Presenter explains SchoolLinks portal used by Westerville City Schools students

A presenter at the meeting detailed how SchoolLinks, the career, college and graduation-planning platform used by Westerville City Schools students in grades 6–12, works and how parents can set up guardian accounts to monitor and approve their children’s course plans. The presenter said the system supports course planning, graduation progress tracking, career and college exploration and transcript requests for college applications.

The presenter walked parents through the account setup steps: go to the SchoolLinks guardian onboarding page, retrieve the student’s unique claim code from the PowerSchool parent portal, select the relationship to the student, sign up with an email address, create a password and check the terms box to finish account creation. “You can find your claim code in your parent portal in PowerSchool,” the presenter said.

Parents can view their student’s graduation progress, see careers and colleges the student has favorited and approve any course requests the student submits. The presenter emphasized that guardian accounts let families track four‑year high school plans and support college and career readiness.

The presenter also demonstrated SchoolLinks’ language support, saying, “The great thing about this portal is that it does translate into a variety of different languages.” To enable translation, the presenter advised clicking the gear icon, choosing language translation and selecting the preferred language so text input displays in that language.

For questions about accounts or students’ progress in SchoolLinks, the presenter instructed parents to contact their student’s school counselor. The presenter closed the remarks by thanking the audience; no vote or formal action was recorded.