PowerSchool Community Feedback and Suggestions

[jbidk]

Do you have feedback on how our new PowerSchool Community looks and functions?

Do you have suggestions for how we can make our Community even better?

Please post your feedback and suggestions here. We'll review all posts and share updates. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

[carohopp]

I really love Powerschool/ Haiku., and I am sorry that my district won't be renewing due to cost.  Recently I began teaching at the community college level using Canvas, and I find myself really missing powerschool ease of use and quality of design. 

One direction I'd love to see some more development in is a collaborative video creation tool for student groups.  As an nglish/ Social Sciences project I have students make persuasive documentaries using WeVideo- it generally integrates well will Google Drive and YouTube (and therefore Haiku) but it would be great if we didn't have to usea third party program to create these projects.  WeVideo is our preferred program for now because it allows students to combine text slides, image slides, video and audio clips and titles/ transitions in a format that's not impossible to teach in a week.  However, to collaborate on a single project, students need to subscribe to the premium version, which needless to say will not be funded by our school and is not something I can require of our families.  It may take a while before the technioloigy allows for this feature in Powerschool (especially to be used effectively on mobile devices) but it's something I'd love to see in the future.  Thanks for reading!

[JulieM]

Hi carohopp,

Thank you for the comments, feedback and suggestions! We will keep this in mind for the future!

Thanks again for posting here!

JulieM

PowerSchool Community Moderator

[RebeccaE]

Hello, This is in regards to the new Talent Ed/Talent Evaluation platform.  It would be awesome if we had the following functions:

1) Adding an advanced filter method in the staff dashboard to select more than one and less than all of the drop down (similar to turning the filters on in xls).  I need to assign all but 4 of our 87 employee types to the same eval and have to page through each employee type one by one in order to capture everyone.

2) Include a click path menu for the page we are on.  Similar to help.powerschool.com>About our community>Welcome and FAQS>Feedback and Suggestions it is nice to be able to simply click the prior menu instead of going back to square one.  Additionally it would help if the pages saved automatically instead of needing to click save after each edit.

3) Please include filters, options for the page, etc at both the top and bottom of the screen.  When I am mass-processing hundreds (thousands) of records and need to select all given my current filter, I don't want to have to scroll to the bottom of each page to get what I need on each of the 14 pages.  This could be alleviated by making the "select all" actually select everything on all pages or increasing the view to "all records" too.

Thank you for your consideration.  I look forward to improvements to the former Talent Ed product now that we are with Power School.

[PS_AM1]

Hi @RebeccaE,

Thank you for providing your suggestions to improve the Unified Talent (TalentEd) platform!  I have submitted your feature requests to the product review team.  If additional information is needed someone from the product team will reach out to you.  

If you have any other suggestions, please do not hesitate to let us know!

[JeremiahJ]

PowerScheduler support alpha characters in section number

Description:

Rather than perform the workaround described in article ID = 8283, I would much prefer if PowerScheduler supported the use of alpha characters in the section number field.  If Live Side scheduling allows alpha characters in section number, PowerScheduler should as well.

[ljensen]

This new platform is exciting, and it will be great to have all the support resources in one place.  I've been using it for the last few months and have a suggestion.

The layout of search results is difficult to scan compared to the old Community page for PS Learning (currently at https://learning-support.powerschool.com).  A few small formatting changes would go a long way in making this resource more usable:

• Formatting the question titles to be more prominent would greatly help the eye to skim. 
• Lengthening their character count would prevent question titles from being truncated.  Often, the more descriptive words come at the end of the sentence.
• Adding the colored labels for intended user type would also make scanning a breeze.

The older, more scannable version.  The eye easily finds each title.  I've added highlighting.

New version.  This is harder to skim (when scanning for bold text, the title and contributor's name stand out equally; my eye usually falls to the name & icon first, then jumps back for the title).  Highlighting is added here too.

This is a great resource.  Adjusting the formatting (and perhaps putting the user name under the time stamp) could do a lot for usability.

Thanks!

[JulieM]

Hi ljensen,

Thank you for the great feedback and for the suggestions and idea!  We are always looking for ways to improve out Community and appreciate getting the feedback!

Thanks again,

JulieM

PowerSchool Community Moderator

[jgates]

My post here is related to PowerSource.  Can the feature be added to be able to set defaults for all of the filtering options for support cases?  Right now it looks like only posts per page can be set.  Thanks!

[MichelleB]

@jgates

Thank you so much for your suggestion about case filtering options in PowerSource.  When logged into PowerSource, you are actually able to submit Enhancement Requests such as this one directly at: https://support.powerschool.com/ers/main.action

For more details on the Enhancement Request System, you can refer to this article: https://support.powerschool.com/article/61401

Thank you for taking the time to help us make the system better for everyone!

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@jgates wrote:

My post here is related to PowerSource.  Can the feature be added to be able to set defaults for all of the filtering options for support cases?  Right now it looks like only posts per page can be set.  Thanks!

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[jgates]

Tried that and no products or categories show up in the dropdown list... They are required so I am unable to submit there...

[jbidk]

Thank you for sharing these details. We'll message you shortly to work directly with you on this request. 

[KElms]

It would be great to add enhancement requests to this venue, rather than on PowerSource.  However, we will need to add UC and Learning to the product dropdowns.

Kim

[joshk]

Hi @KElms!

Thank you so much for your post. We are always happy to hear your feedback and are excited to hear ideas to improve PowerSchool's solutions. While there is not currently a feature in place for users to submit suggestions directly, we are happy to share any of that feedback on your behalf as needed! I will also share this with the Product team to let them know this is something you are interested in seeing in the future.

Best,

JoshK

PowerSchool Community Admin 

[CindyM8]

I'm not sure if this is in the right spot but this is a PowerSchool enhancement request to add a course and section level setting to be able to suppress the course from displaying in the student and public portal on the web and mobile apps. There are two other enhancements for this on PowerSource #9289 and 6976.

[PS_AM1]

Hi @CindyM8,

Thank you for reaching out for assistance through the Community!  Thank you for submitting the feature request.  Another Community Moderator followed up with you regarding this request on your other post and advised he submitted the request to the Product Review Team.  You can review the response by clicking here.

Have a great afternoon!

[MattH8]

Hello! The email updates for subscriptions seem to need formatting assistance. For brevity, I am posting only the first 2 screenshots of what an email update from a post containing a table looks like. It's... not pretty. (I would guess I'd need about 30 or more screenshots to show the entire email.) The unfortunate part is that the email does not even contain the first paragraph of the post, which is the most pertinent information.

Suffice it to say, the original post is here (SRP Reports - [NOT a release notification]). When a notification of the post was sent from PowerSource, it was much cleaner and more succinct (indicated below with a screenshot).

I had hoped subscribing to posts would be more like receiving PS Technote notifications.

[PS_AM1]

Hello @MattH8,

Thank you for your feedback!  I understand the formatting could have been a bit more reader-friendly.  The feedback you provided will be taken into consideration. Also, we do recommend you subscribe to your state to receive your state specific reporting only.  

Again, thank you for providing the feedback and please continue to provide suggestions on ways we can look to improve!

Best,

[TbirdMatt]

Angelam you replied to the wrong person.  Try @MattH8

[PS_AM1]

Hi @TbirdMatt,

My apologies and thank you for bringing this to my attention!

Thank you,

[collinss]

It would be most helpful if teachers were able to bulk grade one question on an assessment at a time.  Right now, I have to open each student's assessment individually and migrate through to score one question at a time.  This is not an efficient use of time.  However, grading all of let's say question #4 on a test means that I am far more consistent in scoring than if I were to do every question for each student before moving on the the next student's assessment.  Online platforms like Actively Learn have this as an option and it's wonderful!  They also allow for anonymous grading.  This too would help teachers to remain unbiased while evaluating student work.  Please consider adding these functions to grading an online assessment on Haiku.  Thank you.