Intro to PowerSchool

1. Intro to PowerSchool Russell Hoorn II Kelloggsville Public Schools

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

3. AGENDA • What is PowerSchool • Looking At PowerSchool Admin [Hands On?] • Lessons Learned • Basic Look at Student Screens • Three types of custom screens If time allows… • Looking at PowerSchool Teacher • Looking at PowerSchool Public

4. 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.

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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

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

10. 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

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

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

13. 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

14. Content area • Search • Browse • Other

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

16. 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

17. Quick Lookup

18. Print a Report

19. Information Screens

20. Academic Screens

21. Administration Screens

22. Enrollment Screens

23. Scheduling

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

25. Do we have more time?

26. Teacher Access

27. Public Access