This article helps you sync your school's daily tardy records from Minga into your PowerSchool SIS. By following these steps, you will export a precise list of students who received Tardy behaviors and apply those records to PowerSchool attendance in bulk.
Permission Level Required: Owner | Manager
⚠️ Before you begin: Ensure that the Student ID field in Minga matches the Student Number field in PowerSchool. If these IDs do not match, PowerSchool will not be able to locate the students during the import process.
In this article:
Exporting Tardy Data from Minga: How to generate a CSV of specific behaviors.
Locating Students in PowerSchool: Using Multi-Select to find the correct student records.
Mass Updating Attendance: Applying the Tardy code to the selected student group.
Exporting Tardy Data from Minga
This step creates the data file needed to identify which students were assigned tardy behaviors in Minga.
Step-by-step Guide to Exporting Tardy Data
Step-by-step Guide to Exporting Tardy Data
Select Behaviors from the main menu.
Then select the Reports tab and select the Behavior History Report.
This report contains a log of every behavior recorded in your school.
Click the Filters icon.
Select your specific tardy behavior from the Behavior Name dropdown.
Set the Date Range to the specific day or period you wish to sync.
Click Export List to download a CSV file to your computer.
Open the CSV file and highlight the entire ID Number column.
Right-click and select Copy (or press Ctrl+C / Cmd+C).
Locating Students in PowerSchool
This step uses the IDs from Minga to isolate the correct student records in your SIS.
Step-by-step Guide to Locating Students in PowerSchool
Step-by-step Guide to Locating Students in PowerSchool
Log in to PowerSchool and navigate to the People module.
Click the Multiselect button at the top of the student search area.
Set the search field dropdown to Student Number.
Click into the text box and Paste the ID numbers you copied from your CSV.
Click Search.
Mass Updating Attendance
Once the students are selected, you must tell PowerSchool which attendance code to apply to their records.
Step-by-step Guide to Mass Updating Attendance
Step-by-step Guide to Mass Updating Attendance
Select Mass Update Attendance from the Group Functions menu.
Choose the Date that matches your Minga export.
Select the specific periods in the Meetings to Scan section (e.g., Period 1 or All Periods).
Select your school’s Tardy code under the Code(s) to Scan For section.
Click Submit.