BPS Family Portal Account Information

  • Families can access SIS here: https://sis.mybps.org/

    Sign in using your email address and your password.

    You can view all of yours students’ grades and attendance information on Aspen.

     

    Instructions for creating an account are here:

     

    https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/familyportal

     

    That page also has detailed tutorials showing you how to use your account.

     

    Be sure to check out this page:

     

    https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=1112

     

    If you want to receive email notifications anytime your child gets below a certain grade on an assignment, see the instructions below:

     

    Attendance & Grade Notification

    Parents and students can now receive email notifications for attendance and grade entries in Aspen. The system allows you to subscribe to these notifications. Notifications are not sent until you subscribe to them.

    Messages are only sent to you only

    • If you have subscribed for notifications

    • When an attendance or grade event (as described below) has been entered for the day.

    Attendance

    This subscription will notify you of any attendance entry for this student.

    Grades

    This subscription will notify you when any grades below a specified threshold are entered for this student. Grades are scaled as a percent from 0 to 100.


    If a student receives a class assignment or test grade that is below the specified threshold, a notification will be sent to your email address.
    The threshold should be a number from 0 to 100.


    For example, an entry of 75 would trigger a notification for any grade entered that is scaled below 75%.

     
    To Sign up for these notifications:
    1. Log into your Parent or Student Aspen Account.

    2. Parent Accounts should then click on the Family tab at the top, then click on their child's name. Student account users should click on the My Info Tab at the top.

    3. Click on the Notification side tab.

    4. Check off the Notification(s) you want to enable.

    5. Enter a grade threshold if you are activating the grade notification.

    Please note that parents with multiple children need to activate these notifications for each of their children. The grade notifications only apply to assignment grades on the Academics Tab. Transcript grades posted at the end of each quarter or at progress report time do not trigger these notifications.

    (These Aspen instructions are from here.)