Posted By: The Reporter September 11, 2025
Submitted by Sheridan Community Schools
For the 2025-26 school year, Sheridan Community Schools (SCS) rolled out a lot of new and updated technology items. The main addition included ParentSquare, with updates to Canvas and PowerSchool.
Because of the new updates and additions, parents and guardians are getting the chance this school year to go back to school themselves with “Parent Tech University.” This digital learning hub is designed to make it easier for families to understand and use the technology that students use every day. The page is organized like a college course catalog, with sections that individuals can “enroll” in to learn about specific applications and resources.
The “course list” includes:
- PWR 101, or PowerSchool Parent Portal, is where parents can learn how to track grades and attendance in real time.
- CAN 102, or Canvas Parent Observer, provides knowledge on how parents can peek into student assignments, due dates, and class announcements.
- COM 103, or ParentSquare Communication Hub, is where individuals can learn about the district’s new system for news, messages, forms, and event sign-ups.
- WEB 201, or Parent and Student Web Safety, is where individuals will get a guide to healthy screen habits, online privacy, and staying safe within school accounts.
Each of these “classes” provides resources, guides, and help links with the goal being that this webpage will help parents feel more confident in the same tools that their students and teachers are using every day. This brand-new addition has been added to the district website for parents to access and explore at scs.k12.in.us under the Services tab.
Even as students are working hard in class, parents can join in on the fun and become as tech-savvy as the young adults that SCS is growing to thrive, at no tuition cost.
