Summer Time Rolls

Posted Sometime in

May your summer projects be completed on time, on budget, and bug-free.

Today I am serving up a new version of the Instant Family Reps plugin
The plugin is now fully translatable via PowerSchool's localization features. 
And it includes a handy little "siblings alert" option. See the plugin page for full details.

I do plan on making all my plugins translatable as they are getting other feature highlights. 
It is just a matter of time. Precious little time.

Roll on summer, roll on...

Better late than never... or is it?

Posted Sometime in

Attention those using the IARrific or IARrific + ACCESS plugins!

A lot changed with the 24.3 state reporting update in terms of IAR. 

  • Science accommodations were added (even though they are not labeled ISA).
  • Some of the field names for ELA/Math were changed (even though... what? why?).
  • The IAR Pre-ID tab added some accommodation validation (even though I still like mine better).


It took me a good chunk of spring break, but I have the IARrific stuff updated to reflect these changes.
Also updated some of my validation scripts and added a note that shows when you select the Read Aloud accommodation about it needing a separate session in PAN (thanks for the idea Rich).
Please makes sure you are running IL state reporting version 24.3+ before updating to version 2.0 of either plugin.

Now the big question is, will any of this effort matter in a year when IL decides to move ISA off of PAN?

Yardwork season is almost here!

Posted Sometime in

Couple of minor updates to the List Students and Class Roster Auto-loader plugins. 

For those in Illinois, I know the recent state reporting update added fields for science/ISA accommodations. 
But these are in flux still (why no Accommodate 504 field?). And the IL PAN Pre-ID Report has yet to be updated for science. 
Once this stuff is worked out, I promise to update the IARrific plugins.

Hope to see some of you at the Myrtle Beach PSUG this coming May!