PowerPTC version 2 is a large update that includes a major reimplementation of many of the components of PowerPTC. Much of the structure and the functions of PowerPTC will remain unchanged, so existing users will feel at home. The goal of this document is to familiarize you with some important changes and features you should consider and be aware of. Read more →
Category: Product News
PowerPTC and Covid-19
There are many challenges when it comes to hosting parent-teacher conferences during Covid-19. PowerPTC can assist in making your parent-teacher conferences a success despite the unknowns that districts are facing. We’ve recently released updates to PowerPTC to help improve your conferences during these challenging times, including: Phone Conference Support – It is possible to allow Phone Conferences on a individual… Read more →
Summary of Updates for Fall 2019
We have been hard at work improving PowerPTC, continuing to make PowerPTC the most intelligent and easy-to-use Parent-Teacher Conference scheduling system available. Many of the changes below came from feature requests from our customers. While we can not implement every feature request, we are always looking for feedback from our users. The following is a summary of the improvements and… Read more →
Multi-Student Auto Scheduling
With PowerPTC, parents can now schedule multiple students at once using the Auto-Scheduler. The new Multi-Student Auto-Scheduling allows for parents and guardians to more easily setup their conference with fewer clicks. This feature can be controlled in the Configure -> Other Settings section of the PowerPTC administrative interface. Read more →
PowerPTC – New Teacher Break Request Windows
In the past with PowerPTC, when you would enable teachers to make their own break requests it would turn on the the ability for all teachers at all locations and there wasn’t an easy method to set a start and end date. In version 1.7.20 of PowerPTC, we’ve added this ability so you can now define windows of time when… Read more →
More SSO Options for PowerPTC (Infinite Campus)
With version 1.6.3 of PowerPTC a more generic single sign-on model is supported for student information systems that do not support SAML. With this initial release, Infinite Campus can now be used for guardian/parent account authentication. The framework is generic and support for other SIS systems may be added in the future. If you would like to try out SSO… Read more →
PowerPTC 1.5.0 – Update Overview
We’ve recently rolled out version 1.5.0 of PowerPTC which includes the following changes: Role-based Administrators You can now define a role for your administrative users to limit the areas they can access within the PowerPTC management interface. Activation Code Grouping You can now easily group multiple students into a single parent activation code. This would result in guardians… Read more →
Co-Teacher Scheduling & Variable Length Appointments
We are proud to announce that we have released PowerPTC version 1.4.0. This update includes improved support for co-teacher scheduling, plus other minor feature improvements and bug fixes. Here is a list of improvements we’ve implemented over the past year: Variable-length appointments ( #1 Requested Feature ) Co-teacher scheduling ( #2 Requested Feature ) Performance improvements (including building the master… Read more →
We’ve made uploading your SIS data easier!
The PowerPTC Student Exporter client now has the ability to take your SIS data and directly upload it to PowerPTC.net. This feature eliminates the need to manually upload your CSV files to PowerPTC.net. Starting with version 1.4.0 or higher there is a new tab titled “Remote” where you can enter a PowerPTC.net administrative username and password. After exporting your student… Read more →
PowerPTC Referral Program – $50 gift card on us!
Do you love PowerPTC? Would you recommend it to a colleague? If you recommend PowerPTC to another school or district and they sign up for an annual subscription, we’ll give you a $50 gift card to Amazon.com as a thank you! We appreciate your support of small business, and as such we rely on word-of-mouth referrals. When you share your experience… Read more →