provide just-in-time information litera-cy instructional tools for the classroom," said Fredericka. "At the same time, I think the course will clearly show the key role today's libraries play in lifelong learning." In addition, the online modules will give schools a way to incorporate blended learning into the classroom. Blended learning combines traditional face-to-face lessons with online coursework that lets teachers adjust instruction to meet the unique needs of each student. Recent studies show great potential for blended learn-ing to increase student achievement and reduce drop-out rates. INFOhio is working with staff from SPARCC Information Technology Center, NWOET EdTech Agency, and Kent State University to create the course that will be available to all Ohio schools free of charge starting fall 2012.

Ask yourself these ques ons: 

 Are your teachers preparing students for the future?  

 Are your teachers up to speed with the skills necessary to compete in 21st Century workforce? 

 Are your teachers encouraging students to be crea ve, collabora ve, cri cal thinkers that effec vely  

communicate their ideas? 

  Today not only is it important to teach the 3R’s but now it is more important than ever to teach our students 

to learn by also including the 4C’s (Crea vity, Collabora on, Cri cal Thinking, Communica on).  These ques ons and 

more are all addressed in INFOhio’s 21st Century Learning Commons (21 Essen al Things for 21st Century Success).  

Consider this.  We all remember the Bloom’s Taxonomy; take a look at the revised “Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy 

Map” (h p://www.techlearning.com/ar cle/8670).  No ce all of the new verbs that describe what students will be 

expected to do. 

Googling  subscribing  edi ng  wiki  linking  pos ng  podcas ng 

 

Now think about your teachers.  Have they created podcasts? Do they subscribe to RSS feeds? Do they know what 

it means to wiki?  

If you have teachers that would benefit from learning how to teach these 21st century skills, encourage them 

to register for INFOhio’s 21st Century Learning Commons (h p://learningcommons.infohio.org).  Teachers can choose 

to work through all 21 learning modules in this self-paced online professional learning environment or pick and 

choose which modules are of interest to them.  

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As your INFOhio iCoach for Region 12,  it is one of my personal goals to equip your teachers with the tools 

and resources necessary to prepare your students for the 21st Century workforce.  

Please contact me if you are interested in scheduling an INFOhio iCoach session for your next Professional 

Development Day.  I will be happy to work with you and your staff to show them how the INFOhio Electronic Re-

sources and all INFOhio sponsored programs can enhance their teaching and further develop the 21st Century skills 

their students will need to have in order to succeed in college and the workforce. 

Dave Savastone, M.L.S. INFOhio Manager Region 12 INFOhio iCoach OME-RESA 2023 Sunset Blvd. Steubenville, OH 43952 Phone: 740-283-2050 ext. 102 Fax: 740-283-1500 Cell: 740-381-2543

 

   

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Citrix Services

OME-RESA con nues to deploy virtual applica on services u lizing the Citrix XenApp so ware.   We currently host virtual applica on pools for Ridgewood Local, Steubenville City, Switzerland Local 

and Quaker Digital Academy.   This system allows for centralized applica on management, high availability and flexible deployment 

op ons to any client device, including tablet technology.   Citrix XenApp so ware could serve as a resource for any “BYOT” or “one2one” educa onal ini a ve.   Please no fy [email protected] if you are interested in evalua ng this innova ve technology or 

have any ques ons concerning this service. 

 

TSD Extended Service

Virtual server hos ng. 

Offsite backup. 

Managed VOIP services. 

Managed wireless services. 

Email archiving. 

Project consulta on. 

 

 

Internet Access Speed  

OME-RESA  increased the capacity of the main Oarnet  internet connec on effec ve August 1, 2011 

from 280Mbit to 300Mbit.   Addi onally, a new 300Mbit Comcast internet connec on was turned up September 30, 2011.  Both 

the Oarnet and Comcast connec ons are func oning together in a live redundant configura on.   The addi on of the Comcast circuit will not only provide  increased capacity, but will provide a fully 

capable failover connec on in the event we lose connec vity to our main Oarnet circuit. 

 

 

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NETWORK/SYSTEM UPDATE - CONTINUED

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Network Infrastructure Update

Star ng next school year, the OME-RESA network will be comprised of 113 high-speed fiber op c cir-

cuits.  Thirty-two  of  these  connec ons will  be  provisioned  at  50  or  100Mbps, with  the  remaining 

eighty-one being provisioned from 5 to 20Mbps. 

 

The Fiber connec ons offer cost-efficient,  locally managed, fiber-based broadband Ethernet services 

and con nue to support the high volume of voice, video, data and internet services. These connec on 

types will be er enable OME-RESA to provide a converged network infrastructure. 

 

Converged infrastructure packages mul ple informa on technology (IT) components into a single, op-

mized compu ng solu on. Components of a converged infrastructure solu on include servers, data 

storage devices, networking equipment and so ware for infrastructure management, automa on and 

orchestra on. 

 

A converged infrastructure could be u lized by districts to centralize the management of IT resources, 

consolidate systems, increase resource u liza on rates, and lower costs.  

 

 

 

M86 Update

LDAP func onality is now available for your district’s M86 profile. 

 

OME-RESA staff can assist you with the deployment of LDAP func onality u lizing your current Ac ve 

Directory group policy system. 

 

This feature provides greater flexibility with custom filter profiles for your staff and/or students.  

 

You  can  find more  filter  informa on  and  “how  to”  files  in  the  Networking-Internet  area  of  the 

helpdesk knowledge base. 

 

Please contact [email protected] if you have any ques ons concerning the M86 web filter.  

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Regional Spring Technology Mee ng

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NETWORK/SYSTEM UPDATE - CONTINUED

O M E - R E S A I N S I G H T

Date: May 30, 2012  

 

Time: 9am 

 

Loca on: ECOESC 

 

Agenda: TBA 

Technology Training Events

OME-RESA  is working  to  provide  technology  focused  training  events  during  the 

summer months. 

 

These trainings will be designed to provide technology coordinators with a be er 

working knowledge of emerging technologies. 

 

Please contact us  if you have any  recommended  topics  that would provide value 

added professional knowledge.  

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