PowerBuddy for Curriculum & Instruction

PowerBuddy is part of the paid Curriculum & Instruction solution. PowerBuddy for Curriculum & Instruction provides access to generative AI within the text editor while creating lesson plans or curriculum maps.

Activate PowerBuddy

Before using PowerBuddy, you must activate it for your entire organization.

1. From the Admin menu, choose Organization Settings.

2. Go to the PowerBuddy Settings tab.

3. Choose to turn on content generation for curriculum maps and lesson plans.

After you activate PowerBuddy, the PowerBuddy AI Creator role will be available to assign to staff. Staff must have the PowerBuddy AI Creator role to use PowerBuddy.

PowerBuddy allotment balance

On the PowerBuddy Settings tab, choose Review balance to review your district’s remaining PowerBuddy allotment.

All PowerSchool products with PowerBuddy integrations share a usage allotment for all of the PowerBuddy features within those products. For example, in Performance Matters, PowerBuddy for Assessment uses one allotment each time you generate or regenerate item content. In Schoology, PowerBuddy for Learning uses one allotment each time you generate content for an assignment or discussion.

Districts must use their usage allotments by June 30th. Unused allotments do not roll over.

For example, if a district has one PowerBuddy product and an allotment bank set to 3,000,000, then the allotment distribution on July 1st would be 3,000,000.
After July 1st, if that district had used 1,000,000 allotments, added another PowerBuddy product, and purchased another 3,000,000 allotments, then the district allotment balance would be 5,000,000.

Designated district contacts will receive email notifications when allotments reach low thresholds and when there are no remaining allotments.

PowerBuddy features will become inactive if the usage allotment reaches zero.