Does anyone know how to assign Dual Credit to a course in PowerSchool?  Such as a course taken for dual credit through Southeast or Northeast on line or off site.

If you haven't updated to PS 7, you probably are aware Pearson isn't updating the State reports for PS 6 after Jan. 1, 2012. We have known this for some time. Unfortunately, changes to the state reports that NDE released on April 4, August 11, and November 23 were not implemented into the state reports prior to the Jan 1 deadline. Most of the recent changes released by NDE have to deal with the Student Grades Report. If these were minor changes, where we could run the report and do some simple massaging of the data, it wouldn't be a critical issue. Unfortunately, all the changes aren't minor. The key one is the report pulling the new staff unique state ID instead of the SSN. 

It was my understanding Pearson would have a PS 6 state reporting update for any changes NDE identified, as long as the changes were published well in advance of the Jan 1, 2012 deadline. I believe NDE's changes were sufficiently ahead of the deadline, especially the April and August releases. I have expressed my extreme displeasure over this situation to Pearson's NE state reporting rep, Wyatt Gaylor and to Pearson's NE state sales rep, Michael Hernandez. I will be having a conference call with them and the director of state reporting early next week. If your school is still on PS 6 and this is a major issue, please send me an email (wwiens@esu9.org) or post to this article. Also, I would recommend you contact Michael Hernandez at Michael.Hernandez@Pearson.com or 916-288-1743. He is expecting your communications.

I would hope that if there is enough concern of this matter, Pearson would publish a state reporting update for PS 6. Another solution to this is migrating to PS 7. From what I have seen, PS 7 has been very stable and many schools when they migrated also switched to have Pearson host their servers and this seems to be going very well so far. If you are a small school, the cost to have them host your server is minimal, especially compared to the cost of a new server. You can discuss this option with Michael.

Presenter:          Wayne Wiens, ESU 9, wwiens@esu9.org

Topic:                    PowerScheduler

It's that time again to start the scheduling process for next year. During the workshop we will cover the scheduling process through PowerScheduler, including setting up the student registration screens.

Registration:      https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

I can't seem to get PT Mobile to work on an iPad. Can someone send me some instructions that aren't as vague as the ones on PowerSource? I can find the district when I search, but it doesn't seem to hold the information to log in.

Just wondering if anyone out there is planning to attend either the PSUG Event or PSU next summer.

I just received a call from Pearson doing a license audit for our PowerSchool numbers.  In the past we did not have to pay for kids who were enrolled in PowerSchool strictly for state reporting reasons - the non-public students receiving Title I or SPED services from our district who don't attend school here.  We just paid for the number of students we actually have attending that are 100% FTE.  Our account rep says that we now need to pay the $18 per student fee for those non-public students as well.  Has anyone else had this experience? Thanks!

Presenter: Wayne Wiens

Topic:

Reportworks

AM – for beginners
PM – more advanced

If you have a basic understanding of Reportworks, you may come for just the afternoon, but come in time for lunch at 11:45 a.m. The afternoon session will begin at 12:30p.m.

If you’re a Reportworks novice, plan to stay all day.


To register and for more information, visit https://odie.esu10.org/workshops
 

My first grade teacher just called me, and said that she was trying to put assignments into her grade book and math and science would not save the assignments she entered, however; reading did work.  Any suggestions out there?  We are operating on 7.0.3
Thanks

I tried to clean up some overlapping enrollments for a student the other day and it wiped out everything!!! All her enrollments, assignments, attendance! PS Support said that this is a known issue and directed me to Article 64217. It is supposed to be corrected in the December update.

Has anyone tried to use powerschool to get test score information out to parents?  Our RtI team would like to put Aims Web, Achievement tests, etc. on powerschool for parents to access.  Just looking for ideas and suggestions from anyone who has tried this.  Thanks!