# 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 appreciate the **centralized information** provided by PowerSchool SIS, enhancing access to student performance and schedules. (8 reviews) - Users value the **ease of access** with PowerSchool SIS, enhancing communication and navigation for all stakeholders. (7 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of PowerSchool SIS, enabling efficient connectivity with various systems and tools. (7 reviews) - Users value the **easy customization** options in PowerSchool SIS, enhancing integration and user experience across platforms. (6 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of PowerSchool SIS, facilitating quick data manipulation and seamless grade tracking. (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 face a significant **learning difficulty** with PowerSchool SIS, especially in training staff and navigating the system. (5 reviews) - Users face **technical issues** such as glitches and orphan records, causing confusion and frustration with the system. (5 reviews) - Users find **poor usability** in PowerSchool SIS, struggling with its complexity and navigating through numerous menus efficiently. (4 reviews) - Users struggle with **customization issues** , finding it difficult to manipulate fields and create custom report cards effectively. (3 reviews) - Users express concerns about the **high cost** of PowerSchool SIS, emphasizing its financial burden and customization challenges. (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. Pleased with Powerschool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel P. | School Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PoowerSchool is easy to sort and create reports. I'm able to run reports on any specific criteria and has been instrumental when we are writing or applying for grants. It's great to look up a students and see all of their information in one shot! **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The only issue I have found is the use of codes for looking up criteria - but once you learn all of them you are good to go. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are currently updating and validating all of our ELL rosters and have used powerschool to troubleshoot. We also are able to update that information for state reporting. ### 2. PowerSchool SIS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool can be custumized to whatever the LEA needs. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Their PowerLunch feature is one of the things PowerSchool has not invested on and should be brought back up as I think they would make money from it. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Ask a lot of questions during the setup and make sure you understand that customization will cost you more money. They will help you with the setup/implementation but you'll have to pay more money for any other features that don't come with the product. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student contacts was and continues to be a nightmare as PowerSchool did not simplify this for schools. Extracting for bulk loading the data is not easy and you have to be well versed in the SIS. It makes it almost impossible for our secretaries to use this new feature, plus it's hard for other communication systems. ### 3. Special Education Monitoring Made Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megan S. | Special Education Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I love that I can track due dates and review audit logs of users to ensure compliance. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I don't like that only one user can be working on a section at a time, but I understand why. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** PowerSchool provides the tracking and data management that we need for special education compliance management. I love the administrative features of being able to run audit logs and being able to provide real-time support for users experiencing issues within the system. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking, monitoring, ensuring compliance. I like that I am able to provide real-time assistance to users experiencing issues. ### 4. The best administrator app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is very simple to use especially for those who aren't tech savvy. All the custom service is amazing . I had a situation z i couldn't understand and i called them and they were able to help me quickly and were super friendly **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The coding different classes is super hard to do because you have to go back and enter each thing individually and do it over and over **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Administration ### 5. Simple Gradebook **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina C. | teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like that I can make changes in the gradebook and preview them before the notifications go out to parents. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I wish that there were less clicks to get to each gradebook. This leads to lots of loading/waiting time. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** PowerSchool is a simple-to-use grading program that houses everything we need. It's also a way for parents to stay updated on student grades. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** My favorite part of PowerSchool is the fact that parents are kept up-to-date on their end without me having to contact them frequently. Parents appreciate being able to see the grades and address issues right away. ### 6. There’s gotta be better! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I really like the User friendly app and how easy it is for parents to navigate. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There is limited things that you can do with as a teacher as far as file and document sharing. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing info with parents in real time has been a game changer. It keeps them up to date which helps the child stay ahead of the game. ### 7. Unified Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefanie B. | IT Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Powerschool allows me to quickly find the information I need. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There is some complexity in learning the Powerschool SIS platform because of the many data points. However, with time, the intuitive design helps new users become familiar with the different data options available. Would really like to see a PowerTeacher Pro mobile app developed. For example PE teachers don't do their job sitting at a desk. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Powerschool is a powerful database that has many features. Its value is best realized when you have someone familiar with the database, or you send multiple people to the training. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to quickly identify students based on special programs, extra-curricular activities, and geolocation or hand select them from a bigger group. We have the added benefit of being able to build custom reports and forms. ### 8. One stop shop **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pam K. | CTE Admin, Powerschool Admin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool allows schools to access everything in one spot. You can also customize it to fit your school needs and budget. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Downside is that it is so vast and has a large learning curve. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Get as much training as possible. The more training, the better your success with using all the features available in PowerSchool SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to meet our state reporting needs with PowerSchool SIS. We are able to meet the needs of grade communication with students, parents and teachers. Benefits include being able to contact parents directly from PS. ### 9. Powerschool SIS has been essential **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lashonda D. | Office Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Our school community loves that this system makes it easy for our parents to remain actively involved in the education of their child. They literally have their child's grades and assignments at their fingertips at all times. Our teachers love the gradebook as well. The customer service has been one of the best parts of dealing with PowerSchool for all of these years. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Being that we are a small school and do not have a huge budget. Being able to afford all of training and features that this company offers has not really been possible. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently we are trying to solve the issue of making registration easier. Powerschool does have the ability to make doing online registration a complete reality, but do to the budget we have not been able to. ### 10. PowerSchool SIS Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe P. | History Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The PowerSchool SIS is both comprehensive and flexible. It can meet the needs of just about any school regardless of the unique circumstances every school finds itself in. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There is a little bit of a learning curve with PowerSchool's SIS, although the same is true of every similar product. Because of the open-ended nature of PowerSchool's software architecture, the learning curve might be a bit steeper for PowerSchool depending on how much you want to customize it. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use PowerSchool's SIS to run our school's database for all aspects of our academic program. As a private school, we do all the tasks normally associated with a district office in-house as well. It has greatly facilitated the ability of all our departments to communication and collaborate, e.g. Admissions, Counseling, Business Office, Attendance. ### 11. New user **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheri B. | Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We are just in the process of beginning the transition to Powerschool SIS and the Special Education portal . Looking forward to having one integrated system. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There is some content that is "Americanized" however we are learning about how editable much of the content is to make it suit our needs better. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having an integrated SIS and Special Education Portal will allow for more seamless referral processes, will ensure data integrity for many legal process is consistent and in real time. (referral, IEP, IPRC,SEA, OnSIS etc). This means we will be managing fewer databases (and consequently doing less discrepancy management). Students who are new to our board or who are changing schools within our board will have a more seamless transfer of their information needed to facilitate their transition. ### 12. First Year PSP School Administrator Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The program allows for process to be followed nicely with a draft document being available in advance of process and then a process of insuring supervisors preview and review information prior to sending it to the family. Community feedback and improvement process seems responsive allowing this product to continue to be developed with improved functionality for users.. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Report features are a challenging to use but as program grows, more premade reports are becoming available. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Be sure to use implementation hours when diving in to this product. Training is essential for initial implementation. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some adjustments are ongoing to insure that the documentation represents DOE practices and that background monitoring/compliance related supports do not hinder the user from taking steps in a process that, at times, is not linear. ### 13. Great System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex R. | A, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I love the endless customization options available in the SIS. It's easy to add pages, fields, custom queries, etc. This is something no other system really offers. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Can't really think of anything with the core SIS product. Some add ons like Unified Classroom would be great with a little customization ability, but the SIS itself is great, and they're always adding new useful features. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Obviously every school needs an SIS. Other systems we've evaluated are either not as user friendly as Powerschool, and/or don't offer any customization ability. ### 14. Intuitive! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sally R. | V, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS is very user-friendly. I have been using the administrator side of PowerSchool for many years now. The new features make looking up students, contacts and staff quite simple. Also, I LOVE the At Risk feature and Quick Attendance Data! **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I used to like typing in a few letters of the last name and all the students with that last name would be listed. Now you have to choose the specific student. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The At-Risk feature is right there!! No need to run grade reports or failing class reports! ### 15. Great Integration and getting better **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike N. | Assistant Director of Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like how well PowerSchool integrates with our other solutions. We use Apple School Manager, Schoology and Naviance. With the recent acquisition, PowerSchool now has plans to seamlessly integrate with each of our solutions. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I can’t think of too many issues we’ve had with PowerSchool. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Make sure you have mapped out every aspect when migrating to PowerSchool from an existing SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to keep track of our Students’ information including many unique circumstances. Also with the integration, Grade pass back and account creation has been much simpler. ### 16. PowerSchool is a great asset to our small school **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?** PowerSchool is a very user friendly database. It is easy to understand and works well with all levels of school districts. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Many times our state reporting does not work as well with PowerSchool as I would like, but I am not sure this is entirely a PowerSchool issue. Our state reports are constantly changing and I don't know if the state is the best about notifying PowerSchool of such changes. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Use the PowerSchool support and defintley the hosting if applicable. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staying in contact with parents and students and providing up to date information has been critical during the past year. We never realized how lucky we are to have such an easy to use dataabase for student information until we were all using it from home. ### 17. Customization at Its Finest **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chantell M. | Director of Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool is fully customizable for any needs your district may have. It is widely used in schools, so the depth of knowledge of the community is fantastic. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The upside can become the downside--customizations need constant care. It is a full-time job to manage PowerSchool SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving data interoperability problems with PowerSchool SIS. With the SIS as the source of most data, it is feeding many other systems daily. We have the benefit of having one true spot to store the important dat points for our district. ### 18. PowerSchool is a Power House **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheri M. | Director of Admissions, Marketing & Communication, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I really like the ease of PowerSchool from the admin end & parent side. Information is easy to enter & find. Grades, incidents, allergies, etc. can all be entered in one spot & then seen by everyone who needs it. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** At times the back end of PowerSchool can be a bit cumbersome, but overall a great program for our private Christian school. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been using PowerSchool since 2011. Being able to pull up students who have transferred out & then come back has been a blessing. ### 19. Overall good. It has improved in the last several years by becoming more user friendly. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Layne B. | Associate Principal, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** How it interacts with other systems and how it provides information to outside sources such as the state and our call service. It has become more user-friendly and is easier to enter information and get information. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It can be confusing trying to find things at times. It is difficult for me to figure how to get reports and print/create form letters at times. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have become better at getting attendance information from PowerSchool SIS. It has helped solve some problems on getting letters out to our patrons. ### 20. Realtime and Simplified **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** I like that all of my student's information is in one place. Grades, attendance, sitting arrangements, pictures, and so much more. I love the customizable aspect of it, we use outcomes based reporting, and it has a space and place for rubrics, and checklists which is very helpful in optimizing this information. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I dislike that you cannot change your own password, but perhaps that is because we have a locally hosted system. I would love to see an online learning system with modules to help understand all the things PowerSchool can do, because I think sometimes we are not utilizing it to its greatest potential because we just aren't aware of everything it can do. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think transmitting information has become significantly more streamlined. ### 21. Great platform for data with many different options for reporting and tracking! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharon O. | Senior Management Secretary, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Reporting with the fields that help most when needed. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Some of the codes needed to access information i.e. first_name = I feel these searches can become more user friendly. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not a user that would solve problems with it. I enter and report out - our wonderful IT team would do anything more involved. I do find that it's the first place to go with needed quick information instead of contact the school or department that would have inputted it...so that is helpful. ### 22. Simply the best SIS out there. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John D. | C, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** After reviewing multiple SIS systems and using a few others, PowerSchool is by far the most comprehensive, most customizable, and easiest to integrate with other systems. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Navigation to less used settings can be an issue, but searching the PowerSchool documentation usually shows you right where to go. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving our data to PowerSchool has fundamentally improved the way we do business as a school system. Everything from now runs through one system instead of existing in multiple silos. This has saved countless hours of work. ### 23. PowerSchool the all you need SIS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We have been using PowerSchool SIS for some time now and in the twenty years that I have been in Education, no other SIS systems have met all the needs that we have other than PowerSchool. Works with our State reporting system and other vendors like no other. The support that PowerSchool provides to me can't be beaten. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Nothing at this time. PowerSchool always finds a way to help us out when we have a problem so there is nothing I don't like PowerSchool. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I would highly recommend that you use PowerSchool SIS for your school system **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool has solved many problems that we had with other SIS. Attendance, state reporting has always been a problem for us until we started using PowerSchool. We are a standard base school system and PowerSchool is the only SIS that could do the standard grade reporting the way we wanted to. ### 24. PowerSchool SIS complete K-12 software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph G. | Systems Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like that it is easy to import and export data into the system. I like that fact that it is extremely customizable **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I'm not happy with some of the attendance functions. Particularly, there is not easy way to convert meeting attendance to daily attendance. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I would recommend PowerSchool if you are looking for a robust student information system that is highly customizable **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Student/Parent portals have been a life saver during the pandemic. It has allowed to maintain contact with the community. ### 25. PowerSchool Reflections **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LouAnn C. | Data Management Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The support, the worldwide usage, the forums, the user groups. PowerSchool works hard to try and think ahead to anticipate the needs of the schools they are supporting. They have gone from strictly data management to data interpretation, growth, interconnectivity with other software, etc. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The cost of the different modules. Some commonly used items are not included in the basic cost. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are unifying our SIS with other schools in our Archdiocese. This will tie all Elementary, Middle, and High Schools together. ### 26. Great choice for enrollment management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley B. | Data Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is easy to find students and staff information, including schedules, grades, and attendance. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I would like to be able to drop all classes for a group of students or grade, rather than drop from one section at a time. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** PowerSchool has a solution for all enrollment management needs. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many students were struggling with attendance during Covid. PowerSchool helped us identify students and reach out when we found that they were at risk of failing due to grades and low attendance ### 27. PowerSchool SIS success! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather V. | School Principal, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like the ease with which you can locate information on individual and groups of students in order to make more informed decisions **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** If I had to say anything, I think I would like to better be able to develop my own query, as needed, and share with colleagues who might also benefit **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Patience! I have used PS in multiple districts and it is a platform that will get easier with practice! The benefits are wonderful! **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have realized the benefits of teacher accountability for data, our professional learning community uses the data to solve real world instructional issues. By taking the subjectivity away from the conversations, we are able to reach consensus in a more effective manner. ### 28. PowerSchool Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** I like the ability to create reports and gather data. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I dislike that there are several areas on PowerSchool that have the same information. If you put the information in one part, it does no transfer to the other sections that ask for the same information. There have been several times when I have an issue with PowerSchool and call support and they don't have an answer for me. They have to pass me up to to the next level because they don't have the answer. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Take PSU annd get in any many classes as you can to understand PowerSchool fully. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wrong information. Coding with Object Reports. It sores a ot of student data. ### 29. PowerSchool is good enough to get the job done. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I do like the organization of PowerSchool. It is relatively simple to find what I need. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I get frustrated with the fact that I can only see about 6 or 7 assignments at a time in Scoresheet. I would really like to be able to see 15 to 20 at a time, if possible. Maybe there could be a "mode" that looks like the way it is now, and a "mode" that I could look at when I need a bigger picture of what is going on with that student. In addition, I've really been frustrated lately that when I use the arrow keys to go back assignment by assignment, I'm frustrated that lately it moves one by one until I've gone through that "page" of assignments (5 or 6 assignments), and then goes straight to the student's name and percent. I don't want to have to hit the arrows to go back. (The arrow on the screen of PowerSchool, not the arrow keys.) **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** It is competitive. It gets the job done. It is as good as the others I have tried. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like that there is a mode to see Scoresheet, but a separate one to view assignments listed. This helps to find a specific assignment quickly. It's also very helpful to be able to schedule that assignment for more classes than just one. I like it when I'm putting grades in for a certain assignment that has been done by all four classes that I teach which are the same content areas, and I'm able to put in 2nd hour scores, then go right to 3rd hour (same assignment) from there and put those grades in. ### 30. Ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jodie A. | E, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** All information I need in order to assist families, students, and staff is located on one easily navigated page. A few clicks and I am able to access grades, attendance, family contacts, assigned staff, email addresses, counselors etc. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There are few times when I am frustrated; primarily when I am not speaking the same language as the platform. Once I know the identifying title, I am back in business. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** access grades, attendance, family contacts, assigned staff, email addresses, counselors ### 31. It is pretty user friendly and easy to navigate. **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?** I like how easy it is to navigate and all the different information you can find and include. I like adding notes and comments in the grade book and logs. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I don't like how you can not copy assignment scores. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I like how easy it is to navigate and all the different information you can find and include. I like adding notes and comments in the grade book and logs. It is great way to communicate with parents. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like how easy it is to navigate and all the different information you can find and include. I like adding notes and comments in the grade book and logs. It is great way to communicate with parents. ### 32. PowerSchool SIS Review **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?** PowerSchool SIS has allowed us to better manage our schools and student data. Syncing with PASI (in Alberta) allows us to digitally manage our data. The reporting has greatly improved and modules such as PowerTeacher Pro and Special Programs really enhance our records and management. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There are some reports that are required by our Provincial Education Department that are not included, we have had to hire specialists to create reports for us - this is more of an issue for small school divisions that do not have a dedicated PowerSchoool tech team. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring our attendance is accurate. PowerSchool is allowing us to better align our student grading, records, and data between our school Division wide. ### 33. PowerSchool SIS includes many useful components. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terri M. | Associate Superintendent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We can use just one vendor for Human Resource, Student Information, Onboarding, Enrolling Students ,etc. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The separation of the PowerTeacher application. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** None at this time. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do not have any current problems to be solved. We can always call Customer Service, and the representative will always walk me through whatever issue you are having. If the representative cannot fix it, he or she will escalate the problem. Within 1 or 2 days, our problem is solved. ### 34. Not great! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 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 possibilities of having an all in one location for student information. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Not user friendly and support not helpful. The systems should be easy to use and the 3rd party applications should work seamlessly when they are recommended by your sales person. We have not found this to be the case. Obtaining technical support is almost impossible with people telling us contradictory information from another so much so that we do not know who to believe or what to do. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I would recommend that they use another platform. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we first had a conversation with the sales person about online registration, she indicated that we should get e-collect for the forms but failed to tell us that we also would need Enrollment Express to complete online registration. We started this process in October and TODAY - TODAY found out that there is Powerschool Enrollment that works much better than enrollment express. Why would we not be advised of the two products? Why can we not get help to get everything set up in powerschool to run efficiently and effectively to serve the needs of our families, staff, and students? I honestly feel like this has been an effort to pad the pocket of the sales person instead of focusing on the needs of our district. NO BENEFITS TO SPEAK OF AS OF YET. ### 35. Registrar **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like that PowerSchool gives you more freedom to work with your data than other SIS. We used to have to wait for tech support to do everything for us, such as mass populate a field. Now, we can do it ourselves in just a few minutes. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I really do not like the tech support for PowerSchool. While some are great, it seems that they often do not supply a speedy resolution to our problem. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Please increase the knowledge of your support staff. It seems they cannot help much with issues without having to escalate a case. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Powerschool has really helped us cut back on the amount of paperwork our system generated. ### 36. I would recommend PowerSchool SIS to a friend or colleague. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** I like the capability already incorporated in the system. Just as well as the flexibility for us customize a lot of our districts things. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** One of the few things I dislike is that there is no way to check what students have a profile picture with one report. I also do not like that there is very few reports that can be converted into text exports. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Take your time with set up - implementation is not something you want to rush. It'll hurt in the long run and you will not be able to take full advantage of the system if you rush through this process. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Attendance tracking and transcripts are great. ### 37. Great Customer Service and Powerful Software - eFinance Plus **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** JoEllen B. | Human Resources and Benefits Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Once everything is set up, the program is customizable using Cognos for reporting. Customer Service, lots of training and support! Anytime we have questions Michelle and Leslie have been quick to respond and are always super friendly and helpful. Tech Support is always reachable and helpful as well. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The program is not fully set up when you receive it. There is a ton that needs to be set up and set up correctly the first time so there are no issues down the road. There are a ton of steps to the ACA portion of the program. EAC is not as GUI friendly as I am used to. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently no issues ### 38. PowerSchool - the best solution for student's system! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool offers solutions even if you have very specific needs. PowerSchool has been looking for solutions in all areas and has been developing really fast though acquisitions like Schoology. But what I like the best since I started using PowerSchool, 8 years ago, is how well PowerScheduler works. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It is hard to tell what I dislike as I like everything about it. An area that had potential to grow is reporting and I believe that now, with hoonuit, this is going to be resolved. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Life changed for much better since we started using PowerSchool. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool enables our schools to be ready for state reporting maximizing our funding. ### 39. Overall helpful and improving **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** It’s reliable - almost no downtime especially for essential processes. And they install updates seamlessly. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It seems like it’s more complicated than it needs to be, especially when I have to get into the database structure. Example: it seems that there are several different unique ID fields - maybe holdovers from previous systems? **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** It may be overkill for other private schools like ours, but it is very robust and will meet your needs. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can integrate our LMS with it easily. Not only does it transfer student enrollment info to the LMS seamlessly, I am able to move data from the LMS back into PowerSchool when needed. ### 40. PowerSchool is the most widely used SIS for education **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** Ease of use and integration with School Messenger and Swiftk12 alert software. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Occasional inconsistency in Michigan state reporting updates as they relate to data mapping and UIC features. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I would recommend PowerSchool SIS for a school of any size. Vastly improved product development since PowerSchool is now a separate company from Pearson. Data integration with the MiDataHub using the EdFi standards for data interchange is better than most. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool is our one place we strive to hold all student information data and then integrate that data with the MiDataHub for sharing data between other disparate systems. Between the two, data integration is improving each year. ### 41. PowerSchool Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tammy C. | Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Access to my textbook and grade storing capabilities. The ability to make notes about students and access grades for other classes **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** there is a lot to learn and not much time to learn it. As a new teacher we are literally given a password and told to go to work with it. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** none at this time **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping accurate notes about student discipline issues. ### 42. The best SIS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe C. | Director of IT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We have been using PowerSchool for several years, it has been very intuitive and reliable. We can tract several characteristics. It is also very easy for the teachers to enter grades and take attendance. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Maintenance scheduling, although it is a necessary evil, it still can come at inopportune times. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Report data is invaluable and necessary to fulfill compliance. It saves us time and employee hours. ### 43. Powerful PowerSchool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa H. | Superintendent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Powers School SIS is a one stop shop that meets our needs regarding students, families, staff, schedule, grades, and state reporting requirements. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The Special Programs Module has promise but is not fully functional in terms of syncing with the SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** State reporting is very responsive. Having demographic data at your finger tips helps with many operational and educational tasks. ### 44. Solid SIS System / Excessive downtime **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul P. | Teacher and IT Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It's a generally well-organized and solid SIS system that is relatively easy to use. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There is too much downtime for the "hosted" version of PowerShool. It's like they're doing an upgrade every week or every other week. It's led to the joke in our school that "PowersSchool takes the weekend off". Generally the upgrades don't interfere too much in practice, but it's really annoying to tell teachers "by the way, you may not be able to do grades for a 13 hour window this weekend". **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our school schedules / student information are generally well organized through PowerSchool SIS. ### 45. Resource Teacher Approved **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diane W. | Special Education Teacher/Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It's pretty easy to navigate and all the information that I need regarding students is right there. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** That you have to type out the students whole name or just their first initial. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** It's a nice, comprehensive program. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to find information that I use on my special education students that will allow me to write their reports. ### 46. Everything you need in one spot. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carmen L. | Operations Assistant Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I rely on PowerSchool SIS for all my state and school reports. As long as you are entering accurate data, getting reports from PowerSchool SIS is just a click away. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** At times getting help from customer support may be frustrating because level 1 techs send you to view articles, which is something I use a lot. When I contact support is because I have tried other options. We also had a billing issue and were denied tech support because of this. Even when the business office had been in communication for months about this issue. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time management. ### 47. I've been happily using PowerSchool for 20 years. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robby D. | Director of Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool is user friendly and plays well with other systems. It is easy to data out of PowerSchool as well. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I am concerned about how fast PowerSchool is growing and acquiring other companies. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating our LMS, Schoology, and our online registration into PowerSchool has great benefits. I do hope the Schoology integration is improved in the immediate future. ### 48. Definitely Recommend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dana Y. | Executive Director of Student Accounting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool tech support. They are quick and knowledgable and extremely helpful. The Texas State reporting team is absolutely AMAZING and so completely helpful. I'd be lost without them! **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I wish is was a little more useful when it comes to the teacher side. Student transfers grades and attendance are very difficult to track. Tracking in person and distance learning students is very difficult. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use PowerSchool SIS and Special programs for special education. I like having everything easy to toggle between them. All data is generally easy to pull from PowerSchool that we need to disaggregate. ### 49. PS Is A Hub For Your Tech Needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reeta H. | Instructional Technologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS is very helpful in the automation in user creation. Once a user is in PS, they can exist in multiple locations. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Communication between additional vendors (for example, Canvas LMS) could be improved **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Check out Unified Classroom products **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PS is a great tool for Data Integration. We use Clever for logins and it syncs with PS. ### 50. Great SIS! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neal C. | Chief Academic Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I love how easy it is to navigate on the administrative side. I also like the ease of use with PiwerTwacher Pro. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I find it difficult to find certain fields by name. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** By having parent access, we are preventing issues regarding parents know knowing their scholars' attendance and grade records. 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