PSCB - Custom Public Portal

Submitted by PSCB on Sat, 07/20/2019 - 12:03pm

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Version 2.6

Description

This plugin will provide an alternative option to the Enhanced Parent Portal plugin currently available on PowerData Solutions.

The customization is compatible with Powerschool versions 19.x and 20.4. Integration with the PowerTeacher Pro grade book is also supported.

Installation of the PSCB - Base Resources v3.0 plugin is required.
Download the PSCB - Custom Public Portal (Overview/Instructions) document for installation guidance.

The Plugin does not include:

Demographics Update version
Sched_AllowRequests field option
Language Translations

PSCB Development Team

Rob Staats
Manjit Basra
Michael Moore

PDS Contributors

A special thank you is extended to all previous PDS contributors for their efforts in creating the original Enhanced Parent Portal plugin.

Brian Andle
Jason Treadwell
Matt Freund
Roger Sprik

Version Info

2.0 (2019-08-12)
- Initial Release

2.1 (2019-09-21)
- The wildcard file: pscb_pp_init.txt was removed from the plugin. The wildcard file is already included with the PSCB - Base Resources plugin, which is a required installation for the PSCB - Custom Public Portal.

2.2 (2019-10-16)
Added the missing closing tag "[/if#1]" to the class assignments file.

2.3 (2020-01-29)
- Total earned credits now display correctly when credit has been assigned to multiple store codes for the course.
- Previous/Next buttons have bee added to the student Weekly Schedule page.
- The Contacts option was removed form the First page per day menu on the CPP Settings Page.

2.4 (2020-06-05)
- Added Student Report Card
The plugin includes a CPP Report Card Preferences page. School based preferences can be set for the following.

2.5 (2020-06-10)
-Corrected an issue with certain store codes not displaying properly on the student report card.

2.6 (2020-09-10)
- Historical Grades page now displays stored grades that were manually entered without course number.
- Student Track added to Attendance History, MySchedule and Transportation pages.

District / School Information
Student Information
Daily Attendance Information
Course Grades / Attendance Information
Teacher Comments
Honor Roll Status

- Updated Next Year Schedule page.
The plugin includes a CPP Next Year Schedule Settings page. School based settings can be set for the following.

Next Year Schedule Source
PowerScheduler or Schedule Commit

Next Year Schedule Display Elements
Expression
Term
Course Number
Section Number
Course Name
Teacher
Room
Enroll Date
Exit Date

Customization:

Tags:

PS Verions

12.x: 
N
19.4: 
Y
Plugin: 
Y
CPM Import Friendly: 
Y
Report Type: 
Web Based Report
19.11: 
Y
20.4: 
Y

Comments

PSCB

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 10:09am

Yes. Navigate to:

Start Page > School Setup > Parent/Student Access.
Select CPP Page Settings.
Choose Attendance History preference you want to display in the Public Portal.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 10:27am

Thank you!

antonecchia.julie

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 11:42am

Can this still be done if I disable Attendance in the regular Parent/Student access settings?

PSCB

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 12:31pm

Yes

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 12:39pm

Hi Rob,

I just tested and was unable to have the attendance history page active without the attendance being enabled first in Parent/Student Access, so it can't be done I am assuming. Can you please let me know if I am doing something wrong? We do not want parents to see the meeting attendance for our elementary students.

PSCB

Mon, 10/28/2019 - 6:22pm

The CPP Setting preferences need to be completed for each school.

Log in to Powerschool and select an Elementary School.

Navigate to:
Start Page > School Setup > Parent/Student Access.
Select the CPP Page Settings tab.
Choose Attendance History preference "Daily Attendance Only"

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 8:35am

Hi when I enable the plugin, the class Registration icon/link is no longer available on the portal. Is anyone else having this issue?

antonecchia.julie

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 10:35am

Hi Rob, Does the Class Registration icon disappearing have anything to do with the Sched_AllowRequests field option not being included?

PSCB

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 6:53pm

If you previously installed the Enhanced Parent Portal plugin, confirm that the plugin and all associated files have been deleted.

Navigate to:

Start Page > School Setup > Parent/Student Access.
Select CPP Page Settings.
Choose the Student Schedule Requests preference you want to display in the Public Portal.
Available Options: Hide, View and Edit

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Wed, 10/30/2019 - 7:14am

Hi Rob,

EPP has been deleted. Schedule requests setting was on Edit. The entire icon from the panel disappears just by enabling the plugin. Does this have anything to do with your notes:

The initial release will not include:

Demographics Update version
Sched_AllowRequests field option
Language Translations

What is strange is that it is appearing for one school that does not have course requests for 20-21 set up, but is not appearing in our high school which has course requests currently being worked on for 20-21.

Please advise.

Thank you,
Julie

PSCB

Wed, 10/30/2019 - 2:20pm

1. Confirm that you have completed the CPP settings for each school.

2. Confirm that you have created the 2020-2021 school year for all schools.

3. In PowerScheduler confirm the scheduling year has been set to be 2020-2021.

4. In PowerScheduler confirm that Parent/Student access to the grade level request screens has been enabled.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Thu, 10/31/2019 - 7:23am

Thank you, Rob! The request screens were all set up but were not enabled yet. What was confusing was that the Class Registration link was still appearing on the middle school page, but maybe that was because their 20-21 request screens were not set up yet--the previous course requests were showing.

antonecchia.julie

Wed, 11/13/2019 - 9:41am

Hi Rob,

I tried several options from General Options - First Page Per Day dropdown and the first page view does not change. Should I be doing something else? Thanks,Julie

PSCB

Wed, 11/13/2019 - 10:23am

The first page selection will only display for the user's first login for the day.

Set your option. Check to see that it is displayed on your first login tomorrow.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Fri, 11/15/2019 - 9:34am

Hi Rob,

A 404 error message displays when I use any page option except disabled. Is there a different way to redirect the order of the pages?

Thanks

antonecchia.julie

Fri, 11/15/2019 - 9:56am

Hi I was able to redirect page in CPM on home.PSCB.content.header.txt.

gveitch

Tue, 05/12/2020 - 3:53pm

Hi
Is there any way of making this first page work every time you login or click on the homepage? My parents get confused when they see the 'Information not Available - the school has disabled access to this student's data.' when they log in - would prefer to always see the chosen page (School Info).
Thanks
Gayle

PSCB

Tue, 05/12/2020 - 5:53pm

We will add this request to the PSCB enhancement list.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

antonecchia.julie

Thu, 11/14/2019 - 10:41am

Hi I am currently trying to add a custom Student Directory for the parent portal. Has anyone tried to do this for their district? I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions! We would just want to display students who have selected "Yes" for a custom field we created that grants permission to be in the directory and for the student's school only. Then we would need to pull basic student info and custom demographic fields.

Is this something that anyone has tried to do?

PSCB

Fri, 11/15/2019 - 6:01pm

Sorry - PSCB has no plans to develop a Student Directory customization for the Public Portal.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

mskara@bhpsnj.org

Wed, 11/20/2019 - 12:52pm

I have installed Base Resources 2.4 and PSCB - Custom Public Portal 2.2, but the Custom Public Portal tab is not available. It's as if there's no Plugin. I have PowerSchool 12.1.4 and I did restart ReportWorks service.

PSCB

Wed, 11/20/2019 - 2:02pm

The PSCB - Custom Public Portal 2.2 plugin is Parent/Student portal customization.

Download the PSCB - Custom Public Portal (Overview:Instructions).pdf for installation guidance.

To access the CPP Page Settings page navigate to: Start Page > School Setup > Parent/Student Access > CCP Settings

Note: The CPP settings should be completed for each school in the district.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

mskara@bhpsnj.org

Thu, 11/21/2019 - 8:58am

Rob,
The documentation was superb. However, after installation of the plug in, there is no third tab under Parent/Student Access. CCP settings are MIA. "Available Features" and "General". Here are screenshots of my implementation - https://tinyurl.com/tetwpnu

PSCB

Thu, 11/21/2019 - 10:40am

If you previously used the EPP plugin, confirm that all files from that plugin have been removed.

Using CPM, navigate to the admin/schoolsetup/ folder and confirm that you see the following customized files.

cpp_settings.html
parent_student_settings_fbss.pscb.content.footer.txt
parent_student_settings_general.pscb.content.footer.txt

If the CPP Settings tab is still not visible, it could be the result of another customization.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

mskara@bhpsnj.org

Wed, 11/27/2019 - 1:51pm

None of those pages you listed are customized. There is no file called cpp_settings.

https://tinyurl.com/sduz4ur is the screenshot.

PSCB

Wed, 11/27/2019 - 2:46pm

The absence of the those 3 files in CPM indicates that the PSCB - Custom Public Portal v 2.2 plugin has not been successfully installed and enabled.

Navigate to:
Start Page > System Administrator > System Settings > Plugin Management Dashboard

Confirm that the PSCB - Custom Public Portal v 2.2 plugin is listed and enabled.
What other PSCB plugins have you installed?

Also navigate to:
Start Page > System Administrator > System Settings > Customization

Confirm that the "Customization Enabled" box is checked.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

reynoldsn

Tue, 12/10/2019 - 10:26am

Hi PSCB team.... Rob Staats, Manjit Basra, Michael Moore, et al! I just installed this plug-in and love it. However, one quick issue I hope you can guide me to fix!

The historical grades is not calculating the EARNED CREDITS correctly. The Sem 1 and Sem 2 grades are displaying correctly. All the grades are displaying correctly but instead of 1.0 earned credits, it is only displaying .50 earned credits.

Also, is there a way to add-in the historical grades from the other schools. The transfer-in grades for our uppper school students are not displaying on the historical grades page.

Please help.

PSCB

Tue, 12/10/2019 - 11:27am

The page displays the earned credits assigned to Historical stored grade

In Admin, navigate to the student’s historical grades page. Click on a grade in question, and confirm the earned credits stored with grade.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

reynoldsn

Tue, 12/10/2019 - 12:56pm

Hi Rob,

yes, I did see the Transfer-in Grades (grades from other schools) on the Grade History page. I like the layout on the historical grades page better but since it does not include transfer-in grades, I will close that one and use only the Grade History page.

Regarding the Earned Credit. Yes, the year long classes are displaying correctly on the Admin side and on the student transcript. We assign each semester .50 credits. The credits also display correctly (.50 per semester or 1 credit for full year classes) on the transcript.

But they are displaying as .00 on the Grade History page. (The credits are displaying as .50 for the year long classes on the Historical Grades page but we have closed that since we use the Grade History page).

I tried to include a screen shot into this reply but am not able to!

PSCB

Wed, 12/11/2019 - 12:55pm

Send a screen shot of the Public Portal - Grade History and Historical Grades pages to: pscb.development@gmail.com

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

reynoldsn

Tue, 12/10/2019 - 1:10pm

hi PSCB team!

I love the demographics page of your plug-in! The legal name, gender, school and district entry dates are not populating. I'll try and figure out where that information should be populated so it will display.

I read somewhere that you are considering allowing update ability a future release and wanted to offer some input. It looks like the address is pulling from the student's address page which contains a home and mailing address fields.

It's disappointing that we cannot display this demographics page yet! You see, we have students with two households at our school. We populate the household 1 address in the 'home address' fields and populate household 2 in the 'mailing address' fields.

It would be very disappointing, frustrating and alarming to the other parent if they did not see their household address listed.

I'll continue watching your site to see what's included in your future releases.

PSCB

Wed, 12/11/2019 - 11:14am

1. Legal Name and Gender are not displaying. This would indicate that the following
student files have not been populated.

StudentCoreFields.PSCORE_LEGAL_FIRST_NAME
StudentCoreFields.PSCORE_LEGAL_MIDDLE_NAME
StudentCoreFields.PSCORE_LEGAL_LAST_NAME)
StudentCoreFields.PSCORE_LEGAL_SUFFIX
StudentCoreFields.PSCORE_LEGAL_GENDER)

2. PSCB Development has no plans to implement an Update Demographics option.

3. The next release of the Public Portal plugin will include both the physical and mailing addresses.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

reynoldsn

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 6:22am

Hi Team,

Any suggestions on how we can add the 'next' button on the schedule for parents? We use a 7 day rotation and parents like to plan ahead. They need to be able to advance to the next week's schedule.

PSCB

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 7:08pm

The next release of the PSCB - Custom Parent Portal plugin will include the Previous/Next buttons on the Bell Schedule page.

The updated plugin will be published before the end of January.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

reynoldsn

Fri, 01/24/2020 - 7:36am

thank you!

PSCB

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 3:33pm

The PSCB - Custom Public Portal v2.3 plugin now includes Previous/Next buttons on the Weekly Schedule page in the Public Portal.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

stein34

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 7:21am

Are there any plans to add the ability to view a report card in the parent portal?

Blake Stein
Assistant Principal
McGill-Toolen Catholic High School
steinb@mcgill-toolen.org

PSCB

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 7:02pm

PSCB Development has no plans for developing an online Parent Portal report card.

There are a number third party companies that provide Parent Portal report cards.

Marcia Brenner Associates has a PowerSchool Report Card Creator plugin that has been favorably reviewed by a large number of users.

https://mba-link.com/report-card-creator-powerschool-plugin/

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

cheeseman

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 12:24pm

Wrong place sorry...

Gary Warner
Adams Central Public Schools
Hastings Nebraska

cheeseman

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 12:24pm

I just installed this and of course it AWESOME!!. I am checking out all the settings and came across this. At the very bottom you can choose what page the parents see first. I saw the contacts (OMG YES!!!). But when we test it. There is not the page that comes up, but an error on the parents' side that states this page is not available. It is ref'ing this page /guardians/contact.html... I could not find it and there is no link inside my parent portal for a contacts page either. Demographic, yes.

Gary Warner
Adams Central Public Schools
Hastings Nebraska

PSCB

Wed, 01/29/2020 - 3:30pm

PSCB made the decision to not include a Contacts page in the Public Portal. The First Page Display has been removed from the settings menu.

You should update to the PSCB - Custom Public Portal v2.3.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

pupanekn

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 8:25am

First off, THANK YOU, for this report bundle! I literally felt like it was Christmas when I opened the report portal.
May I ask, in reviewing the Students-Contacts Mailing List, the report is not pulling the current address for those students who have moved. For example, on the contacts page if we have entered an end date for a previous address and entered a new address it is not pulling the most current address.
Is this something that can be fixed?

pupanekn

Thu, 01/30/2020 - 8:33am

Just playing around and may have answered my own question. Apparently, the most current address needs to be listed first and then the report pulls correctly. ;)

deidoloric

Wed, 02/19/2020 - 6:34am

Thank you for this update to the portal! One item that works differently than the old portal is course registration. In the past, we would allow middle school parents and student to View the selections without submitting. When I changed to "View", the message reads that there are no courses selections to display. "Edit" works well and I'm thinking the View will work after some selections have been submitted. Any change the view before selections can display the course registration screen?

PSCB

Wed, 02/19/2020 - 9:25am

Sorry. The Course Registration screen only displays when the preference is set to ‘Edit’.
Viewing the registration screen without submitting is no longer an available option.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

philliploomis

Fri, 02/28/2020 - 7:47am

Let me start by saying I'm a new PS SIS Admin this school year. I recently learned there are several plugins from PSCB installed in our system.

I updated the PSCD - Base Resources to v3.0 (from v2.0) without incident.

I then installed PSCB - Custom Public Portal v2.3. This caused duplicate icons of 'Next Years Schedule' to appear, and the 'Class Registration' to not appear. Further, when an icon is clicked, the number of icons decreases and the 'Class Registration' icon appears. Lastly, when the 'Class Registration' icon is selected, an error message of "The school has disabled access to this student's data" is displayed even though everything is set correctly in PowerScheduler.

The underlying reason for these to be updated is that our incoming 7th graders (into middle school from elementary) are unable to register for classes if we leave customizations turned on. PS has stopped working on the trouble ticket as they have said it's caused by a customization. Any ideas/thoughts that could help clear this issue would be greatly appreciated.

A quick side question, there are several plugins which look similar to PSCB plugins, but they do not have PSCB at the start of the name (Custom Reports Bundle - Attendance, Enrollment, Grading, etc.) and all with a version number of 4.1.X. Are these also PSCB plugins or are they from someone else?

Thank you for any information you could provide for me to better understand the plugins I have installed and maintaining them.

PSCB

Fri, 02/28/2020 - 10:55am

1. The issues you encountered are due to conflicts with previously installed PDS plugins. The older plugins are no longer supported by the original developers. They should be removed from your server and replaced with the current PSCB plugins which are updates to the previous plugins you have installed.

2. You also need to the install the PSCB - Custom Reports (_Home Page) plugin.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

ricem

Tue, 04/28/2020 - 9:10am

Should the EPP v 5.0.2 plugin be deleted before installing PSCB - Custom Public Portal v2.3 plugin?

PSCB

Tue, 04/28/2020 - 9:43am

Yes. The EPP v 5.0.2 plugin should be deleted before installing PSCB - Custom Public Portal v2.3 plugin.

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Rob Staats
PSCB Development

LiebermanD

Fri, 05/08/2020 - 8:49am

All of the principals in our district really appreciate the CPP module... Is there a way to not show the teacher column of the Next Year Schedule? (This may change over the summer as we balance sections and want to avoid having to call home based on teacher assignments!)

David Lieberman

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