Lesson 2 - Enroll a group of students in a class

Once you have the student in the system, you might see that the student's status is "not enrolled." This means the student is in your school however, not assigned any classes. In this lesson I will show you how to "mass enroll" a grade level into a teacher's class.

For many of the elementary schools, I have set up the lower grades (K-4) so that the staff will only have to enroll the students into a homeroom and the students will automatically filter into all of the associated classes; math, science, social, art, music, etc. Upper grades, such as grades 5-8 may not travel together as a "homeroom group" to some subjects so those classes are not associated. Next lesson will be on how to select individual students in the same grade for different classes. But for now, let's assume everyone in that grade is going into the same homeroom.

First, on your opening screen once you've logged on, click on a grade level. Remember, clicking on any pictures in this blog will make them bigger for you to see.



Once you see all of the students for that grade:



You will click on the empty box (this is considered the
"Function" box) and choose
"Mass Enroll in Classes." This will take all of the students to the next step.






You will have to make some choices. First choice is the teacher. Click on the arrow under
"teacher" and choose the homeroom teacher, in this case it's me :)




You'll notice that the Expression section defaults as
"HR" which stands for Homeroom. Since this is what you need for now let it be. Next, choose the "course." The course begins with HR and is followed by the grade number. In the elementary schools it is either HRP, HRK, HR1, HR2, HR3, etc. The date is the next choice. It should be the date you are working on in the summer so the list can be available to you asap.


Once you see the green "processing" bar - wait. For the lower grades it will take a while because it is going to all classes the children will attend. For the upper grades it will be quicker since less classes are associated with the homeroom.

Once the process is complete it will tell you the number of students enrolled successfully in the class. If you want to check this, return to the beginning page of PowerSchool by clicking on the upper left hand corner logo and then click on "Teacher Schedules." Choose the schedule for the teacher whose class you just filled. You will see the number of students and can click on the blue number to see the names (my example has 5 children in the class even though you saw me enroll 4 because one student was already there - Minnie Mouse :)