School Office Improvements
Welcome to the new school office improvements forum. We recognize that your work is important on many levels but most particularly, your relationships with the students, staff and community stakeholders in your school. However, we also know there are many things we also ask of you that are important for the continued operation of the board, like accurate data entry, financial procedures, and attendance. The purpose of this forum is to seek out ideas on streamlining your administrative work, making it easier for you to do your jobs well and enabling you to serve your school better.
This isn’t just a survey – this area will be open as a pilot for the rest of the school year and we would ask that you consider submitting a specific idea, and coming back to vote on the ideas that others have offered. This will help us not only identify ideas, but gain your feedback on the ideas that are the most important. The more specific and constructive you can be, the better. For example, providing a suggestion to find a way to collect payments electronically would be more helpful than a suggestion to provide general training.
As always, please ensure your comments are positive, constructive and respectful to your colleagues.
Thank you!
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Office Admin Protcol Hand Book
A living document that makes it easy to find information pertaining to our job which would create a more standardized way of doing things across the board. Including such things at attendance procedures, retention schedules, start up forms, etc.
23 votesThis will be part of our School Office Manager’s portfolio. More information to follow in the coming months.
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Media Release Information
The media release forms that are sent home when a student first arrives to our Board are completed and supposed to be in effect for that student's career with our Board. Could this information be entered at the Elementary level into PowerSchool so it would follow the student? In the transition to that possibility, could the forms be sent to the secondary school so they do not have to be sent home again?
12 votesThis request has been made through the My Family Room UserVoice site by MFR parents.
This is under consideration for a major release of My Family Room.
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The number of forms that are sent home to parents need to be looked at to see if there is any duplication.
One area I see that is a duplication are the safe arrival forms and the verification sheets that are sent home. I do not believe we need both since all the information is on the verification form which can be checked by the parent/guardian. I believe there might also be a duplication concerning sports forms as well.
5 votesThis is a wonderful suggestion. It is expected to be a part of the School Office Manager’s new portfolio.
More information to follow at a later date.
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