ClassMate

ClassMate is committed to providing administrators, educators and staff from specialized  educational environments such as Career and Technical Education, Alternative, Special and Adult Education with a variety of tools and resources which help pave the way to success. The documentation Site/Institute contains  the most up to date classmate documentation  in one spot and is updated regularly.

Each school year, ClassLink offers its customers additional learning opportunities through the widely popular ClassMate Webinar Series. This series consists of a variety of webinars conducted by ClassMate trainers  and support staff with functionality closely matched to events that occur during the school year.  Additionally, ClassLink offers a monthly Lunch & Learn series hosted by Kathy Ritch which focus on best practices and often have a guest speaker. The Webinars & Lunch Learns are recorded and archived for use by ClassMate customers anytime, anywhere from any computer.

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  Administrative Grade Monitoring

  ClassMate offers administrators a variety of tools to help monitor both staff and student success. This webinar is geared for adminstrators interested in learining more about the resources available within classMate.

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  Administrative Monitoring Accountability

  Hosted by Kathy Ritch, this webinar demonstrates the importance of administrative involvement in the day to day activities within a CTE. Topics include: Administrative monitoring of enrollment, attendance, grades, discipline, curriculum and student assessments.

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  Anecdotal Records: A Teachers Guide

  Anecodotal records can be used by teachers to help create supportive documentation regarding a variety of student activities and parental contact. This webinar is geared for teachers.

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  Career Objective Forms

  Schools in PA are required to complete a career objective form each school year.   ClassMate has the ability to produce pre-populated career objective forms that can be placed on the student record. This webinar is geared for ClassMate data managers.

  
  

   

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  Career Pathways Certificates

  This webinar is geared for administrators wanting to learn more about utilizing the career pathway functionality within ClassMate.

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  Data Validations

  This webinar is geared for administrators wanting to learn more about utilizing the career pathway functionality within ClassMate.

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  Enrollment Projections

  ClassMate functionality allows users to project Currently enrolled students as well as newly registered students into the Courses and classes for the upcoming school year. The Enrollment Projection module and associated functionality does not impact the current school year and allows both CTE’s and sending schools to gauge enrollment for the upcoming school year.

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  Entering Incomplete Grades

  This webinar is geared for Administrators required to assign incomplete grades to students. Those students with incomplete grades assigned should have a timeline for completing all missing school work. A deadline for entering the marking period grade (s) should be established & clearly communicated to the staff.

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  Entering Report Cards: Teachers Comments

  This webinar is geared for teacher entering Report Card comments for students. The webinar will cover the following topics report card Comments List, Inserting the Report Card Comments Tab, Entering Report Card Comments and Editing Report Card Comments.
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  Helping BOCES to Meet NYSED Data Compliance: How Can We Make The Job Easier?

  ClassMate for BOCES is a centralized student data management system, exclusively designed to meet the unique needs of the BOCES Community. Every day, our experienced professionals work side-by-side with BOCES staff from CTE, Alternative Ed, Special Ed, and Adult Ed divisions, coaching each team on how to solve NYSED data compliance challenges.

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  Introduction to Act 48

  Beginning in July 1, 2000, Act 48 requires all educators holding Pennsylvania public school certification including Instructional I and II, Educational Specialists I and II, Administrative, Supervisory, Letters of Eligibility and all vocational certificates to maintain certificates. Educators must maintain their certificates as active by earning six collegiate credits, six PDE-approved in-service credits or 180 continuing education hours or any combination of the above every five calendar years.

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  Medical Profile and Medical Incidents

  Managing student medical information in ClassMate is easy and efficient as it provides access to important records for key administrators. Health information is divided into 2 categories-Student Medical Profile and Student Medical Incidents. Using ClassMate, your school is able to maintain all medical profile and incident information in a single, central repository, secure and reliable, with automatic daily back-ups and archiving of confidential student medical data.

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  School Calendar

  This webinar walks you through each step required to setup a ClassMate school calendar including creating a new school year, setting up school holidays, creating rotations and also editing the calendar.

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  School Calendar:  Changing Calendar Days “Snow or Weather-Related Closings

  ClassMate provides career and technical educators with the ability to track, monitor and manage the school calendar electronically and efficiently. The ClassMate calendar functionality is the key to entire system. It is imperative that the school calendar be setup correctly, maintained and adjusted as needed.

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  Student Forms

  CTE’s are required to collect a variety of student forms and keep them on file. This webinar demonstrates the functionality that easily and efficiently manages the forms collection and record keeping process.

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  System Administrators PIMS October Student Submission

  This webinar is geared for system administrators in PA Only required to submit PIMS Student Related information in October 2011.

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  Absence Letter

  The Absence Letter functionality in ClassMate easily allows the administrative staff to generate a variety of absence letters specifically designed to meet the criteria of your school’s attendance policies and procedures. Prior to using the Absence Letter functionality, the letters must be designed and specific criteria established to drive the development of your custom letters. After the letters are developed and loaded into your ClassMate system, users will receive training on the functionality.

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  Marking Period Close

  It’s that time of the year again…time for Report Cards. This webinar will walk System Administrators and support staff step by step through the marketing period close.

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  Data Validations

  This webinar is meant to show the importance of Data Validations. Through the use of Data Validations, ClassMate provides educators with the ability to review, confirm, research, and correct any correct any data that might have been entered in error.
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  NY State: Post Graduate Survey

  According to NYSED state reporting requirements, BOCES must submit a revised CTEDS II report by the end of January. Post-graduate surveys must be completed for all CTE students, who reached the concentrator level and left secondary education the previous year. Survey students are limited to only those who have participated in NYSED Approved Programs. ClassMate proves you with the actual survey template, along with the ability to enter post-graduate responses and generate the CTEDS II report.

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  Special Services Log

  The Special Populations module allows users to track all interactions and/or interventions for all students identified as a special population. In addition, the Special Services team can select specially designed instructions (SDI) from a student’s IEP and allow teachers to easily take note of any SDI’s a student may have. The special Populations Option module cannot be used until the required Base Data has been setup in ClassMate.

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  Online District Registration Portal

  CTE’s face a unique challenge in managing the process of scheduling students into a variety of courses and classes from multiple school districts. Traditionally, this process has occurred using a paper-based application process, where counselors from each district would hand-write the names, addresses, and demographic data of students, who wish to schedule for one or more courses at the CTE. With ClassMate’s innovative Online District Registration Portal, this method of shuffling papers and manual data entry is eliminated for both District and CTE’s counselors alike!

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  Career Pathways Certificates

  CTE courses are geared toward preparing students for a variety of career pathways, based on both entry level and advanced skill sets. ClassMate provides the ability to identify which skills, or competencies, are required for which career pathways, so that students can identify their progress toward preparing themselves to meet their career goals. As teachers evaluate students on these competencies, completion of multiple career pathways can be achieved.

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Community

Here you can join the ClassMate on-line community using ZoHo Projects and connect to CTE administrators, educators and staff across the state. The opportunity for collaboration is endless- you can ask questions on the forum or you can upload documents and share.

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Support

Here you can access our on-line ticketing system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using Track-It. From any computer with an internet connection you can get started logging your support request or enhancement idea.

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