People who have used electronic gradebooks in the past, remember the beginning of the year tedium of typing in all of the names of the students. PowerGrade and PowerSchool work together to change that. Now, when the secretary or school administrator enrolls a new student student in to your class, the student is automatically added the next time you open PowerGrade! A message even opens telling you who the new student is that is joining your class. Likewise, when a student leaves the school (or, for whatever reason, the class), PowerGrade will remove that student from your class roster, but it will also tell you beforehand that Johnny or María has left your classroom.

If a new student is in your classroom, but he or she has not appeared on your flashdrive (since the student began in class, not since the last time you looked at your flashdrive, which may have been before the student started in your classroom), then, you should check with your secretary to make sure that the student was “scheduled” for the class. If the secretary says, “Yes,” and the student still does not show up, a flashdrive update should take care of it. This almost never happens. Once kids are scheduled, they pop in to the class immediately. The PowerGrade/PowerSchool Teacher user cannot change who appears in the class list. This happens at the Administrative level. IF the child is scheduled but not appearing in PowerGrade, "rebuilding from the server" should solve the problem.