Manitoba EIS - Changes for 2015/2016 School Year

The reporting date is Wednesday, September 30, 2015. The data is due to the Schools' Finance Branch on October 15, 2015.
Frontier School Division has been notified of the following table change required in the Enrolment Type table: Create enrolment code 580 - Attending a First Nations School Claimed for Board and Room Support (for Frontier SD only). Comment from Manitoba Education: This code will allow Board and Room funding for home placement students attending a First Nations School for a program not offered. Please see Public Schools Enrolment and Categorical Grants Reporting for the 2015/2016 School Year.
The point of entry for support for pupils in Francais has been raised from Grade 3 to Grade 4. Grade 3 will no longer be accepted as a valid entry when the student is enrolled in the Francais program and the Language Code 171 "EAL: English as an Additional Language (French Program)" is entered.
The generic file imports and exports that duplicate the fixed length department import and exports are no longer supported in EIS. Note: These formats were not used by Maplewood. Comment from Manitoba Education: This will standardize the collection of data from all student administration system.
EIS Collection will now accept data related to the number of days taught by a teacher in a given academic year. There is a new import and export function for this purpose in EIS, as well as a new tab labeled Experience in the Teacher Information section of EIS. Upon consultation with Manitoba Education, this new functionality is expected to be part of the division's HR/Payroll system. Only a select number of School Division will be participating in this pilot project during the 2015 academic year. The participating School Divisions have already been contacted, and all other schools/school divisions will be expected to continue with their current process for submitting Teacher Experience data to the Department. data collection

Manitoba Education's EIS program has also had the following changes:

1. Validation Changes-Public & Funded Independent Schools:

Screen/Export	Validation Rule
BEF Classroom	- If course codes 0402 (EARLY START FRENCH (K-3)), 0403 (FRENCH: 9-YEAR COURSE) OR 0408 (INTENSIVE FRENCH) are entered then the Language of Instruction must be 02 French and School Track must equal 14-English. - If course code 0001 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS) is selected then the School Track selected must be 13. -If course code 0021 (ELA-IMMERSION :(1Ère À LA 10E ANNÉE)) is selected then the school Track selected must be 06, 07, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, or 24 (French Immersion School Tracks) -If course code 0008 (ANGLAIS :(3E À LA 10E ANNÉE)) is selected then the School Track selected must be 08, 09, 25 (Français School Tracks)
BEF Classroom	-If course code 0042 (SOCIAL STUDIES) is selected then the School Track selected must be 13. -If course code 0127 (SCIENCES HUMAINES-PROG. IMMERSION FR) is selected then the School Track selected must be 06, 07, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, or 24 (French Immersion School Tracks) -If course code 0128 (SCIENCES HUMAINES-PROG. FRANÇAIS L1) is selected then the School Track selected must be 08, 09, 25 (Français School Tracks)
BEF Classroom	The following validation checks for total number of minutes of instruction based on Homeroom will take place: -For Grades K-6: Total minutes per cycle must be greater than or equal to 300 minutes per day multiplied by the number of days per cycle -For Grades 7-8: Total minutes per cycle must be greater than or equal to 330 minutes per day multiplied by the number of days per cycle.

2. Report Changes - Public & Funded Independent Schools

Name	Change
FB 113D: Verification of attendance for Enrolment Code 300	Newcomer, French Language Support, Postal Code and Homeroom Fields will be added (Public and Independent schools)
Teacher Experience	This is a new report that will display all of the information entered into the new (Teacher)Experience tab for a School/School Division

The Bureau de l’éducation française offers these helpful, time-saving hints for users of EIS Collection in schools offering the Francais or French Immersion programs, as well as French courses within the English program.

Maplewood Note re the collection of the MB Provincial Report Card Data tentatively starting in June 2016

From our work in other provinces, Maplewood has extensive experience with xml data collections, including detailed report card data. We do not anticipate any problems meeting the tentative June - September 2016 collection period.