ICON Readiness

Victorian Catholic School Website Service

ICT Infrastructure Audit

ePotential

Key Development: Ultranet

The Ultranet

The DEECD Offer• Catholic Education becomes an Implementation

Partner with DEECD and the Developers in the delivery of Ultranet to schools

• DEECD Ultranet support materials and resources

The DEECD Offer

• High quality digital learning content and resources

• Ultranet eBookboxes

• ICON Coach support

ICON Core Strategies

• Given the DEECD offer, the Victorian Directors have recently signed off on the ICON Strategic Plan 2011 – 13

1. Implement ICON School Improvement Planning• Planning tool to be ready by the end of

2011

• Real time reports against School Improvement Plan Targets

2. Use Ultranet

Benefits

• Reduces development costs

• DEECD Resources

• Partner in future development

3. Share the implementation of Ultranet with other CNA participants

• Minimise costs of the service

4. Share online content

• High quality, endorsed content• Develop a ‘pool’ of resources created by

teachers

5. Implement an Enterprise Student Information System (SIS) • Ultranet requires a sophisticated identity

management system• Records data for whole system

Benefits

• Changes to SIS controlled

• No cost or maintenance of school level SIS• Streamline training and staff capabilities

• Unique student identity information

6. Implement an Enterprise Finance system• Implement accrual accounting

• Streamline training and staff capabilities

• Changes to the Finance system are controlled, implemented and made available to all schools

7. Outsource Management

• Reduce implementation and operational risk

• Partner with DEECD major suppliers

• Access to expertise

All Victorian Catholic Systemic Schools use:• Enterprise Student Information System• Enterprise Finance System• Approved timetabling package

Implementation of ICON

Implementation of ICON

• All Victorian Catholic school teachers and students use Ultranet

• Parents of all Victorian Catholic School students access reports via Ultranet

ICON Timeline• 2012: ICON School Improvement Planning

Module

• 2012 – 2013: Enterprise SIS

• Schools use Ultranet

• 2013 – 2014: All schools use Enterprise Finance System

ICON Preparation

• Support ICON School Leaders• Contact ICON School Coach• Use ePotential• Conduct ICT audit• Refer to ICON documentation and blog