Earlier this week, a couple of School Center reps contacted us and let us know that now would be a really good time to change the School Center GUI for 1000+ of our 1300+ users. Now now, as in "is this afternoon ok?" I gathered that the point of changing the GUI now is to make the actual new version rollout on June 27th -- when all of our users will have changes to the GUI -- a little smoother.Miraculously, I didn't pass out and my hair didn't go gray, and we decided that two weeks from now, rather than now now might also work. The switch is minor, but based on what I've seen, I'm very concerned that it will result in confused teachers and a flood of Monday morning calls to me (not exciting but managable) and to other staff (not exciting and not fair to them). I've got about a week to get the word out it, and here's the plan:
- I already setup a webpage with the details.
- I added a Global Message which shows up on the first page everyone sees after they login.
- An email should go out to everyone today.
- Over the course of the next week, I'm going to try to email all of the Tech Dept people who don't officially support School Center but probably end up getting questions about it anyway
- Again over the next week, I'm going to try to send out special emails to the Campus Web Site Administrators and Department Web Site Administrators letting them know that the change is minor and that they can switch early.