Effective with the June 2024 update, PowerSchool has released a new enhanced user interface for the Admin portal. (This does not affect the public parent portal or the PowerTeacher portal). All this does is give the navigation on the Admin side of PowerSchool a new streamlined look and feel, while leaving the actual screens pretty much unchanged. Additionally, searching on the Start page still works the same.
Using the
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New Menus
Click the name, icon, or triangle for a menu to see your flyout menu of choices, then just click the desired choice.
Click here to watch a brief video on using the menus.
Can’t find a screen you need? Quick Search!
Using the (Quick) Search box visible in the blue bar towards the upper right corner of almost any screen, begin typing the name of the screen you are trying to find. (No need to go back to the Start page every time!) Entering “teacher s”, for example, would find the “Teacher Schedules” page as one of the results. You can directly click the results link to go there but it also indicates the menu path you could follow to get there as well, so it’s teaching you how to find things! Depending on what you enter, you’ll see that this Quick Search also finds student, staff, and contact names that contain this character string as well.
Click here to watch a brief video on searching for a page.
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Using Quick Search
Click on the Quick Search field on the top right.
Start typing what you are looking for.
If you are searching for a student, staff, or contact, when you click on the name it will open the window in a new tab.
If you are searching for a page, it will open that page in the same tab.
Once the page opens, the left menu will also highlight the charm where that page is in the menu system on the left.
Pin your Favorites!
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Once you’ve accessed a page you know you will use frequently, look to the right of the page name for the “Add to Favorites” button and click it.
Initially, you can probably just put all your Favorites under a single generic “category”, but later you might also decide to organize them more.
Click here to watch a video on adding your first Favorite.
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Old Name | New Name | Menu Location |
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Create Contact | New Contact | People > Contacts > New Contacts |
List Students | Custom Student List | People > Students > Custom Student List or in Function Dropdown |
Mass Enroll | Mass Register | Courses and Programs > Mass Register |
Quick Export | Quick Student Export | People > Students > Quick Student Export or in Function Dropdown |
Attendance Change | Mass Update Attendance | Attendance > Mass Update Attendance |