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The Course Guide is a Work in progress. We will have the finalized curriculum 2 weeks before the conference. |
| Highly recommend that you bring an internet enabled device(tablet or laptop) to take notes or actively work on your own instance of PowerSchool. | |
| More detailed descriptions will come shortly. | |
| School Attendance Administration | |
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| Get to know how to set up attendance preferences and manage meeting and daily attendance. This covers using attendance codes, categories, preferences, and conversions. Compare daily and meeting attendance processes, and practice updating and changing student attendance. Finish up by exploring attendance tracking. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner/Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| School Attendance Report | |
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| Explore the built-in attendance reports available in PowerSchool, and discover which report is best for which purpose. Learn how to locate, download, and use report templates others have created. Finally, practice adding attendance data access tags to form letters you can use to send reports home to parents | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Conducting Student Searches | |
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| Learn how to conduct searches to identify students for reporting, attendance, grades, and other PowerSchool-related purposes. Then learn how to compose simple and compound search commands, how to use search codes, how to save searches and stored selections, and how to use special functions. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| I’m a Counselor, Where is my Training! | |
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| Practice setting up the Cumulative Info page by adding fields and Data Access Tags. Search for students who are at risk of failing. Review key student pages. Learn how to use log entries to record notes from counseling visits. Learn how to create lists of students that include information, such as earned credit hours. Learn how to view graduation progress, how to set up graduation requirements and plans, and review how to mass set the default graduation requirement set. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Custom Field Migration | |
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| Attend this demo course to learn about PowerSchool’s change in custom fields to database extensions, and how to manage the migration of the different kinds of custom fields in your PowerSchool system. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 60 minutes |
| Customizations 101: Introduction to Customizations | |
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| If you are new to PowerSchool and have not worked with HTML, this is the class for you. Discover how to modify and code HTML in PowerSchool pages. Learn how to use Custom Page Management (CPM) to construct new PowerSchool pages based on page templates and to add and remove fields from existing pages. This course is recommended for users in their first year of customization. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 102: Creating Custom Pages | |
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| If you are familiar with HTML, and have modified PowerSchool custom pages before, broaden your customization knowledge with this class. Learn how to insert your own code into existing pages. Discover how to use database extensions to add fields, incorporate field validation, and create new pages with tabbed content. This course is recommended for users in their first year of customization. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 101 or equivalent experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 113: Using Database Extensions to Create Pages | |
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| If you have created PowerSchool custom pages before, broaden your customizations knowledge with this class. Learn how parent and teacher pages work. Create links to pages in different locations in the application. This course is recommended for users with some customizations experience. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 102 or equivalent experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 114: Database Extensions, Alerts, and Plugins | |
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| Go in depth to learn how alerts work, how to create your own alerts based on different needs, and how customizations can be packaged into a plugin (the new way to install customizations). | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 113 or equivalent experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 201: Introduction to SQL | |
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| Learn about PowerSchool’s database structure and how to connect to the database using SQL (Structured Query Language) Developer. Gain an understanding of query and logic development, and use SQL to write basic queries, add filters, and use simple JOIN statements to link tables. Customizations 201 is a one-hour introductory class recommended for users new to SQL and should be taken prior to Customizations 202: Intermediate SQL, Customizations 203: Advanced SQL, and other customization classes that use SQL. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 60 minutes |
| Customizations 202: Intermediate SQL | |
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| In this intermediate SQL class, learn how to construct SQL queries with multiple JOIN statements and use GROUP BY and analytical functions to organize and analyze data. Explore the new database schema, and compare and contrast the different options for retrieving custom field data. Some intermediate SQL queries will be used for advanced work in the Customization 203: Advanced SQL course. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Introduction to SQL or prior SQL experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 203: Advanced SQL | |
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| In this advanced SQL class, learn about subquery rules, their limitations, and how to write successful subqueries. Write subqueries with GROUP BY and other analytical functions to organize and analyze data. Learn about new table relationships and how to run a PowerSchool Parent Single Sign-On query. | |
| Who should take this class: Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, PowerSchool Admins |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Intermediate SQL and prior SQL experience | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 301: Creating Reports | |
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| Take the next steps in customizing PowerSchool by creating powerful, dynamic reports using PowerSchool TList_SQL code combined with user-set variables. This course is recommended for advanced users in their second year of customization. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 102 or equivalent experience | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 350: Using Database Extensions | |
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| Learn to expand your PowerSchool database. With database extensions, introduced in version 7.9, you can add fields to existing tables, create child tables, and create stand-alone tables in the PowerSchool database. This feature will open up a new realm of customization opportunities. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 102 or equivalent experience | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 401: Introduction to JavaScript | |
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| New to JavaScript or need a basic refresher before taking additional JavaScript classes? Then this class is for you. Learn what JavaScript is, how it’s constructed, and how and where to use it in PowerSchool. Explore the Document Object Model, harness the power of basic JavaScript functions, and learn how to add basic JavaScript code to copy values automatically on a custom page. Finally, discover how jQuery makes JavaScript simpler and more powerful. This course is recommended for first-year JavaScript users who are familiar with HTML and CSS. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 301 | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 402: Using JavaScript to Automate Tasks | |
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| Explore basic coding patterns and the syntax of JavaScript and jQuery through customizing PowerSchool pages. Make your pages more powerful by learning how to auto-calculate fields. Use basic jQuery selectors and event handlers to help perform repetitive tasks. This course is recommended for first-year JavaScript users. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 401 | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 450: Creating Insertion Points and Plugins | |
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| Have you ever created a custom page, only to find that the same page was updated in a new version? Learn how to merge your customizations with the new PowerSchool page using Insertion Points. Then, when a new page is released with a version upgrade, your customizations will become part of the new page. Also see how plugins will allow for easier installation of custom pages. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Customizations 401 | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Customizations 501: PowerSchool Customizations Academy | |
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| Have you completed all of the Customizations classes and still want more? Then the Customizations Academy is for you. This two-day class will cover a PowerTeacher Pro Customizations project from start to finish. This is an advanced class, so you should have either taken all of the other Customizations classes or have equivalent experience. Before you register for the course, take the self-assessment to see if you need to complete any of the suggested pre-requisite Customizations courses first. | |
| Who should take this class: Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, PowerSchool Admins |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Proficiency with PowerSchool customizations, creating reports, SQL, and Javascript. Completion of self-assessment. | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 2 days |
| Customizations Lab and Open Sessions | |
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| Do you have an idea for a unique customization that would be perfect at your school? If so, then take one of the customization classes at PSUG and apply your skills in the customization workshop. Experts will be available as consultants and guides to help you turn your vision into reality. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Experience customizing PowerSchool | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Decipher and Use PowerSchool Codes | |
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| Get acquainted with a variety of codes you can use in PowerSchool GPA calculations, reports, and export templates. Understand and use PowerSchool codes in tasks such as creating folder labels with student information, student lists with schedule information, and export templates with student test scores. Format codes to add GPA information to the Cumulative Info student page. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: IPT, Conducting PowerSchool Searches | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Distance Learning | |
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| Take advantage of this special access to complete a class that you missed or didn’t fit into your schedule. While you are at PSU (and for 2 weeks after the event), you will have access to PowerSchool’s approximately 50 Distance Learning courses and more than 100 of our short Mastery in Minutes modules. You can use Distance Learning anywhere you have an internet connection and you can work at your own pace. Visit our Open Lab if you need assistance accessing the courses or need help with a course you are working on. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| End of Year/Start of Year | |
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| Learn the tasks required before you run the End of Year (EOY) process, how to validate and run EOY, and how to prepare for the upcoming school year. Learn how running EOY impacts your PowerSchool system, how to prepare your district, school, and student data, and why you must store final grades, run GPAs and other reports, and print report cards and transcripts prior to EOY. When the End of Year process is complete, learn how to prepare for the next school year by verifying district and school settings, the school schedule, attendance setup, and student data. Identify helpful searches and reports for locating data discrepancies. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training (IPT) | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Enrollment and Scheduling | |
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| Learn about PowerSchool’s enrollment and scheduling functions. Explore a variety of enrollment scenarios such as enrolling new students, returning students, and students with siblings. Then create and modify individual student schedules, mass enroll and mass drop a group of students into a class, and modify the master schedule. Finally, practice transferring students out of school. This course is a review of IPT (Instant Productivity Training) topics. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Enterprise Reporting for APEX Report Builders | |
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| Learn how to use Oracle’s Application Express (APEX) tool to build and publish your own Enterprise Reporting reports. Access the entire PowerSchool database from APEX, including your custom fields and database extensions. Use the Query Builder’s visual interface to create and run SQL reports without writing any SQL. View how PowerSchool’s Enterprise Reporting reports were built, modify them to meet your needs, create new reports, and publish your reports in Enterprise Reporting. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, School Administrators, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Enterprise Reporting for Report Users | |
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| Explore PowerSchool’s exciting new reporting tool: Enterprise Reporting. Learn how to use Enterprise Reporting’s powerful, interactive data analytic reports to get the real-time student information you need to make informed decisions. Learn how to customize the reports with column selections, sorting, filtering, grouping, highlighting, and calculations. View report data in graphs, charts, and pivot tables. Save customized reports, share your reports with other Enterprise Reporting users, and export report snapshots in various formats for distribution to others. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, School Administrators, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Excel: Adapt PowerSchool Data | |
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| Adapt your PowerSchool data. Learn to use Excel’s formulas and functions to add elements to your data, as well as extract information from it, and to reformat your data to prepare it for import into PowerSchool. The instructor will be using (and the loaner machines will be loaded with) Excel 2016. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Excel: Analyze PowerSchool Data | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Excel: Advanced Functions | |
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| Solve the problem of mismatched records and duplicate records. Figure out how to match long lists of students to their courses. Using the VLOOKUP, MATCH, IF, AND, OR, COUNTIF, and SUMIF functions, you’ll find the needle in your data haystack. The instructor will be using (and the loaner machines will be loaded with) Excel 2016. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Excel: Analyze PowerSchool Data | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| Excel: Analyze PowerSchool Data | |
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| Learn how to use Conditional Formatting and filters, and how to use AutoSum tools to examine statistical data. Several activities involve the use of Pivot Tables for analyzing PowerSchool data. The instructor will be using (and the loaner machines will be loaded with) Excel 2016. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Excel: Introduction | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Excel: Introduction | |
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| Learn the fundamentals of Excel, including terminology, how to organize and format the appearance of your data, and how to use some of Excel’s most commonly used tools and shortcuts. Next, go on to learn how to use functions to build a basic formula. Then prepare an Excel file to print. The instructor will be using (and the loaner machines will be loaded with) Excel 2016. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| GPA and Honor Roll: Introduction | |
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| Explore the math that goes into writing GPA functions, formulas, calculations, and codes. This course is geared towards the setup that secondary schools will use, so come prepared with your own GPA examples. Practice creating a GPA method, setting up an honor roll method, and setting up class rank. Then, use GPA codes in built-in report card and form letter reports. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff |
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| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Familiarity with PowerSchool codes | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Import and Export | |
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| Learn about the importing and exporting functions in PowerSchool and how to use each of them. Discover how to work with your data using Data Manager and Direct Database Export. Explore important skills for tasks that require working with data outside of PowerSchool. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Incident Management | |
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| Explore the benefits of the Incident Management tool. Learn to conduct incident searches, record incident details, set up incident codes and subcodes, and analyze incident data. Then create and print incident reports. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| IPT Recertification: PowerSchool 10.0 and 10.1 | |
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| PowerSchool SIS users who were previously certified for Initial Product Training (IPT) must take this course and pass the exam to become re-certified in the current version of PowerSchool. This course covers features and enhancements released in PowerSchool SIS versions 10.0 and 10.1. If you take this course, you do not need to attend the What’s New in PowerSchool course. This course is open only to users who already hold IPT certifications. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, School Administrators, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training Certification | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Managing Staff and Students | |
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| Learn about two school-level administrative functions: working with staff records and managing student performance. Learn how to add and edit staff records, format security settings, use the staff directory, and assign co-teachers. View teacher schedules, enrollments, and gradebooks. Then view student records, identify which students are at risk, and analyze trends in student performance and behavior. Last, briefly explore PowerTeacher Administrator. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Master the Concepts: School Scheduling | |
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| Learn how to master the concepts of building an effective master schedule that meets your school’s changing needs. This lecture-based course lays the foundation for building a successful schedule for your students from the ground up. The workshop is designed for all experience levels, and is a must for anyone in secondary education who is responsible for the critical task of building the master schedule. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 1 day |
| Object Reports 1: Basic Building Blocks | |
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| Explore your reporting options with PowerSchool’s Object Reports. Spend some time discussing how to use each of the report objects. Learn how to place photos, graphical elements, and text to make a custom report. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, School Administrators, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, Office Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Object Reports 2: Student Lists | |
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| Expand your object report knowledge in the second Object Reports class. Begin by creating reports that contain graphics and multiple students per page. Then learn how to use a fee list object to create invoices for parents. Finally, use the fields from the Log table to create discipline letters. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Object Reports 1 | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Object Reports 3: Report Cards and Transcripts | |
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| Discover how to set up your own report cards and transcripts using Object Reports. Build a transcript from scratch using PowerSchool’s transcript object. Then, explore how to write calculation codes to provide colleges with detailed graduation progress. Finally, learn how to create a standards-based elementary report card. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Object Reports 1 | |
| Level: Advanced | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerScheduler Build Workshop | |
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| Our hands-on PowerScheduler Build workshop is now available at PSU! This course is designed for schools that have completed all data preparation steps required by the Prepare to Build process and are ready to build their master schedule using the PowerScheduler engine. Our experts will work with you and your data to get you started on developing a successful master schedule. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 3 days |
| PowerScheduler Load Process 1-Day | |
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| This course is designed for schools that have extensive scheduling knowledge and have either used PowerScheduler previously, or have loaded a schedule using a scheduling engine in the past. Explore the setup that needs to be completed prior to running a load with PowerScheduler. After completing the course, attend the evening lab to start work on your own server. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training and Scheduling experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 360 minutes |
| PowerScheduler Load Process Lab | |
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| After completing our PowerScheduler Load Process 1-Day course, attend this evening lab to start work on your own server. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: PowerScheduler Load Process 1-day | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerScheduler Prepare to Build 2-Day | |
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| The PowerScheduler Prepare to Build 2-day session is designed for schools that have not previously built a master schedule in PowerScheduler, are new to scheduling concepts, or need extra assistance in working through the preparation process. The Prepare to Build 2-day session will go over all items that need to be completed in order to have a productive build experience. You need to have some key items in your PowerSchool server in order to work hands on. These include: courses, students, and teachers. This course is designed for people who will need more assistance with setting up the parameters for their school. After completing the course, attend the evening lab to start work on your own server. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training and Scheduling experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 2 days |
| PowerScheduler Prepare to Build Lab | |
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| After completing our PowerScheduler Prepare to Build 2-day course, attend this evening lab to start work on your own server. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, Office Staff, School Administrators, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: PowerScheduler Prepare to Build 2-day | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerScheduler: Visual Scheduler | |
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| Discover PowerScheduler’s dynamic scheduling grid: Visual Scheduler. In the first half of this course, explore the different functions in Visual Scheduler. Learn how to filter and sort your scheduling data and practice making schedule changes. Then, for the second half, set up PowerScheduler so you can use the scheduling tool. | |
| Who should take this class: Technical Support Staff, Tech Coordinators, School Administrators, PowerSchool Admins, Registrars, Office Staff, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training and scheduling experience | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerScheduler: Which Path to Take? Which Process to Complete? | |
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| Are you trying to figure out which PowerScheduler course you need to take in order to get your master schedule ready for next year? Attend this overview and discussion session to help you determine the most appropriate course based on your school size, grades, and processes. Review the process and outcomes for both the Load Process and the Build and Load Process (Prepare to Build + Build workshop) with time for Q & A. | |
| Who should take this class: School Administrators, Office Staff, Guidance Staff, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, PowerSchool Admins | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerSchool 101 | |
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| Learn the basics of PowerSchool from the perspectives of the four main stakeholder groups: school administrators, teachers, substitutes, and parents. Learn how to search for student information, enroll a new student, and print an individual student report. Explore how teachers and substitutes work with PowerTeacher, and how parents review their children’s assignments and grades using the PowerSchool Student and Parent Portals. This class is a review of IPT topics. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool 102 | |
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| PowerSchool 102 is for office staff and PowerSchool administrators who are new to the product. In this course, focus on the PowerSchool administrative functions and learn how to navigate the system. Learn about the four functional areas on the Start Page and how to switch schools, select terms, navigate between pages, and use navigation buttons. Perform student, staff, and parent searches, and use menu options to perform various school-level functions. Also, learn about certain options that are set at the district level. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Analytics: Basic User Training | |
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| This interactive training session provides participants with hands-on experience in the PowerSchool Analytics user interface, including Student Profiles, Performance Snapshots, Report Builder, and Interventions. This basic training is ideal for new users or anyone not previously trained by an expert trainer. | |
| Who should take this class: Department Chairs, Grade-Level Leaders, Guidance Staff, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Assessment: Basic User Training | |
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| This interactive, hands-on training session covers all aspects of the PowerSchool Assessment user interface, including the Assessment Library, Testing Center, PowerTest, Reporting, and Help site. This basic training is ideal for new users or anyone not previously trained by an expert trainer. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Department Chairs, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Assessment: Introduction | |
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| Attend this demonstration class to learn about how PowerSchool Assessment provides a comprehensive platform designed to support a broad range of assessment needs; aligned to standards and curriculum to ensure districts accomplish a tight correlation between assessment and instruction. Additionally, learn how PowerSchool Assessment provides data in real-time to empower teachers with data to inform instructional next steps and improve student outcomes. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, PowerSchool Admins, School Administrators, All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerSchool Learning: Hands On with PowerSchool Learning | |
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| In this course, attendees will create a basic PowerSchool Learning Class to use as a communication tool with Pages and Content Blocks. Then, participants will construct an Assignment and an Assessment as a teacher and see how students interact with each using PowerSchool Learning digital tools. Lastly, attendees will devise a mini-unit of instruction for the blended classroom using PowerSchool Learning interactive features like Polls, Discussions, and WikiProjects. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Learning: Introduction to PowerSchool Learning | |
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| In this course, attendees will first create a basic PowerSchool Learning Class to use as a communication tool with Pages and Content Blocks. Then, participants will observe how teachers and students can use the PowerSchool Learning interactive tools like Assignments, Assessments, Polls, WikiProjects, and Discussions. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerSchool Mobile | |
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| In this course, learn how to configure PowerSchool to make mobile web pages and apps available to staff, parents, and students. Then learn how to use mobile web pages and apps on smart phones and tablet devices so you know how teachers, parents, and students access PowerSchool information when they don’t have access to a computer. Finally, learn about the PowerTeacher Gradebook app, called PowerTeacher Mobile, and the app for parents and students, called PowerSchool Mobile. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Registration: Introduction to Registration Essential | |
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| Take an introductory first look at Registration Essential, PowerSchool’s online Registration Management System for schools with under 2,000 students. Get an in-depth tour of the interface, explore the valuable consultative package included with the product, and learn about the requirements needed to access and interact with the tool. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerSchool Registration: Registration Signature In-Depth | |
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| Take a deep dive into Registration Signature, PowerSchool’s robust online Registration Management System. Learn how the process works from start to finish, discover exciting new and existing features, and try it out for yourself in a live environment! | |
| Who should take this class: Office Staff, PowerSchool Admins, Registrars, School Administrators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Reports Lab | |
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| After attending one of the PowerSchool Reports courses (ReportWorks, Object Reports, and/or Enterprise Reporting), attend the lab to work independently and create your own reports projects using either our PSU servers or your school’s PowerSchool server. Staff will be available to assist you with your reports projects and answer questions. (This lab does not cover State/Province Reporting.) | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Past or current attendance in one ReportWorks, Object Reports, and/or Enterprise Reporting course | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerSchool Special Education: Introduction | |
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| This bonus session introduces PowerSchool Special Education (SPED) — a fully integrated solution to solve the challenge of managing special ed programs and meeting state compliance requirements. PowerSchool SPED provides special education case management and modules for Gifted, 504, ELL, and Service Capture to collect data for Medicaid billing. All of these solutions are available directly within the PowerSchool user interface. PowerSchool Special Education offers the best of both worlds–a single place where all special education and compliance data can be managed, along with the depth of functionality for SPED management tasks school districts need. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerSchool’s Next Generation Unified Classroom Feedback Session | |
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| Participants will learn about and give feedback on the new Unified Classroom including school calendars, outbound communication, unified assignments and activities, a new visual student view, and more! This is your chance to work with development to see what’s coming next and give feedback on the features you’d like to see. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerSchool’s Unified Classroom Experience | |
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| Come learn about the suite of solutions that you can use in your classroom to streamline your work and increase student success. Session will introduce Analytics, Assessment, Learning, Registration and Special Education. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |
| PowerTeacher Pro for Administrators | |
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| Learn how to set up PowerTeacher Pro as a district administrator and a school administrator. Explore how to create district-level calculation formulas and assignment categories for teachers. Also learn how to set up grading preferences for both standards-based and traditional grading. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Teachers, Mentor Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Novice | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerTeacher Pro for Teachers Part One | |
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| Discover PowerSchool’s HTML-based gradebook and its robust functionality for managing the classroom, including advanced features for both standards-based and traditional grading. Learn how teachers use the mobile-friendly gradebook to set up default preferences, create assignment categories, and work with assignments. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Teachers, Mentor Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| PowerTeacher Pro for Teachers Part Two | |
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| In this course, learn how teachers use PowerTeacher Pro to analyze individual student performance and class progress on both traditional and standards grades. Also learn how to run the reports included in the gradebook. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Teachers, Mentor Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Preparing for End of Term | |
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| Streamline the End of Term process at your school with the tips and tricks covered in this class. Learn how to prepare your teachers and staff for the end of each marking period. Then view and discuss different grade-storing scenarios and simulations. This class is a review of IPT topics. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: Formative Assessments | |
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| In this session, we will discuss the components of a quality formative assessment, including what a good question looks like. Participants will learn the importance of formative assessments in driving instruction and increasing academic achievement. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: Having and Using Data | |
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| Come explore ways to organize a data meeting within the school setting. We will look at who needs to attend, how long the meeting should last, and what outcomes we desire from our meetings. Participants will see how to connect data to the decisions made within a district, school, and classroom. We will also look at connecting data to high stakes assessments. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: Integrating Cognitive Concepts | |
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| Simply knowing about concepts such as Webb’s Depth of Knowledge or Bloom’s Taxonomy is often times not enough. Session participants will learn how to apply these concepts when constructing assessment questions, incorporate these concepts into classroom instruction, and utilize these concepts to prepare students for cognitively demanding high-stakes testing. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: Making Positive Changes | |
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| This training focuses on how to set up a framework of proactive and preventive behavior support rather than reactive in school systems. The training outlines how to teach, monitor and provide feedback on behavior expectations so that schools can spend more time on instructional goals and less time on dealing with behavior problems. Participants will learn how to implement and manage an effective Positive Behavior Support system using multi-tiered support in the RtI process. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: Aligning Instructional Resources | |
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| This session reviews the components of a standard and breaks them down by looking at the vocabulary within the standard and what the student is expected to attain upon mastery of a particular standard. Participants will then explore how standards can be related/matched to different level of thinking concepts, such as Webb’s Depth of Knowledge and Bloom’s Taxonomy. Finally, we will take a look into incorporating standards effectively within pacing guides, how to integrate standards into vertical planning efforts, and the relationship between standards and other instructional resources. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: Constructed Response Plans | |
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| Many skills taught are too complex to be measured effectively with multiple-choice questions. Participants are provided with an overview of constructed response questioning and engage in activities to evaluate the format and development of constructed response items. Analysis of student samples provides practice in evaluating student work to determine varying amounts of credit using rubrics. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: High Stakes Testing Data | |
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| Explore how to use the data you have to identify students’ needs. Schools are constantly being asked if they are data driven. By looking at and understanding results from progress monitoring, summative tests and classroom data, teachers and administrators can be proactive with their decision making. Using Excel, state charts and other data sources, learn to identify trends to assist in determining if scores are a curriculum issue, a student issue or some other outlier. | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Professional Learning: School Accountability | |
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| The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes significant differences from the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). However, ESSA still holds students to high academic standards which should prepare them for success in college and careers. Have you aligned your goals, objectives, and professional development to work toward this success? State and local decision-makers are empowered to develop their own strong systems for school improvement based upon evidence, rather than imposing cookie-cutter programs. How has ESSA affected your accountability, high stakes testing, curriculum, instruction, data analysis, and professional development? | |
| Who should take this class: Curriculum Coordinators, Grade-Level Leaders, Mentor Teachers, School Administrators, Teachers | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Standards-Based Grading Setup | |
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| Discover how standards and PowerSchool work together. Set up grade scales and standards in PowerSchool. Learn how to export and import standards using Excel, and how to enable standards entry for teachers. Finally, review the objects used for standards-based report cards. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, School Administrators, Office Staff, Registrars, Guidance Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Familiarity with Import/Export functions | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| System Administrator Lab: Server Settings | |
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| After completing our System Administrator: Server Settings course, attend the evening lab for hands-on practice. | |
| Who should take this class: Tech Coordinators | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: System Administrator: Server Settings | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| System Administrator: Security Settings | |
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| Securing your PowerSchool system should be at the top of your to-do list. Begin by learning how to establish security groups and user access roles to define overall security access. Then, configure field level security settings and user security settings to define an individual user’s access. Finally, take a look at how co-teaching roles affect access to PowerTeacher, and learn how to manage the courses each school should see. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| System Administrator: Server Settings | |
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| (Note: Portions of the material in this class do not apply to ASP customers.) Learn how to use PowerSchool Administrator to check the status of backups, make a full backup, edit the retention policy, manage custom pages, and look for system alerts. Also, learn how to use Data Pump to export a copy of your database and import it to a test server, manage your Tomcat server, and work with server logs and syncing to optimize your server. After completing the class, attend the evening lab for hands-on practice and help with your server. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: System Administrator: System Settings | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| System Administrator: System Settings | |
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| Learn about PowerSchool’s structure and the structure of its related applications. Configure settings for users so they can connect with Tomcat-served applications such as PowerTeacher Administrator. Then explore page and data management for your PowerSchool system. Finally, learn to manage mobile pages and the PowerSchool Student and Parent Portals. The material in this class applies to both ASP and non-ASP customers. | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| Using DDE and DDA | |
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| Discover how to work with and modify your data in PowerSchool tables using Direct Database Export (DDE) and Direct Database Access (DDA). Practice using the Data Dictionary and identifying relationships between tables. Learn how to use layered searches and matched selections to find the data you need. (This class is appropriate only for individuals with access to DDA.) | |
| Who should take this class: PowerSchool Admins, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: Instant Productivity Training and experience with DDE | |
| Level: Intermediate | Session: 180 minutes |
| Using System Reports | |
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| Learn about PowerSchool reports you will use throughout the year. Practice setting up and creating various system reports using some basic PowerSchool codes and HTML codes. Featured reports include the Class Roster report, Absentee report, Consecutive Absences report, report cards, grade verification reports, failure lists, and mail-merge letters. This course is a review of IPT topics. | |
| Who should take this class: Office Staff, PowerSchool Admins, Guidance Staff, Registrars, School Administrators, Tech Coordinators, Technical Support Staff, Curriculum Coordinators, Department Chairs, Grade-Level Leaders | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 180 minutes |
| What’s New in PowerSchool SIS? | |
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| Come watch a demo of the product enhancements from the latest PowerSchool SIS release. | |
| Who should take this class: All PowerSchool Users | |
| Recommended Prior Training or Experience: None | |
| Level: Beginner | Session: 60 minutes |