PowerSchool SIS

PowerSchool Helps Schools Stay Organized

Kommentare: PowerSchool Student Information System had been a great tool overall. Tech-inclined teachers will find ways to make it work for them and save time will special features. Other teachers will find the layout easy to navigate and use with just a little bit of training. They are also regularly pushing out new features, so that is nice to see as well.

Vorteile:

PowerSchool is an easy to use system. I have used it for over 3 years, but I felt comfortable with it after just a few days. The things you will use it for every day as a teacher (attendance and lunch count) are right there on the front page and easy to use. I can enter my attendance and lunch counts in probably about 20 seconds. The grading part is also easy to use. You can fill in grades and comments for all students as a timesaver. The fill comment can even be used to add each students individual name...which is a nice feature.

Nachteile:

When the report cards print, they have a fairly basic set up. This might be something that is adjustable at the district level. I have seen other report cards look a little more professional- adding things like a school image.

Powerschool SIS does it all!

Kommentare: Powerschool has been a vital tool of our school district regarding student information. The abilities the program has to sync with other programs also makes our lives in technology much easier.

Vorteile:

Powerschool SIS has so many features and capabilities. It is used daily in our schools to keep track of many aspects of a student's daily schedule.

Nachteile:

There are many features that could intimidate a user who is just beginning to work with the program.

Powerschool SIS- First year implemented

Vorteile:

The ability to customize the SIS product with PowerSchool and third party vendors is a nice feature. It's ability to integrate with other education products is also a strength.

Nachteile:

The training we received was very minimal. Our district felt like there was a lot left up to us to figure out after completing the trainings that were included with the implementation process. There are a lot of unknown costs that come along with the base product. Our district has had to purchase many additional training hours and third party plugins to customize the product to fit our needs.

Good but too much for us

Kommentare: It was good working with PowerSchool, but we switched to an easier format and one that we could alter to fit our needs.

Vorteile:

Plenty of applications to use with our school.

Nachteile:

Too difficult to work for our small school. All the options just got in the way and caused confusion.

PowerSchool

Kommentare: We are on our second year, and it seems to be working well. The roll-over and reporting for state are handled very nicely.

Vorteile:

This is a very user-friendly Student Information System for schools. The reporting features are great, and special education modules are better than most. They have a great content library as well.

Nachteile:

I did not like the training sessions, and the pricing for these. These are additional expenses, and these sessions are purchased as training hour bundles. They do not roll over each year if they are not used.