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3. Better academic decision-making regarding each student due to easier, faster, and more
comprehensive student records and information available from anywhere.
4. Easy transfer of an electronic cumulative folder to a different Florida school district when
a student moves.
5. Repurpose each school facility’s student records file room to better serve students.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
PeopleSoft ERP is the District’s enterprise system for Human Capital Management (HCM),
Financial Management (FIN), and staff eLearning (ELM). With approximately 1,000 daily users
and 25,000 casual users, these applications provide for accurate and timely transactional
processing and reporting of staff and financial information to the District, government agencies,
bargaining unions, third party vendors, and the general community.

Our four PeopleSoft goals during the life of this Plan are:

1. Undergo transformations via planned PeopleTools upgrades and stay current with
PeopleSoft Images.
2. Enhance user experience (UX) via desktop and mobile device interface improvements
including making the application adapt its presentation to the device size.
3. PeopleSoft Images will provide users with business process improvements, new and
enhanced functions, and features, potential workflow delegation improvements, and
opportunities to use Kibana enhanced reporting.
4. Provide business units with requested enhancements which will enable productivity and
process improvements.

School Police
The District’s School Police department uses a wide variety of software applications to manage
their day-to-day operations including tools for their Command Center, emergency event
management, incident management, suspicious activity reporting, officer training, fingerprinting
appointment scheduling, and document management. Two recent tools the IT Division assisted
School Police to implement in response to Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Public Safety Act and Alyssa’s Law are SaferWatch and Raptor Emergency Management.

Alyssa’s Law Compliance
In 2020, the Florida State Legislature passed Alyssa’s Law, which requires every public school
campus to have a mobile panic button solution that provides silent alerts directly to local 911
centers. School Police chose SaferWatch as their solution initially, then switched to Centegix
CrisisAlert in 2022 to provide a badge that acts as a panic button in case of an emergency.
When a panic button is pressed, the information is relayed immediately to our School Police
dispatch office as well as the assigned local 911 center(s).

Emergency Management
Raptor’s Emergency Management Module was also recently implemented. Raptor is the
software platform schools have used for years for visitor management. The new Raptor
Emergency Management module includes:

Accountability: Teachers mark themselves and each of their students as Safe, Missing, Injured,
or Absent during an emergency or other incident. This step keeps school and District
administrators and law enforcement constantly apprised of each student’s and employee’s
location and status.

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