PowerSchool offers a variety of ways to create and print report cards and comes with example templates available for customization. One of the most popular reporting methods – Object Reports – can be setup in the System Reports : Setup tab -- look in the Report Cards area. While using object reports for report cards is one of the simplest and most popular uses, they can also be used to create other types of reports, including mailing labels, form letters, transcripts and standards-based report cards. Printing these templates can be done by choosing a student, and using the ‘Print A Report’ item in the upper left area of the PS screen, or through the Group Functions menu in the lower right corner of the screen when viewing a list of students. The initial install of PowerSchool comes with a number of sample report card templates that can be found in the ‘Report Cards’ area, and you can create or import new ones. PowerSource has several sets of object report templates available, including those found at: and a wide variety available through the Community Exchange area; just search for object report templates to find them. When you open one of these report card templates in PowerSchool, you can configure the content of the page by clicking on the linked labels, like Heading, Schedule Listing, and Footer, which will include the text and codes to display in the report card. The text will include formatting and special codes that will pull various student fields, classes, and grades into the templates using special Data Access Tags (DAT) codes, many of which can be seen starting with a caret ^ character (such as ^(LastFirst) for the student’s name formatted as lastname, firstname). Beyond these simple object reports, report cards can also be created using Html-based tools, utilizing similar DAT codes. For further information on Html-based and Object Reports-based report cards, as well as other reporting technologies in PowerSchool, contact the Capitol Tech Solutions PowerSchool team.