Tutorial Under Contruction

Utility Report Cards is undergoing some improvments. We are adding new school districts - welcome Brevard County!

This tutorial will be updated when the other changes are complete. Please click here to continue to the current tutorial, which will give you an understanding of how URC operates.

Planned Changes:

• Redesign Header area with more intuitive design.
  • Drop-down lists instead of links for Usage Per Day/Month, Calendar/Actual Readings, and By School/ByType
  • Sort icons to be used instead of column header links.
  • Options for Cost, Consumption, per Area, per Student, Weather & Occupancy Corrected, etc to be listed as checkbox type control and displayed dynamically.
  • Cookies, if available, used to save preferred or last used settings.
  • Navigation buttons added;
    • Back
    • Commonly used URC pages
    • Others to be defined...
• New sets of columns to be made available
  • New per Square Foot columns (dynamically visible)
    • Consumption per square foot
    • Cost per square foot
    • Information in place, only new calculations needed.
    • Wanted by both Brevard & Seminole Counties.
  • New per Student columns (dynamically visible)
    • Consumption per student.
    • Cost per student.
    • May not be comparative at first, no historical student count kept.
  • New Weather & Occupancy Corrected (WOC) columns (dynamically visible)
    • Each level of data to be "corrected" for weather (temperature) and occupancy (school days per month).
    • Available only for Calendar Readings.
    • WOC factors recalculated each month.
    • Possibly allow administrators to select WOC baseline start & end dates.
    • Add WOC to graphing page
      • Actual This Period & Actual Last period.
      • Predicted This Period & Predicted Last period.
      • Actual This Period & Predicted This period.
      • For a month (i.e. May)Actual Month & Predicted Month for all years recorded by URC.
• Sub-columns to reverse order. New Order for each set of columns:
  • Previous Period (October 2006)
  • Current Period (October 2007)
  • Percent Change
• Additional links from Utility Report Cards home page
  • EnergyWhiz.
  • EnergyStar - Portfolio Manager.
  • Others as needed.
• Add links
  • Comments for each school when listed (popup display only).
  • Sun Smart Schools for each participating school (new window).
  • Download Java for graphs on chart page if java not installed.
• Add available school information to school page.
• Administration Functions
  •   Login
    •   Multi-level.
    • Enable adding users to lower or equal level.
  • Add comments section per school.
    • Edit by District Administrator, or that school’s Administrator.
    • Available for viewing by everyone.
  • Edits
    • Square footage of schools and portables.
    • Comments (popup add new window).
    • School Description for meters.
    • Email notifications list.
  • New Download Features to open in Excel spreadsheet
    • To be determined on a "per district" basis

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