PowerSchool Erfahrungen (2024)

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PowerSchool: Nice Interface and Easy to Use Features

5,0vor 4 Jahren

Kommentare:Overall, PowerSchool offers an easy to navigate attendance and grading system for schools. They have done a nice job with the layout in that most things are easy to find and where you would be expected to find them. There are many customizations available at the district level, so successful implementation will also be dependent on your district set up and ensuring that they are getting input from the appropriate stakeholders.

Vorteile:

My school district switched over to PowerSchool about a year and a half ago. I now use it for grades, attendance, lunch counts, reports, and many other things. What I like most about PowerSchool is the interface. As a teacher, when I log in, the initial screen shows the things I use on a daily basis- attendance, lunch count, and contact information. I like that it is set up in a way that the things I use the most are right there. There is then an additional menu called "Power Teacher Pro" that is used for things like grade entries and reports that I might use more on a monthly basis. The report options offer lots of different variables and allows the user to create PDF, excel, and other types of files. Having these different options has been helpful.

Nachteile:

The user experience has been a positive one for me. However, the initial training we received could use some improvement. The training modules are fairly dry to sit through and can be confusing to navigate.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen:

Great for employee training!

5,0vor 2 Jahren

Vorteile:

We loved using Powerschool for new employee training. It had so much to offer and was very easy to use!

Nachteile:

There is nothing that I dislike about Powerschool.

Powerschool . . . it does a lot, but could use some tweaks.

3,0vor 2 Jahren

Kommentare:In terms of housing student information, completing attendance and lunch count, and entering class scores, I appreciate the functionality. The report card function needs some minor upgrades to make it more user friendly on the teacher end.

Vorteile:

I appreciate that I can access my students' demographic information easily. Attendance and lunch count are easy, as well. The student information management aspect of PowerSchool is intuitive. I rarely have to go to our school secretary for details, like I would have in the past.

Nachteile:

The report card function needs some adjustments. The score entry section works well. It even allows you to adjust the font, which my older eyes appreciate. However, the printable report sent to parents each trimester is uncomfortably tiny in terms of font size. Even the comment section is very tiny, and those are some of the most valuable aspects of the report. Also, I'd very much appreciate being able to have a screen view that allowed me to look at each student's individual reports. This would be very helpful in looking for missing scores prior to report cards being printed. I have to do a lot of scrolling and clicking to track an individual child's scores over various subject areas. A single student screen view that allowed me to enter scores, if needed, would be a nice boost to the usability of this product.

I used this software in middle school and starting sophom*ore year in high school.

4,0vor 6 Jahren

Kommentare:I think this was a significant upgrade from the software my school used to use for grading, although that software did have the grade calculation function that we wished PowerSchool had. The best thing about now using PowerSchool is that it doesn't crash as easily and it's easier to see grades at a glance. Additionally, teachers can make announcements and that function has been really helpful for my school as a whole.

Vorteile:

My favorite function in this software is that you can submit assignments through this and it will send you an email update that lets you know that it was turned in. This is helpful because sometimes teachers don't notice that something was turned in and will count it late and this way students have a way to back up their claim that it isn't late. I also really like that teachers can do things like vocab tests and simple multiple choice tests that self-grade and auto-input the grades because it's less work for both the teacher and the student and it's a fast turnaround. The third thing that I like about this software is that you can look at the calendar on the landing page and immediately see which assignments are more urgent (in terms of due dates). This makes our lives a lot easier because that way we don't have to write all the dates down for the assignments we have yet to complete.

Nachteile:

The software will sometimes crash and give us a picture of a cat with a ball of yarn and say that it's just tangled up, which gets frustrating because a lot of people my age obsessively check their grades and remind themselves of assignments, and we get very fidgety and stressed out if we can't see the grades because of all the things that could be being updated but that we just aren't able to see. Also, as far as my school's use of this software goes, we can't test to see what our grade would be if we get a certain grade on another assignment that the teacher has assigned point values to already. This is a function available in some other softwares in this category so students get frustrated that it's possible but the school makes it so we have to use outside resources to figure it out, or just our general math knowledge, when it could be much easier.

Does the job, could be better

4,0vor 5 Jahren

Vorteile:

You can see your grades at a glance and this is really convenient for students. You can make submissions through Google Drive without relinquishing your ownership of the document like Google Classroom does (I understand the premise of that strategy, but it's majorly inconvenient).

Nachteile:

Unlike in Canvas, you can't test what kind of grades you'll need on weighted assignments to maintain a certain overall grade. The UI/UX are also designed kind of poorly and my school frequently gets errors saying that PowerSchool is undergoing development. I never get those messages from Canvas. It's also extremely frustrating that I can't submit documents from Google Drive if they're in a Team Drive, whether or not they're owned by me.

Effective LMS

4,0vor 5 Monaten

Kommentare:Our school adopted Powerschool in the last 5 years. This program is way better than the system we use to use. Great for overall attendance, student records, and grading.

Vorteile:

Fairly easy to use for K-12 education. Attendance is a breeze and helps maintain accurate class grades and records.

Nachteile:

Not too many cons to report. Data records for families and emails tend to be a little hard to access, but this could be how our technology department uploaded this information.

All teachers and students should use this !

5,0vor 4 Monaten

Kommentare:I like PowerSchool the parents are more involved as they can see their child grades and progress on the app it’s really great .

Vorteile:

What i like most is that it tells you your schedule and the room number to your classes and it’s digital you don’t need to have a paper with your schedule and worry out losing it.

Nachteile:

There is absolutely no cons about PowerSchool

Power School Gets an A+!

5,0vor 8 Monaten

Kommentare:Overall, as a parent, I really enjoy Power School. I don’t have to keep track of paper report cards, or use multiple websites to track my kids. Everything I have needed to access so far has been easily found in Power School. My favorite features being attendance and grades.

Vorteile:

I love Power School. It’s a very clear, well organized online site that allows a parent or guardian to see everything they need to see in regards to their student(s). Attendance is clearly tracked, grades are all there, teachers comments, test results, forms and enrollment. It’s a one stop shop for keeping track of the student(s) in your lives.

Nachteile:

I think the phone app features could be better. The computer website is fantastic, but the app lacks a lot of information that the website contains. I wish they were similar.

Easy to use

4,0vor 5 Jahren

Kommentare:As a teacher I use PowerSchool and PowerTeacher daily for attendance, checking the kids' information, such as birth dates, parent numbers, addresses, ect. You can add grades and seating charts as well. I'm also able to check on my special needs students' IEPs and edit my sections of them. It is a brilliant tool and keeps everything organized and all in one place.

Vorteile:

I use it daily at school. I didn't have to take any special training, as it's pretty easy to figure out. I can go in and edit things I've previously put in without having to go to any hassle re-accessing and changing things.

Nachteile:

Sometimes I have to go through clicking two or three menu items before I remember the combination I need to get to the place I want.

PowerSchool

5,0vor 6 Monaten

Vorteile:

I am able to view real-time grades for my children to know where there struggles are before the end of the marking period. Very user friendly.

Nachteile:

No issues thus far

Powerschool is a powertool

4,0vor 5 Jahren

Kommentare:I was resistant to the change to PowerSchool, at first, but I can honestly say that it's a great software that has the whole school on the same page. It's really helped us go digital, as well!

Vorteile:

Powerschool has everything for the district in one place, which makes keeping track of students easy across the board. Grades, attendance, reports, lunch and library fees, any sort of notes, are all kept track in Powerschool, and if a student transfers within the district, the information travels with them, so it really is a wonderful hub for teachers and administrators.It's also great because parents and students have their own login information so that everyone is able to stay up to date on grades, etc. without teachers having to constantly send home updates.

Nachteile:

Set-up in powerschool is a little more involved than it was in Pearson. And updates aren't automatic but instead have to be done manually. Also, when the system goes down (which is occasionally does), then you're out of luck for literally everything...

Student management software

5,0vor 3 Jahren

Kommentare:PowerSchool has streamlined the attendance process in our system. This software enables the user to provide information about individual students, record attendance and behavioral issues and record grades simply and easily.

Vorteile:

This platform allows you to take attendance, make special notations and record grades all using the same program.

Nachteile:

The software can be a little temperamental. An administrator that understands all of the elements needs to manage the implementation, and oversee the utilization.

Love this Program!

5,0vor 4 Jahren

Kommentare:Overall, this system is quick, easy, and very well set up. I would recommend Powerschool to anyone to use for special education tracking and documentation.

Vorteile:

PowerSchool is super helpful for special education legal documents. It contains documents for IEPs, evaluations, invitations, MDRs, etc. All drop down menu friendly. It also tracks the dates and timelines for special education students. There are also sections for parent communication, service capture, etc.

Nachteile:

I wish so badly there were 504 forms within Power School. Having all special education and 504 forms in one place would be helpful. I also don't like that only one person can be working in the page at one time. With multiple providers, this gets hectic when trying to meet timelines together. There can be a lag in the system for when someone gets out of the document too keeping the page locked.

PowerSchool is effective and user-friendly!

5,0vor 11 Monaten

Kommentare:I've had a very positive experience with PowerSchool. It's easy to submit daily attendance and create seating charts. It's user friendly and fairly simple to navigate. I can quickly find contact information regarding parents and guardians. It's a terrific resource for our school district!

Vorteile:

We utilize PowerSchool to take attendance daily. This is the system used for our official grades at school. This is incredibly helpful when looking up emergency contact info, birthdates, seating charts, etc.

Nachteile:

There are so many features that I am still learning about, and I've yet to come across something that I do not like about PowerSchool.

Decent All-in-One

4,0vor 5 Jahren

Kommentare:I have been using it for five or more years. It has definitely changed some in that time, which has required some adjustment. Overall, it is a great program for putting a lot of information into the same area rather than having several programs to do different aspects of the teaching job. It is fairly easy to use most of the time, but definitely requires some detailed training or a lot of playing if you have never used it before.

Vorteile:

I like that I can take attendance, grade, create data sheets, and more all in the same program. It makes it so that we don't have to learn several programs and try to manually combine our information.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it isn't clear where you need to go in order to change or find certain items. It took some playing to find out where to go for things like weighing grades or finding the grades of students who dropped or switched classes.

Great for keeping track of grades

5,0vor 4 Jahren

Kommentare:I really love PowerSchool. I think this should be a requirement for all school districts since the parents will always know what's going on. You even get notifications if the kids are marked absent. I absolutely love this program.

Vorteile:

Powerschool is am amazing product. I love how you can keep track of the kid's grades in real time and how it shows you their upcoming assignments. The software is so great that our school district stopped using paper report cards and now use Powerschool.

Nachteile:

The only complaint that I have is really more of a suggestion than a complaint. I wish they had a system integrated with school lunches where you can use Powerschool to reload the kid's lunch account. This would eliminate having to use two apps.

Everyone with kiddos should use this software!

5,0vor 3 Jahren

Kommentare:We can keep up with the kids missing assignments on a daily basis! That makes life beyond a breeze, compared to finding out at midterms how they are doing. The ease of talking to teachers, seeing all work that should be in, and all courses being taken with a current schedule is the BEST! THANK YOU FOR MAKING POWERSCHOOL AVAILABLE TO US PARENTS! If you havent tried this software, Please DO! You'll wonder how you went without it, and will Never live without it again!

Vorteile:

The fact that I can see the beat details of Our children's current: Grades, schedules, assignments turned in, and missing assignments is by FAR THE BEST comfort a parent can have on their side! Hard for Us to be blindfolded by our kids when such a great application exists!

Nachteile:

There is nothing I have to say negative about this software whatsoever! Thank you for creating such a thing!

PowerSchool - A Good SIS Choice

4,0vor 3 Jahren

Kommentare:We use PowerSchool as our SIS. We're looking in to the PS registration piece and we use a couple other modules as well. PowerSchool is extensible with plugins and easily accessible to most third party apps that need data from it, assuming the third party knows what they're doing.

Vorteile:

PowerSchool has improved a LOT in the last few years. The interface is MUCH cleaner and usable, their security focus has shown in many changes we've seen to recent versions, and generally it just works. I've worked long enough with it to know how to troubleshoot most issues. It's actually pretty easy and accessible for us tech folks when dealing with server issues. Our users generally like it.

Nachteile:

Some of the issues that pop up are silly things like services not starting all of the sudden, and it can be very touchy when you need to restart the server it's running on. If you don't shut down the PowerSchool services properly, you can end up with a broken instance.

Teacher view of Powerschool

5,0vor 5 Jahren

Vorteile:

I like that PowerSchool integrates all of my chores. I have one place that I go to to get to my attendance, gradebook and state resources for instruction. I can also see which of my students' parents are using the Parent Portal to monitor their students grades.

Nachteile:

I don't have any complaints about the software itself. I would like to see my school use even more of its features, like Daily Announcements! That would eliminate the need for many of the emails I receive throughout the day.

It Does the Job

5,0vor 2 Jahren

Vorteile:

Use it mainly for grade management. It does fine with this, but other features are not as useful.

Nachteile:

Wish it had the ability to fill in a grade for every student NOT already assigned a grade. (i.e., enter the few non-100s and then just fill everyone who did score a 100). Also wish it would integrate with Canvas better. It is not easy to select just parents for sending an email (too many clicks and fields to work through).

PowerSchool - The Industry Standard SIS

5,0vor 4 Jahren

Kommentare:We use PowerSchool daily for all of the activities mentioned above, and more.

Vorteile:

PowerSchool is the industry standard SIS out there. It takes training and some familiarity, but once you gain that, the tool can cover a tremendous amount of school related needs - scheduling, reporting, grading, etc. Great job PowerSchool.

Nachteile:

The only hurdle to PowerSchool is the fairly extensive traning needed to really learn it well. Otherwise, it's a great product!

As a classroom teacher, this program helped me better manage classes and enter grades easily

5,0vor 6 Jahren

Vorteile:

The program is easy to use from a teacher's perspective. I was able to quickly take attendance with quick buttons that let me enter all present, grading was simple, and I could set up my gradebooks into the percentages I wanted. I also had a number of reports available to me.

Nachteile:

Sometimes, logging in was a struggle and could be difficult when our district had similar deadlines for entry. Also, when entering grades, at times the program would slip into a previous quarter and I had to be mindful to change grade entry dates. Other than that, I loved using this program.

Best SIS available for the cost

5,0vor 5 Jahren

Vorteile:

Runs on an industry-standard oracle SQL databaseExtremely flexible back-end allows for a wide variety of customizations using ajax and javascriptCost is much lower than other SIS competitors in the public school domain

Nachteile:

Very poor logging capabilities to track record changesTomcat implementation is very heavy and resource-intensiveParent portal is very limited in features compared to other competing SIS packages

Great way to keep track of grades

5,0letztes Jahr

Kommentare:Overall, I enjoy PowerSchool and use it with easy daily in my classroom.

Vorteile:

PowerSchool is easy to use and overall very user-friendly. It is easy to input grades and export data. I like using PowerSchool.

Nachteile:

Some information is not easily accessible unless you are an administrator. Some of the older teachers struggle with using the technology.

Daily User

5,0vor 5 Jahren

Kommentare:Overall my experience has been positive. Other than the first week or so after new updates, I have not had any issues with the software.

Vorteile:

I love the ease of this software. It makes taking attendance, keeping track of grades and printing reports easy.

Nachteile:

There have been several updates that make it hard at first to figure out where things have moved but the updates generally make the software better.