Ethernotes » Uncategorized http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts Just another Blogs.muskegonisd.org weblog Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:59:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Pinnacle SIS Intro Session http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2010/02/05/pinnacle-training/ http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2010/02/05/pinnacle-training/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:21:46 +0000 jroberts http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/?p=195 5-Feb-10

Questions Ravenna needs to answer:

  • Are all buildings going to standardize on Pinnacle Discipline or SWIS? It should be one or the other.

Trainers

  • Have they overestimated the capabilities of the users?
  • I’m having trouble keeping up.
  • I wish I knew what we were covering. No agenda or outline is frustrating.

LOGIN:

  • It is accessible only from inside the MAISD. The external URL will be available later today
  • This login is the Pinnacle SIS (current year)
  • If you change to “next” year, then you automatically enter the Pinnacle Scheduler.

Password

  • Must be at least 7 character long.
  • Be sure to change your temp password right away.
  • User names: ralastfirstinitialMiddleinitial (ra is the Ravenna abbreviation in Pinnacle)

Scheduler

  • Click on Pinnacle or Home tab to return to main screen.
  • Must pick school to be able to change school year and enter scheduler.
  • View|Students|Binoculars: Generates list of all students.
  • WARNING: Do not use your browser’s back button in Pinnacle. Use the provided icons or the browser locks up.
  • SOR stands for School of Record
  • Filter: icon looks like a sieve
    • Filter icon turns green if filter is on.
    • Add terms to filter to select groups of students.
    • Then the binoculars will show only the filtered results.
    • The filter holds. Be sure to check your filter if you’re not seeing all students.
    • Home|Current Year|Admin|Edit Lookup Tables: Shows what the filter categories are if you forget.
  • The Find/Filter icons seem to be consistent between views.

Firefox just choked on the SilverLight plugin. It doesn’t display the terms. Safari shows the Terms so I am updating the RMS Terms in Safari at the direction of Kim Kowalski.

Setting up (Middle School) Scheduler

  • Middle School scheduler is set for a maximum 30 students and an optimum of 28. The Pinnacle scheduler builds a schedule based on the Optimum number
  • Three different priorities
  • 1 – Core classes
  • 2 – no used
  • 3 – Electives (alternatives only for Priority 3 classes only. Can be overridden by student)
]]> http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2010/02/05/pinnacle-training/feed/ 0 Sylvester as a verb http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2009/11/06/sylvester-as-a-verb/ http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2009/11/06/sylvester-as-a-verb/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:48:21 +0000 jroberts http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/?p=119 I’ve been watching and loving Glee this year. Part of the fun is Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester. She is so over the top that I think getting sylvestered will become educational jargon. Make sure you check out Jane Lynch’s interview on NPR’s Fresh Air. There are links to some funny Sue clips.

I can’t get enough of Glee in general. I’m totally into the storyline, except the one pregnancy storyline. My favorite song so far has been the mash up of Confession and it’s my life. The video in Season 1, ep. 6 right around the 15:39 minute mark.

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]]> http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2009/10/15/more-training-needed/feed/ 0 I like journaling. I think I like it better than Facebook http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2009/10/04/i-like-journaling-i-think-i-like-it-better-than-facebook/ http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2009/10/04/i-like-journaling-i-think-i-like-it-better-than-facebook/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:18:18 +0000 jroberts http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/?p=83 I’m sure no one reads this as much as they do my facebook pages, but I like my blog and I need to start updating it more. Facebook is too ephemeral for me. I don’t like having to check it so much. Perhaps I’ll keep this as my professional blog and create a blogspot blog for bigjolly1. Look for me posting more often.

]]> http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2009/10/04/i-like-journaling-i-think-i-like-it-better-than-facebook/feed/ 0 Welcome! http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2007/12/06/hello-world/ http://blogs.muskegonisd.org/jroberts/2007/12/06/hello-world/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:51:53 +0000 jroberts Welcome to Ethernotes. This is the official blog for Ravenna Public Schools Technology Coordinator, John Robertson. I categorize my posts. Look for the categories and click on them to various posts. Thanks.

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