PowerSchool planned outage Wed., 10/14, 7-8 PM

PowerSchool will be unavailable on Wednesday, October 14, 7-8 PM, for a version upgrade. Please do not log in during this time.

In addition to some important bug fixes, the upgrade has one significant improvement: the parent portal will show exactly what teachers have entered in the grade book.  For example, if a teacher marks an assignment as an "M" for missing, or "L" for late, it will show up for parents to see.

Powerschool Service Interruption

Sometime between 2:00 and 2:03pm 8 Oct 2009 Oregon's Powerschool server unexpectedly powered down and rebooted. As of 2:08pm the server was back online and accepting connections.

Free anti-virus, anti-malware for Windows

Microsoft has just released a free anti-virus product called Security Essentials for Windows computers. Almost everyone knows that they should have anti-virus software installed, but not everybody does it. If the cost was keeping you from buying anti-virus software, this free version could be just what you need.

See http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Update- PowerSchool planned outage Thursday, 10/1, 5-9 PM

PowerSchool will be unavailable on Thursday, October 1, from 5-9 PM so that we can correct some configuration issues which caused Tuesday morning's unplanned outage.

Teachers must be logged out of PowerTeacher prior to 5:00 PM or else risk losing data. Parents and students will simply see a "not available" message during this period.

Please plan accordingly. Thank you.

PowerSchool is back online

PowerSchool is back online. Many thanks to Lynn for working on it starting at 4 AM. The issue was resolved by Pearson Technical Support, and we are making changes to prevent the root cause from recurring.

Thanks for your patience.

If you get meeting invitations that are an hour off....

If your Google Apps Calendar seems to get getting invitations that are the wrong time, it may be on the wrong time zone. Try re-setting your time zone.

To do this:

1. Get into Google Calendar
2. Click on Settings
3. In the Timezone section, click the drop-down menu and select the Central Time Zone that's at the bottom of the list. You have to do this even if it already says you are in the Central Time Zone because apparently there are two of them.

The way to check this is to look at your Google Calendar and see if there is a small red line on today's date that indicates the correct current time. If it's accurate, you're good to go. If it's an hour off, go select the other Central Time Zone.

gmail service disruption

Google posted this message at about 9:29 AM this morning:

"We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail, but we've provided a workaround below. We will provide an update by September 24, 2009 10:29:00 AM UTC-5 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.

You can access Gmail via IMAP"