Family Management
Family Management provides a streamlined approach to creating and understanding family relationships within PowerSchool.
Use family management to identify siblings or other students within the district who share the same demographic and guardian information. Once identified, shared data can be copied without additional data entry.
Family management allows districts to configure family associations across the district, or limited associations within just one school. If the scope of family management is limited to a single school, the student information cannot be associated or shared with students from other schools.
Select Student Fields to Copy
Navigate to the Family Link Fields page.
Use the checkboxes and the Add and Remove feature to configure the student fields.
Click Submit.
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Available Student Fields to Copy | Displays all student fields including database extensions (legacy custom fields) created for student records. |
Selected Student Fields to Copy | Displays fields that are copied from one student to another when using family management. By default, this column is pre-populated with the most common fields shared by siblings. |
Add | Click to add the selected fields in the Available Student Fields to Copy column to the Selected Student Fields to Copy column. Removes the selected fields from the Available Student Fields to Copy column. |
Remove | Click to move the selected fields from the Selected Student Fields to Copy column to the Available Student Fields to Copy column. |
Remove All | Click to remove all the fields, whether selected or not, from the Selected Student Fields to Copy column and move them back to the Available Student Fields to Copy column. |
Load Defaults | Click to display the most common fields shared by siblings. |
Hyperlink numbers and letters | Click a letter or number to view a consolidated list of fields sorted by the selected letter or number. |
Mass Create Family Links
At the district level, the Mass Create Family Links function provides a quick way to establish family relationships between existing students in the district. This function searches for all active and inactive students in the district, all students with active enrollments in the district, or only the selected students.
Navigate to the Mass Create Family Links page.
Fill in the search criteria.
Click Submit. PowerSchool searches for students who match the criteria. When the search is complete, a message page displays the number of students located in the search and the number of new family management links created.