PowerSchool Enrollment is the current successor to InfoSnap and provides online enrollment, registration, school-choice, and returning-student data-collection workflows. Families complete configurable forms, upload documents, provide signatures, and receive communications while staff review submissions and prepare records for the district SIS.

Districts use the platform to replace paper packets, reduce duplicate entry, monitor completion, and standardize registration across schools. Product packaging and SIS connections should be documented because PowerSchool offers multiple enrollment products and integrations, and the former InfoSnap brand should no longer be treated as a separate current system.

PowerSchool eSchoolPlus SIS is a district student information system for enrollment, demographics, scheduling, attendance, grades, transcripts, discipline, health, activities, and required reporting. Teacher, student, and family applications provide access to classroom and student information.

The product is positioned for districts that need established administrative workflows and connections across the PowerSchool ecosystem. Districts should distinguish eSchoolPlus from PowerSchool SIS and document which PowerSchool products, portals, integrations, and state-reporting processes are actually deployed.

PowerSchool Performance Matters is a K–12 assessment and analytics platform for building and administering local assessments, managing item banks, scoring responses, and analyzing student performance alongside other district data. It supports classroom through district-level assessment programs.

Teams use it to coordinate common assessments, examine standards mastery and subgroup patterns, and connect assessment findings with intervention and improvement planning. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

PowerSchool SmartFind Express is a K–12 absence-management and substitute-placement system. Employees enter absences, administrators configure job and qualification rules, and the system contacts eligible substitutes so they can review and accept assignments without staff making every placement manually.

The product supports large and complex district substitute pools with customizable contact lists, mobile access, automated callouts, job instructions, reporting, and visibility into unfilled work. Districts should distinguish SmartFind Express from the former TalentEd company name and document any separate PowerSchool HR, payroll, analytics, or single sign-on connections.

PowerSchool BusinessPlus is a K–12 ERP for financial management, budgeting, purchasing, accounts payable, human resources, payroll, position control, and reporting. It supports school-district business operations through an integrated record of accounts, employees, positions, vendors, transactions, and approvals.

Districts can manage budgets and actuals, procure goods and services, process payroll, provide employee and vendor access, and produce financial and compliance reports. PowerSchool offers hosted and on-premises releases, with current product documentation and updates confirming that BusinessPlus remains actively supported.

PowerShell is Microsoft’s cross-platform command-line shell and scripting language for administering Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, devices, servers, directories, and many other systems. District technology teams use scripts and modules to automate repetitive configuration, reporting, account, and deployment work.

It is a technical automation framework rather than a commercial workflow application. Move it to Systems Administration, Automation, or Deployment and Imaging; retain it as a valid tool because districts may rely on locally developed scripts for essential operations.

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor is a general-purpose infrastructure-monitoring platform. It collects status and performance information from networks, servers, applications, cloud services, storage, power systems, environmental sensors, and other devices through protocols and interfaces such as SNMP, flow data, WMI, packet inspection, APIs, and vendor-specific sensors.

District technology teams use PRTG to detect outages, capacity problems, failed services, unusual traffic, certificate or hardware issues, and degraded performance before users submit tickets. It does not replace a security information and event management platform, but its alerts and historical data provide important operational and security context.

Qualtrics is an experience-management, survey, workflow, and feedback analytics platform. K–12 districts use it to collect and analyze student, family, employee, and community perspectives; manage forms and program evaluations; monitor school climate and engagement; and route concerns or follow-up tasks to responsible teams.

Unlike a student data warehouse, Qualtrics begins with feedback and experience data. Its dashboards, text and statistical analysis, profiles, automation, and integrations can connect those responses with operational or academic context, but districts must design instruments, sampling, identity matching, access rules, and response workflows carefully.

QuaverEd is a portfolio of digital curricula rather than one uniform program. It is intended primarily for primarily elementary and middle-grade learners, depending on the licensed music, health, SEL, or other program, with specialist teachers, classroom teachers, students, and curriculum leaders using it to support music, health, social-emotional learning, physical education, and related whole-child subjects.

Teachers use sequenced lessons, songs, videos, interactives, creative activities, assessment, and classroom resources tied to the licensed subject. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Salesforce is a configurable cloud customer-relationship and application platform used to manage contacts, cases, communications, workflows, forms, service requests, fundraising, and other organization-specific processes. Education organizations may extend it with Education Cloud, nonprofit products, partner applications, or custom development.

Although Salesforce can exchange information with finance and payment applications, it is not itself a school financial-management ERP. The current record should identify the district’s actual Salesforce use case and move to CRM / Constituent Services, Workflow, or Application Platform rather than remaining in Financial Management.

SolarWinds Service Desk is the current successor to Samanage. It is a cloud IT service-management platform for incidents, service requests, knowledge, service catalogs, changes, problems, assets, contracts, approvals, and automated workflows.

District technology teams can connect support records with users, devices, configuration information, purchasing, and lifecycle history while using dashboards and service metrics to manage workload. Existing Samanage relationships should be confirmed as migrated SolarWinds Service Desk deployments before renaming.

School Pathways SIS is a California student information and learning-management platform built especially for charter schools, independent study, personalized learning, and other nontraditional programs. It manages enrollment, attendance, schedules, grades, transcripts, master agreements, assignments, learning records, compliance, and state reporting.

Its program-specific workflows can address requirements that general SIS products handle only through customization, particularly independent-study attendance and documentation. Districts should identify whether they use the full SIS, charter oversight functions, or services for a particular alternative program.

Student wellness and safety monitoring software for supported school-managed accounts and devices. Aware analyzes digital activity, gives staff contextual alerts, and supports case assignment and follow-up. Coverage and human analyst services depend on the school’s configuration and subscription.

Not to be confused with: Securly Auditor is an earlier name for Aware. Securly Filter and the optional On-Call service have separate roles.