Set up homerooms

[Applies to elementary [>>] school scheduling and secondary [>>] school scheduling where that school is set up to take morning and afternoon attendance.]

A School Administrator can adjust the array of homerooms available at a school for enrolling students. Typically, the administrator works with homerooms as part of scheduling [>>] the year, editing, deleting, and adding homerooms as necessary. A homeroom is associated with one of the rooms set up in a school [Facility setup >>].

To	You need this permission	Set to	Details
Add, edit, or delete homerooms	School Setup > Homerooms	Delete	[>>]

To set up a homeroom

[You can do this if your role is School Administrator.SA]:

In the Admin menu, click School Setup. The School Setup page appears.

Or, click Scheduling.

Click Homerooms. The Homerooms page appears.

In the Actions menu click Add Homeroom.... The Add Homeroom page appears.

To change the properties of an existing homeroom, click that room's name (in the HR column) or select it and in the Actions menu click Edit Homeroom....

To delete a homeroom, select it and from the Actions menu click Delete Homeroom. Caution: Only delete a homeroom to which no students or teachers are assigned.

On the Add Homeroom page, enter or change Information, which includes:

Homeroom name: PowerSchool SMS uses this name for the homeroom in lists across the system. Typically a number, such as "6A" or "8C".

Room: The room to which this homeroom is assigned. You can choose from any one of the rooms set up for this school [Room setup >>].

Capacity: The maximum number of students allowed in this homeroom.

Teacher: The teacher(s) assigned to this homeroom. You can choose between one and three staff members set up for this school [Adding staff >>].

Grade: The grade level(s) of this homeroom. You can choose two or more grades to create a split class, for example, Grades 2 and 3 for a Grade 2/3 split class. You can customize the grade levels available for use by schools in the district [>>].

Default attendance code: Indicates the attendance codes that PowerSchool SMS uses by default when it initializes the day [Setting up school attendance codes >>] for present and absent students.

Attendance: Indicates when attendance for this class is taken (which affects how attendance is calculated). Note: Not available if attendance is set to By Class on the School Setup > General Settings page.

Scheduling group: The scheduling group, which enables an administrator to track instructional minutes for this homeroom. Note: PowerSchool SMS displays this field only when twice daily attendance and scheduling are set up.

Meeting pattern: The meeting pattern [>>], which enables an administrator to track instructional minutes for this homeroom. Note: PowerSchool SMS displays this field only when twice daily attendance and scheduling are set up.

Under Constraints, adjust student enrollment constraints [>>] as necessary.

The School Administrator cannot remove Mandatory constraints.

Click Save.

Or, to immediately create another homeroom, click Save & Add.