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Teachers & Staff
- How to Create a Teacher Account
- How to Create a Staff Account
- How to Create a Permanent Substitute Teacher Account
- How to Set a Temporary Substitute Teacher Password
- How to Add/Remove Teacher or Staff Portal Access
- How to Create a Lunch Staff Account
- How to Deactivate a User Account
- How to change user security group
- How to edit school access for staff account
- How to edit school access for teachers account
- How to chage user security group
- How to edit security groups
- How to grant PT Pro read-only access
- How to edit security groups
- How to unlock accounts
- How to set and use page permissions
- How to reset a staff password
- How to reset a teacher password
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Parents
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How to Create a Staff Account
In this lesson we’ll walk you through the process of creating a new staff member account that can access the administrative portal of PowerSchool.
Step 1) Make sure you are logged in under the home school of the administrator you are entering. If you are creating a district level account make sure your current School on the top right corner is set to District Office.
Step 2) From the homepage, click on “New Staff Entry” under the People heading.
Step 3) Recommended Fields: Name, Gender, Ethnicity, ID, DOB, and Staff Type. All other fields are optional and can always be entered at a later time if desired.
Step 4) You must create a unique ID number for the administrator. Some schools set the ID number to the staff SSN while others like to set the ID to the initial of the first name plus the full last name. Example John Smith would be jsmith.
Step 5) Set the Staff Type to Staff
Step 6) Click Submit
Now that you created the new staff account record. The next step is to create a username and password so that they can login to PowerSchool. Here’s how:
Step 7) Click on “Security Settings”
Step 8) Click on the “Admin Access and Roles” tab.
Step 9) Check the box for “Sign in to Administrative Portion of PowerSchool”
Step 10) Enter a desired Admin Username and Password
Step 11) Set the Default Group to the appropriate Security Group
Step 12) Click Add, check the box for the appropriate school(s) the admin needs access to and then click OK.
Step 13) Click Submit
Please watch the video below to view a demonstration of this process: