PowerTeacher is a multi-platform classroom management system created by Pearson. It works with PowerSchool: a web-based student information system, to connect with ten million students in all fifty states and sixty-five countries. PowerSchool can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on external variables (funding, district, etc...). Because PowerTeacher supports multiple platforms, it leaves teachers/professors untethered from their desktop and laptop and allows them to record scores and make observations while moving around the classroom, gym, playground, lab or even field trips.

Good Features:

• Create, update, and manage assignments
• View and update class and group metrics (mean, median, mode) • Create, update, and manage assignment categories
• Integrated help
• Send email to student contacts
• Past assignments and scores to parents and students in real-time • Record scores for assignments
• View and update class and group metrics (mean, median, mode) • Record or auto-calculates student final grade
• Mass fill scores for assignments
• Enter comments and score codes for assignments
• Review class rosters
• Access student demographics
• Access student alerts
• Send email to student contacts
• View student photos from the office
• View scoresheet for student groups
• Create, update, and manage assignment categories
• Review grade scales
• Reporting terms to filter assignments and final grades
• Integrated help
• Secure login
• School Locator
• Synchronize with the PowerTeacher web grade book
• Virtual Chalkboard

Bad Features:

• Dependency on PowerSchool
• Some features are are available or absent on different platforms
• Abundance of features that one operational setting may or may not use

Missing Features:

• Student can view other grades (names omitted)
• Online turn in with auto grading
• Abundance of features that one operational setting may or may not use
• View what is needed to get desired grade
  
  
  
  
  
  

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