Please Introduce Yourself!

[jbidk]

Our Community is a great place to connect with other PowerSchool users and exchange ideas.

Please share a bit about yourself such as your role, where you are from, which PowerSchool solutions you are currently using, and any additional areas of interest you'd like to include. 

Our Community would love to hear from you!

[jgates]

Thanks!  Much appreciated!

[rrusseau]

Hello everyone,

I just realized that whle I've replied to someone's introduction, I never officially introduced myself. My name is Rod Russeau. I am the Director of Technology & Information Services for Community High School District 99 in Downers Grove, IL. We are a district with two high schools, about 5,000 students, an hour west of Chicago.

Weve been eSchoolPLUS and eFinancePLUS users since 2007. We were beta users of IEPPlus 5,0, and are now users of PowerSchool Special Education. 

I've been serving in this role at District 99 for 22 years. Technology has certainly changed in that time! Before that, I spent 20 years working for a company that developed student and financial information systems for schools. Over that time I did everything from software design, programming, installations, training, support and management. I had the good fortune to visit and work with hundreds of school districts all across the country.

I am looking forward to this unitied platform allowing communications and sharing of resources.

Happy Easter everyone!

Rod Russeau

[Jaclynp]

Hi Rod

Welcome to the PowerSchool Community!

Looks like you have a interesting and extensive background, thanks for sharing.

We hope you will enjoy the Community and connect with other users like yourself.

Feel free to post questions, or respond to posts that you may know the answer.

Happy Easter to you too!

Jaclynp

PowerSchool Community Moderator

[Lynn48026]

Hi

[MichelleB]

Hi @Lynn48026

Welcome to the Community!  Did you want to share a bit about yourself or the PowerSchool products you are using? 

Please feel free to explore the Knowledge Base articles and forums within Community. Posting is a great way to earn badges and to be added to the leaderboard.  We encourage you to post questions and feedback as you go through implementation and the Community will be happy to assist you along the way!

[amhtech]

Hello,

My name is Tricia Corey. I am the Technology Business Analyst for Alamo Heights ISD in San Antonio, Texas.

I have been using PowerSchool (Sungard) products since 2001.

I am the district Cognos writer and I manage ESP. We are using Cognos 10 and we are on ESP 4.0 and EFP 5.1. We are in the process of implementing InfoSnap for our Online Enrollment Registration process.

We are a small district with 5 campuses, about 4700 students.

I am looking forward to sharing and communicating with other ESP users.

Thank you!

[jgates]

Welcome 🙂

[soltist]

Hi. 

I work for the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit in Edinboro, PA.  As an IU, and not a school district, we have challenges when using eSchool Plus, because we aren't typical.  Can you tell me how I can subsribe to feeds that only apply to eSchool Plus? 

Thanks!

Tammy

[MichelleB]

Welcome @amhtech and @soltist to the Community!  

It is so great to see such a variety of members using different products!  I hope that this venue helps you to connect with others and share ideas.

@soltist, have you had a chance to check out the eSchool Plus product support area:   https://help.powerschool.com/t5/eSchoolPLUS/ct-p/eSchoolPLUS ? From here, you can choose Subscribe from the Options button drop down. 

Thank you both for introducing yourselves!

[soltist]

When I try this link, I get "Access Denied". 

[SMBISHOP]

Good Morning,

My name is Serena Bishop.  I am one of the Senior Application Support Analysts on our ERP Team at Muscogee County School District in Columbus, GA.  

I am looking forward to being able to access the Contact Support feature of this new Community.  At this time I get Access Denied. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. 

Have a great day! 

Serena M Bishop

[dr478]

Good morning, @SMBISHOP

Welcome to the community. Can you tell me what button is giving you the access denied error? I am guessing that you are going to have to contact your PowerSchool Technical Support Engineer to get this resolved.

[SMBISHOP]

Hey Doug, 

Thanks for your reply 🙂 - 

Chalia got back with me on Monday and I provided her with answers as to where I was getting this error.  Hopefully, I will hear something back soon.  

Have a great day! 

[JimDavis]

Name: Jim Davis

I am the Director of Technology at Tallassee City Schools in Tallassee Alabama.  I have been in this position for 12 years.  Tallassee City Schools is a small District with 3 schools (High School, Middle School and a Middle School) we have 1,800 students.  We are 1-to-1 K-12 with iPads. I was previous employeed at Troy University for 8 years. Prior to Troy I worked for the Dept. of Defense as an independent contractor for 11 years.

[PS_WR1]

Welcome to the Community, @JimDavis

Thanks introducing yourself and we’re glad you’re here.

[Solange]

Hello Everyone! 

My name is Solange and I am the new(ish) Customer Support Specialist for eFinance for Willamette ESD in Salem, Oregon. We currently serve 27 districts in the state of Oregon. Although, I've been using the purchasing module for over 10 years, the support specialist part for all of eFinance is faily brand new to me as I started this job in January. I'm trying to learn as much as possible to be able to provide the best support possible to our districts. 

I look forward to utilizing the resources available in this community! 

[joshk]

Welcome to the Community @Solange!

[Kcushion]

Hello!

Kelly Cushion here. Loud and Proud SIU Saluki! 

I've worked with PowerSchool in Illinois, Indiana and currently Wisconsin. If I have to relocate again in 7-10 yrs, I figure it's a must that I should be in Ohio or Michigan to make for a well-rounded midwesterner 🙂

I love this group because one might think I wouldn't have so many questions I couldn't figure out on my own, that isn't the case as I continually come across more. Current role in South Milwaukee entails state reporting, summer school set up, report cards and End of Year Roll Over. Most of my questions I forsee involving hiccups with DPI errors, CTEERS report and EoY.

Have a great one!

~Kelly Cushion 

School District of South Milwaukee 

[ddickson]

Hello everyone,

I am Dolph Dickson, from the Caddo Parish Schools System in Shreveport, LA

I am one of two Security Administrators for the Business Plus system.

We have been Business Plus clients since 2010.

 I look forward to future communications with y'all (Southern twist). 

[joshk]

Hello and welcome Dolph! 

We are excited to have you as part of the growing PowerSchool Community! Please let us know if there is anything we can do to be of assistance!

Best,

JoshK

PowerSchool Community Moderator

[debarnes]

Hello!  I'm Destiny with Irving Independent School District in Texas.  I've been using eSchoolPlus all the way back to Open Series since 1998. I am the second level of support for the software and also write the majority of our Cognos reports.

Thanks!