PDExpress®

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PDExpress® is a comprehensive, web-based professional learning system that enables you to easily automate and manage professional development, teacher evaluation and staff information in your organization. With PDExpress you can offer and manage workshop registration, professional leave, teaching credentials, professional growth plans, teacher self assessments, observations and evaluations and then easily share the results. Guided Tour→

To request information about PDExpress or to schedule a demonstration, contact our sales department at: sales@lucid-data.com or by phone at 513.248.4999.

Lucid Announces PDEssentials

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Lucid Data Corporation introduces PDEssentials. In response to market demand for a robust but streamlined professional learning management system, Lucid introduces a new product that focuses on key PDMS elements – – managing courses, course registration, out-of-district PD, teaching credentials and staff. PDEssentials also includes user customizable forms and form routing to support these essential features. Just like Lucid’s industry leading flagship product, PDExpress, customers will be able to produce reports, create ad-hoc queries, and import data from other sources. PDEssentials is competitively priced and is designed to support organizations with 300 or fewer staff.

Self Assessments, Observations, and Evaluations

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PDExpress® includes comprehensive staff self assessment, observation and evaluation features that are fully integrated with professional learning and are included at no additional cost. These features are completely open and enable you to manage your assessment and evaluation programs based on any model or State standard.

Click the “Press Release” link to read more about Lucid’s observation and evaluation component featured in the THE Journal: Press Release

Features:

  • Use the staff evaluation model of your choice.
  • Review a staff member’s complete professional learning history including in and out of district coursework, professional growth plans, goal attainment, credentials and demographic information while simultaneously writing evaluations and observations.
  • Create an unlimited number of custom evaluation, observation, and self assessment forms.
  • Import and export rubrics to support State evaluation standards.
  • Create an unlimited number of performance levels and rubrics.
  • Automatically route teacher self assessments for review and notify reviewers by email.
  • Attach digital files to evaluations, observations, and self assessments.
  • Create individual growth plans and goals as a result of performance evaluations.
  • Automatically link goals to professional development activities and courses.
  • Download evaluation, observation and self assessment results data for analysis in other programs such as Microsoft Excel
  • Print and PDF evaluation, observation and self assessment forms.

Contact us at 513.248.4999 to learn more about the new evaluation, self-assessment and observation features and to understand why integrating evaluation with professional learning creates a positive environment for professional growth.

PDExpress Forms Creation Service

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Even though you can easily create custom forms in PDExpress, we offer this service because you may not have time in your schedule or are not familiar with the process. Our goal is to make form creation as easy as possible! The service includes:

– a phone-based design session
– a written time/cost estimate based on the design session
– the creation of your requested form(s)* via a remote GoToAssist session
– creating user defined fields, rubrics, value lists and routing to support the form(s)
– a training session covering how to use the form(s)

* Note: Forms include: Evaluations, Observations, Out of District Activity Requests, Plans, Registration Requests, User Defined Forms, etc.

Give us a call at 513.248.4999 or email us at support@lucid-data.net to get started.

Supports Mobile Devices

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PDExpress supports mobile devices making it easy to create staff observations, self assessments and evaluations from anywhere. Teachers and administrators have full access to PD records using the same environment they use on their desktop without the need to download or learn a new application.

Click the “Press Release” link to read more about support for the iPad and IOS6+: Press Release