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Abbreviating in Years and Terms
Before Beginning the School Year Checklist - Downloads as a PDF
End-of-Year Process - (A.K.A. Promote Students)
Changing Term Dates
If Your ADA/ADM Report is Not Working - Good thing to check at Year-End.
Live Side Scheduling - Downloads as a PDF
Placing Students in the Field "home_room" - Can then search on home_room.
Pre-Enrolling Kindergarten and All Students for Next Year
Re-Entering Students Exited in Error
Sample 9th Grade Request Setups and Samples of Request Pages - Downloads as a PDF
Setting a Password for Overriding Maximum Section Enrollment
Student Enroll Codes
Years & Terms

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Capture Guardian Emails to Create a Mailing List? - Downloads as a PDF
Finding At-Risk Students - Exporting from Multiple Tables into Excel
Set a Browser to Automatically Open "Quick Exports" in Excel - Formatted to print two sided.
Template to Import Standards from an Excel Worksheet - downloads an Excel worksheet
Using Excel's VLookUp Function

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Capture Guardian Emails to Create a Mailing List - Downloads as a PDF
Creating Tests and Importing Test Scores
Demographics in the 21st Century - Dealing with Non-Traditional Family Demograhics
Find Table Numbers
Finding At-Risk Students - Exporting from Multiple Tables into Excel
Getting Around the 32k Page Limit - Downloads as a PDF
Mass Filling Fields with Pull-Down Menus
Placing Students in the Field "home_room" - Can then search on home_room.
Printing a Progress Report as a Teacher (Setup and Printing) - Downloads as a PDF
Printing an Individual Student's Discipline Report - Downloads as a PDF <Individual Discipline Summary3.rpt> download here.
Printing Grade Names Instead of Grade Number - Kindergarten not "0" and more
Printing Student Schedules One to a Page (Down and Dirty - Black and White) - Downloads as a PDF
Printing Student Schedules One to a Page (Fancy - Color if You Want) - Downloads as a PDF
Printing Teacher Schedules One Page at a Time - Downloads as a PDF

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Allow Importing in the District Mode - Not Recommended
Finding At-Risk Students - Exporting from Multiple Tables into Excel
Harvesting Templates and Reports
Importing a .pst Template that is already Local - Downloads as a PDF
Quick Export - Downloads as a PDF
Using Excel's VLookUp Function

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Allow Public Access to the School Bulletin
Cape Elizabeth, ME Parent Portal Introductions - Great job of introducting the Parent Portal with Podcasts - Click on the name of the school to hear the introduction.
Do Not Show Lunch Balance on Parent/Student Pages
Enabling and Disabling AutoSend Reports - with report samples
Set the School Name Seen on the Parent Portal
Windows versions of iCal for viewing My Calendars on Windows based machines

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PodCasts Home

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PowerGrade "How do I..." Page - Many SkillSheets
PowerGrade Specific User Groups
PowerGrade Planning Guide - Downloads a Worksheet
PowerSchool Teacher/PowerGrade Quick Reference Card

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PowerLunch Definitions

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PowerSchool Teacher/PowerGrade Quick Reference Card

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Attendance Summary Object Report - Downloads a report (.pst) - Note that attendance codes likely will have to be changed to match your school.
Enable Auto-Update for State Reports
Find Table Numbers
Fonts Used in Form Letters - Adding more fonts than the default in PowerSchool
If Your ADA/ADM Report is Not Working
Locker Information and Report of Names, Numbers, and Combinations - Downloads as a PDF
Printing Grade Names Instead of Grade Number - Kindergarten not "0" and more
Printing an Individual Student's Discipline Report - Downloads as a PDF <Individual Discipline Summary3.rpt> download here.
Printing Student Schedules One to a Page (Down and Dirty - Black and White) - Downloads as a PDF
Printing Student Schedules One to a Page (Fancy - Color if You Want) - Downloads as a PDF
Printing Teacher Schedules One Page at a Time - Downloads as a PDF
Yearly Absents and Membership

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Changing Term Dates
Creating Security Groups
Dimensions to Display a Student Photo
Disable Meal Price
Disable Remote Support
Disable Searching on Lunch Status
Do Not Show Lunch Balance on Parent/Student Pages
Enabling and Disabling AutoSend Reports - with report samples
End-of-Year Process - (A.K.A. Promote Students)
Before Beginning the School Year Checklist - Downloads as a PDF
Printing Grade Names Instead of Grade Number - Kindergarten not "0" and more
Set the Number of Digits in a Course Number
Set the School Name Seen on the Parent Portal
Setting a Password for Overriding Maximum Section Enrollment
Setting Teacher Preferences for PowerGrade or Gradebook - Downloads as a PDF
Set the Password Required to Delete a Section
Setup a Reply-To-Email for Electronic Progress Reports Sent to Parents - Downloads as a PDF
Years & Terms

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Download the following for a basic understanding of using standards in PowerTeacher. They are big files and will take a while to download.
- Custom_Pages.pdf - (4.2 MB) - Originally a Keynote Presentation, now in PDF format.
- Entering_Standards.pdf - (3.5 MB) - Manual
- Getting_Started_with_Standards.pdf - (6.4 MB) - Originally a Keynote Presentation, now in PDF format.
- Maintaining_Standards.pdf - (6.3 MB) - Originally a Keynote Presentation, now in PDF format.
- PSAdv_Standards.pdf - (1.2 MB) - Manual
- Web_Assignments.pdf - (1.2 MB) - Originally a Keynote Presentation, now in PDF format.
Entering Standards and Printing a Standards-Based Progress Report
Importing Standard Scores from a Previous Year - with movie tutorials
Standard Based Progress Reports - with downloadable templates (.pst)
Standards & Comments Associated with Students
Standards Fields - Understanding the Field Labels
Template to Import Standards from an Excel Worksheet - downloads an Excel worksheet

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PowerSchool - PowerGrade - PowerTeacher w/Gradebook Find Most Anything in PowerSchool - Training at IPTs at FloydCalderwood.com

PowerSchool - PowerGrade - PowerTeacher w/Gradebook
Find Most Anything in PowerSchool - Training at IPTs
at FloydCalderwood.com