To better serve our districts, Eduphoria is preparing to modernize a few of Strive’s professional processes, including the form builder under Form Management and a new process builder. This update is crucial as it allows us to better serve our customers by providing more intuitive and flexible tools that address the unique needs of each district. The data used in these new tools will be stored in new data tables, separate from your current evaluation data.
As a result, the end-of-year archive plays a key role in ensuring districts have a successful migration. Archiving finalizes your current-year processes and ensures that all evaluation data is properly stored in the existing tables before we transition to the new system. Our goal is to release the new features to allow districts time to explore the tools and refine their forms and evaluation processes before the start of the new school year. To meet that timeline, all districts must archive by June 15.
What is changing in Strive with this update?
Appraisal administrators will notice the most changes with professional process updates, while most other users will be unaffected.
The following features are going to be updated with the migration:
The form builder in Form Management will have a new screen for building and editing forms used in the evaluation process.
Users can build forms with dynamic informational items (sections, text, and goals) and response items (text responses, matrix responses, and selection responses).
Appraisee Types will be moved out of Evaluation Setup and called Process Types moving forward.
Process Types will be managed under a new Strive setting called Process Management.
Process Management will be the place to build and manage all professional processes in Strive.
Eduphoria Community will be removed from Evaluation Setup and won’t be migrated.
Electronic Signatures will only allow a teacher to sign first, display signatures on documents, and indicate whether a user refused to sign, among other quality-of-life improvements.
What do users need to do?
Appraisal administrators and managers need to prepare their staff to complete their evaluation process forms early this year. Then, they need to complete the end-of-year archive by June 15. The migration cannot be accomplished without a completed archive.
Completing the archive and migration early allows users to explore the new tools and refine their professional processes in time for the new school year. Since we are preserving evaluation data across two tables, your data won’t be at risk of loss during the migration.
We will be updating our documentation to prepare users on how to use these tools.
Should you have any questions or concerns or need additional support, reach out to us at support@eduphoria.net.