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PowerSchool AI • Performance Matters

PowerBuddy for Assessment

Personalized assessment made easy. PowerBuddy for Assessment brings AI workflows to Performance Matters so educators can efficiently create and grade personalized, high‑quality assessments to boost academic outcomes. [web:411]

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Generate questions, passages, and assessment content in a single workflow. [web:411]
Responsible AI principles fine‑tuned specifically for K‑12. [web:415]
District impact• Time saved
“We were able to save teachers’ time by decreasing how long it takes to create a standards‑aligned assessment item by two‑thirds!” [web:411]
Kylene Schneider • Teacher • Colorado Springs School District 11 [web:411]
Create items
Minutes
Aligned to
Standards
Workflow
In‑platform
PowerBuddy generates assessment content tailored to grade level, standard, and topic directly within Performance Matters. [web:415]

Trusted by schools & districts

AI-assisted assessment creation and rubric scoring help districts expand formative assessment without adding workload. [web:411]

“Thanks to PowerSchool’s PowerBuddy for Assessment, we were able to save teachers’ time by decreasing how long it takes to create a standards-aligned assessment item by two-thirds!”
Kylene Schneider • Teacher • Colorado Springs School District 11 (CO)
“The Performance Matters AI Rubric Scoring was fast and easy to use… the flexibility for educators to adjust scores… helpful to review the AI’s scoring rationales…”
Lauren Hansell • SR Coordinator of District Assessments • Pinellas County Schools (Largo, FL)

Empower teachers and assessment leaders with AI

Streamline creation, improve free‑response grading, strengthen non‑core assessments, and deliver more effective formative checks—within existing workflows. [web:411]

Streamline assessment creation

Generate questions, passages, and even full assessments directly in Performance Matters.

Grade free-response faster

AI Rubric Scoring supports consistent grading with educator oversight and the ability to adjust.

Support non-core subjects

Fill gaps with broader item banks for CTE and world languages where resources are limited.

Better formative assessments

Create tailored formative checks for different student learning stages without the usual time cost.

Responsible AI, built for K‑12 assessment

PowerSchool positions PowerBuddy as responsible AI that’s fine‑tuned for K‑12 to support safer adoption and more equitable outcomes. [web:415]

Build assessments and item banks
Generate and review assessment items for standards/topics/grade levels; save items to shared banks.
Apply AI rubric scoring
Accelerate scoring for writing and other free-response tasks with educator review and overrides.
Create passages and content
Generate passages and explanatory text, including options for different reading levels.
Provide district information
Help align AI outputs to local context while keeping the educator in control.
Workflow snapshotEducator-in-the-loop
Generate
Items aligned to standard + grade level.
Review
Teacher edits/approves before publishing.
Deliver
Formative assessments per student group.
Score
AI rubric scoring + rationale + override.
Security program
“Secure by design” plus penetration testing, cloud security, and 24x7x365 SOC. Learn more. [web:411]
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Ready to streamline assessments with AI?

Generate standards-aligned items faster, scale free-response grading with educator oversight, and expand item banks—directly inside Performance Matters. [web:411][web:415]

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