Follow the instructions on the attachment to add all of the new Templates to your PowerGrade. There are many of these and they are very useful and worth spending some time figuring out what they are and how they work. As always, let me know if you have any questions!
Adding Report Templates to PowerGrade
Adding Report Templates to PowerGrade – pdf version
Add comment November 15th, 2006
Here are the directions to follow if you would like to modify the Progress Report template you received last week.
Modifying Progress Reports
Add comment November 13th, 2006
Know how those annoying citizenship grades have to be changed to dashes in the elementary grade book??? Remember how you had to click, click, click, click, click each grade for every student in every class and how long that took??? Well, thanks to Vicki Murtha, one of the other CTTs, who discovered (and shared!) a quick way to do this! I went over this during the Quarter 2 setup training, but I have received a request to post it here since they couldn’t remember it! Here are the steps for making your life easier:
1. Add an assignment – you HAVE to have at least one assignment.
2. Once the assignment has been added, put your mouse on the “E” in the citizenship column beside the first student’s name.
3. Hold down the apple key on the computer keyboard as you click that “E” to change it to the dash. By holding down the apple key, you change the whole row of “E”s at the same time!
Easy, sneezy to do!! Good luck!
Add comment October 30th, 2006
I have a couple of things I think would help you with trying to make your PowerGrade a little more “stable”.
1. When you are finished working in a class, go to File -> Save before closing the window.
2. When you want to close the window, go to File -> Close class.
3. Be sure you have unchecked the preference to Auto-save and Update automatically. You need to make sure that the preference for Auto-Backup is set for every 1 day! (when a class is open, click the “light switch” icon to open the preferences – general tab to find these items.)
4. When you are not working in PowerGrade, quit the program! Don’t just close the red button – go to PowerGrade -> Quit PowerGrade. Make sure when you quit that it gives you the message that the backup was successful!
In case you haven’t noticed, the more you open your classes and add assignments, etc., the faster the program runs. Hmmmm…!
Add comment September 27th, 2006
I know there has been a lot of confusion about saving and backing up your grades. The first thing to remember is to always work ONLINE only! Several problems have been found when teachers were working offline. The next is the back up. If your grade book is set to back up once a day, it will make a BACK UP EVERY TIME you quit your grade book. I would strongly recommend this! To check this, open your grade book and open the Preferences. Click on the General tab and make sure that it says to do a back up every 1 days (this is about halfway down the screen). This is the default and should say that unless you changed it. You can always make your own back up whenever you want by going to the File menu and choosing Make Back up while a class is open. I strongly recommend you make sure that you are working online only and making a back up frequently (aka daily!).
Add comment September 12th, 2006
A lot of people have been asking about printing their grades in a “gradebook” view from PowerGrade. The instructions for this and many other relevant topics are on the Shelby County Schools Information Systems website: http://www.scsk12.org/psinfo/index.html Check this website often for new information on how to use PowerGrade. Also, I have attached the directions below.
GradebookReport.pdf
Add comment August 31st, 2006
If you are interested in adding a comment to a student’s score in PowerGrade (i.e. the paper was late or modified, etc.), you click in the cell containing the score to which you wish to add the comment. Type apple+n to get the comment box to show. Type your comment and click OK. The score becomes red in color to denote that a comment is attached. REMEMBER: This comment is visible to the student’s parent viewing the grades online!
Add comment August 25th, 2006
Help with PowerSchool is now available through the Shelby County website! More information will be added as it is developed. When you have a question about PowerSchool, just go to this website, http://www.scsk12.org/psinfo/index.html, and see if materials have been developed that will help you.
Add comment August 23rd, 2006
Here are the directions to follow for the basic setup of PowerGrade – setting up categories, final grades setup, copying class information, adding assignments, recording scores. Watch for more information to come soon!
Add comment August 17th, 2006
As you may have discovered, the instructions for creating a homeroom roster did not include directions for printing it. I worked with a teacher today and think we have discovered how to do this. Once you have created the report (or any other report, for that matter), there is a Preview button. When you click the Preview button, there is a Print button at the bottom of that report. However, when you click that Print button, it does not print. So, after you have created the report, click OK which closes that box. Then, choose Print from the Reports menu. A dialog box will ask which report you would like to print. Choose your report and click OK. A Page Setup window opens which will allow you to print in portrait or landscape view. Click OK and the Print dialog box will open. Choose the printer and click Print. Hope this helps! Remember, we are all learning this together!
Add comment August 17th, 2006
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