Discovering the Best School Data Solutions for Your Needs

Whether you’re a teacher, administrator, or parent, finding the right school data solutions can be tricky. With so many options available, it’s important to find a way to store and manage your data efficiently and securely. In this guide, we’ll cover the basics of school data solutions and offer some tips on how to choose […]

5 Ways to Customize Your Powerschool

Customize your powerschool by choosing from five different options. Each option has its pros and cons, so choose wisely! MBA’s Report Card Plugin If you’ve ever wanted to create custom “electronic” report cards, now you can with our new report card plugin. It allows you to do exactly, and with ease. Parents will be able […]

[Updated] Veracross Python API library

Hey Techies! A follow-up to our previous release of the Veracross Python Library, the library has now been upgraded to include CREATE, UPDATE and DELETE calls. This brings the library to cover all the operations that VC API supports viz, create, update, delete, list and read. Here is the list of updated features: Can make Read, […]

New Veracross API v3 Library Released!

We have published this repository for anyone who wishes to build using VC API v3 and Python. The code is flexible enough and can adapt to all Read and List calls. We have deliberately kept the terminology along the lines VC uses: Read and List. Highlights: Can make Read/List calls (patch/put/create will come later) The access […]

How to create a Settings page in Powerschool Admin panel

Creating a Settings page and adding it to the list is actually quite easy once you get hold of it. The slides below will help you understand how this is done. This post was originally published on PowerschoolResources.com

Elementary School Report Cards

At AES, we transitioned our Elementary School from Veracross to PowerSchool this year while our Middle School was transitioned a year before. One of the important milestone in this transition was semester-end report cards. Our previous report cards were based on Crystal Reports templates. As we migrated to PowerSchool and in the process adopted standards-based grading, a […]

Installing a self-compiled gettext on Mac OS X

Gibbon in an application stack that provides module-based functionality related to school systems. While try to install it on a Macbook Air, I bumped into a roadblock: the installation screen was blank. Turns out, Gibbon requires a PHP extension gettext which is not installed on Mac OSx by default. There are many ways to achieve this but the […]