Enrollment Product News: Stronger Enrollment Workflows for the School Year

September 14, 2026

Whether you’re preparing for back-to-school enrollment activities or refining processes throughout the year, these updates are designed to give your teams more visibility, flexibility, and support. Explore what’s new, practical tips you can use right away, and resources to help you get the most from Enrollment.

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Product Updates

Streamline In-Person Enrollment Events with Appointment Manager

Status: Available Now

• What’s New: Create enrollment verification appointments, school tours, health screenings, and other in-person events from a centralized appointment management area.How This Helps: Reduces manual scheduling and helps staff coordinate enrollment activities more efficiently.

• What’s New: Assign staff members or locations as appointment resources.How This Helps: Gives teams flexibility to manage schedules by campus, service area, or role.

• What’s New: Set appointment openings individually or through batch imports.How This Helps: Saves time when building large schedules during busy enrollment periods.

• What’s New: Automated booking confirmations, reminders, and cancellation notifications.How This Helps: Supports clearer communication with families and reduces administrative follow-up.

• What’s New: Families can reserve, review, and cancel appointments through their accounts.How This Helps: Creates a simpler experience for families while reducing front-office coordination.

Self-Service Data Targets Bring More Control to District Teams

Status: Coming Fall 2026

Timing discussed as a target timeframe; check release communications for the latest availability details.

• What’s New: District administrators will be able to create, view, edit, and manage SIS delivery targets directly from the Customer Admin Portal.How This Helps: Reduce reliance on support tickets for routine delivery updates and make changes more efficiently.

• What’s New: Form fields can be mapped directly to SIS tables, columns, and extensions.How This Helps: Improve visibility into how enrollment information moves into your SIS and support stronger operational accuracy.

• What’s New: Per-target controls for student matching, contact handling, and document delivery.How This Helps: Allows districts to manage different delivery scenarios while maintaining consistent enrollment workflows.

• What’s New: Built-in validation and schema-aware checks.How This Helps: Helps identify configuration issues before they affect data delivery, reducing troubleshooting effort later.

Self-Service Validators Put Data-Integrity Rules in Districts’ Hands

Status: Coming Fall 2026

Timing discussed as a target timeframe; check release communications for the latest availability details.

• What’s New: District administrators with the Configuration role can add, edit, and remove validators directly in Form Builder, without filing a Support case.How This Helps: Enforce data-integrity rules like age and grade eligibility, field uniqueness, required field combinations, and confirmation matching on your own timeline, especially during annual form rollover.

• What’s New: A library of pre-built templates lets administrators set up common validation rules by selecting a template and mapping form fields to it.How This Helps: Configure common rules without technical expertise or waiting on Support

• What’s New: A guided expression builder supports custom validation logic for less common scenarios.How This Helps: Handle advanced validation needs that pre-built templates don’t cover.

• What’s New: Custom error messages tell families exactly what to fix when a validation rule isn’t met.How This Helps: Reduce confusion and support inquiries from families during form completion.

• What’s New: All existing validators continue working exactly as before, with no reconfiguration required.How This Helps: Adopt self-service validators without disrupting current form behavior.

Self-Service Data Sources Give Districts Full Control Over Enrollment Data Import

Status: Coming Fall 2026

Timing discussed as a target timeframe; check release communications for the latest availability details.

• What’s New: District administrators can create, edit, duplicate, and delete SIS data sources directly in the Customer Admin Portal.How This Helps: Complete routine data source setup without waiting for Support intervention, reducing configuration delays during enrollment cycles.

• What’s New: Map SIS fields to form fields using guided Basic or Advanced mapping modes.How This Helps: Ensure accurate data flow from enrollment forms to your SIS with clear visibility into how fields connect.

• What’s New: Apply transformation rules to normalize incoming enrollment data before import.How This Helps: Handle data formatting and consistency issues automatically, reducing manual cleanup effort during enrollment processing

• What’s New: View current SIS properties and metadata directly within your data source configuration.How This Helps: Configure against your actual SIS structure instead of static assumptions, keeping your setup current as your SIS evolves.

Tips & Best Practices

Build Confidence in Enrollment Data Management

Small process improvements can help your teams save time and avoid common issues.

Start with the Top-Level Configuration

Try this: When reviewing delivery settings, begin with the data target before examining individual mappings.Because: Confirming the destination, SIS connection, and data view can help identify issues faster and reduce unnecessary troubleshooting.

Use Sync & Validate Regularly

Try this: Run Sync & Validate after SIS field changes and before extensive troubleshooting.Because: Validation helps identify flagged issues early and ensures configurations align with current SIS metadata. ,

Review Invalid Mappings First

Try this: Use the invalid-only filter when reviewing mappings.Because: It helps your team focus immediately on fields requiring attention rather than manually auditing every mapping.

Make Appointment Scheduling Easy for Families

Try this: Place appointment links on confirmation pages, websites, or communications sent to families.Because: Easier access supports family engagement while reducing scheduling questions and administrative effort.

Support FAQs

• Will districts need to rebuild their existing delivery configurations when Self-Service Data Targets become available? No. Existing configurations are expected to remain in place, allowing districts to start from their current setup rather than recreating delivery mappings from scratch.

• When are Self-Service Data Targets expected to become available? The shared target timeframe is by the end of the year, although a firm release date was not provided. Check release communications for the latest timing information.

• How will matching and delivery settings be explained? Product documentation and supporting how-to resources are planned to explain student matching, contact matching, and delivery-related settings.

Customer Success Story

Helping Families Feel Supported from Day One

Manassas City Public Schools (VA) uses Enrollment and SIS workflows to strengthen family engagement throughout the enrollment process. The district reviews enrollment forms annually to improve clarity and support families across diverse language needs. Automated alerts help staff prepare services such as transportation and student supports quickly, while streamlined enrollment processes allow family liaisons to spend more time building meaningful connections with families.

Upcoming Events & Webinars

Enrollment PowerUps Series

• Annual Process OverviewOctober 6, 2026Covers yearly project cycles from kickoff through data delivery.Register here

• Form Builder / Workspace ToolsNovember 3, 2026Focuses on form and workspace configuration activities.Register here

• Self-Service Data Targets & SourcesDecember 1, 2026Planned discussion of admin-configured import and delivery mappings.Register here

Resources

• Customer CentralCustomer Central brings technical support, knowledge, collaboration, and community resources together in one place, making it easier to find answers, manage your support interactions, and stay connected.

• Back to School Success with Enrollment

Thank you for being part of the PowerSchool community. We look forward to continuing to share product updates, practical tips, and customer success stories that help your teams stay connected with families and support stronger school operations. Join us at the next Town Hall to see what’s new and learn from fellow districts.

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