PowerSchool Instructions
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BE A PART OF YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
With PowerSchool’s Parent Access you can read announcements, catch up on your child’s class assignments, checkout grades, attendance and teacher comments. You can also sign up to receive alerts specific to your child. Read more about all of these features below. Click on the titles in blue to open each document.
Parent Portal Account Instructions is a guide for creating your PowerSchool account and adding your PUC Students to the account.
PowerSchool General Overview provides instructions for navigating the parent portal and accessing your child’s information.
Adding Students to Your Account is a guide for adding additional PUC students to your existing account.
Grades and Attendance is a guide for accessing detailed grades and attendance information for your children.
Manage Notifications from the School provides instructions for editing notification preferences and for setting up automated email updates.
POWERSCHOOL MOBILE
PowerSchool is now portable!
The PowerSchool for Parents app is available for download on Google Play for Android devices as well as from the App Store for the iPhone®, iPad® or iPod touch®*. You can easily view your child’s progress with access to grades, assignments, and more!
PowerSchool Mobile for Parents provides instructions for downloading and navigating the app.
Here are links to the apps:
VIDEO: PARENT PORTAL ACCOUNT INSTRUCTIONS
Creating a parent portal account – This video walks parents through the steps for creating a Single Sign-On Account.
POWERSCHOOL FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
(Click on a question to see the response.)
Q. WHAT IS POWERSCHOOL?
A. PowerSchool is the student information system used by PUC schools to manage both demographic and academic information – such as attendance, grades and class assignments – for students.
Q. WHAT CAN I SEE ON THE POWERSCHOOL SITE?
A. By logging onto PowerSchool, you may access a variety of information pertaining to your student(s). The information available to you includes:
- grades and pending assignments for current classes (*)
- attendance for the past two weeks or the whole term
- teachers comments (*)
- email access to teachers
- various reports via email
- the school bulletin (*)
(*) Note that if you do not see some of the above information when you log onto PowerSchool, it is because the information has not yet been entered by teachers and/or the school.
Q. WHAT PLATFORMS ARE AVAILABLE?
A. You can access the PowerSchool Parent Portal using any computer with internet access. In addition, by using a downloaded app you can access PowerSchool from your iPad, iPhone or Android device.
Q. HOW DO I GET HELP ON ACCESSING MY CHILD’S INFORMATION?
A. Aside from the resources found on this page, you can contact the main office of your child’s school with questions.
Q. WHERE DO I GET THE ACCESS ID AND PASSWORD TO ADD MY CHILD(REN) TO MY ACCOUNT?
A. Your child’s school should have provided you with a Guardian Web Account letter that contains your secure Access ID and Password. If you have more than one child at a PUC school, you will need a letter for each child as the Access ID and Password are specific for each student. Please reach out to your child’s school if you have not received this letter.
Q. CAN OTHER PEOPLE SEE MY CHILD’S INFORMATION/GRADES?
A. As long as you protect your username and password, others will not be able to see your account information.
Q. HOW DO I SIGNUP TO RECEIVE AUTOMATIC E-MAIL NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT MY CHILD’S GRADES AND/OR ATTENDANCE?
A. Review the Parent Notifications document for instructions on how to set this up.
Q. I SIGNED UP TO RECEIVE AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATIONS. HOW CAN I CANCEL OR EDIT MY SETTINGS?
A. If you no longer wish to receive automated notifications, or if you would like to edit your settings, such as your e-mail address, follow these steps. Log in to your parent account and click on Email Notification from the left navigation menu. From this page you can edit the notifications that are sent, the frequency of the notifications or your e-mail address. To cancel notifications, then deselect all boxes and select Never for How Often you would like to receive notices.
Q. I HAVE ANOTHER CHILD NEWLY ATTENDING A PUC SCHOOL, HOW CAN I ADD THEM TO MY PARENT ACCOUNT?
A. Review the Adding Students to an Existing Account document for instruction on adding another PUC student to your account.
Q. WHAT IF I FORGOT MY LOGIN INFORMATION?
- On the PowerSchool login page click on “Forgot Username or Password?” and then click on either the “Forgot Password?” or “Forgot Username?” tab and fill in the required information. The system will authenticate your information and then send secure login information to your e-mail address. Use this information to reset either your username or password. (Note: You must reset your information promptly or else you will need to repeat the process).
Q. DO ALL TEACHERS POST GRADES TO POWERSCHOOL?
A. Milagro Charter School is the only PUC school that does not post grades to PS. Teachers at all other PUC schools use PowerSchool to post grades. Keep in mind that teachers assign and post grades to PowerSchool at different times. Some may give grades to their students’ every day and some may give far fewer grades during the term. This is up to each teacher/school and depends upon their grading system. If you see grades in PowerSchool for some teachers but not others, this is a normal function of the way teachers assign and post grades. As always you may contact teachers by e-mail or request a phone call or meeting at any time to discuss your child’s grades.
Q. DO ALL SCHOOL POST ATTENDANCE INFORMATION TO POWERSCHOOL?
A. Yes. All PUC schools use PowerSchool to take attendance. If you have a question about your child’s attendance, please contact the school’s main office.
Q. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT MY CHILD’S GRADE, WHO DO I CONTACT?
A. You may contact your child’s teachers by e-mail or request a phone call or meeting at any time to discuss your child’s grades.
Q. HOW CAN I GET THE MOBILE VERSION OF POWERSCHOOL?
A. To download the mobile version of PowerSchool enter “PowerSchool Mobile” from either iTunes or Google Play on your iPhone, iPad or Android device.
Q. I DOWNLOAD THE MOBILE VERSION OF POWERSCHOOL, AND I’M BEING PROMPTED TO ENTER A DISTRICT CODE. WHAT IS PUC’S DISTRICT CODE?
A. The District Code for PUC Schools is ZLNP.
Q. I ONLY WANT TO USE THE MOBILE VERSION OF POWERSCHOOL, DO I STILL NEED TO SIGN UP FOR A PARENT PORTAL ACCOUNT?
A. Yes. You need to sign up for a Parent Portal Account through the web, and create your secure username and password, before you can start using the mobile PowerSchool app.