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Upcoming Professional Development Trainings & Workshops
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Professional Development Trainings & Workshops
NEOnet’s knowledgeable, courteous team delivers a wide variety of high-quality professional development opportunities that can help you improve your expertise and skills. If you are interested in a training or workshop, please click the interactive link found in this catalog or visit our website calendar at www.neonet.org, click the Event, and then click Register for Event. If you have any questions, please contact Lillian Johnson at 330.926.3900 or
[email protected].
Fiscal Services Fiscal Open Labs
Description: Open lab sessions for eFP software and state software. When registering for open lab, please write in the notes what you would like to go over. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 13, 2018 March 13, 2018 April 17, 2018 May 15, 2018 June 19, 2018
Treasurers Operating Committee
Description: The membership of the treasurers operating committee is composed of the treasurer from each of the member districts. This committee assists the board of directors in the financial operations of NEOnet. The committee is also responsible for providing guidance and direction to the fiscal services department. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: February 14, 2018 April 18, 2018
USPS Payroll Quarter Balancing
Description: Participants should plan to attend all day. A review of all reports and the spreadsheet that will be used during the balancing process will be reviewed in the morning. In the afternoon, participants will be given time to complete quarter balancing and ask questions regarding particular issues. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: March 6, 2018 May 23, 2018
eFP Requisition Training (Refresher)
Description: This training is for users of eFinancePLUS. Participants will be shown how to copy requisitions, add attachments and the approval/workflow process, if applicable. Participants will also learn how to add a requisition into eFinancePLUS. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: March 7, 2018
eFinancePlus Payroll & Accounting Roundtable
Description: This session will include a discussion and updates on eFP payroll and accounting related topics. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: February 2, 2018 April 6, 2018
USPS Roundtable
Description: This session will include a discussion and updates on USPS related topics. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: February 9, 2018 April 13, 2018
USAS Roundtable
Description: This session will include a discussion and updates on USAS related topics. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: February 9, 2018 April 13, 2018
eFP Basic Cognos Training
eFP Payroll & Accounting FYE Meeting
STRSAD Training
Media Services
Description: This training is for users of eFinancePLUS. Participants will be shown how to view reports, create basic queries and develop their own reports using their live data in eFinancePlus. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: April 24, 2018
Description: This training is for state software users. The session will focus on the STRSAD program, Errors/ Warnings, and NONADV, STRSAD.rpt and STRSAD.txt reports. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: May 8, 2018
eFP Budget Prep Training
Description: This training is for users of eFinancePLUS. Participants will learn how to set up a fiscal year budget. Budget Prep allows for flexibility to accommodate for the differences between districts, along with streamlining budgeting processes to increase efficiency. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: March 14, 2018
USPS FYE Meeting
Description: This meeting will be used to discuss the closing processes and changes made by SSDT. The agenda will be set closer to the meeting date. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: June 1, 2018
USAS FYE Meeting
Description: This meeting will be used to discuss the closing processes and changes made by SSDT. The agenda will be set closer to the meeting date. Location: NEOnet Rooms A & B Dates Offered: June 1, 2018
Description: This meeting will be used to discuss the closing processes defined by PowerSchool. The agenda will be set closer to the meeting date. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: June 8, 2018
Media Services Advisory/Users’ Meeting
Description: This session will include an update on Sirsi WorkFlows and INFOhio electronic resources from 8:30-11:30 a.m. An open lab and/or professional development session will be available afterwards from 12:30-3:30 p.m. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: February 27, 2018 April 26, 2018
Using WorkFlows Reports for PR
Description: Participants will learn how to use Workflows reports and online tools to create a statistical and narrative PR report to share with administrators. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 7, 2018
Workflows Database Clean-up II
Description: Participants will learn item maintenance strategies and shortcuts to keep library database current, preventing cataloging errors and making it easier to locate materials. Participants are recommended to complete Database Clean-up I prior to attending. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 12, 2018
Professional Development Trainings & Workshops
WorkFlows Advanced Cataloging
Description: Participants who have knowledge of MARC records and/or have taken Basic Cataloging are invited to join NEOnet to learn how to catalog from INFOhio templates, add equipment, modify MARC records and transfer items. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: March 15, 2018
WorkFlows Inventory
Description: Are you planning to complete inventory of your library this year? Participants will learn how to set up an inventory, complete the process and generate the necessary reports to ensure their online catalog reflects what is actually on the shelves. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: April 10, 2018 May 2, 2018 May 17, 2018
Makerspace Open Lab
Description: Come by yourself or bring your whole team… drop in for a half hour, or stay all afternoon. Join us after school in the NEOnet’s Makerspace to experiment with tools from blocks and markers to 3D printers and robots. Tinker and explore while you plan how to use the making concept in your school! Location: NEOnet Makerspace Dates Offered: February 7, 2018 February 23, 2018 March 5, 2018 March 28, 2018
The Cardboard Challenge
Description: Inspired by the short film “Caine’s Arcade,” learn how to run a cardboard challenge at your school to encourage creativity and innovation. This training will cover the basics of a cardboard challenge, including possible themes, and will also feature a hands-on portion to learn cardboard construction techniques. Location: NEOnet Makerspace Dates Offered: April 2, 2018
Building Décor, Shirts and More How to Use a Silhouette Cameo in a School
Description: Explore how to use a Silhouette Cameo scrapbook machine to make bulletin boards and room décor, decorate shirts and bags and much more. Participants will learn the basics of the Silhouette Studio program, where to find free cut files online and how to use heat press and adhesive vinyl with the machine. Bring a plain shirt/canvas and a mug/cup to decorate as you like! Location: NEOnet Makerspace Dates Offered: February 1, 2018
Exploring INFOhio’s Free Primary Source Resources
Description: Are you interested in teaching your students about local history, the Civil War, the Great Depression or even haunted houses? If so, there is a wealth of free primary source material available online from INFOhio. Primary Source material can be an artifact, document, autobiography, manuscript or a diary written during that point in time. History really comes alive when you are able to read the actual words from those who helped shape it. In this hands-on session, participants will explore Ancestry. com, EBSCO and other electronic resources to find fascinating primary source information, written by the people who lived it. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: March 20, 2018
Creating and Editing Student Made Videos
Description: It’s never been easier for students to create videos with phones, tablets and laptops having high quality cameras built in. The challenging part is finding an inexpensive solution to edit and produce the videos. In this hands-on session, particpants will review and try several video editing apps and programs for Chromebook, PC, Mac and mobile devices. Location: NEOnet Makerspace Dates Offered: March 27, 2018
Microsoft Basic Excel Training Part 1
Description: This training session will provide attendees with the basics of Excel. Discussion topics will include cell and worksheet formatting, formula and function basics, copy and paste features, print setup and user views. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 1, 2018
Basic Excel Training Part 2
Description: In the second session of Excel Beginner training, attendees will receive an introduction to some widely-used formulas, including COUNT, CONCATENATE, IF AND PMT. Attendees will also learn additional data tools, such as sorting and filtering, as well as basics on charts and graphs. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 8, 2018
Intermediate Excel Training Part 1
Description: The first session of intermediate Excel training will include an overview on more advanced formulas, such as VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, linking spreadsheets and using absolute values. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 15, 2018
Intermediate Excel Training Part 2
Description: In the second session of intermediate Excel training, attendees will learn basics on conditional formatting, pivot tables and macros. Additional topics will include converting text to columns and duplicate removals. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 22, 2018
Student Services Student Services Open Labs
Description: This session will be an open lab setting for participants to work or ask questions on any of the products in the ProgressBook Suite or EMIS related topics. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 5, 2018 February 16, 2018 February 21, 2018 March 1, 2018 March 8, 2018 March 21, 2018 March 29, 2018 April 5, 2018 April 19, 2018
Special Services Meeting
Description: This meeting is for any staff in the district involved in the special education process and software. Participants will review the software releases, form changes and functionality and EMIS Reporting. In addition, the meeting will be an open forum to discuss issues. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: March 9, 2018
Special Services End of Year Meeting Description: This meeting is for any staff in the district involved in the special education process and software. Participants will review the software releases, form changes and functionality, EMIS Reporting and the process for closing out the school year. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: May 11, 2018
2018-2019 DASL School Year Initialization (SYI)
Description: SYI is the process of copying your information in DASL from the current year to the upcoming school year. This is done at building level and can be completed at different times for each building in the district. At the end of the training, participants will have the opportunity to promote students from the current year to enroll them in the upcoming year. This entire SYI/Promotion/Bulk Enrollment process must be completed to start scheduling in the upcoming year. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 5, 2018 February 16, 2018 February 28, 2018 March 8, 2018 March 15, 2018
DASL Public Course Request
Description: DASL Public Course Request is the module where students receive a username and password, log into a website and enter their schedule requests for the upcoming school year. This training will go over all the necessary steps to make sure this application is set up correctly. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 7, 2018
Graduation Points
Description: The Graduation Points module is used to verify if students have met all the credit requirements for graduation and show readiness for next steps in college and/or careers. This involves tracking the students course credits, end of course exams or alternative paths to graduation. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 9, 2018
DASL Batch Scheduler
Description: The batch scheduler is the application inside of DASL that will schedule students based on course requests. This training will help set up job parameters to endure the highest percentage of scheduled students for the district. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 12, 2018 March 1, 2018 March 12, 2018
DASL EMIS Calendar Exceptions
Description: During the School Year Initialization (SYI) process, buildings will put their non-attending days from the district calendar into the calendar wizard in DASL. During SYI, there are no EMIS exceptions put on the non-attending days. Due to new changes in EMIS, we will hold a new training based on how to bulk assign these EMIS exceptions for your entire district. Please note: ALL buildings in your district must be initialized to attend. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: February 21, 2018 March 21, 2018 April 5, 2018
Elementary Scheduling
Description: This session will go over the elementary scheduling process, including course and course section setup, course groups, homeroom bulk assign and bulk course group assignment by homeroom. Location: NEOnet Training Lab Dates Offered: April 18, 2018
GradeBook Roundtable
Description: This roundtable will be a discussion on new features and issues for the users, as well as a look at how the year is going. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: April 24, 2018
DASL Admin Roundtable
Description: The DASL administrative roundtable is a meeting to discuss all current and outstanding defects, upcoming releases and updates to the package and discuss future DASL trainings. In addition, districts will have the opportunity to share ideas and have open discussions on any student service package. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: April 24, 2018
Educational Operating Committee Meeting
Description: The educational operating committee assists the student services department in prioritizing software enhancements, providing feedback on service offerings and determining the future direction of the department. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: April 11, 2018
House Bill 410
Description: This session will cover how to use the DASL Software to read the HB410 report, enter data on the new absence intervention screens and report the data. Location: WebEx Only Dates Offered: February 1, 2018 Feburary 6, 2018 February 8, 2018 February 21, 2018
Technical Services Technology Advisory Committee
Description: The technology advisory committee is composed of district technology directors. The committee assists in the technical operations of NEOnet and provides guidance and direction to the NEOnet technical department and the board of directors. Location: NEOnet Room B Dates Offered: February 1, 2018 March 1, 2018 April 12, 2018 May 3, 2018
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