Intro to PowerSchool
Russell Hoorn II
Kelloggsville Public Schools
Cathy Kulhawik
Kent Intermediate School District
Welcome to
Cathy’s World!
Work…
Play…
Welcome to My World!
Home
 Two kids
 Two dogs
 One horse
 One husband !
A little about Russ
 Tech Geek
 Just graduated with Bachelors
from Davenport University
 Married for 7 years
 4 kids
Hi-Jack from another
Session
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Sessions
On to the Schedule
Purpose of this session
 To familiarize you with PowerSchool
 Review/ Introduce some key components of IPT
 Expand upon areas that IPT did not cover
AGENDA
 What is PowerSchool
 Looking 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
Teachers
Server
Substitutes
Parents and Students
What
What
IPT DOESN’T
IPT tells you
tell you
PowerSchool
PowerSchoolconsists
consistsof
of
School Administration
Students
Faculty
State Reports
School Administration
Reports
PowerScheduler
Transportation
PowerLunch … And more!!
Substitutes
Teachers
GradeBook
PowerTeacher
Teachers
Server
Public
Parents
Parents and Students
Students
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.
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 Admin
 Login page
 Entering your User Name and Password
 User Name: rhoorn
 Password: 1ab23c
rhoorn;1ab23c
Login Page
“Hidden” text
Custom Logo
Custom Logo
Version: 5.2.1.6.0101
PowerTeacher Gradebook: 1.5.1.1
Machine Uptime: 8 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes, 19 seconds
PS Server Uptime: 5 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes, 34 seconds
LDAP Disabled
Home or Start page
 Navigation
 Menu
 Content Area (Search Students)
Navigation
 PowerSchool Logo. “Your Best Friend”
 Current School
 Current Term
 Report Queue
 Logout
 Help?
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
 Search
 Browse
 Other
Finding Students
 Basic Search
 Compound Searches
 Stored Searches
 Stored Selections
 Coming Soon Smart Search…
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
Quick Lookup
Print a Report
Information Screens
Academic Screens
Administration Screens
Enrollment Screens
Scheduling
Custom Screens
 Built-in simple custom screens
 Custom Student HTML pages (official)
 System level “Unsupported” customizations
Now Let’s look at it.