Class Descriptions

[AmyB12]

Our specials teachers teach every class across multiple grade levels, and they are struggling to quickly identify the students’ homeroom teachers from their course sections in PowerSchool SIS / PowerTeacher Pro.

Is there a recommended way to display additional identifying information for teachers, such as:

• Grade level
• Homeroom teacher

Ideally, we would like special teachers to be able to easily identify which homeroom a class belongs to without having to look up individual students.

I originally thought I could add myself as a co-teacher to each course section and modify the class description, but I realized those changes only display for me and not for the actual teacher assigned to the course.

Has anyone found a good solution for this?

[CindyM8]

Use the section # to indicate the homeroom teacher name. See screenshot I attached which is from a training server (not real data). In PowerTeacher there is a preference teachers can enable to show the section # on the PowerTeacher home page (PowerTeacher home page > Click User Initials > Manage Profile > Set Display Section Number on the PowerTeacher Home Page to Yes > Submit. Section number setting will be effective the next time you sign into PowerTeacher.

[AmyB12]

Thank you. We use Clever to roster other programs. Have you found any issues with that?

[AmyB12]

Another question came up, does ISBE accept the section names?