What is PowerSchool?
PowerSchool is a secure web-based student-information system that provides real-time updates to parents, teachers, students, and school administrators about grades, attendance, and assignments. PowerSchool features an email notification of grade changes, and parents can view their student's profile. If you are a teacher without access to PowerSchool, login name is the user's 10 digit NCID number. The password for initial login is changeme. You can locate your NCID number by seeing Ms. Wise in Room 100 or by visiting the CMS Employee Self-Service site and clicking on the NC ID Number/My CMS Empl Number link.
PowerSchool is a secure web-based student-information system that provides real-time updates to parents, teachers, students, and school administrators about grades, attendance, and assignments. PowerSchool features an email notification of grade changes, and parents can view their student's profile. If you are a teacher without access to PowerSchool, login name is the user's 10 digit NCID number. The password for initial login is changeme. You can locate your NCID number by seeing Ms. Wise in Room 100 or by visiting the CMS Employee Self-Service site and clicking on the NC ID Number/My CMS Empl Number link.
What is Schoolnet?
Schoolnet is the instructional improvement system located within PowerSchool. Traditionally, it has taken too long to get assessment results back, making the data largely unusable. Not with Schoolnet. Educators can create, deploy, and manage a variety of classroom assessments and have immediate access to actionable data to make real-time adjustments in instruction where needed. Everything done in Schoolnet connects directly and immediately with student information in PowerSchool. For example, when tests are scanned using Schoolnet, the grades immediately appear in the PowerSchool gradebook.
What can you use Schoolnet to do?
Schoolnet is the instructional improvement system located within PowerSchool. Traditionally, it has taken too long to get assessment results back, making the data largely unusable. Not with Schoolnet. Educators can create, deploy, and manage a variety of classroom assessments and have immediate access to actionable data to make real-time adjustments in instruction where needed. Everything done in Schoolnet connects directly and immediately with student information in PowerSchool. For example, when tests are scanned using Schoolnet, the grades immediately appear in the PowerSchool gradebook.
What can you use Schoolnet to do?
- Create standards-based assessments manually, using your own questions and/or passages
- Create standards-based assessments on-the-fly, using pre-loaded test questions
- Upload an answer key for a test without having to input test questions
- Print answer sheets for created tests or inputted answer keys
- Schedule tests for students to take online in school or at home
- Scan answer sheets for automatic grading (grades automatically load in your PowerSchool gradebook)
- View system-generated reports for data utilization and PLC planning purposes
Other great uses for Schoolnet:
- Use the online lesson planner to have an electronic version of your lesson plans that you can view and build from anywhere!
- Browse the collection of instructional materials to find ready-to-go lesson plans. You can narrow your search using specific criteria!
- Build student groups. This is great for differentiation, establishing study groups, after-school tutorial sessions, etc.
LET'S BEGIN TRAINING!
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