| Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM |
| SESSION: 1 FTE Overview |
| Troy Palmer, Elbert County Schools |
| Salon 8 Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM Capacity: 260 |
| This session will focus on the FTE reporting process in PowerSchool, including any changes for FY2012, data verification for specific student groups (EIP, remedial, gifted, SPED, part-day, etc.), the official state FTE summary report, and DOE documentation/resources. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM |
| SESSION: 2 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM |
| SESSION: 3 Peer Discussions with Data Entry Personnel |
| Joyce Davis, Jeff-Davis County Schools |
| Swiss 2 Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM Capacity: 44 |
| This session will be an open forum setting where individuals that are responsible for the day-to-day data entry into PowerSchool can discuss topics common to them. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM |
| SESSION: 4 Intro to Writing SQL Queries |
| Chris McManigal, Camden County Schools |
| Kenyan 1-2 Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM Capacity: 88 |
| This session will examine using the Structured Query Language (SQL) and ODBC to query a database. Topics covered will include establishing an ODBC connection, the syntax of SQL, refining the search, joining multiple tables, and exporting the results into a usable format No prior SQL knowledge is required. |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM |
| SESSION: 5 Customizations for Guidance and Counseling |
| Richard Matthews, |
| Italian 1 Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM Capacity: 44 |
| Come see some customizations that your Guidance Counselors will like. We will look at some data input screens, dashboards, and customized schedule listing pages. We will also see how to add these pages to the navigation menu and the mass print drop down list. |
| STRAND: N/A AUDIENCE: Intermediate TYPE: SIS |
| Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM |
| SESSION: 6 PowerTeacher Admin and new ReportWorks functionality for 7.x |
| TBA (Pearson), |
| Italian 2 Tuesday 9:00-10:20AM Capacity: 44 |
| In this session, you will learn about new Administrative controls for PowerTeacher Gradebook and new tools and data sets available ReportWorks report writer in PowerSchool including the new datasets. |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 7 Scheduling-Grades-Data Collection-A year long relationship |
| Lynn McCoy, |
| Salon 8 Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM Capacity: 260 |
| A school's schedule is made up of courses, classes, teachers and students. Each of these parts generate information all year long which will be consolidated at the end of the year into a course level file for Student Record. Don't wait until the error reports at Student Record time to find the missing pieces to this data collection puzzle. Begin at the beginning and connect the pieces from the start. This session will cover the data elements found in each area of scheduling and grades and how they connect throughout the school year and for end of year Student Record Reporting. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 8 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 9 PowerSchool Basics |
| Flora Contreras, Buford City Schools |
| Swiss 2 Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| Learn or review basic navigation through PowerSchool as well as some tips and tricks that make using PowerSchool successful for you and your school district. We'll do a basic overview of PowerSchool and its functions, searching made easy and basic exporting using list views that make life easier. This session is designed for the novice who is just starting to use PowerSchool, but may also benefit those who have been on it for a while. Because using PowerSchool is a constant learning experience, come see what you didn't get the first time. |
| AUDIENCE: Beginner |
| Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 10 SQL Reports Customizations for PowerSchool |
| Chris McManigal, Camden County Schools |
| Kenyan 1-2 Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM Capacity: 88 |
| This session will examine the sqlReports customization created by Dean Dahlvang and available freely for PowerSchool. The customization adds a new tab to the reports page and allows the report creator to utilize SQL to search for multiple database tables to gather info for users. The topics will include downloading and installing the customization, creating and editing reports, and publishing the reports for the end users. Importing and exporting report templates will also be discussed. |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 11 Using Excel's Pivot Table Reports to Analyze Grades and Discipline |
| Melody Thomas, Shelby County Schools |
| Italian 1 Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| One of the most effective ways to use Excel is to create PivotTables and charts, and then combine them into dashboards where you can view several reports and charts on one page. Whether it’s an ethnic distribution report, a summary of discipline infractions, or a grading report by teacher, Excel has a robust set of reporting tools that can help achieve your goals. In this session, attendees will see how administrators in my district use these tools to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in our data. |
| STRAND: N/A AUDIENCE: All TYPE: SIS |
| Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 12 Pearson Integration - PowerSchool and other Pearson Apps work in harmony for you |
| TBA (Pearson), |
| Italian 2 Tuesday 10:40 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| Come learn how Pearson applications work together for you. We know you have PowerSchool but what about those other Pearson applications. Come see how others are utilizing technology provided in the applications to manage their environments. This session will show how PowerSchool can be configured and utilized to better serve your district needs with products like NovaNet, SuccessMaker, Schoolnet and more. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM |
| SESSION: 13 The Marriage of Excel and State Reporting |
| Lynn McCoy, Bryan County Board of Ed |
| Salon 8 Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM Capacity: 260 |
| Title : The Marriage of Excel and State Reporting See how macros are created in excel and how they can be automated to work with your state report text file straight from PowerSchool. The excel formatted column headers and filters allow you to open your text file in a spreadsheet view and go on to assess the validity of your state reported data. The excel spreadsheet allows you isolate the data you need to correct in PowerSchool, filter out groups of students and advise program areas of the data that is being reported on the students participating in their particular program. Learn how other systems use this spreadsheet to obtain corrected data from program areas to give back to data entry personnel for corrections. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM |
| SESSION: 14 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM |
| SESSION: 15 Making PowerSchool Yours: You CAN Customize! |
| Kathy Davies, Lamar County Schools |
| Swiss 2 Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM Capacity: 44 |
| Make PowerSchool work FOR you...Yes, you CAN customize! This session is directed at users who have not done any customizations and want to: add your school logo to PowerSchool; put links on the start page to the reports you use daily; import pages and reports built by others to help you save time! We'll learn just some basics and you'll find PowerSchool can really be Powerful! |
| AUDIENCE: Beginner |
| Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM |
| SESSION: 16 PowerScheduler - Build |
| Evelyn Bragg, Resources and Methods, Inc |
| Kenyan 1-2 Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM Capacity: 88 |
| This session will provide an overview of the PowerScheduler - Build process. Topics include: The difference between Build and Load only; Creating a timeline of activities; Preparing scheduling data; Steps in building the master schedule; Common reasons the build process stalls. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM |
| SESSION: 17 T.B.A. |
| Italian 1 Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM Capacity: 44 |
| Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM |
| SESSION: 18 PowerSchool Table Relationships |
| TBA (Pearson), |
| Italian 2 Tuesday 1:00 - 2:20PM Capacity: 44 |
| In this session you will begin to understand the structure of PowerSchool and how things relate so pulling things together and extracting data can become second nature. You will learn functions, commands and other techniques to help you speed up and streamline your everyday work. |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM |
| SESSION: 19 Customization for State Reporting |
| Kathy Davies, Lamar County Schools |
| Salon 8 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM Capacity: 260 |
| There are some errors that we just shouldn't have to get. Learn how to do a few simple customizations to help you get your data filled in quickly so you can move on with your day! |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM |
| SESSION: 20 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM |
| SESSION: 21 Grading and Storing Grades |
| Flora Contreras, Buford City Schools |
| Swiss 2 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM Capacity: 44 |
| Come see how one districts goes through the process of storing grades. We will review this process from the point of how they are created in the TeacherGradebook to Verification processes to Storing them in PowerSchool. Understanding the processes involved will help for smoother report card printing as well as state reporting during Student Records with the Course Record file. |
| AUDIENCE: Beginner |
| Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM |
| SESSION: 22 PowerScheduler - Load |
| Evelyn Bragg, Resources and Methods, Inc |
| Kenyan 1-2 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM Capacity: 88 |
| This session will provide an overview of the PowerScheduler - Load Only process. Topics include: The difference between Build and Load only; Creating a timeline of activities; Preparing scheduling data; Creating or copying the master schedule; Steps in loading the master schedule; Common reasons the load process does not satisfy student requests. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM |
| SESSION: 23 T.B.A. |
| Italian 1 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM Capacity: 44 |
| Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM |
| SESSION: 24 Linking Docs to PowerSchool |
| Ed Dedic, Pearson |
| Italian 2 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:50PM Capacity: 44 |
| In this session you will learn how to successfully link documents to PowerSchool, PowerTeacher and Parent/Student access. Using PowerSchool as a launching pad, your staff, teachers and students will have real time up to data information. |
| AUDIENCE: All |