Miami-dade County Public School

Aligning Business And Information Technology (IEB 40303) Miami-Dade County Public Schools School District Improves Education by Linking Teachers, Students, Parents Online

Presented by: Siti Syazwani bte Harun(52251108142)

Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Introduction Business Situation Solution Benefits Technology used: 1) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 2) Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 3) Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 4) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 5) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Conclusion

Introduction

Miami-Dade County Public Schools •

The fourth-largest public school district in the United States • It needed a consistent way to deliver information to more than 1 million students, parents, teachers, and administrators.

• The District is managed the School Board of Miami-Dade County, which appoints a Superintendent to head the administrative portions of the district. The current Superintendent is Alberto Carvalho, since September 12, 2008

• Miami-Dade County Public Schools built a Webbased portal to give all these constituents a single point of access for relevant information, services, and applications.

• The district has improved learning potential for children, enhanced parents’ ability to participate in the education of their children, and improved the effectiveness and productivity of teachers and school administrators.

Business Situation • M-DCPS needed to provide more than 1 million people (teachers, parents, staff, and students) with improved access to multiple information systems and applications used to educate MiamiDade children.

Solution • The school district built an enterprise Web-based portal that provides students, parents, teachers, and administrators with a single point of access to district technology resources.

From any Internet connection, students can view : - their class list, -grades, -stored documents, -school announcements and events, -and a district calendar.

Parents can view : - their child’s class list - grades, - assignments, - school bus information, - state graduation requirements.

Teachers can view: - their personal information; - e-mail messages and calendar; - stored files; - class lists; - a roster of students in each class; - detailed data from the Student Information System 

Principals can see : - personal information and documents, - calendars, - weekly district briefings, - reports from key district systems, - and links to other relevant resources.

Benefits 1. Improved access to information 2. Enhanced productivity and decisionmaking 3. Improved collaboration 4. Rapid time-to-benefit, at reduced cost

1. Improved access to information • Students can now monitor their own grades and access a wealth of educational resources ranging from instructional content to the district library system. • School administrators can easily access the forms, tools, and reports that they need to keep everything running smoothly, to optimize their use of resources, and quickly identify any issues that need their attention.

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Enhanced productivity and decision-making

• Consolidated access to information is improving productivity for the district’s teachers, helping them to more easily access and make use of student data. • Lauren Graper First Grade Teacher at Miami Heights Elementary School says: “I have everything that I need in one place, eliminating the need to switch between different systems as I work, ” I can read and answer e-mail from parents, prepare a lesson, enter grades, or get ready for a parent meeting without ever having to leave the portal. I have only a few hours in the early morning and late afternoon when students aren’t in class, so the half-hour or so that the portal saves me each day is a huge benefit.”

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Improved collaboration

• The district is improving student achievement by using the portal to facilitate collaboration among parents, students, and teachers, including both the provisioning of student assignments and the dissemination of performance data. • Teachers and students can use digital workspaces to share files, parents can view their children’s homework assignments, and district staff can share documents and prepare for meetings. • People will soon be able to use the portal’s built-in workflow capabilities to work together more effectively by automating the routing and approval of forms and documents. 

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Rapid time-to-benefit, at reduced cost • “Everyone is very pleased with how fast things came together, and a lot of that is due to the extensive prebuilt functionality provided by Microsoft software,” Karcher says. • The district’s decision to use Microsoft software also is providing significant cost benefits. • “Not only are we delivering a solution that will serve more than a million potential users at a far lower cost than what many other districts have done, but we’re also doing it with minimal risk,”

Technology M-DCPS use: Software and Services: 1) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 2) Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 3) Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 4) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 5) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

1) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 What is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2?

• Windows Server 2003 R2, an update of Windows Server 2003, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005. It is distributed on two CDs, with one CD being the Windows Server 2003 SP1 CD. • The other CD adds many optionally installable features for Windows Server 2003. The R2 update was released for all x86 and x64 versions, but only Enterprise Edition for Itanium.

FEATURES Branch Office Server Management • Centralized management tools for file and printers • Enhanced Distributed File System (DFS) namespace management interface • More efficient WAN data replication with Remote Differential Compression. Identity and Access Management • Extranet Single Sign-On and identity federation • Centralized administration of extranet application access Storage Management • File Server Resource Manager (storage utilization reporting) • Enhanced quota management • File screening limits files types allowed

2) Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 What is Microsoft BizTalk Server?

• Often referred to as simply "BizTalk", is a business process management (BPM) server. Through the use of "adapters" which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in a large enterprise, it enables companies to automate and integrate business processes. • Offered by Microsoft, it provides the following functions: Business Process Automation, Business Process Modeling, Business-to-business Communication, Enterprise Application Integration and Message broker.

Versions for Windows

BizTalk Server 2000 BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (First version to utilize the new Windows Communication Foundation via native adapter - (Release date October 2 2007)

BizTalk Server 2009 (First version to work with Visual Studio 2008)

Features The use of adapters to simplify integration to Line of Business Applications e.g. Siebel, Oracle, Microsoft • Dynamics Databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) and other Technologies (Tibco, J2EE, etc)

Siebel Siebel

Oracle Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Dynamics

3)Microsoft Identity Integration Server (2003) What is Microsoft Identity Integration Server ?

• Is an identity management (IdM) product offered by Microsoft. It is a service that aggregates identityrelated information from multiple data-sources. • The goal of MIIS is to provide organizations with a unified view of a user's/resources identity across the heterogeneous enterprise and provide methods to automate routine tasks.

Versions Zoomit Via (pre 1999)

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager Server 2007 ILM (Current)

Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Feature Pack [IIFP] (Current)

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 FIM [CR0] [April 2009]

4) Microsoft SQL Server 2005

What is Microsoft SQL Server ?

• SQL Server 2005 (codenamed Yukon), released in October 2005, is the successor to SQL Server 2000. It included native support for managing XML data, in addition to relational data

Version

5)Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). • MOSS builds on WSS by adding both core features as well as end user web parts to it. • Its main strength is enabling an organization’s information to be organized and aggregated in one central, web-based application and provide a taxonomy for corporate data.

Architecture • The architecture is composed of Web Server front ends running the WSS application with MOSS plugging-in functionality where required, generally a search service which crawls the data store creating an index, a number of other services, and the database back-end, a standard enterprise architecture. • As such it can be built out by load balancing more web servers on the front end and building larger clusters of SQL Server on the back-end.

Conclusion • Technology helps society to improve their life. • With the technology, Miami-Dade County Public school has solve their problem and enhance the productivity of the student, parents, teachers, administration and community.