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PHONE 225-922-3502
Login to SmartFind Express The automated substitute teacher system for EBRPSS teachers and registered substitutes
Contact Information
Cheryl Cremeens, Coordinator
PH (225) 922-5560
FAX (225) 922-5688
What is SmartFind Express? SmartFind Express is available to educators as your means of securing a substitute.
The Phone-Based system was installed in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1998, and was implemented for use for classroom teachers as a pilot test the last two weeks of the 1998-99 school year. In the beginning of the 2003-04 school year, the on-line version of SEMS, WebCenter, was installed. In July 2008, we introduced SmartFind Express. We are happy to report that these systems have worked exceptionally well for teachers as well as substitutes!
How to Use SmartFind Express
An employee or administrator calls the system via the public telephone system at 922-3502, or goes on-line to the SmartFind Express at sems.ebrschools.org. On SmartFind Express, your access id is your social security number, and your PIN is the same PIN you were issued for the phone-based system. On the phone-based system, you will be prompted to enter in your access id and PIN. An absence is reported and the teacher receives a job number.
SmartFind Express searches its listings and finds the appropriate substitute for this job.
At the morning or evening calling period, the system places a call to the substitute, or the substitute has the option of going on-line and searching for available jobs.
The substitute accepts or declines the job. (If accepted, the substitute is given a job number to use when reporting to the location.)
Important Information
The Help Desk hours (922-5560) are from 6:00 am to 2:30 pm Monday through Friday; however, the automated system (922-3502) (sems.ebrschools.org) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Every employee must register his or her absence through SmartFind Express.
After you have registered your absence, the responsibility for your replacement is in the hands of SmartFind Express. Your school will check each morning to listen to the absence for that day and which substitute was assigned your job.
Every registered absence must have a JOB NUMBER.
If you specify a substitute, the system must call the sub to verify and the sub must receive the job number FROM THE SYSTEM, NOT THE TEACHER. Or, the teacher can give the sub the job number and the sub can check the system, accept the job, and then be given the SAME job number.
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