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March PowerSchool Tasks
At this point in the school year some of the tasks your school may need to complete include:
At this point in the school year some of the tasks your school may need to complete include:
- Create the new school year in PowerSchool at each school and District Office. We recommend using an 8/10/2020 start date for the 2020-2021 school year.
- Once the new school year is set up, brand new students who are starting in 2020-2021 can be pre-registered.
- Review the 2019-2020 school calendar and remove any in-session days that may have been set in July or August for scheduling purposes.
- Complete phase I of scheduling, which consists of setting up the PowerScheduler scheduling shell for the next school year so that you can begin work on the master schedule and enter student course requests.
- Prepare to store 25-week progress grades.
- At the 25-week mark, the Q3 gradebook grade will be stored as the progress grade. For example, store the Q3 grade as X3 (your school may use a different store code for storing progress grades).
- Communicate to teachers when the 25-week grades are due and that the 25-week progress comment should be entered under the Q3 term in the gradebook.
- Run and review the 25-week progress report to check for any updates that may be needed.
- If your school uses custom paperless grade verification:
- Reset grade verifications.
- Set up the grade verification settings and instructions by going to Start Page > School > Current Grade Display. At the 25-week mark teachers will verify the Q3 grade. The Active Term should be set to Q3 (this determines where the comment pulls from on the paperless grade verification screen).
- Provide teachers with instructions on verifying grades using paperless grade verification.
- For schools using section readiness for grade verification, provide teachers with instructions on verifying grades using section readiness.
- Some schools may be starting the process of elementary scheduling for the coming school year by performing the copy master schedule function to bring the sections over to the 2020-2021 school year.
- For schools scheduling in PowerScheduler review the Years & Terms set up for the upcoming school year. PowerScheduler > Years & Terms > Click the Edit Terms link for 2020-2021. Update term dates to reflect your schools term dates. The start date for the Years & Terms should be 8/10/2020 and the end date should be 6/30/2021. If the dates are incorrect, student course enrollment dates will be incorrect when the schedule is committed.
- If your school is planning for any changes to standards-based report cards for 2020-2021, please submit a request to Nick Sautter.