How to Setup Google Apps for Education Email with PowerSchool

I wanted to write this up so people can figure out how to do it quickly and move on with their work.

It’s too much work trying to find where all of the information is and debugging it when I could have done it once before and just do it again.

This is my third time setting it up and I would have finished a lot faster if I just had written it down the first time.

1. Step One: create a school Google Apps for Education Email address for PowerSchool for example: powerschool@yourschoolname.org
2. Step Two: Login to the new email address you created and go through all of the security features and introductory Google emails.
   1. Optional Step Two A: For good customer service. Setup a Vacation Responder saying that you don’t check this email. You don’t want parents, students, or teachers emailing you here. I wrote something along the lines of:
      

      If you need help with PowerSchool please contact Mr. Paul Kang at pkang@yourschoolname.org

   2. Click Save Changes. Log Out.
3. Log into your PowerSchool Instance or for quick access add this to your web address (admin/systemsettings/emailsetup.html)
4. Click on “System” on the menu under Setup
5. Click on “System Settings” under Server
6. Click on “Email”
7. Fill it out like below:
8. Click “Submit”
9. Send out a test email to yourself in the “Test Email Tab” and see if it works. Hopefully it does for you as it did for me.