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PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations JACK KNOPP EDUTECH/ND INFO TECH POWERSCHOOL SUPPORT SPECIALIST

About the trainer. . . • Married 37. 5 years, 5 kids, 5 grandkids • 8 years as PS Support Specialist for state of North Dakota • 22 years as HS Business Ed. teacher/coach/principal • PTP Certified Power. School Power. User

I live in Fargo, ND

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Agenda • What are the PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations • Where can I find the PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations • How do I Install and Enable PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations • Viewing the PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations • Disabling a PSCB Custom Report Category/Customization

PSCB Custom What? • PSCB Customizations is a collection of newly developed pages, reports and updates/enhancements to plugins previously posted on Power. Data Solutions. • This ongoing project is the result of the collaborative efforts of Rob Staats, Manjit Basra and Michael Moore. Each member of the PSCB Development team has 14+ years of experience in developing Power. School custom pages and reports.

PSCB Custom What? • The goal/mission of the project is identical to the one used to establish Power. Data Solutions. We simply want to take our customizations in combination with those previously posted on PDS to accomplish the following. – Enhance, update and certify all customizations for use with the latest versions of Powerschool. – Freely post the plugins and make them accessible to the Power. School community. – Properly acknowledge all current and past contributors to the completed customizations.

PSCB Custom What? • A special thank you is extended to previous PDS contributors for their efforts in establishing Power. Data Solutions as a depository for Power. School customizations. PDS contributors include Jason Treadwell, Brent Johnson, Brian Andle, Tim Scoff, Matt Freund, Roger Sprik and Dean Dahlvang.

Where can I find the PSCB Reports/Customizations? • There are 2 places that I go to get the PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations. – Power Data Solutions • Powerdatasolutions. org • When you get here you will have to create and account and wait for someone to get back to you with login info. – Power. Source • https: //support. powerschool. com

PSCB Custom Reports • When you are installing the PSCB Custom Reports, you must install the Base Resources and Home_Page plugins first. • Do NOT unzip the files before you install them!

Installing PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations To Install the PSCB Custom Reports/Customizations go to: 1) System>System Settings>Plugin Manangement Configuration 2) Select Install 3) For Plugin Installation File click the Browse button and select the Plugin file and click Install. Do not unzip the files.

Enabling the PSCB Custom Reports/Customization Plugin 1) Once you’ve Installed the plugin, click the checkbox in the Enable/Disable column. 2) A slideout drawer will appear. Click the Enable button on the bottom. 3) Your Plugin his now installed, enabled, and ready to use.

Disabling PSCB Custom Reports/Customization Plugins If you decide you don’t want to see the plugin you can disable it by: 1) Clicking the checkbox in the Enable/Disable column of the plugin you want to disable. 2) A small window will appear asking if you are sure you want to disable the plugin. Click Yes. 3) Your Plugin his now installed, enabled, and ready to use. The plugin is now disabled.

Updating the Plugin Periodically the plugins are updated. To find these, go to Power. Data Solutions (or Power. Source) and download the file. To update your plugin: 1) System>System Settings>Plugin Manangement Configuration 2) Click on the Plugin name and then use the Update button. Browse to the new file and click Submit and it will then load the update. When finished it will ask you to enable it.

PSCB Custom Reports • Once the PSCB Custom Reports have been installed and enabled you will see them on the start page under the Reports section.

PSCB Custom Reports • When you select the PSCB Custom Reports you will get a list of the report categories for the plugins that you’ve enabled. • To access the reports, click on the category. • Some categories have many reports, others only a few.

PSCB Custom Report Categories

Maneuvering a PSCB Page • Select Search Criteria – Example shows Term, Grades, Students – You can sort your data by clicking on the arrow to the right of the column heading – You can filter your data by entering something in the blank row at the top of the data – You can filter using multiple columns

Maneuvering a PSCB Page

PSCB Customizations • PSCB Customizations result in additions/changes to regular screens or student screens • Some examples are: – Attendance Info – Historical Grades – Attendance/Enrollment And others