Brightspace integrates with PowerSchool SIS through our partner, SchoolDay, using OneRoster 1.1 REST APIs.
The integration allows clients to sync roster data (courses, sections, users, etc.) from PowerSchool via SchoolDay into Brightspace nightly or on-demand. The integration also sends changes to course grade items and student scores nightly or on-demand to SchoolDay and PowerSchool.
Learn more about OneRoster integrations
To learn more about OneRoster integrations, see:
Types of data supported by the integration
As part of the integration, Brightspace pulls data about users, courses, and schools from PowerSchool, and pushes data on grades and scoring to PowerSchool.
Data Brightspace pulls from PowerSchool
Rostering data pulled from PowerSchool includes the following:
- District
- Schools
- Terms
- Courses
- Sections
- Staff, students, and contacts (parents/guardians)
- Enrollments
Grade data Brightspace pushes to PowerSchool
Brightspace pushes the following grade data to PowerSchool:
- Grade categories
- Grade items (which become PowerSchool Assignments)
- Student scores
Org units managed by the integration
The integration with PowerSchool SIS manages several Brightspace Org Units - including terms, districts and schools, course templates, and course offerings - to make sure data is effectively shared between both systems.
Terms
PowerSchool terms that have the same name and same dates across schools are merged to avoid duplicates in Brightspace to simplify searches, simplifying the release or update of courses with the Course Updater tool, and to keep the org hierarchy organized.
Format of Term names
The names of the terms created in Brightspace have the following format: {name of term in PowerSchool} ({term start date} - {term end date}). For example: Trimester 2 (2023-11-29 2024-03-05).
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Important: The only type of academic session sent from SchoolDay for PowerSchool data is Term. When you configure a Brightspace integration with PowerSchool, you must create a single Academic Session Type mapping of type Term. For more information, see the Courses and Section in Configure a OneRoster Integration. |
Districts and schools
Within IPSIS, the District and School org units are considered upper org units. An upper org unit can be any org unit in the Brightspace org hierarchy above the course template.
Typically, users are enrolled in both course offerings and the school org unit which offers the course. For example, a school in this scenario is considered an upper org unit.
Relationship hierarchy
The PowerSchool integration relies on district and school relationships together with associated templates and offerings to establish the following org hierarchy in Brightspace:
- (Organization) > District School > Course Template > Course Offering (+ section)
- (Organization) > Term
Course offerings
In addition to being children of Course Templates, Course Offerings also have a Term and School as parents in the hierarchy.
Districts
The district registered with SchoolDay becomes a single district org unit in Brightspace:
- The name of the district org unit in Brightspace will match the name provided to SchoolDay during onboarding.
- The district org unit code will match its name.
School names
Each school synced with Brightspace from SchoolDay becomes an org unit in Brightspace:
- The name of each school matches the name as defined in PowerSchool.
- The org unit code of the school will match its name.
- Each school org unit will be a direct child of the district org unit.
Course templates
Courses with active sections in the current school year that Brightspace pulls from PowerSchool become Course Templates in Brightspace.
- Course template names: The name of the course template in Brightspace will match the name in PowerSchool.
- The org unit code of the template is set to
{school number}_{course number}.
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Note: Each Course Template has a School org unit as a parent in the Brightspace org hierarchy. |
Relationship between PowerSchool courses and schools and Brightspace Course Templates
In PowerSchool, a course can be associated with multiple schools. Because Brightspace Course Templates and their child Course Offerings must be unique to each school, Brightspace creates a Course Template for each school that has active sections for the PowerSchool course.
How Brightspace identifies schools and courses from PowerSchool
Brightspace uses the following information to identify schools and courses:
{school number}: the numeric identifier of the school from PowerSchool.{course number}: the number given to the course in PowerSchool.
For example: 90_HSMU1417
Users imported into Brightspace within the integration
Brightspace imports different information for students, teachers, parents, guardians, and other administrative or learning staff from PowerSchool.
Teachers and students
For students coming from PowerSchool, the following properties are saved to Brightspace:
- first name
- last name
- email
- username (one of: email, student web ID, or student number)
- org defined ID (one of: email, student number, internal identifier)
- role (always student)
For teachers, the following properties are used to create a user in Brightspace:
- first name
- last name
- email
- username (either email or teacher login ID)
- org defined ID (one of: email, staff or teacher number, internal identifier)
- role (always teacher)
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Important: Any student or teacher that is missing any of the following data elements are not sent to Brightspace: first name, last name, or username (when username is populated with email, then email effectively becomes required). |
Parents and guardians
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Note: Customers must be using PowerSchool’s Contact Management module to import parent and guardian data into Brightspace. |
Once enabled, contacts in PowerSchool are synchronized with Brightspace automatically within the SchoolDay configuration. Including PowerSchool contacts in the integration makes it possible for clients to use Brightspace for Parents & Guardians.
The following data elements are supported when retrieving student contacts:
- first name
- last name
- email
- username (email by default)
- org defined ID (either email or PowerSchool identifier)
- role (always guardian)
A contact missing first name, last name, and/or username will not be sent to Brightspace –corresponding relationships to students will be missing.
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Important: A contact missing first name, last name, and/or username will not be sent to Brightspace –corresponding relationships to students will be missing. |
Other administrative or learning staff
Currently, only students, teachers (staff), and guardians (contacts) sync with Brightspace.
Understanding how Brightspace exports grades to PowerTeacher
Brightspace exports properties of grade categories, graded activities, and student grades to PowerTeacher.
Properties of grade categories exported to PowerTeacher
The only property of a Brightspace grade category exported to PowerTeacher is its name.
During the grades export, Brightspace can create categories for a teacher or connect to them if they already exist. To avoid duplicates if the teacher’s category in
has the same name as the category in PowerTeacher, the integration “links” to it and then creates Assignments under this category in PowerTeacher.
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Important: PowerTeacher does not support category names longer than 30 characters. Categories in Brightspace that exceed 30 characters fail to be created in PowerTeacher and associated grade items and grades fail to transfer.
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Important: PowerTeacher does not support duplicate category names. Any duplicate in Brightspace fails to be created in PowerTeacher and associated grade items and grades will fail to transfer. For example, if you have two categories called “Quizzes”, one will fail to export to PowerTeacher |
Properties of graded activities exported to PowerTeacher
The following table shows how grade item properties in Brightspace relate to the settings of PowerTeacher Assignments. Only the PowerTeacher Assignment properties listed below are supported. For example, Brightspace does not send extra points and weights to PowerTeacher.
| Brightspace Grade Item |
Power Teacher Assignment |
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| Name |
Assignment Name |
| Category |
Category |
| Maximum points |
Score entry Points |
| Grade item type |
Score Type (points only) |
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Due Date (see below) |
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Count in Traditional Final Grade — Always set to Yes |
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Publish Assignment — Immediately (a date for publishing is not sent from Brightspace) |
Determining the Due Date
The Due Date for a PowerTeacher PowerSchool Assignment is determined as follows:
When the grade item is associated with an activity
If the Brightspace grade item is associated with an activity (for example, with a quiz or assignment), one of the following options is possible:
- Use the activity’s Due Date if set; if not then
- Use the activity’s End Date if set; if not then
- Use the Academic Session (semester) End Date
When the Brightspace grade item is not associated with an activity
If the Brightspace grade item is not associated with an activity, use the Academic Session (semester) End Date.
Supported grade item types
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Note: PowerTeacher does not support assignment names longer than 50 characters. Grade items in Brightspace with names that exceed 50 characters are not created in PowerTeacher and associated student grades fail to transfer. |
The following Brightspace grade item types can sync with PowerTeacher:
- Numeric
- Selectbox
- Formula
- Pass/Fail
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Important: Calculated and Text grade items will not sync with PowerTeacher.
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Properties of student grades exported to PowerTeacher
When exporting student grades to PowerTeacher, Brightspace sends the following information with each student grade:
- Numeric score
- Comments
- Date of the last update to the score
- Whether the student is exempt
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Note: Brightspace Grade Schemes do not impact the transfer of grades. Regardless of whether the Grade Scheme is configured to show grades as letters or percentages, Brightspace only exports the underlying numeric scores to PowerTeacher.
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Important: The PowerTeacher Assignments Extra Points feature is not supported by the integration. If a teacher gives a student a score which exceeds the maximum score sent to PowerTeacher, an error will occur.
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Information Brightspace does not send to PowerTeacher
Brightspace does not export the following information about grades to PowerTeacher:
- Final grades are not exported from Brightspace to PowerTeacher.
- Late indicators on activities associated with grade items.
- With the exception of exemptions, PowerTeacher Assignment student score statuses — such as Late, Collected, Absent, Incomplete, and Missing — are not supported by the integration.
- Student outcomes (standards, mastery results) data is not included in the PowerTeacher synchronization.
Determining which categories, items, and student scores are exported to PowerTeacher
Brightspace only exports new items and changes to Schoolday (PowerTeacher) during an on-demand and nightly synchronization.
Grade categories
A grade category is exported if any of the following conditions are met:
- The category is new and has not previously been exported.
- The category has been updated since it was last sent. This includes name, deletion status, having been restored from being deleted, etc.
- The category failed to be sent during the last export.
Grade items
A grade item is exported if any of the following conditions are met:
- The grade item is new and has not previously been sent.
- The grade item has been updated since it was last sent. This includes name, academic session, points, having been deleted, restored from being deleted, etc.
- The grade item failed to be sent during the last export.
- The parent category has been modified since the last export.
Student scores
A student’s score is exported if any of the following conditions are met:
- The score is new and has not previously been sent.
- The score has been updated since it was last sent.
- The score failed to be sent during the last export.
- The parent grade item or the parent category has been modified since the last export.
Populating a Brightspace grade book with existing categories and assignments from PowerTeacher
Brightspace does not pull district categories or teacher-defined categories from PowerTeacher. A teacher must create them in Brightspace even if they are already set up in PowerTeacher.
Brightspace does not pull in Assignments from PowerTeacher to populate the grade book of a course.
Avoiding problems when grades synchronize
Brightspace and SchoolDay use automated nightly synchronizations to simplify the transfer of grade items and scores and maintain data integrity through proper ownership. Importantly, the integration is designed to ensure student scores are not inadvertently overwritten and grade items and categories can be maintained in their originating system without adversely impacting the other system.
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Important: Once grades are exported to PowerTeacher, any new changes must be made in Brightspace. If a grade item or score from Brightspace is changed in PowerTeacher, the integration will overwrite it.
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Grade categories
Regardless of whether a grade category is created in Brightspace or in PowerSchool, to avoid impacting weighting or exclusions for student final grades, the integration won’t alter any category properties in PowerTeacher. That is, a grade category in PowerTeacher cannot be overwritten by changes to the associated category in Brightspace.
A category created in Brightspace will be created in PowerTeacher, or it will be linked to an existing category in PowerTeacher if it already exists with the same name.
Grade items in Brightspace and Assignments in PowerTeacher
A grade item created in Brightspace creates a corresponding assignment in PowerTeacher. Changes made to the Assignment name, description, max points, and due date settings in PowerTeacher will be overwritten by the integration based on the equivalent properties in Brightspace. If changes to these properties are needed, make the changes in Brightspace.
Since the integration does not connect Brightspace grade items to existing PowerTeacher Assignments, PowerTeacher Assignments can be modified (along with student scores) that didn’t originate from Brightspace, and the integration won’t alter them.
Student scores
The system to first give a student a score on a grade item or Assignment is the system that must be used if updates are needed. In practice, this means that student scores which originatein Brightspace, any changes must also be made in Brightspace.
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Example: You create a quiz named Math Week 10 Quiz in Brightspace, and Brightspace exports it to PowerTeacher. If you change a student’s score in PowerTeacher, the integration will overwrite that change to the score currently in Brightspace. You must make the change in Brightspace.
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Customers typically transition slowly from needing teachers to enter all grades into PowerTeacher, to a subset of teachers and courses exporting grades from Brightspace, and then to all teachers using Brightspace to record and export to PowerTeacher. The integration ensures that:
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Teachers can continue to record grades in PowerTeacher for a subset of sections.
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Teachers can use Brightspace as the source of truth for grades in their courses and export them PowerTeacher in other sections / course offerings.
Making sure grades are displayed uniformly to students in Brightspace and PowerTeacher
If students or parents will observe grades in both Brightspace and PowerTeacher, you can align the categories, grade items contributing to the final grade, and the grade display options across both systems.
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Configure grade schemes in each system with the same settings:To show grades consistently in both systems, use the grade scheme settings in each system to configure the same display settings such as letters, points, or percentages in both Brightspace and PowerTeacher. |
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Adjust final settings: Since all grade items sent to PowerTeacher are automatically flagged (in PowerTeacher) to be included in the final grade, be sure to adjust this setting in both Brightspace and PowerTeacher. That is, if a grade item is not sent to PowerTeacher the settings between the systems is different, the student may see different final grades between Brightspace and PowerTeacher. |
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Exclude informal grades from the final grade in Brightspace:If a teacher is capturing additional grades in Brightspace to provide formative feedback to students, consider excluding the grade item from the final grade in Brightspace, and consider excluding it from being transferred to PowerTeacher by removing the Academic Session from the grade item. |
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Weight categories and items the same in both systems: In a weighted gradebook, set the weights of categories and items to be the same between systems so that students see the same category scores and calculation of final grade. |
Brightspace, SchoolDay, and PowerTeacher systems all synchronize at regular intervals:
- Brightspace synchronizes with School day once per day.
- SchoolDay synchronizes with PowerTeacher once per day for a full capture of rostering and hourly for changes.
During synchronization between systems, the following activities occur:
- When SchoolDay syncs with PowerTeacher, it pulls rostering changes and sends changes to grades that it received from Brightspace since its last sync with PowerTeacher.
- When Brightspace syncs with SchoolDay, it pulls changes to roster data and sends changes to grades since its last sync with School Passport.
After a teacher selects Export to SIS in their Brightspace Course Offering, grades typically appear in the PowerTeacher interface within one to three (1-3) hours, but teachers can expect a two to six (2-6) hour delay during peak periods in the school year.
Configuring the time of day when synchronization occurs
Brightspace administrators can configure the time of day when Brightspace synchronizes with School Passport by navigating to IPSIS Administration > Configuration in the Brightspace interface. Clients should work with their Implementation Specialist during the integration setup to determine the most appropriate time of day to configure the synchronization between PowerSchool and SchoolDay.
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Tip: D2L recommends that SchoolDay syncs with PowerSchool before Brightspace syncs with School Passport. This ensures that important roster updates are propagated to Brightspace as quickly as possible. |
During the overnight hours, all grade pass back activity is temporarily paused to support the integration in performing a full “snapshot” update of the rostering data (course creation and user enrollments). Grade pass back sync activity will resume after the full synchronization is complete.
Deleting grade categories and items that are part of grades export
If a PowerTeacher grade category that has already been synchronized with Brightspace is deleted, the link between the categories in the integration breaks, and the user must take special steps to recreate it.
To re-establish the link, the teacher or or an administrator must do the following:
- Re-create the deleted category in PowerTeacher with the correct category name.
- In Brightspace, create a new category with the same as the deleted PowerTeacher category.
- Move grade items into the new category.
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Important: Recreating a deleted category in PowerSchool is not sufficient to re-establish a link between systems once it has been synchronized with Brightspace. To re-establish the link, you must also recreate the category in Brightspace and then move grade items into the new category. |
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Important: If a PowerTeacher Assignment is deleted that has already been synchronized with a grade item in Brightspace, further changes to the grade item and student scores will fail to export to PowerTeacher. If the PowerTeacher Assignment is still needed, the teacher should contact their LMS administrator who will work with D2L Support to re-establish the link. |
Administrator guide
This section explains how to perform administrator tasks to set up and maintain the integration.
How do I configure Brightspace to keep or remove rostering data after the term or school year ends?
At the conclusion of a term and school year, the integration receives requests to delete related sections and enrollments. Administrators who need to make sure teachers and students are from previous term courses remain enrolled can configure integration settings to keep existing semesters and associated courses, sections, and enrollments.
To prevent deletion of semesters and associated courses, sections, and enrollments, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Admin Tools > IPSIS Administration, and click the source system for the PowerSchool integration.
- Click the Configuration tab.
- Enable Prevent deletion of semesters and associated courses, sections, and enrollments after the semester's end date.
- Click Save Configuration to save your changes.
This setting ensures that after a term ends, including after the end-of-year process, un-enrollments and course offerings deletions are ignored.
Troubleshooting unexpectedly un-enrolled teachers and students
If you discover that students and teachers are unexpectedly un-enrolled from courses after a term ends, check the following:
- Make sure that the Prevent deletion of semesters and associated courses, sections, and enrollments after the semester's end date setting is enabled in the Configuration tab of the IPSIS Administration page.
- Search the IPSIS Log Messages screen for Warning messages. When IPSIS ignores un-enrollment or other
delete requests from the SIS because the prevent deletion setting is enabled, IPSIS logs a warning message. If you find warning messages indicating IPSIS ignored the un-enrollment request, then IPSIS may not have caused the unenrollments.
- Check a user’s enrollment log to see when and who performed the un-enrollment. Go to the Users tool, search for the user, select View User Enrollment Log, and locate the course in question. The Enrolled By column will indicate who un-enrolled the user (including whether it was the IPSIS service).
How do I trigger the synchronization between PowerSchool and Brightspace before the nightly sync?
By default, Brightspace synchronizes with SchoolDay once per day; and SchoolDay synchronizes with PowerSchool once per day. Both synchronizations occur at a pre-determined time of day. You can also configure SchoolDay to synchronize hourly with PowerSchool.
If you need to sync changes to rostering data due to recent changes in your SIS, you can manually initiate a sync from within School Passport, and then manually initiate a sync in Brightspace from the Dashboard in IPSIS Administration.
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Initiate a sync in SchoolDay
To trigger a synchronization in SchoolDay, follow these steps:
- In SchoolDay, log into your SchoolDay account.
- From the Home tab, select the tile for your SIS.
- To pull recent changes from your SIS, click Run Sync and then select Incremental Sync.
Once the synchronization between your SIS and SchoolDay completes, you can trigger a synchronization in Brightspace.
Initiate a sync in Brightspace
To trigger a synchronization between Brightspace and SchoolDay, follow these steps.
- Navigate to Admin Tools > IPSIS Administration.
- Click the source system for the SchoolDay/PowerSchool integration.
- From the Dashboard tab, click Run Update Now.
IPSIS will synchronize changes from SchoolDay.
Troubleshooting manual synchronization problems
If the IPSIS Administration tool is not available to you or the option to run a sync is not available, contact your LMS administrator. Your role requires the following permissions: Access IPSIS Administration Console and Manage IPSIS Bulk Operations.
How do I enable teachers to export grades to SchoolDay?
LMS administrators can update permissions for teacher accounts so that they can export grades on demand from within the grade books of their courses.
Update permissions for teacher user roles so they can export grades
To make it so that teachers can export grades to SchoolDay, follow these steps:
Navigate to Admin Tools > IPSIS Administration.
Click the source system for the SchoolDay/PowerSchool integration.
- Click the Configuration tab.
- Under the Grades Export section, enable Users with the “Export Grades” permission can export grades to the SIS.
- Click Save Configuration to save your changes.
- Navigate to Admin Tools > Roles and Permissions.
- Find and click the role for teacher users.
- From the Filter by Tool drop down, select Grades.
- Click Apply Filter.
- In the Course Offering column, click the checkbox for the Export Grades permission.
- Click Save and Close.
Once the configuration option is enabled, and teachers have the Export Grades permission enabled, teachers can initiate a grades export to SchoolDay from within the Grades tool in their courses.
Troubleshooting teacher permissions
Teachers may not be able to see the Export to SIS button for any of the following reasons:
- The user’s role does not have the Export Grades permission (see above).
- The integration isn’t configured to allow users to export (see above).
- The course was created manually in Brightspace and is not part of the integration with PowerSchool. To confirm this, search for the name of the course under the Audit Log tab of IPSIS Administration.
How do I stop grade changes in Brightspace from synchronizing with PowerTeacher after grades are finalized at the end of the school year?
After the school year concludes, schools typically give teachers several days to finalize the grades in Brightspace and SIS. Once grades are finalized, districts expect no further changes, generate reports, and pull data into other systems for further processing. Changing student grades after this point can cause inconsistencies.
To prevent any new changes to grades in Brightspace from being pushed to PowerTeacher, you can update SIS configuration settings for grade export options in Brightspace in multiple ways:
- If you need to rely on role-based permissions, you can update permissions for teachers so they can no longer push changes to the SIS.
- If your school relies on administrators to manually activate or deactivate courses - and does not rely on settings like start and end dates to control course status automatically - you can change grade export settings so that Brightspace only export grades from active courses, and exclude any changes to grades for inactive course from the data the system pushes to PowerTeacher.
- If your integration configuration uses start and end dates for courses, you can change grade export settings so that Brightspace only exports grades from courses that have started and not ended. Configuring grade export options with this settings makes it so that once a course ends, the system no longer exports grade changes to PowerTeacher.
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Note: If you decide to disable the Users with the “Export Grades” permission can export grades to the SIS setting but know that teachers will need to be able to export grades in the next term or semester, you will need to re-enable it at the beginning of the next school year. |
Make Brightspace stop exporting grade changes at the end of the school year
To update Brightspace grade export options so that they no longer push changes to PowerSchool, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Admin Tools > IPSIS Administration.
- Click the source system for the SchoolDay/PowerSchool integration.
- Click the Configuration tab.
- In the Grades Export section, do any of the the following:
- To make it so that teachers can no longer push changes to the SIS, disable the Users with the “Export Grades” permission can export grades to the SIS setting.
- To make it so that Brightspace only exports grades from active courses, select Only export grades from active courses.
- (If your integration is configured with start and end dates for courses) To make it so that Brightspace only exports grades from courses that have started and not ended, select Only export grades from courses that have started and not ended.
- To save your changes, click Save Configuration.
Teacher guide
This section contains instructions on how teachers can perform common tasks as part of their work across Brightspace and PowerTeacher.
How do I set up Brightspace grade categories to sync to PowerTeacher?
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If you want a category and its grade items sent to PowerTeacher, you must enable the Export to SIS option within the category.
Enable export for a grade category in Brightspace
To make Brigthspace export grade items for a category to PowerTeacher, follow these steps:
- In the Grades tool, click the Manage Grades tab and find the category you want to export grade items for.
- In the row for the category, click the options menu and then click Edit.
- Enable the Export to SIS.
- Click Save and Close.
Troubleshooting missing export options
If you do not see the Export to SIS for the grade category you want to export grade items for, it means that your course offering is not managed by the integration. Only courses managed by the Brightspace-PowerSchool integration can have course grades exported. To confirm if your course is managed by the integration, contact your LMS administrator.
How do I set up a Brightspace grade item to be sent to PowerTeacher?
Brightspace only sends data for grade items that are assigned to Academic Sessions and Course Offerings managed by the Brightspace-PowerSchool integration.
For a Brightspace grade item to sync with PowerTeacher, it must be assigned to the correct Academic Session and Category in the Brightspace Grades tool.
Set up a Brightspace Grade item to sync with PowerTeacher
To assign an Academic Session and Category to a grade item in Brigthspace so it will sync with PowerTeacher, follow these steps:
- In the Grades tool, click the Manage Grades tab and find the grade item you want to update.
- In the row for the grade item, click the options menu and then click Edit.
- Choose the Category. A grade item must belong to a Category that has been enabled for export to the SIS.
- Select an item from the Academic Session list. The item in the list corresponds to the name of the term associated with your section in PowerSchool.
- To save your changes, click Save and Close.
The grade item and student grades will now be included in the export of grades to PowerTeacher.
Troubleshooting missing grade association options
- If the Academic Session field is not available, your course offering is not managed by the integration. Only courses managed by the Brightspace-PowerSchool integration can have course grades eported. Contact your LMS administrator to confirm if your course is part of the integration.
- If you don’t see the correct PowerSchool term in the list, this would indicate a failure of the integration. Contact your LMS administrator for further support.
How do I verify which categories and grade items are enabled for export to PowerTeacher?
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Important: Only categories and grade items for courses created through the Brightspace-PowerSchool integration can be exported to PowerTeacher. If you do not know whether your course is managed by the integration, contact your Brightspace system administrator for assistance.
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You can verify which categories and grade items are enabled for export to PowerTeacher from the Brightspace Grades tool. The system uses a SIS tag to identify categories which will be exported to PowerTeacher, and term names to identify associated grade items.
Confirm which categories and grade items are enabled for export to PowerTeacher
To see which categories and grade items are enabled for export to PowerTeacher, follow these steps:
- In the Grades tool, click the Manage Grades tab.
- Under the SIS Exports column, do the following:
- Verify that categories which should be exported to PowerTeacher have a SIS tag.
- Verify that grade items are associated with the correct term names.
How do I sync grades from my Brightspace course with PowerTeacher?
Depending on settings configured by your administrator, Brightspace can export grades to SchoolDay (which are then exported to PowerTeacher) nightly, when changes are made in the grade book, and when triggered manually. To know which options your school supports, contact your Brightspace administrator.
If your system administrator has granted your user role permission to do so, you can manually export grades on-demand from the Brightspace Grades Tool.
Manually export grades from Brightspace to SchoolDay
To manually export grades from Brightspace to SchoolDay and PowerTeacher, follow these steps:
- In the Grades tool, click the Enter Grades tab.
- Click Export to SIS. The Export Grades page opens.
- Do the following:
- If you manage courses in multiple sections, use the Section drop-down list, select the correct section for the course you want to export grades for.
- If you manage courses across multiple academic sessions, use the Academic Session drop-down list to select the session for the course you want to export grades for.
- The Overview section lists the Categories and Grade items for the Section and Academic Session you selected. If grades are configured for nightly syncs with PowerSchool, Scheduled Export is displayed.
- To queue export of grades from your course, click Export. The page refreshes and opens the View All Exports page, where you can monitor exports triggered by users in your system. Your grades will be exported once any other exports for other courses in the queue are complete.
- Once the export is complete, click your export in the list to confirm the course name, export start and end dates, your user name, and a list of exported students, grade items, and scores.
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Note: For successful exports, you may need to wait longer for grades to appear in PowerTeacher. Grades are typically transferred to and held in a secondary system, then sent nightly or hourly, if configured to do so in PowerSchool.For more information on when synchronization occurs, see Predicting when grades will appear in PowerTeacher.
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Troubleshooting missing grade updates in PowerTeacher
If exported grade items do not appear in the PowerTeacher interface, do the following:
- Confirm that grade items and categories are enabled for export to PowerTeacher.
- Check the Grade Export History page.
For information on reviewing export history, see: Review grade export history below. For information on when synchronization occurs, see Predicting when grades will appear in PowerSchool
To see when different changes were sent to Schoolday, you can review previous on-demand grades exports in the Brightspace Export History page at any time.
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Note: Grade changes exported as part of the nightly sync between Brigthspace and SchoolDay do not appear on the Export History page. |
Review grade export history
To view a history of the grade exports triggered by users in your system, follow these steps:
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In the Grades tool, click the Enter Grades tab.
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Click Export to SIS.
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In the upper-right of the page, click View Export History. The View All Exports page shows an overview of who sent the grades and when.
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Click the name of the export you want to inspect to see the course name, export start and end dates, the user who initiated it, and a list of students, grade items, and scores.