Session Descriptions - 2016
Course offerings may vary once all session registrations are received. Sessions with less than 10 registered, may not be offered.
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Direct Connect - Demographics and Student Enrolments
All Student Enrolment and Student Personal data elements are transferred to PASI directly from PowerSchool. This is a great opportunity to become familiar with the terminology associated with PASI functionality in PowerSchool and to work through some of your core alerts! |
User Type: Staff responsible for PASI Student and Enrolment submissions.
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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Direct Connect - Courses and Marks Core Alerts
Student Course Enrolment and Marks are transferred to PASI directly from PowerSchool. This is a great opportunity to become familiar with the terminology associated with PASI mark functionality in PowerSchool and to work through some of your core alerts! |
User Type: Senior High Course Mark Registrars only
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: Senior High (10-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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Direct Connect - Courses and Marks, PASI and You
Learn the fields and the steps needed for courses and marks to go to Alberta Education directly from PowerSchool. This information session will help you walk through the entire process of BULK courses and marks upload and individual courses and marks upload to PASI via PowerSchool. Ask questions regarding your own data etc. |
User Type: Senior High Course Mark Registrars only
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: Senior High (10-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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Elementary/JH Round Table & Best Practices Sharing
In this session we will have a round table discussion about what works, what doesn’t and how individual schools have handled various aspects of the elementary and middle school years. We will discuss and share trade secrets from experts and fellow PS users including copying master schedules, dependent sections, importing pictures, co-teaching, Quick exports, Student Field Value updates, option classes, timetabling, attendance taking and more! We will share stories of how we have learned to manage tasks, what works, what doesn’t. Bring your questions and tips & tricks to share with everyone. |
User Type: Elementary & Junior High Admin Support
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: Elem & Junior High Levels (K-9) Session Length: 90 Minutes Interactive Sharing Session |
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HS Round Table & Best Practices Sharing
In this session we will have a round table discussion about what works, what doesn’t and how individual schools have handled various aspects of High School. We will discuss and share trade secrets from experts and fellow PS users including Flex scheduling, Header classes, attendance, co-teaching, concurrent enrollments, course and section set-up, AB ED/PASI requirements and more!We will share stories of how we have learned to manage tasks, what works, what doesn’t. Bring your questions and tips & tricks to share with everyone. |
User Type: Senior High Admin Support
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: Senior High (10-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Interactive Sharing Session |
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Outreach Round Table & Best Practices Sharing
Outreach Schools offer a very special program that is sometimes difficult to manage. In this session we will share the practices from our outreach programs and compare what is working and brainstorm for things that are not. Please come prepared to share your experiences with a positive attitude on how to make things better. |
User Type: Outreach Admin Support
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: Outreach SSession Length: 90 Minutes Interactive Sharing Session |
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Excel – Beginner And Beyond
Excel is a great tool for working with PowerSchool Data. Learning to manipulate the information to meet your needs helps with work flow and day to day office functions. This session will cover the basics of the Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, Contextual Menus, View, Zoom, Moving around Excel Basic Formulas (+,-,*,/ and Sum, Average, Min, Max, BEDMAS [math order]), fill data handle, Cut, Copy, Paste, etc. NOTE: This will be a hands on session so you will need your own laptop with Excel (Version 2007 or 2010) |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Beginners School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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Excel – Functions That Will WOW You
Once you learn the basics of Excel you can do many things to enhance your job but you will be wowed by what other functions of Excel can do for you. This session will cover more advanced tasks like: Formulas (SumIf & Averageif), Name manager, Worksheets management [tabs], formulas between worksheets, Comments, Charts, Conditional Formatting, etc. NOTE: This will be a hands on session so you will need your own laptop with Excel (Version 2007 or 2010). |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Intermediate School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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Excel - Analyzing Your PowerSchool Data
Once you have mastered the Basic and Intermediate level, you will be ready for the big leagues with the Advanced! This session will take a look at advanced functions like: Quick Access Toolbar, fill handle, autocorrect, vlookup, Concatenate formula, Divide text into two columns, remove duplicates, pivot tables, etc. NOTE: This will be a hands on session so you will need your own laptop with Excel (Version 2007 or 2010). |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Advanced School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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Helping You Help Your Parents - Troubleshooting Parent Portal
Helping parents understand Parent Portal can be difficult when you don’t get to see it yourself. In this session we will go through the functions and features of Parent Portal, helping you to understand the information being viewed by parents. We will also show you how to help parents resolve issues with creating an account, password issues and how to add or remove students from their account. A great session for tips to make it easier to help parents and to troubleshoot problems. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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HUB...bring on your questions!
“O magic 8 ball why does my PowerSchool do this or do that?” Wouldn’t that be awesome if we had a magic 8 ball we could ask our PowerSchool questions and get an intelligent answer? Well unfortunately sometimes we don’t, so book in at the HUB and we’ll try our best to give you a better answer than “The Outlook looks good” or “My sources say No” |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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Mining the Database for Beginners
An introduction to PowerSchool DDE, Tables and Exporting. DDE allows users to locate, view, and export data using PowerSchool fields and tables. This session will go through the tables that PowerSchool stores information in, how to filter searches to narrow the information down, export this data and finally analyze the data. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Beginner School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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Mining the Database for the Experienced
Tired of bugging your PowerSchool Database administrator for data? Or maybe you don’t have a database administrator and you struggle to get the data you need from PowerSchool? Then this is the class for you. We will do some review from the DDE beginner class and then jump right into the action. We will cover the most common tables in PowerSchool and discuss what is related to what. We will look at the most common ID’s needed to get the correct data from these tables and then we’ll explore a couple of ways to massage the data in Excel to finish the session off! |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Intermediate to Advanced School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Hands On Session |
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PowerSchool for Newbies
Moving to a new SIS can be overwhelming. This session is designed for those who are recently new to PowerSchool. We will cover how to perform basic searches, understanding the menu’s, navigating between students, personalizing your PowerSchool, basic reports, etc. We will also discuss where to go for further help and resources, and many other topics for the new to PowerSchool user. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Beginners School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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PowerSource - A Font of Useful Knowledge
A demonstration of PowerSource for Admin Support - Mastery In Minutes, Distance Learning, Forums, extensive PS Knowledgebase, Enhancement Requests, etc. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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PowerTeacher/PT Administrator – Helping Teachers Help Themselves
Why are you still creating class lists and certain reports for your teachers? Let’s take a tour into PowerTeacher to see what Teachers see and what they can do. What about your substitutes … are you entering their attendance? Another duty to take off your list of things to do … we’ll show you the PowerSchool Sub portal. PT Administrator is another tool available at the admin level, and this session will give a brief overview of its functions and how it can work for you. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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PS Tips and Tricks
Tips and tricks you may not have known or used before. We will share processes and How-tos that we use in our districts to make our life easier (at least in PS). Having guidelines and consistency helps keep our data integrity high and our errors and alerts low. We will show you some simple trouble shooting steps for basic PS and PT issues. If you have a Tip or Trick you would like to share with others, bring it along. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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PScheduler - Junior High Scheduling
Scheduling in Jr. High/Middle Schools can be very challenging when you are not able to access the students coming to you from feeder schools. In this session we will show the basics of PowerScheduler that would allow you to do scheduling for those students prior to the End of Year Process. From there, you will be able to decide if it is something that would work for you in your school. |
User Type: Junior High Admin Support
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: Junior High Levels (K-9) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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PScheduler - HS Best Practices
PowerScheduler for High schools – Do you help or would like to be more involved with PowerScheduler and building your student/teacher schedules for the new year? How can I help my Principal and or Vice Principal? What does my PowerSchool admin need to do and when? What can I do and when? This session goes through the decisions and timelines. From setup to commit and beyond this course will show the possibility of using different ways, tips and tricks, queries, reports and tools course request collection etc. to help you and your school to ensure the best results for your school in the new year! |
User Type: Senior High Admin Support
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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PScheduler - Planning for Scheduling
This session will talk about PowerScheduler, a tool that can be used at all grade levels to pre-plan schedules for future years. The focus of this session is on planning rather than detailed procedure - what are the key steps that need to be done, what tools are available and what benefits are there to using this spectacular PowerSchool capability. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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Where Oh Where Can They Be?
Being able to find and work with a group of students is an integral part of an Admin Support's job. In this session we will go through searching for groups using basic and advanced searches as well as discover some of the "hidden" searches with in PowerSchool. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: Beginner to Intermediate School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
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Mountain Retreat Yoga
Enjoy this 75 minute blend of Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates and Relaxation/Meditation in a beautiful mountain setting. What to bring: yoga mat, water bottle and workout clothing. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels. No experience required. Session Length: 90 Minutes Wellness Session |
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Zumba
There are lots of ways to burn 800 calories...Zumba is just more fun! This 75 minute session will have you smiling, shaking your booty and sweating to music from around the world. Low impact and heart pumping, get your groove on and dance your stress away and let it move you! What to bring: towel, water bottle, comfortable workout clothes, gym shoes, smiles |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels. No experience required Session Length: 90 Minutes Wellness Session |
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Acorn Online Forms
Learn how to use this new, powerful, and user-friendly module within Acorn to create parent-facing online forms. Acorn Online Forms can be used to replace many types of paper forms used at your schools, such as field trip permission forms, yearbooks orders, hot lunch orders, transportation registration, and online donations. Online forms even have the capability of creating assigned seating banquets. Online forms save you and your staff time by streamlining the process of collecting, digitizing, and reporting information gathered from parents. Come find out just how quick and easy it is to create your own customized forms for your District! |
User Type: All Users currently using Acorn
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Vendor Session |
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Intellimedia - Dossier
Dossier is integrated into the workflow and data of PowerSchool. Dossier is a platform that both records data from outside of PowerSchool and makes available information based on the data entered, from PowerSchool and from outside the system. The session focuses on: Dossier Inclusive Education, PAT and Diploma Reporting, Attendance Analysis and Reporting. |
User Type: All Users currently using Dossier
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes Vendor Session |
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PowerSchool New Features
Our District PowerSchool reps will go over some of the newest, most exciting features of PowerSchool. Topics to be covered will include an overview of the new PowerTeacher Pro, Enterprise Reporting and a PS Roadmap. |
User Type: All Users
Level of Experience: All Levels School / Grade Level: All School Levels (K-12) Session Length: 90 Minutes |
