Sumbits from MBA

We are honored to have The PowerSchool Evangelist join us and share with us a little about his history with PowerSchool. Featuring Sean Cawby, Eric Schaitel and Ryan CockremSumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of #PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool #SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We talk with Adam Larsen and Jerome Ohnui about what happened at the recent PSUG ACME Conference in Orlando. Featuring: Sean Cawby, Eric Schaitel, Ryan Cockrem, Adam Larsen, Jerome Ohnuihtttps://www.easyregpro.com/acme.phpSumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of #PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool #SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

Carla and Alicia join us to discuss what big things MBA has done in 2022 and get a preview of what is coming in 2023!Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of #PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool #SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

Together again!  This episode was recorded live at the PSUG-Wisconsin Conference in the Wisconsin Dells where we talk a little about cleaning up customizations through PowerSchool versions and watch us get a little stumped by questions from the audience - did you do better than us at naming the PowerSchool tables in numerical order?!Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of #PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool #SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We are lucky to have Becky and James Cowart join us and give us their perspective of PowerSchool development coming from a development background.

What are you doing in regards to FERPA in your district?  We talk with Tammy Todd, self proclaimed "security geek", about FERPA and some things you may want to discuss at your own districts. Additional resources:* https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html?src=rn* https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/frequently-asked-questions 

We are back with a guest this week, Rob Staats, one of the people behind PSCB Reports and PSCB Customizations, and chat about how PSCB has evolved over the years and what the future of PSCB looks like.  https://pscbdevelopment.com/

After realizing we have released 25 episodes, the Sumbits crew took yet another trip down memory lane at the PowerSchool API and the dreaded days of multiple logins for one teacher for multiple schools.

We took advantage of being together at the Southeast PSUG and chatted about a lot of the abbreviations that we deal with in PowerSchool.

We got Greg Satterwhite, the King of PowerScheduler, to talk scheduling with us amidst his (virtual) world travels.

On this episode we take advantage of another opportunity with multiple people from the PowerSchool community being in one place to reminisce and talk to the importance of networking amidst the community.  We are joined by Ryan Cockrem as always, as well as some of the people from the PSUG-Middle East and Africa conference, including Eric Schaitel, Carla Dancz, Romy Backus, Roger Sprik, and Greg Satterwhite.

And we're back! Today we welcome Mark Heinig to Sumbits and discuss a variety of things that all PowerSchool Admins should know - even if you don't have development knowledge!Sumbits Swag Now Available!! mba-link.com/podcast

We're back! We finally get together in person, in front of a live audience at PSUG Orlando!  We chat with Joe Miller and hear from others about where the PSUG Events began and how much these conferences mean to all of us.Sumbits Swag Now Available!! mba-link.com/podcast

We invited Adam Larsen back on to chat about ways to integrate third party applications with PowerSchool.Sumbits Swag Now Available!! mba-link.com/podcast

We chat with Peter about things to look out for at the start of the year in PowerSchool and get to hear about some of the customizations that Peter has done for his districts.Sumbits Swag Now Available!! mba-link.com/podcast

We chat with Jim Parsons about the PowerSchool API.  Join us as we discuss how and why the PowerSchool API is used in not only external applications, but right within PowerSchool as well!Sumbits Swag Now Available!! mba-link.com/podcast

We are back with a guest this episode, Eric Miletich, and we discuss some challenges that Covid presented and how they were resolved.Sumbits Swag Now Available!! mba-link.com/podcast

We are joined by Vance Allen and have a discussion about some ways to plan PowerSchool training within your own district.  Also, we surprise Vance with a little trivia!

After the last episode, we decided we had more ideas for all of you to look into accomplishing during the summer months, so here's a Part 2!Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com *** Sumbits Swag Now Available!!***

The three of us talk about some items that can be tackled during the summer while students and staff are away for break.--Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com *** Sumbits Swag Now Available!! https://sumbits.creator-spring.com/

We invite Richard Moeller (a viewer that brought this episode idea to us) to discuss ways of Automating tasks within PowerSchool.Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com *** Sumbits Swag Now Available!! https://sumbits.creator-spring.com/

Theo Smith joins us and shares his story of how he got into PowerSchool as we also discuss some workarounds and creative solutions that we've found over the years.Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We have a conversation with one of the 'OG' Developers of PowerSchool, Roger Sprik, covering what it was like back in the days of PowerSchool customizations before the adoption of Oracle!Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We talk with Adrian Carlson about SQL and try and remove some of the hesitations users may have in diving into SQL and using it as a useful tool to get at your PowerSchool data.Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We discuss with Nick Peronti coming into a new district with PowerSchool and things to be aware of when coming into an existing PowerSchool district.Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

From avoiding common pitfalls to working through hiccups and confusion in PowerSchool development, on this episode we discuss 'gotchas' when developing customizations for PowerSchool with Romy Backus, who came way more prepared than we were!Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We continue our conversation with Adam Larsen, well known customizer of PowerSchool, as we debate and exchange views on a number of topics when dealing with customizing PowerSchool:  custom page management tools, browsers, text editors, and more!  We hope you have as much fun as we did over this double episode.Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

We sit down with Adam Larsen, well known customizer of PowerSchool, as we debate and exchange views on a number of topics when dealing with customizing PowerSchool:  custom page management tools, browsers, text editors, and more!  We hope you have as much fun as we did over this double episode.Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

In this second  part of 2 episodes we're joined again by Alicia Ohnstad, president of MBA, and discuss the history and present of Marcia Brenner Associates and how this woman-owned business became the company it is today, evolving with the needs of school districts over the last 35+ years.***Sumbits is brought to you by MBA. At MBA, we enhance the power of PowerSchool with plugins, customizations and professional development, transforming your PowerSchool SIS experience without creating more administrative overhead. Learn more at MBA-link.com

In this first part of 2 episodes we're joined by Alicia Ohnstad, president of MBA, and discussed the history of Marcia Brenner Associates and how this woman owned business became the company it is today, evolving with the needs of school districts over the last 35+ years.Learn more at mba-link.com

We talk with John Dunleavy, THE Lazy Man of PowerSchool Customization, about how his "lazy" ways have evolved over the years. Wait for John's HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT that he shares with us! Please reach out to us in the comments or at sumbits@mba-link.com with feedback or episode ideas!Links Mentioned in This Episode:MBA - https://mba-link.comJohn Dunleavy's IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1155080/PSUG Forums - https://groups.io/g/PSUGPowerSource Exchange - https://support.powerschool.com/exchange/main.actionNickTech - https://nicktech.org/powerschoolBookmarklet - Create a new bookmark, and for the URL enter the following code: :window.location="https://"+document.location.host+"/admin/customization/home.html";This will work for Custom Page Management, but change the "/admin/customization/home.html" to whatever PowerSchool URL you would like!

This week we discuss what "bad code" actually is, provide some examples of bad code we've written, and how our listeners can avoid making similar "mistakes". The thing about writing bad code is sometimes it's the best teacher, which is why "mistakes" are sometimes just "painful lessons." Listen in as we share what we've learned along the way in hopes you can find some of your own lessons a little less painful as you customize and develop inside PowerSchool SIS.Episode 2 LinksMBA – https://mba-link.comMBA Report Creator - https://mba-link.com/report-creator/Tony Alicea - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFmLpSNJuFzpKqdEj5jeHw

In our first episode of Sumbits, join Sean Cawby, Ryan Cockrem, and Eric Schaitel from MBA as we explore our personal beginnings with PowerSchool customization and development, what's interesting to us these days, and some ideas on where PowerSchool customization is headed. We take a casual, sometimes humorous, occasionally irreverent, but always interesting look "under the hood" of PowerSchool customization, and share tips and advice for listeners who might be new or getting started with customization too.Links and resources mentioned in the show:MBA – mba-link.comPower Data Solutions – powerdatasolutions.orgPowerSource – support.powerschool.comPSUG Groups.io – groups.io/g/PSUG or psug.usPSUG Events – easyregpro.comCustomization Reference Plugin – mba-link.com/powerschool-plugins/Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow – stackoverflow.comW3Schools – w3schools.comPowerSchool Developer Site – support.powerschool.com/developerPowerSource Exchange - support.powerschool.com/exchange/