Here is the NDE Bulletin that was just sent out. I only included the text, so there are no images/screen shots.  If you didn't get the email containing the Bulletin and you want to get it or future bulletins, submit a ticket to NDE's Helpdesk.

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District Administrator Approval for ADVISER Validation
PLEASE NOTE:  Administrators should not sign off on their Fall data until they are satisfied that the Fall reporting data is correct.

NDE will take a snapshot of the 18-19 ADVISER data at midnight tonight, this data will be used for state reporting purposes. Tomorrow in the ADVISER Validation website, Fall collection reports will have a new Reporting Window option called “As of October 1st (Locked)” which will display the data that was saved in the snapshot.

The District Administrator Sign-Off screen for ADVISER data is now available in ADVISER Validation. Only users marked as a District Administrator through the NDE Portal will be able to access the screen. To do so, click the new link in the ADVISER Validation menu:


Then after reading the statement, click the Edit button to activate the checkbox:

Then you will be able to check the box, and you must press Update to save your approval:



Request to Submit Data Late or Make Data Changes
We are aware that many districts are still working on correcting their data due to issues with their SIS vendors and due to how late some of the validation errors have been activated. If this applies to your district, starting tomorrow you may submit a “Request to Submit Data Late or Make Data Changes” form through the CDC in the NDE Portal https://portal.education.ne.gov  where you will be able to select “ADVISER” as the collection like below:

You only need to submit one request per district assuming you are able to document all of the changes that you will be making in that request. NDE may follow up if we need more details about the corrections. Under ADVISER, you will continue to be able to submit data from your SIS software to make corrections even after the snapshot has been taken. It is highly recommended that you will fix the data in your SIS so that the “As of October 1st” validation reports (the non-locked versions) look correct before NDE will follow through with your data change request and update your snapshot data to match. Please continue to work on your data just like you have been doing throughout the audit window.

If you have already approved your data in ADVISER, but will be submitting a data change request to make additional changes, you should contact the NDE help desk at ADVISERHelp@NebraskaCloud.org to undo your original approval.

District Administrators Approval for NSSRS Validations
Finally, District Administrators will need to approve the data that has been submitted in the 2017-2018 Follow-Up Audit collection in the NSSRS Data Manager.  Only districts that have submitted data in this collection will need to approve the collection.

To Approve the 2017-2018 Follow-up Audit Collection: When logged onto the NDE Portal, click on the Student & Staff (NSSRS) tab, Click on the NSSRS Data Manager, Click on the Data Submission tab, Then select Data Approval.


Denise Schuyler
Data, Research, and Evaluation - NDE IT Helpdesk Specialist

Helpdesk:  888-285-0556 – ADVISERHelp@nebraska.cloud.org
Email:  denise.schuyler@nebraska.gov

Early Bird rate ends tonight!

It is going to be a great conference, with 39 unique sessions. There are tracks for secretaries, counselors, school administrators and PS administrators. Here is a listing of 39 unique sessions:

Principal Roundtable
Tips & tricks for school administrators
Fees
Importing test data
Custom Screens
Export Templates
Form Letters
Intro to Object Reports
Utilizing Built in Reports
Counselor Roundtable
Day in the life of a counselor
Graduation Plan Setup
Graduation Plan work session
CRDC report
How to search
Intro to ReportWorks
Must Have Customizations
ReportWorks work session
Custom Web Page Management
What is new in PowerSchool
Data validation & Language Toolkit
Database extensions part 1
Building sqlReports 4 Reports
Intro to sqlReports 4
Intro to SQL
Database extensions part 2
Setting up Standards
Standards based Report cards
NSSRS State Reporting
Day in the life of a secretary
Health records and management/health screens
Incident management
Modifying data - DDA, Student Field &
Export/Import
PowerSchool 101- Where do I start?
ReportWorks examples: incident management, report card & transcripts
Security setup
Did you know? Tips, tricks & shortcuts
Timeline- what needs to be done and when

Did the recent update (7.9) fix this bug?

Yes, it fixed it.

Thanks, Bryan...our list was a mess, plus it even included some kids that already graduated.. .not sure what is going on with that!   I'll give it a try again tomorrow.

The MNPC is only a week away and I believe it has shaped up to be a very informative two days. We have lined up great presenters, 48 total sessions and 37 unique sessions.


Registration will be closing soon! To register or see updated information on the conference, go to the conference's HOME PAGE. 


Please contact me if you have any questions.


Thanks,


Wayne Wiens
Integration Specialist - PowerSchool
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Is there any information on special hotel rates for the conference?

Sorry, not at this time, as far as I know. It is probably something the committee will look into next year.

Maybe we could quickly do something for this year. No promises..... will update this if we have something. A question might be: do you want it for the night before, Tuesday night, or the day of, which is Wednesday, or both?

When I registered for NETA rooms at Embassy in the fall they accepted the NETA rate for PowerSchool.  Maybe they just thought I was coming in early for NETA;)  Give it a shot I guess.

Not only is Oracle's Java 7 causing problems (on OS 10.7 and higher), Apple's recently released Java 1.6.0_37 is causing the Grade book not to launch too. Pearson released a Tech Note at 11:46 today indicating this problem is under review.

Here is a TEMPORARY workaround on Macs that have been updated to 1.6.0_37, where the PS version is 7.2.3.

1) Find the launchGradeBook.jnlp on the computer (this is the file that is downloaded when you launch the Grade book from PowerTeacher, it is usually in the Downloaded folder). 

2)Right-Click/Control-Click on this file and choose "Open with" and select a text editor such as TextEdit. If you don't see TextEdit, choose Other and then choose All Applications in the Enable pop down and open TextEdit.  Do NOT choose the "Always Open With" check box.
 
3) Find this line (it is line 17) <j2se version="1.5+" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-XX:MaxPermSize=128m" /> 

4) Remove this text from the line=>        java-vm-args="-XX:MaxPermSize=128m 
The new line looks like this <j2se version="1.5+" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" />

5) Save the file

6) Run (double click) the new file.

Move this modified launchGradeBook.jnlp file to the desktop and use it to launch the Grade book instead of launching it from PowerTeacher. I would only launch the Grade book this way until a fix is found. Running the Grade Book from a previously downloaded .jnlp file is not recommended.


Wayne Wiens
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I find that when I try adjusting total possible scores for assignments, GB freezes up (on Mac only). Running Java 7. Any tips? Besides working exclusively on Windows?

Hello NEPSUG Conference Attendees;

We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the 9th Annual PowerSchool User's Group Conference, next Wednesday - April 25th.

Here is the NEPSUG Conference agenda. 

If the link above doesn't work, you can use this URL:  http://tinyurl.com/NEPSUG-Agenda

Thanks,

Wayne Wiens
NEPSUG Committee Member