How to Configure Email Notifications in a PowerSchool Parent Account

Learn how to manage student academic updates, attendance notifications, and balance alerts by customizing your email notification settings in the PowerSchool portal.

Tanya Conklin
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Powerschool

Click on the student name in the upper left. You can set this individually for each student linked to your account. (To link a student to your account, [see these instructions](https://scribehow.com/viewer/How_To_Add_A_Student_To_Your_Account__-s92k30eTyq7JkljSYyFHQ?referrer=workspace).)

Click "Email Notification"

Tip! If you are accessing this on a mobile phone, the navigation menu may be collapsed or hidden. Click on the small arrow on the upper left of the screen to reveal the navigation menu.

Select the information you'd like to receive.

Click the "Email Address(es)" field and add the address(es) to receive the notification.

Please note: Adding an address here does not update your email address with the school(s). If you have a new email address, be sure to update it with the school's office. The official email address as parent/guardian under your student's account will receive school and district communications via email, including emergency alerts, as well as these notifications. Adding emails here is primarily to send grades, attendance, and balances specific to your student to additional email addresses.

Select how often you'd like to receive these notifications.

Click submit.

If you have more than one student, be sure to go back to the upper left of the screen and adjust your settings for each student, if needed. (You do have the option to save these settings for all students on the email notifications page. But you can set different preferences for each student.)

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