Navigating Your Start Page (Center Icons)

1. Start Page - Current Classes

Navigating PowerTeacher
The PowerTeacher Start Page serves as the central point from which you begin your PowerTeacher session. It consists of the following areas: the Navigation bar, the ID bar, the Main menu, and  Current Classes (shown below).  This book will summarize the central icons in PowerTeacher's Start Page.

2. Start Page - Center Icons - Attendance Chair

Start Page - Center Icons - Attendance Chair
It’s easy to take attendance in PowerTeacher. As soon as teachers take attendance, student  attendance information becomes available to school administrators, parents, and students.

1. Navigate to Start Page > Chair icon (next to the class for which you want to take attendance)
2. Select the Date
3. Select the Current attendance code
4. Click the cell next to a student’s name to assign that code
5. Click Submit
*Note: Even if all students are present, teachers should click the Chair icon to open the attendance  screen, and then click Submit.

3. Start Page - Center Icons - Multi-Day Attendance Grid

Start Page - Center Icons - Multi-Day Attendance Grid
View multiple days of attendance for the entire class or a single student.

4. Start Page - Center Icons - Seating Chart

Start Page - Center Icons - Seating Chart
Click grid and chair to work with the seating chart. This includes designing and editing a seating chart layout, taking attendance and more. For more information, see Seating Chart.

5. Start Page - Center Icons - Lunch Counts (NOT IN SUSD)

Start Page - Center Icons - Lunch Counts
NOT USED AT SUNNYSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Submitting lunch counts in PowerTeacher is just as easy as taking attendance. Whether you submit  the lunch count for your students during homeroom or for yourself during another class, the count is included in the PowerLunch Class Counts report.

6. Start Page - Center Icons - Viewing Student Info (Backpack)

Start Page - Center Icons - Viewing Student Info (Backpack)
Access the Student Information Screens by clicking the Backpack for a class, then clicking a student’s  name.

More than a dozen student screens are available through the Select Screens menu. The  following table provides a brief explanation of the student information screens available in PowerTeacher.

7. Start Page - Center Icons - Print Reports

Start Page - Center Icons - Print Reports
Teachers can print school-related reports such as form letters, report cards, and mailing labels for  individual students, one section of students, or for students in all of the sections they teach provided that they have been given permission to do so. Only those reports that a teacher can print will be  available in the PowerTeacher print reports menu.

To print PowerSchool reports for an individual student:
1. Navigate to Start Page > Backpack icon
2. Click a student’s name
3. Select the screen Print A Report
4. Select which report you would like to print
5. Select the Watermark Text, if applicable
6. Select the Watermark Mode, if applicable
7. Select when to print the report
8. Click Submit