Wisconsin PDP: Getting Started as a User

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Wisconsin PDPGetting Started as a User

• Welcome!
• This powerpoint will help you
• Learn how to log in and register as a User
• Use the links on your home page
• Understand WI PDP features that keep the PDP
  process on track

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Before using WI PDP

• Sign-up with your local CESA
• provide name, SS , email address to activate
  log-in
• agree to/sign Terms of Use
• CESA pre-registers Users and activates login so
  Users can access the tool. The Terms of Use form
  outlines what the fee does/does not include.

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First-time Log In www.wipdp.org

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User Registration
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Requested Format

• Requested format
• Current Position - Level of students, Content
  Area(s), teachers end position title with Reg Ed
  or Spec Ed
• Location - The name of where employed district
  proper name private school name and city
• Address, Phone and Fax - Home address, phone/fax
  where you want to be contacted
• The WI PDP system relies on accurate, current
  contact information from your Registration fields
  be update if necessary!

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Users Home Page
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Main Menu Links

• The links appear as needed by the User and align
  with the recommended process and due dates from
  DPI.

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Main Menu Links (contd)

• New links appear as the User completes the
  previous step. For example
• User completes New link appears
• Self Reflection View/Edit PDP
• Writing PDP Self Assess PDP Goal Approval
• Self Assessment Convene Review Team
• PDP Approved! Continue to Next Phase

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If.Then.

• No Self Assess Checklist?
• If youve completed your PDP, but do not have the
  new link, Self-Assess PDP it is likely that you
  dont have at least 10 characters in each
  components text box, or, you have an empty
  activity, timeline, or objective.

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Main Menu Links (contd)

• Edit Your PDP Term
• This link is available only until you Submit PDP
  to Review Team for Goal Approval. The default
  term is 5 years. Be sure the term you select
  aligns with the timeline you build for Activities
  in Component E.

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WI PDP Features

• HELP
• both program navigation and content help
  (examples, etc)
• AUTOMATED EMAILS
• important to open and READ!
• STATUS AND ALERT BARS
• keeps you on track
• SESSION TIME-OUT
• for your security
• TRIGGERS FOR NEXT STEPS
• important actions to be taken by both Users and
  Reviewers to move through cycle

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AUTOMATED EMAILS

• From Group Administrator
• WI PDP Password Retrieval
• Review Team Member confirmations
• WI PDP Reviewer Accepted!
• WI PDP Reviewer Declined!
• Review process communications
• WI PDP Comment from Review Team Member
• WI PDP Approval of Goals!
• WI PDP Final Verification of PDP!
• Due dates reminder
• WI PDP Warning - Target Date Approaching
• Starts 14 days prior/continues until target date
• WI PDP Warning Deadline Approaching
• Starts 14 days prior/continues until deadline

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SESSION TIME-OUT

• The session expires automatically after 60
  minutes unless you are interacting with the
  Server (e.g. hit save, open a Help window,
  navigate to and from your home page, etc). If
  you are inactive, the session will expire. Each
  time you interact with the Server, the 60 minutes
  is reset.
• Please note Just typing text is NOT interacting
  with the Server, and unsaved work will be lost.
  A warning feature is enabled on any page with a
  text box when you type any key. An alert message
  will show at the 2 minute warning. The alert
  shows a countdown and warns, unsaved text will
  be lost.
• All my hard work was lost!
• Jayne Werner

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TRIGGERS FOR NEXT STEPS

• Actions by both Users and Reviewers trigger the
  licensure process. For example
• Users click Submit PDP for Review when all three
  team members are confirmed to trigger PDP Review
  Team to have access to the PDP for Goal Approval
• Reviewers click Approve PDP when checklist items
  are all yes to trigger the automatic creation
  of the DPI-required PDP Goal Approval Form in the
  Users Archives
• Users click Continue to Next Phase after Goal
  Approval and after the required personal Annual
  Review is complete (to trigger the next year in
  the license cycle and a snapshot of the PDP for
  the Users Archives)
• Always read the Status and Alert bars to keep
  yourself informed and on track. Contact the
  Group Administrator from your home page if you
  need assistance.

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Navigation Hints

• Always navigate from your Home Page if you get
  lost go back home and start from there.
• All links are blue (not underlined like some web
  applications).
• Read emails, homepage status and alert bars to
  stay on track
• Questions? Contact the Group Administrator from
  your home page.