Occasionally, we hear from customers who want to know how to identify COEs which have recently been approved.  There are several options that can be used to do this and we have developed a few customized reports to meet specific needs, but there is one approach that everyone has which couldn't be easier to use.   I'm referring to the Recently Approved tab on the COE search dialog on the COE view.  There is a single search criteria on this tab, the date from which you'd like to see COEs that have been approved.   Once you've chosen a date and executed the search, you'll see a list of COEs that have been approved on or after that date along with a bit of information about the COE such as recruiter, approver, approval date, etc.  Each line in the search results is clickable so that you can view the COE in detail.  Give it a try and see how it works for you ! 

We just wanted to take a moment to give a warm welcome to Vermont as the latest state to join the MIS2000 system. We appreciate all of the states that make our work possible and it's always special to bring on a new one. Be sure to give them a shout if you run into them at the virtual water cooler! 

All MIS2000 web systems will automatically log out users after twenty minutes of inactivity. The time out is configurable for your state. In the final five minutes before being logged out, a countdown dialog will show that looks like this:

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Most states have several different kinds of web users and they need to see different things. MIS2000 allows a great deal of control over what each individual user is allowed to see and do in the web app. It's common to set up restrictions concerning which COEs or which Students a user is allowed to interact with, based upon the LEA or Facility that a student is in. But sometimes it's necessary to allow one user to see things like a complete student record while disallowing others. MIS2000 supports this through its rich role-based permission system.

MIS2000 provides a variety of ways to get COEs into the system. There are pros and cons to all the variations but using a web browser is one of the simplest. The great advantage to entering COEs via a web browser is that the users don't need to have any software installed on their machines. As long as they can hit the internet they can enter COEs. This means they can use a desktop computer, a Windows tablet like a Microsoft Surface, an iPad, or even an Android tablet. The drawback to web COE is that the user must have access to the internet to get anything done. This is why a native tablet app is generally preferable and usually what we recommend.

I'm not sure how the new MSIX regs are going to play out in most states, but I think the timeliness requirements are going to present the greatest challenges. All MIS2000 systems are capable of collecting the full MSIX MDE list, and they'll all send the data to MSIX easily within the time requirements. But this still leaves the question of getting the data into MIS2000. I think in many states the data for Assessments and Course History may not have been entered into any system within the required time limits. This means that manually collecting the data and entering it into MIS2000 may often be the only solution.

Our customers who work with the approval of electronic COEs have been familiar with the Draft COE view for some time.  This is the view where all COEs that have been submitted for approval are viewed and processed up until the time that they become fully approved.    Prior to now, users could scroll through all COEs which have a draft status, but outside of creating a report, there was no way to view all draft COEs at a glance.  The COE Search functionality on the Draft COE View now has a Draft COEs search capability.  This will show all the COEs in the system that have been submitted for approval along with their current owner, recruiter, and status.  This new functionality will go out with the next you receive so be looking for it !   

Most states have their MIS2000 web system configured so that authorized users can search for COEs based upon their current status in the COE Review process. For example, Maine COE search looks like this:

I've recently made some changes to the way "My Students" works in the web app, so it seemed like a good time to explain this mysterious bit of functionality. The Search page in the web app can be restricted to show results for "All Students" or "My Students". It looks like this: