A mouse-over feature provides even more detail on individual in-services or events, including description, time, and locations.
Charting Your Own Professional Development - PD Place™ provides a variety of search capabilities that make finding the right in-service simple, and the registration process quick and easy.
PD Place™ also checks for duplicate registrations and time conflicts automatically. Consolidated screens allow staff to quickly see the historical progress of their professional development, and plan for future growth.
Mentoring - Principals and vice-principals can easily find the historical information for all of their staff, and can offer advice on future development areas.
With the PSIT feature in PD Place™, principals can make sure individuals that require the most training are granted spots, when openings are limited. On an as needed basis, principals and vice-principals can produce reports on who is scheduled for upcoming in-services, and can be proactive with substitution needs.
In-service Administration and Planning - PD Place™ provides excellent tools for an administrator or co-ordinator to create, change, and monitor in-service details.
Registration deadlines can be set and enforced. Maximums can be set, and any overflow can be automatically added to a waiting list. This makes the monitoring and planning of additional sessions easy. Minimums can also be set, and administrators are informed if these minimums are not reached by a specified date. This allows alternative plans, or in-service cancellation, to occur in a timely manner.
Costs associated with an in-service can also be tracked and reported.
Communication - PD Place™ reduces paper work and streamlines communication through effective use of standard e-mail.
Staff are automatically provided with registration confirmations, un-register acknowledgements, change notifications, in-service reminders, special upcoming in-service notifications, etc. Administrators can be automatically provided with copies of registration notifications, PSIT requests, and in-service status updates.
In addition, extensive capabilities are provided to allow administrators, instructors, and principals to notify groups of staff, or registrants, with custom e-mails. Registrants can also send custom e-mails to instructors and administration.
" PD Place™ has reduced paper work by 80% and has saved us several thousands of dollars. "
Rodger Dixie IT Manager (retired)
Limestone District School Board
