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Author: Riaz <riaz@riazj.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:56:04 -0800
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<p>If you can't submit an attendance report on PowerSchool and the absence is not for the full day, set it as a full day anyway until the problems discussed here get solved. Include that the form could not be submitted otherwise in the explanation.</p>
-<p>The downside of this is that the classes for that day will be marked according to the form, even if they were attended.</p>
<p>If you can't edit an attendance report after submitting it, inspect the "Edit" button, and remove <code>disabled="disabled"</code> from the HTML.</p>
-<h2>Anguish</h2>
-<p>How is it that PowerSchool, used by over 60 million students, 18 thousand school organizations, and 90+ countries, also a winner in primary and secondary categories of Tech & Learning’s Awards of Excellence for 2022, is not able to allow its users to easily submit an absence form or edit their submitted reports?</p>
-<p>Whenever I pressed on "Submit", instead of an error message, my only indication that something was wrong was nothing happening.</p>
-<p>PowerSchool is focused on making money. If these problems don't cause them to lose money, why have employees who are paid by the hour spend time solving them?</p>
-<h2>Reporting Problems to PowerSchool</h2>
-<p>I can report these problems by</p>
-<ol>
-<li>submitting a security vulnerable form, which this isn't</li>
-<li>contacting their general service support, likely taking multiple weeks of back-and-forth emails to get someone able to solve this</li>
-<li>creating an account to write to their community discussion, which might not get anywhere considering that it is for general ideas about improving the service and not technical bugs</li>
-</ol>
-<p>All of these are not great options, so I wrote this in case someone experiences the same issue.</p>
<h2>The Origins of These Problems</h2>
<h3>Submitting an Absence Form</h3>
<p>I filled out the form with the following information:</p>