OSPS Parent & Student Resource Center - Completing Forms, Enrollments, & Registrations

Parent Resources for PowerSchool Portal

As a PowerSchool district, our student registration tools are accessible within the Student/Parent Portal. Such tools consist of accessing student information, email notifications, digital forms, and annual returning student re-enrollments.

The following instructions will guide new families on how to establish a user account, access and complete digital forms, and re-enroll their students.

New Student and Parent at OSPS? Let's Create a Parent Account for PowerSchool!

Creating a Parent Account through PowerSchool provides you with access to your student's schedule, attendance, grades, lunch balance, and more. The Parent Account is also required to complete the annual re-enrollment form to ensure our offices have the latest information to prepare for each school year.

Click here to go to the Parent Portal. Please note that forms and re-enrollment must be accessed via a desktop (preferred) or mobile web browser and is not available via the PowerSchool mobile app.

If you do not have an access account, you may select Create Account tab. To associate your students with your new account, please contact the main office of the school your student will be attending and request your student's Access ID and Access Password to complete your account. See below for registrar contacts.

New Parent Account Setup and Student Link

Once you have obtained your student's Access ID and Access Password from the main office, please follow the steps to link students on the initial parent account setup and to a pre-existing parent account. Please note that only parents and legal guardians of the student should be creating an account and requesting access information.

Input your contact information under Parent Account Details.
Document your Email, Username, and Password for future sign-ins.
Input your student's full name/as provided upon enrollment, Access ID and Access Password.
Up to seven students can be linked to your parent account during the initial setup.
Click Enter to submit the information.
Should you need assistance with recovering your username or resetting your password, please contact our registrars.

IMPORTANT: To ensure student data privacy, do not share your student's Access ID nor Access Passwords. Your Parent Account credentials should differ from your student's Access ID and Access Passwords. The Access credentials are only needed for linking students to parent accounts.

Student Link to Existing Parent Account

Students who have been successfully linked to your accounts will appear in the blue ribbon across the screen. If you do not see your student listed, proceed with the following instructions.

Sign into your PowerSchool Parent Account.
Click on Account Preferences towards the bottom of the left navigation menu.
Click on the Students tab and click Add.
Input your student's full name/as provided upon enrollment, Access ID and Access Password.
Click OK.

School Registrars

Kathleen E. Goodwin Registrar

Sheila Dunning

860-395-3165

Fax: 860-395-3360

Old Saybrook Middle School Registrar

Paula DePuma

860-395-3168

Fax: 860-395-3350

Old Saybrook High School Registrars

Sheri Brinkley & Kristen Vanderveen

860 395-3175 860-395-3178

Fax: 860-395-3179

Setting up Email Notifications

If you would like to receive email notifications on attendance, grades, and balance alerts (breakfast and lunch funds), proceed with the following instructions.

Sign into your PowerSchool Parent Account.
Email Notification settings can be unique to each student. If you have more than one student linked, select the student's name from the blue ribbon.
Click on Email Notification from the left navigation menu.
Check the boxes of what information you would like to receive. Please note that grades and assignment scores will vary across schools and classroom which will yield different information when reviewing summaries and detailed reports.
You may add other email addresses to receive the selected reports.
Set the frequency and whether you would like to apply the settings to all of your students or if you would like the information to only be sent now.
Click Submit.

IMPORTANT: The emails will be generated from a PowerSchool donotreply email address and may end up in spam/junk folders depending on your email provider's settings.

Completing Returning Student Confirmation Form

Once you have completed accessed your account, scroll down to the bottom of the left navigation panel and select Returning Student Confirmation to proceed.

If you have multiple students in the district, you may repeat the process after submitting your first student's record by clicking on your other student's name at the header on the homescreen and selecting Returning Student Registration again.

If this is your first time registering your returning student with Old Saybrook Public Schools, check off the COPPA compliancy and select Begin Forms under New to PowerSchool Enrollment.

If you have completed returning student registrations with Old Saybrook Public Schools before, click on Sign In under Link your PowerSchool Enrollment Account and sign in using your PowerSchool Parent Portal credentials.

You will be asked for your student's date of birth as a form of authentication before arriving at the Returning Student form.

Managing Contact Information

Being able to reach parents and guardians is crucial to uphold the communication and safety of our school community. It is important that our offices have the latest phone numbers to be able to stay connected.

Parent/Guardian 1 should always be designated for the parent/guardian who is responsible for registering the student annual and serves as a primary guardian. Please do not skip and leave the greyed fields blank for this contact. This ensures that we have the latest information when updating your student's record into PowerSchool.

Please delete any emergency contacts who are no longer applicable. Once completed, you may sort them by priority in the event that we cannot reach student's immediate parents/guardians.

Changes to contact information during the school year can be made by contacting the main office of the school that your student is attending.

Our PowerSchool system allows for multiple fields to provide phone numbers. Please note that it is not required to have all fields populated if not applicable. We ask that parents and guardians avoid providing us with duplicate phone numbers i.e. providing the same number for home and cell. Duplications can cause issues under our system's Contacts page so please help us by only listing each phone number once per contact.

When removing old or duplicated phone numbers, be sure to clear all the Phone Type and fields under it so that Phone Number field is not required. If any of the fields under it are populated, the Phone Number field will expect to be filled.

Troubleshooting Parent/Guardian & Emergency Contact Information

When updating contact information, please review the First Name, Last Name, Relationship to Student, permissions, and all associated contact information. When updating the Parent/Guardian section, please note that the Parent/Guardian 1 contact must be populated and cannot be left empty. If this requires moving the second contact into the Parent/Guardian 1 contact field, simply click on Remove Contact to clear the information and populate it with the appropriate person.

If you are experiencing issues where the form seems to demand additional phone number types, please check the phone number fields to ensure they are blank. If a phone number field such as "Receives SMS" is answered under a blank phone number field, the system will require a phone number to be inputted. Clearing the responses by click on the dropdowns and selecting the blank responses will let the form's logic know not to expect a phone number.

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