Does anyone know what the PS Field Name is for the Special Program: Early Childhood - Participant Info Code so we can search for EC0004 or EC0007, etc.?

Thank you!!

Kristy Kennedy
Hastings Public

Hello

I am looking to find out how other schools report Non-Public Students Receiving Assistance and have them set up in PowerSchool.   

We have students attending parochial schools but receiving speech or title services from our public school.  They are at a 0.05% FTE in our PowerSchool.

The way it has been handled is that the students are in our PowerSchool in a bogus "Grade 15" and reported by manipulating an Excel spreadsheet uploaded to NDE. 

            These students would pull on the Sped Snap, Prog Fact, Title I reports.
 
                         - as we all know, that will not work in 2018-19.

Hoping someone has some advice to prepare for future NSSRS / ADVISER Reporting.  

Thank you!

NSSRS folks,

We have noticed an issue with the Student Grades report when a student has stored grades for a dropped section. In this case the record on the report will have a blank Staff ID, the PS course number will be in the CourseCodeLong field instead of the State’s course number (Alternate Course Code field) and the SectionCodeLong field will contain the SectionID of the Section’s table record, not the section number. The SectionCodeLong issue may not cause a problem, but the issue with the Staff ID and CourseCodeLong will cause errors with the State. The good news is this report isn’t due for a few more months and we’re sure there will be a fix fairly soon.


For your reference, there have been two cases submitted to PowerSource on this issue, #02732523 and #02732799.

Hi,

We are new to PowerSchool this school year and we would like to start keeping track of staff information for the NDE reports in PowerSchool. We would like to enter staff information this summer so that we can run the reports out of PowerSchool next school year.  We tried to run the Staff Demographics, Staff Position Assignments, and Curriculum extract. But when I open any of these reports they all say (No Records Found).

I assume there is a bunch of fields we need to set in PowerSchool for the reports to come out correctly. Does anyone use PowerSchool for Staff State Reporting? Is there a "how-to" document in on how to set up all the fields correctly in PowerSchool to make these reports work? 

I can run the Uniq-ID State ID Request File for 9th and 10th graders, but it fails when I try with 11th and 12th graders. Any ideas why? Is there a limit of how many students it will pull at one time? (Our 9th grade class is largest at 192.) I'm using a start and end date of 9/21/2015, but changing the start date doesn't seem to help. TIA.

Jane Campbell
Omaha Marian High School

I installed the Nebraska State reporting update 14.12.2

Don't Do It!!!

It messed with all the primary disability codes.  the (00) No Verified Disability code is gone so all students with that code have defaulted to (01) Emotional Disturbance.  We are still investigating, and have called Tech Support.  Wanted to get this out as soon as I could .

I will keep you posted.

Has anyone noticed that the State/Province screen has changed.  The field for Alternate assessment prompts you to answer  "No for all student below Grade 03" but does not allow you to choose No as an answer.  I thought that maybe when I ran the report it would populate with a 2 but that is not the case....the field comes out blank.  (This is for just the student's screen I have changed this year....the screen that hasn't been touched is pulling correctly.)
When I looked on PowerSource at the Nebraska Extract Guide, it shows that the alternate assessment field is not being collected (Line 23) but the state documentation indicates that it is (which I believe). 

One more thing, when I extract the report it is still pulling column 48 for Surrogate Appointed.  In the 14-15 template instructions, it is no longer asking for that information.

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.  I know I could manipulate the data once it's been extracted but would like it to come out right from PowerSchool.
I appreciate this group!

Lori Peters
Logan View Public Schools

Anyone else here have students from out-of-state school districts enrolled? Do they get an NSSRS Unique ID? I'm at a private school that has not yet requested the Unique IDs (I know, I was surprised, too!) and now I need them. But at my previous school, we didn't have out-of-state students.

Do you pull them out of your state reporting data before you upload to NDE? How do you handle districtofresidence field? We have a couple of students from Iowa and I found Iowa school district codes, but I'm not sure what's going to happen when I upload them to NDE for NSSRS Unique IDs. Any thoughts? TIA. 

This has probably been talked about a number of times, but I haven't been able to find the discussion.  I am running (attempting to run) my Student and School Enrollment reports.  They are stalling.  It shows an NA under Started and Pending under Status.

I am sure there is something I am forgetting.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Thanks  so much.

Has anyone else had problems running the Student Summary Attendance report?  When I try to run the report, the report queue under the "started" tab it says N/A and the status is "pending".  I phoned support this morning and the recording said that JAVA was creating a problem with ReportWorks and Gradebook and referred me to Article 70834.  I hadn't heard of any talk on the airways about problems with running this report so just thought I would ask if anyone else was experiencing this.  Thanks in advance!

I am having a few issues with attendance at our district.  Some of the schools had errors in the calendar setup, some had scheduling issues and errors, and etc.   I am trying to fix everything and get it going before our Student Summary Attendance reports are due.  Out of five schools, I think one is working correctly and has everything set up as it should be!    I know part of our issue is incomplete schedules at one school.   However, I have an issue with one day at the high school that shows a zero for attendance in the ADA/ADM for all students.   The date is the last day of school, shows in-session, shows the correct day and bell schedule, yet when you look, it is already showing no attendance for students that day.    I am including a screen shot here:  (The date in issue is 5/20/14.)





 Any ideas?

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.

I thought I would try to get ahead with state reporting, and pull the Student Grades Report for S1.  I can't pinpoint what I'm doing wrong, as I am able to pull our ES and our MS information, but not the high school.  I've tried being in the S1 term, I've tried being in the year-long term, I've tried being in Q3 term, and I still get nothing for the HS.  
Any suggestions?

Agenda:

• How to setup the Student Grades Report overview

• End of the Year Process

We will spend just a little time covering how to setup and run the Student Grades Report. Next we will cover the End of the Year (EOY) Process. By the end of the day, you will have almost everything completed so after your NSSRS reports have all been uploaded, you will be ready to run the EOY Process.

To register, go to ESU 9's registration page.

Wayne Wiens
Technology Systems Support Specialist - PowerSchool
ESU #9, future ESU #10
402.463.5611

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.