Teachers at Both Schools
Do you have teachers teaching at 2 buildings in your district? For example the PE teacher is the PE teacher at the elementary and the PE teacher at the high school. If so, you want to be sure that teacher has 2 different teacher numbers and their middle initial in one of their accounts. I have run into several issues this past fall where there are 2 teachers set up in the system with the exact same name but at different schools. This is a problem when it comes to PowerGrade. Each time you close PowerGrade it backs up the data file. On the server you can see the last backup along with the name of the teacher. Well, if Jane Jones is teaching at the HS and the elementary and is named Jane Jones in both places, only the last data file that she worked in will be backed up. This makes it more difficult to retrieve specific backups. Be sure to include the teacher's middle initial in one of their accounts. For example Jane Jones at the elementary would be Jane E. Jones and Jane Jones at the HS would just be Jane Jones. Now when PowerGrade backs up you will see a back up for Jane Jones, which will be the HS data and a back up for Jane E. Jones which would be the elementary data. They also need 2 different user names to access PowerSchool teacher. They can use the same password. I like to put a .hs behind their username at the HS and a .e behind their name at the elementary!
Posted by Melissa Bitz at November 2, 2006 4:41 PM