Session 1 9:10 – 9:55 am

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR REP Reporting - This session will review the steps and utilities required to pull data for REP reporting in Skyward.

Emerald B - HR/PY/F Dock Pay Record - This session is intended to cover how you may set up your Skyward system to automatically create dock pay records, how to use them, and how they can help keep your contracts correct throughout the year.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ Finance - General Navigation Tips & Tricks: This session is designed to show the overall capabilities of Qmlativ while also giving current users some tips & tricks to make their job easier.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR Migration Center - Is your district thinking about migrating to Qmlativ? If so, you won’t want to miss this session! We’ll show you around the all-new Migration Center—your info-packed, step-by-step migration hub—and go over what that preparation process will entail.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR Custom Forms Overview - This session will be an overview of Custom Forms including how to create a basic Custom Form. This will include creating the Custom Fields, using existing Skyward database fields, and Custom Screen vs. Advanced Custom Forms.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR Tips & Tricks for Administrators - New Administrators will have a chance to delve into Discipline, Office Reports, Message Center for Administrators, and Teacher Tracking through EA Plus. There will also be a lively game of "who just called me, left a rude message, and didn't leave their name?

Imperial Ballroom - SMS 2.0 SR Skyward Bootcamp: Basic Student/ New Family Entry - Correctly and completely enter a student and/or Family the first time will prevent future problems for your district and for the state. Learn the best practice for these entries.

Haldane - SE MSDS w/ Pupil Accounting - This session will cover the state reportable fields in Special Education records as well as important setup that impacts your Special Education data for MSDS.

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR Advanced Student Utilities/Processes - This session will focus on more complex utilities and processes that are less frequently used, but helpful for completing certain tasks throughout the year. Examples being Student Mass Change Process, Mass Change Course Master Fields, etc.

Vandenburg A - SE Configuration, Set Up, Suggested Reports/Utilities - This session will focus on the different reports, filters and utilities that can be used in verifying and cleaning up special education data. In addition, this session will cover the setup and different options available within the Special Ed Configuration and other areas of the module.

Vandenburg B - F Advanced Payroll Options - How do you correct the accounting when an employee was paid out of the incorrect account? What is the easiest way to update new deduction or benefit amounts? How is the taxable life over $50K calculated? How does the Payroll Encumbrance process work? Learn the answers to these questions as we explore some of the advance payroll processes during this session.

Gerald R Ford - SMS 2.0 SR Current Year Summer School Scheduling

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Session 2 10:10 – 10:55 am

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR Data Mining - This session will provide an overview of Michigan State Reporting from Skyward, including some helpful hints for common issues.

Emerald B - HR/F Super Sleuth Investigative Reporting - User Tracking, Super User Log, District Log in History - keep track of what is going on in your system and who is doing it

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ Finance - Purchase Order to Accounts Payable Check - Tips & Tricks: This session will cover basics of Purchase Order to Accounts Payable process along with tips and tricks to help in you daily tasks.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR Overview Tips & Tricks - This session will cover some tips and tricks that allow efficient navigation in the Qmlativ Student Product.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR Custom Forms Advanced - Making them work for you - This session will cover Custom Forms Data Mining, setting up security on the form, and importing data into the forms using the import function. We will also cover using Skyward fields in the Custom Form to change data directly in the database.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR Top 10 Reports for Administrators - This session will introduce common reports for administrators and office staff from different modules including demographics, attendance, scheduling and grading. Schedule reports to run automatically. Use the browse screens as reports and sharing filters.

Imperial Ballroom - SMS 2.0 SR Skyward Bootcamp: Sanity Savers – Even if you’re not new to Skyward, you may learn some new sanity savers. In this session, you’ll setup your landing page, customize the student profile menu, setup favorites, and investigate notes, SkyDocs, Snapshots, User Preferences and more.

Haldane - SFR State Reporting – Ed-Fi Set Up/Data Hub - This session will cover setting up Ed-Fi V3 in order to send data to MiDataHub and utilize various state integrations.

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR Elementary Scheduling for the New Year - Student Teams, Student Groups, Mass Adding Students to a Course, Mass Copy Students from one course to another – all tools available to make your Elementary Scheduling easier.

Vandenburg A - SE SE Data Clean Up & Suggested Report/Utilities – This session will focus on the different reports, filters and utilities that can be used in verifying and cleaning up special education data.

Vandenburg B - HR/PY/F Task Manager - Business Task Manager is Skyward's free tool that allows districts to set up their particular process flows. In many cases the data entry is just one part of the process. Get an idea of how this tool allows you to organize and track your processes when you identify the steps, employees and date involved.

Gerald R Ford- SMS 2.0 SR Attendance - Common/Not so Common Reports

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Session 3 11:10 – 11:55 am

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR Employee Access Empowering District Employees – This session will demonstrate how to setup the configuration options for Employee Access and navigate the system from the employee’s perspective: view personal data along with payroll information, enter time off requests & view balances, enter purchasing requisitions and clock in/out using TrueTime.

Emerald B - F Peer Discussion (Finance) New to Skyward - This networking session is for users to discuss processes and options with other users. Skyward will have representation, but the focus is to discuss ideas and options between users.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ Finance - Bank Reconciliation Best Practices – Learn Bank Account set up and Cash Masks. Add useful columns to your bank rec screens. Processing Month End Close. How to Auto reconcile checks from a bank file. How to process manual adjustments and reversals.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR Basic Report Designer - In this session, we will review some of the basics report designer functions including field finding, filtering, and sorting

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR API - The Skyward API is a very powerful tool to allow real-time data transfers between Skyward and other systems. This session will cover the basic setup and testing of the API. The presentation is based on a self-hosted configuration, for users with one or more districts on a local server, and will demonstrate how to set up the server for one or more districts, what needs to be done in Skyward on the Product Setup side, how to use Swagger to test the connection, and then some troubleshooting using tools built right into Skyward.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR Guidance Counselors – Keeping Students on Track to Succeed - Counselors! Come on in and discover how to track/read/analyze graduation requirements – how to use Educational Milestones for graduation – check out Career Plans and see what a great help this is in planning your student’s futures. Check out how to use Guidance Office Visits to keep track of the time spent with individuals and just what that time was spent doing!

Imperial Ballroom - SMS 2.0 SR Skyward Boot Camp: Beginning Data Mining - Learn how to use the valuable Data Mining tool in Skyward to create reports and extract endless amounts of student data. Create specialized reports that can be shared with other users and used for years to come. Reporting is available for both historical & current data. Possibilities are endless! Some tasks reviewed will be: cloning reports, adding fields, printing report (export options), understanding ranges & report information screens.

Haldane - SFR Using Skyward and Google Classroom to Simplify State Reporting - Learn how Skyward and Google Classroom can team up to streamline and simplify the State Reporting process in your district. With Google Classroom, the completion and collection of Pupil Accounting forms is organized, efficient, paperless, and secure. Hear directly from building end users as they share their first hand experiences using this process.

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR Custom Report Cards - This session will cover the steps needed to create Secondary Report Cards. Make your report cards fit your needs.

Vandenburg A - SE SE Assessments, Troubleshooting, Bells, & Whistles

Vandenburg B - HR Insurance Tracking 101 – This session will go over the Enrollment Process and how you can start using it at your district. This feature (Included in Insurance Tracking) allows your employees to electronically select their insurance coverage during your open enrollment period and can save a lot of time when you roll insurance.

Gerald R Ford - Qmlativ: SMS to Q - Data Clean Up - Prepping for Qmlativ

Session 4 1:15 – 2:05 pm

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR New Hire Procedures - Learn how Skyward can automate your hiring process. Your entire hiring process can be streamlined from requesting a replacement or new hire through importing the demographics and pay information into Employee Profile and Employee Management.

Emerald B - F Vendor 101 - Learn about the vendor master features available within the Web, including a more straight-forward add process, easier options for making changes to vendor information, an approval process when entering new vendors, vendor ACH and much more!

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ Finance - Building the Budget - During this session we will build multiple budget versions. We will discuss how to enter your budget balances into the system. This includes importing, hand entering and making budget amendments.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR List Screen Live Tiles - This session will cover the ability to create a live tile from a List Screen in the Qmlativ Student Product that can be placed on your dashboard for ease of access.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR Skybuild - In this session, we will explore Skybuild exports for data integrations, learn when to use Skybuild vs. Data Mining, take a peek at some pre-built reports, and explore the import process.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR Graduation Requirements - Keeping Students on Track to Succeed - Counselors! Come on in and discover how to track/read/analyze graduation requirements – how to use Educational Milestones for graduation – check out Career Plans and see what a great help this is in planning your student’s futures. Check out how to use Guidance Office Visits to keep track of the time spent with individuals and just what that time was spent doing!

Imperial Ballroom - SMS 2.0 SR Skyward Bootcamp: Reporting 101 - This session will show various reports commonly used within the Student Management system. Included will be student information reporting, Staff information and Entry withdrawal reports. If you have any reports that you find helpful - plan to share!

Haldane - SFR CTE - Tips & Tricks for sharing data between multiple Skyward Systems.

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR GPA Troubleshooting - This sessions will go over how the GPA calculation setup is used in determining the results of Honor Rolls, Class Rank, Transcripts and Transcript Labels. You will see suggestions for the set up to Create Honor Rolls, Options for Class Rank

Vandenburg A - PY Payroll Reporting Options - This session will cover various payroll reports and the options included in running these reports.

Vandenburg B - HR Excel - Tips & Tricks - Delve into the world of Excel, exploring its intermediate and advanced capabilities for organizing, manipulating, and visualizing public school data. Attendees will learn practical strategies, time-saving techniques, and innovative approaches to handle large datasets efficiently while gaining valuable insights.

Gerald R Ford - Qmlativ Finance: - Employee Access Overview

Session 5 2:15 – 3:05pm

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR Custom Forms HR Focus & EE Letters - Custom forms and user defined screens will have both their set up and daily use demonstrated. This session will also show the reporting of this data in the Web profile data mining.

Emerald B - F Vendor Data Mining – Data Mining is an extremely flexible and effective tool that can be used to create user defined reports on vendor information, not otherwise collected by the software in a standard report format.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ Finance - Qmlativ 1099 Processing - This session will review the 1099 processing for Qmlativ and best practices for this function.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR - New Features - This session will cover new features included in the most recent releases that have been added to the Qmlativ Student Product.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR Custom Transcripts - This session will cover the steps needed to create Custom Transcripts. Make your transcripts fit your needs.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR CY Scheduling Tips & Tricks - In this session, we will cover basic scheduling functions such as adding and modifying courses, sections, and meeting patterns. We will also cover the Walk-In Scheduler process and all of its capabilities.

Imperial Ballroom - SMS 2.0 SR Skyward Bootcamp: Basic Attendance - This session will cover tips and tricks on the easiest way to enter attendance as well as the top ways to report and access the data after it has been entered.

Haldane - SFR State Reporting Special Programs Tab/Gender Identity - This session will cover maintaining data on the Special Programs tabs, the MI/NCLB tab as well as how to utilize the Gender Identity field for State Reporting.

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR Advanced Features Module - This session will be an overview of the Advanced Features module and give some insight on how to use these areas to benefit your district.

Vandenburg A - PY Affordable Care Act - A discussion of how ACA hours are populated during the payroll process. Time permitting we will discuss how to add, update and review 1095 record entry into Profile.

Vandenburg B - HR Insurance Tracking Year End -

Gerald R Ford - SMS 2.0 SR - Health Records Overview – In this session, we will give a brief overview of the health module from a nurse’s point of view and will work on entering health information for individual student or a group of student for area’s like physicals, vaccinations, health conditions and much more.

Session 6 3:15 – 4:05 pm

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR FMLA Tracking in Time Off - This session will review how to setup a FMLA Tracker code that will allow users to track paid and unpaid FMLA. We will also discuss the various reporting options available to help track this information.

Emerald B - F Accounts Payable Credit Card Epayables - This session will demonstrate the credit card interface and how it integrates with the Skyward Pac Finance System.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ HR - Introduction to HR Reporting and Data Mining - During this session we will be covering the basics of HR data mining and effectively using list screens to obtain exportable HR data.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR - Import Designer - This session will cover the basics of import designer and tips on making your imports run most efficiently.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR Teacher Tracking - Teacher Tracking is a way for administrative staff to monitor/view statistics on Gradebook Usage for every teacher, including data by class, teacher, Message Center, Discipline, and Family/Student Access usage.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR Real PD for Real People – Do you feel like the Training you provide is stuck in a rut? Refresh your Professional Development with relevant, innovative, and sustainable delivery methods. This interactive session will force you to reflect on the training model you currently employ, while offering ideas and tools to infuse new life into your PD sessions.

Imperial Ballroom - SMS 2.0 SR Skyward Bootcamp: Fun with Filters - Have you ever needed to get just a quick list of items for a specific project? This session will provide insight into various ways that filters can be used in so many places throughout Skyward.

Haldane - SFR Ed Fi Error Clean Up - This session will cover how to identify and correct errors for Ed-Fi V3.

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR Gender Identity - This session will show the new Identity Tab within the student profile, what areas it impacts and how the overall tab functions.

Vandenburg A - PY Payroll Tips & Tricks - Discover if there are options within the Payroll module that will allow you to speed-up or streamline your payroll process steps. Maybe YOU have some useful tips that you would like to share as well!

Vandenburg B - Qmlativ SMS to Q: Data Clean Up - GPA and Curriculum Clean Up - Data clean up and maintenance can be overwhelming without the right tools. This session will discuss tools available to assist in cleaning up duplicate names and addresses, and also discuss how to avoid these occurrences in the future.

Gerald R Ford - SMS 2.0 SR - Underutilized Features in Skyward - In this session, we will take a look at often overlooked features not everyone is using to their benefit. Join this session to learn how you can develop new strategies with your current resources.

Session 7 4:15 – 5:05

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR Time Off Reporting – This session will cover the basic reports that are available in the Skyward system. We will talk about the different uses for some of them and then demonstrate the setup to accomplish different tasks.

Emerald B - F Year End Processing for Finance - During this session, we will cover the step by step succession of data validation processes and utilities that ensure data accuracy for the new fiscal year being opened. The purpose of these processes is to inform the user of any incomplete records in the system that still need to be processed and/or removed completely and ensures general ledger account ending balances of the closing year will be the same beginning balances for the new year.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ HR - HR Payroll Process Overview Tips & Tricks - This session will provide an overview of the HR Payroll Process for new users as well as tips and tricks for current users.

Grandview - Qmlativ SR - Top 10 Reports for Student Admin - This session will introduce common reports for administrators and office staff from different modules including demographics, attendance, scheduling and grading.

Heritage Hill - Qmlativ SMS to Q - Data Clean Up: Prepping for Qmlativ BUSINESS - This session will focus on the different reports, filters and utilities that can be used in verifying and cleaning up data on the business side.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR New Features/Updates - This session will be a demonstration of some of the newest options available within Student Records.

Imperial Ballroom - Qmlativ SMS to Q Misc. Data Clean Up - This session will focus on the different reports, filters and utilities that can be used in verifying and cleaning up data

Haldane - SMS 2.0 SR Discipline Module Overview - In this session we will discuss entering Discipline records for students, Auto email options, what families can see in Family Access and giving teachers access to enter Discipline

Thornapple - SMS 2.0 SR Year End Rollover & Processing for Seniors - This session will cover things to do before/during and after the year end process. We will discuss Pre-Year end checklists, yearend validation and cleaning up errors prior to running the year end, and post year end validation and cleaning up errors there also. This session will also cover some common items and processes related to processing Seniors at the end of the school year, including the posting grades utility, mass marking the students as Graduated, etc.

Vandenburg A - PY Payroll Roundtable - The Roundtable session is a networking session for users to discuss processes and options with other users. Skyward will have representation, but the focus is to discuss, with other customers, ideas and options.

Vandenburg B - SMS 2.0 SR - CY Scheduling - Walk-in Scheduler: In this session, we will cover the Walk-In Scheduler process and all of its capabilities.

Gerald R Ford - SMS 2.0 SR - Skyward Game Show!! - Test your Skyward mettle against your peers in the updated and refreshed Skyward Showdown Game Show!

Session 8 8:45 – 9:35 AM

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR Time Off Accrual Processing - This session will go through the Time Off Accrual module. What is the benefit to your district to use this module? How do I set it up?

Emerald B - F Screen Customization/Filters - Eliminate the additional clicking by customizing your screens to the areas you need the most.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ HR/PY - HR & Payroll Roundtable - The Roundtable session is a networking session for users to discuss processes and options with other users. Skyward will have representation, but the focus is to discuss, with other customers, ideas and options.

Grandview - FS - Food Service Best Practices & Q&A – Discussion and sharing on utilizing the food service module efficiently.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR - Skyward Boot Camp: Basic Data Mining - Learn how to use the valuable Data Mining tool in Skyward to create reports and extract endless amounts of student data. Create specialized reports that can be shared with other users and used for years to come. Reporting is available for both historical & current data. Possibilities are endless! Some tasks reviewed will be: cloning reports, adding fields, printing report (export options), understanding ranges & report information screens

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR Custom Transcripts - This session will cover the steps needed to create Custom Transcripts. Make your transcripts fit your needs.

Imperial Ballroom - SFR State Reporting Best Practices - Discussion of best practices for State Reporting as recommended by the Michigan Pupil Accounting and Attendance Association (MPAAA)

Haldane - Qmlativ SR - Gradebook Overview - This session will focus on the gradebook area within Student Management.

Thornapple - HR/PY/F - Business Features - This session will be a demonstration of some of the newest options available within the Business Suite.

Vandenburg A - SMS 2.0 SR - Tips & Tricks with Tim and Ryan - The Remix: The Tim & Ryan Show continues, but we've changed things up quite a bit! We've taken the Tips & Tricks session and remixed it to offer updated information and more intentional opportunities for attendee interaction... because all of you have great ideas and creative solutions in Skyward!

Vandenburg B - Qmlativ SMS to Q - Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ - BUSINESS: This session will be a comparison of the features, options, and differences between SMS and Qmlativ.

Atrium - SMS 2.0 SR - Future Scheduling Bootcamp - Prep for the New Year: It’s almost that time of year again – Future Scheduling will be starting! This session will go over steps needed to get your Future Year set up and ready to go! Cloning, Course Master, Requests – Everything you need to know to be ready to start your 2024-25 adventure!

Session 9 9:45 – 10:35 am

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR - EE Management Plan Set Up - This session will demonstrate how to get started in adding positions into your Employee Management Plan. This will include adding calendars, importing assignments from other employee management plans and adding positions/assignments.

Emerald B - F - Budgetary Data Mining - Data Mining can be a powerful tool for creation of custom reports in your database. Learn how to utilize Data Mining to make the most of the data contained in your software. No prior knowledge of Data Mining is necessary.

Governor’s Room - SMS 2.0 SR - Skyward Bootcamp: Reporting 101 - This session will show various reports commonly used within the Student Management system. Included will be student information reporting, Staff information and Entry withdrawal reports. If you have any reports that you find helpful - plan to share!

Grandview - FS - Year Start/Year End - Preparing for the close out of the current year and startup of the next year in food service

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR - Attendance Letters - This session will cover how to setup and generate letters notifying parents/guardians of poor student attendance.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR - Skycoder - Skycoder is a powerful tool that can help customize Skyward pages to meet the needs of your district. This session will explore the use of Skycoder with built-in functions, as well as some cool custom coding tricks.

Imperial Ballroom - SFR - Teacher Student Data Link Collections (TSDL) - This session will cover State Reporting as recommended by the Michigan Pupil Accounting and Attendance Association (MPAAA)

Haldane - Qmlativ SR/F - Qmlativ Student/Finance - Process Manager - In this session, we will show Qmlativ’s process manager and how it can be utilized for both student and finance districts.

Thornapple - F - SMS Business Features - This session will be a demonstration of some of the newest options available within the Business Suite

Vandenburg A - SMS 2.0 SR -Top 10 Reports for Office Personnel - This session will introduce common reports for administrators and office staff from different modules including demographics, attendance, scheduling and grading. Schedule reports to run automatically. Use the browse screens as reports and sharing filters

Vandenburg B - Qmlativ SMS to Q - Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ - BUSINESS: This session will be a comparison of the features, options, and differences between SMS and Qmlativ.

Atrium - SMS 2.0 SR - Future Scheduling Boot Camp – Master Builder/Interactive Scheduling Board This session will focus on how to use the master builder and/or the Interactive Scheduling Board in conjunction with the auto scheduler. Best practices along with Tips & Tricks will be discussed.

Session 10 10:45 – 11:35 am

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR EE Management Employee Letters/Contracts - This session will cover Employee Letters and Contracts within the Employee Management Plan.

Emerald B - F - Best Practices for Completing your Bank Reconciliation - This session will cover ways to improve your month end reconciliation process. This includes manual adjustments, importing clearing dates, posting reversals, and much more!

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ Finance - Summer Payroll Process & Graded Retirement Plans

Grandview - FS - Applications; Online and Manual - This session will cover the process of setting up online applications, approving online applications and manually entering applications, as well as the Direct Certification process.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR - Grading Analysis - This session will provide an overview of Michigan State Reporting from Skyward, including some helpful hints for common issues.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR - New Student Online Enrollment (NSOE) - This session will provide an overview of the New Student Online Enrollment (NSOE) portal, and how to utilize the portal to allow parents to enroll new students into the district.

Imperial Ballroom - SFR - State Reporting Q & A - This session will provide an opportunity for discussion around any of the State Reporting sessions presented during this conference, any other questions you wish to discuss regarding State Reporting, and a Q & A opportunity from our panel of experts

Haldane - Qmlativ SR -New Student Features - This session will cover new features included in the most recent releases that have been added to the Qmlativ Student Product.

Thornapple - PY - Peer Discussion: MI Retirement Review – This networking session is for users to discuss processes and options with other users. Skyward will have representation, but the focus is to discuss ideas and options between users.

Vandenburg A - SMS 2.0 SR - Secondary Gradebook Features - This session will be a general overview of the Skyward Gradebook Secondary program showing you the basic setup, as well as procedures to setting up assignments and posting grades.

Vandenburg B - Qmlativ SMS to Q - Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ - STUDENT: This session will be a comparison of the features, options, and differences between SMS and Qmlativ.

Atrium - SMS 2.0 SR - Future Scheduling Boot Camp: Auto Scheduler - This session will review the verification of course requests, best practices for using the Auto-Scheduler, and how to determine the success of a scheduling run.

Session 11 11:45 am – 12:35 pm

Ambassador Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

Emerald A - HR - Peer Discussion HR - The Roundtable session is a networking session for users to discuss processes and options with other users. Skyward will have representation, but the focus is to discuss, with other customers, ideas and options.

Emerald B - F - Peer Discussion Finance - The Roundtable session is a networking session for users to discuss processes and options with other users. Skyward will have representation, but the focus is to discuss, with other customers, ideas and options.

Governor’s Room - Qmlativ F - Finance Reporting/Data Mining - This session will cover the basics of financial data mining. We will talk about how to create and share data mining reports. Some example reports include a budget report and a detail activity report.

Grandview - SMS 2.0 SR - Processing Lists - Have you ever wanted to run a report or utility and have it include only a certain group of students? If so, come and learn how easy it is to create processing lists.

Heritage Hill - SMS 2.0 SR - Data Mining on Steroids – You know that Data Mining is a powerful tool to create your own custom reports, but there is so much more that you can do with it! This session will explore some of the more advanced features such as Ranges and "And/Or" Filters, Labels, Processing Lists, and other cool tricks. You will be expected to already have a basic understanding of Data Mining coming into this session.

Pearl - SMS 2.0 SR - Online Registration - This session will cover the concept, set up and processing of the On-Line Registration process. We will step through all options available.

Imperial Ballroom - SFR CRDC Setup - This session will overview setting up the District and School LEA templates, selecting courses and Extracting the data. We will also cover how to review this data and Export it for submission along with CRDC online resources.

Haldane - Qmlativ SR Customization - You will be exposed to the import designer for adding and updating records. Included: New Project Feature in Customization – Adding a Project – Screen Elements - Field Validation - Save, Validate & Schema, Setting Security.

Thornapple - PY - ORS Retirement Reporting – This session will go over ORS reporting processes, as well as common errors and how to correct them.

Vandenburg A - SMS 2.0 SR - There’s a Report for That! (Teachers) – Teachers often have trouble finding the "right" report. This session will hone in on a couple of specific reports, and how to how to utilize different configurations to get the information you need, when you need it!

Vandenburg B - Qmlativ SMS to Q - Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ - STUDENT: This session will be a comparison of the features, options, and differences between SMS and Qmlativ.

Atrium - SMS 2.0 SR - Future Scheduling Bootcamp – Conflict Resolution - This final session will focus on the analysis reports generated during scheduling runs, how to resolve conflicts for individual students, and the Walk-In Scheduler. Time permitting, class roster and student schedule reports will be covered as well.

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Wednesday:

7:30 - 9:00: Breakfast and Opening Session

9:10 - Noon: Skyward 1:1

Noon - 1:00: Lunch

1:15 - 5:05: Skyward 1:1

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Thursday:

7:45 - 8:45: Hot Breakfast Buffet

8:45 - 12:35: Skyward 1:1

12:45 - 1:00: Closing and Door Prize Drawings (you must be present to win)

Skyward 1:1 - Skyward personnel will be available to answer your individual questions. In an effort to accommodate everyone, sessions are limited to 15 minutes.

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: REP Reporting

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: HR Data Mining

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Employee Access - Empowering District Employees

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: New Hire Procedure

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Custom Forms - HR Focus

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: FMLA Tracking in Time Off

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Time Off Reporting

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Time Off Accrual Processing

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: EE Management Plan Set Up

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: EE Management Employee Letters/Contracts

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Peer Discussion HR

——HEAD TO THE AMBASSADOR FOR THE CLOSING (and prizes - you must be present to win!)——

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Dock Pay Record

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Super Sleuth Investigative Reporting

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Peer Discussion: Finance New to Skyward

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Vendor 101

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Vendor Data Mining

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Accounts Payable Credit Cards, Epayables

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Year End Process for Finance

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Screen Customization, Skyport/Filters

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Budgetary Data Mining

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Best Practices for Completing Bank Reconciliation

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Peer Discussion for Finance

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Qmlativ HR & Finance - General Navigation Tips & Tricks

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Qmlativ Purchase Order to Accounts Payable Check - Tips & Tricks

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Qmlativ Finance - Bank Reconciliation Best Practices

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Qmlativ Finance - Building the Budget

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Qmlativ 1099 Processing

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Qmlativ Intro to HR Reporting & Data Mining

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Qmlativ HR Payroll Process Overview Tips & Tricks———————————————————————————————————————————

Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Qmlativ Finance - HR/PYRL Roundtable

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP Reporting 101

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Qmlativ Finance - Summer Payroll Process & Graded Retirement Plans

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Qmlativ Finance Reporting/Data Mining

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Qmlativ Migration Center

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Qmlativ Student - Tips & Tricks

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Qmlativ Student - Basic Report Designer

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Qmlativ Student - List Screen Live Tiles

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Qmlativ Student - New Features

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Qmlativ Student - Import Designer

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Qmlativ Student - Top 10 Reports for Student Admin

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Food Service Best Practices

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Food Service Year Start/Year End

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Food Service - Applications - Online and Manual

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Processing Lists

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Custom Forms - Overview

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Custom Forms Advanced: Making them work for you

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: API

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Skybuild

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Custom Transcripts

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Teacher Tracking

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Data Clean Up - Prepping for Qmlativ BUSINESS

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP - Beginning Data Mining

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Attendance Letters

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Grading Analysis

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Data Mining on Steroids

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Tips & Tricks for Administrators

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Top 10 Reports for Administrators

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Guidance Counselors - Keeping Students on Track to Succeed

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Graduation Requirements

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Current Year Scheduling Tips & Tricks

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Real PD for Real People

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: SMS Student New Features/Updates

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Custom Transcripts

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Skycoder

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: NSOE - New Student Online Enrollment

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Online Registration

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP Basic Student/New Family Entry

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP - Sanity Savers

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP - Basic Attendance

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP Reporting 101

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP - Basic Attendance

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: SKYWARD BOOTCAMP - Fun With Filters

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: SMS to Qmlativ - Misc. Data Clean Up

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: State Reporting Best Practices

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: TSDL

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: State Reporting Q&A

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: CRDC Set Up

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: SE MSDS w/ Pupil Accounting

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: State Reporting: Ed-Fi Set Up

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Using Skyward and Google Classroom to Simplify State Reporting

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: CTE

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: State Reporting Special Programs Tab/Gender Identity

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Ed Fi Error Clean Up

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Discipline Module Overview

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Qmlativ Student - Gradebook Overview

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Qmlativ Student/Finance - Process Manager

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Qmlativ Student New Features

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Qmlativ Student - Customization

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Advanced Student Utilities and Processes

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Elementary Scheduling for the New Year

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Custom Report Cards

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: GPA Troubleshooting, Transcripts

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Advanced Features

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Gender Identity

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Year End Rollover and Processing for Seniors

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: SMS Business Features - HR/Payroll

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: SMS Business Features - Finance

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Peer Discussion - MI Retirement Review

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: ORS Retirement Reporting

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: SE Configuration, Setup, Suggested Reports/Utilities

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: SE Data Clean Up

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: SE Assessments, Troubleshooting, Bells & Whistles

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Payroll Reporting Options

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Affordable Care Act

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: Payroll Tips & Tricks

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Payroll Roundtable

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Tips & Tricks with Tim and Ryan - The Remix

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Top 10 Reports for Office Personnel

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Secondary Gradebook Features

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: There's a Report for That - Teachers

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Wednesday:

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Advanced Payroll

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Task Manager - Business

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Insurance Tracking 101

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Excel - Tips & Tricks

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Insurance Tracking Year End

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: SMS to Qmlativ Data Clean Up - GPA and Curriculum Clean Up

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Current Year Scheduling - Walk in Scheduler

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Thursday:

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ - BUSINESS

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ - BUSINESS

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ STUDENT

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Let's Compare SMS and Qmlativ STUDENT

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WEDNESDAY ONLY!

S1 - 9:10 - 10:00: Current Year Scheduling - Summer School

S2 - 10:10 - 11:00: Attendance - Common/Not so Common Reports

S3 - 11:10 - Noon: Data Clean Up - Prepping for Qmlativ

—LUNCH IS FROM NOON - 1:00 IN THE AMBASSADOR BALLROOM—

S4 - 1:15 - 2:05: Qmlativ Finance - Employee Access Overview

S5 - 2:15 - 3:05: Health Records Overview

S6 - 3:15 - 4:05: SMS Student - Underutilized Features

S7 - 4:15 - 5:05: Skyward Game Show

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THURSDAY ONLY!!

S8 - 8:45 - 9:35: Future Scheduling Boot Camp - Prep for the New Year

S9 - 9:45 - 10:35: Future Scheduling Boot Camp - Interactive Master Builder/Scheduling Board

S10 - 10:45 - 11:35: Future Scheduling Boot Camp - Auto Scheduler

S11 - 11:45 - 12:35: Future Scheduling Boot Camp - Conflict Resolution

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