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Parent Portal: Self-Managed User Account Directions

Single Sign-On Directions
 
Objective:
The purpose of these instructions is to assist you in setting up a new Parent Portal account that you can manage via your personal email address. In addition, this setup process will allow you to associate this one user account with multiple students; so if you have more than one children attending school in the district, this new account will allow you to access information for all of you children.
 
Setup Procedure:
To create a new account and link your student to it, you will need your Parent Portal letter from your school. It contains your student's Access ID and Access Password, which you will use to link the account you are creating now to your student. Please have your Parent Portal letter on hand before beginning the process described below.
 
1. Go to the following web address:  https://powerschool.howell.k12.nj.us/public/
2. Click on the Create Account tab and then click Create an Account.
Student and Parent Sign In Screen
3. Create Parent Account: Enter the following required information:
  1. Enter Parent First Name.
  2. Enter Parent Last Name.
  3. Ener Personal Email Address: PowerSchool will use this to email you your username and password (if you forgot it and need a reset).
  4. Enter a Username for your new Parent Portal account - this is not the student's Access ID - it is your Account Username that you creating.
  5. Enter a Password for you new Parent Portal account. The password must be at least 6 characters long with at least one number. This is not the student's Access Password - it is your Account Password that you are creating.
  6. Reenter the new password.
4. Link Students to Parent Account: You should receive a Parent Portal letter from the school with your student's Access ID and Access Password.
  1. Enter Student's Name.
  2. Enter Access ID.
  3. Enter Access Password.
  4. Choose your relationship with your student from the drop down menu.
If you have more than one student in  your household that you wish to link to this account. scroll down to the next available block of student data entry, repeat above steps a. - d. for each student.
 
     e. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen and click Enter when finished.
Create Parent Account Screen
5. You will be returned to the Parent Sign In screen - enter the new username and password  you just created for your account and click Sign In.
 
6. If you need to modify your account at any time after it has been setup, you may do so as follows:
  1. After logging in, from the main screen of the Parent Portal, click on Account Preferences.
  2. Click on the Profile tab.
  3. Make your changes to the fields on the screen:
    • First Name, Last Name, Email and Language (primary language spoken at home)
    • To edit your username, click on the Pencil icon across from Username.
    • To edit your password, click on the Pencil icon across from Current Password.
  4. Click Save when finished with your modifications.
Account Preferences Profile Screen
7. To add a student to you account, do the following:
  1. After logging in, from the main screen of the Parent Portal, click on Account Preferences.
  2. Click on the Students tab.
  3. Click on the Add button.
  4. Enter the required information as you did with you first student.
  5. Click Submit.
Add Student Screen