How to Add New Staff
New Staff Member
Adding a new staff member is easy. However, you will need to enter a support ticket that explains the level of access the new person will require for PowerSchool admin. The security group settings option cannot be set by local users. For teachers who don't access the admin, just enter them an off we go. Here's how...
- People> Staff> New Staff Member
- The teacher number is very important as it must be unique system-wide. For the ID number enter your school number and then the date and then sequential numbers for each new staff member entered today. If your school number is 55555, today is January 3, 2021, and the new person is the first you are entering today enter the ID number as 5555501032101 -- 55555 for the school number, 01 for January, 03 for date, 21 for year and 01 because that's the first new staff today. If you are entering more staff members, the next one would be 5555501032102 and so on.
- Enter the remaining information. especially email and phone so they receive school messenger broadcasts, and then click submit.
- You must then enter the username and password by clicking Change Password on the left menu. Top grey part is for Admin users and the bottom part is for teacher users. Depending on the roll of the new staff member you may need to enter top only, bottom only or the entire page.
- Click submit and your new staff member is entered.
Don't forget - if the new person is using the Admin portion of PowerSchool, you must enter a support ticket with the new user's name, roll at school, and desired level of security permission.