SIRAS will allow a user to create a second meeting while another meeting is under development. This is only available if the primary meeting is one of the “Big 3”, Initial Evaluation, Annual Review, or a Triennial Review/Reevaluation. The secondary meeting options are limited in choices as well. The secondary meeting choices are an Addendum/Amendment, Other Review, Manifestation Determination, and an Exit Summary. These choices are limited due to the reason of SIRAS will not allow you to open a Triennial Review/Reevaluation and an Annual at the same time.

The Select a Meeting drop down box in the upper left corner of the IEP Manager will show the IEP in development, as well as, any archived meetings for the selected student. There is also an option to Create New Meeting.

Select Create New Meeting to create the secondary meeting. The meeting purpose will automatically be limited to the four options available.

Once a secondary meeting has been opened, the system will warn you that you have more than one active meeting, but only one meeting at a time will show on the IEP Manager screen.   The user needs to toggle back and forth between the two meetings to complete the IEP forms. 

The main concern with having two meeting types open at the same time is that the user might enter conflicting information for the two meetings.  It is important to understand that the information in SIRAS from the meeting finalized first will be overwritten by the information from the second meeting finalized. It is also important to remember to start the primary meeting as one of the Big 3 first, as the options for the secondary meeting are limited.  For example, if a Manifestation Determination meeting is created, the program would not permit you to create an Annual Review meeting because you already have a meeting open and the Annual Review is not one of the four meeting purposes allowed for a secondary meeting.