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Intro to PowerSchool

Presentation in the Round. Intro to PowerSchool. Russell Hoorn II Kelloggsville Public Schools Cathy Kulhawik Kent Intermediate School District. Welcome to Cathy’s World !. Play…. Work…. Welcome to My World!. Home. Two kids Two dogs One horse One husband ! . A little about Russ.

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Intro to PowerSchool

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  1. Presentation in the Round Intro to PowerSchool Russell Hoorn II Kelloggsville Public Schools Cathy Kulhawik Kent Intermediate School District

  2. Welcome to Cathy’s World! Play… Work…

  3. Welcome to My World! Home • Two kids • Two dogs • One horse • One husband !

  4. A little about Russ • Tech Geek • Just graduated with Bachelors from Davenport University • Married for 7 years • 4 kids

  5. Hi-Jack from another Session

  6. PSUG-MI Wikispaces http://psug-mi.wikispaces.com

  7. Sessions

  8. On to the Schedule

  9. Purpose of this session • To familiarize you with PowerSchool • Review/ Introduce some key components of IPT • Expand upon areas that IPT did not cover

  10. AGENDA • What is PowerSchool • Looking At PowerSchool Admin [PowerPoint] • Lessons Learned • Basic Look at Student Screens

  11. 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.

  12. What IPT tells you PowerSchool consists of School Administration Teachers Server Substitutes Parents and Students

  13. What IPT DOESN’T tell you PowerSchool consists of What IPT tells you PowerSchool consists of School Administration • School Administration • Students • Faculty • State Reports • Reports • PowerScheduler • Transportation • PowerLunch … And more!! Teachers Teachers GradeBook PowerTeacher Server Substitutes Substitutes Parents and Students Public Parents Students

  14. New to PowerSchool? • Determine Priority functions for your school/position • Don’t try to implement the full set of features immediately • Focus 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 product • Take notes, but don’t think the way you did it last year is the only way of performing a task.

  15. 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

  16. PowerSchool Admin • Login page • Entering your User Name and Password • User Name: rhoorn • Password: 1ab23c The secret is the ; • rhoorn;1ab23c

  17. Login Page “Hidden” text Custom Logo Custom Logo Version: 5.2.1.6.0101PowerTeacher Gradebook: 1.5.1.1Machine Uptime: 8 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes, 19 secondsPS Server Uptime: 5 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, 34 secondsLDAP Disabled

  18. Home or Start page • Navigation • Menu • Content Area (Search Students)

  19. Navigation • PowerSchool Logo. “Your Best Friend” • Current School • Current Term • Report Queue • Logout • Help?

  20. 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

  21. Content area • Search • Browse • Other

  22. Finding Students • Basic Search • Compound Searches • Stored Searches • Stored Selections • Coming Soon Smart Search… This is another Session

  23. Student Screens • Quick Lookup • Print 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

  24. Quick Lookup

  25. Print a Report

  26. Information Screens

  27. Academic Screens

  28. Administration Screens

  29. Enrollment Screens

  30. Scheduling

  31. Custom Screens • Built-in simple custom screens • Custom Student HTML pages (official) • System level “Unsupported” customizations

  32. Now Let’s look at it.

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