1. Difference w/Standards
Bob Cornacchioli, CEO
DERO Technical Services

2. CEO. - DERO Technical Services
CEO - DERO Technical Services Evangelist/Process Assistant- Level Data Marketing - ParkBench Software Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs) PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs)
Bob Cornacchioli

3. GOING – GOING - GONE 8 8

4. www.derotechnical.com for more resources
Topics:
Pre 9 Standards and Standard Grades Plug in
Required FIELDS in PS 8 vs 9
PS 8 Retiring Standards Technique
DDE Changes – Modify Field Values/DIM&DEM
Standard View for Admin
PS 9 increases the # of standards on your server
Jason Springel’s Conversion Scale Customization
Improvements for Non Gradebook Users
Impact on Printed SBRC
for more resources

5. PS 9 has many back end changes to enhance standards (+more)
8.X
In prep for the new Gradebook?
We’re Upgrading to PS 9 Over the Weekend

6. Before moving to 9.0 run the Standards Validation Plug in

7. Standards & StandardsGrades Validation Plug in

8. Standards Validation Results
EVEN IF ALL COME BACK
with (0) - open and
read each

9. What if I didn’t run the plug in’s?
Can you find out if everything updated OK? YES – System – System Logs

10. Checking for Errors
CLICK ON LINK

11. Viewing Warnings

12. Exporting Warnings Note the name of the file StandardsGrades-Backup,
PowerSchool does a back-up
of your PS 8 grades

13. CREATING AN EXCEL IMPORT FILE

14. Character Count for Standards
TRUE – FALSE becomes 1 and 0
MaxCommentLength can’t be BLANK

15. If you wanted to use the new standard tool – you can get some examples

16. Introducing Dynamic Standard Object Reporting
Standard tool DOES NOT CREATE LINES – added afterwards

17. FINALLY… Jason Springel’s Customization was included

18. Import File Changes for 9.0
√ KB Required Fields
PS 9.1 SubjectArea is NOT REQUIRED!

19. Quick Import to Standards Table GONE
Modify Field Value which was lost for standards.
Some newer version of it is in the works – TBA ?

20. Importing via Data Import Manager
Use all the fields – JUST EASIER KB 75310
VIP- Can’t modify SS w/o ID
BUG in PS 9 deleted all courses if course field was left BLANK

21. Text File
Match Fields
Import

22. Standards have to be managed
YEAR TO YEAR/EOY or...
You can do nothing and the standards will roll over as part of the EOY Process
MUST SET UP AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL
YOU MUST THEN BE IN
CREATE STANDARDS LIST for YearID 26

23. SO how do my PS 9 Standards have multiple YearID’s???
In any pre 9 PS installation, the Standards (53) table did not have a field associated with active or year!
SO how do my PS 9 Standards have multiple YearID’s???

24. Standards
YearID’s
BECAUSE standards that were graded did have a year associated to the grade. That info was held in the StandardsGrades (99) table = YearID

25. Standards YearID

26. Exporting via Data Export Manager
Once you have created NEXT YEAR, you will have options to select a year to export
** When you EXPORT – ID can be first, Excel doesn’t like ID in the first column
Move it down one column!

27. “NEW” Standards View

28. “NEW” Standards View

29. “NEW” Standards View

30. “NEW” Standards View

31. “NEW” Standards View

32. Non Gradebook Standards Entry

33. Standard View

34. TYPE AHEAD FILTER

35. HOW CAN YOU FIND INACTIVE

36. CT

37. Q & A ANY AND ALL DERO RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE
TO DOWNLOAD, TWEAK and USE FOR YOUR DISTRICT!
Bob Cornacchioli DERO Technical Services