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Can PowerSchool be programmed to send automated bespoke mails from school?

MRJones77 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:22:27 GMT

Quick context.... I am in an international school, with children from over 60 countries. The school has about 200-250 boarders as well.

A colleague and I are looking to celebrate student successes with parents through PowerSchool. At present, teachers assign a positive log entry when a student achieves above and beyond expectation, but that goes into PS and nowhere else, unless someone does the leg work of collating the achievement list, writing a mail to parents and hitting send. This is very time consuming and not an effective or efficient process.

Does anyone know if a school can programme PS to send bespoke mails (mail to be created by us in school) that are automatically sent to parents of a child who receives a positive log entry for their achievement?

I'm receiving a straight no by our admin guys in school but AI suggests otherwise, so I thought I would reach out here in case anyone has experience of this.

Thanks in advance

Re: Can PowerSchool be programmed to send automated bespoke mails from school?

JeffG9 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:33:45 GMT

May be possible with extensive customization, but nothing in PS out-of-the-box.

AI doesn't know squat about PS in my experience.

Re: Can PowerSchool be programmed to send automated bespoke mails from school?

MRJones77 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:47:10 GMT

Thanks for taking the time to reply, however, I am really looking for certainty from someone that has managed to achieve this. I haven't the access to the deeper admin side of PS so I don't have the luxury of investigating by getting into the nuts and bolts myself.

Have a great day.

Re: Can PowerSchool be programmed to send automated bespoke mails from school?

JeffG9 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:59:17 GMT

You will not find what you are looking for in this forum. Try PSUG (different site) or the Customization forum.

Re: Can PowerSchool be programmed to send automated bespoke mails from school?

MRJones77 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:00:46 GMT

Thanks for the direction, Jeff. I appreciate your help.