Tuesday, July 8, 2014

I hope all of our special educators are enjoying a well-deserved summer break!  I wanted to post an update on where our district is with regard to moving toward the production environment of Enrich which is a product of "Excent".  During our Summer Institute Training, we told special educators the plan was go to the production environment on July 31st.  Since then, we learned that all user roles would need to be reassigned once we "go live" which will take some time.  Therefore, our new goal is July 15th.  This will give Betty a couple more weeks to make sure everyone has appropriate access to work in the program.  There are basically three things we still need to do:  complete the validation/conversion/import process, import the PDF legacy documents (i.e., Excent IEP, placement history, and entry COSF), then remove all edit functions for Excent online.  Betty is on the phone everyday with our Enrich facilitator working diligently to make ongoing progress.  I'll be glad when SDOC crosses the threshold so we can make our way around the learning curve as quickly as possible.  In the end, I am confident all the work will be worth it as the product seems much more advanced and user friendly.