Once you’ve
logged in, this is the first screen you will see.
Here you’ll be able to view up to the second
information about your child’s attendance for last
week and this week, as well as up-to-the-second
information about your child’s grade. Every time the
teacher enters a new assignment score into his or her
grade book, the grade for that course will
automatically be updated. This way, you will always
be able to see what the current final grade your
student is earning for each course. If you’d like to
find out more information about a particular grade,
click on the percentage link below the letter
grade.
Once you’ve
clicked on the percentage link, you will be able to
view a course description if the teacher has posted
one. Not every teacher will use the course
description - it is optional for teachers - but some
teachers like to use the course description as a way
to let you know that assignment scores will be kept
up-to-date. The teacher in this example posts
policies and events as well.
A Detailed
Listing of Assignment Scores. Same Page.
This is a list of every single assignment that will
go into a particular grade for a particular term.
Here is a list of all the assignments for this
student for first semester. Again, these appear
automatically right out of the teachers’ grade books.
This teacher has gone the extra mile and posted all
future assignments as well. If you want to know more
about a particular assignment, you can click on the
assignment name.
Read
Teachers’ Daily Comments for Your Child
Teachers have the ability to type daily comments
directly into their grade books. Again, as soon as
they type these comments in and save their changes,
you’ll be able to view these comments online.
At the end of the term when report cards are due,
teachers will clear out their daily comments and post
their end-of-term comments. The PowerSchool report
card can pull this comment automatically from
teachers’ grade books and insert it right into the
report card.
Send Email
Messages to Your Child’s Teachers
Wherever you are in Parent Access, you can click on
the big green “PowerSchool” to return back to the
main page.
If one of your child’s teachers has their email
address entered into PowerSchool, their name will
appear as a hyperlink that you can click on to send
that teacher an email message. Using email requires
that you each have your own email service at home.
Just click on the teacher’s name, and your email
program automatically launches with the teacher’s
address automatically inserted into the “To:”
line.