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29Sep/090

PowerSchool preview

The Technology sub-committee will be presenting an overview of PowerSchool to the community at a special SAC meeting on Tuesday, October 13 beginning at 7 p.m in Room 6 of the School.

PowerSchool provides real-time, secure access for parents to their child’s grades, assignments, hot lunch balances, progress reports and more. PowerSchool is used by some of the top schools in the country and St. Regis will be the first school in the Birmingham/Bloomfield area to deploy this web-based portal.

Below are some preview images from PowerSchool:

Grade overview

Current view of grades for all subjects.

Parents and students can view their current grades in each subject. You can also click on a teacher's name to send an email.

Grade list

List of assignment and scores for a single subject.

By clicking on a subject, a list of all assignments currently graded is displayed - including point earned and percent/grade.

Assignment detail

Description of an assignment in Ed Tech class.

When a teachers includes more information about an assignment, it is viewable by parents. In this example the assignment titled "Excel Lesson 3" was described as "Entering data and creating formulas".

Lunch balance

Current lunch balance and list of transactions.

Current lunch balance and each lunch transaction are listed. This listing is live to the minute!

Email alerts

Email alert setup screen.

Parents can setup several different email alerts as well as set the frequency of the alerts (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).