MoPSUG 2012 CALL FOR PRESENTERS!!! This year’s Missouri PowerSchool User Group (MoPSUG) conference will be announced soon! Dates and location are being finalized! And we’re looking for presenters to help make the conference a success! • Do you know PowerSchool like the back of your hand? • Have you discovered some shortcuts or helpful tips [...]
Snow Days are Snow Much Fun!
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Snow days have been a rarity this school year, but my district got enough snow (and enough “snow hype” for the snow that didn’t come) that we scored two days… yesterday and today. Snow days for the Tech Dept usually mean a peaceful day at the office… or a large amount of work done in [...]
MoPSUG Conference (PowerSchool)
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MoPSUG/ is discussing the next MoPSUG (Missouri PowerSchool Users Group) Conference! If you are a Missouri school district and you use PowerSchool, be sure to get involved! We’re discussing date and location first.
IT in a shed
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Someone passed along this “IT systems run in exposed shed to prove reliability point” article to me, and it kinda freaked me out. I’m going to stick to the “myth” of keeping server rooms cool. And maybe if that guy uses live systems in a shed, then I’ll believe… maybe. In other IT, I’ve been [...]
PowerSchool Apps
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Several days ago Pearson announced two apps for PowerSchool: PowerSchool for Parents and PowerSchool for Students. I tested these out on my iPhone and I’m impressed! I tweaked with the official Pearson announcement email and came up with a quick write-up for my district’s website announcing these apps (in case you want to tweak the [...]
…and the Winner is Tyler Technologies
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DESE has officially announced that the Missouri state contract for a statewide student information system has been awarded to Tyler Technologies, Inc. School districts are not required to use this system… But I did hear someone from DESE say one time that “School districts are not required to use this system (at this time).” So [...]
Custom PowerLunch Class Counts
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With the move to PowerSchool 7, I had to redo my custom PowerLunch Class Counts pages. Here they are: lunch.html – put this under teachers home.html – put this under admin/powerlunch/classcounts When a teacher takes lunch count, she has the option of entering data for “Hamburger” and “Pizza/Nacho/Other (type #-p, n, etc.)” This way, if [...]
Happy New Year! Happy New… Website!
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Welcome to the “official” new and improved What The… TECH. Since October, we’ve been working on a new website and we’ve moved over 25 of our all time favorite posts. We’ve moved the old site to old.whatthe-tech.com. If there’s something you are looking for that was on our old site and can’t find it now, [...]
PowerSchool Summer School
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Last April, I set up a PowerSchool server for testing and summer school. The server has worked well for testing and was absolutely awesome for summer school. Before, we used a bunch of Excel spreadsheets for summer school tracking, so PowerSchool was a huge improvement. This year, I’m diving into using the server for summer [...]
PowerSchool – Trying to transfer out student, and get orphan attendance message
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When trying to transfer out a student, you get: “Setting the student’s transfer date to: xx/xx/xxxx will orphan attendance. Please blank out any non-blank attendance first.” To resolve this: 1. Get the student’s internal ID number. 2. Go to DDA and select the Attendance table. 3. Search the Attendance table using “StudentID = student’s internal [...]
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