2024 MSUG - Michigan Skyward User Group Fall Conference: Full Schedule

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9:10am EST

Helpful Hints for Administrators & Office Staff (SMS Student)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 9:10am - 9:55am EST

Tips on some of the most helpful modules in Skyward for building level administrators, counselors, and office support staff. Including how to get the most out of the message center, guidance check in, activity groups, processing lists, discipline graphs, teacher reports, etc.

Presenters

Kevin Biskup

Administrator, Bangor Township Schools

Wednesday November 20, 2024 9:10am - 9:55am EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 01

10:10am EST

Skyward Bootcamp - Sanity Savers (SMS Student)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:10am - 10:55am EST

GRANDVIEW

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.

Presenters

DeVonna Haskell

Information Systems Specialist, Clare-Gladwin RESD

I provide training, support and talk people off the ledge for all things SAAS, State Reporting, Data Warehousing and more. I support Skyward, Illuminate, Data Hub and all systems that integrate with Skyward SMS and Qmlativ.On any given day I interact with Teachers, Office Professionals... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:10am - 10:55am EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 02

11:10am EST

Skyward Bootcamp - Beginning Data Mining Session 1 of 2 (SMS Student)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 11:10am - 11:55am EST

GRANDVIEW

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.

Presenters

Miranda Christiansen

Wednesday November 20, 2024 11:10am - 11:55am EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 03

1:15pm EST

Grad Requirements (SMS Student)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:15pm - 2:00pm EST

GRANDVIEW

Setting up and Utilizing Graduation Requirements. Instructions for Guidance Counselors

Presenters

Becky Thomason

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:15pm - 2:00pm EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 04

2:15pm EST

Vendor Data Mining (SMS Business)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 2:15pm - 3:00pm EST

GRANDVIEW

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.

Presenters

Craig Gauerke

Wednesday November 20, 2024 2:15pm - 3:00pm EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Business, Financial Management

Session Session 05

3:15pm EST

Who Changed This? Tracking data changes (SMS Student)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:15pm - 4:00pm EST

GRANDVIEW

User Tracking, Super User Log, District Log in History, Demographic Changes, Attendance or Grading changes - keep track of what is going on in your system and who is doing it

Presenters

Miranda Christiansen

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:15pm - 4:00pm EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, SMS to Qmlativ

Session Session 06

4:15pm EST

Discipline Module Overview (SMS Student)

Wednesday November 20, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EST

GRANDVIEW

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

Presenters

Becky Thomason

Wednesday November 20, 2024 4:15pm - 5:00pm EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 07

8:45am EST

Grade Analysis (SMS Student)

Thursday November 21, 2024 8:45am - 9:30am EST

GRANDVIEW

This session will be discussing options for Grade Analysis Reporting. There are several reports that can be run to analyze grades by student or teacher, along with eligibility.

Presenters

Trisha Walloch

Thursday November 21, 2024 8:45am - 9:30am EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 08

9:45am EST

Attendance Letters (SMS Student)

Thursday November 21, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EST

GRANDVIEW

This session will cover how to setup and generate letters notifying parents/guardians of poor student attendance.

Presenters

Eric Zahn

Thursday November 21, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 09

10:45am EST

Tips & Tricks with Tim and Ryan (SMS Student)

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:45am - 11:30am EST

GRANDVIEW

The boys are back in town... Come along on the magical mystery ride that is the Tim & Ryan show. This year's session will contain MANY new ideas, and we've also coordinated with other presenters of Tips & Trick type sessions being offered at the conference so that we're not ALL presenting the same things. Be prepared to learn a few new tricks to take back to your District and have a little fun while you're at it!

Presenters

Tim Howard

Ryan Miller

Director of Technology, Portage Public Schools

Thursday November 21, 2024 10:45am - 11:30am EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 10

11:45am EST

Processing Lists (SMS Student)

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:45am - 12:30pm EST

GRANDVIEW

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.

Presenters

Trisha Walloch

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:45am - 12:30pm EST
GRANDVIEW 187 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

SMS Student, General

Session Session 11