Funding
Yearly Usage Calculation
CIW Curriculum and Test Licenses come in a package.
School yearly license usage is calculated by adding the initial license requests and the additional license requests. For example if you have:
25 students in a class who get initial licenses (all students learning the curriculum need to be issued an initial license).
Only 20 of the students reach proficiency in the material and take the industry certification
15 students pass the industry certification on the first attempt
The 5 who failed are given additional licenses and retest once
Total licenses used are 30
License Cost Calculation
Each year, in August, the cost to renew the CIW Contract is divided by the number of licenses used by the whole district, in the previous year. This cost is then assigned to each school's previous year's usage. This sum is then taken out of the school's Industry Certification Bonus FTE Account. Schools then have access to as many licenses as necessary for the current school year.
License Cost Weight:
Please note that IBA, NTA & SDA use 1 license per exam, while all other CIW Industry Certifications cost 2 licenses per exam.
Each student access to the CIW ICT Digital Tool Suite costs .5 licenses per year.
Middle School Bonus FTE
Digital Tool: 0.025 FTE
Web Foundations Associate: 0.10 FTE
Advanced HTML5 &CSS3 Specialist: 0.2 FTE
Limit 0.1 FTE per student per year.
High School Bonus FTE
JavaScript Specialist: 0.2 FTE
Web Design Specialist: 0.2 FTE
Web Security Associate: 0.1 FTE
Advanced HTML5 &CSS3 Specialist: 0.2 FTE
Teacher Bonus
Digital Tools: $0.00
0.1 FTE Bonus IC: $25.00
0.2 FTE Bonus IC: $50.00
Per exam passed
Spending Industry Certification Money
Bonus FTE earned by schools from industry certifications must be spent back into the program that earned them. The general rule is that the funds may be spent on anything that supports the program, but does not supplant the program. For example, you may purchase upgrades for your computer lab or lego robots, but not a teacher unit.