This workshop will provide familiarity and training for school-based users of the new CESA Student Import Manager (ceSIM) secure online application.

Participants are most likely to be Business Managers, Bursars and other school administrative staff that prepare data for transmission from non-ceSIS schools to the Catholic Education Office.

ceSIM users need first to have a CESA Enterprise login, providing access to applications at https://portal.cesa.catholic.edu.au

Before Wednesday 29 November, participants in the ceSIM user training workshops need to ring the CESA ICT Helpdesk on 1300 237 242 if they do not already have a CESA Enterprise login for https://portal.cesa.catholic.edu.au

Background

From the start of the 2018 school year, schools that do not use the ceSIS student information system will need to use ceSIM to transfer student data to the Catholic Education Office. This will include data collections such as NAPLAN enrolment data, AEDC pre-population data, ReLAT and ACARA’s Student Background Data collection.

The ceSIM application accepts populated spreadsheet templates from school users and performs data integrity checks before accepting the data. This process

• provides a more secure transfer mechanism than sending spreadsheets by email and
• enables data checking to occur at the source before submission.

User Training

The ceSIM user training workshops will provide

• a ceSIM User Guide
• practice in using ceSIM with de-identified student data
• experience of the feedback from ceSIM if data formats and values do not match specifications.

Registration Due Date - Thursday 30 November

Facilitator - Ray Moritz

Workshop Enquiries - Ray Moritz
ray.moritz@cesa.catholic.edu.au / T: 8301 6136

Registration Enquiries - Lin McLoughlin
adeline.mcloughlin@cesa.catholic.edu.au / T: 8301 6641