Create and manage calendar events | PowerSchool Learning and Engagement

Learn how educators and school staff view daily class schedules, create school and classroom events with multi-language translations, manage RSVPs, share direct event links with families, and edit or cancel scheduled activities.

The Calendar gives you an immediate overview of your daily roster and scheduled commitments, including:

The official course titles assigned in PowerSchool SIS.
Physical or virtual classroom locations.
Exact scheduled bell times for each period.

Navigate the calendar

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Select All events and choose a filter option from the list to review events from specific clubs, departments, or school sponsors.
Select Week to expand your view to the full week's schedule.
Click Today to return to the current date.
Use the Previous and Next arrows to navigate forward or backward across dates.
Select or clear the option to display or hide your daily SIS class schedule blocks.
Select any class or event title to open a popover displaying full details, including location, event sponsor, start and end times, and description.

Add an event

Create calendar events for upcoming school activities, parent conferences, extracurricular meetings, or classroom deadlines.

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Click + New event.
Add information about the event.
Optionally, select or clear Translate into other languages available for my district.
Optionally, click Edit translations.
1. Choose a language whose translation you want to edit.
2. Edit the title and message of the translation.
3. Click Save Translation.
4. Repeat for each language for which you want to edit the translation.
Click Create event.

To author or review events in a different display language, select User settings, then choose Language & local settings. Select a Language and a Country, and then click Confirm.

Manage existing events

Edit an event

Only future events can be edited. An event whose start time has already elapsed for the current day is considered a past event.

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Navigate to the day for which the event was created. Only future events can be edited.
Select the event block to display a popover.
Click Event actions (three dots) and choose Edit.
Optionally, choose Edit this event only.
Modify the details and then click Save.

Review translations

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Navigate to the day for which the event was created.
Select the event block to display a popover.
Select More details.
Click Event actions (three dots) and choose Translations.
Select a language.
Review the translation.
Click Close.

Retrieve a shareable event link

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Navigate to the day for which the event was created.
Select the event block to display a popover.
Click Event options (three dots) and choose Copy link.

Cancel an event

Only future events can be canceled. An event whose start time has already elapsed for the current day is considered a past event.

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Navigate to the day for which the event was created.
Select the event block to display a popover.
Click Event actions (three dots) and choose Cancel event.

Manage RSVP events

Configure RSVP options

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Navigate to the day for which the event was created.
Select the event block to display a popover.
Click Event actions and choose Edit.
Navigate to Ask for RSVP.
Optionally, select Allow users to indicate number of people attending.
Optionally, select Limit total RSVPs to and enter a number.
Click Save.

Review RSVP responses

From the main navigation menu, choose Calendar.
Navigate to the day for which the event was created.
Select the event block to display a popover.
Select More details.
Review the number of attendees.
Optionally, select Review Responses.

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