PowerSchool Scheduling :: Setting Up New Sections

This article covers the process of setting up the pre-defined sections that Data Team loads into PowerSchool at the beginning of the scheduling season so that they are configured correctly for use during the year.

This process is detailed in Part 1 of the schedule training video.

1.  Navigate to the Sections page by logging into PowerSchool Admin, and clicking on School on the left navigation
2. On the School page, click on the Sections link
3. On this page, courses are listed on the left side—clicking on a course name will show the sections of that course that exist for your school
4. Click on a course in the left navigation
5. Click on the value in the column labeled Sec # in the row of the section you want to edit 
6. This will bring up the Edit Section page
7. Items that can potentially be edited in the order that they appear on the screen:
   1. Expression — This field needs to have one box checked off, but for elementary and middle schools, the value chosen doesn't matter (please note, however, that only Homeroom sections should be in the expression called HR). You can leave this unchanged.
   2. Teacher - Section Lead — This field is set to the school's DSO by default and needs to be changed to the correct lead teacher of the section (more information on how to do this is included in this article)
   3. Teacher/Staff - Additional — This field is blank by default, but co-teachers who deliver instruction in the class need to be added here (information on how to do that in this article)
   4. Room — This field is optional, but recommended
   5. Section Number — This field should be changed to the name of the travel group that attends the section. For example: The Math class for the homeroom/travel group called 8Howard should have the section number 8Howard
8. No other settings need to be (or should be) changed
9. Click Submit at the bottom of the page to save changes