Recording and monitoring of students' grades are easy and quick with PowerSchool.

Powerschool gives me POWER to manage student information from attendance, schedule, to grades inputting and printing. It has also great features that stores students' contacts, demographics, cumulative grade information, quick lookup of grades, submit log entry, teacher comments and test results. With all of these, teachers have a great tool as a class record. Likewise, parents have access to monitor their students progress in school while administration has reliable, accurate and responsive information system.

Using PowerSchool Student Information System, teachers like me has enjoyed recording and monitoring students progress over the year. Indeed, PowerSchool gives me power to manage my students' information in a click, anywhere and anytime. Thank you PowerSchool!

PowerSchool is an extremely powerful system, and once you're able to get things set up, it can do just about anything that you want. The larger issue is that the set-up can be difficult particularly if you are a single-site or smaller network.

If there is something that you want to do with your student data, PowerSchool is likely able to help you do it but...

Figuring out the process to get anything done can be onerous and support is not well set up to help with strategy level decisions but instead is better suited to dealing with one-off issues.

This is from the point of view of a teacher; since we have heavy workloads, we need software that is agile, easy to use, and that makes our work efficient. Just about everything about Powerschool is the opposite. While most software allows you to login with one click (such as Canvas), Powerschool it requires 5 to 7 clicks. Features are difficult to find because of the confusing and non-intuitive user interface. Errors in due dates occur when grades are imported from Canvas. Log entries used to create letters or emails are ridiculously inefficient; after searching for the student and making the entry, the user is inexplicably exited from "log entries" so they must go back into "log entries" and repeat the student search in order to generate the letter. If the letter is longer than the undocumented maximum allowable length, which is fairly short, the software refuses to produce the email without any explanation or error message. These kinds of quirks are common, making Powerschool a frustratingly inefficient use of teachers' time.

There is not much to recommend about this software.

The user interface is outdated and confusing.

We love PowerSchool. This software has streamlined our school processes. Having all of our student information so readily available to us is definitely convenient. Some of our schools have even started to email report cards to parents. This has saved so much money in paper and mailing.

One of the best reasons to use PowerSchool is that this software is all encompassing for the school district. We use this software for attendance, grades, teacher grade book, reports, state reporting, and even to manage our lunch program and student fees. PowerSchool keeps parents and students informed. Parents (and students) have real-time access to their student's information which includes but is not limited to attendance, grades, and lunch balances.

In the "Old" days, Pearson used to download the state reporting updates automatically overnight for us. Now, I have to go to the PowerSource site to get the download and install the updates myself, which is time consuming and causes me to take PowerSchool offline during the work day.