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Business Review - School Settings Form B
                             PowerSchool
               Student Information System
Released Mar 13, 2008
Document Owner: Implementation, Project Management Group
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Business Review - School Settings Form B

Contents
Business Review – School Settings Implementation Form B ...................................... 2
   School Information: Schools/School Info (Required)..................................................... 2
   Scheduling ............................................................................................................. 4
       Years and Terms (Required) ................................................................................ 4
       Periods and Days (Required)................................................................................ 5
       Next School (Required) ....................................................................................... 6
   Attendance ............................................................................................................ 6
       Attendance Preferences: Preferences (Required)..................................................... 6
       Full-Time Equivalencies (FTE) (Required) ............................................................... 7
       Attendance Code Categories (Required) ................................................................ 8
       Attendance Codes (Required)............................................................................... 9
       Attendance Conversions (Required) .................................................................... 10
            Meeting: Period Items.................................................................................. 11
            Daily: Code Items ....................................................................................... 11
            Minutes: Time Items.................................................................................... 12
   Calendaring.......................................................................................................... 13
       Bell Schedules (Required) ................................................................................. 13
       Reporting Segments ......................................................................................... 14
   General ............................................................................................................... 14
       Activities Setup ................................................................................................ 14
       Balance Alert ................................................................................................... 15
       Fee Types ....................................................................................................... 15
       Miscellaneous .................................................................................................. 16
       Sub Login Settings ........................................................................................... 16
   Grading ............................................................................................................... 17
       Final Grade Setup (Required) ............................................................................. 17
       Current Grade Display ...................................................................................... 18
       Final Grade Entry Options .................................................................................. 18
       Comment Bank ................................................................................................ 19
       GPA Student Screens ........................................................................................ 19
       Class Rank ...................................................................................................... 20
       Honor Roll ....................................................................................................... 20
       Graduation Sets ............................................................................................... 21

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Business Review – School Settings
Implementation Form B
The following information is needed to complete Implementation Step 5b. The district and/or
school’s primary implementation contact will enter the data collected on this form into your
PowerSchool server during your School Setup call. (Complete a Form B for each school.)

School Information: Schools/School Info (Required)

  Name of School

  School Abbreviation

  School Address

  School City

  School State/Province

  School Postal Code (Zip Code + 4)

  School Phone Number

  School FAX Number

  School Number (9 digit max) Enter state assigned
  school number (required if you are using
  PowerSchool for state reporting). If you do not
  report to the state, use any number. (e.g. 100,
  200, etc)

  Exclude from State Reporting                                       Yes            No

  Grade Levels – Use 0 for kindergarten and -1 for
                                                                        -
  PreK.

  Historical Grade Levels (Enter grade levels for which
                                                                        -
  you want to generate GPA’s and/or transcripts.)

  Default Next School Number (Must be the school
  number of a school on your PowerSchool server.)

  Principal’s Name

  Principal’s Phone Number

  Principal’s E-mail

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Assistant/Vice-Principal’s Name

Assistant/Vice-Principal’s Phone Number

Assistant/Vice-Principal’s E-mail

Bulletin E-mail (responses to posted bulletins will be
sent to this address)

Attendance Secretary’s E-mail

Registrar’s E-mail

E-mail copies of new discipline log entries entered
by teachers to: (List E-mail addresses separated by
a comma with no spaces.)

County Name / County Number

Fee Exemption Status – Which fees are students               All Fees            Course Fees
exempt from by default?
                                                             Not Exempt          School Fees

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Scheduling

Years and Terms (Required)
Define the school year and any terms in which you award grades or schedule classes. If a
term is not used, leave it blank. List any additional terms other than semester, trimester, and
quarter that your school uses.
Recommended Best Practices for setting up Years and Terms:
             There should not be any date gaps between the terms. (e.g. if Semester 1 ends on the
              10th and Semester 2 starts on the 13th enter the 12th for the Semester 1 end date).
             The term abbreviation is a combination of one letter and one number (e.g. “S1”).
             You may want to add additional day(s) at the end of the school term to allow for
              weather or emergency not in session days.

                                                      Name          (e.g. 2005 – 2006)
                                            Abbreviation.           (e.g. 05-06)
  Full Year

                                                  Start Date End Date

                                  Name                                          Name
                           Abbreviation       (e.g. S1)                  Abbreviation             (e.g. S2)
  Semester

                             Start Date End Date                           Start Date End Date

                           Name                       Name                               Name
                  Abbreviation               Abbreviation                          Abbreviation
  Trimester

                    Start Date End Date           Start Date End Date                Start Date End Date

                  Name                    Name                   Name                       Name
  Quarters

                   Abbr.                  Abbr.                  Abbr.                      Abbr.
              Start Date End Date Start Date End Date Start Date End Date              Start Date End Date

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Periods and Days (Required)

Maximum periods scheduled per day:
Number of unique schedule days:

Examples of unique schedule days:
      Students attend same classes every day = 1 day schedule.
      Students attend one set of classes on a “Gold” day and another set of classes on a
       “Blue” day = 2 day schedule.
      Students with a M-W-F and a T-TH schedule = 2 day schedule.
      Students attend a different set of classes each day of the week = 5 day schedule.

For elementary schools, define a period for each subject area that receives a grade on the
report card (include a period for homeroom if teachers take attendance). For more information
download      the   Elementary      Best  Practice    guide    from   the    following  link:
https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/d/powerschool_941
Define the period and day abbreviations and names that are used at this school. For example:
“P1” = “Period 1,” “B” = “Blue Day.” (These abbreviations will be used in the sections data
import template.) Period and Day Abbreviations can be 3 or fewer characters.

  Period Abbreviation     Period Name            Day Abbreviation      Day Name

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Next School (Required)
List the other schools on your PowerSchool server that students may attend next year.
Include the current school for students that are returning to this school next year.

* Include “Graduated Students” only in schools that have students who are graduating from
the district.

  School Name                      School Abbreviation        School Number

  *Graduated Students              GS                          999999

Attendance

Attendance Preferences: Preferences (Required)
Select the following link to download an attendance method conversion tree to assist you in
determining your attendance recoding method. Refer to your state reporting guide for
additional information on attendance reporting requirements.
https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/d/powerschool_948

  Recording

  Attendance recording methods – must check
                                                              Meeting           Daily
  Meeting if teachers will record attendance.

  Audit attendance records – best practice “No.”             Yes               No

  Default attendance recording page                          Meeting           Daily

  Enable multiple character attendance codes
                                                             Yes               No
  (e.g., VAC-vacation, ISS-in school suspension)

                                                       One-way, section to daily attendance
  Meeting and daily attendance bridge
                                                       Two-way, keep records in synch

                                                       No restriction
  Number of school days teachers may alter
  attendance prior to current date                     1-20 days (         )
  (PowerTeacher and/or PowerGrade)
                                                       Current date only

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                                                       No restriction
  Number of school days teachers may alter
  attendance after the current date                    1-20 days (         )
  (PowerTeacher and/or PowerGrade)
                                                       Current date only

  Show Saturday and Sunday on attendance
                                                             Yes                No
  views

  Calculation and Reporting

  Calculation Accuracy                                      Decimal Places

  Count Meeting Attendance recorded at
  another school for students enrolled at this
  school. (The schools where students are cross
                                                             Yes                No
  enrolled must have the same terms and
  periods in order for this feature to function
  correctly.)

  For reporting purposes, do you count
  absences or presents? In most cases it will be
  absences, but a few states such as California
                                                             Presents           Absences
  report presents.
     Number of periods present
     Number of periods absent
  Round or truncate attendance conversions                   Round              Truncate

  Daily Attendance Calculations

  Enable ADA Periods and Passing Time
                                                              Yes               No
  Deductions

                                                       No
  Deduct Passing Time                                  Yes – All passing time
                                                       Yes – After ADA excluded mtgs. only

Full-Time Equivalencies (FTE) (Required)

FTE’s allow you to group students for purposes of calculating Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
values. If you convert attendance in the same manner for all of your students, you need to
define only one FTE. If you convert attendance differently for different groups of students,
then you need to define more than one FTE.

For example, in a K-8 school, Grade 1 – Grade 8 students might attend six sections a day for
an ADA value of 1. Kindergartners typically attend fewer sections to earn the same ADA value
of 1. In this scenario, you need two FTEs: one for the 1-8 grades and one for the
Kindergartners.

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For districts with several schools sharing the server, it is suggested school abbreviations be
used in the FTE Name.

Examples: “RHSKG” = FTE Name, “Kindergarten” = FTE Description; “0-0” = Default grades
            “RHS1-8” = FTE Name, “Grades 1-8” = FTE Description; “1-8” = Default grades

  FTE Name                      FTE Description             Default for these grades

                                                                             -

                                                                             -

                                                                             -

                                                                             -

Attendance Code Categories (Required)

Attendance Code Categories are used to group attendance codes by classification, beyond
Present or Absent, for reporting purposes.

For example:
      “TE” (Tardy Excused) and “TU” (Tardy Unexcused) may both be categorized as Tardy.
       “TE” can be categorized as Excused, and “TU” can be categorized as Unexcused

Recommended Best Practices for setting up Attendance Code Categories:
    Excused, Tardy and Unexcused are required.

  Code              Name                          Description

  Excused           Excused                       Excused

  Tardy             Tardy                         Tardy

  Unexcused         Unexcused                     Unexcused

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Attendance Codes (Required)

Requirements for setting up attendance codes:
      "Present" must be listed first; leave the code blank.
      List other codes that teachers can assign next, followed by codes that only the office
       staff can assign.
      The following codes are reserved for PowerSchool internal use and cannot be used:
             Present
             Absent, ABS, *ABS
             Tardy, TAR, *TAR
             ALL, *ALL
             Excused
             Any code that you have defined as and Attendance Code Category
      Single Letter Codes -- The single-letter code should be a letter from A to Z, a digit from
       0 to 9, or a blank (blank used only to denote Present).
      Do not use the same code for two different attendance codes. Capitalization is not taken
       into account; thus "A" and "a" are equivalent.

For each attendance code defined, you will need to set up the following:
      Code – This is the code that teachers can see and may contain up to 10 characters.
       Best practice is to limit this to 3 characters
      Description – Enter description of the Attendance Code.
      Status – This code counts as Present or Absent.
      Code Category – Attendance Code Categories you want to associate to this code.
      Points - Points are used to withhold course credit due to excessive absences. If you
       choose this option, enter the number of attendance demerit points a student receives
       for this Attendance Code.
      Teachers Can Assign this Code – Y/N
      ADA Credit – This should always be “Yes.”
      ADM Credit – This should always be “Yes.”
List the Attendance Codes you currently use in the table below. Both the Present and Tardy
codes are provided as examples. Be sure to check your state reporting requirements to
determine if you have mandatory Attendance Codes.

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                                                            Teachers
                                      Code                                ADA      ADM
  Code    Description     Status                  Points      can
                                    Category                             Credit   Credit
                                                             assign

          Present        Present    Present                     Y           Yes       Yes

                                    Present,
    T     Tardy          Present                    1           Y           Yes       Yes
                                    Tardy

                                                                            Yes       Yes

                                                                            Yes       Yes

                                                                            Yes       Yes

                                                                            Yes       Yes

                                                                            Yes       Yes

                                                                            Yes       Yes

                                                                            Yes       Yes

Attendance Conversions (Required)

Attendance conversions are used to calculate average daily attendance (ADA) values. You can
create multiple attendance conversions methods, such as Full Day, Half Day, etc. For each
attendance conversion, specify the manner in which you will calculate ADA, either by period,
by code, and/or by time in minutes. You will need at least one attendance conversion.

                                      How is attendance tracked for this
  Attendance Conversion Name
                                      conversion method?

                                         Period     Code     Time (in minutes)

                                         Period     Code     Time (in minutes)

                                         Period     Code     Time (in minutes)

                                         Period     Code     Time (in minutes)

                                         Period     Code     Time (in minutes)

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Attendance Conversion Items (Required)

For each Attendance Conversion defined above, you will need to set up Attendance Conversion
Items for Meeting, Daily, or Minutes depending upon your recording methods.

Meeting: Period Items
If you are using Meeting attendance (period to day conversion), specify how many periods
present (or absent) earn what ADA percentage under Period Items for each FTE. Specify a
value for each period.

Presents example:                                         Absent example:
    0   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   0        0   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   1
    1   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   0.5      1   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   1
    2   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   0.5      2   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   1
    3   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   0.5      3   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   0.5
    4   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   1        4   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   0.5
    5   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   1        5   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   0.5
    6   periods   present   =   ADA   value   of   1        6   periods   absent   =   ADA   value   of   0

If you are tracking meeting attendance complete the following table:

    FTE                                 Periods                     Attendance Value

Daily: Code Items

If you are using Daily attendance (code to day conversion), specify the ADA values for each
Attendance Code under Code Items for each FTE.

For example:
    Present = ADA value of 1
    Absent = ADA value of 0

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If you are tracking daily attendance complete the following table:

    FTE                         Attendance Code               Attendance Value

Minutes: Time Items

If you are tracking attendance by the minute (time to day conversion), specify how many
minutes count for what ADA value under Time Items for each FTE.
For example:
    400 minutes = ADA value of 1
    200 minutes = ADA value of 0.5
    0 minutes = ADA value of 0

    FTE                         Minutes                       Attendance Value

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Calendaring

Bell Schedules (Required)

A Bell Schedule is associated to each calendar day, and indicates which periods are in session
on a given day. Each Bell Schedule is associated with an attendance conversion.

      Only one Bell Schedule may be assigned to a given day.
      At least one period must be checked for Counts for ADA.
      Any time the length of a period changes in a day; you may need a corresponding Bell
       Schedule.

If this is an elementary school, review Elementary Best Practice Guide for more information on
how to setup Bell Schedules.

Define below the Bell Schedules that your school will use this year. (e.g., “normal,” “early-
release,” “AM Assembly,” etc.) For each Bell Schedule, indicate each period’s start and end
time. Use the Period abbreviations defined in the “Periods” section. Attach additional bell
schedules if necessary.

Bell Schedule Name:

  Period               Counts for ADA        Start Time            End Time

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Reporting Segments
If you need to run reports for a period of time other than the terms setup under years and
terms you may define Reporting Segments. Be sure to check your state reporting
requirements to determine if you have mandatory reporting time segments.

  Segment Name                     Start Date                 End Date
                                                              -
                                                              -
                                                              -
                                                              -

General

Activities Setup
Define extra-curricular activities such as sports, teams, or clubs. Once a student is assigned to
an activity, you can search for, send letters to, and compare grades for students in each
activity. The Activity Name can contain spaces but the Student Field Name should not contain
any spaces. Please list the different activities that you track for students at this school.
Typically students’ participation in activities is tracked for the current year only; the
information is generally cleared as part of the year-end process.

If you have multiple schools using one PowerSchool server, it is recommended that all schools
agree on the names of activities. This prevents duplicate field names or slightly different field
names for the same activity.

For example:
 Activity Name = “Chess Club” and Student Field Name = “Chess_Club”

  Activity Name        Student Field Name         Activity Name          Student Field Name

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Balance Alert

In Balance Alert Setup, you define thresholds for students' lunch account balances and fee
account balances. If students' account balances go over or under a set threshold, an alert
appears on the student page and will trigger an email to parents selecting the option to receive
balance alerts.

Do you want to use a Balance Alert?             Yes           No

For the student’s lunch balance if using PowerLunch, define the dollar amount (between –80
and 80) that triggers the alert message display:

For the student’s fee balance, define the dollar amount (between –100 and 100) that triggers
the alert message display:

What message do you want to display for the alert?
NOTE: This message will be displayed if either balance reaches the cutoffs you specified
above.

                                                                   _______________________

Fee Types

Fee Types serve as the second tier within the Fees Management structure. For each fee
category created at District level, you can then associate (create) fee types.
    Fee types created using the fee category of School are school enrollment fees and
     automatically assessed at the school level when students enroll in a school.
    Fee types created using the fee category of Course are course enrollment fees and are
     automatically assessed at the course level when students enroll in a course.
    Fee types created using fee categories other than School or Course are student fees and
     are assessed manually.

    Fee Type                Fee Category              Description

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Miscellaneous
  E-mail teachers the academic records of students
  newly enrolled in their classes. This function is
  driven by course numbers and is limited to                   Yes             No
  students moving from/to sections with the same
  course number. Email addresses of teachers
  must be set up as well.

                                                               Shortest Possible
  Default term level -- This option controls the               Quarter
  default term view admin users and teachers will
                                                               Semester
  see when logging into the web portion of
  PowerSchool.                                                 Trimester
                                                               Full Year

  Show student photo on student screens                        Yes             No
  Allow public access to school bulletin. The Daily
  Bulletin can be made accessible to public users
  without requiring a login and is set on a school-            Yes             No
  by-school basis. The URL is: http://server IP or
  hostname/bulletin/school number/.

  Student/Teacher Schedule Matrix Preferences: The options below can be
  shown on the student or teacher schedule matrix. Check the items you
  want to see.

  Course Name                                               Student        Teacher
  Course Number.Section Number                              Student        Teacher
  Teacher Name                                                       Student
  Room                                                      Student        Teacher
  Expression Term                                           Student        Teacher
  Enrollment                                                         Teacher

Sub Login Settings

Substitute teachers at your school can use PowerSchool Substitute to enter attendance and
lunch counts for the classes they are covering.

Define the password you will provide to substitutes so they can access PowerSchool Substitute.
      _________

       Include current date: For example, if the password is sub, and today is September 3,
then the password would be 3sub if you included the current date.

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Grading

Final Grade Setup (Required)

Final Grade Setup is used to define grading terms. Grading terms must be defined for each
course length offered. For example, if a section is associated to the full year and the students
in that section receive semester and quarter grades, then each semester and quarter must be
defined at the full year level. If a section is associated to a semester and the students in that
sections will receive only 1 semester grade and 2 quarter grades, then those 3 grading terms
must be defined at the semester level.
A tutorial on this subject is available at:
https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/d/powerschool_1584
For example: If you have students enrolled in a full year class and you give grades at each
quarter and each semester, set up the following terms: Q1, Q2, S1, Q3, Q4, and S2 under the
full year. If you have students enrolled in semester length classes then set up Q1, Q2, and S1
in Semester 1 and Q3,Q4, and S2 in Semester 2.

                                              2005-2006 School Year
  Full Year

                                                        [New]

                                   __    __        __   __        __   __        __    __

                                   S1                                                  S2
  Semester

                               [New]                                                  [New]

                     __        __       __    __                            __        __    __    __

                         T1                                  T2                                  T3
  Trimester

                     [New]                              [New]                                 [New]

              __     __       __    __             __   __        __   __             __    __        __   __

                    Q1                         Q2                       Q3                            Q4

                   [New]                      [New]                    [New]                      [New]
  Quarter

                    __                         __                       __                            __

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Current Grade Display

Current Grade Display controls what grades (current and historical) are displayed on the Quick
Lookup student screen and what parents see when they use the Parent Portal. This page
displays up to 6 grades. These should be the same abbreviations as defined in Final Grade
Setup, such as Q1, Q2, S1, etc.

  Column          Store Code                     Column          Store Code
  Number          Term Abbreviation              Number          Term Abbreviation

        1                                              4
        2                                              5
        3                                              6

Final Grade Entry Options

Use this option in addition to Final Grade Setup to setup and enable the PowerTeacher Final
Grade and Final Standards Grade entry screen.

For example, some elementary schools might not use PowerGrade to track attendance,
assignments, and assignment grades. Teachers can instead use PowerSchool Teacher for final
grade entry. Global Settings are also used to determine terms that standards grades can be
entered.

  Teacher Final Grade Entry Options – Global Settings

  Enable teacher final grade entry screens                       Yes           No

  Final grade columns to display                            __   __    __     __    __   __

  Allow entry for these final grades                        __   __    __     __    __   __

  Number of days prior to end of term that grades
  may be entered (leave blank for no restriction)

  Number of days after end of term that grades
  may be entered (leave blank for no restriction)

  Combine Traditional and Standards-based Grade
                                                                 Yes           No
  entry on same page

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  Teacher Final Grade Entry Options - Traditional Grading Settings

  Enable Final Grade (Letter) entry                            Yes            No

  Enable Final Grade (Citizenship) entry                       Yes            No

  Enable Final Grade (Percentage) entry                        Yes            No

  Enable Final Grade (Points) entry                            Yes            No

  Enable Final Grade (Total Points) entry                      Yes            No

Comment Bank

The school can create a predefined set of comments for teachers to use in their grade books.
Teachers can use either predefined comments, enter their own comments, or both. Teacher
comments can be viewed by the parents and printed on report cards.

For each comment, define a comment code, comment text and, optionally, a comment
category. Comment codes must be unique throughout the district. It is also possible to import
comments. For example: Code: “01” = “Student is frequently unprepared for class.”

  Comment Code          Comment Category            Comment Text

GPA Student Screens

The GPA Student Screens controls what will be displayed on the student Cumulative
Information page as well as the GPA listed on the Student Quick Lookup page. There are 12
different rows of information that can be setup. Typically a school will use this page to list

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results for class rank, honor roll, cumulative GPA, GPA for a specific term. Check the options
you would like to have listed for this school.

  Class Rank                                                    Yes             No
  Honor Roll                                                    Yes             No
  Cumulative Weighted GPA                                       Yes             No
  Cumulative Simple GPA                                         Yes             No
  Cumulative Credit Hours                                       Yes             No
  GPA for specific terms (Please list the terms)

Class Rank
Define the class ranking method(s) in use at your school.

  Class Rank Description
  GPA Calculation Name Used (Weighted, Simple)
  GPA result is                                                       Numeric        Text
  Only include grades that count in class rank                        Yes            No
  Exclude students that are excluded from class rank                  Yes            No
  Include early graduates                                             Yes            No
  Early graduation exit code
                                                                  Cumulative Grades
  Is your class rank calculated based on:
                                                                  Current Grades

Honor Roll

PowerSchool allows you to specify one or more Honor Roll methods. Upper and lower levels
may be defined within each honor roll method. (e.g. Your school calculates 2 levels of Honor
Roll results; High Honors and Honors. Both use the same GPA calculation method but they
have different criteria. High Honors requires a minimum 3.75 GPA and no failing grades. The
level Honors requires a minimum 3.00 GPA and no failing grades. In this scenario, you would
set up one Honor Roll Method with two levels.)
How often do you award an Honor Roll? (i.e. Q1, Q2, S1, etc.)

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  Honor Roll Method Name:

        First Honor Roll Level Name (level
        with the strictest requirements)

        First Honor Roll Level
        requirements (Example:
        minimum GPA of 3.75 with no
        failing grades)
        Second Honor Roll Level Name
        (next level based on
        requirements)

        Second Honor Roll Level
        requirements (Example:
        minimum GPA of 3.0 with no
        failing grades)

        Third Honor Roll Level Name
        (next level based on
        requirements)

        Third Honor Roll Level
        requirements (Example:
        minimum GPA of 3.0 with one
        failing grade)

Graduation Sets

If using graduation requirements, you will need to set those requirements up in PowerSchool
Graduation Sets. Graduation Requirements are typically used at the high school level. Check
with your Guidance Counselor and your State Reporting Guide for the current and future
graduation requirements for your school.

To add graduation requirements in PowerSchool, you will need to know the courses that
pertain to each requirement (both core and elective) and/or course credit types.

Your Implementation Project Manager will assist you with understanding of the graduation sets
structure prior to your courses being imported into your PowerSchool Application.

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