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When a mass mailing is needed for the students or staff, creating a Form Letter can be the more efficient method. For a standard letter, please communicate with the IS department to share your letter format or ask if another school has a similar form already created.
Possible Subjects for Form Letters
Welcome
Tardy
Unexcused Absences
To Create a Form Letter:
Select System Reports under Reports
Click the Setup tab
Click Form Letters
Click
New
Click
Report Body to format the text of the letter
Compose the letter intended for an individual while replacing the personal information with tags for PowerSchool values
HTML tags are optional and can be used to format the text of the letter
PowerSchool data tags are used to pull the individual values for each student:
school name = ^(schoolname)
school address = ^([039]schooladdress)
student's firstname = ^(first_name)
student's lastname = ^(last_name)
student's mailing address = ^(mailing_street), ^(mailing_city), ^(mailing_state) ^(mailing_zip)
current date = ^[letter.date]
school principal = ^([039]Principal)
school assistant principal = ^([039]AsstPrincipal)
Note: If the values are not accurate, update them within PowerSchool.
Sample Correspondence