PowerSchool Foxcroft Academy uses a student information system called PowerSchool. One of PowerSchool’s many features is called a “web portal”. With internet access and a modern web browser, students and parents can connect to our system to get assignment and attendance information. Students access PowerSchool using the account provided to them by Foxcroft Academy. Parents will receive instructions to set up an account and access PowerSchool at the beginning of each school year (or upon enrollment of a new student). Parents with multiple enrolled students may use a single account to access multiple students. Students with multiple custodial parents, guardians, or other approved agents may allow each person a separate account for access. The URL for the Foxcroft Academy PowerSchool portal is: https://foxcroftacademy.powerschool.com/public Foxcroft Academy exclusively supports web access to PowerSchool, and strongly discourages student and parent access via PowerSchool’s mobile apps. Upon signing in to the web portal, the system displays a list of currently enrolled courses for the selected student. A grade is presented for that course – please keep reading for more important information on the grades presented in the PowerSchool web portal. The grade is clickable – when you click through, you’ll see a list of assignments and the grade for those assignments. Teachers update their gradebooks on a weekly basis, providing new information by 3pm each Thursday for the duration of the course. Foxcroft Academy provides access to our PowerSchool web portal so that you can stay current with attendance and with performance on individual assignments. The overall course grade displayed by the PowerSchool portal during the weeks between progress reports and report cards is not an official grade and may not be accurate, because it does not reflect the standards-based analysis that our teachers perform as required by our grading system. The web portal is for communication about assignments and attendance and not for students or parents to attempt to manage the process, timeliness, or results of instruction and assessment. Foxcroft Academy understands that internet access may not be available for students and/or parents at home. Students are strongly encouraged to access PowerSchool from a school computer or from their iPad while at school so that they stay up-to-date on their academic standing. Parents without access at home may access the system from any internet-connected computer at any location, such as work or a public library, provided that the owner of the computer and the internet connection permits such access, and that the computer has a modern web browser installed. If no access is available, parents may contact Foxcroft Academy and a plan for information sharing may be able to be developed that does not require internet access.
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