482 PowerSchool Testimonials

"It was a half-day to a full-day process to go through the data, identify who needed emails, and send them out."

“On behalf of the team at Kids Connection school, we want to send a HUGE thank you to you and the Schoology team for helping us implement Schoology in four days! We know how busy you were, and that implementation generally takes weeks not days, so your commitment to putting us on an accelerated implementation was greatly appreciated! We literally went from a Friday morning demo with Rashad to buying it in the afternoon with Amanda to being trained by Carrie and Karie on Tuesday. And Dirk worked day and night over the weekend and Monday to help us get the user data into the system! You are all amazing, and we are loving Schoology! Our staff of 50 teachers was terrified when we told them on Friday afternoon that they were going to be teaching online by Wednesday, and that training happens on Tuesday. Somehow everyone pulled together and put up an amazing online teaching site. Teachers have their students in class via video conferencing using wonderful content in their courses. The students are loving it, and we have so many hilarious and wonderful stories of videoconferencing with 2- to 11-year-olds! We have more to learn about Schoology and have more training hours to use, but all in all, it’s looking pretty good. Thank you for your professionalism, calm, and accommodations so that we could show our professionalism to families that we serve!”

“As a smaller program with a universitystyle schedule, the administration at Northpoint Homeschool Classes has struggled to find an SIS that fits our needs and allows for the customization we need. After being recommended to try PowerSchool, we decided to give one more system a try. We are so glad we did!”

“We’re moving towards integrating with Google Apps for Education which will give teachers real-time access to content, additional online file storage, and further abilities to collaborate in meaningful ways—all without leaving PowerSchool Learning."

“It’s taken away the excuses because it’s so easy to find materials, especially for Special Ed students, because it’s so much easier for them to use and find everything. It’s made it harder for students to say, ‘I couldn’t find this. I didn’t have that. I didn’t know that was due.’”

“If they’re visual learners, you can have pictures; if they’re auditory learners, there are hearing options. There are different options, even in the assessment feature. They have choices even for matching—they can do drag and drop if they’re more tactile or they can just click a drop down. Whatever is better for them. Students can adapt it to their own preferences.”

“With PARCC and Common Core, they talk about interactive essays where you have pictures and multimedia. As [students] started working on their interactive essays, it seemed less like a Word doc and more like a web page. So we did individual WikiProjects and they each had their own space to put their pictures and writing.”

“They’re responsible for taking pictures of vehicles using ThingLink and AudioBoom. ThingLink is picture-based. AudioBoom is audio files. We do target language through AudioBoom. They take that and embed it all through [PowerSchool] in WikiProjects. They work with their group mates—you’re responsible for these aspects, you’re responsible for those aspects, and just put it all through [PowerSchool Learning].”

“A lot of times for a foreign language, the homework will be that they have to use a certain verb tense. I will tell them to keep doing a practice quiz until they get 100. I can then track how many times it takes them, and then depending on how much they practice at home, you can see their performance improve.”

“We’re pleased with the functionality. One of the aspects we like is that teachers are able to do attendance in the classroom on mobile devices in real time and parents are able to see that attendance immediately.”

“This is an all-in-one product that provides information at a timely, immediate moment for parents, students, teachers, as well as administrators to really analyze students who are at risk."

“Our district has technology in use for what it can do, not for what it is. For us that’s providing a personalized learning path for our students. Regardless of what your grade level is or what your passion might be in terms of learning, we believe that we can provide that using technology. And part of that learning process is providing timely feedback in terms of assessments, grades, and attendance as we go forward. PowerSchool helps give us that main feedback system. It gives us a quick and easy way for parents to see where students are and also provides a transparent way for everyone to collaborate in that student’s education.”

“I love how easy it is to use; it truly is. PowerSchool is just straightforward and pretty much unbeatable."

“PowerSchool is incredibly user friendly. The front user face is so easy to find what you need. Whether you’re looking at reports, or looking at student data, everything is right there.”

“It’s important to have the ability to go back and track the process of an individual student, whether it’s during the application stage or post-registration. PowerSchool Registration provides us with a foolproof method. Everything is documented so that we remain transparent at all times."