2019 Pre-Conference Sessions

Registration

• BusinessPLUS - BusinessPlus Administration Console: Beginning to End (Half Day - PM $250)
  In this session, you will learn about the various tasks that can be performed and tools that can be used in
  the Administration Console. Topics covered will include Documents Online, CDD, Database Tools,
  Security, and 7i Server. This session will be from 1pm-4pm.
• BusinessPLUS - BusinessPlus Budgeting Best Practices (Half Day - PM $250)
  Learn best practices for budgeting beginning to end. During this session you will learn how to configure,
  load, adjust, analyze, and manage your district budgets. Concepts covered include budget preparation
  from Budget Item Detail and Position Budgeting modules, flat file interface, and direct budget update.
  This session will be from 1pm - 4pm.
• BusinessPLUS - Payroll Contract Reconciliation Deep Dive (Half Day - PM $250)
  Learn practical strategies for solving common PY Contract out of balance issues. The session will include
  a review of PY Contract concepts, setup, and pay assignments. Additionally, this session will feature
  step-by-step reconciliation procedures and a review of available reconciliation tools. This session will be
  from 1pm - 4pm.
• BusinessPLUS - Position Management from Beginning to End (Half Day - AM $250)
  Proper management of positions and allocations are becoming increasingly important in the K-12
  environment. During this pre-conference session, you will learn about all of the ways to better manage
  your allocations including position requisition, position management, position control and position
  budgeting. This session will review best practice methods and recommended ways that you can improve
  your internal processes. This session will be from 8:30am to 11:30am.
• BusinessPLUS - The Magic Behind Recurring Recurring Calculations (Half Day - AM $250)
  In this session you will learn how to turbo-charge BusinessPlus, harnessing the power of recurring
  calculations. This session will feature a best practice discussion of recurring calculations and will feature
  setup, creation, and running of recurring calculations as well as reviewing intermediate results and
  importing/exporting options. Practical examples will be demonstrated. This session will be from 8:30am
  to 11:30am.
• BusinessPLUS - Workflow Models and How to Build Them (Half Day - AM $250)
  This is a practical workflow building workshop. The session will include a workflow overview and best
  practice recommendations. This session will be from 8:30am to 11:30am
• Cognos - Building Dashboards in Cognos 11 (Half Day - AM $250)
  Unlock the power of visualizations using Cognos Analytics (Cognos 11)! In this session, you will learn tips
  and tricks of creating compelling dashboards that will give meaningful insight to your data in seconds.
  This session will be from 8:30am-11:30am.
• eFinancePLUS - Employee Payroll from Pay Rate Setup to Payroll Processing (Half Day AM - $250)
  Take this opportunity to learn how to process your payroll from start to finish using the recommended
  techniques from our eFinancePlus Professionals. This half day course will walk through each part of the
  payroll process ensuring that you know how to maximize your processes, importing timecards and
  attendance. We will also review all of the resulting reports that are available after processing payrolls.
  This session will be from 8:30am-11:30am.
• eFinancePLUS - Human Resources: Activity Tracker and User Defined Screens (Half Day PM - $250)
  The Personnel Activity Tracker and User Defined Screens allow users to take information stored outside
  of eFinancePlus and import it into defined screens for the purpose of creating a knowledge base for
  reporting on key topics including; FMLA Tracking, Key Dates, Position Details and Workers Comp
  incidents. This session will be from 1pm-4pm.
• eSchoolPLUS - Deep Dive into 4.2 and 19.4 (Half Day - AM $250)
  The 4.2 and 19.4 releases included several new features that are turned off by default, in order to ensure
  easy deployment. If you would like training on these new features and how they might benefit your
  district, please join us for this deep dive into how to set up and utilize this great new set of functionality.
  This session will be from 1pm-4pm.
• eSchoolPLUS - Master Schedule Puzzle - Making All the Pieces Fit! (Half Day - AM $250)
  In this session, you will learn how to build a master schedule from the very beginning. What you do first,
  second, etc. We will discuss how to use the tools and reports in eSchoolPlus to help you build a more
  efficient master schedule in order to maximize the number of students fully scheduled. This session
  will be from 8:30am-11:30am.