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Quick student search
The quick student search enables you to quickly search for students by last name, first name, or ID number. You can search for a particular student or a list of students that matches your criteria. You also have the option of viewing all students for which your role [>>] has permission. School users can and view a list of students by grade.
Quick search is available on every page of the system. Also, for all roles except that of Teacher, a dedicated Quick Search page [Figure 30] serves as the home page [>>]. Note: To view the Quick Search page as a Teacher: In the Search menu, click Student.
Figure 29: Quick Search
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Quick Search: You can search by the first few characters of a student's first name, last name, or ID number. |
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Results: Appear as the user enters characters. Select from the list to view a record. |
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On any page, for Quick Search [Figure 29], enter the first few characters of a student's last name, first name, or ID number. |
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Or, on the home page [>>], for Student name or ID, select a filter(s) [Figure 30] [Figure 29]and enter the first few characters of a student's last name, first name, or ID number. The filters you chose appear at the bottom of the resulting list of students. |
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Or click All Students to view all students in the district. |
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If you did not select a pre-defined search, PowerSchool SMS displays a list of up to 10 potential matches [Figure 31]. |
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The potential matches change as you enter more characters. |
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In the list of potential matches, those matching the last name are listed first, followed by those matching the ID number, then those matching the first name. |
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To search specifically for a first and last name combination, enter all or part of the last name followed by a comma and then all or part of the first name. For example, entering "Beni,Ada" would generate a match for "Benito, Adam". |
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If you paste text into the box using the mouse (right-click in the box and choose Paste from the menu), press the Enter key to have PowerSchool SMS display the potential matches. If you paste text into the box using Ctrl+v, PowerSchool SMS displays potential matches immediately. |
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Select a potential match using the cursor or the arrow keys and then press Enter. That Edit Student Demographics page for the selected student's record appears [>>]. |
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Or, select More records, go to search results page... [Figure 31] (or press the Enter key) to see a list of students for which the last name or ID number contain the characters typed. In the Search Results panel, PowerSchool SMS displays a list of students that match your search criteria. |
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In the AdvancedStudent Search panel, PowerSchool SMS displays relevant detailed search criteria [>>]. |
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You can changed the sorting of these results or adjust the columns displayed [>>]. |
Figure 30: Quick Search page (school user home page)
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Filters: When you select one or multiple check boxes, only the students whose status matches the filters you choose appear in the list of students available for selection from the quick search drop down list. If you deselect all check boxes, no matching students are found.Note: If you are logged in with a district role, you have the option to view all students in the district and PowerSchool SMS also displays a Withdrawn (past years) check box. |
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Student name or number: You can search by the first few characters of a student's first name, last name, or ID number. For example, entering "bry" generates results that includes students with the last name of "Bryson" and the first name "Bryan". |
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Pre-defined Searches(available to school roles [>>] only): Searches for which the criteria are fixed; these include students by grade level, all students at the school, and students who have enrolled in the last 30 days (school user quick search page only. Click a search to generate current results, which PowerSchool SMS displays on the Advanced Search page [>>]. |
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My Favorite Searches: Saved favorite searches from the Student Search page [>>]. To run a favorite search, select it from the list.
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Advanced Search: Click to search using other, or more detailed, criteria [>>]. |
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Saved Lists: The results of previously conducted searches. You can change the contents of these lists [>>]. |
Figure 31: Student name or ID potential matches
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Characters for which PowerSchool SMS is searching. |
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List of up to 10 potential matches |
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More records, go to search results page...: Appears if PowerSchool SMS finds more than 10 potential matches. Clicking this Generates a list of all students for which the last name or ID number match the character search string. |
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Indicates which filters were chosen for the search. |
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