Track 1: Unified Insights

In this course path, explore PowerSchool’s Unified Insights solution. Learn how you can use this user-friendly, web-based data warehouse to access detailed information to make instructional decisions that drive district and school improvements. Explore the Enrollment and Attendance dashboards to optimize your understanding of student enrollment and attendance trends. Get to know the Behavior, Academics, and Assessments dashboards and the different sub-dashboards of each. Learn how to filter and use tooltips to find the information you need. Then use Risk Analysis to increase the chances of students graduating on time through predictive analytics and machine learning. Finally, learn how to use the multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) to identify and track student needs with extensive inputs and create and track student plans.

• Student Analytics: Getting Started with Enrollment and Attendance
• Student Analytics: Getting Started with Behavior, Academics, and Assessments
• MTSS: Creating and Managing Student Interventions
• Risk Analysis: Getting Started

Track 2: Special Programs

In this course path, take a tour through the eyes of teachers and staff who are responsible for monitoring caseloads. Learn about the day-to-day processing of documentation to keep your reporting accurate and compliant. Next, learn special features available to ease the documentation process and monitoring of student progress for the end user. Review additional processes, such as how to create amendments and the option to copy over from a previous document, how to simplify data entry efforts and much more. Finally, explore the report writing tool designed for all users to answer data-based questions regardless of their technical skills and comfort levels. Review how to create lists and multi-dimensional reports with ease using the embedded report writing tool. Learn how to access and apply enhancement features to data derived from student profiles and documents and use the enhanced data to determine areas of need system-wide.

• Special Programs: Managing Caseloads, Communication, and Profile Access
• Special Programs: Managing Process Documents and Events
• Special Programs: Reporting – Exploring Basic Features
• Special Programs: Reporting – Using Advanced Options

Track 3: PowerScheduler

In this course path for intermediate users, learn how to build a master schedule in PowerScheduler and how to load the schedule. Explore the necessary steps for a productive build experience and the setup required prior to running a load with PowerScheduler.

• PowerSchool SIS: PowerScheduler – Prepare to Build
• PowerSchool SIS: PowerScheduler – Load Process

Track 4: PowerSchool SIS Enhanced UI (Intermediate Users)
In this course path for intermediate users, explore the new navigation paths, the Quick Search functionality, and how to create a list of your favorite pages. Discover the new tools available when working with students, staff, and contacts, and take home the tools you need to work with these innovations. Learn about the import and export functions in PowerSchool SIS and discover how to work with your data using Data Manager and Direct Database Export. Next, learn about user roles and security groups that control what functions, pages, and information your staff can access. Learn how to set up security to ensure the right people have access to secure data and an easy-to-implement plan in place to address staff mobility. Finally, get acquainted with a variety of codes you can use in PowerSchool SIS grade calculations, reports, tasks, and export templates.

• PowerSchool SIS: New Features – Exploring the Enhanced User Interface
• PowerSchool SIS: Importing and Exporting – Accessing Data in Your SIS
• PowerSchool SIS: Security – Configuring Security Groups and User Roles
• PowerSchool SIS: Codes – Deciphering and Accessing Data