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1.2. PowerSchool SIS: Curriculum Director
This learning path includes recommended courses for department heads, curriculum leaders, and curriculum directors who use PowerSchool SIS. Taking additional courses that aren't included in this learning path is also recommended.
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| Module | Description |
| Setting Up District Grading Preferences | In this course, district administrators learn how to set up both traditional and standards-based grading preferences at the district level in PowerSchool SIS. Administrators will learn how to apply the grading settings to schools to provide grading consistency and to save teachers time when using PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook. |
| Setting Up School Grading Preferences | This course is intended for technical staff or anyone who is responsible for system setup. Participants will learn how to review and update school-level settings in PowerSchool SIS that impact the use of PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook after district-level setup is complete. Learn how to set the default gradebook, review categories and calculations, update grade preferences, assign administrative access to teachers' gradebooks, assign an alternate grade scale to a student, run the Section Readiness report, and lock reporting terms. |
| Setting Up Standards-Based Grading | This course is intended for both technical and instructional administrators in your district and individual schools. Technical administrators will learn how to set up standards in PowerSchool SIS for a school or district, import standards into PowerSchool SIS, set calculation methods for PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook, and use reports related to standards scores. |
| PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook Part 1: Setup, Assignments, and Grading | PowerSchool's HTML-based gradebook, PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook, is a robust tool for managing the classroom and includes features that support both standards-based and traditional grading. In this course, teachers will learn how to access PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook, add a class description, customize a class name, set up gradebook display preferences, use student grade scales, and work with class grade scales. Teachers will also learn how to work with student groups, categories, assignments, scoring, and final grades. |
| PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook Part 1: Analysis, Reporting, and More | In this course, teachers will learn how to analyze individual student performance in PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook, as well as how to analyze class progress on both traditional and standards grades. Teachers will also learn how to email students and contacts, as well as how to record student observations and track assets and textbooks. Then, teachers will learn how to run some of the PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook reports. |
| Setting Up Graduation Planner | Use Graduation Planner at the District Office in PowerSchool SIS to create graduation plans so that you can monitor students’ progress toward completing the defined graduation requirements. Each district and/or school may have distinct requirements that students must achieve to meet this goal. Fortunately, you can use PowerSchool SIS to create as many plans as necessary and assign multiple plans to individual students for varied purposes. |
| Setting Up Graduation Plan Waivers | Learn how to set up graduation plan waivers at the district level and how to apply a waiver to a student’s record. |
| Enterprise Reports for Report Users Part 1 (Not Recommended) | Explore Enterprise Reports, a set of interactive reports in PowerSchool SIS built using Application Express (APEX), Oracle's rapid application development tool. Learn how to grant access to Enterprise Reports, then explore the published reports and the reporting features available. |
| Enterprise Reports for Report Users Part 2 (Not Recommended) | Learn how to customize Enterprise Reports by adding aggregate calculations and conditional formatting, creating pivot tables and charts, and adding calculated columns. Then learn about the Flashback and Set Current Selection features, and how to manage Enterprise Reports. |
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