[E10-erate] Tech Plan Update Information

[Sue Rains]

Michael Kozak
Director, Learning Technologies
Nebraska Department of Education
402-471-0533

September 19, 2006

The Tech Plan Reporting System for E-rate FY (Funding Year) 2007 is
ready for your input.  It is an E-rate requirement that you complete a
Technology Plan each year before you file your E-rate Form 470.  Your
Form 470 must be filed at least 28 days before you file your E-rate Form
471.  The Form 471 filing window is usually mid-November to mid-February
each year.  You can file your Form 470 now, however, again, your Tech
Plan for E-rate FY 2007 must be completed (not necessarily certified),
first. 

To complete (create) your Tech Plan for E-rate FY 2007, go to
<http://edweblab.unl.edu/retc> http://edweblab.unl.edu/retc and log in
with your Co-Dist number (including the hyphen) and password.  If you
cannot find or do not remember your password, please contact your ESU
E-rate person first; if you still need assistance recovering your
password, please contact Mike Kozak at <mailto:mike.kozak at nde.ne.gov>
mike.kozak at nde.ne.gov.   

After logging in to your account, you will be given the choice to "Edit
Existing Tech Plan" or "Create a New Tech Plan."  If you haven't yet
done so this school year, you will want to click on "Create a New Tech
Plan."  You will now be presented with two Options when creating your
new Tech Plan:



*	Option I will be to select a Tech Plan (probably the previous
year) from which to transfer contact information and School Improvement
Goals and Strategies;

*	Option II will be to "Create a New Empty Tech Plan".  More than
likely, most schools will want to choose Option I, and transfer Tech
Plan for FY 2007.  If you choose FY 2006 under Option I, you will then
be asked to "Select Year for Plan:" (this will, of course, be FY 2007).
It will then confirm that your new Plan has been created.  
	


That's it.  If all of the Tech Plan information (i.e. contact name,
etc.) is not correct or current, you can (at any time later) edit any
item transferred to the newly created FY 2007 Tech Plan. 

Update the contact information and School Improvement Goals and
Strategies as needed.  Also, you will need to enter technology inventory
and budget information for FY 2007.  The budget information, of course,
will be estimates. 

When you are done (your Tech Plan is complete), click on the
Notification section, click the appropriate responses, and then click
the "Submit" button.  If your Tech Plan is, in deed, complete you will
receive a certification notice and Certification Number within 5-7 days.
PRINT THIS CERTIFICATION NUMBER NOTICE EMAIL and put it in your new FY
2007 E-rate file folder.  You do have a file folder for each E-rate
year, right?  This is very important if you are ever audited in the
future.  As a backup, a PDF version of this document is also archived on
the Tech Plan Certification System server.   

If you have any questions, contact your ESU E-rate person first.  [At
ESU 10 that is Sue Rains <mailto:srains at esu10.org> , srains at esu10.org]
 
 
 

Sue Rains, Network Operations Secretary
ESU 10  *  P.O. Box 850  *  Kearney, NE  68848
Phone:  308-865-5664 press 1
FAX:  308-233-9066
srains at esu10.org

 

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