PowerSchool SIS Reviews & Product Details

I love the ability to customize pages and reports to ensure that we are providing the best and easiest access to data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, our only complaint at this time would be the transitions between ownership leading to support that sometimes doesn't seem to be completely familiar with the product itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PowerSchool SIS plays a central role in our PreK-12 school district. It provides one place to store and access information on our students and staff. We can sync PowerSchool to other programs we use for easy setup. We input grades and see data for attendance. PowerSchool offers many optional packages to help drive student success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used PowerSchool for a long time so I'm used to it. It's hard to come up with something I dislike. We have not purchased options to allow us to input high stake assessments and utilize graphs, but I would like that add-on. We need to be able to create Literacy Plans within PowerSchool. If we could make Literacy Plans and be able to track progress monitoring within PowerSchool at an affordable cost, that would really make a difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the intuitive features most and the ability to merge with a number of other tools. I also enjoy being able to easily sync data to educational platforms that our district may be using. This often allows for easier rostering methods, or easier methods when sharing data for student, teacher, staff, or parental contact purposes. It's really a data professional's dream. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the ease of some of the customization or enhancement features. It can be a bit difficult for those who may not be familiar with coding, HTML, scripts, etc. It would be nice to have some drag and drop or preselected features available for customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like a lot of things. I like that I can easily access the email addresses of my students and their parent/guardians with one click at the top left. I like that our school has the capability of putting in IEP documents, thus allowing everyone access and yet still secure. We also have Powerschool Pro, which is accessed from SIS and I like that Powerschool syncs with Schoology thus saving me time transferring grades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. When in student demographics and I click quick lookup, it defaults to attendance and not the student grades. I have to click Standards Grades and then click Quick Lookup again for the students grades to show up. This wasn't always like this and it is time consuming and seems unnecessary. Also, Standards grades just shows the students schedules and has nothing to do with the name itself.

2. I do not like that I cannot save a seating chart layout from one class to be used in my other classes. My room does not change layout between class sections, however, I have to recreate my class layout for each section each year. It says to save layout but it doesn't transfer to other classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Powerschool SIS provides you with a seamless all-in-1 experience for managing students and doing quick look ups for information you need. The training and security is very thorough and PowerSchool SIS works with you to ensure you understand how to use the product. One of the best features they have is the quick lookup feature that allows you to quickly access a profile and get the vital information at once.

I also like the parent feature of Powerschool that allows parents to be informed of their child's academic progress. This allows them to stay abreast of any issues that may arise in between progress and report cards. The attendance feature of Powerschool SIS is also useful to track it and provide insights into students absences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the least helpful things about powerschool is the many features that it offers. There are times when I feel like I have to go through multiple forms, buttons, pages just to get some things I'd like. Also, when it comes to running special reports, that takes time to figure out many of the fields that have to be input in order for the report to be ran successfully.

It would be nice for there to be a unique dashboard that could give you more streamlined information that can inform you of quick information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the power that PowerSchool gives to expand their database and customize screens. The custom PS-HTML language is fairly easy to understand and is very powerful. The user community is very active, with many users sharing plugins, customizations, and helpful how-to resources. Our administrators really like the ability to have more access to reporting, teacher data, student trends, and parent access statistics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PowerSchool has not been a great fit for us as a fairly small, private school. Many of the features are geared toward large multi-school divisions with state reporting and standardized testing requirements. Our implementation was very rocky - we experienced quite a bit of PowerSchool turnover (multiple implementation specialists, conversion folks, etc) which created some significant challenges. Support has been spotty - sometimes helpful, sometimes very frustrating. I am not a fan of Unified Classroom - it seems to be cobbled together from multiple products, not fully integrated (different authentication methods, separate databases, etc). We are exploring moving to Schoology (which PS recently purchased), and are cautiously optimistic that this will be an improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the most helpful things about PowerSchool is that it integrates across the board to make things easier for all parties. The Admin side is great and it talks to Enrollment, which helps to make sure that things are correct for our new and returning students during registration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the things I dislike is the troubleshooting - it takes a little longer than I would like to have things resolved. I wish it were possible to fix things on my end and skip the step. One other thing is that sometimes it isn't as user friendly as I would like when it comes to Admin side and Teacher side - there should be more ability to customize those for the entire school vs the district. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I like best about PowerSchool is the Customer Support! As a new PowerSchool Administrator for the District, I often utilize customer support and have found that the people on the other end of the line are not only very knowledgeable about the service, but are also very gracious and willing to help. I could not appreciate that more. Thanks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Again, as a new user, I find that PowerSchool is such a huge platform, I don't know if I will ever master it all. I also have found that there are several ways to accomplish the same mission. Some steps take way too long and I would like to see it somewhat simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The customizability is outstanding and has been very beneficial for our school. Plug-ins are invaluable to us. Also, Powerschool solutions are high quality and highly reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish reports were simpler. It is a big learning curve for many of our users which means they aren't quite yet as self-sufficient as I'd like. Also, there is just so much that we can do, it is a bit overwhelming. The support/community site is sometimes frustrating because it can be hard to narrow down to the answer I'm looking for. We would love to see a built-in email/messaging module for communication with our parents and students. However, we have found a good solution with SwiftK12. Just wish we didn't have to pay extra for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to customize your needs adds the ability to Power your School and fueling your information with data. The cloud has long since been a revolution for schools needing options and flexibility to do business in their own way. PowerSchool was one on the first players in that game and was one of the easiest programs to setup, run and host. The incremental backup function gives you peace of mind to know that your data is not dust in the wind if something goes a-rye. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PowerSchool occasionally misses the mark with some functions and could use a bit of tweaking to user interfaces and design that would make the functionality even better for Schools to use as a Power tool. State reporting is usually the bane of every data managers existence and attention to this area would when over many a fans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.