Calendars and Schedules

Dynamic Customised Calendars

 Powerhouse Campus streamlines and prioritises school information, homework and events with a series of interlinked calendars for each member of your school community.

The series of calendars include:

• Class calendars
• Co-Curricular calendars
• Student homework calendars
• Personalised teacher calendars
• Personalised staff calendars 
• Personalised student calendars 
• Personalised parent calendars  
 

Adding information to Powerhouse Campus Calendars 

The Powerhouse Campus Calendars feature inbuilt and intuitive publishing. For instance, when the teacher creates a new homework entry and adds a due date for the submission of the work, the date is published automatically and instantly in the class calendar. All students enrolled in the class will instantly be able to view the homework listing in their class calendar.

To assist the student with their organisation, the homework is also instantly published as a live link in the centralised calendar which is displayed on their student dashboard. Parents of children enrolled in the class will also be able to view the homework in their centralised and child-specific calendar.

The automated publishing of information to all stakeholders that need access to information is a key feature of Powerhouse Campus. 

The same publishing process applies to co-curricular events. The basketball coach can publish a training or match fixture in the basketball calendars and all players and their parents will have instant access to this information through their centralised and activity specific calendars.

When the coach adds the event from the activity dashboard, venue, game time, game description and venue location is included with the listing. Players and their parents can simply log onto their dashboards and select the calendar listing and view all information when it is needed. The integration of Google maps means that parents can logon to their dashboard via an iPhone to access the information.

In addition to the school information and events that is published automatically in the series of linked calendars, teachers, students, parents and staff can add their own personal entries and reminders in their calendars.

Streaming Calendar Information and Tasks

Powerhouse Campus assists all school members, in particular students, manage the constant stream of homework and study tasks. A feature on all member dashboards is the 'Next task due' information box.

As teachers, staff and coaches add assignments, tasks and events to their calendars, this dynamic information box selects the next three pending tasks and pushes these to the top of the student dashboard.

The student simply selects the link and is taken instantly to the original entry to view the complete task and access any related documents and resources. The dynamic linking applies to all listings in the series of Powerhouse Campus calendars.

The 'Next task due' streaming information box features on all student, teacher and staff pages to assist with filtering and prioritising information published onto the calendars. 

Managing Your Calendars    

 The Powerhouse Campus calendars have the flexibility to be viewed by the month, week or day. School members can also elect to share their Powerhouse Campus calendar as an Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar.

In addition, each member of your school community can filter the information that is presented in their centralised calendar. On the left is a view of the student display filter.

By checking relevant boxes, a student can view all entries or provide a custom view that helps them manage their tasks and events.

On the right is a view of the parent display filter. As parents can be bombarded with so much information from the school, the parent can select to view school entries or only this events and homework tasks that relate to their children.

Powerhouse Campus manages the constant information stream from the school and assists in providing contextual and relavant information to assist all members of the school community. 

Customising My Schedule 

The My Schedule page offers you an easy way to keep track of the tasks, classes and activities that make up the week. To view and edit your schedule, click the Manage button in the title bar of the My Schedule page. The Schedule will open and you will see it is split into two sections. On the left is the Edit My Schedule section that allows you to add items to your schedule. On the right is My Schedule section that lists the events and activities that make up one day of your schedule.

You can scroll through the days of the schedule using the arrow buttons beside the Day text below the My Schedule title bar.

To add a new item to your schedule choose the item you wish to add from the Add New drop down and the day that you want to add the item to from the To drop down field. You can choose to add a new schedule item to just one day or to all days of your schedule. Click the Go button when you have finished making your selection.

Depending on what you have selected to add, a new section of the page will appear that will let you enter details of the schedule item you are adding such as a description, the periods of the school day that the item falls in or a start and end time for the item.

Once you have completed filling in the details of the new schedule item, click Insert. The new item will be added in the My Schedule section on the right.

You can edit the details of an item in your schedule by clicking on the edit link that features on all items in the schedule. The details of the selected item will appear in the Edit My Schedule section of the page. Make the changes to the item and then click Update to save the changes. Alternatively you can delete the item from your schedule by clicking Remove Item.

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