Security Best Practices, Group Management, Assigning staff to a Group, Properly Deactivating Staff, Modifying Page Permissions, Password Policy Management, State & System Reports Security, Miscellaneous Security Settings, EUI Security Changes

This meeting will focus on the EUI and the important security changes included in the latest version of PowerSchool.

This webinar covers the annual setup required at both District Office and School level for successful State reporting. Information covers Title I, Title III LEP information, CRDC, Programs Fact Template, Special Education programs, Keystone and PSSA courses, School Calendar Information, LEP Assessments, Industry Credential Codes [for CTE use only], Local Assessments, Attendance Tracking and Notification, Summer Withdrawals, Mass updating Calendars, student enrollments, and more.

Grade reporting best practices from an administrator perspective. Using the grade book verification process, PowerTeacher pro settings for a successful year, understanding grading terminology, and how the IU assists. 

      Enrolling new students

    Re-enrolling students

    Retained students

      Handling state reporting fields (graduates, overrides and location codes)

    Excluding from class rank

Create new school enrollments (without transferring out)

      Understanding archived enrollments (like withdrawals and graduated students)

Searching for transferred students

      Dropping classes

      Orphaned attendance

Attendance best practices from an administrative perspective. Updating attendance, utilizing the best reports, tracking letters sent. Daily vs Meeting attendance.

Covers login, screen navigation, searching, understanding help screens, locating staff and student schedules. Individual student screens, understanding of admin, teachers, public view.

• Creating a new year

• Managing courses

• Teacher schedule clean-up

• Creating and deleting sections

• Working with dependent sections

• Mass enrolling

• Creating a new year

• Managing courses

• Teacher schedule clean-up

• Creating and deleting sections

• Working with dependent sections

• Mass enrolling

Learn the PowerTeacher Pro Administrator setups and start your 24-25 planning now. 

• Lock down grade book functions to teachers.

• District Categories

• Understand District traditional term weighting setups

• Default Gradebook settings

• Lock reporting terms

This training is designed specifically for school counselors and will provide a broad overview of the specific tasks that counselors perform in PowerSchool, and how to do those tasks more effectively and efficiently. Topics that will be covered will include:

• Managing Historical Grades and Standards

• PowerTeacher Gradebook Overview

• Graduation Plan Progress

• Log Entries

• Creating lists and quick exporting of student data

• Managing Contact Information

• Course Request Management

• Understanding the withdrawal process

• PSCB DEV reports

A general overview of PowerScheduler and Live Side Scheduling Capabilities.

If you are copying a previous year's master schedule or have already manually built your master schedule and will either import or enter it into PowerScheduler, this webinar is for your school.

Course Catalogs

Load Priorities

Preferences

Constraints

Section Linking

Teams

Create the master schedule entirely from scratch.  

Build Scenarios Overview

Constraints

Courses and Course Catalogs

Course Preference Automation

Course Rank

Student Information

You may have heard about the new Enhanced User Interface (EUI) but did you know PowerSchool is mandating the EUI in the back to school release next year and removing the current Classic interface?

Please join PowerSchool21 as we review the following topics:

• Rollout plan with staff

• Understanding favorites

• Impact on custom screens

• Submitting help desk cases to ensure your customizations are working properly long before the start of school

Join us for a grade reporting Q&A to address end of semester grading concerns, challenges, etc.

This is not a training, but we will help address grading specific questions presented to the PowerSchool21 team.

This training covers setting up your trigger courses for the PVAAS submission. Topics include who will be included, course setup including lead- and co-teacher allocations and subtest identifiers. How PowerSchool calculates the teacher/student relationship and responsibility as well as how to set up additional relationships and exclude students that opt out.

This training will provide an introductory level view of capturing, managing, and reporting student health-related information, including immunizations, screenings, office visits, grade level entry certifications, health plans, and monitoring. It will also cover enhanced health functions such as: working with medications, health concerns, physicals, PE waivers, contact log, and other student health-related information.

This training will review the first steps in preparation for master scheduling. Learn more about online course request setups, request types, and how course selection works with PowerSchool administrators and public portal for students.

We're thrilled to invite you to an exclusive event showcasing the latest from PowerSchool. Join us virtually or in person at the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21 for an engaging experience in edtech featuring the following:

Student Information Cloud – Streamline administrative processes, improving efficiency from attendance and grade tracking to student records and more. 

Personalized Learning Cloud – Designed to tailor education to individual student needs, helping educators better support their students' learning journeys. 

Future/Roadmap Preview – Gain exclusive insights into PowerSchool's future plans and the exciting roadmap for upcoming developments.  

Q&A Session – Engage with the PowerSchool experts.  

RSVP by 11/20/23 to secure your spot in person or virtually. In person space is limited so please respond promptly. Lunch will be provided duing the in person event.

This training will review the various ways data can be imported and exported in PowerSchool. Topics that will be covered include:

• Quick Export

• Quick Import

• Use of special export codes to pull specific data

• Use of export and import templates

• AutoSend

• AutoComm

• Data Export Manager (DEM)

• Data Import Manager (DIM)

• Direct Database Access (DDA)

• Direct Database Export (DDE)

Specific examples of using the various export and import methods will be demonstrated. Please note that several topics may require enhanced security privileges for users to allow access and modification of data.

Grade reporting best practices from an administrator perspective. Using the grade book verification process, PowerTeacher pro settings for a successful year, understanding grading terminology, and how the IU assists. 

This webinar covers the annual setup required at both District Office and School levels for successful State reporting. Information covers Title I, Title III LEP information, CRDC, Programs Fact Template, Special Education programs, Keystone and PSSA courses, School Calendar Information, LEP Assessments, Industry Credential Codes [for CTE use only], Local Assessments, Attendance Tracking and Notification, Summer Withdrawals, Mass updating Calendars, student enrollments, and more.

Attendance best practices from an administrative perspective. Updating attendance, utilizing the best reports, tracking letters sent. Daily vs Meeting attendance.

Covers login, screen navigation, searching, understanding help screens, locating staff and student schedules. Individual student screens, understanding of admin, teachers, public view.

• We will review 23.5x changes pertaining to the new PowerSchool interface along with recommendations your district should consider before turning on and rolling out this new feature.

• We will also review how to manage PSCB reports so they are ready for the start of the school year. 

There will be time for a general discussion following the presentation.

Learn how to copy your schedule on the ‘Live Side’ of PowerSchool and easily schedule your students using dependent sections and mass enroll for the next school year BEFORE EOY! The following items will be covered:

• Create years and terms

• Copy Master Schedule

• Create New Staff members

• Adjust the master schedule

• Copy calendar

• Mass enroll students

• Dependent sections

Join PS21 to ask grade reporting questions in an open format. We welcome you to join us and get those grade-reporting probing questions, scenarios, planning assistance, and protocols all answered.  Now is the time to plan ahead before the school year ends. 

PSCB Development’s New Data Analyzer and PivotTable Builder will provide PowerSchool users with a toolset to easily create and export pivot tables using results rendered from the following:

• PSCB DEV Pro Custom Reports
• List Students Reports
• Exported Data Files

The Data Analyzer and PivotTable Builder will be included in the current PSCB DEV Custom
Reports package at no additional cost to current PSCB Custom Reports subscribers.