NEON

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Database Icon  NEON

NEON stands for New Educational Online Nexus. At its core, the NEON application allows users to:

  • Manage accounts for students receiving AMAC services.
  • Order and download Alternative Media.
  • Download Assistive Technology software.
  • Check the status of alternative media orders.
  • Search the AMAC library for existing alternative media.

However, NEON can do much more, including:

  • Schedule production workflow.
  • Determine production and order fulfillment activities.
  • Track production and order fulfillment costs.
  • Manage institutions, service providers, publishers, and vendors.
  • Produce monthly reporting metrics.

Contents

 

Features

NEON was developed using QuickBase and includes all of the QuickBase features and security, including:

  • Totally web-based
  • 24-hour, 365-day availability
  • No special software or installations required
  • Accessible
  • Custom, printable reporting
  • Email integration
  • Searchable on-line help
  • Advanced access control via logins, users and roles
  • Data encryption
  • Daily backups
  • Redundant data storage

Training

Terminology

NEON is a relational database application, and as such, an understanding of the following database terms and concepts is essential:

Login and Password

Access to NEON requires a QuickBase login and password. Disability Service Providers at an institution are provided with their own login and password. Typically a user’s login is their email address. If you do not have a NEON login, you can Request Access to NEON.

Multiple logins with the same QuickBase login are allowed. Passwords are case sensitive.

Forgotten Password

If you have forgotten your QuickBase password, you will need to verify your identity and change your password:

  1. On the QuickBase Sign In page, click the Forgot My Password button.
  2. In the text box provided, enter your e-mail address or screen name, and then click OK.
  3. A message appears telling you that QuickBase has sent you an e-mail message.
  4. Open the e-mail message and click the link to confirm that you want to change your password.
  5. Enter a new password twice in the two text boxes that are provided and click OK.
  6. The link returns you to QuickBase sign-in page. Enter your e-mail address or screen name and your new password to sign-in to QuickBase.

For more information about recovering a forgotten QuickBase password, see http://www.quickbase.com/help/default.html#forgot_your_password.html.

Users and Roles

NEON users are assigned roles and roles determine what permissions are granted within NEON.

The following roles are defined in NEON:

Role Who Permissions
Service Provider Disability Service Providers
  • Can add and edit student and order records
  • Can view student and order records they own
  • Can view select fields on all book and media records
  • Can edit select fields on their institution and service provider records
Production AMAC Production and Administration
  • Can add, edit and view all fields on all records in all tables
Administrator AMAC IT Manager
  • Can add, edit, and view all fields on all records in all tables
  • Can add, edit, and save tables, fields, forms and views
  • Can change a record owner

Tables

NEON is comprised of the following tables:

For each table, records can be added, edited, deleted, or viewed, depending on the user’s role. To view table descriptions, relationships, process flows, and detailed field information, click on a table name listed above.

NEON Table Relationships Diagram

Layout, Navigation and How To

Since NEON is developed using QuickBase, the application layout, navigation, and functions are controlled by QuickBase. To learn more about a particular topic, choose from the list below:

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