FASTER CHANGES FOR 2007-2008

Effective: September 30, 2007
Revised Date:

ADMINISTRATIVE REMINDERS AND ISSUES

Districts and Postsecondaries

If you have not yet done so, visit the FASTER web page and sign up for the FASTER listserv by clicking on the Sign up for the Listserv link. Documentation on how to use the listserv can be found at http://lserv.fldoe.org.

We still have participation problems. Institutions are dropping FASTER before completing migration to their new platform/software. IT IS NOT AN OPTION to drop FASTER until your replacement capabilities are ready to go into production. Also, there are many elementary/middle schools still not participating. This is not acceptable. If your institution is having problems getting responses from any Florida public PK-12 or postsecondary, contact Lavan Dukes, Howard Campbell, or Lynda Page (K-12, community colleges and SUS respectively). The committee will ask the Commissioner/Secretary to help get these schools in compliance.

The cutover to the new version of FASTER and SPEEDE/ExPRESS will begin on September 28, 2007. The new version will be in place on October 1st. FASTER users will be notified via e-mail from the listserve when more details are available on the FASTER web page.

Districts Only

FASTER PK-12 schools can be listed individually on the registrant list at the University of Texas, Austin, the server that handles SPEEDE/ExPRESS. OAS will continue to update the Texas server monthly per requests from the school districts.




FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM CHANGES

Districts and Postsecondaries

NOTE: Changes that were made to FASTER over the course of the previous year (i.e., since the original 2006-2007 manual was published in November 2006) are listed in Updates to the 2006-2007 Version of FASTER.

New Message Type Codes have recently been added for Bright Futures rejects. The codes and their meaning are:

A complete list of all Message Type Codes can be found in Appendix D of the FASTER User Manual.


FORMAT CHANGES

Header Formats - Appendix H

I/S/P00

Postsecondary Formats - Appendix J

P02   Postsecondary Term Format

P03   Postsecondary Course Format

P04   Postsecondary Remarks Format

P05   Postsecondary Transfer Segment Format

P06   Postsecondary Test Format

P07   Postsecondary Degree Format

P08   Postsecondary Immunization Format



Interdistrict/Secondary Formats - Appendix I

I/S01   PK-12 Student Information Format

I/S02   PK-12 Student Immunization Format

I/S03   PK-12 Student School Year Format

I/S04   PK-12 Student Course Format

I/S05   PK-12 Student Vocational/ELL/Dropout Format

I/S06   PK-12 Exceptional Student Format

I/S07   PK-12 Student Comment Format

I/S08   PK-12 Student Test Format

I/S09   PK-12 Student Discipline Format

I/S10   PK-12 PAS Number Format

I/S11   PK-12 Migrant Student Format




EDIT CHANGES - Appendix R

Postsecondary Edits

P00   Postsectondary Header Record Edits

P01   Postsecondary Fixed Segment Edits

P02   Postsecondary Term Edits

P03   Postsecondary Course Edits

P04   Postsecondary Remarks Edits

P05   Postsecondary Transfer Segment Edits

P06   Postsecondary Test edits

P07   Postsecondary Degree Edits

P08   Postsecondary Immunization Edits

Interdistrict/Secondary Edits


I/S00   PK-12 Header Record Edits

I/S01   PK-12 Demographic Edits

I/S02   PK-12 Immunization Edits

I/S03   PK-12 School Year Edits

I/S04   PK-12 Course edits

I/S05   PK-12 Vocational/LEP/Dropout edits

I06   PK-12 Exceptional Student Edits

I/S07   PK-12 Student Comment Edits

I/S08   PK-12 Student Test Edits

I/S09   PK-12 Discipline Edits

I/S10   PK-12 PAS Code Edits

I11   PK-12 Migrant Student Edits