Cafeteria Management & Billing (3 hrs)

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1 Name Accounting Basics (4 hrs) Accounting: Managing Deferred Money Administrative Fundamentals in Desktop (5 hrs) Admissions: New Students Attendance in Desktop Trainings and s led by RenWeb Description Acquaint yourself with the basics of RenWeb Accounting. Set up security, systems, categories and family financial responsibility. Add charges, payments, deposits and more. Deferred Money results when a received payment is not totally consumed by outstanding charges. Learn how to apply deferred money to open charges for a variety of accounting system and fiscal year scenarios. In addition, move deferred money from one accounting system or fiscal year to a different accounting system or fiscal year. Discover the fundamentals of RenWeb from an administrator's perspective in Desktop. Learn how to maintain demographic information, utilize a variety of communication methods, and manage the academic aspects of your school. Learn how to monitor a student's admissions and registration progress into your school. Configure a school-specific checklist process, establish notification templates, manage your school's waiting list and much more. This session does not tie in with Online Application. Determine if your school should be using Homeroom or Period attendance and configure your school's attendance setup. Learn how to convert tardies into absences. Discuss the various attendance reports and determine which one to utilize to access the information you need. Cafeteria Management & Billing Child Care Management & Billing (4 hrs) Customization Kit Customization Kit: Report Card Creation Explore the various aspects encompassed in cafeteria management: creating a menu; calendaring the menu; and recording of orders for students and staff. Configure ParentsWeb to display the menu and allow parents to create and pay for their orders online. Verify the items received by students and create charges. Use the Cash Register to create charges and accept payments for a la carte items. Prerequisite: Accounting Basics Create customizable billing for the child care options offered at your school. Analyze a variety of methods used by RenWeb schools to manage their unique child care scenarios: plan billing; weekly billing; incremental billing and live time clock billing. Print family statements that are specifically for the child care charges. Prerequisite: Accounting Basics Harness the capabilities of this powerful tool that allows you to customize documents produced from RenWeb, including templates, custom dynamic Web forms, new student inquiry pages, report cards and more. Harness the capabilities of this powerful tool and create a Report Card for your school. You will need a laptop, any desired school logos and HTML proficiency. Prerequisites: Passing an HTML proficiency quiz and having an external HTML editor. Type the following URL into your Web browser: Under "Count Your Score," click "Start the HTML Quiz" link when the page displays. 1

2 Customization Kit: Web Forms Customization Kit: Student & Family Reports Customization Kit: Transcript Reports Donate Online Donor Connect Training (5 hrs) Donor Connect End-of-Year Duties Harness the capabilities of this powerful tool and create a web form for your school. You will need a laptop and HTML proficiency. Prerequisites: Passing an HTML proficiency quiz and having an external HTML editor. Type the following URL into your Web browser: Under "Count Your Score," click "Start the HTML Quiz" link when the page displays. Harness the capabilities of this powerful tool and create a Student & Family report for your school. You will need a laptop, any desired school logos and HTML proficiency. Prerequisites: Passing an HTML proficiency quiz and having an external HTML editor. Type the following URL into your Web browser: Under "Count Your Score," click "Start the HTML Quiz" link when the page displays. Harness the capabilities of this powerful tool and create a Transcript for your school. You will need a laptop, any desired school logos and HTML proficiency. Prerequisites: Passing an HTML proficiency quiz and having an external HTML editor. Type the following URL into your Web browser: Under "Count Your Score," click "Start the HTML Quiz" link when the page displays. Simplify donations for often hard-to-reach family and friends with Donate Online, empowering schools to acquire new donors who often do not respond to traditional postal mail solicitations. Donate Online offers a secure donation link that schools can attach to any Web page, allowing donors to submit gifts online via credit cards. Donate Online also makes it easy for schools to take online fundraising to the next level by creating complete Online Giving areas for their websites, using simple Web forms provided by RenWeb. These comprehensive pages can include an overview of the school's fundraising program, a description and photos of the school's various campaigns, and a secure donation button for submitting gifts. Recognize the ease of use and organizational capabilities of constituent management in Donor Connect. Sync with RenWeb School Management, add users and security rights and define constituent connections to your school and with each other. Manage and create campaigns, efforts and events. Learn to track pledges and manage constituent giving. Communicate with your school board and constituents. Print giving reports that detail giving information by year, campaign, type and more. Design mail merge letters that express thanks to constituents who have given or solicit a gift. constituent-based reports to cut down on cost, paper consumption and time. Spend less time managing data and more time cultivating relationships using Donor Connect's on-demand donor information platform. Automate the management of your donor lists, access donor information anytime, anywhere. Sync demographic information from RenWeb School Management and enter information only one time. Progress through the recommended steps to take when progressing students to the next grade level; discuss cleanup tasks to consider when closing one year and opening another; and learn tips to consider when utilizing scheduling, ParentsWeb and accounting. 2

3 Faculty: Making the Most of ParentsWeb FacultyWeb Training (5 hrs) Getting Help in RenWeb Grade Calculator Graduation Planning Honor Roll Human Resources Management Library Management in RenWeb Portal Maintaining a Clean Database Maintenance Manager Master Lesson Plans Enhance your communication with parents by utilizing the class website to its fullest. Customizing this area of ParentsWeb, which is integrated with your grade book, enables you to easily convey often-requested information to parents. Provide up-to-the-minute grades, lesson plans and attendance records to parents. Explore the new possibilities introduced with the new blog functionality. Enhance your knowledge of the FacultyWeb version of RenWeb. Learn how to use the grade book, take attendance, enter lesson plans, and how the displayed and printed report cards work. Learn the best way to get answers for all your RenWeb questions. In this session you will receive instruction on how to contact RenWeb's Support Team, how to review open Service Ticket items, plus various ways to access training materials and information through RenWeb University and Online Help. Utilize the Grade Calculator to determine mid-term GPAs or averages, or to determine the GPA or averages for a specified course. By configuring the Grade Source, Grade, Weight and Factor, you can display by student or class a GPA or average for a specified time period. Graduation Plans allow you to configure the requirements a student must fulfill in order to graduate from your school. Using graduation plans, you can create various student tracks, which result in different types of diplomas. You can configure graduation plans to utilize department requirements, course requirements or credit requirements. In addition, the Graduation Plan Audit report displays the requirements that a student has met as well as the requirements that he or she has outstanding. Explore the connection between credits and report cards and the connection between weights and transcripts. Determine how to configure the Honor Roll to produce various types and levels of honor roll. Organize staff evaluations, observations, attendance information, behavior events and salary information. Print end-of-year evaluations based on observations, attendance and behavior. Explore the Library Management solution, featuring MARC record import capability and a complete circulation, cataloging, searching and reporting system. Learn about enhanced Library Management features: A MARC record-based library system that imports MARC records from book publishers and other online sources; storing of multiple ISBNs, subjects and subject headings; enhanced patron capabilities for students, parents and staff members; extensive circulation policy controls for different patron groups and different catalog types and at-a-glance displays of circulation history for both catalog items and patrons; centralized circulation, cataloging, searching and reporting functions into a single, browser-based solution; inventory control to manage valuable investment in books and other resources; hands-free bar scan operation to automate book check-in and check-out processes. Review the steps to take to clean up duplicate students, parents and families in your database. How do you know if you need to attend this session? Run the Duplicate Person Error Check from the Administration category of Report Manager; if there are people listed on this report, you should attend this session. Automate a variety of database jobs as well as various communications to parents. Send parents behavior and attendance notifications, and notify parents regarding accounting information and much more. Discover the time-saving feature, Master Lesson Plans. Learn how to populate your Staff Master Lesson Plans and access them to populate your lesson plans from one year to the next. Explore the differences between Staff Master Lesson Plans and School Master Lesson Plans. 3

4 Medical Medical: Immunizations Track important student medical information: medication; medical events; student allergies; screenings and tests. Solve the immunization compliancy mystery. Dissect an immunization rule and learn the steps of entering the parameters into RenWeb. Once immunizations have been entered into RenWeb, discover how to check each student in the database for compliancy. Prerequisite: Medical Moodle Hot Topic: 25 Marvelous Ways to Use Moodle Moodle Hot Topic: Are You Ready to Moogle? Moodle Hot Topic: Creating Assessments in Moodle Moodle Hot Topic: Flipping Your Classes with Moodle Moodle Hot Topic: Vocabulary Development in Moodle Moodle: Using Moodle in the Classroom Moodle: Administrator Training Moodle: Learning Management powered by Moodle () Do you think Moodle is just about uploading documents? There is so much more that Moodle can do! Are you ready to go beyond the basic features? In this fast-paced session you will learn 25 marvelous, innovative ways to make the most of the Forum, Chat, and Glossary Modules. What do you get when you combine the power of Moodle with the power of Google? Amazing and engaging learning for students plus efficiency for teachers, of course. This session will teach you to incorporate tools such as Google Translate, Google Books, Google Docs, Presentations, and Spreadsheets, Custom Google Search Engine, and more into your Moodle courses. Quizzes and Questions are the focus of this session. We will take an in-depth look at the Quiz module and Question types, share ideas for using the Quiz module for more than just traditional tests, and provide tips and tricks to speed up the process of creating assessments for students The latest buzz in education is flipping. A flipped classroom refers to a reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive, teacher-created videos and podcast and moves homework to the classroom. This session will focus on how to flip your classroom using Moodle. The Moodle Glossary tool has many uses beyond terms and definitions. In this session you will learn the difference between main and secondary glossaries, understand the possible display options for glossaries, auto linking of terms to support learners as they develop vocabulary, and creating vocabulary games using the Games and Flashcard modules. New to Moodle and want to get a better feel of how it works? Then this class is for you. You ll learn what Moodle does, how to navigate it, what can go into a Moodle course, and how to manage class content. Plus you ll learn how RenWeb integration allows Moodle and RenWeb work together to update your grade book and communicate with your students and parents. This class is for anyone who has to administer a Moodle site at their school. It covers how to set up and configure Moodle, how to perform day-to-day administrative tasks, and the points of integration between Moodle and RenWeb. You see how Moodle and RenWeb exchange information on Students, Faculty, Courses, Grades, Homework Assignments and other Events in Moodle. Receive an overview of Moodle and how it can support your school s 1:1 device program or blended learning classrooms. When launching 1:1 device programs, schools often focus on the management of the devices, but not on management of the digital lessons they will share on the devices. Moodle allows schools to organize and sequence the digital lessons they will share with students, and save it for reuse in multiple class sections or subsequent semesters. RenWeb Learning Management makes it easy for schools to use Moodle by hosting Moodle and integrating it with RenWeb. Let us show you how! 4

5 Online Application & Online Enrollment Configuration Management Training Discover the design and configuration components within the Content Management System for Online Application and Online Enrollment. This session covers the content and basic configuration of both products. Prerequisite: Online Application and/or Online Enrollment Customer Online Application Eliminate paper application packets and begin offering prospective parents an online application that provides a more polished image for your school, simplifies application submissions for parents, attracts more applications, and lowers the cost per application processed by eliminating manual data entry. Online Application is a powerful tool that dramatically simplifies the admissions process by integrating configurable application Web forms with RenWeb s admission management feature set to provide schools a complete online application process. Online Application: Establishing New Year Application Procedures Online Application: Provider Training Online Enrollment Prepare your school's Online Application for next year's admissions season. As your current admissions season comes to a close, you need to make adjustments to the Applications currently available to students and parents in Online Application. Prerequisite: Online Application Customer & Phase 1 - Configuration Management and Phase 2 - Online Application Provider Training Equip you with the knowledge necessary to realize the full potential of Online Application. That includes creating and updating online applications; reviewing, synching and importing applications into RenWeb; communicating with prospective families; and running the full battery of RenWeb's Admissions reports. Prerequisite: Online Application Customer Save parents the frustration of completing the same paper enrollment forms year after year, and your staff from re-keying demographic data into RenWeb. Online Enrollment is a powerful new tool that provides end-to-end enrollment and reenrollment processes for new and returning students. Online Enrollment: Establishing New Year Enrollment Procedures Online Enrollment: Provider Training Prepare your school's Online Enrollment packets for next year's reenrollment period. As your current enrollment season comes to a close, you need to make adjustments to the packets currently available to students and parents in Online Enrollment. Prerequisite: Online Enrollment Customer & Phase 1 -Configuration Management and Phase 2 - Online Enrollment Provider Training Equip you with the knowledge necessary to realize the full potential of Online Enrollment. That includes creating and updating enrollment packets; reviewing, synching and importing enrollment packets into RenWeb; setting up enrollment responsibility and much more. Prerequisite: Online Enrollment Customer 5

6 Parent Alert ParentsWeb Pay Now Producing Report Cards QuickBooks Interface for Summarized Entries Overview Enhance your communications with Parent Alert RenWeb s instantaneous notification service that speeds communications to parents and your school community via text messages to cell phones and PDAs; voice calls to work, home and cell; and s to multiple addresses. Capable of sending messages to thousands of individuals within minutes, Parent Alert sends notifications directly from RenWeb to reach parents anytime, anywhere for simple notifications of game cancellations, tuition payment reminders, or emergencies when it matters most. Utilize ParentsWeb effectively as a communication tool for parents: add dynamic content such as announcements; calendar events; newsletters; and document downloads. Experience the convenience of online school payments through ParentsWeb. Payments immediately post to family account balances inside RenWeb and clear charges. Deposits are created to which payments are added for bank reconciliation. Produce Student Report Cards without a hitch. Review each area that affects producing report cards and discover solutions to common problems like unrecognized grades or inaccurate offsets. If your school uses RenWeb for Student Billing and uses QuickBooks to produce your financial statements, the QuickBooks Interface for Summarized Entries is the right solution for your school. Learn how it will improve the efficiency of your school s business office by eliminating dual data entry between RenWeb and QuickBooks while simplifying month-end reconciliation tasks. QuickBooks Interface with Family Detail Overview If your school invoices parents directly out of QuickBooks, RenWeb's QuickBooks Interface with Family Detail is for you. Learn how you can display your QuickBooks family balances in RenWeb's ParentsWeb so parents can view their balances and make online payments against those balances. Payments then post directly back in QuickBooks so the updated balances can be displayed back in ParentsWeb. RenWeb Portal: Overview RenWeb Portal: Academic Management Training RenWeb Portal: Attendance Training RenWeb Portal: Communication Training Experience a live demonstration of the new RenWeb Portal. We'll take you through the new layout of RenWeb and allow you the opportunity to see the ease of use Portal will provide. Using the new RenWeb Portal, become familiar with the newly designed layout of the Courses and Classes areas of Portal. You'll also discover additional tools for managing Student enrollment into Classes. Using the new RenWeb Portal, learn how to manage classroom and staff attendance, convert tardies to absences and manage attendance configuration. Discuss the various reports and determine which reports best meet the needs at your school. Learn about the new communications capabilities offered by RenWeb Portal, including its new Outlook-style text editor that makes it possible to send out formatted s with your school's branding included. 6

7 RenWeb Portal: Locker Management Training RenWeb Portal: People Management Training RenWeb Portal: Security Training RenWeb Portal: Transportation Training RenWeb Staff App Overview Scheduling: Basics Scheduling: Self-contained Groups Using RenWeb Portal, utilize the locker management tool to assign lockers individually or as a group import, manage locker assignments and track assigned combinations. Using the new RenWeb Portal, learn how to manage Student, Family and Staff demographic data, behavior events, emergency contacts and more. Acquaint yourself with the newly designed Add New Wizard for creating new Student and Staff records within your database. Become familiar with the enhanced security that RenWeb Portal provides. Prepare your school staff access based on the additional security rights and areas that Portal has to offer. Using the new RenWeb Portal, learn how to manage student transportation tracking. Configure routes, establish pick-up points and assign a transportation schedule to each student. Utilize the inclusion and exclusion features for tracking changes to the standard transportation schedule. See how RenWeb Staff for iphones and RenWeb Staff HD for ipads provide on-the-go support for your school's faculty by providing FacultyWeb functionality via the convenience of an app. Prepare your school to begin utilizing the scheduling feature in RenWeb as we review fundamental scheduling concepts in RenWeb, including understanding time grid templates, defining templates, establishing a day schedule and understanding and creating patterns in RenWeb. Learn how to completely schedule self-contained groups. Utilize schedule copy features, group enrollment functions, group time tabling and manual scheduling abilities. The class will have a lab environment where you can complete your group scheduling for 'next year'. Prerequisite: Scheduling: Basics Scheduling: Automated Scheduling Customize your online course requests! Learn how to personalize the list of courses that display for a student based on his or her grade level, previously passed classes and currently enrolled classes. Brand the requests area of ParentsWeb with unique banners, custom images and a unique layout. Uncover the power and ease of request-based scheduling. Automatically create class sections, quickly assign instructors and rooms, and automatically schedule and enroll students. School Site Prerequisite: Scheduling: Basics Make the best impression possible with your school s website using School Site, RenWeb s website management solution. We understand that your website is your school s most important marketing tool. School Site provides best-in-class website designs and dynamic integration with RenWeb's ParentsWeb, eliminating tedious dual entry of calendar items, announcements, newsletters, lunch menus and other content. Schools can start from scratch with School Site and obtain a new website design by our design partner cherry+company, or simply migrate their existing design to School Site's website management solution, which allows changes and updates anytime, anywhere using School Site's easy-to-use online Content Management System (CMS). 7

8 School Store Management & Billing Uncover the tools that RenWeb has available to assist you in running your school store. Create inventory and report on items sold and profits and losses. Once inventory is created, create barcode labels for items sold in your store. Group items utilizing the cash register and provide security to individuals based on the cash registers they will be using. Allow students to pay at the time of purchase or charge items to their family accounts. SIMS: Students in Multiple Schools Staff Communication Student Performance Analysis Student Portfolio Management Surveys Textbook Management Transferring Students Transition to New Branded ParentsWeb Tuition Management & Billing Prerequisite: Accounting Basics Utilize Students in Multiple Schools (SIMS) to enroll students in more than one school within your district. While demographics are shared between schools, accounting, grades, attendance, etc will be unique to each school. Communicate with other staff at your school through Staff Chat and Pop-up Alerts. Learn to configure your staff chat settings, add contacts and create groups by which you can organize your contacts. Discover how to create important student-based messages that display in various areas of RenWeb. Alerts can help you communicate important medical, financial or custodial information to the teachers and staff at your school. Delve into this powerful report, which allows you to pull configurable subject matter reports in a variety of styles. Store electronic copies of exemplary student work, progress reports, report cards and transcripts to provide ease of access and reporting. Learn how to configure surveys, add questions and identify who will take the survey. Surveys are made available through ParentsWeb to parents and students for a specific time period. The electronic configuration allows for quick results of survey responses. Inventory your school's textbooks. Determine the name, author, publisher, cost and ISBN as well as indicate the number of books your school has for each type. Associate a textbook with a course and create barcode labels for the book. Using the barcode scanner, assign books to each student and report on missing or outstanding books for end-of-year collection purposes. Progress through the steps that should be taken when transferring a student who has attendance records or grade records from one class to another. Save yourself the headache of trying to clean up an incorrectly transferred student by learning how to transfer a student properly the first time. This session is intended for experienced ParentsWeb users who want to utilize the new branded ParentsWeb. In this session you will learn how to upload graphics, personalize the color and fonts and many other additional new features within the new branded ParentsWeb. Construct your school's tuition charges for next year using the recurring charge buttons and tuition calculator. Tie charges and credits to specific accounting categories for ease of reporting. Bring your list of tuition rates, discounts and recurring charges with you to the training. Prerequisite: Accounting Basics 8

9 Unique Family Billing Arrangements Web Forms: Advanced Web Forms: Basics Conquer the complexities of creating split families for accounting purposes. Learn how to determine the proper setup for a variety of situations: two parties pay; third party pays; an organization pays; blended families or host families. Take your web forms to the next level by exploring the more complex functionality offered: master and sub forms, including java script and HTML elements. Prerequisite: Web Forms Basics Streamline the collection of information from parents and students via the Web: admissions; field trip permission slips; volunteer forms; etc. 9

10 Seminars Led by Guest Professionals Let these educational professionals share with you their expertise in these informative and beneficial seminars. Name Description Benevon Sustainable Funding powered by Donor Connect Presented by: Terry Axelrod, Founder of Benevon Learn about Benevon's proven process for generating sustainable funding from multi-year donors. Plus you'll learn how Donor Connect's new moves management and contact management capability support the Benevon process. Presented by: Scott Barron, Chief Retention Officer & CEO of School Growth The Three Critical Skills of the Successful Head: Part 1 - Hire Well The Three Critical Skills of the Successful Head: Part 2 - Fire Well The Three Critical Skills of the Successful Head: Part 3 - Engage the Donor Recruiting, Selecting, Coaching, Evaluating, and Rewarding a highly effective faculty is the first critical skill of the chief administrator. Learning from the best practices of human resources, the most successful school heads recognize that heir role is primarily adult education and they build a strategic process to recruit and retain top performers. This session presents a talent cycle designed to maximize the quality of the adult leaders in the school, with key areas of alignment. Presented by: Scott Barron, Chief Retention Officer & CEO of School Growth Every year the successful chief administrator must wisely respond to employees who are underperforming or who violate the core values or code of conduct for the school. This session features the important elements of an employee assessment and dismissal process--one that supports the mission and core values while also achieving a respectful, professional result. Presented by: Scott Barron, Chief Retention Officer & CEO of School Growth Cultivating donors for annual and special giving is the third critical skill of the chief administrator. The best have moved beyond consumer-driven fundraising to building engaged relationships with people who will make the school a priority for their generosity. This session provides a strategic approach to donor cultivation that builds trust, relationship, and commitment. Presented by: Liz Cherry, President of cherry+company Growing Your Annual Fund: How to Get the Buy in Today, most schools understand that a successful annual fund is more important than ever in bridging the growing gap between tuition dollars and the rising cost of the educational experience your students deserve. In the current economic climate, many schools are challenged with how to continually engage parents to simply participate, let alone step-up their contributions to their annual fund. In this session, we will share real-world examples of creative, out-of-the-box annual fund campaigns that speak to the hearts of parents, grandparents, alumni and engage the entire school community. 10

11 Presented by: Liz Cherry, President of cherry+company Brands that Buzz: Why Brand Messaging is Essential for Effective Word of Mouth Marketing We all know how important Word of Mouth Marketing is for your school but what is more important is what is being said. Are the messages and conversations of your faculty, parents and staff helping to promote your school? Are they communicating the true nature, benefits and quality of the educational experience your school offers? We often find the very people who love your school the most, are inadvertently conveying the wrong impressions about your school. Brand messaging ensures that the RIGHT messages are being communicated. With increased competition for students and limited budgets, brand messaging has never been more vital to ensure effective word of mouth. Brand expert Liz Cherry will walk you through two real life case studies. She ll show you step-by-step how to identify what is being said and determine what you should be saying. By the end of this session, you will be armed with the tools you need to craft effective brand messages for your key influencers parents, faculty and staff to ensure your Word of Mouth Marketing is creating the right kind of buzz. Presented by: Liz Cherry, President of cherry+company A Hands-On Workshop: Maximizing Your Online Marketing Through the Use of Landing Pages If your marketing online or conventional is directing people to your website s homepage or admission page, you may be losing valuable prospects! Maximize your marketing dollars by creating and using unique landing pages to increase your conversion rates and inquiries and decrease the money you are spending on your marketing efforts! Landing pages provide the following benefits: Helps parents find information about what matters most to them (your school s homepage supplies only general information) Provides you with information about what is most important to prospective families Tracks the success of your marketing efforts Increases the number of inquiries Decreases the expense of online and conventional marketing Through this hands-on workshop, we ll walk you through the step-by-step creation of the perfect landing page. School Site users - bring your laptops! We ll show you how to create a basic landing page through School Site s content management system. Utilizing the Power of Parents as Brand Advocates to Market Your School Presented by: Rick Newberry, Ph.D., President of Enrollment Catalyst The key to word of mouth marketing is to harness the power of your parents your brand advocates. Your parents represent the greatest marketing strategy that you can put in place at your school. During this workshop we will discuss how to identify your brand advocates and motivate them to be your best marketers to reach your local community and grow your school s enrollment. 11

12 60 Inbound, Web-Based Marketing Strategies in 60 Minutes Presented by: Rick Newberry, Ph.D., President of Enrollment Catalyst Web-based marketing is commonly referred to as inbound marketing. This is the strategy of telling your school's story in an online world and engaging people in a conversation by providing outstanding content about your school. During this workshop we will take a rapid-fire approach to consider 60 inbound, web-based marketing strategies that are being used in independent and faith-based schools. These strategies will showcase many examples from other schools as best practice solutions for your school. Presented by: James Satterfield, President/COO/Founder of Firestorm Crisis Management - Coming Through a Crisis Successfully How you answer the questions What should we do now? and What should we say? have far reaching implications for your school. Often, these questions are complex and require far more than insurance claims or legal responses. Schools need information and services that focus on the human, operational, reputational, regulatory, and financial impacts of such a disaster or crisis. There may be life and safety issues. Facilities may need to be secured. Communication will be required with everyone, and depending on the extent of the crisis, the press may appear, making the need for media training critical. Presented by: James Satterfield, President/COO/Founder of Firestorm How Risk Assessment Drives Your Emergency Response Plan A formal risk assessment is needed to properly understand a school's risks and how those risks could be better addressed through additional controls. Knowing the threats you and your students face enables you to manage the impacts, and respond effectively. The analysis also results in the identification of specific enhancements for: leadership requirements, decision processes, command and control operations, emergency response, procedures, streamlined communication techniques and facility/equipment upgrades. The evaluation of threats will include natural/biological hazards, technological/human-induced hazards, and violence. For natural threats, historical data concerning frequency of occurrence for given natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, fire, or earthquakes is used to determine the credibility of the given threat. Auction Trak - Increase Donations...Simplify Preparations Curriculum Partner - Easy to Use & Connected to RenWeb Presented by: Mike Vander Berg, Dynamic Internet Solutions Auction Trak guides you through the natural flow of an auction, with best practices built-in along the way. From early development stages through receipts, thank-you's and follow-up, Auction Trak offers complete support of your fundraising event. See firsthand how Auction Trak will help you maximize your auction. Presented by: Mike Vander Berg, Dynamic Internet Solutions Curriculum Partner was designed to simplify the process of curriculum mapping for teachers and administrators. It is extremely powerful, completely customizable, and yet, can be learned in less than 30 minutes. Best of all, RenWeb schools can pull in their teachers and courses directly from RenWeb with a click. Come to our session to see for yourself! 12

13 FACTS & RenWeb A Valued Partnership & Growing Relationship Presented by: Jim Waits, FACTS This session will cover FACTS Financial Needs Assessment service, FACTS e-cashier online financial enrollment, how to make your school more affordable to more families and creating tuition policies. Presented by: David Webb, Co-founder of Sonlight Studios Perception is Reality The Best Kept Secret Truth has very little to do with how your school is perceived by the community. When people drive by your school, how much do they know about what s going on in your ministry? It is true that people s perception of your ministry is reality to them. Learn how to "show off" what you're doing in a manner that brings glory to God and people are proud to recommend your school! Presented by: David Webb, Co-founder of Sonlight Studios Learn how to make your school known to the community and not be the best kept secret! This workshop will explore practical ways to promote and market your school to the community. 13

14 Name Seminars Led by RenWeb Schools Learn from other RenWeb schools as they share their experiences with you. Description Presented by: Jonathan Smith, Faith Christian School, Lafayette, IN Social Media and Education Infrastructure Requirements for Modern Schools Overcoming Resistance to Change While Implementing RenWeb Achieving Success with RenWeb Admissions and Online Application Integrating 1:1 Devices into Your Curriculum RenWeb provides many tools for communicating with school families and prospects but how do those work together with existing social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Foursquare, etc.? By default everyone is already on those platforms so leveraging them to drive content to your school site and other school related information will provide for greater exposure and dialogue with existing and potential students and families. Presented by Brooks Kennedy, Fort Worth Christian School, Fort Worth, TX Learn about the technical infrastructure requirements for a modern school. We'll then layer in additional requirements to support 1:1 device programs, including Internet backbone capacity, wi-fi ports and firewalls needed to protect your school. Presented by Nola Raffail, EdD, Cornerstone Christian Academy, Las Vegas, NV Does anyone at your school resist using RenWeb? If so, this seminar is for you. The focus of this seminar is to provide RenWeb administrators some tools to reduce teacher and staff roadblocks to implementing RenWeb. Many people struggle when faced with change of any kind. So, it is up to the administrator to help each teacher and staff address those concerns in order to achieve full implementation of RenWeb. Let me share with you the research findings of my doctoral dissertation. Presented by Pamela Pardi, Indian Rocks Christian Schools, Largo, FL We'll share how Indian Rocks has successfully implemented Online Application and RenWeb Admissions, as well as our experiences that can benefit the implementation at your school. Presented by Diane Kasparie, Quincy Notre Dame High School, Quincy, IL The focus of this seminar will be on how ipads in the classroom are far more than electronic notebooks and internet access. Our students have become efficient and organized learners and we have become quite adept at integrating the devices into the curriculum. We'll share ideas and techniques for pedagogy and methodology that supports Common Core and, in science, Next Generation standards. Increase Fundraising Participation using Donate Online and Facebook Presented by: Laurie Adams, St. Luke's School, Baton Rouge, LA Come hear how St. Luke s School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana combined the use of Facebook and Donate Online to run a successful annual giving campaign. We will show you how to increase your fundraising participation rate and wrap up your annual campaign in a shorter period of time! Learn strategies for engaging the next generation of parents in school fundraising and volunteer efforts by using social media. Learn how to communicate paragraphs of information with your families with just one picture on the web! 14

15 NOTE: Session topics may be added or removed based on interest levels. Last Updated: 6/2/2013 Round Table Discussion Groups Connect with peers from like school types, roles, interests, products, etc. Attendees are able to select up to four Round Table discussion groups to participate in during the conference. Topics 1:1 Device Deployment Administrators Admissions/Reenrollment Catholic Christian Development-Donor Connect Emergency Preparedness Faculty Independent Schools International Schools IT Jewish Library Moodle Learning Management System Medium-Large Schools Online Application Online Enrollment ParentsWeb Best Practices QuickBooks RenWeb & Macs RenWeb Customization Kit RenWeb Portal Student Billing Scheduling SDA Social Media Small-Medium Schools School Site 15