Friday, July 23, 2021

PowerSchool Updates!

We have updated to the new Back to School version of PowerSchool. With this update, comes some exciting enhancements and new features! This update focused mostly on the admin side of PowerSchool, but there were a few changes to the look and feel of PowerTeacher and PowerTeacher Pro.

Teachers

  • Updated icons in PowerTeacher
  • Student Observations 
    • Add time-stamped notes in PowerTeacher Pro
    • See the Knowledge Base for directions!


Admin

  • Updated alert icons - includes accessibility improvements

  • Graduation Plans

    • New user interface and format!
                    *All graduation plans will need to be moved to the new version - more
                      information coming soon!*
    • Now track Senior Math!
    • Use complex & mixed requirements (example: complete Test A with 80% or Course B with C+ or higher)
    • Select if test scores should be from same day or combined with other testing instances
    • View all courses completed even if not counted toward the graduation plan
    • Exclude grades from ineligible years, such as middle school

  • Health 

    • Input office visits, medications, health concerns, and health plans
    • Health module shows when a student is absent
    • Multi-select options for office visits (ex. assessments, visit reason, treatments)
    • Prevent overlapping health concerns
    • Edit monitoring schedule already created
    • Copy health plans to a new school year
    • Exclude vaccine dose from compliance calculations
    • New data sets in Import/Export Manager

  • Search

    • "enrolled_in" and "not_enrolled_in" now include pre-registered and active any date
    • "currently_enrolled_in" and "not_currently_enrolled_in" only include active enrollments as of current day

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