Albion Central School District

Power School Support Page

Too Many E-mails

When selecting the email notification options in Power School avoid requesting
“Detailed report showing all assignment scores for each class” This report comes as a separate email for every class in the student’s schedule. It might generate a dozen or more emails every time the system send out information.  A better solution is to select only the top options “Summary of current grades and attendance” then log directly into power school for detailed information. At http://powerschool.albionk12.org Suggested Settings

Upgrade and Availablility Information -

Upgrades are done routinely as they become available from Pearson. The upgrades typically take about an hour to install during which services are unavailable. We try to schedule these upgrades for Wednesday evenings  or early Saturday mornings.  If you get a Power School Unavailable message, typically a “Gateway Time Out Error” simply try back in about an hour. Services should be back up by then.   (Trouble Shooting Page)

Single Sign On -

Single Sign On is a new feature to Power School allowing parents and guardians to create a common account to access all of their students from one sign on page.  You will be able to create these new Single Sign on Accounts starting during the April Spring Break.  With the new Single Sign On separated parents can create individual accounts, and receive separate updates sent directly to their own email addresses.  Single Sign On requires that you have a valid email address and at least one student’s activation code.  For more information please Click Here.  

Power School Mobile App. -

Once the Single Sign On function is active, in mid April, parents will be able to download and run the Power School Mobile App, available from the I-tunes.  Check here for more information on the Mobile App after Mid April 2012.  

Power School Fees -

Power School fees do not tie directly to the Districts point of sales system for the cafeterias, or to our accounting software, as a result there is a delay between a charge or payment being made by a student and the  point in time that the charge or payment appears on Power School.  If at any time you have any questions about the process or the current state of your child’s accounts please do not hesitate to contact your child’s building office.  (District Directory)   

Student Activation Codes –

Student Activation Code are only available via Email. A parent or Guardian must send an email to help@albionk12.org with their name the name of the child and their relationship to the child. We verify the parents name and email address with our information in Power School. If the information matches, we will immediately send the activation codes, if it does not match the data we have we will attempt to contact the parents using the information we have to verify the request for information.  For more information Click Here.    

e-mail Notifications -

The email notification system in power school is provided to give you a quick update of your child’s progress. We recommend that you only select “Summary of current grades and attendance”. If more information is desired it is best to log directly into power school to check the current grade information. If a blank appears for a grade it is because there are no grades currently in the system for that marking period for that teacher.  The email version only provides a single marking period’s data.

As always, if you have question or concern about a grade do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher. They can be reached through voice mail or email, see Staff Directory for details.  When using email please include “Parent of …”  in the subject line, this will make it easier for teachers to identify your email if it gets trapped in our spam filter.

Also note that the “Balance alert” does not function because power school and our lunch point of sales system are not integrated at this time.