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Apple announces PowerSchool 3.0 at NECC

updated 10:20 am EDT, Mon June 17, 2002


Apple today announced PowerSchool SIS 3.0 as well as new resources for teachers and students including the Apple Digital Campus Curriculum and the Apple Learning Interchange.

PowerSchool SIS V3.0, the latest version of Apple’s web-based student information system, offers teachers, administrators and districts the ability to manage student records and make data-driven decisions to improve the performance of their schools. It includes a new Integrated Master Schedule Builder with several automated schedule building features, an enhanced user interface with increased ease of use, support for OS X clients and updates to the PowerGrade gradebook that allows teachers to easily drag and drop student photos into online seating charts

Apple also introduced Apple Digital Campus Curriculum, which offers educators rich, project-based curricula and relevant assignments that "solve real-world education needs." The first two courses available are Web Communication and Design and Video Journalism. It includes a combination of 10 days of hands-on in person training along with a year of online mentoring, training and support.

The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a new online resource for teaching, learning, research and collaboration, leverages the storytelling power of video to showcase successful education practices. ALI includes digital videos of presentations, online lesson plans, assessment tools, research resources and more.


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    06/17, 11:18am | report spam | Reply |

    Good Luck...

    trying to get a state like Minnesota to use anything as advanced as this. While power school gets more advanced, states like ours get more behind. Parents here just have to face the fact, "off to school kids, here's a potato for your pocket to keep your hands warm".

  1. gorgonzola

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    06/17, 11:25am | report spam | Reply |

    Nevertheless...

    Nevertheless, it's good that they continue to improve their education offerings.

  1. outzider

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    06/17, 11:36am | report spam | Reply |

    Sail away.

    It's funny, because Minnesota used to be so good. But, a long line of mistakes... from the so-called "graduation standards" on up, hitting its pinnacle with the election of Mr. Ventura, has been slowly killing that state off. Depressing, really.

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    06/17, 01:53pm | report spam | Reply |

    Minnesota..

    Minnesota, as well as the upper midwest, still known as a very education oriented region of the country. Many schools may not jump on the apple train again, bc of what happened last time they did, but that doesn't mean the quality of the education is any less. Where did everyone here get there degrees from that make them qualified to judge the education in Minnesota?

  1. testudo

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    06/17, 02:51pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: Minnesota

    ...Where did everyone here get there degrees from that make them qualified to judge the education in Minnesota?

    Hopefully not at the same school you did. Oh, its "their" degrees, not there degrees. Usually I could care less about grammar and such, but, if you're (or is it your, no, its yur) going to question someone's education, you should expect complaints (and I was just being nice by pointing out the one).

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    06/17, 03:04pm | report spam | Reply |

    hmm...

    believe it or not, there, their, they're are more than english degrees offered in todays universities, especially in the minnesota. however, that was not the point of starting this debate, i am curious what these people are talking about with the claims they are making about Minnesota specifically. Do you think anyone volunteers to come to a climate so cold to help make up a metro area that ranks 4th in the nation in median income?

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    06/17, 03:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    agreed

    you would have to assume some of the money in minneapolis, which is a very wealthy city, is homegrown.

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    06/17, 03:57pm | report spam | Reply |

    Minnesota

    Education there rocks! It still is one of the best places for kids to learn. The quality of the education is not reliant on whether they use some piece of software from Apple. I would be leery of Apple's programs such as this. It may be here one day, then gone the next. Apple has time and again done stunts like this and treats everyone shabby at times, whenever it strikes their whim. Look how they treat their dealers, not too impressive. And this is how they act with a small marketshare, imagine how they would behave if they had monopolistic levels of marketshare? Not that Microsoft is any better, but neither is Apple. At least Microsoft doesn't control the hardware in respect to having to buy what they offer. With Apple, the only hardware choices you can make, are what Apples allows you to make. If they wanted, they could take out all pci slots, dimm slots and make the motherboard entirely unupgradeable, it's all left to their whim.

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    06/18, 04:13am | report spam | Reply |

    DELL

    Does anyone know if Dell offers the same type of applications to faculties or if they simply sell their cheap PC's ? It seems to me Apple offers more than simply iMacs or iBooks.

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    06/18, 03:07pm | report spam | Reply |

    Missed my point...

    Missed my point…

    So I will clarify. Minnesota education is great! I don’t think there is a better high school than the one I went to.

    Now I am an adult and a parent. My child is about to start school. I want what Powerschool offers. I want to see my child’s attendance any time of the day. I want to log on and make sure he’s there today. I want to be able to log in and see his test scores, grades, rank in his class and all the other cool stuff it offers.

    I want to be able to log in with parent access and tell them we will be on vacation for an extra day and mark him absent.

    This is just the tip of the iceberg.

    Also for you Apple pessimists out there, PowerSchool was available before Apple bought it. It was purchased by Apple because it was the best. It is NOT platform specific. You can have any damn browser compatible platform you choose.

    Go the the Minnesota education web site (if you can find it) and try to find one usefull thing!

    Thanks for reading.

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