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PRESS RELEASE: BusConduct Launches Facebook Fan Page To Better Interact With Its Customers

Lakeland, Fla., December 3, 2010 - BusConduct, a one-of-a-kind web-based software application that enables school districts nationwide to efficiently manage student conduct issues on school transportation, is excited to launch a Facebook Fan Page to better interact with its customers.

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PRESS RELEASE: BusConduct Celebrates 10 Years of School Bus Safety

Transportation managers and school officials embrace the online incident-reporting program which helps curb poor student behavior.

Lakeland, Fla., June 8, 2010 – Ten years ago, the typical way for a school bus driver to report on a misbehaving student was to handwrite her comments on a piece of paper and hand it to the school—where too often it disappeared, and the unsafe behavior continued unchecked. Today, that bus driver can enter her report into a web-based application called BusConduct by Incwebs (www.busconduct.com), and be certain the student’s school principal gets the message instantly. Since the year 2000, BusConduct, formerly known as SchoolTIRES, has been used to help discipline over 78,000 students nationwide, resulting in increased bus safety and happier bus drivers.

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ARTICLE: Web-based Software Helps Driver Retention, Says School Administrators

This article appeared in the December 2000 issue of School Transportation News and is reproduced here with STN's permission.

BUFFALO, N.Y.-Unruly students are often cited among the reasons school bus drivers leave the profession. To date, video cameras have been among the key strategies to bring student behavior into line. Now, a software program that relies on Internet technologies has been introduced signaling that bad behavior on the school bus may finally be a thing of the past.

A web-based disciplinary reporting program called TIRES (nka BusConduct), which stands for Transportation Incident Reporting System, has been credited with reducing driver turnover, according to administrators of Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota.

The student behavior management software system designed by IncWebs (fka Incompass) Inc. was introduced at NAPT in Buffalo, N.Y., during a workshop. BusConduct eliminates the use of multi-page incident report forms, doesn't take up hard drive space and may be run on any computer with a web browser and access to the Internet, says the software developer.

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ARTICLE: A new web-based software program by a Florida company for reporting student misbehavior on school buses can help reduce disciplinary problems and increase driver retention, according to its developers.

This article appeared in the February 14, 2001 issue of the School Transportation Director newsletter, and is reprinted with their permission.

The software program, TIRES (nka BusConduct), an acronym for Transportation Incident Referral System, is a relatively new program, reports Jules Bohanon, applications development director for IncWebs (fka Incompass) Inc. in Lakeland, Florida (previously St. Paul, MN).

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The program grew out of a request for assistance by a Minnesota school district, she explains.  “Basically, a few years ago, a district in Minnesota contacted us.  We’ve been working with school districts [for] about 15 years, helping them collect and report data more efficiently. They were having a problem with behavior reporting, especially turn-around time,” Bohanon says

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New Features (2011)


• Parent Report can be customized with district letterhead.

• Referral page now includes student history (only if using SIN).

• Referral page now auto-enters student information if available (only if using SIN).

• Can now create unlimited custom fields of diverse field types; including text, text area, hyperlink, dropdown list, checkbox, date, and time. The custom field's layout is customizable and can be grouped, sorted and given custom headers.

• A special custom field type (Image) allows you to upload and attach a .JPG photo with referral.

New Features (2011)


• Parent Report can have up to 4 customizable signature lines.

• Referrals can now be specified as Conduct or Incident (non-conduct).

• Drivers can have their own login. Driver-entered referrals may be subject to review prior to approval.

• Reports have many new filtering and exporting capabities.

• Added new student detail report. accessed by drilling down in any student report, which shows that student's referral history for the current year.

• Disciplinary actions can be set as "required" for completion by schools.

• Added fields to the Excel export on the Referrals list page.

New Features (2010)


• Spell checking is on the extended description text input areas.

• Reports are not limited to displaying driver's first name and last initial. The display name can be edited for each  driver.

• There is a Login Log in the Maintenance Menu under Setup.

• School name is in the subject line of email notifications that are sent to disciplinary providers.

• Maintenance Menu users can have read-only access.

• The referral list can be exported to Excel.

New Feature (2009)


• Changes Passwords: School users and transportation providers may change their own passwords from a new Setup menu.

New Features (2008)


• Easily Send Account Info to School Users: When you create a new Disciplinary Administrator or a user forgets their password; you can just go the Users list and click the 'Send Info' button. This will send an email with account information and login instructions.

• Parent PDF report can be printed in an alternate language.

• Incident report can be printed or saved as PDF file.

New Features (2007)


• All PDF reports open without going to a preview and export page.

• A new report "Completed Incidents by Driver" is on the reports page. This is an easy way to print and distribute completed incident information to your drivers.

• Reports can be filtered by School or Transportation provider.

• Schools and Transportation providers have access to the Reports page. They will only see the data that pertains to them.

• The Student ID field is Alphanumeric instead of an Integer.

• A new report, Incomplete Referrals by School/Date Sent, has been added to the Reports page.
 
 
Quotes from Customers

Ballston Spa, New York

“The primary benefit of BusConduct is issues are handled immediately and effectively—often in the same day. And that makes the entire process much easier to manage for everyone.”

Laura Kohler
Ballston Spa S.D.


Osseo, Minnesota

“Your program is giving us the tool to report on which schools are not responding adequately to referrals. Thanks a million!!!”

Adam M. Sisneros
Osseo Area Schools

 


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