On Board with CDUCS!

The CALPADS Data Unification and Collection System (CDUCS) application has received favorable responses.  With the enhancements made to the Employee/Position Information Collaborative System (EPICS), the Human Resource departments now have a solution for tracking required data fields for CALPADS, such as the new Multi-Race and Ethnicity for employees hired on July 1, 2009 or later.  In addition, EPICS has also modified the district tables to allow for more cross walking of CALPADS required codes to the applicable district defined tables.  With all these enhancements, the CDUCS application is able to create complete Staff Demographic and Staff Assignment files with very minimal information from the student system.  The CDUCS application provides a solution for joining any student system with the Human Resource System (PC2000 or EPICS) for the purpose of creating CALPADS and OPUS submission files, thereby eliminating the need for redundant data entry of staff data into the student system.  CDUCS will compile and export OPUS and CALPADS ready files that can be either submitted directly to CDE or can be imported back into the districts’ student system.