During our MS Open House this week, teachers shared with parents how they communicate assignments and upcoming assessments with students. PowerSchool Learning (formerly known as “Haiku”) is the online learning management system we use to share resources, post assignments, and organize learning units with students.
Teachers are in the process now of setting up their online class environments and creating the structures for communication and resource sharing in PowerSchool Learning.
When it is up and running, we encourage you to sit with your child and have them show you their PowerSchool Learning classes. They can show you how they know what assignments are due or what was worked on that day in class. This can be helpful when students are absent and need to know what they’ve missed.
While we recommend logging into PowerSchool Learning with your child, there are some cases in which you may wish to view this information yourselves with your own login. If we create this separate parental access, the parent receives emails from PowerSchool Learning as posted by the teacher. We understand that not all parents want additional emails from ISB, so we ask that parents sign-up if they want this additional, separate parent access to PowerSchool Learning, rather than just logging in with their child.
(Note: PowerSchool Learning is NOT PowerSchool. PowerSchool is the student information site & parent portal. Parents automatically have this account. “PowerSchool Learning” is the online classroom that aligns with classes your child is enrolled in.)
This weekend you will receive an email from ISB asking you to register for PowerSchool Learning access, if you would like it. You only need to follow the link and enter the code, if you want that parental access to PowerSchool Learning, the online classroom.