G+_Sir.SqueaksAlot Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 alright first time posting, YAY! :D anyway, im trying to create an automatic attendance program for my school, we are using powerschool , and nfc capable rasberry, and linux to program it, thats about all the info i have, it needs to be able to access the powerschool/powerteacher attendance program with a teacher sign in and im not quite sure how to do that, any suggestions? and try to keep it simple please i know programming but not that much.... thx! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Sir.SqueaksAlot Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 oh the laguage is also desbian or debian or something like that :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 debian is probably the linux distro, not the lang (but there are SO many, if not too many programing lang out there) Is this a standalone solution or will the NFC/Pi need to comunicate with a server running the powerschool program? If the later, you will need the APIs for that/those programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Sir.SqueaksAlot Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 Yes it will technically be communicating with a server, we were going to have the nfc's scanned then when that specific nfc is scanned it will mark the student as present on the program and if it is not scanned it will mark them as absent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fred Routson Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 This sounds very interesting. PowerSchool is very extensible and this should be possible, hard..., but possible. Are you doing period attendance or daily attendance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fred Routson Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 To get started you might want to look at the PowerSchool SiF Agent. The Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) is what allows external systems to make changes to the PS database.There is user guide on PowerSource with more details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Sir.SqueaksAlot Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 Thanks for the suggestion I'll look into that, currently it's just for the jefferson BlendED academy program, I would give a link but I can't find it right now, we are teamed up with iowa BIG program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Nice avatar! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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