By Peggy Medema on April 2, 2019
Is anyone else having issues with attendance not clearing from the database after you change it on the attendance page? It's not a huge deal to go to DDA and clear it out, but it should work better than that.
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By Peggy Medema on December 4, 2018
Anyone else hearing about TestWiz not sending last night?
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By Peggy Medema on August 3, 2017
NWEA has changed the roster template to align with ADVISER (I think, I'm just guessing that's why). The first column has to be the district-school number. I know how to pull the district number and the school number, but does anyone know how to get that whole thing?
Valentine Elementary would need to be 16-0006-002. I could make separate templates for each building and just have that go in as "if blank print this", but I'm trying to come up with something more generic.
Thanks in advance!
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By Peggy Medema on November 11, 2014
How do any of you handle putting Summer Drivers Ed into PS? I thought I'd create a summer school, but that turned into way too big a job for just a dozen or so kids.
In the past they've just been added with the grade they received into Historical Grades, but that doesn't pull the teacher's state ID.
They take the driving portion in the summer after 8th grade but get high school credit for it. I want to make sure that however I do it, it shows up right on their transcript and also pulls correctly for the Grades report.
Any input is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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By Peggy Medema on August 25, 2014
Where do you designate a student as HP instead of PK in PowerSchool?
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By Peggy Medema on November 4, 2013
I have a couple of rural school kids who are going to take Driver's Ed via DL. I used Enroll in Another School to get them in the class. What I'm worried about is Attendance, ADA/ADM, and anything else that would affect NSSRS. Does anyone have any experience with this and have any advice for me?
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By Peggy Medema on April 22, 2013
When I run the audit file for Student Grades, any students at the high school who have withdrawn from a section after grades were stored for first semester have the entry for that grade one column off. It appears to happen with the teacher name. It sees the comma that separates the last and first name and then shifts everything over. In the column for Course Code Long, it puts in the Course code instead of the Alternate Course Code. In the Section Code Long column, it replaces the section number with the Section ID. It also happened for the extract file, except that it doesn't shift the data over.
I reported this to PowerSchool and it moved all the way up the food chain. This is the response I got today:
The issue you have reported in case number 01363418 has been identified as a new or existing application defect.
I do not have a workaround for this issue at this time as the report is not correctly handling dropped classes.
Your case information will be associated with the existing development ticket, for tracking purposes. The case will remain open until the defect has been addressed in a PowerSchool release, at which time you will receive email notification and the case will be closed.
Just thought I'd give everyone a heads-up in case you run into the same thing.
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By Peggy Medema on September 19, 2012
We are considering opening up our elementary to the parent portal. I'm curious how many schools have the portal open at that level and the reasoning behind that decision. Also, do you have "standards" available?
Thanks in advance for your input.
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By Peggy Medema on April 19, 2012
I realized recently that I had an alternate course code incorrect for a teacher in last year's Grade Report. I want to find the course and fix it, but I can't find it.
I went into DDA>Courses, but there's not field there for Alternate number. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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By Peggy Medema on January 4, 2012
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.
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By Peggy Medema on October 28, 2011
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.
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By Peggy Medema on October 4, 2011
I can't get the Student report to pull the kids who transferred out over the summer no matter what dates I put in. What am I missing? Do I need to go in and change the transfer date to a date after school started?
I am running Student report version 1.2.
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By Peggy Medema on August 25, 2011
I have one teacher (and ONLY one teacher) whose courses are showing up in reverse order in his queue in PowerTeacher. I have hunted all over to see what could possibly be up and all the settings seem to be correct. When I log in on PT admin and look at his account, they are in the correct order. He's the only teacher in the building using Windows, and I wonder if it's some sort of cache file, but I'm PC illiterate and don't want to go trashing files unless I know what I'm looking for.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Peggy Medema
Valentine Community Schools
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By Peggy Medema on August 25, 2011
I managed to get my Unique IDs from NDE, but now I can't figure out how to get them in to PS. I know it's probably not that hard, but my brain is mush!!!
HELP!!!
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By Peggy Medema on July 19, 2011
I think I ask this every year, but is there a way to make it start going to 2011-12 now, or do I have to wait until school starts?
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By Peggy Medema on June 20, 2011
We are going to full day Kindergarten this year. However, my rural school kids will only go M-W-F until the end of the first quarter.
I can't decide whether to put them on a track and uncheck the days they aren't scheduled to be in class, or to set up an A/B schedule and set the calendar days that way.
Do you think it makes any difference? Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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By Peggy Medema on June 10, 2011
Is anyone else getting results for students who have been put into classes in Scheduler? Mine are coming out without a stored grade code, so it's easy enough to sort and delete them, but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong.
Peggy Medema
Valentine Community Schools
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By Peggy Medema on June 1, 2011
I think this happened last year, too, and it was showing 2000-2001, but I don't remember how or if it needs to be fixed. Can someone help me out here??
Thanks!!
I love June :~P
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By Peggy Medema on February 2, 2011
I'm considering entering our school's curriculum into PS as standards so that teachers can attach assignments to them and then we can track the curriculum. Is anyone else doing this?
Peggy Medema
District Data Specialist
Valentine Community Schools
402-376-3367 ext. 226
pmedema@esu17.org
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By Peggy Medema on October 4, 2010
I set up Attendance Tracking as per the instructions from PowerSource in the user guide. Make sure that you have all of your attendance codes tied to a category. If you make any changes, go to Special Functions>Attendance Functions>Refresh Premier Attendance (this was the step I missed and why my middle school wasn't working).
I set 10 Semester Tracking Level Triggers at intervals of 2. Edit Unexcused Tracking Level.pdf
Then go to District Office and run the Refresh Attendance Tracking Data.
I ran mine and then ran ADA/ADM per Student and compared the results. They seem to match up.
Don't get hung up on that "Unexcused" terminology. It just counts absences.
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