Beyond Softaculous

If you used Softaculous to install Gibbon School 18.0.01 onto your web-hosting service, you now have a working site. Now the fun and hard part comes in.. customizing Gibbon for your own use. The reason for this blog is to help you jump some of the hurdles I encounter along the way. May this save you some time and headaches! You may have an issue logging in to your system as I did. I had to click the reset password link. I don't know why! Now it works fine.

My First Headache! Backups full.
I tried to upgrade my Gibbon install only to be told that my backups were full. You can read about how to delete old backups here. Click on "Backups and Restore" icon at the top of the page. Softaculous will open a page where you can delete your old backups. Then you can proceed to a new backup and upgrade.

Getting your student information into Gibbon
This is a big challenge as you data will not be exactly like the software makers or mine. I will share what my data looks like and how I got it in.

Here is a look at my data:

This is the format my school currently uses to print school lists and keep track of students. Although it is in excel, I need to first change the format. Let's look at what Gibbon is set up to use:

Here is the startup screen.
Before setting up the structure of your school, complete as many of the settings as possible in Admin > System Admin > System Settings.