The boundless mediocrity of PowerSchool
PowerSchool has potential but ultimately falls short of expectations. The interface feels outdated and clunky, making navigation frustrating. It often takes longer than it should to find essential information like grades and assignments, which can be a real hassle, especially when you're in a rush.
Additionally, I've experienced frequent bugs and slow loading times. At times, the app crashes or fails to load, which disrupts my ability to stay updated on my child's progress. Notifications can be inconsistent, leading to missed updates on important assignments or deadlines.
While the app has useful features, such as grade tracking and attendance monitoring, the execution leaves much to be desired. Improvements in the user experience, interface design, and overall stability are crucial for making PowerSchool a more reliable tool for students and parents. Until then, I can only give it a two-star rating.
Additionally, I've experienced frequent bugs and slow loading times. At times, the app crashes or fails to load, which disrupts my ability to stay updated on my child's progress. Notifications can be inconsistent, leading to missed updates on important assignments or deadlines.
While the app has useful features, such as grade tracking and attendance monitoring, the execution leaves much to be desired. Improvements in the user experience, interface design, and overall stability are crucial for making PowerSchool a more reliable tool for students and parents. Until then, I can only give it a two-star rating.
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I would give this app all the negative stars if I could
I’m editing to say that a year later and PowerSchool is still so absolutely bad I’m considering a lawsuit. I WANT TO SEE MY KIDS GRADES RIGHT THIS SECOND. IM SO INFURIATED AND SICK OF THESE GLITCHES.
ITS THE SAME ISSUE EVERY SINGLE TIME. I have never used an app more useless than this one. My user name and password works for the app but not the webpage. You can NOT see your child’s report card only the grades, not the official report on the app. Every single marking period the webpage expires my password, then I set a new one but the webpage says my old one is wrong. Then I try to reset old password and I don’t get an email. The message at the reset screen says “contact you school if you don’t get an email” but my school, my district off nor my districts board members know how to help. I haven’t seen my children’s report card for the last 2 marking periods because NO ONE seems to know how to resolve this. I go to my local FB school and community pages and it’s littered with complaints about PowerSchool because it’s literally the absolute worst app/webpage ever created. The worst, absolute worst.
ITS THE SAME ISSUE EVERY SINGLE TIME. I have never used an app more useless than this one. My user name and password works for the app but not the webpage. You can NOT see your child’s report card only the grades, not the official report on the app. Every single marking period the webpage expires my password, then I set a new one but the webpage says my old one is wrong. Then I try to reset old password and I don’t get an email. The message at the reset screen says “contact you school if you don’t get an email” but my school, my district off nor my districts board members know how to help. I haven’t seen my children’s report card for the last 2 marking periods because NO ONE seems to know how to resolve this. I go to my local FB school and community pages and it’s littered with complaints about PowerSchool because it’s literally the absolute worst app/webpage ever created. The worst, absolute worst.
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Review
This is great
New platform blues
First week of use for our district, so likely to get better?
1. Middle school classes and grades no longer visible, so that Algebra or French 1 class can’t go on a college application transcript.
2. Summer class grades not populating, main and guidance staff unaware of even deadline expectations. I don’t see that on our academic calendar.
3. Our high school is named “High School” instead of State College Area HS. Looks sus when sharing the unofficial transcript.
4. I’m supposed to confirm my phone number, but there’s no spot for that.
5. Can approve nurse administration of otc meds to both kids at the same time, but their doses need to be the same. Submit button still lit after clicked. And would switch automatically to the other kid. Awkward.
6. Space for emergency contacts?
7. Notifications settings awkward, would love to have it text, sure! But hard to do without a phone number.
8. Roll out—frustrated Monday when parent signin enabled, but not students. Esp when summer grades, fall schedule and transcripts not working. Communication is good.
9. SAT scores—just the total documented, not the 2 scores. No PSAT score?
10. I might be alone in this but I want a total record of their classes and grades, teacher names and comments. Any testing done. Print works better for me. For us to keep. But changing platforms so often can only mean that parents and districts can’t follow the impact of curriculum changes as easily. How is my district handling that?
1. Middle school classes and grades no longer visible, so that Algebra or French 1 class can’t go on a college application transcript.
2. Summer class grades not populating, main and guidance staff unaware of even deadline expectations. I don’t see that on our academic calendar.
3. Our high school is named “High School” instead of State College Area HS. Looks sus when sharing the unofficial transcript.
4. I’m supposed to confirm my phone number, but there’s no spot for that.
5. Can approve nurse administration of otc meds to both kids at the same time, but their doses need to be the same. Submit button still lit after clicked. And would switch automatically to the other kid. Awkward.
6. Space for emergency contacts?
7. Notifications settings awkward, would love to have it text, sure! But hard to do without a phone number.
8. Roll out—frustrated Monday when parent signin enabled, but not students. Esp when summer grades, fall schedule and transcripts not working. Communication is good.
9. SAT scores—just the total documented, not the 2 scores. No PSAT score?
10. I might be alone in this but I want a total record of their classes and grades, teacher names and comments. Any testing done. Print works better for me. For us to keep. But changing platforms so often can only mean that parents and districts can’t follow the impact of curriculum changes as easily. How is my district handling that?
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App still crashing
Despite update the app continues to crash making it unuseable
Nut
Sack
Highly Disruptive and Manipulative by Teachers
Invasion of a family’s right to privacy, family time, evenings and weekends due to the fact that Teachers go unchecked with off handed comments and there is no discrimination and no racism allowed in public school. There’s laws by teachers regarding professionalism and Hana Robb is not certified as to her Teacher position. She is hateful as a human and bullies me as a parent at her second job at a grocery store. She hazed me from that job and was angry and near unwilling to face me as the Math and Coding Teacher for my youngest daughter, I ought to sue NBMS and NPS for discrimination based on race, socioeconomic status and blatant racism and the fact that the Principal violates FERPA and McKinney-Vento Act by texting, gossiping and mistreatment of former high school students and allows the Vice Principal to breach confidentiality and FERPA by showing parents other students’ test scores because he thinks it’s okay. No accountability and this application is micromanaging a student’s performance and also misuses and abuses access to family and parents regarding student progress. Hana Robb is racist.
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I am a parent
I just wanted to let everybody know that this app is awesome at helps me talk to my son and to let him know what he’s falling behind him what he needs to do better in and when he skips class or when he’s absent or tardy every single day lol well I guess that’s not funny but you know what I’m saying and yes I don’t get the grades sometimes where the only go up one or two points when there’s a big grade put in I don’t get that at all just like the other day, my son had a 30 and then I looked again later that day, and he was passing like I don’t get the grade part about it but I do love the app it does tell me if my son is doing his work like he supposed to which he wasn’t in the beginning and still kind of slacks, but he is trying to graduate this year so he is trying a lot harder than normal because like me, my son does not like school at all but unlike me, he wants to graduate and have a better life than I had growing up.
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Bugs
This app caused me many troubles in the past and now. First of all, when we move to another quarter for some reason, I have to delete the app, install the app again, and log in again, for some reason. And sometimes it even tells me that my password is expired? Like for what reason y’all have so much security, I dont know but maybe hackers are not so interested on watching my GPA or my grades? Second bug I have is that when I get inside the app without Wifi and watch my schedule, ok, I understand it wont load because I dont have no wifi, the problem with this is when I get in the app again and try to load the schedule again (this time with wifi), it simply wont load again, so i had to delete and reinstall the app again, log in also (Its easier hacking the NASA than logging in again) and praying for this bugs to not happen. Last years I was with no Powerschool because y’all either put so many security on some app which you can only see your grades, or when I had this bugs in the past I had to delete the app, reinstall it, but since the password I had didn’t worked, I couldn’t log in into my account.
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Glitching
The app keeps on glitching for me. If I open the app, it only opens for about five seconds, and then shuts off. I power off my phone. I deleted lots of apps for more storage. I deleted the app re-downloaded it and deleted the app downloaded it, and I still see no upgrade that I could use for the app and I don’t know why it’s not giving me an update.
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