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Assign A Different Teacher to a Section

This article lists how to change the teacher on a section/class

Assigning Paraprofessional Staff to a Classroom in PowerSchool

This article explains how to assign paraprofessional staff to classrooms in PowerSchool.

Create a Discipline Log Entry for Fighting

This article explains the entry of a disciplinary log entry for fighting.

Creating a Section

This article explains how to create class sections in PowerSchool.

Creating Dependent Sections

This article explains how to create a dependent section in PowerSchool.

Discipline Reporting in Log Entries

This article explains how to report code of conduct violations that occurred. Actions that go against the code of conduct and occur on school property should be reported in Log Entries regardless of discipline. School Property includes school grounds, fields etc. School activities that occur at other locations are also considered to be school property.

Drop Student from a Section

This article explains how to drop a single student from a section in PowerSchool.

Editing Historical Course Grades for a Student

This article explains have to make edits to a stored grade under Historical Grades.

End of Year Graduate Reporting: How to Report Students who earn a Diploma or a Certificate of Attainment

This document explains how to code a graduate or certificate of attainment student, update the EPP, and run the Graduate Verification Report. The end result is a list of students who have earned a diploma or a certificate of attainment. It is also an assurance that the students will be reported to the state accurately and the district to be represented appropriately.

Enrollment & Attendance Procedures

The slide deck linked below contains an overview of enrollment & attendance procedures in PowerSchool for school staff.

Hand Entering Historical Grades for a Scheduled Class

This article explains how to hand enter a grade for a student's scheduled course.

How to Access Next Year Assignments for Exiting Students

These instructions describe how to get a list of students that are scheduled to exit your building at the end of the school year. Note that this list changes based on availability of seats at the schools and choices made.

How to Enter Grades for Dual Enrollment and Online Coursework

This document explains the procedure for adding final (F1) grades to PowerSchool as advanced for courses that are considered: 1) Dual Enrollment; or, 2) Online Credit Recovery, including course work taken with Edgenuity. Additionally, this procedure will allow High Schools to verify coursework that is not already part of a student’s schedule so the course will contribute to the Advanced Coursework Completion rate for the school’s Official Accountability Report.

How to Log Attendance Intervention Actions in PowerSchool

Purpose: Track attendance intervention actions taken using the SSP module in PowerSchool:

How to Print the Enrollment Confirmation Report

This article identifies the steps to print a simple letter confirming a student's enrollment in school as of the date the letter is printed.

How to pull an SSDR (Discipline Reporting) Report from the Data Warehouse

This article is intended for school principals and assistant principals to find and correct their current SSDR reporting errors. The report can be pulled from the data warehouse. Then, the corrections should be made in PowerSchool. It is important to audit and correct any errors throughout the year. Errors are reported to DESE.

How to Pull the Student Scheduling Audit Report

This article shows how to pull the Student Scheduling Audit from the Data Warehouse. This report will show the number of students fully scheduled, and mis-scheduled. You are able to view the reason for each mis-scheduled student.

How to Re-enroll a student from Archive

This article explains the procedure to activate an archived student without losing the historical enrollment data. When a student has left the district and returned later, we must keep the archived enrollment history and add a new enrollment line. Use this procedure instead of updating the existing historical line.

How to Retain a Student in PowerSchool

The following steps outline the process for retaining a student in PowerSchool.

How To Run A Transcript

This article describes how to create a student transcript

How to Transfer Out a Student as Summer Exit

This article explains how to transfer out a student as a Summer Exit.

How to Update Attendance in PowerSchool

Teachers can only mark Tardy or Absent for the current date. Any updates to previous dates or to update a different absent reason must be done by the office or administrative staff.

March Graduate Reporting

The following steps below outline the process for reporting students who graduated or earned a Certificate of Attainment (CA) after October 1st and prior to March. These steps will ensure students are properly reported in the March 1st SIMS submission and the accurate calculation of the District and school graduation and dropout rates.

Mass Drop Students from a Section

This article explains how to drop multiple students from a section in PowerSchool.

Mass Print Student Screens

This article explains the procedure to use complete mass printing of several screens using the Mass Print Student Screens.

Night School Student Registration

Procedure for registering a student for Night School

PACE Student Enrollment Transfer Out

This article explains how to transfer a student out as the role of PACE.

Parent Portal Account Distribution Instructions

This article outlines the steps schools can take to authorize a parent to setup their PowerSchool Parent Portal account.

Powerschool Admin Portal Support

This article contains videos and documents about using the search and navigation features since the Powerschool User Interface update effective 8/5/2024.

PowerSchool: Transfer Out (Summer Exit and No Show)

This article discussed the reasons for using the transfer out options of Summer Exit and No Show.

Printing Elementary Report Cards by Homeroom - Admin

This article explains how to generate and print report cards by homeroom at the elementary level in PowerSchool.

Printing Mailing Labels from PowerSchool

This article explains how to print mailing labels from PowerSchool.

Report Card Management

This article will layout the process by which the schools Report Card Management can create/update:

Report Card Readiness Process

This the process by the Data Warehouse Report Card Readiness Report is executed.
The report is used to verify that a schools/teachers grades have been properly entered and finalized in the Teachers Gradebook.

Requesting Summer School Transportation

This article describes the how to request summer school transportation.

SAS Student Enrollment Transfer to Another School

This article explains how to transfer a student to another school as the role of SAS.

Scheduling Enroll A Student into a Section

This article explains how to enroll a single student into a section in PowerSchool.

Scheduling Assigning a Co-teacher to a Classroom in PowerSchool

This article explains how to add a co-teacher to a section in PowerSchool.

Scheduling Assigning a Lead Teacher to a Classroom in PowerSchool

This article explains how to add a lead teacher to a section in PowerSchool.

Scheduling Mass Enroll Students into a Section

This article explains how to enroll multiple students into a section in PowerSchool.

School Bringing Students in from Find Assign

This article explains how to bring students in from Find Assign

SchooLinks Counselor Assignments in PowerSchool​

This article explains how a counselor can assign their student caseload in PowerSchool for use in the SchooLinks application.
*SchooLinks has replaced Naviance

Search for Transferred Students -- The As_Of Search

This is a powerful tool that can be used to search for school records when a student has transferred out and no longer in your school. It can search previous years or just the previous marking period. You are then able to pull transcripts, discipline records and other reports from PowerSchool.

Search Terms in Powerschool

This article describes how to search for different groups of students from the PowerSchool start page.

SIMS FAQ (Student Information Management System)

What is SIMS and how do we accurately report SIMS Data

Student Course Requests

Options for Gathering Student Course Requests

Summer Graduate Reporting

This article outlines the process of reporting students who graduated or earned a certificate of attainment during the summer.

Summer School Report Cards

This article explains how to print report cards for Summer School. Please review the Frequently Asked Questions section for additional information.

Transfer Out of School

The steps below indicate how to transfer a student out of school. These steps will ensure that a student is transferred out in accordance with district policy and state law.

Translation/Interpretation Services Student Roster

This article outlines the steps users should use to pull a roster of students that need interpretation or translation services.