- The School District of Osceola County, Florida
- Information Services
Welcome to Information Services
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The Information Services Department provides the technical programming support for several the district’s business-related applications and employs 27 full-time district-funded staff.
The IBM iSeries computer is the main server used for running the Business & Fiscal Services applications using a software package called TERMS – Total Educational Resource Management System.
Our Student Information System (SIS) is a hosted web-based system called Focus.
We are responsible for the programming and administration of several other client/server and web-based applications which reside on servers maintained by the Information Technology Department.
State Mandates
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Survey data files reported to the Florida Department of Education
- Student surveys sent eight times per year (K-12)
- District funding from FL DOE is based on FTE calculations from the October and February surveys
- Student survey data also impacts school grades, class size, VAM, McKay scholarship, and more.
- Bonus FTE programs: Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), Industry-certified career or professional academy program
- Staff surveys sent four times per year
- Adult Education surveys called WDIS sent five time per year
Our Services | Finance & Business applications maintenance and customization
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Employee Portal Development, Maintenance and Customization
- Integration with Payroll and Finance systems
- Leave Management, Requests, Approvals and Reports
- OPS Contracts Management
- Employee Paystubs, W2s and “About You” information
- Purchase Order Requisition Approvals
- Budget Amendment Approvals
- Budget Management for Administrators
- Work Order System Management
- Risk & Benefits Management
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Facilities Management system maintenance and customization
- Property Records (Fixed Assets)
- Warehouse (inventory control , shipping & receiving, ordering)
- Extract Finance information for eBuilder
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Human Resources system maintenance and customization
- Payroll processing
- KRONOS timekeeping interface
- Reports and custom data requests
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IBM iSeries Operations
- Printing reports and queries
- Processing and printing payroll
- Accounts Payable checks
- W2’s
- 1099’s
- Data exports/imports e.g. direct deposit, positive pay, check reconciliation
- User profile management
- Tape backups
- Disaster Recovery Plan and testing with Brevard County
- IT audits support
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Osceola Data Management System (ODMS) data warehouse
- Developed in conjunction with the Research, Evaluation & Accountability department.
- District-wide access for teachers, administrators, support staff
- Student data
- Employee data
- School Improvement plans
- Ad hoc department reports
- Subscription services available
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Payroll system maintenance and customization
- Payroll processing
- KRONOS timekeeping interface
- Reports and custom data requests
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Student Information System (SIS) management and support
- Support and training for users on our SIS - FOCUS
- User account management
- Integration with external systems
- Demographics, address & contact data
- Scheduling and pre-scheduling
- Health data
- Enrollment
- Registration
- Attendance
- Grade book
- Discipline
- Test scores
- Title I and SES
- Transportation
- Virtual School support
- Survey pre-verification meetings, reporting, edits and corrections
- Support for the processing and printing of report cards
- Transcript processing – Using FASTER – Florida Automated System for Transferring Educational Records – we send and receive student transcripts to and from other Florida schools. This includes Bright Futures and “Talented 20” data transmissions.
- Workforce Development Information System (WDIS) – adult education and vocational programs
- Online ESE system serving the ESE Department and all ESE Students (this system is being phased out and being replaced by the State’s PEER System)
- Training support staff and administration on use of FOCUS
- Technical support for TECO on FOCUS' Career & Technical Education system (POS, Internal Accounts, 1098, etc.)
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Transportation
- Edulog support (bus route management)
- Contact tracker online system (our own system)
- Transportation Employee Information System (our own system)
- School Bus AVL System (GPS on school buses)
- General PC & printer tech support
- Versatran’s Fleet Vision System support (fleet maintenance program)
- Digital Sign-in Application
- Contact Tracking System
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Web Application Development, SharePoint & Support
- SharePoint support and Intranet Services for document sharing and communication
- Case Management System
- Progress Monitoring Plan System
- 21 Century/Spirit Program Attendance & Reporting
- Online Exit Interview system
- HR queries
- Finance queries
- Documents Database (for publishing invoice and PO information)
Contact Us
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Information Services
817 Bill Beck Boulevard
Kissimmee, FL 34744
Phone: 407-870-4042
Fax: 407-870-4063
Jonathan Kochan, Director