PowerSchool - K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution

Company: PowerSchool
Company Description: PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students and 12,000+ districts, schools, and other education institutions in over 90 countries.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution

Nomination Title: PowerSchool's Schoology Learning Suite

6/01/2020

Schoology Learning Suite provides a convenient, singular tool for school districts to deliver personalized instruction, informed by student performance data with PowerSchool’s Performance Matters. The unified suite removes barriers between instruction and assessment to provide a comprehensive view of student progress, making teachers more effective by saving them countless hours with a single, easily to navigate classroom solution that supports students wherever they are, however they learn best.

Schoology Learning, PowerSchool’s learning management system, allows educators to deliver engaging, personalized learning experiences to their students. The platform can be accessed anywhere, anytime, so whether educators are teaching in-person, online, or both, they’re able to communicate with students and parents.

Schoology Learning is the leader in K-12 teaching and learning technology because we:

Offer a scalable district-wide solution that tracks student mastery of learning objectives aligned to curriculum, promotes staff collaboration through configurable groups, allows for organization-wide communication to the home, and ensures highly customizable user roles and permissions.

Have all the tools teachers and districts need to design lessons, assess student understanding, and deliver interactive learning experiences.

Offer streamlined communication and collaboration, where users can collaborate, share resources, and engage in discussions outside of “scheduled” courses.

Having a firm grasp on a student’s past performance is a prerequisite for personalized instruction. The Performance Matters side of the Schoology Learning Suite gives districts the comprehensive data they need to personalize educational experiences for students, no matter where they are. Educators’ teaching plans can be data-driven, integrating standards mastery, local assessments, attendance, behavior, and even SEL data.

Following the dramatic overnight shift to distance learning due to the outbreak of COVID-19, PowerSchool immediately pivoted to help customers districts and educators keep the learning going, whether in the classroom, at home, or both.

PowerSchool quickly launched a new prepare webpage with resources to help districts continue operations remotely and developed a free Distance Learning Readiness Kit. To enable hundreds of schools to move to distance learning over spring break, we reduced implementation of Schoology Learning, PowerSchool’s learning management system, from 90 days to just 4 days, and offered existing Schoology Learning and PowerSchool SIS customers free expanded use through the end of the year with expedited implementation.
https://www.powerschool.com/covid-19-resources/
https://www.schoology.com/prepare

With the move to hybrid learning, we saw significant growth in usage and new demand across all our products to support flexibility that every district, teacher, and student required. Schoology Learning saw over 1 trillion student interactions in the Spring – a 400% increase over any time in its 10-year history. Usage continued to rise once school came back in session in the fall where Schoology Learning saw 2 trillion interactions, or double the engagement, among the same set of users from spring.

In preparation to support this growth, PowerSchool spent the spring and summer investing heavily in Schoology Learning to serve more users. We increased the size of our product, engineering, service, and support teams to ensure help was there when needed. Additionally, PowerSchool built out a Schoology online community of free resources to enable new users of the platform to get community-based resources, tips and best practices.https://app.schoology.com/group/2834532139