Grade Verification Package v 3.0.0.2

Submitted by jtreadwell on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 7:03pm

Oracle Version: Grade Verification for Premier.

Goal: DO AWAY WITH PAPER-BASED GRADE VERIFICATION!!! Create a checkbox and a date field on the Grade Verification page to have teachers check off and date and submit online.

READ THE DOCUMENTATION!!!!

**NOTE: Patch 2 fixes the misc-district.html page that was fixed in 3.0.0.1 as well as a problem with the green dot in the admin/teacherschedules/sched.html page. It also includes a new files for the subs to be able to see the attendance like the teachers do.

***NOTE: Patch 3 addresses some issues people were having displaying letter grades and percents at the same time. Please apply these pages if you are having these problems on your server. If not, Patch 3 will be included in the next release of the verification pages.

Version 3.0.0.2 includes patch 2 but does not include patch 3. Please install patch 3 if you are having issues showing percent and letter grades at the same time.

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Yes on Teacher Schedules Page

by kmckinstry - 05/12/2010 - 2:57pm

I have used Grade Verification in the past. Currently, the Teachers Schedule page is not showing Yes when a teacher verifies. I don't know if I am missing a script from my image server or what might be happening. Do you have any ideas?
Thanks,
Kathy McKinstry

Help with the Grade Verification - GREEN DOT IN TEACHER SCHEDULE

by Krasiejko - 03/26/2010 - 2:48pm

Hello all...have installed the grade verification files with patch 3 two different times and cant get the green dot to appear on teacher schedules...both IE and Firefox. I have ps 6.1.0.4 (?) installed and instead of a green dot in IE we get a RED X...am I missing something?

TY

No grades listed on the teacher verification page

by kschmidt - 04/01/2010 - 11:16am

I have been testing this customization on my test server to work out the kinks before I put it on the live server. I have changed the term to show the semester. I stored grades and made sure they showed up in historical grades but the grades still do not show to verify. I know I'm missing something on the customization pages but not sure what. I have all the html pages in the correct places. Do I need to add a certain html page to another html page to get it to show up. For example-I would like to use the teachers/verification_showletter.html. Hope this makes sense. Thanks for your help.

Kelly Schmidt

(I did install the patches.)

Missing the Yellow Dot

by andersonj@parkh... - 01/25/2010 - 12:49pm

We have several classes that meet more than once in a day, for example our middle school has a Home Base class that meets for 10 minutes first thing in the morning and 10 minutes at the very end of the day. Before implementing this package, a yellow dot would appear after taking attendance in the AM session and then it would turn green after the PM session was taken. Now, it turns green after the AM session.

It looks like the teachers/home.html page is coded to be either clear or green and it doesn't take into account these multiple session classes. How can I work around this? I don't have a need to make the green dot into a bus or a Santa, as fun as that sounds. ;)
I am using the grade verification and seating charts.

Jill Anderson
Data Analyst/Lead Report Writer
Park Hill School District
Kansas City, MO

Same Issue

by ccornell - 01/25/2010 - 1:11pm

Jill,
I am having the identical issue since I installed the seating charts last week. PLEASE let me know if you work out any solution. I would hate to have to give up the seating charts, but I have double period teachers who absolutely rely on the partial attendance (yellow) indicator.
I tried to compare the code on the new teachers/home page, and I see the line that says ...*att_date=~(f.currentdate); ;clear,green)..., so I am guessing that's the line. However, I am at a loss as to how to correct it to include yellow as a third possible choice. That section of the code is very different from the original.

Carol Cornell
District Data Administrator
Lynbrook Public Schools
Lynbrook NY

Re: Same Issue

by brian_andle - 01/26/2010 - 9:55am

I just posted a new home.html under the Seating Charts customization. The home.html is from 6.1 so you will need to be on that version.

As for the Grade Verification I believe a new version is being worked on to included the recent 6.X enhancements. I can't say when that will be out thou.

Re: Same Issue

by brian_andle - 01/25/2010 - 2:03pm

Replace <~(decode;~(no_of_students);0;noimg;img) src="/images/~(decode;~(f.table_info;table=attendance_taken;fn=value;field=att_date;*sectionid=~(id);*att_date=~(f.currentdate)); ;attendancetaken_no.png;greendot_images/~[pref:vimage])" alt="Att. Taken Today" ~(decode;~(f.table_info;table=attendance_taken;fn=value;field=att_date;*sectionid=~(id);*att_date=~(f.currentdate)); ; ;width='32' height='30') border="0">

with ~(cachedteacher.attendancetakenscore)

Yellow dot still not working

by ccornell - 01/25/2010 - 4:24pm

Hi Brian,
Thanks for your quick reponse. Unfortunately, I'm still having a problem. First, where you say to replace:

<~(decode;~(no_of_students);0;noimg;img) src="/images/~(decode;~(f.table_info;table=attendance_taken;fn=value;field=att_date;*sectionid=~(id);*att_date=~(f.currentdate)); ;attendancetaken_no.png;greendot_images/~[pref:vimage])" alt="Att. Taken Today" ~(decode;~(f.table_info;table=attendance_taken;fn=value;field=att_date;*sectionid=~(id);*att_date=~(f.currentdate)); ; ;width='32' height='30') border="0">

I ONLY SEE THE FOLLOWING:

<~(decode;~(no_of_students);0;noimg;img) src="/images/~(decode;~(f.table_info;table=attendance_taken;fn=value;field=att_date;*sectionid=~(id);*att_date=~(f.currentdate));;clear;green).png" alt="Att. Taken Today" border="0">

I replaced that code with ~(cachedteacher.attendancetakenscore) and it eliminated the dot entirely.

Any further suggestions? Thanks again!!!!

Any changes for 6.1?

by Karina - 01/12/2010 - 4:08pm

Hi, As far as I can figure out, the page changes for 6.1 only affect these object for this customization.
admin/sections/listsections.html
admin/teacherschedules/sched.html
/teachers/home.html

It seems that the Powerschool changes are only to add a link to INFORM. Think this is right?

We are not currently using Inform so I'm going to wait until you make the changes particularly as one seems to be in a tlist.

As ever, thank you for all you do.

Adding Verification Images

by lharris - 01/04/2010 - 9:45am

I've added a few new verification images to the images folder but need help in adding the name of the images to the drop-down menu shown on the District Office>OtherFunctions Miscellaneous page. Thanks!

Online Grade Verification - Alter Inactive ?

by kb4travel - 12/16/2009 - 8:06am

I would like to alter the Online Grade Verification show percent code to show all inactive students in a class if the cc.schoolid = xyz school. I've played with this a little, but want to make sure that the alteration I do doesn't deteriorate the performance of the screen.

Can anyone assist me in altering the code to do this just for a specific cc.schoolid?

Thanks!
Karla

Expressions out of order and not displaying properly

by coreyfore - 12/11/2009 - 3:46pm

is there a way to order the expressions correctly and display them like the default page does. example: default page displays P8(A), this package displays 10(A)...

otherwise, i LOVE all the enhancements you guys work on... I only hope to garner a portion of your vast knowledge someday!!

Regards,

Corey

Expressions

by cflorke - 03/01/2010 - 4:01pm

Did you get an answer to this question as I have the same issue.
Found the answer change ~(expression;t) to ~(expression;t;externalexpression)

Borders not lining up

by duffjay - 12/02/2009 - 5:45pm

I was having the issue where the custom graphic for attendance taken was showing up on the Admin side, but the teacher side was seeing the green dot. So, I decided to put a fresh copy of home.html in the teachers folder (I used noNote_yesSeating and commented out the 2 lines that make up the lunch header and column). That fixed it so we see the custom graphic, but now the shaded borders aren't lining up. The right corner of the top border goes about 5-10 pixels too far to the right, and the left corner of the bottom border is about 30 pixels too far right.

I'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on XP Pro.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

- J.

No students listed for any teacher at one school.

by Brian - 11/17/2009 - 4:27pm

Grade Verification works for all schools in the system except one. When you select a teacher from this school no students are listed and an error flag appears in the IE status bar. When you double-click on the error, a window appears saying
'Calendar' is undefined
sched.html Line: 190
Code: 0 Char: 3

Tried using Firefox. It still doesn't work, but we don't get the error.

Any ideas?

Q1 Classes Can't Verify Grades

by kveilleux - 11/06/2009 - 8:50pm

I may be missing something because I am new but we have Tech Ed classes that are only 1 quarter long. When they log into PT they only see the Q2 classes now (since Q1 ended 11/4/09). Is there any way they can view their quarter 1 classes so they can verify the grades? Is there any workaround?

re: Q1 Classes Can't Verify Grades

by jtreadwell - 11/08/2009 - 7:14pm

The verification pages work based on the class list which is controlled by the current term. Most of us (I'm guessing most of us at least) use the "shortest possible" option in the term length. That option is the nicest for attendance clerks, but it prevents teachers from seeing a course that has ended. To get around this set that option to something that will encompass last quarter as well. In your case they both might be part of a semester so you could just set it to 1/2. That works for all but Q2 and S1 classes. During that time period you'll be forced to use the Y1 as I believe it's the only one that will encompass all of what you want to show.

Remember that this makes the attendance pages a bit bigger and longer to load so the nice thing to do for your attendance clerks is to shrink that back down as soon as your grades are all verified.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

ORA-1427 Error

by duffjay - 11/06/2009 - 6:18pm

For one teacher, when I go to the Teacher Schedules page, none of her sections show up, and the console puts up the following: "<11/06/2009 16:00:52> Web Handler 6: (User: Admin-17 Duff, Jay E.) DALX ATTENTION! Critical Error generated from MWCP_PARSERESPONSE Description=Error executing DOSQLSPECBINDING in ModuleID=1040: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row, Response Command=DOSQLSPECBINDING MsgNum=0
<11/06/2009 16:00:52> Web Handler 6: (User: Admin-17 Duff, Jay E.) DALX Call chain; WEB__Handler_Main 1765830481; HandleHit 2021345949; Admin 2021345949; ProcessAdmin 2021346823; PreProcess 2021346823; CheckWildcards 2021346911; CheckWildCards2 2021346911; WCDoTLIST_SQL 2021346911; DSQL_DoSelect 2021346928; MWCP_ParseResponse 2021347058; DAUT_NotifyError 2021347058"

The rest of the teachers work fine, and if I disable customizations, the teacher's sections are all there.

This just started today. My sandbox, which has yesterday's data on it, works fine. The only thing interesting about today is that it is 14 days after the end of Q1, and we allow teachers to make changes for 14 days.

We are on 6.0.1.6.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

--

Jay Duff
Network Administrator
Mannheim School District 83
Franklin Park, IL

re: ORA-1427 Error

by jtreadwell - 11/08/2009 - 7:08pm

It would appear that you have some dupe data for that teacher somewhere. There are 2 possibilities. If the custom field grades_verified or grades_dateverified are duplicated in the system for that teacher then you will get this error. Since it wasn't on your sandbox it must have just happened, though I'm not sure why it would suddenly start doing that. At least you know that teacher verified her grades that day :D I'm not sure if this will work, but try redoing the custom data sync or whatever that special operation is called. You'll need a code to get it to run, but that's available on PowerSource. I'm not positive that will clear it up, but I'm fairly sure I've fixed this problem using that special operation before. Doesn't explain how it gets there in the first place...

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Green Dot Image - Missing - Teacher Home Page

by kb4travel - 11/04/2009 - 12:36pm

When our teachers use Internet Explorer to taken attendance, the bus image that I've selected to display attendance taken today does not appear for the teacher on the teachers/home.html screen. If they use Mozilla Firefox, the bus image displays.

What can I change to get the image to display for the teachers on their home.html page? I've tried clearing the cache, however, that did not fix the issue.

Thanks for all your help! The school corporation loves this customization.

Karla

re: Green Dot Image - Missing - Teacher Home Page

by jtreadwell - 11/05/2009 - 12:09pm

Karla,

Great, yet another reason NOT to use Internet Exploder. It's no secret that I'm fed up with Internet Exploder but I'm not trying to tell you that you have to change. I just needed to vent, thanks.

OK, so now which bus image did you use? Did you use the bus.jpg or bus2.png? If we know which one it is we can work from there.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

re: Green Dot Image - Missing - Teacher Home Page

by kb4travel - 11/09/2009 - 12:24pm

Jason,

I attempted to use the bus2.png. I've also attempted to use turkeydinnner.jpg, with the same results on IE. I read your blog regarding IE, and whole heartedly agree with you. Unfortunately, I've not convinced everyone here to abandon IE yet.

Have a great day. Thanks for looking into this.

Karla

Green Dot Image - Missing - Teacher Home Page

by lharris - 11/04/2009 - 2:53pm

I'm having same issue that the teachers home page doesn't show the selected image--it still shows the green dot. (I even tried Mozilla Firefox and it is also showing the green dot).

Green Dot Image - Missing - Teacher Home Page

by danberms - 11/05/2009 - 9:49am

I think I remember having some issues with a couple of the graphics, I think it was depending on what the image type was, ie .jpg, .png, .gif.

Can you try using a different image type to see if it works?
Also, in both browsers, where the image should be can you use the right click "view image" option. That will link you directly to the image. If it doesn't work still in IE, is the path the same when in Firefox?

Green Dot Image - Missing - Teacher Home Page

by kb4travel - 11/09/2009 - 12:47pm

Well, now I've tried:
bus2.png
turkeydinner.jpg
gflow1a.gif

All work great in Firefox, and don't work at all in IE on the teachers side of PowerSchool. Now that I've been playing more with this issue, I'm finding the images all show up in IE when logged in the Admin side of PS (just not the teacher side).

I am not able to "right click" while in IE and select "view image". The option available in IE is only to "view source". If I view source it does have the correct location for the image. Of course, in Firefox, I have the option to view the image, or view the source. The view image location is correct, and the view source shows the same location as it does in IE.

Thanks for all your help,
Karla

Green Dot Image--Missing - Teacher Home Page

by lharris - 11/11/2009 - 1:06pm

The problem Karla describes above is is the exact problem I'm having:

All images work great in Firefox but don't work at all in IE on the teachers side of PowerSchool however the images do show in IE when logged in the Admin side of PS (just not the teacher side).

Any idea what we can do?

Thanks! Lori
------------------------------
I think I figured this out (looked in PSUG and found a message that Jason had mentioned about chaning the size of the green dot image so it wouldn't be so large). Now the images show in IE.

Here is what I did. I edited the teacher's home.html page in the section for "Att. Taken Today" I deleted the following:

width='32' height='30'

Lori

Images

by lharris - 11/04/2009 - 9:23am

I'm having problems with the image that I select in PS to show on the the teacher's START PAGE when they log into PTG. They only image that appears on the teacher's MAIN PAGE is the green dot image. Same problem on the sub login page. However the new image that I choose in PS does appear on the SECTIONS page.

re: images

by jtreadwell - 11/05/2009 - 11:53am

Did you replace the /teachers/home.html and /subs/home.html pages with the ones from the package directly or did you try to copy some of the changes over yourself?

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

images

by lharris - 11/05/2009 - 1:21pm

I tried to copy some of the changes to my home.html page. However, I just went back and copied the files directly from your download and submitted the customization but still have the same issue.

When I go to SECTIONS in PS, I can see files with .png or .gif (on the sections only--if I choose a .jpg it isn't viewable).

However on the sub screen or teacher screen, I still only see the green dot image.

I'm not sure what I messed up.

Thanks!

re: images

by jtreadwell - 11/05/2009 - 2:35pm

What do you mean by "submitted the customization"?

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

images

by lharris - 11/05/2009 - 5:20pm

After I put the new page in the custom folder, I went to SYSTEM, SYSTEM SETTINGS, CUSTOMIZATION, and hit SUBMIT.

When I'm on the District, Miscellaneous page the image never appears when I choose an image. Just a box with red x. Same in IE or FireFox.

Grade verification 3.0.0.2???

by jhill@richfield... - 10/23/2009 - 5:09pm

Is this package ready to be used with PS 6.x?

I usually rely on the "Y" or "N" indicators under the PS versions indicating support. Many are talking about this package on 6.0 yet is is not indicated as ready for 6.0.

re: Grade Verification 3.0.0.2

by jtreadwell - 10/23/2009 - 5:42pm

My teachers just used it for 5 week reports so I think it's fine. I've had some updates planned but I haven't had a chance to do them with all of the other stuff going on.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Can Not See Percentage Grade

by tsurra - 10/23/2009 - 11:20am

We are using PS 6.0 and I just installed the verification package plus the patch3. When I go to the teacher, verification page all I see is the letter grade. I have gone to the Current Grade Display and tried the various grade settings and still am not seeing the percentage grade.

We used this last year with PS 5.2 with no problems. Any direction on get this working would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Terry Surra

re: Can Not See Percentage Grade

by jtreadwell - 10/23/2009 - 4:39pm

What are you trying to validate by? There are 5 options

Validate Letter
Show Percent, Validate Letter,
Validate Percent, Validate Letter,
Validate Percent, Show Letter
Validate Percent

The Validate Percent, Validate Letter is a monster to run and will take a long time. I'm not even sure that one will still work with the increased wildcard sizes that have caused problems at some schools in the custom reports area.

If you don't know which of the 5 items you are using, check it out in the School settings on the current grade display screen.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Percentage Grade

by tsurra - 10/26/2009 - 9:03am

I have tried both No Letter, Verify Percent and Show Letter, Verify Percent and all I see is the letter grade on the teacher side. If I do a manual grade overide it does highlight in yellow but still on the letter grade.

Re: Percentage Grade

by brian_andle - 10/27/2009 - 12:16pm

Make sure that the correct case of the bin is used. So Q1 needs to be Q1 not q1.

Brian Andle

Precentage Grade

by tsurra - 10/27/2009 - 6:35pm

Made sure of that when I was trying different things.

One thing that I did notice today was on the teachers side it shows the student name, letter grade from gradebook and stored grade, and in the % column it is showing the date for last up date.

Terry

Got it working

by tsurra - 10/29/2009 - 10:08am

I had to use the home_noNote_yesSeating.html page for it to work.

Thanks for all the help

Terr

re: Got it working

by jtreadwell - 10/29/2009 - 1:49pm

Glad to hear that. Now to figure out why changing which home page you are using matters at all.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Grade Verification not showing percent

by econnary - 11/19/2009 - 10:54am

When I switched to the home_noNote_yesSeating.html page to get the percents to show, any teacher who has a class that had a class that two periods they could not mark a student absent in the first half and present in the second half.

Searching for verified sections

by duffjay - 10/21/2009 - 4:48pm

Is there a way to search, in DDA, for grades that have been verified within the last few days? Some teachers lock it in before the grading period is over, and I don't want to blow them away. When I'm in DDA, and I select the Sections table, I see neither grades_dateverified nor grades_verified in the dropdown menu for searching.

Thanks!

- J.

re:Searching for verified sections

by jtreadwell - 10/22/2009 - 11:24am

Unfortunately you can't search in DDE or DDA by custom fields with a table. I think the reports bundle includes an updated version of the grade verification report that includes the ability to sort by any row, including the date verified. I know that doesn't help you clear those out, but that's about as far as I can help.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

DALX Warning for Attendance Green Dot Image

by bmelanson - 10/15/2009 - 10:02am

Just implemented the green dot icon since going to Oracle this summer and I'm getting this warning in the server log when a teacher submits attendance:

DALX ATTENTION! Warning generated from CACHEDTEACHERSPECIALINSERTS Description=Unrecognized cachedteacher insert field=cachedteacher.attendancetakenimage.

I was running the images last school year on 5.1 without warnings. Is this a know issue with 6.0?

Thanks,
Betsy M.

DALX Warning

by molinger - 12/06/2009 - 8:39pm

I am getting this same error and cannot find the answer on how to fix DALX ATTENTION! Warning generated from CACHEDTEACHERSPECIALINSERTS Description=Unrecognized cachedteacher insert field=cachedteacher.attendancetakenimage
Does anyone have the answer.

Thank,
Margie O

re: DALX Warning for Attendance Green Dot Image

by jtreadwell - 10/15/2009 - 10:44am

Betsy,

I believe the problem is with a code change that Pearson made to the teacher home page. I'm not sure what version they did it, but it happened last year. I can't see the other posts right now but I believe directions on how to fix that are located in the replies below.

Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org

Green Dot Image Problem

by lharris - 11/10/2009 - 3:17pm

Jason,

I was looking for Brian Andle's response dated 1/7/2009 at first couldn't find it but have since located it. I didn't realize there were more pages of responses.

Now my only problem is when I pick a new image for the green dot image they don't show in IE but show in FireFox.

I'll try some of the responses listed here.

Thanks!

Lori

Thanks Jason. FYI: I found

by bmelanson - 10/15/2009 - 11:32am

Thanks Jason. FYI: I found it under Brian Andle's reponse dated 1/7/09. -Betsy

No Students or Grades Listed on Teacher Verification Page

by perry2020 - 10/01/2009 - 8:35am

I upgraded to 6.0 this fall, anything I needed to do to make the verification pages work? Right now the teachers aren't seeing students or grades listed. On the verification page, just above the grid where students and grades are generally listed this message appears: Non-select tlist_sql filtered out. The column headings appear correctly based on the terms I've setup on the Current Grade Display page but then all it says is 15 total students.

Any thoughts about what I may need to do?

Thanks,

Perry

Re: No Students or Grades Listed on Teacher Verification Page

by brian_andle - 10/01/2009 - 11:15am

Please see PowerSource Doc ID 55553 or search for TLIST Security on this site.

Brian Andle

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