Connect-ED

All district-run school sites have access to Connect-ED at no cost. For information on activating Connect-ED, please refer to Key Contacts listed below and review San Diego Unified School District's Connect-ED Best Practices and Guidelines .

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Connect-ED Authorized Users

The Connect-ed system may only be used by district employees or authorized charter school employees. Non-employee members of external organizations, such as PTAs and School Foundations, are not authorized to use Connect-ed. Principals or authorized staff members are welcome to send out messages on an external organization’s behalf. For security purposes, only staff members authorized by their principal or department head for the current school year will be granted user access. See memo to principals . School-wide or district-wide users must be confirmed by their principal/department head by the last day of September each new school year.  All others will be de-activated from the system on the following day. Teachers with access to Connect-ED Teacher are not affected. Principals and department heads are asked to e-mail sdusdusers@blackboardconnect.com with the following information for each staff member authorized to access school-wide or district-wide Connect-ED:     

• School site or department
• Name
• Title
• sandi.net e-mail address
• Phone number with extension
• If staff member was transferred from another site
  

Connect-ED Automated Attendance Calls

• Return students to the classroom earlier, turning absences into tardies
• Act as a security measure for parents who may not know their child is absent
• Increase opportunities for ADA recovery
• Assist school offices and attendance clerks to better manage the daily attendance process

For participating school sites, daily attendance calls will be automatically sent to parents and guardians by the central office at specific times programmed by each site. Attendance clerks will no longer need to make individual calls home, program an auto-dialer, or even use the manual attendance function offered through Connect-ED. The two-part process in Connect-ED and Zangle should take no more than 15 minutes to complete:

• Record New Attendance Script in Connect-ED 
• New Fields in Zangle Track Editor 

Charter School Access to Connect-ED

Charter School 2011-12 Connect-ED Order Form

Connect-ED, is available to charter schools of the San Diego Unified School through the district’s agreement with service provider Blackboard Connect, Inc., currently contracted through school year 2013 at a specially negotiated rate.

The following terms and limitations apply for charter school access requests:

• Cost is $2.75 per student, per year (confirmed through school year 2013), based on the Active Enrollment Report student count per school (report date is typically the fourth Friday following the first day of school), as verified and invoiced through the Charter School Finance Office prior to activation.

• Charter schools that utilize the Zangle Master Schedule system (including the attendance feature) and the PeopleSoft employee information system have access to the following services: school-wide Connect-ED, Connect-ED Teacher and the automated attendance call feature, plus other enhanced services which may be offered by Blackboard Connect, Inc. in the future through the district contract.

• Charter schools operating with alternative student and employee information systems will have access to school-wide Connect-ED. Based on programming restrictions, the enhanced services, Connect-ED Teacher and automated attendance calls, and future enhanced services that may be offered by Blackboard Connect, Inc. through the district contract, can only be made available to those schools utilizing Zangle Master Schedule (including the attendance feature) and Peoplesoft.

Schools must submit an order form on a yearly basis, which will be sent to each school in the late spring to apply for the following year. Schools that do not resubmit order forms will have access deactivated for the following year.

For more information, contact Jennifer Cornelius in the district Communications Department at 619-725-5598 or jcornelius@sandi.net.

Key Contacts, Training Opportunities and Technical Support

Connect-ED Technical Assistance
Blackboard Connect Inc. 24-Hour Hotline:
(866) 435-7684
support@blackboardconnected.com

Connect-ED Training Opportunities:
Contact the toll-free Blackboard Connect Inc. Client Care Hotline (866) 435-7684 to set up a personal training session or to participate in an online training session, available weekly.

District Translation Services Division
(one week notice required for Connect-ED assistance)
Ana Morales, Supervisor
Tel: (858) 496-8366
amorales@sandi.net

IT Support – Zangle
Schools should contact their Zangle power user. Zangle power users can access additional support by contacting their on-site support representative for general questions, or the I.T. Help Desk for repair issues at (619) 725-7500.

IT Support – PeopleSoft
Employees should refer to PeopleSoft Job Aids or contact the I.T. Help Desk at (619) 725-7500 for technical support. Employees should contact gwilliams2@sandi.net in the Communications Department for issues regarding access to Connect-ED.