Excent Tera Overview

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Excent Tera Overview

• VBISD Professional Development Day
• February 20, 2006

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Presenters

• Henry Winter, Consultant
• John Dickey, VBISD

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Common Questions

• What is Excent Tera?
• Database program for special education
• Collect and maintain essential information
• Why did the VBISD purchase it?
• Meet data reporting requirements
• Eliminate duplication of effort
• Eliminate Medicaid billing overhead
• Enable collaborative work
• Information at your fingertips

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Common Questions

• Who else is using it in Michigan?
• Oceana, Branch, Jackson counties
• Saginaw has just committed
• What am I expected to do with Excent Tera?
• Right now, nothing
• Following training, Medicaid Encounter Logs
• Later, IEPs, METs, etc.
• VBISD and ALL VB LEAs

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Common Questions

• What sort of support will be available when we
  have to start using Excent Tera?
• Pre-implementation training
• Detailed user manual
• VBISD Tech Support Team
• JCISD for more difficult issues

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Objectives for today

• Be able to describe the advantages of Excent Tera
• Be able to describe how you might make use of
  Excent Tera
• DO NOT worry about learning HOW to use Excent
  Tera today
• This is only a taste

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Is this how facing change makes you feel?
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Some of you may think

• I dont have private internet access at my
  schools/in my office
• Im not very computer literate
• How am I going to learn this software and still
  get my job done?
• What is the process going to be?
• FOCUS ON THE OPPORTUNITIES,
• NOT THE CHALLENGES!

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What we will cover today

• Login
• Student Explorer/Student Navigator
• Document Explorer
• IEPs
• Medicaid Encounter Logs (i.e., clinical service
  records or service activities)

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Login

• Excent Tera runs on a computer in Jackson
• Use your computer to command Jackson computer and
  to see the results
• Only requirements for your computer
• Internet connection (high speed or dial-up)
• Internet Explorer
• Remote Desktop Connection

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Remote Desktop Connection
Note that all the thinking and data storage
happens in Jackson, not on your computer!
Your Answer
Your Request
Your Answer
Your Request
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Excent Tera Controls
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Excent Tera Demo(for real)
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Excent Tera Demo
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Questions?

• Now is your chance to ask all those questions
  youve been saving.

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Review

• Excent Tera is a powerful database designed for
  use in special education
• It is in use in multiple ISDs across Michigan and
  the rest of the country
• Information Excent Tera makes available to you at
  your fingertips will make you more effective and
  efficient

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