Building an Electronic Application

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Building an Electronic Application

• Kim Peacock

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Why Districts Are Doing It

• The challenge of distance to most school
  districts means it is often challenging for
  administrators to visit central office.
• A database of applications at a central location
  allows remote viewing from a distance.
• Electronic applications save physical space.
• Applications are always available (i.e. a
  principal or HR person cant take it home so that
  it is unavailable to someone else).

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Some Examples of Districts Using Electronic
Applications

• Buffalo Trail Public Schools
• Clearview SD No. 71
• Evergreen Catholic Separate Regional Division 2
  
• Foothills SD No. 38
• Grande Yellowhead RD No. 35
• Grande Prairie Public No 2357
• Greater St Albert Catholic Schools
• Northern Gateway Regional Division No. 10
• Parkland School Division No. 70
• Pembina Hills Regional School Division No. 7
• Red Deer Catholic Regional Division No. 39
• St. Albert Protestant Schools
• St. Paul Education Regional Division No. 1
• St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Schools
• Sturgeon School Division No. 24
• Westwind School Division No. 74
• Note, this list is not extensive
• Many of these districts wont accept paper
  applications anymore.

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Which Districts Are NOT Doing It

• Edmonton Public
• Edmonton Catholic
• Calgary Board of Education
• Calgary Catholic
• Red Deer Public Schools
• Elk Island Public Schools
• This makes sense in light of the fact that it is
  still easy for most teachers to access central
  office at these districts.

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The Big Sites

• District Office Online and Education Canada are
  the two big job sites for teachers in Canada.
• Education Canada is nation wide.
• District Office Online is Alberta based.
• Even by visiting both of these sites, you are
  still not covering all of the districts in the
  province. Some districts do not post positions
  at all (i.e. Edmonton Public), while others only
  do it on their district web site (i.e. Elk Island
  Public Schools).

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Education Canada

• http//www.educationcanada.com
• Canada wide.
• Allows you to browse jobs and post a resume and
  cover letter (does not allow you to send more
  than that to a district).
• More listings than District Office Online.
• More applicants are seeing it than on District
  Office Online.

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District Office Online

• http//www.districtofficeonline.com
• Alberta wide
• Smaller pool of people seeing the job postings.
• Allows you to post a resume, cover letter,
  references, transcripts, teaching certificate and
  more.
• Allows you to apply directly to the member
  districts.

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Standard Documents to Upload

• You must set up an account first. This is a very
  easy step-by-step process.
• Standard documents include
• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Teaching Certificates
• Teaching Evaluations
• Reference Letters
• Pastoral Letter
• Transcripts

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Scanning Documents

• Scanning Documents in the 155 A and B Labs
  http//www.ualberta.ca/edtechpd/tutorials/Scannin
  gDocuments.doc

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Inserting Images into Microsoft Word

• Inserting Images into Microsoft
  Wordhttp//www.ualberta.ca/edtechpd/tutorials/
  InsertingIntoWord.doc

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Uploading Files to District Office Online

• Select Teachers from the main menu and log on
  to District Office Online.
• Click on Upload Documents.
• Click on the item you wish to upload.
• Browse to find it on your computer.
• Click Upload.

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Saving Files to Your ASF Space

• Using Your University Server Space (from Campus
  or Home)
• http//www.ualberta.ca/edtechpd/pages/internetan
  dwireless.html