 PowerSchool

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This article describes how to create a student transcript

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

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.

Hybrid Attendance Reporting: With Students returning to in-person learning, it is imperative that school staff and teachers use the appropriate attendance codes, either In-Person (Codes prefixed with "IP") or Remote, dependent on the student’s location (remote learning vs. in-person learning).

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.

This article explains the procedure to use complete mass printing of several screens using the Mass Print Student Screen Plug-In.

This article describes the process in assigning counselors in PowerSchool for use in the Naviance application.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

This article explains how to print mailing labels from PowerSchool.

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

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.

This article describes the how to request summer school transportation.

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

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

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

This article explains how to create class sections in PowerSchool.

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

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

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

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

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

This article explains how to bring students in from Find Assign

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.

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

What is SIMS and how do we accurately report SIMS Data

Options for Gathering Student Course Requests

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

This article describes the necessary steps to complete registration for Summer School.

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

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.