Parent Tools - PowerSchool Parent Portal

To get started, you must create a PowerSchool Parent Portal account and attach each of your children to that account. You will need to get an Access ID and Access Password for each of your children from their school(s) in order to create the account.

Please note, you must create your account using the PowerSchool Parent Portal in a web browser. You cannot create an account in the PowerSchool app.

1. Log on to the PowerSchool Parent Portal: https://powerschool.nlsd.ab.ca/public/
2. Click on the Create Account Tab
3. Enter your First Name, Last Name and Email Address
4. Create a Desired Username and Password.
5. Re-enter your Password (it myst be at least six characters long).
6. Link your students to your account:
   1. Enter the PARENT Access ID, Access Password and Relationship for each student you wish to add to your Parent Account. Your school may have sent this to you via email or sent it home with your child. If you have not received it, please call your school and request it. If you have multiple children, you need to get a Parent Access ID and Access Password for each child from their school. Each child will have a different Parent Access ID and Access Password associated with them.
   2. After you have entered all students, click ENTER at the bottom of the page.
7. You are now ready to access the Parent Portal with the Username and Password that you created in Step 4 above.
   1. Go to the Parent Portal: https://powerschool.nlsd.ab.ca/public/
   2. Enter your username and password
   3. Click Sign In

Download these instructions as a PDF.

Once you are in the Parent Portal, you will be able to:

• view grades (students in Grade 5 and up only)
• view attendance
• set up email notifications
• view teacher comments
• make changes to your demographic information 
• view school information
• set up account preferences

For full instructions, please download our Parent Guide to the Parent Portal.

Starting in the 2018-2019 school year, you will also be able to access online forms through the portal by clicking on the School Engage tab near the bottom of the screen on the left hand side.

School Engage is an online repository for all of the forms parents may need to fill out during the school year. Most parents who are new to the division in 2018-2019 will have registered their children through School Engage. In 2018-2019 schools will also be able to create other forms for parents to fill out throughout the school year, such as field trip forms. Because School Engage is linked to our student information system, many of the forms will include fields that are pre-filled to save time. Online forms also means less hunting for paper in backpacks and saves on printing costs.

School Engage can be accessed through the PowerSchool Parent Portal. It can only be accessed through a web browser, and is not available through the PowerSchool app.

Once you have created your account in the Parent Portal and have logged in successfully, you will see a menu on the left hand side. At the top will be your child's ASN (Alberta Student Number). This is the number you will need to set up a School Cash Online (online fee payment) account if you have not already done so.

Near the bottom, you will find the School Engage icon. Click on it to enter School Engage.

To find the forms that have been assigned to your child(ren), click on Students on the menu on the left hand side and then click on the students whose forms you wish to access.

Optional forms, such as registration for Transportation or Out of School Care, will have a green button next to the them on the right hand side that says new. If you wish to fill out these forms click New and the form will open.

If there are mandatory forms, or forms you have already started, but did not complete, click on the name of the form. Under Edit or Submit Incomplete Forms, click on the icon on the right hand side that looks like a computer keyboard. This will open your form.

Please note that you do not have to complete a form, all at once. School Engage will save your information so that if you need to stop at any time and complete your form later, the information you have added will still be there. You do not need to start a new form.

Fields that are mandatory will appear in red. You must complete all mandatory fields on a page, before you can proceed to the next part of the form. You can use the arrows on the top right hand side to navigate between pages.

Be sure to click submit on the final page to submit the form to your school. You should receive an email that your form has been submitted. Depending on what the form is for, you may also receive additional instructions, like how to pay a deposit or fees.