There are many times when we need to find out where a student is at the current moment in time. Normally it’s a bit of a process where you need to search for the student, look at his/her schedule for the current date, figure out what period you are in, then figure out where that student is during that period. Well this alert makes it much easier. With this alert you can see exactly where the student is supposed to be at the current moment in time. If you are feeling ambitious you can give it to the teachers too, the teacher alert is included though you will need to update the student pages yourself.
You may install this as a plugin or unzip and install in the custom/web_root.
Change History
V 2.0 - Released 2009-02-24
V 4.0 - Released 2014-08-06
Comments
dchambers
Mon, 08/25/2014 - 4:58pm
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Find Me Plugin Question
I installed the Find Me Plugin and enabled it, but I'm not seeing this feature to use on the start page. We are on Power School version 8.0.1.
I have installed other plugins without difficulty. Can you give me some advise on how to get this to show up for our staff?
Thank you
Deb Chambers
MiCase Consortium
Deb Chambers
MiCase Support Specialist II
gmyers
Tue, 08/26/2014 - 9:46am
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The Find Me link only shows
The Find Me link only shows when viewing a particular student record so it knows who to find.
Greg Myers
Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill
dchambers
Tue, 08/26/2014 - 5:23pm
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Thank you
Thank you Greg for your help. There is so much to learn with this new program.
Deb Chambers
MiCase
Deb Chambers
MiCase Support Specialist II
joaniemac22
Tue, 09/09/2014 - 1:10pm
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find me alert
Jason, I am not sure how to change the student pages appropriately for the alert to show up.
parchmank
Wed, 09/10/2014 - 12:05pm
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Find me not working
I have downloaded and installed as well on 8.0.1 and it is not working for us. You never see the icon on any page. I have downloaded a few other customization's from here and my PS implementation manager mentioned it may be conflicting with another I have installed.
UPDATE: I have a 'Special Education Alert' customization. The title_student_end_css.findme.txt and title_student_end_css.txt are conflicting. Still do not have a fix
Eric.Krebill
Thu, 09/11/2014 - 8:59am
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Special Education Alert
I wrote the Special Education Alert that you're probably having problems with. I wrote a new version that is a plugin and doesn't interfere with the FindMe alert. Basically, you need to delete my old alert and delete the old findme alert, then install them both with the new plugin versions and it works great.
dwalker254
Sat, 10/04/2014 - 6:01am
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May I ask. . .
where this special education alert would be found?
kathys
Wed, 04/26/2017 - 9:28am
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Where can I find the Special
Where can I find the Special Education Alert?
Kathy Stainbrook
Computer Technician Student Information Manager
Centerville-Abington Community Schools
115 West South Street
Centerville, IN 47330
kstainbrook@centerville.k12.in.us
Phone: 765-855-3475 Ext 2193
Fax: 765-855-3815
vbooth
Tue, 06/06/2017 - 7:16am
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Interested in Special Education Alert also...
I would also be interested to know where I can find the Special Education Alert. I have installed the Find Me Alert, but have not been able to locate information about the Special Education Alert.
Did you ever receive information?
Thank you!
Virginia Booth
vbooth@lcs.k12.va.us
trishb
Fri, 06/09/2017 - 11:35am
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Where can we get the SpEd Alert?
We are also interested in the SpEd Alert?
parchmank
Tue, 01/30/2018 - 9:47am
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Plug-In version
can you email me the plug-in version of the SPED alert? parchmank@gcssd.org
rhardin
Wed, 11/28/2018 - 10:39am
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Special Education Alert
Eric,
Could you email me the SpEd Alert plugin?
rhardin@valleyheights.org
Thanks
Ron
jmercier74
Wed, 01/16/2019 - 12:27pm
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Special Education Alert
Hi Eric - Can you email me the Special Education Alert? jmercier@rsd17.org
Thanks
John
John M. Mercier
mariaduvivier
Fri, 01/24/2020 - 1:47pm
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special ed alert
Where can I find this alert?
PSCB
Fri, 01/24/2020 - 2:31pm
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special ed alert - Reply
The special ed alert is not published on PowerData Solutions. If you look through the comments you may find a email link for the person who developed the plugin.
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Rob Staats
PSCB Development
agjohnson
Tue, 02/18/2020 - 11:27am
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Special Education Alert
Could you email me the Special Education alert? Thanks.
khopkins2965
Tue, 08/22/2023 - 6:50am
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SPED Alert
Can you please send me the SPED alert plugin??
karen.hopkins@frco.k12.va.us
parchmank
Mon, 09/15/2014 - 11:30am
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Thank you Eric!
WE LOVE our SpEd alert. Thank you for the response and great work!
Akrause
Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:16pm
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If you have a custom title
If you have a custom title_student_end_css.txt, you may have an issue with this plugin/customization functioning. You can add the code from the title_student_end_css.findme.student.alert.txt to your existing title_student_end_css.txt and it will fix the issue, as a temporary solution.
jeanstarkman
Wed, 10/22/2014 - 10:31am
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Attendance on Find Me Alert
When we click on the the icon, the information is great. However, my attendance does not show the code that is set for the student for that day. How can I see the daily attendance?
suejconsulting@...
Thu, 11/20/2014 - 5:32am
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Find Me Plugin
Hi,
I have tried to install the find me plugin many times. It does not show up on any of my student pages. I would love to get this working for my users. Thank you!
evansm
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:27am
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Spec Ed Alert ?
Just doing the upgrade on the Find me Alert to the plugin method , and wondering what the Spec Ed Alert is ? I don't see it listed here or in PS Exchange .
Thanks,
Mike
Mike Evans
ICT Department
DCDSB
MJRowland
Tue, 02/03/2015 - 2:37pm
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Find Me
Jason,
I've installed the find me alert but it's not showing up anywhere on my student pages. Dori changed the coding on our special ed alert so that should be ok. Any suggestions on getting the find me alert to work? Dumb it down for me!
Michelle J. Rowland
PowerSchool Administrator
Madison Grant United School District
Indiana
ajmann
Wed, 03/11/2015 - 12:35pm
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I installed the plugin but
I installed the plugin but the icon is broken. I have tried to fix it but nothing works. Has this happened to anyone?
Kijana
Thu, 03/26/2015 - 11:58am
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No attendance
I installed the plugin, but the attendance portion is not working.
Kijana
Fri, 03/27/2015 - 9:02am
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Does not work for all schools in district
I installed the plugin and it works for one school, but not the other. Any thoughts?
mwatkins
Tue, 05/19/2015 - 1:31pm
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Icon Not Lining Up With Other Alert Icons
We are still on version 7.11.1 and I have installed the Find Me Alert via the plug-in method. The alert works perfect, and functions just as it should. However, the small binocular icon image (alert_findme) is not lining up with the other alert icons. It's up and to the right of the other alert icons. I've looked through all of the code I can see and tried several changes but nothing seems to bring it in-line. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Michael A. Watkins
PowerSchool Administrator
Barnwell School District 45
Barnwell, SC 29812
mbates
Fri, 07/17/2015 - 11:09am
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Broken on 8.3 here too
The icon shows, but when I click it, I get a browser popup error that says "An error was detected contacting the server. Please contact customer support if this continues to occur." Waah...
mbates
Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:36am
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Fixed!
I had the findmealert.html file in the wrong folder -- I had put it in /admin/alerts when it needed to be one level up, in /admin. Thanks to dd4ml0d's post on the other thread here: http://www.powerdatasolutions.org/content/find-me-alert Whew! Hooray! Thank you as always for these VITAL customizations. :)
msullivanvfma
Tue, 08/18/2015 - 11:20am
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Not seeing the icon
Hello all :) Learned about this great tool at PSU DC, and have just installed the Plug In as downloaded here (we are hosted and on 9.0) I don't see the icon, but am wondering if it is because classes don't start until 8/31? Will I need to wait until then to test to verify that it is working?
Thanks!
Megan
msullivanvfma
Fri, 08/21/2015 - 2:17pm
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SUCCESS
Hello again.....I was looking through some old files of other customized projects I'd worked on and realized that the intsall plug-ins you have to use the ZIPPED file, not extract and then install.....I figured it out on my own! Woot! Posting in case someone else comes along and makes the same mistake.
mcronkite
Tue, 12/08/2015 - 12:23pm
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Not seeing the Icon on the Admin side
I went and installed the plug in and it showed up in the backpacks in PowerTeacher. Nothing had showed up on the Admin side??? I read notes regarding showing it on the teacher side but didn't do any of that. PS Version 9.1.1
jlfiller
Tue, 03/22/2016 - 9:55am
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not sure what I'm supposed to see
My registrar went to a PSUG conference and asked me to install the FindMeAlert plugin. I did that, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see. I think there is a new icon that appears on the student record with binoculars? If so, I don't see it. How do I troubleshoot this plugin?
Joy Filler
Wilton Public Schools, Wilton CT USA
jlfiller
Tue, 03/22/2016 - 9:57am
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not sure what I'm supposed to see -- update
So I logged on as a teacher, and the binoculars show up in the backpack and it works there. So it's just not showing up on the admin side. Suggestions?
many thanks -- love what you do!
Joy
Joy Filler
Wilton Public Schools, Wilton CT USA
jlfiller
Tue, 03/22/2016 - 10:08am
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solved
Found a very helpful comment from Akrause which solved my problem!
Joy Filler
Wilton Public Schools, Wilton CT USA
LindiLu
Thu, 03/31/2016 - 12:54pm
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Only showing in Power Teacher
I am unable to see the binoculars on the Admin side. Help please!!
LindiLu
Wed, 04/13/2016 - 9:03am
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Figured it out!
HELP!!!! Is there a way to take the students picture off the alert? My counselor is complaining that it takes up too much room :/
I figured it out! But it didn't give back much space when the picture was removed. So, I am leaving it.
jreppond
Tue, 07/25/2017 - 10:47am
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Teacher phone number?
I would like to add the phone number of the teacher to this but am not sure how to do it. I've tried a number of things, but wondered if I could find out how to add this additional piece!
JoLynne Reppond, M.S.
Nixa A+/PowerSchool/Core Data
Nixa High School
kcooper
Fri, 09/15/2017 - 8:58am
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Find Me Alert Plugin
We have updated to 11 and our Plug in for the find me alert has stopped working. Could you please assist?
parchmank
Tue, 10/31/2017 - 1:08pm
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Fine Me - Not Working
We are not working as well. Anyone have a solution thus far? This is such a helpful plug-in!
cindy_lejeune@w...
Fri, 09/15/2017 - 1:23pm
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11
We also are on 11 and can't get it to install
espo610
Thu, 11/02/2017 - 11:52am
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Find Me
Also not working on v11. Any ideas??
awilliams_eps
Fri, 11/03/2017 - 10:01am
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Find Me Alert Plugin
Thank you! Installed the plugin today on v11.0.2 and it is working great. The staff love it!
parchmank
Thu, 01/11/2018 - 10:40am
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Which version did you install
got it!
dmartinson
Thu, 11/09/2017 - 8:25am
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Find Me Alert
The current time is off about 10 minutes in Find Me. Is there a way to change that?
lpearce
Thu, 11/09/2017 - 8:47am
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Special Education Alert
Where can I find the Special Education Alert?
jbarnes
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 6:36am
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Customer Service number
This is my first time dealing with this company and I can't find a phone number for them anywhere. Powerschool cannot help, as PDS is a 3rd party. Any help is appreciated, as this has been a real hassle getting through this.
aplarsen
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 10:11am
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This isn't really a company,
This isn't really a company, Julie. It's a collection of volunteer developers who make contributions to the PowerSchool community. Are you having problems with the Find Me Alert that you'd like to ask about?
gash
Fri, 09/07/2018 - 11:58am
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Find me Plugin
Is the Find Me Plugin working for a new Plugin install for PS 12.0.2 ??
deidoloric
Fri, 01/18/2019 - 9:12am
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two alerts
Hello, when I enable the plugin I get two binoculars for each student with the same information. I looked in the custom pages mgt folders to make sure that an old customization wasn't in there, I don't see any files.
Thank you for your help.
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