# PowerSchool SIS Reviews **Vendor:** PowerSchool **Category:** [K-12 Student Information Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/k-12-student-information-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 742 ## About PowerSchool SIS PowerSchool SIS is the leading student information system software solution for K-12 educational institutions, focused on driving your success. Power your operations with flexible, innovative, easy-to-use technology that plays a central role in your school or district. ## PowerSchool SIS Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **centralized information** provided by PowerSchool SIS, enhancing their ability to track student performance effortlessly. (8 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of access** in PowerSchool SIS, enhancing communication and navigation for all stakeholders. (7 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** with various systems, enhancing their ability to track and manage data efficiently. (7 reviews) - Users highly value the **easy customization** of PowerSchool SIS, enhancing integration and usability for better educational outcomes. (6 reviews) - Users find PowerSchool SIS extremely **easy to use** , with straightforward grade updates and data manipulation features. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **real-time updates** that enhance communication and streamline school operations effectively. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **comprehensive features** of PowerSchool SIS, enhancing school operations and integrating with various platforms. (3 reviews) - Users commend the **responsive customer support** of PowerSchool SIS, ensuring timely resolution of issues and enhanced satisfaction. (3 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly interface** of PowerSchool SIS, facilitating easy data manipulation and information retrieval. (3 reviews) - User Interface (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find that PowerSchool SIS has a significant **learning difficulty** , particularly for new staff and parents navigating its features. (5 reviews) - Users often face **technical issues** with glitches and orphan records, complicating the overall functionality of PowerSchool SIS. (5 reviews) - Users find **poor usability** in PowerSchool SIS, struggling with its complexity and unintuitive navigation. (4 reviews) - Users find **customization issues** with PowerSchool SIS, noting challenges in modifying pages and report cards easily. (3 reviews) - Users find the **high cost** of PowerSchool SIS to be burdensome, with concerns about value for money and support. (3 reviews) - Users experience **integration issues** with PowerSchool SIS, finding customization and report card functionality cumbersome and inefficient. (2 reviews) - Access Limitations (1 reviews) - Module Limitations (1 reviews) - Not Intuitive (1 reviews) - Outdated Interface (1 reviews) ## PowerSchool SIS Reviews ### 1. Most friend SIS system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like that everything you need to know is all in powersource and helpers are a chat a way to help with any questions **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Sometimes the tier 2 doesn't get back in time for serious questions in the same day **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I recommend it to others when looking at new sis because i have been in powerschool for 5 years **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** What issues i have when the state dept throws in new things each year ### 2. PS has amazing potential but it is dependent on having a programmer who can understand how PS works **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The synchrony of it all. You can pull different information together. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** While it has the capacity to build and grow- it is dependent on a programmer. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing of data. We can respond to needs faster ### 3. Friendly, Responsive. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andre' R. | Director of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Personal 1:1 Walkthroughs with Kick Off Specialist **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There are too many sites to navigate at first.... can seem a lil overwhelming. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently a new school in the kick off stage. ### 4. PowerSchool Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Ability to contain so much information and speak across systems we use. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Can be difficult to maneuver or create reports for new admin users. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefit to adding other platforms that work with PowerSchool ### 5. Always Helpful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is very easy to navigate and it works well with all of their other sites **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** the way attendance is calculated for daily attendance. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything is right where I need it. ### 6. Excellent **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool has a lot of options for customization. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The learning curve is a little steeper than other SIS products I've used. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are in the training/ implementation phase so not here yet ### 7. Easy to learn and use daily. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** User friendly and very intuitive. Easy of use for the tech savvy and not so savvy **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It can be overwhelming at times, a lot of data available. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instant access to student data. ### 8. Innovative platform easy to implement. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryna B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool gradebook, PowerTeacher Pro, has also been changing as education shifts from conventional degree to mastery-based degree. This PowerSchool specialist 's role has been much simpler, as he can upload standards in millions, whether they be common core standards or district specific. Teachers now conduct their own progress reports and report cards when reproduction is required. This avoids the order from the reception staff for several days of printing. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I want faster links in the grades, for instance the ability to target students from the option score sheet. If you entered a grade for a student you would be great to switch from the score sheet to a completely new one OR hover your mouse and see the stats. State reports may be confusing, but there is a solution to everything else. Manual exports are not only necessary, but also part of my data testing process by enabling access to all data through an easy-to-search format. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** For the best LMS, web pages, data analysis and account management integration, PowerSchool has been the best data management for the colleges. It that at first seem confusing and things do not look as they did in an earlier SIS, if your mind is open and your time is spent learning the database, it is all important. Connect to a local group of users to get great feedback and other active users support. When enforced, the knowledge and ties you make to PowerSchool University are beneficial. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The whole guy, I can see. Grades, other courses and standardized tests in my classes, all in the same room. This gives you an idea of the best way of helping every student. A resource to reach others for ideas or help a student in the best possible way. The intervention team may call any student, not just pupils who have been addressed, using historical grades, test scores, log entries, attachments, attendance screenings and more and gain useful insight into their current results. On its own, statistical data is important, but with records and accessories. ### 9. Comprehensive product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We can usually access and download data that we need **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Functions are usually fairly hidden, and processes are not intuitive **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Would recommend it **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting access to our data ### 10. Good Program - with add ons **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is streamlined, everything is in one place. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** In ability to sync with Google Classroom to import grades. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick Communication with families. Logging Communication with Families. All in one place. ### 11. Product with good customization options. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesaro P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It's the easiest thing I've ever learned to use a student information system. The opportunity to customize this to suit your needs is a huge bonus, and it goes beyond that to assist you with questions or issues. It works straight away, but can be really personalized. It also has publicly accessible data links, and a simple data export or SQL query will make a difference as it does not know how to do it in the framework. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I assume that the only downside of PowerSchool is that it no longer has control over and can change the settings of the mobile device. Often a proposal to improve or fix a problem is not remedied sufficiently early. It's a fantastic product, so I understand some delays but it must be resolved before starting new features if it is a crucial feature. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Before implementing this product do all the Beta Settings and run the system to see where the customization will be needed. This will make the final implementation easier and faster. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Active monitoring of state records by students. Curriculum and list evaluation integration with third-party development tools. Reduced workload and homework monitoring for teachers. ### 12. Powerschool SIS is a great tool! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The ease of moving between PS and PS SIS. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The translation feature doesn't work very well. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The service capture doesn't meet the state requirements for Medicaid note taking. ### 13. Great Program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Easy of use by administration and staff. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Nothing, very responsive to adding features **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I appreciate the features that have been added during the pandemic for tracking remote learners. ### 14. SIS is very effective for our needs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The integration with other products works well. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Support is sometimes very slow about returning a response. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are learning more each day about how to use PowerSchool. ### 15. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Access to all information, even from my phone. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Not all functions are used by our school team. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking all (or most) student information in a single location. ### 16. PowerSchool SIS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The robustness of the SIS, as well as technical support. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It is so robust that it takes time to learn it. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can find information quickly. ### 17. Good at what is does, but there are drawbacks **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Mobile app allows desktop view, easy access **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Too many layers from former versions make solutions clunky **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** attendance, grading data, works remotely ### 18. Innovative platform and constant improvement. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** In general, Powerschool is well built. Teachers can search, locate and customize the platform to add features. The database is sound, customized and has a nice interface for teachers , students and parents. It is a very good gradebook with excellent reports. We can highly personalize our reports and distribute them easily. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** In order to use them successfully, there are many technical procedures to master. This could be too much for a small school or district or for somewhere where workers can not commit to running it. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Make sure it meets all of your requirements. In order to use them successfully, there are many technical procedures to master. This could be too much for a small school or district or for somewhere where workers can not commit to running it. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a unified database with PowerSchool, which enable us, teachers and students to quickly understand it. Fulfilling the reporting criteria is much simpler than before. Our schools have access to an app that combines compliance with district requirements and teacher usability. It contributed a lot to our move to standard grading. ### 19. The platform is user freindly. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The new way to search students. The upsides is we only have tp use one system. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** At this point I have no dislikes due to the fact that we are just starting to use this program. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Need a little more time before answering this questions. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** As of now I am not solving any problems. PowerSchool is new to out district. ### 20. Review for new user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The training tools that they put into place. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Importing data will prove to be our biggest project. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting will be very helpful! ### 21. PowerSchool is very easy and good program for a school to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** How helpful the customer service is and how easy the program is. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Dislike is waiting for Customer service. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Nice **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Contacting parents. ### 22. Innovative platform, easy to implement. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Glenn M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is simple to use and updates and adds content always. They are really excited about the learning of schoology, and we use both PowerSchool and Schoology and I hope that all of them will develop and work together. For me it is best to import and export features. Annual locker assignments, for example, are a breeze with this feature. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I don't like Contacts' new setup. The old Access Accounts section of PowerSchool was easier to add / update parent information. More measures to update details are now open. Demographic and communication pages are not up to date and allow us to create custom pages for such items as simple mobile phones, etc. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** With PowerSchool, you'll be happy. It is not perfect, but I can do my job and I have complete confidence in the information I have gathered, since we take great care of information. PowerSchool enables me to be more fruitful. Take advantage of all the training you provide if you implement PowerSchool SIS. Try purchasing any preparation, on-site or online, if your budget is appropriate. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool solves record keeping problems. Both transcripts and other data are accurate. It's easy to use and the new update for PowerSchool Mobile App is really good for our parents and teachers. We like Schoology's syncing feature. ### 23. One of the best data managements systems available for schools. Outstanding. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Ease of use. Very good service. designed to meet school needs. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It is expanding in to too many areas which is great for the company, but it makes a tiny bit harder for us to know which area we belong to or seek support in if needed. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling, finance, organization, ease of accessing information. ### 24. Most flexible sis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The ability to access the database through apis to make maximum use out of your data **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Not very much, I love the program and the interface **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to integrate our student data into various analytics platforms has been made easy by PowerSchool ### 25. All Inclusive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The streamlined system for organizing all student related information in one place. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The interface is outdated and I wish there was a built in integration with Mailchimp. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of complicated attendance tracking by creating custom attendance codes. ### 26. SIS works well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Ease of use - we have been using it for so long that most staff members can help others out as needed. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Scheduling is difficult and requires pretty intense knowledge of the system. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncs well with multiple platforms, especially for assessments. ### 27. Simple, Intuitive, Flexible, and Powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin H. | Assistant Principal for Academics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is a 21st century product. The interface is modern and sleek for all users. Parents use the app for realtime updates. Students can access their work from anywhere on their chromebook. The gradebook is intuitive and my teaching staff made the shift seamlessly. As an administrator I most appreciate the ability to customize the Powerschool system. The user community has been a vibrant resources for custom reports and data analysis. The ability to directly view and correlate data inside of PowerSchool (instead of exports to excel) has saved me countless hours and provided my teachers with more data at their fingertips. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The PowerSchool app does not contain all of the functionality found on the browser version. Ex: Parents must sign-in through a web browser in order to see their student's requested coursework for next year. Additionally, as a private high school in New York City, we have parents whose children attend middle/ elementary schools who also use PowerSchool. These parents have to logout of one school and log into the other in the app, removing some of the simplicity of this technology. A minor annoyance, that is ultimately unavoidable. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Do it. It has all the power of your current system SIS in a better package. The expanded product offerings allow you to get even more functionality out of the system and can replace other, separate modules your district uses for mandatory reporting, special education, digital classrooms, digital assessments, and more. Consolidating our data into one silo has given us access to leverage all of this data into reflective practices in order to further assist our teachers in reaching our students. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** No more exporting to excel! Excel exports have the inherent problem of stagnant data. The enterprise reporting tools built into PowerSchool allows me to create custom reports to view, organize, and correlate LIVE data. Updating a report is as easy as refreshing the screen. It's life changing. ### 28. Average **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The ability for exporting data quickly and the ability to modify the system. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Too many restrictions. Every time we try to delete/change something (students, schedules etc.) we are not allowed. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping all student and staff data in one place. ### 29. A modern and convenient information system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin K. | Administrative staff member, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** -offers a mobile app that lets you see schedules, classes and overall grades -updates instantly whenever changes are made -online interface is also good looking and fast -offers lots of features that can be enabled or disabled based on needs **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** -a steep learning curve to figure out for most people -mobile app does not show in depth grade assessment like on the web interface **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Be prepared to face a large learning curve if you are switching from an older and more limited SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** -with PowerSchool, what was once many different services and tools, has merged into one system that’s convenient and easy for staff and students. ### 30. Powerschool Power User **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason W. | Data Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Being able to modify the platform as needed. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Advance notice of current upgrades in pipeline **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to customize the SIS to meet our needs to the Covid-19 situation ### 31. Educational Assistant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The easy access to all parts of the program **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Nothing at this point. I can't seem to find anything wrong **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Easy to use, Great quick resources **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im able to quickly provide students current progress and attendance to parents ### 32. SIS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Haven't really used it enough to comment **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Not able to access the training videos, just goes to comments section. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Haven't tried to solve any problems, haven't had any benefits to review ### 33. Robust Product for School Districts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennie R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool has created a one-stop-shop for teachers and staff. You can easily move from grades to student details, to class pages, and communication within minutes. Additionally, front office staff and teachers utilize the same product that streamlines the reporting process as well. Often time the front office can become very busy, having teachers with the ability to run their own reports or queries is very beneficial to the flow of the school and the school day. Our teachers now run their own progress reports as well as report cards when they need a reprint. This stops the demand f multiple days of printing from the front office staff. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I wish there were more quick links built into the grading pages, as in the ability to focus on students from the scoresheet option. It would be great if I entered a grade in for a student then was able to switch to a completely new class from the score sheet OR hover over and see the statistics for the class. I would also love to daily quick tips emailed to teachers from Powerschool- less then two-paragraph tips on how to be a power user. FOr the staff that read it, it would be very powerful. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** PowerSchool is building itself into the ultimate data management for schools, giving them an LMS, webpages, data visualization, and integration of account management. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can see the complete student. The grades in my classes, other classes and standardized tests all in the same place. This gives you an idea about each student and how to best help them. Also, a resource to reach out to others for ideas or help with helping a student in the best way possible. ### 34. For the most part program works very well, there are always things that can be improved. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The ease of use with out a lot of training **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Some time feel that there are feature that need to be added. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** easier to track kids though out the years in school. ### 35. Powerschool SIS **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Ease of finding assignments to put grades in. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Number of steps to print out weekly reports of individual student grades. It used to be quicker. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier to navigate between classes and assignments. ### 36. I do not use the SIS but I do use the Onboarding System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Layout of the system. I like having everyone's information at my finger tips **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** When changes are made and I have to learn a new way to do things **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not had any. ### 37. Great Product for Any School! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is easy to use! Very helpful for multiple departments. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The set up of the system took some time. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data collection and analysis. It has saved us so much time! ### 38. Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Synergy, ease of use, robust features for all school personnel **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** difficult to navigate some of the administrative features **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to solve most of our problems on one platform. ### 39. Powerschool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is very user friendly. Easy to see where to go with list on side. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I wish there were more examples/tutorials for reports **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to see school wide data ### 40. Season Veteran with PowerSchool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dwight C. | Lead Data Specialist / PowerSchool Administrator / Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We have always liked the ease of Customization. The ability to share those customizations among other PowerSchool Users. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Since we have been on PowerSchool for 19 years, we had to do a lot of customizations and custom fields that are now being built into the canned product. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Once you implement PowerSchool, find your state or region User Groups. These groups will be as helpful to you as PowerSchool Technical Support. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to get the data out of PowerSchool and manipulate it to meet our need has been helpful. ### 41. One stop shop for data driven instruction **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Ease of use an inter-operability with other platforms. Also, device and platform independent and easy to use with digital resources. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Very few options for customization and very expensive extensive training at the power school university event. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** This is a great product **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is by far the best student information system out there, and will assist in most data management concerns and struggles. One issue is learning how to operate within the system and learning the different types of reports that you plan to use. ### 42. Great gradebook and attendance tracker! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** What I like best is the user-friendly model that Powerschool displays. It is easy to use for parents, students and teachers in order to check grades, input grades, take attendance, look up student information and important notes! It's all in one place and accessible from anywhere with internet access. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** If you do not have internet access at home, as some students don't have, they or their parents aren't able to stay up to date as easy. Setting up the gradebook with percentages and such is confusing at first and I needed help with it! I can imagine teachers not as young as myself may have trouble or a learning curve with using a gradebook that is digital, when they are used to using a paper version. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able as a school to run reports using the data in powerschool and the report feature in order to send date to the state as well as manipulate and use the data for our own research and knowledge. Printing progress reports and report cards are made easy with PowerSchool. It combines attendance and gradebook all in one program. This means no more gradebook on paper. It is all digital which allows teachers to put in grades at home, not just at school. For students and parents, they don't have to wait for the teacher to send home a progress report on how their child is doing in school. They have instantaneous grades and updates in real-time! Student's can't hide bad grades. ### 43. Easy and user-friendly gradebook for teachers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** What I like best about Powerschool SIS is how I can put in grades, save them and students can view their updated grade in my class the next second. The real time updates are awesome for students and parents alike to keep track of student performance. It is straightforward and easy to use for teachers, students and parents!The real-time engagement factor is crucial and necessary for student success. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** A downside of using PowerSchool SIS is that with this realtime software, parents and students know when you are behind on grading. It keeps you on your game and on top of your work, though. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool SIS improves efficiency and saves time. It minimizes the time to manually go in and calculate grades. Another benefit of this program is the way it improves parent engagement. By doing this, it drives student growth in a way that motivates students to perform to their best ability, knowing they are being held accountable not just by their school but at home as well! PowerSchool also allows for some really great customization that is pre-loaded and easy to use! It is time efficient- and for teachers- there couldn't be anything more important. ### 44. PowerSchool SIS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eileen C. | SIS Data Specialist/District Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool has developed an SIS that meets 99.5% of all district needs. To allow for the other .05% - it is customizable!!! The support network of users if phenomenal, as well as the support customers receive from their dedicated support team. As education is transforming and moving away from traditional grading to mastery based grading, PowerSchool's gradebook - PowerTeacher Pro has been transforming, too. The ability to upload standards en masse, whether it be common core standards or district specific, has made this PowerSchool specialist's job a lot easier! **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** State reporting can be tricky; but with everything else there is a work around. Allowing access to all data in an easy to query format, makes manual exports not only doable, but part of my process to verify data. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** At first it may seem overwhelming, and things may not look exactly the way they did in a prior SIS - just have faith. If you keep an open mind and give yourself time to understand the database, it will all make sense. There is so much documentation it may seem overwhelming at first, but give yourself time to understand how information is sorted, and it will make finding answers a lot easier. Connect with a local users' group to get great feedback and support from other active users. Once you implement go to PowerSchool University - the information and the connections you make at these events will carry you through! **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to utilizing PowerSchool to its potential (and please note I did not say FULL potential as we have yet to realize that, yet!) it was difficult to get a full profile of a student easily. Using Historical Grades, Test Scores, Log Entries, Attachments, Attendance Screens, and more - an intervention team can call up ANY student - not just students that were scheduled to be discussed - and have a valuable insight into their current performance. The longitudinal data, alone, is key, but with logs and file attachments the narrative that these provide is mind-blowing! ### 45. Avid PowerSchool User for 10+ Years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike M. | Technology Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like the ease of use of PowerSchool. I have never really had any issues trying to accomplish what it is I need PowerSchool to do. Also getting my staff and teachers trained is easy with little to no refresh needed due to the simplicity of the product. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I really only have two small issues. The need to customize in some cases is a little annoying but PowerPak took care of most of my issues. And the fee management could be a little better. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Try it out. Give PowerSchool a test drive and you will find it works better then most other SIS systems that you might come across. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool has been an effective SIS for the district. We have been able to accomplish all of what we needed to do and we have had an easier time doing it compared to our previous SIS. ### 46. PowerSchool SIS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2018 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool has a vast and knowledgeable customer base. Getting help is not hard. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Sometimes it is hard to keep up with the growing company and the improvements. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Support can be found in many ways. Join the user groups. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** With having 38 schools in our district it is a great way for us to share students as they move from one school to the next. ### 47. Way ahead of the curve **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cheryl L. | HS Registrar, Athletic Secretary, District SAIS Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PoswerSchool is way ahead of the curve in having their product in compliance with new Arizona state requirements. PS is ready, the state of AZ isn't! PS is better able to answer the ins & outs of submitting the info than the state itself! I was in a webinar earlier this week on the new CTE reporting requirements. I got more from what Dan Chambers said than anything the Dept. of Ed people had to say. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Sometimes finding what I need help with is hard. Either because there are so many different places to look for it or I just don't know quite how to fraise what I'm looking for to get the right help page. But every time I have called in for help, no matter how big or small the issue is, the PowerSchool techs help me get it fixed. Regardless of how long (or quick) it may take. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am one individual with MANY different jobs & rolls at my school district. I wouldn't be able to do them efficiently without PowerSchool! ### 48. They Stand By Their Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeffrey K. | Data Specialist/Technician, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I have never seen a company that stand by their product as much as PowerSchool. Through PowerSchool University, User Groups, Certification Programs, the PowerSchool Insider, Knowledgebase, and additional trainings, they give you every tool you need to be successful with PowerSchool SIS. I am impressed with how dynamic it is and how the product can be tailored to your district's specific needs through plugins and customizations. I highly recommend PowerSchool as a top notch SIS. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS could use more flexible options when it comes to importing and exporting data and automating those processes. For the most part, I can get the data the way I want it, but it often requires some data manipulation. PowerSchool requires tab-delimited text files whereas many other products require .csv or Excel files. It would be nice to have the option to import or export data from those formats. Their options for automating the importing and exporting of data between other systems is very limited. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Talk to school districts that have used PowerSchool SIS in your state/area and gain insight from their experiences **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use PowerSchool as the authoritative source for student data. We also use it for managing state reporting data. We have found that it is very customizable and can be tailored to house the data we need. ### 49. Powerful tool with a steep learning curve **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael D. | Director of Technology, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It's all in the name! PowerSchool has a robust database, great customization, and an attractive interface for teachers, students, and parents. The gradebook is very good and has great reporting. Our reports are highly customizable and can be easily distributed to all schools. Interoperability with applications is very good, either with plugins or SFTP sends. PowerSchool also has an expansive list of additional tools and partners to extend the capabilities of our system. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** All the tools PowerSchool offers makes it challenging to implement. There are a lot of technical procedures that need to be mastered in order to use it successfully. This might be too much for a small school or district, or anyplace that can't dedicate staff to managing it. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** With PowerSchool, we have a unified database which allows us to quickly understand our schools, teachers, students. It is much easier than before to complete reporting requirements. Our schools have access to a gradebook application that combines compliance with district rules and teacher usability. It helped greatly with our shift to Standards Based Grading. ### 50. Major Disappointment with Unified Classroom and Performance Matters **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roger B. | Educational Technology Specialist - Little Lake City School District, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The SIS is the most powerful part of PowerSchool. This has served us well for student information, grading, and report cards. We have used the system for quite sometimes and each advancement they have made in this area has been a welcome upgrade. We have used the system for grading for the better part of 15 years and will continue to do so. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Our district began using Unified Classroom and Performance Matters this year and it has been a complete disappointment. Neither system interacts with each other which we were told it would. Getting data into Performance Matters has taken a significant amount of time and data dumps require a wait time of 2-3 weeks (more in most cases.) Unified Classroom has been difficult to use and offers very little in terms of data analysis and school/district assessments. District wide data can not be accessed for assessments administered through the Unified Classroom since the systems work independently. One thing we are always told is that these things are on the "road map" which is not very encouraging seeing as we were told this would be a part of the system when we purchased it. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Wait a few years before using the products they are acquiring. Bringing their new acquisitions together has been messy and in talking to the different parties you can sense frustration internally about this as well. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at this time since the data piece has been such a mess. Until all systems work together I do not see us using it for solving problems in the way it is intended to work. 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