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Powerschool, a multi-use tool for teachers, parents, and students

Description: PowerSchool is an interface with different tools for primary and secondary school teachers. It contains a planboard that can be used for lesson planning, as well as managing the teacher’s schedule. Its digital curriculum functionality helps educators check for redundancies, inconsistencies, misalignments, weaknesses, and gaps in the curriculum, together with documenting their required components and the intended student learning outcomes. Moreover, its markboard helps educators with the evaluation of students and tracking their individual progress. PowerSchool offers a free limited version and requires registration. It was developed by Greg Porter.

Evaluation: PowerSchool is a useful tool for educators, parents, and students since it can help them in every step of the teaching and learning process. It can also help teachers reduce the time spent on planning and preparing lessons and tracking students’ progress. As a downside, PowerSchool primarily focuses on solutions for schools in the US.

Cost: Free limited version with registration + paid options available.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium/high. PowerSchool processes different types of user data, including unique device identifiers, IP addresses, browser types and configurations, dates and times of usage, and service and cookie data, but conforming to the preferences set by school data controllers. This data, which is rather extensive, is collected to fulfil contractual obligations, comply with laws, and support customer services, that is with a legal basis. For example, it uses only de-identified and anonymous data in the development of their analytic algorithms and for product development. PowerSchool commits to using commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect personal information. It undergoes third-party certifications against industry security standards. Concerning children's privacy, PowerSchool states that children under 13 may only use their products with prior parental or educational institution consent. It clarifies that consent for processing Customer Data is the responsibility of the educational institutions. PowerSchool mentions its commitment to complying with applicable data protection laws and aligning with best practices and international regulations but does not elaborate upon GDPR. It provides rights to access data, correct/update it, request deletion of it, opt-out of data processing, withdraw given consent, and more. See more here.

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