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[RECIPE] End-of-Term Tasks

Category: Scheduled Admin Tasks

End-of-Term Tasks for Site Admins Instructions for site admins for the end-of-term processes. It is very important that these be followed exactly and in order. Store grades.  (Elementary School Instr...

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InfoSnap Registration Process

Category: General

InfoSnap Registration Process Introduction Review/Edit in the Roster Workspace Notify Families to Register Review Registration Submissions Deliver Data Back to PowerSchool Introduction The registrat...

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[RECIPE] Begin A New School Year

Category: Scheduled Admin Tasks

Begin A New School Year It is very important that you follow these steps as you get ready for the new school year. You can perform these steps any time after the school year rollover has been done. Pl...

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PowerSchool Enhanced User Interface

Category: General

Starting with the PowerSchool SIS 24.5.0.0 (Back to School August 2024) release, the option to turn off the Enhanced User Interface will be removed, and the Enhanced UI will be the only interface avai...

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[RECIPE] End-of-Year Tasks

Category: Scheduled Admin Tasks

End of Year Tasks Perform these steps as soon as possible after your school year ends. The end of year process cannot be performed until all schools have the following steps completed. Store Grades f...

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School Messenger Basics for WELS Schools

Category: General

School Messenger Basics for WELS Schools WELS PowerSchool (PS) is now using School Messenger (SM) for connecting with students, staff, and parents. There are several things to keep in mind that are so...

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Set 8th Graders for Area Lutheran High School

Category: Admin How To

How Do I Get 8th Graders set for Area Lutheran High School? High Schools start the scheduling process around Christmas time of your students' 8th grade year. Once you know your students are headed to ...

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Pre-Register Students for Next Year

Category: Admin How To

Pre-Register Students for Next School Year To pre-register a student for the upcoming school year, follow the steps below. Change the term at the top of the page to the year term for the upcoming sch...

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Import Student/Staff Pictures

Category: Admin How To

Importing Photos into PowerSchool  Site admins can import photos into PowerSchool only after creating a Map file to link pictures to students and placing the files in to a flat zipped file. Preparing ...

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Unable to create section enrollment record in database Error

Category: Begin School Year

Problem:  When enrolling students at the beginning of the school year, an error message that reads Unable to create section enrollment record in database appears. Solution: The calendar has not been c...

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List Student Email Addresses

Category: Admin How To

The student email address field is not part of the student's table in the PowerSchool database and is not easily accessible for the list students function. However, there is a PowerQuery that can be u...

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Creating Email Stationery for School Messenger

Category: Admin How To

Creating Email Stationery for SwiftK12 Messages The messages that are sent from us as announcements about PowerSchool utilize an HTML template. These are useful for establishing a consistent look and ...

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Weighted Grading Setup Across the Grades

Category: Begin School Year

When St. Matthew's started using PowerSchool in 2005, we took that opportunity to examine our grading practices across the grades and were surprised to find that we were all over the board in terms of...

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Church Attendance Form Letters

Category: General

We used these form letters each quarter when sending out our church attendance.

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PowerSchool Mobile App for Parents and Students

Category: Parents & Students

PowerSchool Mobile App for Parents and Students Here are the instructions for configuring the PowerSchool Mobile App. Download the PowerSchool Mobile app from the App Store or from Google Play. Laun...

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Calculating Weighted GPA

Category: Parents & Students

Many students and parents are confused about calculating GPA's. PowerSchool automatically does this for each student. If you wish to do this yourself, here is how to calculate GPA using a Weighted...

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Term Weighting for Semester Grades

Category: General

This example will show how to weight the Semester 1 grade to 45% Q1 grade, 45% Q2 grade and 10% for the semester exam.  You can adjust to suit your needs. In the Power Teacher Pro Gradebook home page...

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K4 Standards

Category: General

K4 Readiness Uses complete sentences Uses acceptable grammar Pronounces and enunciates correctly Looks at and uses books correctly Shows interest in listening to books Retells familiar stories Pronou...

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K3 Standards

Category: General

K3 Readiness Uses complete sentences Prounounces and enunciates correctly Looks at books Shows interest in listening to books Retells familiar stories Pronounces own first name Recognizes own name in...

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End-of-Term Teacher Tasks

Category: General

Finalize academic grades in your grade book. Enter in the Behaviors/Attitudes for the marking period. These are the Behaviors/Attitudes: WORK.HABITS.1 - Begins and completes work promptly WORK.HABIT...

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