• Camino Nuevo adopted Helios for all of their four schools in January 2008
• Camino staff primarily use Helios to manage credential and NCLB data
• They say support is one of the best things they like about Helios
• Now they want more - online attendance - which is planned for the next version of Helios

Camino Nuevo staff have organized and input quite meticulously all their data into Helios, enabling them to quickly pull up information on teachers as well as run reports.

Camino Nuevo got Helios for more or less the same reasons as other schools: the ability of Helios to mainstream their credential management and do compliance reporting. They had been looking for over six months prior to going with Helios for a solution that will fit their needs but had found none. "Helios actually caters to schools!" Margaret Domingo, director of HR at Camino, had exclaimed when she first heard about it.

Camino primarily uses Helios to track their teacher credentials, NCLB, TB testing, EL, and subject matter test data. In fact, last month when a teacher's credential expired, they were able to quickly contact him and get him up to speed with NCLB compliance.

Camino Nuevo staff unanimously complimented Helios representatives for being extremely responsive to their needs. "You guys are always available and your support is one of the best things I like about Helios," commented Yolanda Sanchez, who is in charge of credentialing at Camino. Besides technical support, Helios' in-house expert Sharlene Tipeni offers insightful advice on credentialing and NCLB compliance issues.

Camino is also going to use Helios reports during school audits. When auditors hit the school, it is much more gratifying to quickly pull up reports that satiate their hunger for data, which leaves both the administrators and the auditors happy.

Camino, like High Tech High, used 101 Excel sheets to track data before switching to Helios. Now that those are history, Margaret and Yolanda can breathe a sigh of relief. For them, online data management is now the norm. In fact, they are now looking beyond what Helios currently does and want an online attendance calendar they can use to track employee absences and vacation time. And they will get it because that's one of the features planned for the next version of Helios, to be released within the next few months.