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1/31/2011 - Additional Competency Goals in DEC4

The CECAS team is continuing to update the Competency Goals that are available for selection in the DEC4 for students who are tested using NCEXTEND2. New standards for High School English/Language Arts (9-10 ELA and 11-12 ELA) and High School Math will begin to appear in the dropdown list. The process will take some time to complete. The older standards will remain active in CECAS until June 30, 2012.

If you have any questions regarding this or any other CECAS issue, contact the Help Desk at (919) 807-4357, press 2 for CECAS, or email cecas.incidents@its.nc.gov.

01/27/2012 - CECAS Training Schedule Modified

The following upcoming CECAS training schedule dates/times have been modified with the training webinar changes indicated below:

If you were previously registered for any of the sessions that were changed, please note that those sessions were cancelled and you will need to register again for the session(s) from the modified schedule on the CECAS Communication website (http://www.nccecas.org/training/scheduledtraining.html). Please don't hesitate to contact your Regional Trainer with any questions that you may have. Thank you.

1/26/2012 - DEC4 Re-Open Button in CECAS

Users will notice a new button in CECAS on the EC Forms list screen. Next to the DEC4 link there is a button to re-open the DEC4. Currently this button is disabled. In the near future this will be an administrative feature and will only be available to data managers. This new enhancement will remove the need for data managers to send data requests to reopen the DEC4 form. Users should be aware that once a form is re-opened, the original plan will be deleted and cannot be recovered. Only by re-closing the DEC4 form will a new plan be created.

If you have any questions regarding this or any other CECAS issue, please contact your Regional Trainer. If you cannot reach your Regional Trainer, contact the Help Desk at (919) 807-4357, press 2 for CECAS, or email cecas.incidents@its.nc.gov.

1/10/2012 - Testing Accommodations descriptions have been updated

The following new Testing Accommodations have been added in CECAS:
    Test Administrator/Computer Reads Test Aloud (in English) - Read by Student Request
    Test Administrator/Computer Reads Test Aloud (in English) - Read Everything
    Test Administrator/Computer Reads Test Aloud (in English) - Other
    Testing in a Separate Room - Small Group
    Testing in a Separate Room - One-on-One
The following Testing Accommodations will be inactivated in CECAS as of 1/14/2012:
    Test Administrator/Computer Reads Test Aloud (in English)
    Testing in a Separate Room
Begin to use the new accommodations as your write new IEPs. There is NO NEED to amend existing IEPs that contain the inactivated accommodations. The inactivated accommodations will continue to appear in testing reports.
If you have any questions regarding this or any other CECAS issue, please contact your Regional Trainer. If you cannot reach your Regional Trainer, contact the Help Desk at (919) 807-4357, press 2 for CECAS, or email cecas.incidents@its.nc.gov.

1/4/2012 - December 2011 Periodic Count - ID Cleanup Required (CECAS Reporting Users Only)

Resolving Near Matches - Reminder:
CECAS has submitted reporting user records from the December 2011 child count to the UID system. Reporting users have until 7am Monday, January 9, 2012, to resolve all near matches in the UID system.
If you have any questions regarding this or any other CECAS issue, contact the Help Desk at (919) 807-4357, press 2 for CECAS, or email cecas.incidents@its.nc.gov.
If you have any questions regarding UID or NCID, please email dpi.incidents@its.nc.gov or call (919) 807-4357, press 1.

1/4/2012 - CECAS Implemented the Following Security Requirement

Unsuccessful logon attempts will be limited to three attempts, before the user logon process is disabled. Users will need to contact their LEA CECAS Contact, to have their password reset. If you have any questions regarding this or any other CECAS issue, please contact your Regional Trainer. If you cannot reach your Regional Trainer, contact the Help Desk at (919) 807-4357, press 2 for CECAS, or email cecas.incidents@its.nc.gov.

12/21/2011 - Thank you and Happy Holidays from the EC Delivery Team

We would like to thank all of our users for their hard work in the implementation of new data requirements this year. We recognize the diligent efforts of each of you in using the UID system, accommodations data collection and other changes in CECAS. We are looking forward to 2012 with new hardware and reporting enhancements in CECAS. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from the EC Delivery team!!!

12/21/2011 - PRC29 Mid-year Training

CECAS daily users are encouraged to enroll for refresher training on PRC 29. This session will thoroughly cover how to enter the PRC 29 Request, Baseline Student Information Form (SIF), how to make a student PRC 29 Eligible, how to do document the Mid Year SIF, End of Year SIF, how to make a student PRC 29 Ineligible, how to add students after funding and also how to use the associated PRC 29 reports in the CECAS application.

1/26/2012, 1pm - 3pm https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/382957224

2/2/2012, 9am - 11am https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/157713177

If you have any questions regarding this or any other CECAS issue, please contact you regional trainer.

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