Advantages

Save 73% Time and Cost

Going paperless with e-forms approvals cuts through processing time. Electronic files and workflows with e-signatures give easy access to information. Over 100 built-in, single-click reports save days in compiling time.

Save time and money with:

✔     Streamlined credentialing process
✔     Reduced overhead and processing times
✔     Comprehensive HR and personnel system
✔     Automated email reminders and notifications
✔     Avoiding duplicate entry with multiple systems
✔     Easily creating ad-hoc reports in under a minute
✔     Paperless forms online integrate with position control, budgets, time/attendance, and payroll

Avoid HR Compliance Risks and Problems

Stay on top of compliance and reporting. Helios has built-in compliance reports for:

✔     Credentialing
✔     Audit Reports
✔     CALPADS & CBEDS
✔     Assignment Monitoring
✔     State and Federal reports
✔     Staff and Teacher Rosters
✔     Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
✔     Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
✔     Board reports for hiring and personnel changes
✔     Many more

Hiring, Onboarding, and Employee Self-Service

Empower applicants, new hires, and current employees with easy-to-use tools via portals and mobile app:

✔     Onboard new hires online
✔     Apply easily for job openings
✔     Enable administrators to review and hire
✔     New hires complete forms / send documents online
✔     Employee self-service to e-sign contracts, check leave balances, view evaluations, give feedback, and more

Time and Payroll Reporting and Personnel Requisitions

Streamline your time and attendance, payroll processing, and personnel reporting:

✔     Time off and leave requests
✔     Automatically accrue earned leave
✔     Real-time display of leave balances
✔     Electronic timesheets and extra duty
✔     Certificated and classified payroll reports
✔     Absences and substitutes with account codes

Go paperless with personnel requisition approvals and workflows:

✔     Email notifications at each step
✔     Routes electronic forms for approval
✔     Approved requisitions tie into position control and payroll reporting

Credentials and Assignment Monitoring

Helios takes care of all your credentialing needs:

✔     All new credential and authorization codes
✔     Seamless updates with no need for manual input
✔     Automated process for credential updates, reminders, assignment monitoring, and reporting

Helios has a special smart assignment engine that does a preliminary check if your teachers are highly qualified (HQT) to teach classroom courses. You get Assignment Monitoring and misassignments reports for review and county reporting.

Complete Personnel System

All you need to manage your personnel and HR data:

✔     Volunteers
✔     Work History
✔     Demographics
✔     Teacher Induction
✔     Leaves of Absence
✔     Online Evaluations
✔     Salary and Benefits
✔     Highly Qualified Status
✔     TB, DOJ, Immunizations
✔     Professional Development
✔     English Learner (EL) Authorizations

Talks to Your District and County Systems

Helios can interface with your district and county systems, including HR, payroll, position control, finance, ERP, and student systems. This helps eliminate multiple entry by staff and leverage Helios’s capabilities while keeping your existing systems.

No Double Data Entry –

We import your data

We import your data to get going quickly. Ongoing import/export to and from Helios with your other systems can be set up to avoid duplicate data entry.

Staff increases efficiency and productivity, saving time and avoiding errors.

Secure Solution, Fully Supported

✔     256-bit SSL security (like shopping/banking websites)
✔     Password-protected
✔     FISMA compliant hosted data centers
✔     Web-based system – Anytime, Anywhere access
✔     Strong yet flexible security; ability to assign access permissions to different levels of staff
✔     Ability to restrict access based on location or read/write or only specific areas of the system
✔     Help guides and toll-free support available for technical and HR related issues