There is a Load class scheduled for Feb. 28th at the Johnston AEA.  Currently
no one is signed up.  If no one signs up by next Wednesday, they will cancale
the class.

This class is for those that use an existing master schedule, and load students
in.  If you have already taken the Prepare to Build class, this class would NOT
be for you.

You can see more information about this class at the PowerSchool website.

The invoice was the screen after you registered.  It said "Print this page
as your invoice"

If you still have that, will it work.  I don't have an invoice created
other than that.  If that will not work, please let me know, and I will
see what I can come up with.

Thanks!

iapsug@yahoogroups.com on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 3:34 PM -0600
wrote:
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>In response to your email, Jeff, could it be possible that an invoice be
>issued?  That helps our school with the billing process.
>
>Pete
>
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>Subject: Feb. 17th PSUG meeting
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>Wanted to send a note out requesting that if you will be attending the
>IAPSUG
>training on February 17th, I would like to get your payment ASAP.  Since
>this
>is our first training session, we don't have any money in the bank.  We
>will
>need to pay for the catered lunch, as well as some other misc. costs.  I
>would
>like to be able to pay these bills in a timely fashion.  I know how
>schools are at
>paying bills, but anything you can do to expedite the process would be
>GREATLY appreciated.
>
>We are currently at about 70 participants for the February 17th
>training.  This
>is more than expected, but that is good.  I am a little concerned about
>space
>and computers.  Anyone that can bring their own laptop, I would
>recommend
>bringing them.  It will need to be Internet capable.  We will have
>wireless, so
>that would be best.  We should have a few jacks available for those that
>need
>to be hard wired.
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Hampton-Dumont Schools
420 1st Ave NE
Hampton, IA 50441
(641)456-5749
www.hdcsd.org

In response to your email, Jeff, could it be possible that an invoice be
issued?  That helps our school with the billing process.

Pete


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    From: "Jeff Christiansen" <jchristiansen@...>
Subject: Feb. 17th PSUG meeting


Wanted to send a note out requesting that if you will be attending the
IAPSUG
training on February 17th, I would like to get your payment ASAP.  Since
this
is our first training session, we don't have any money in the bank.  We
will
need to pay for the catered lunch, as well as some other misc. costs.  I
would
like to be able to pay these bills in a timely fashion.  I know how
schools are at
paying bills, but anything you can do to expedite the process would be
GREATLY appreciated.

We are currently at about 70 participants for the February 17th
training.  This
is more than expected, but that is good.  I am a little concerned about
space
and computers.  Anyone that can bring their own laptop, I would
recommend
bringing them.  It will need to be Internet capable.  We will have
wireless, so
that would be best.  We should have a few jacks available for those that
need
to be hard wired.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me directly at
jchristiansen@...





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Wanted to send a note out requesting that if you will be attending the IAPSUG
training on February 17th, I would like to get your payment ASAP.  Since this
is our first training session, we don't have any money in the bank.  We will
need to pay for the catered lunch, as well as some other misc. costs.  I would
like to be able to pay these bills in a timely fashion.  I know how schools are
at
paying bills, but anything you can do to expedite the process would be
GREATLY appreciated.

We are currently at about 70 participants for the February 17th training.  This
is more than expected, but that is good.  I am a little concerned about space
and computers.  Anyone that can bring their own laptop, I would recommend
bringing them.  It will need to be Internet capable.  We will have wireless, so
that would be best.  We should have a few jacks available for those that need
to be hard wired.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me directly at
jchristiansen@...

I wasn't aware this group existed until another school forwarded your Feb. 17
training date to us. We're working on getting a count, but wondered if maybe
you should mention this on the national group site to catch a few more
schools?

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "cephasjohn1_42" <pgreen@h...> wrote:
>
> Hey, Jeff.  Thanks for setting this up.  Right now, I am estimating
> sending 9-10 people which include 1 tech. coordinator(me), 3
> principals, 1 guidance counselor, 4 secretaries, and a player to be
> named later.
>
> Out of those people, 1 of the principals and myself could teach or
> help teach some information in the Intermediate section...
>
> Pete Green
> Technology Coordinator
> Harlan Community School District
> Harlan, IA  51537
>
> --- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Christiansen"
> <jchristiansen@h...> wrote:
> >
> > The February 17th training date is set.  I had some problems with
> securing a
> > trainer for that day.

The registration website is now available to register for the 1st
Annual Iowa PowerSchool Users Group Training Conference.  This
conference will be held at AEA11 in Johnston, IA on February 17th
from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm.  We will be offering two different
tracks, depending on your use of PowerSchool.

One track will be primarily for Building Principals, Secretaries,
Guidance Counselors or anybody else that uses the PowerSchool
student information screens.  There will be four classes in this
track, which include Advanced Searching, Student Screens,
Exporting/Working with Excel, and Creating Form Letters.  This
will not include any training for teachers.  Hopefully this may
be something we could add next year if there is enough interest.

The other track will be for PowerSchool Administrators.  This
will have two classes, Creating Object Reports and Creating
Custom Screens.  You should have a good understanding of the
basic functions of PowerSchool to attend this session.  A
PowerSchool Trainer will teach these two classes.

The cost for the day is $40 and lunch will be provided.  This is
an excellent opportunity for PowerSchool training at a fraction
of the cost.  The last session of the day will be a roundtable
where you can break out in groups with staff from other schools
with similar job responsibilities.  This will give you a chance
to talk about the issues most important to you, and hear what
others are doing.

Please share this with others in your district that would benefit
from PowerSchool Training.  The size of the group this year may
impact what PowerSchool is willing to offer next year.  If you
know of other schools using PowerSchool that may not be on this
mailing list, please forward the information to them.

The registration website is:
http://iapsug.hdcsd.org/psug_registration/

Hope to see you there.

Jeff Christiansen

As I posted earlier, there are two parts to the PowerScheduler classes.  We
had originally planned on having the second class the first week of March.
This did not work with the schedule at the Johnston AEA.  Currently, it looks
like it will be the second week of March.  This will be the same week as the
Girls Basketball tournament.  I know this is not the most convenient, but it
will
be in Des Moines, so you could leave class if needed and attend a game.

Your thoughts on this?

My guess is that it will not show anything, as it is now.  We use district
standards and report them in PowerGrade.  The bottom of our scale is 0, and
it does not report any score if there are no scores reported.  I think this is
because it uses the number of scores reported in the formula.  I will be
interested in hearing if this works as planned.

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "bhartwig57" <bhartwig@u...> wrote:
>
> We give a standards based report card with a 4 point scale. 95-100 =4, 80-
> 94=3,  70-79=3 and 1-69 = 1.
>
> If we have students that get  a 0 on the assignment, it doesn't average into
the
> point scale because our scale is 1-69. If I make the point scale 0-69, what
> happens if I don't have any assignments that address that standard. Will it
> automatically give that students a 1 since the have 0 points? Right now it
> shows up with nothing which is what we want if the teachers haven't taught
> that yet.

We give a standards based report card with a 4 point scale. 95-100 =4, 80-
94=3,  70-79=3 and 1-69 = 1.

If we have students that get  a 0 on the assignment, it doesn't average into the
point scale because our scale is 1-69. If I make the point scale 0-69, what
happens if I don't have any assignments that address that standard. Will it
automatically give that students a 1 since the have 0 points? Right now it
shows up with nothing which is what we want if the teachers haven't taught
that yet.

Hey, Jeff.  Thanks for setting this up.  Right now, I am estimating
sending 9-10 people which include 1 tech. coordinator(me), 3
principals, 1 guidance counselor, 4 secretaries, and a player to be
named later.

Out of those people, 1 of the principals and myself could teach or
help teach some information in the Intermediate section...

Pete Green
Technology Coordinator
Harlan Community School District
Harlan, IA  51537

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Christiansen"
<jchristiansen@h...> wrote:
>
> The February 17th training date is set.  I had some problems with
securing a
> trainer for that day.

The February 17th training date is set.  I had some problems with securing a
trainer for that day.  I guess PowerSchool is changing their policy, or maybe I
should say, defining a policy where there was none.  Anyway, we were
caught in the middle, and they wanted us to pay if we wanted a trainer for the
day.  After some discussion with Brent Bingham, the head of the SE's, we
have a trainer coming to teach Object Reports and Custom Screens.

I want to make sure you all know how big this is for us.  This training is
rarely
done as part of User Group meetings.  I did not realize that usually they send
a sales person to the User Group meetings to talk about upcoming things in
PowerSchool, and normally don't do training, especially the advanced
classes like Object Reports and Custom Screens.  This will be the same class
you would get if you attended PowerSchool University.

So now is my plea for help.  Since we have an SE coming to do this training,
possibly Mr. Bingham, we need to make sure we have a good showing.  I
explained that we had a lot of people planning on coming to this for training,
and they didn't want a sales pitch, but rather a good trainer going over some
advanced topics.

Don't let me down here.  I hope to have an online registration system going
over the holidays if not before.  As soon as I have that ready, you can start
registering.  Any feedback on the cost?  Does $40 per person sound fair?  We
would cover a lunch, and the rest of the money would go into an account to
pay for future training.  I think this will be the last freebie offered by
PowerSchool, so I think we should start building our coffers now.

We will split the classes into two tracts- one tract (Advanced) for PowerSchool
Administrators, and one tract (Intermediate) for Principals, Guidance
Counselors, Secretaries etc.
The schedule for the Intermediate tract looks like this-
9:00 - 9:30 Introduction
9:45-10:45 Session 1
11:00-12:00 Session 2
12:00-1:00 Lunch provided - Presentation from PowerSchool (what's coming
up and future requests)
1:00-2:00 Session 3
2:15-3:15 Session 4
3:30 - ? Roundtable

The classes that were originally discussed were:
Import/Export/Using Excel
Advanced Searching
Activities/Fees
Attendance
If you have a request for something different, PLEASE let me know ASAP, we
could still possibly make a change.

The schedule for the Adv
anced Tract looks like this-
9-9:30 I
ntroductions
9:45-12:00 Session 1 Custom Pages
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Provided - Presentation from PowerSchool (what's coming
up and future requests)
1:00-3:30 - Session 2 Object Reports
3:30 - ?  Roundtable

I thought the roundtable time would be a good time to just talk about what is
working, what is not, and sharing.  Sometimes this time can be the most
valuable.  Your thoughts?  I know for us, if we are going to do a day of
training, I would prefer to get the most out of it as possible.  I also know
some
of you have quite a bit of travel time.

We will also need to have a Users Group meeting at some point.  We could
either do it this day, or schedule it later in the year.  If we do it the 17th,
we
could possibly do a dinner meeting.  Thoughts?  I know this can mess up the
carpooling for the others in your group.  Basically we need to formalize some
things like Non Profit status and a Bank Account and Treasurer.  We could
probably finish it in an hour.

Sorry this is so long.  I want to try to gather as much feedback as possible so
we can make sure this is beneficial for everyone.

I have one person that has expressed interest in teaching the Intermediate
Class.  Anyone else?  If you have a person in your district that is your
PowerSchool guru, ask them.

Yes, the dates are final and posted on the PowerSchool support site.

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "akgjkids" <akgjkids@y...> wrote:
>
> Jeff,
> I know that at least 2 high school people from Carroll will be
> attending the Prepare to Build workshop, preferrably on 1/25 and
> 1/26.  I have read the posts on this website.  Are the Prepare to
> Build dates set for sure?  If so we will register.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dennis

There are two types of classes that you can take, and which one to choose
depends on how you build your schedule.

One method of building a schedule is to define the constraints of each class,
teacher, room, etc.  Things such as band must be 6th hour, Chemistry can
only be taught in room 9, etc.  Once these are defined, then you have students
request what classes they want.  At the time they request them, there is no
schedule, so they are simply requesting what classes they want.  All this
information is then put into a scheduling engine, and it figures out a master
schedule.  This can then be tweaked into a final master schedule.  This is
referred to as Building a Schedule.

The other option is to take an existing schedule, maybe modify it slightly, and
just use it as a starting point.  Kids then look at the schedule and pick
classes
from each period that they would like to take.  This is referred to Loading a
Schedule.

So if you prefer the Build method, then you will take two classes.  Prepare to
Build and Build.  The Prepare to Build helps you setup all the constraints for
building a schedule.  Things such as teacher's rooms, priority in classes, etc.
This is a two-day class that will require quite a bit of work once you get home.
You will have about two months to get this prep work done, and then you will
go back and take the Build class.  This is up to a four-day class where you go
through the process of having the schedule engine build your schedule.  The
goal of the class is simply to help you through the errors and problems with
this.  If you have a satisfactory schedule after 1 day, then you go home, and
only pay for one day.  If you need 4 days, then you stay for four.  You should
have your completed schedule when you leave this class.

If you prefer the load method, I believe you go and learn the basics of doing a
load, then come home.  We have never been part of this, so I cannot speak
from experience.

We will hopefully have all these classes in Johnston.  The Build class is being
scheduled in the middle of March, and we hope to have a load class that
same week.  These are not on the PowerSchool calendar yet, but are going
through the confirmation stage right now.  Not sure when they will have them
on the calendar.


I know this is a little lengthy, hope it helps!

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "Kerri" <kladehoff@c...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the difference between the Load Process
> workshop and the Prepare to Build?  We did the quiz on the PS
> support site and it said that we needed to take the Load Process
> workshop.  If that is the case, is there going to be one coming to
> Iowa?
>
> Kerri

Jeff,
I know that at least 2 high school people from Carroll will be
attending the Prepare to Build workshop, preferrably on 1/25 and
1/26.  I have read the posts on this website.  Are the Prepare to
Build dates set for sure?  If so we will register.

Thanks

Dennis

Jeff,
I know that at least 2 high school people from Carroll will be
attending the Prepare to Build workshop, preferrably on 1/25 and
1/26.  I have read the posts on this website.  Are the Prepare to
Build dates set for sure?  If so we will register.

Thanks

Dennis

Does anyone know the difference between the Load Process
workshop and the Prepare to Build?  We did the quiz on the PS
support site and it said that we needed to take the Load Process
workshop.  If that is the case, is there going to be one coming to
Iowa?

Kerri

I am STILL trying to get PowerSchool to commit on the February 17th Users
Group training in Johnston.  This is the training we planned at ITEC.  The
topics we were looking at were Object Reports and Custom pages, both to be
taught by a PowerSchool trainer.  This would be primarily for PS
administrators.  We also wanted to have concurrent sessions going for
Principals, Secretaries, etc.  These topics included Advanced searching,
Importing/Exporting,  Activities, and Attendance.  These would be taught by
the Users in our user group.

This is the problem.  I don't want to wait until late December for PowerSchool
to commit to this date, and then try to find people to teach the sessions.  I am
willing to teach one or two, but would sure love some help! :)

So what I am asking is:
1- Who is planning on attending, and how many do yo uthink you would
send?  I think we talked about charging $40 to cover lunch, and other costs.
This should also give us a start in an account to use for future training.  What
do you think of the cost?  Is it too much, keeping people from attending?
Remember this would be an all day training.
2- Is there PowerSchool gurus out there willing to teach one of the sessions
listed above?

Even if PowerSchool changes the date on us, I would am still planning on
having the training sometime this spring.  Thanks for your feedback!

The dates have been set and the signup for the Prepare to Build
PowerScheduler class is available online at https://www.powerschool.com/
support/training/calendar

Sorry this has taken so long to get together.  There is limited seating, so
please sign up early if you plan on attending.  There are two classes available
on the schedule at this time.  They are BOTH THE SAME.  You do NOT need
to sign up for both.  The Prepare to Build class is a two day class for those
that
prefer to build a schedule from scratch, using course requests.  If you do not
build a schedule, but rather use an existing schedule and simply assign
students to classes, then you will need to take the load class.  This is
supposed to be offered the 28th of January, but is not on the PowerSchool
training calendar yet.

If you do build your schedule, and sign up for one of these two classes, then
you will need to attend a 4 day (actually, up to 4 days, but only as many as
you need) class that will most likely be in March.  The prepare to build class
in
January is to prepare everything to build a schedule.  The class in march
(Build) is where you actually go and build the schedule, hence, 4 days, but
you only attend as many as it takes to build a schedule.

If you have any questions, go ahead and post them in the Users Group, as
most likely someone else will have the same question.

Any idea when these dates will be set in "stone". I am getting pressure from my
supervisors to get something scheduled. I may need to look out of state.


Thanks for keeping me posted.
--
Darryl
ddowns@...

On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:24 PM, Jeff Christiansen
<jchristiansen@...> wrote:
> So far the 2 training sessions reserved by PowerSchool for Iowa are as
> follows:
> 1/25-26 Prepare to Build 2 day
> 1/27-28 Prepare to Build 2 day
> The Prepare to Build class would be for those wanting to use
> PowerScheduler to build a schedule.  This course will teach you how to setup
> PowerScheduler to run a build.  This would be followed by a 4-day build class
> in March.  If you are new to PowerSchool and plan on building your schedule
> next year, then this class is basically a must.  Not that I am trying to sell
seats, I
> just know how difficult it would be without this class.
>
> This is not final until I give PowerSchool an approval.  If you see any
problems
> with these dates, please let me know ASAP.  I will most likely giving
> PowerSchool the go ahead for the dates tomorrow.  If they do not work for you
> school, that does not necessarily mean we can change them.  If I get enough
> negative responses, then we will look at a change in date.
>
> Once this is final I will send out the link where you can get more info on the
> class and register.
>
>
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So far the 2 training sessions reserved by PowerSchool for Iowa are as
follows:
1/25-26 Prepare to Build 2 day
1/27-28 Prepare to Build 2 day
The Prepare to Build class would be for those wanting to use
PowerScheduler to build a schedule.  This course will teach you how to setup
PowerScheduler to run a build.  This would be followed by a 4-day build class
in March.  If you are new to PowerSchool and plan on building your schedule
next year, then this class is basically a must.  Not that I am trying to sell
seats, I
just know how difficult it would be without this class.

This is not final until I give PowerSchool an approval.  If you see any problems
with these dates, please let me know ASAP.  I will most likely giving
PowerSchool the go ahead for the dates tomorrow.  If they do not work for you
school, that does not necessarily mean we can change them.  If I get enough
negative responses, then we will look at a change in date.

Once this is final I will send out the link where you can get more info on the
class and register.

It can be somewhat confusing setting up the honor roll calculation.  Basically
there are two steps, creating the GPA calculation methods, and second,
creating the honor roll calculation method.  I posted a document in the files
area under Support Documents" that is the "official" PowerSchool way of
doing this.

The first step is done in district mode.  Under your District Setup/GPA
Settings/
GPA Calculation Methods, you will find your existing GPA calculation
methods.  This is the part that can be confusing.  I recommend not changing
your current methods, unless you know exactly what you are doing.  This can
be disastrous!  You can add new methods without affecting any current data.
We are on Quarters/Semesters.  We do not give any credit for quarter grades,
but rather give full credit hours for the semester grade.  This makes it hard to
calculate honor roll from existing GPA methods.  To get around this we have
created 4 new methods, one for each quarter.  For example we have a GPA
method called 03-04 Q1 Honor Roll.  The GPA calculation formula for this is
round((sum(gpa_gpapoints())/gpa_count()),3)  This gives us an accurate gpa
for our quarter 1.  Yes, each year we have to change these formulas.  If you
don't do your GPA calculation this way, and a Simple or Weighted GPA
calculation for a quarter is correct then you can forget all this.  I have
posted
two documents on GPA methods in the support documents folder as well.

The GPA method is the most important step that will affect if your Honor Roll
gives you the correct students.  We fought this all last year.

Once your GPA method is done, you can setup the Honor Roll Method, which
is done at the school level.  You can go to:  Start Page > School Setup >
Honor Roll Methods  Here you can setup different honor rolls that you
recognize.  We simply have 4 of them, Q1-Q4.  For each Honor Roll you
define levels.  We use a single level, anyone that gets over a 3.0 is on Honor
Roll, no credit information is taken into account.  Again you can set this up
for
however you use Honor Roll.

I know this sounds complicated, and it can be, but now that we have it working
(well mostly working) it is nice.  You simply click on Calculate Honor Roll and
it gives each student, meeting the requirement, an entry under their Honor
Roll information.  It also gives you a list of those students.

A few things that are not as nice about.  The list you get is not selectable. 
This
means once you calculate honor roll, you can not simply select those students
and print their certificates (I REALLY hope PS fixes this soon!)  We found the
only way was to do a search by GPA to get the list selectable so we could
print certificates.  This begs the question, "Why even mess with Honor Roll
then if you still have to use Search by GPA to get the students".  For us it is
a
matter of having the honor roll information part of the students record so we
can look back at past honor roll information for a student.

Another "bug" with the honor roll system is that if a grade is changed after
honor roll is calculated, and that change affects a students standing on Honor
Roll, then you must delete that terms honor roll data for all students in that
school, and re-run the Calculate Honor Roll function.  If you do not delete the
entries first, you will give some students two entries for that term in their
honor
roll information.

Hope this at least gives you a basic start to doing this.  We attempted to use
this function all last year and had no luck.  I took a class on Honor Rolls and
GPA methods at PSU last spring, and finally was able to understand what we
needed to do.  I hope I have been able to convey at least a little of that here.
:)


--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "Kerri Ladehoff" <kladehoff@c...> wrote:
>

Just wanted to send out an update on training for this spring.  I am still
working with PowerSchool on setting the dates for our spring training, as well
as PowerScheduler classes.  I should have the final dates in the next couple
of weeks.  I will post those as soon as I can.  It is looking like we will have
our
Users Group meeting/training in mid January as we talked about at our last
meeting.  The PowerScheduler classes will be in Jan., Feb. and March.

I am also working on the details of how we can collect money for the training,
and then pay for meals and materials.  It looks like we will have to form a non-
profit group to do this, since we will most likely be carrying a balance from
year to year.  This is what the Kansas users group has done, and it is working
well for them.  I will keep you posted here on how that is coming.  We will
have to set some time aside at our Jan. meeting to finalize this and do some
procedural voting to make it official.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them here.

Was just going through the messages and noticed your post about Honor
Roll.  Did you get it to work?  We have started using the Honor Roll
calculation this year.  It does take some time to setup, but is very quick once
it
is done.  We did run into some problems with grades changing this year, and
are still working on that issue. If you still had questions about this, or if
you still
want to set it up, I will share what I know, just let me know.

Glad to have you in the group.

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "akgjkids" <akgjkids@y...> wrote:
>
> I am a counselor at Carroll High School.  We are new to Power
> School this year and have been thrown into the fire.  Any
> information regarding Power Scheduler meetings would be
> helpful.  I spoke with Jeff regarding the "Prepare to Build" class
> and then the "Build Class" workshop that are tenative for this
> winter and spring.  If any info. comes up regarding these I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> Also, our tech coordinator is stretched very thin.  If anyone has
> info on creating honor rolls by quarter I would appreciate their
> help.  Thanks
>
> Dennis McCartan, CHS Counselor

I am a counselor at Carroll High School.  We are new to Power
School this year and have been thrown into the fire.  Any
information regarding Power Scheduler meetings would be
helpful.  I spoke with Jeff regarding the "Prepare to Build" class
and then the "Build Class" workshop that are tenative for this
winter and spring.  If any info. comes up regarding these I'd
appreciate it.

Also, our tech coordinator is stretched very thin.  If anyone has
info on creating honor rolls by quarter I would appreciate their
help.  Thanks

Dennis McCartan, CHS Counselor

I posted the Web Access Invite and Web Access Instructions that we use, in
the files area on the iapsug yahoo group site.  We discussed this morning at
our PSUG meeting that we would start posting more files here.  If you are not
familiar with how to get these, you simply click on "Files" on the left pane
once
you are logged into the PSUG site.

Just a few points to consider if you want to post some of your work.  Please
include a PDF of the report you are posting, or a screen shot of the custom
screen.  This allows the other members to see what you have submitted
without downloading, installing, and running the report.

Please feel free to share what you have done here, and if you need a screen
or report, check with users here to find out if someone has already created it,
and is willing to share.

We will be having an Iowa PowerSchool Users Group planning meeting on
Oct. 12 at the ITEC conference in Des Moines.  This meeting is to plan for the
spring training session.  We will be discussing what content we want, where
we will have it, and when it will be.

This meeting is actually part of the ITEC conference.  ITEC prefers that people
register for the conference to attend the meeting.  I talked to an ITEC rep
today, and she said it would be OK for people to attend the PSUG meeting
without registering for ITEC since Apple is one of the main vendors, but again,
they prefer people register for ITEC.  If you would like to attend the
conference
(which by the way is a great Technology Conference) you can register online
at : http://center.uoregon.edu/conferences/ITEC/ITEC2004/
Online registration closes today October 5.  You can also register onsite the
day of the conference.  Again, if you are just coming for the PSUG meeting,
you do not need to register.

IF YOU CANNOT MAKE IT to this planning session and have input as to what
we should teach, etc, please email it to this group for all to see.  I will take
this
information to the meeting.  Some things you should be thinking about is who
will attend this meeting?  Will we have sessions just for Tech people, or will
we also have sessions for Principals, Secretaries, Counselors, etc.  One thing
to keep in mind is we are provided only one trainer from PowerSchool for this
meeting.  We are not able to cover any scheduling training, as this is multiple
day classes.  Since we only have one trainer, we should seriously think about
what topics he will cover.  If you want to have concurrent sessions, we need
volunteers to lead the other training sessions.  Again, if you will not be at
the
meeting, please provide some feedback as to what your District would be
looking for in this training.

Here are the meeting specifics:

What: Iowa PSUG planning meeting
When: Tuesday October 12, 8 AM
Where: Des Moines Marriott Downtown Salon C
700 Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA
(515)-245-5500

We are putting together plans for a state meeting as of this morning.
  I wanted
to wait until there were a few more people signed into the Users
Group before
I send out the information.  So far we have the following date on the
calendar.


We will be having a Users Group planning session at ITEC in Des
Moines on
  Tuesday October 12th at 8am in Salon C.  We will talk about what
training is
needed as well as our Spring Users Group meeting.


I will send out more information on this at a later date for those
that have not
yet subscribed to the Users Group.

--- In iapsug@yahoogroups.com, "Doug A." <dabbas@m...> wrote:
> Jeff,
> Do we have a state meeting planned?  If so, when?  Would be great
to
> get together some time during the 1st quarter...
> Doug

Jeff,
Do we have a state meeting planned?  If so, when?  Would be great to
get together some time during the 1st quarter...
Doug