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Grant Wood AEA and PowerSchool©
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Grant Wood AEA supports 255 private and parochial Iowa schools
and over 85,000 Iowa PK-12 students with PowerSchool Premier and PowerTeacher Gradebook.
This support includes hardware hosting and support,
training, consultation, and help desk services. A list
of those schools and links to their websites are
available by clicking on the
GWAEA PS Schools link on
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Check out the Teachers Link to see newest
information on PowerTeacher Gradebook 2.1
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PowerSchool 6.2
Version Upgrade
Pearson has
released PowerSchool Version 6.2 with
PowerTeacher Gradebook Ver. 2.1
The April 30
release of PowerSchool 6.2 provides many new
features that enhance the overall usability of
the system. Included with the 6.2 release
is the release of PowerTeacher Gradebook version
2.1 which provides the latest technology for
true standards-based grading.
PowerTeacher Gradebook Features
Click here
or on the Teacher link to see all new
documentation on the newest PowerTeacher
Gradebook.
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PowerSchool
Mobil Web |
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An exciting
new feature of version 6.2 is called Mobile
Web Pages. Mobile Web Pages lets you take
any
iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone or any Android OS
smartphone that has internet access and a
browser, to access PowerSchool (currently no
app is available for the BlackBerry).
Mobil Web
allows administrators and teachers to access
a Web App for PowerSchool information. The
Web App provides larger detail views of
student demographics, schedules,
parent/guardian, emergency contacts, buses,
lockers, birthdays, activities, and
attendance. Special web app views of the
daily bulletin also can be accesses.
Teachers
can log into the Portal page where they can
take attendance or do the lunch count as
well as view student schedules,
demographics, attendance, rosters,
birthdays, & daily bulletins. At this time
teachers cannot login to their gradebook
through this app as these devices cannot
handle Java programs.
Here are
various documents to help you setup Mobil
Web Page:.
Mobil Web pages User Guide
Setting Up Mobile Web Pages
Teachers User Guide PowerTeacher Mobile
Admin Users Guide PS Mobile |
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Grant Wood AEA's Behavior Management System
Released! |
Users of PowerSchool through Grant Wood
AEA now have the ability to log into and use a new
Behavior Management System. This new BMS is fully
integrated into PowerSchool so users can simply click on
a link from the start page and go directly into the
program.
The GWAEA Behavior Management System was
designed with input from many different school districts
and from the Agency's Regional Administrators, School
Psychologists, School Social Workers, and others.
Grant Wood highly recommends your schools work with
Grant Wood AEA's professional staff to implement the
Positive Behavior System, PBS, into your daily behavior
management philosophy.
Please contact Bob Neilly or Scott Benson
to have the new Behavior Management System activated on
your PowerSchool site and to help coordinate your
inclusion of the PBS in your schools.
Enrollment Summary
Graphs
You might not know that the
Enrollment Summary page has some pretty cool charts that
you can easily access.
Click on the Enrollment
Summary then click on any of the blue title links along
the title row on top or on the grade level column on the
side. A graph of enrollment by ethnicity or an
enrollment by grade level will appear. This can be view
both by individual school levels or by the district
level for a complete summary graph of all your schools.
Keep Elementary
Parents from Seeing Gradebook Details
If your elementary schools
only want parents to login to PowerSchool to see
attendance, bulletins, and teacher comments, but no
grades from the grade book, simply do not fill out the
Current Grade Display which is found under the Grading
category under the school menu.
By leaving these settings
blank the parent quick lookup screen shows only this
week and last weeks attendance, email link to parents,
and attendance totals. No grade book information is
shown.
Sort Quick Lookup
Screen
by Periods
If your school is
expecting the Quick Lookup screen to list the
classes in order by period, but they are not, this
could be due to the Day and Period Precedence
setting in the Scheduling Preferences.
An example Quick Lookup
screen could show a listing like the following:
1. (A-F) English I
2. (A-F) Earth
Science
3. (A,C,E) Fitness
for Living
5. (A-F) Algebra I
6. (A-F) Lunch
3. (B,D,F)
Photography
4. (B,D,F) Spanish
In this example, the
Quick Lookup screen is sorting the classes by day,
and not by period. To resolve this, change the sort
order to Period then day:
- Navigate to
School > Scheduling Preferences.
- Under Class
Sorting, change the Day and Period Precedence to
Period then Day.
- Click the Submit
button.
Gary
Olsen, Cartoon College
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Using Standards Grading in PTG |
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Thinking about
implementing standards grading for the
10-11 school
year?
Planning
needs to start now.
The following links to the
GWAEA Standards Packet
have been developed to assist you on your path to
implementing standards
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Setting Up & Submitting Standards Info to GWAEA
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Template of Standards Template.xls
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Sample -
Standards Master Report Card IC
Style.pdf
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Sample -
Std Master Report Card 2 Pg CPU Style
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Sample -
Std. Master Report Card 2 Pg MP Style
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Setup Parent Access to PS & Telling Parents About
the Parent Portal |
There are several things you need to do to get PowerSchool setup
for your parents to view their students' grades,
attendance, teacher comments, and other information.
Here is a starter list for you to consider. Click on
each link to see documentation about each subject.
A.
Set
all parents to receive weekly summary of grades and
attendance.
Click Here
B.
Set all parent and
or students logins and passwords.
Click Here
C.
Using Quick Export
of Student/Parent Logins and PWs to merge into documents
you create for parent notification.
Click Here
D.
Send
Parents form letter with login and passwords as well as
instructions on using PowerSchool. Change this sample to
your own settings.
Click Here
for PDF or
Click here for Word document
Before sending your letters to parents or finishing your web page
with parent logon information please contact us and let
us review your settings.
Telling Parents About the
Parent Portal
Typical
methods used to let parents know about their ability to
log into PowerSchool and view student progress include:
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A link to the portal is highlighted on
every school websites.
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A letter is mailed home to the parents of
middle and high school students.
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A letter is sent home via "homework"
folders to all elementary students.
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A letter is distributed to students in
grades 4-12.
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The portal link is included in the
district student handbook as well as the school
handbooks.
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The portal is discussed a PTA and parent
conference meetings.
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The first couple of years, the link can
be printed at the bottom of the report cards.
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The goal of this site is to facilitate support for PowerSchool© in
the most effective and efficient manner possible. Please
refer to the information below to determine the best
option for support issues.
Following Implementation
Following implementation, all support questions should
go to your District PowerSchool© Administrator (DPSA),
or your school's PowerSchool© contact person first. If
these individuals are unable to provide support, you
should pursue one of the following support options as
appropriate.
Help Menu
Click on the question mark on each PowerSchool© screen
where the issue resides.
Training Guides
Use the
training guides from the Teacher and Administrative
training sessions for general reference on how-to
processes.
Grant Wood AEA PowerSchool© Documentation
Use the
documentation material on this site to research a
possible resolution to your problem.
Grant Wood AEA Support
Grant Wood
AEA provides telephone support, site visits, training
and workshops, documentation, hardware hosting and
system support.
If none of
the previous support arms are available to a user they
should call or email Grant Wood AEA PowerSchool support
for help on their problem.
Release Notes
District PowerSchool
Administrators should
read release notes carefully and pass important details
on to users in their district. The release notes are
distributed via email to district.
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Grant Wood Area Education Agency
4401 Sixth Street SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-4499
(319) 399-6700 • 1800-332-8488
Fax 319-399-6457 •
TDD 319-399-6766
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Grant Wood AEA
Grant Wood
Area Education Agency is one of 10 Iowa Area Education
Agencies (AEAs) established by the Iowa Legislature in
1975 to provide equity in educational programs
across the
state.
Iowa’s
AEAs work as educational partners with local public and
accredited private
schools to
help assure that all children reach their potential.
Iowa AEAs
are widely regarded
as one of
the foremost regional service systems in the country,
offering programs equitably,
efficiently, and economically on a regional or
cooperative basis among school districts.
Grant Wood
AEA provides support to Pearson PowerSchool to our partnered school
districts. Our support includes server & system hosting,
technical support, daily user support, site visits,
training and workshops, and documentation.
The Grant
Wood support staff has completed the PowerSchool
Advanced Certification Program and will provide
PowerSchool users with the same high level of customer
service the school we service have become accustom to
over the past three decades.
Grant Wood
Area Education Agency extends equal opportunities in its
employment practices, educational programs and services,
and does not discriminate on the basis of color, gender,
race, national origin, religion, creed, age, sexual
orientation, gender identity, marital status,
disability, veteran status or as otherwise prohibited by
law. If you believe you or your child has been
discriminated against or treated unjustly, please
contact the Agency’s Equity Coordinator, Maria Cashman,
at 319-399-6847 or 1-800-332-8488 or TDD 319-399-6766,
Grant Wood AEA, 4401 Sixth St SW, Cedar Rapids, IA
52404.
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