Articles Tagged With: PowerSchool App
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PowerSchool for Students and PowerSchool for Parents Mobile App Update
Today we live in an age where Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is changing the way students learn and interact with their environment and their academic peers, and yet today, in 2012 there are millions of new junior high and high school students wandering around campus with a crumpled paper school map and paper course schedule shoved into their pockets. With our updated PowerSchool for Students mobile app and PowerSchool for Parents mobile app, we are happy to announce that’s now a thing of the past! School maps and course …
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Now Introducing PowerSchool Apps!
PowerSchool for Parents and PowerSchool for Students apps, are now available for download from the Apple iTunes App Store! These apps will provide real-time access to attendance, grades, assignments, scores and much more, to users with an Apple iPhone®, iPod Touch® and iPad® running iOS version 4.0 or later and who are currently enrolled in PowerSchool 7.1 or later.
What features will these new apps include? For starters, students and parents can integrate the app with their Facebook and Twitter accounts to share scores and grades with friends and family. Both … -
Our Special Announcement
Our team at Pearson is always looking for ways to advance and innovate. With this said, we are delighted to announce the arrival of PowerSchool apps for iPhone®, iPod Touch® and iPad® users! We are truly thrilled to share the news, and look forward to providing you with details as we get closer to the launch date. Stay tuned because you don’t want to miss this!
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PowerSchool Reaches 10 Millionth Student
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Chris Bauer, Bhreagh’s Dad
Shelley Richardson, Director of the Kids Help Phone, Atlantic Region
Bhreagh Bauer, Pearson’s 10-millionth student
Ramona Jennex, Nova Scotia Minister of Education
Sheonagh Mc Cullough, Bhreagh’s Mom
Paul Fletcher, President of the School Systems group of PearsonEleventh grader, Bhreagh Bauer, from Horton High School in Nova Scotia, Canada, was recently marked as the 10 millionth student to enroll through PowerSchool. Her high school acquired access to PowerSchool through a province-wide initiative called iNSchool—a program intended to leverage technology to support student success. PowerSchool was the central program …
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PowerSchool Training When You Want It
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When you hear about a new tool you want (or are required) to use in your classroom, how do you learn how to use it? By attending school-sponsored professional development workshops? By asking a trusted colleague for a demo? By independently pouring through all the material you can find?
What if you could get a little tutorial whenever you needed it from someone who was infinitely patient?
That’s the main idea behind Pearson’s Mastery in Minutes: to provide you the bit of information you need when you need it. The … -
PowerSchool Summit Series: Core Tools for Student Success
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What do you get when you mix a group of PowerSchool-savy school folks plus a team of Pearson’s best trainers and have them focus on standards for three days? A robust school- and district-level ability to develop educational success strategies for students in PowerSchool 7.0.
In the Core Tools for Student Success summit, System Administrators will learn how to implement standards in PowerSchool 7.0, how to create standards-based report cards using ReportWorks, and how to implement custom pages using PowerSchool 7.0.
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PowerSchool 7.0 is Live!
We announced the launch of the latest versions of PowerSchool and PowerTeacher at PowerSchool University in Charleston, South Carolina (4 days early!). We have included some information below, in case you missed it. Also, you can check out the website for the keynote.
“Over the last 18 months, we have replaced all legacy infrastructure within PowerSchool, so the system is now a 100% Java application that now runs on the Oracle 11g database,” said Paul Fletcher, president of the School Systems group of Pearson. “This investment keeps PowerSchool on pace with … -
PowerSchool 7.0
We are ecstatic for the June 24th release of PowerSchool 7.0! We are so excited that ecstatic may be an understatement… We are thrilled, happy, confident, anxious and proud!
PowerSchool supports more than 10 million students in 50 states and over 60 countries. Our goal has always been to enable educators to make timely decisions that impact student performance while creating a collaborative environment for parents, teachers, students, and administrators. With this goal in mind, we continually strategize and discuss ways to make PowerSchool better. We’ve spent countless months, days, hours …