Facility Use & Event Management
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Webcasts
Webcasts
- More Efficiently Manage Community Facility Requests with FSDirect plus CommunityUse
In this efficiency-focused webcast, you will learn how CommunityUse reduces the time required to manage event requests from outside organizations - More Efficiently Manage Community Facility Requests with FSDirect plus CommunityUse (PDF)
Learn how you can save additional time, effort and money by using your FSDirect system with CommunityUse from SchoolDude to receive external/community facility requests online and automatically route them for approval – very similar to how you already process internal event requests with FSDirect! - Webcast: Achieve Savings by Automating Extracurricular Trip Management Processes
Hear how your peers from Fayetteville Public School District saved money and improved productivity by reducing the time and effort required to manage extracurricular trips using SchoolDude’s TripDirect trip management system. - Simplify Event Scheduling with Schedule Star and SchoolDude
Paul Cooper & Mary Nash from Coopersville Area Public Schools, MI, discuss how they have achieved successful district-wide coordination of facility and vehicle schedules for all their events by using Schedule Star and SchoolDude. - Simplify Event Scheduling with Schedule Star and SchoolDude (PDF)
Paul Cooper & Mary Nash from Coopersville Area Public Schools, MI, discuss how they have achieved successful district-wide coordination of facility and vehicle schedules for all their events by using Schedule Star and SchoolDude. - Webcast: From Paper to Progess - Streamlining Trip Management for Public K-12 Schools
John Neilson, Technology Adminstrator at Murray School District, progressed from paper-based method of trip management to a streamlined electronic online system - allowing them to streamline the educational trip workflow process from request and approval to vehicle and driver scheduling. - Webcast: From Paper to Progess - Streamlining Trip Management for Private K-12 Schools
Jerry Kisela, Transportation Coordinator at Culver Academies, progressed from paper-based method of trip management to a streamlined electronic online system - allowing them to streamline the educational trip workflow process from request and approval to vehicle and driver scheduling. - Webcast: The Roadmap to a Successful Event Management Program (OH)
Join peers from Kettering City Schools and Hudson City Schools to learn how you can implement proven tactics to successfully manage after-hours events and uncover hidden dollars related to the community use of your facilities. - Webcast: The Roadmap to a Successful Event Management Program (CA)
Join your peer, Cindy Nordahl from Turlock USD, to learn how you can implement proven tactics to successfully manage after-hours events and uncover hidden dollars related to the community use of your facilities. - Webcast: Getting Your Facilities to Run Themselves - A New Solution to Integrate FSDirect and your BAS
Hear how FSDirect clients have successfully implemented SchoolDude's newest solution, Facility Schedule Automation, an integration tool that connects and enables data exchange between your building automation system (BAS) and SchoolDude's FSDirect facility usage scheduling system. - Webcast: Recovering Costs for Community Use of School Facilities
Learn how successful events program administrator Lauri Rainwater from Clayton School District (2,600 students) is recovering approximately $88,000 annually – an equivalent of $32.20 per student! - Finding Relief: Recovering Costs for Facility Use (PDF)
Learn from cost recovery experts, Caroline Roberts of San Dieguito UHSD and Desone Parker of Tamalpais UHSD, about concepts/policies behind facility use and strategies for success. - Finding Relief: Recovering Costs for Facility Use - California
Learn from cost recovery experts, Caroline Roberts of San Dieguito UHSD and Desone Parker of Tamalpais UHSD, about concepts/policies behind facility use and strategies for success. - Cost Recovery in Virginia (PDF)
- Finding Relief: Recovering Costs for Facility Use - Texas
Learn from cost recovery champion Merry Dunphy of Coppell ISD, TX as she discusses how she implemented a successful cost recovery program. - Webcast: Finding Relief - Cost Recovery for Community Use of Your Schools
Hear cost recovery champions Denine Kysar of Douglas County SD, CO; Merry Dunphy of Coppell ISD, TX; and Alan Peterson of Pembroke Public Schools, MA as they discuss strategies for implementing a successful cost recovery program.
Podcasts
Podcasts
- Podcast: Simplify Event Scheduling with Schedule Star and SchoolDude
Paul Cooper & Mary Nash from Coopersville Area Public Schools, MI, discuss how they have achieved successful district-wide coordination of facility and vehicle schedules for all their events by using Schedule Star and SchoolDude. (MP4 version) - Recovering Costs for Community Use of School Facilities (MP3)
You'll hear successful events program administrator Lauri Rainwater from Clayton School District (2,600 students) discuss how she is recovering approximately $88,000 annually – an equivalent of $32.20 per student! Right Click to save the iPod MP4 version.
Case Studies
Case Studies
- Case Study: Lakewood City Schools
Facility Scheduling automation integrates with your building automation system, simplifying BAS overrides and day-to-day building maintenance. - Case Study: Shaker Heights
FSDirect allows Shaker Heights to have immediate access to what’s going on in buildings. Users feel more involved and at ease with more information at their fingertips. This makes streamlining events easier by avoiding conflicts. - Q&A: Chandler Unified School District
Q&A with Chandler USD, AZ on how SchoolDude helps them save time, save money and help the IT and maintenance departments work closer together. - Case Study: Screven County School System
Georgia school district manages trip planning by replacing their current inefficient and cumbersome paper process with TripDirect - which improved accountability/reporting and automated communication with trip requesters and approval managers - Case Study: Medford Township Public Schools
Medford Township Public Schools went from a 5-part-form paper system to a streamlined, online solution which saved time by allowing faculty and staff to submit requests online anywhere at any time. - Case Study: Tri-County Technical College
Tri-County Technical College used TripDirect to improve customer service by notifying trip requesters with automatic email updates and save time by allowing field trip staff to access the system anywhere at any time. - Case Study: Western Reserve Academy
Jeff Jacot, Director of Facilities at Western Reserve Academy, used TripDirect to more effectively manage the field trip scheduling processes and improve communication with faculty and staff. - Case Study: Spokane Public Schools
With 30,000 facility scheduling requests per year, Spokane Public Schools needed an efficient way to streamline the process and improve invoicing for auditing. With FSDirect, they were able to develop a global, real-time view of facility availability. - Case Study: Grapevine-Colleyville ISD
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD integrates facility scheduling (FSDirect) with work order management (MaintenanceDirect) to more effectively manage facility usage requests and improve internal and external communication.
White Papers
White Papers
- School Facility Safety Planning
School Facility Safety Planning by Erich Friend Theatre Consultant, Teqniqal Systems - Liability and Risk Management for School Theatres
Liability Exposure and Risk Management for Schools with Auditoriums or Theatres by Erich Friend Theatre Consultant, Teqniqal Systems - Software as a Service for Education: Do More for Less, Faster
This white paper by Karen Greenwood Henke of Nimble Press discusses how school districts, large and small, have discovered software-as-a-service (SaaS) as a way to save time and money without reducing services. - Recovering Costs for the Community Use of Our Schools
This paper examines the successful implementation of cost recovery programs in our schools. - Cost Recovery: Facility Scheduling Best Practices
Brent Hair, Business Operations Manager, Client Service Center at SchoolDude.com discusses tactics used for implementing successful community use programs.
Data Sheets
Data Sheets
- Value: Understanding the Value of SchoolDude’s Facility Scheduling Solutions
FSDirect is a powerful, on-demand application that allows an educational institution to schedule events outside normal classroom use. Historically, educational facilities have been some of the least utilized assets in America. As taxpayers demand more benefits for their tax dollars, and as educational institutions seek to offset operating costs by charging facility usage fees, the need for a powerful facility scheduling management tool becomes evident immediately. - Datasheet: Community Use
CommunityUse is a powerful online facility use calendaring system that manages the facility use requirements of community organizations. Through integration with FSDirect, CommunityUse streamlines the process of managing a facility use program for outside groups from event request and risk assessment, to invoicing and payment. - Datasheet: All Products
SchoolDude software suite address the key operational areas for any type, shape and size educational institution, including colleges and universities, public and private schools. SchoolDude solutions include work order management, facility scheduling, inventory management, preventive maintenance, utility analysis, capital planning, IT help desk and asset management and more. - DataSheet: CommunityUse
CommunityUse is a powerful online facility use calendaring system that manages the facility use requirements of community organizations. Through integration with FSDirect, CommunityUse streamlines the process of managing a facility use program for outside groups from event request and risk assessment, to invoicing and payment. - Datasheet: Facility Scheduling Automation
Facility Scheduling Automation integrates FSDirect with your building automation system. - Datasheet: TripDirect
TripDirect™ is a web-native trip planning and management tool that helps you streamline the educational trip workflow process from request and approval to vehicle and driver scheduling. - Datasheet: CSS
Schedule Star has teamed with SchoolDude.com – the nation’s #1 provider of on-demand operations management solutions designed exclusively for the unique needs of schools – to create a powerful communications and event scheduling solution for schools. - Datasheet: FSDirect
FSDirect™ is an on-demand facility usage scheduling tool for managing educational facility usage requests, tracking event schedules, and accounting for usage expenses.
Tools
Tools
- School Theatre Safety for Front of House
- Sample Gym Event Security Checklist
- Sample_Facilities Use Application - Clarkston Community Schools
- School Facility Safety Planning
School Facility Safety Planning by Erich Friend Theatre Consultant, Teqniqal Systems - Liability and Risk Management for School Theatres
Liability Exposure and Risk Management for Schools with Auditoriums or Theatres by Erich Friend Theatre Consultant, Teqniqal Systems - Sample Facility Use and Fee Guidelines - Clarkston Community Schools
- Sample Auditorium Event Checklist
- Sample - Walnut Valley Personnel Rates
- Sample - Walnut Valley Fee Schedules
- Sample - San Dieguito Field Lining Fee Schedule 2008
- Sample - San Dieguito Facility Use Packet
- Sample - San Dieguito Use of Facilities Rules and Regulations
- Sample - Newport-Mesa Use of Facilities Rules and Regulations
- Sample - Newport-Mesa Education Code - Civic Center Act
- Sample - Glendora USD - Facility Use Packet
- Sample - Anaheim Union HSD - Fee Schedule
- Sample Facility Use Fee Structure
- Sample Cost Recovery Guidelines
- Sample - Whitmore Lake Bill Rate Sheet
- Sample - Tumwater Bill Rate Sheet
- Sample - Tamalpais 10-Step Facility Use Process Sheet
- Sample - Tamalpais Facility Use Application Form
- Sample - Tamalpais Bill Rate Sheet
- Coppell ISD Bill Rate Sheet
- Sample - Agua Fria Facility Use Agreement Form
- Sample - Agua Fria Facility Use Rental and Fee Schedule Sheet
Example rate sheet for community use of school facilities from Agua Fria Union High School District No. 216. - Sample Hacienda La Puente USD Fee Schedule
- Sample Newport-Mesa Unified School District Fee Schedule
- Sample Orange County School District Fee Schedule
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