We are proud to announce the release of Report Out 1.1.0, to download please visit http://cwssoft.com/reportout. Read more →
Summary of Updates for Fall 2019
We have been hard at work improving PowerPTC, continuing to make PowerPTC the most intelligent and easy-to-use Parent-Teacher Conference scheduling system available. Many of the changes below came from feature requests from our customers. While we can not implement every feature request, we are always looking for feedback from our users. The following is a summary of the improvements and… Read more →
Multi-Student Auto Scheduling
With PowerPTC, parents can now schedule multiple students at once using the Auto-Scheduler. The new Multi-Student Auto-Scheduling allows for parents and guardians to more easily setup their conference with fewer clicks. This feature can be controlled in the Configure -> Other Settings section of the PowerPTC administrative interface. Read more →
PowerPTC – New Teacher Break Request Windows
In the past with PowerPTC, when you would enable teachers to make their own break requests it would turn on the the ability for all teachers at all locations and there wasn’t an easy method to set a start and end date. In version 1.7.20 of PowerPTC, we’ve added this ability so you can now define windows of time when… Read more →
Even More SSO Options for PowerPTC (eSchoolPlus)
With version 1.6.4 of PowerPTC we are testing out unified guardian login support with even most student information systems that do not support SAML. This release adds a preview of unified guardian logins with eSchoolPlus. If you would like to try out SSO with eSchoolPlus, please see the following document: https://www.powerptc.net/powerptc/file/YbWLmYqrm8Mo60MNtTgbalKIp Unfortunately, PowerPTC uses a non-standard, unsupported method to authenticate… Read more →
More SSO Options for PowerPTC (Infinite Campus)
With version 1.6.3 of PowerPTC a more generic single sign-on model is supported for student information systems that do not support SAML. With this initial release, Infinite Campus can now be used for guardian/parent account authentication. The framework is generic and support for other SIS systems may be added in the future. If you would like to try out SSO… Read more →
Net Neutrality Matters
My name is Charles Syperski and I am the President of CWS Software. My company provides a very inexpensive Parent-Teacher Conference scheduling system for school districts. On December 14th 2017, the FCC will vote to end net neutrality protections. Without net neutrality, small businesses and start-ups, like CWS Software, may not stand a chance to compete with established businesses. As a… Read more →
PowerPTC 1.5.0 – Update Overview
We’ve recently rolled out version 1.5.0 of PowerPTC which includes the following changes: Role-based Administrators You can now define a role for your administrative users to limit the areas they can access within the PowerPTC management interface. Activation Code Grouping You can now easily group multiple students into a single parent activation code. This would result in guardians… Read more →
Co-Teacher Scheduling & Variable Length Appointments
We are proud to announce that we have released PowerPTC version 1.4.0. This update includes improved support for co-teacher scheduling, plus other minor feature improvements and bug fixes. Here is a list of improvements we’ve implemented over the past year: Variable-length appointments ( #1 Requested Feature ) Co-teacher scheduling ( #2 Requested Feature ) Performance improvements (including building the master… Read more →
Setting up a send-only mail server
As a software engineer or network administrator you will likely encounter a situation where you need to setup an email server that is only intended to send email but not accept incoming mail. This is a common setup for simple web applications which need to communicate with external users. There are two methods that I typically use in these situations,… Read more →