Use the Upload Development option to upload professional development days from a file.
The file must follow this format:
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No header row
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Comma-separated into three columns
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.dat extension
The file must contain the following columns:
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Column Name |
Maximum Length |
Note |
|---|---|---|
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Employee Number |
10 |
NA |
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Professional Development Category |
1 |
Categories 1 through 9 are accepted. However, only categories 1, 2, and 3 are currently being reported to REP. Valid values:
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Actual Days |
5 including decimal |
The format is 99.99 |
Upload File
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Choose Upload Development.
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Click Choose File.
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Navigate to the file location and select the file.
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Click Open.
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Select Clear Existing Teacher Development Days if required.
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If selected, then, before updating the data from the Development file, the process sets all professional development days to zero for all employees. This allows you to clear the prior year's professional development days before reporting the current year's data.
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If not selected, the days in the Development file are added to any existing days.
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Click Load.
For each employee whose employee number is in the Development file, the system adds the number of days from the Development file to the existing professional development days in the appropriate category.
For each category, the corresponding field on the Defined Page 501 – New Teacher Professional Development page is updated. For category 1, the Type 1 Days field is updated. For category 2, the Type 2 Days field is updated. For category 3, the Type 3 Days field is updated
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Run the Load Employee Information process to update the records in the Compliance table.
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Run the Update Professional Development process to update the Actual Days value in the loaded data.