Intro to PowerSchoolRussell Hoorn IIKelloggsville Public SchoolsCathy KulhawikKent Intermediate School District

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Welcome to Cathy’s World!

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Work…

Welcome to My World!

Two kidsTwo dogsOne horseOne husband !

Home

A little about Russ

Tech Geek Just graduated with Bachelors

from Davenport UniversityMarried for 7 years4 kids

Hi-Jack from another Session

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Sessions

On to the Schedule

Purpose of this session

To familiarize you with PowerSchoolReview/ Introduce some key components of

IPTExpand upon areas that IPT did not cover

AGENDA

What is PowerSchoolLooking At PowerSchool Admin [PowerPoint]

Lessons Learned Basic Look at Student Screens

What is PowerSchool?

Dumb Question? Obviously it’s a Student Information System (SIS) Or it’s a Student Management System (SMS)

Web-Based Almost entirely now

Focus is to be Student-Centric Highly Customizable

and breakable… Not always the best product for specific tasks

SPED, Lunch, Transportation, etc.

What IPT tells you PowerSchool consists of

School Administration

Substitutes

Teachers

Parents and Students

Server

What IPT tells you PowerSchool consists of

School Administration

Substitutes

Teachers

Parents and Students

Server

School AdministrationStudentsFacultyState ReportsReportsPowerSchedulerTransportationPowerLunch … And more!!

Substitutes

TeachersGradeBookPowerTeacher

PublicParents Students

What IPT DOESN’T tell you PowerSchool consists

of

New to PowerSchool?Determine Priority functions for your school/positionDon’t try to implement the full set of features

immediatelyFocus your learning on top priority items first to

ensure strong knowledge of functionality You will still be learning new things 3, 4, 5 years into

using the productTake notes, but don’t think the way you did it last

year is the only way of performing a task.

Let’s get to it

What do you need to use PowerSchool?Web Browser (Internet Exploder, Firefox,

Safari, Chrome, Camino, Opera, etc…)Server address

(Today ours is http://10.1.1.X/admin)User Name and Password

PowerSchool AdminLogin pageEntering your User Name and PasswordUser Name: rhoornPassword: 1ab23c

rhoorn;1ab23c

The secret is the ;

Login Page

Custom Logo Custom Logo“Hidden” text

Version: 5.2.1.6.0101PowerTeacher Gradebook: 1.5.1.1

Machine Uptime: 8 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes, 19 secondsPS Server Uptime: 5 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, 34 seconds

LDAP Disabled

Home or Start page

NavigationMenuContent Area (Search Students)

Navigation

PowerSchool Logo. “Your Best Friend”Current SchoolCurrent TermReport QueueLogoutHelp?

Main Menu

Rarely Changes from release to release… But, 6.0 is changing some of

the wording for absentee report to attendance.

The three “S’s” Special Functions School System

Content area

SearchBrowseOther

Finding Students

Basic SearchCompound SearchesStored SearchesStored SelectionsComing Soon Smart Search…

This is another Session

Student Screens

Quick LookupPrint a Report Information

Demographics Family

Academics Attendance Historical Grades

Administration Log Entries NetAccess

Enrollment All Enrollments Functions Transfer Info

Scheduling Bell Schedule View Matrix View Scheduling Setup

Quick Lookup

Print a Report

Information Screens

Academic Screens

Administration Screens

Enrollment Screens

Scheduling

Custom Screens

Built-in simple custom screensCustom Student HTML pages (official)System level “Unsupported” customizations

Now Let’s look at it.