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JONES COUNTY

SCHOOL DISTRICT

POWERSCHOOL

GRADEBOOK

AND

ATTENDANCE

TRAINING MANUAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

This guide is divided into 2 sections. Section 1 – The Basics, will guide you

through all of the necessary processes for taking attendance and setting up your

gradebook. Section 2 – PowerTeacher Features, will provide you with greater

detail about the features and available options found within your gradebook.

Computer Setup………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3

SECTION 1 – THE BASICS

Logging into PowerTeacher...................................................................................... 5

Changing your Password……………………………………………………………………….………………5

Taking Attendance.................................................................................................... 6

Logging into your Gradebook…………………………………………………………………….………….7

Security Warning ……………………………………………………………………………….…………………8

Setting up your Gradebook

Grading Setup: Final Grades Setup—Step 1……………………………….…………….. 9

Grading Setup: Final Grades Setup—Step 2 & 3……....……………………………..10

Grading Setup: Final Grades Setup—Step 4………………..….………………………..11

Categories…………………………………………..……………………….…….……..….………...12

Adding/Deleting Categories…………….…………………………………….………………..13

Selecting your Categories………………………….………………………………….….…14-15

Weighting Categories………………………………..…………………………………………….16

Assignments—Adding Assignments…………………………………………………...…….……17-18

Scoresheet—Viewing Assignments & Entering Scores………………………..……………….19

Scoresheet—Copying Assignments from one class to another…………………………….20

Printing Progress Reports ……………………………………………………………………………………21

Citizenship, Final Grade Completion…………………………………………………………………...22

SECTION 2 – POWERTEACHER FEATURES

The PowerTeacher Start Page ............................................................................... 24

Using the Student Screens in PowerTeacher..........................................................25

Entering Teacher Comments ...........................................…………………………………...26

Viewing the Main PowerTeacher Gradebook Window…………………...................27-28

Viewing Student Information, Locking the Gradebook.......................................... 29

PowerTeacher Start Page Items............................................................................. 30

Statistics, Student Groups………………………………………............................................. 31

Class Content…………………………………...................................................................... 32

Using the Score Inspector; Manually Override a Final Grade................................33

Quick Reference: Using Student Screens..…………………………….............................. 34

The Parent Portal…………………………………………………………………….………………….…35-37

Superintendent’s Letter……………………………………………………………………………………..38

COMPUTER SETUP

In order to use your gradebook, your computer will need to have Java 7 installed.

If your computer will not launch the gradebook (page 7), please go to the

following site and download java:

www.java.com

NOTE:

If you are on the District Domain, you will be unable to perform the

installation of Java without an Administrative login. You will need to

submit a work order through your MSIS Clerk or facilitator to have a

technician install it for you.

Section 1 – The Basics

Notes to the Teacher:

The PowerTeacher gradebook can be accessed from home. Parents and

students will be able to login and check their grades, attendance, school daily

bulletins, teacher comments, and assignments. Please encourage parents to

utilize this feature for participating in their child’s learning experience.

In PowerTeacher, you will see reporting terms listed as follows:

Q1 = 1st 9-weeks

Q2 = 2nd 9-weeks

E1 = 1st semester exam (High School Only)

S1 = 1st semester

Q3 = 3rd 9-weeks

Q4 = 4th 9-weeks

E2 = 2nd semester exam (High School Only)

S2 = 2nd semester

Y1 = Year

Go to the following address: https://pschool.jones.k12.ms.us/teachers

**Bookmark this website or drag the address to your desktop to create a shortcut.

NOTE: Entering www will not take you to this address. The https means

this is a secure site. You can also get to this site by simply typing:

pschool.jones.k12.ms.us/teachers

Also note that if you leave off the /teachers, you will go to the parent

portal login instead of the teacher gradebook login page.

**Be sure to use forward slashes

OR YOU MAY GO TO THE JONES COUNTY WEBSITE (www.jones.k12.ms.us) and

click on the PowerTeacher link to access your gradebook.


Logging into PowerTeacher

Enter your username and Password, click Enter

Your username is your first initial, middle initial, and last name (Ex: arjones)

Your password is set to: changeme

YOU WILL NEED TO CHANGE THIS IMMEDIATELY.

Changing your password

TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD

Click “Personalize”

Then click : “Change Password”

Enter your old password, then enter you new password twice. Click submit.


Your MSIS clerk keeps a list of passwords in order for administration and counselors to have access to your gradebook. Please notify your MSIS clerk if you change your password.

Taking attendance

Elementary teachers will take attendance once a day by clicking on the chair next to the class “Homeroom”. High School teachers will take attendance by clicking on the chair next to every period. As soon as teachers take attendance that data is available to school administrators, parents, and students.

MARKING A STUDENT ABSENT OR TARDY

1. Click the chair next to one of your classes.

2. Choose attendance codes from the pull-down menu and mark attendance for your students.

3. Click Submit. The indicator located next to the chair is now green.

IF ALL STUDENTS ARE PRESENT

If all students are present, teachers should still click the chair icon to open the attendance screen.

2. Click Submit.

**This tells PowerSchool that the teacher has taken attendance. Otherwise, the teacher’s name will be on a report that displays teachers who have not taken attendance.


Launching your Gradebook

Click “Gradebook”

This page shows you information from Pearson about what new features have

recently been added and gives information about upcoming features.

Also on this page, is a link for Quick Entry Tips for those of you who may be

interested in finding out how to use “shortcuts” to quickly accomplish tasks you

perform frequently.

From here, you can click on ‘Launch Gradebook’.

If you want to bypass seeing this screen altogether, click on the arrow on the

Gradebook button.

Click “Launch Gradebook”

Your computer may tell you that it is looking for the new version, loading java, etc.

The first time any computer uses this, it will check for certain items and goes

through a process. It loads faster after you’ve logged in once.

**If you get a Java error, download the latest version of Java (page 3) and launch

the gradebook again.

You will see the following security warning: “Always trust content from

the publisher.” Check the box to the left. Then click Yes. By checking this

box, your computer will always trust this site. This security warning will

always appear until you check this box.


Security Warning

Also, you should get a warning, “Do you want to run this application?”

Check the box “I accept the risk and want to run this application.” Then click

Run.


Setting up your Gradebook

Grade Setup

(Needs to be setup for EACH class AND for each nine weeks; You can set it up once and copy to the other classes.)

In this section, you will specify how you want final grades to be calculated for students in your classes. Calculation methods include total points, term weights, or category weights.

YEAR-LONG Classes

Grading Setup—Final Grades Setup: Step 1

1. Click the Arrow on the Y1 line.

2. Click the Term Weights bullet in the bottom window. The settings will default to

100 for each semester below.

3. Save.

VERY IMPORTANT: Do NOT change the weight percents for the Y1 setting. The Y1 setting should remain as follows:

First, Select 2014-2015 School Year

Then, Select Specific Class and Click Grade Setup Tab (will default to Calculations window)

Next, Click the Grade Setup Tab


Step 2 S1 and S2 should be setup as Term Weights as follows:

1. Click the Arrow on the S1 line. In the top window.

2. Click the Term Weights bullet in the

bottom window.

HIGH SCHOOL ONLY:

3. Set Q1, Q2 and E1 as shown (Q1 = 40, Q2 = 40, E1 = 20).

4. Save.

5. Repeat for S2.5. Repeat for S2.

ELEMENTARY ONLY:

3. Set Q1 and Q2 as shown

(Q1 = 50, Q2 = 50).

4. Save.

5. Repeat for S2.5. Repeat for S2.

Step 3 Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 should be setup as Category Weights.

1. Click the Arrow on the Q1 line in the

top window.

2. Click the Category Weights bullet in

the bottom window

Add the needed categories

Set the respective weights for the chosen class as shown. The amount of all weight categories should total 100% for each quarter. (Homework not more than 10%)

3. Save.

1.1. Repeat with Q2, Q3 and Q4. Repeat with Q2, Q3 and Q4.


Step 4 - THIS STEP IS FOR HIGH SCHOOL ONLY

SEMESTER EXAMS (E1 and E2) E1 and E2 should

be setup as Total

Points

1. Click the Arrow on the E1 line. In the top window. Should default to Total Points. If not,

click the Total Points bullet in the bottom window.

2. Save.

3.3. Repeat for E2Repeat for E2

Repeat these steps for every Year-Long Class in the schedule.

Semester Classes

For Semester Classes, you will not see a Y1 line on the setup page. Simply complete Steps 2, 3 and 4 in the Year-Long class Grading setup Instructions.


Categories

Before you can create assignments, you must set up categories. Categories are groups

of the same types of assignments. Categories are not class-specific, eliminating the

need to create the same categories multiple times for each class.

By default, PowerTeacher Gradebook includes four pre-defined categories: Classroom,

Homework, Test, Unit Test

To open the categories pane, select the class you want to look at the categories for and click “Tools” then “Categories”.


Adding/Deleting Categories

Adding a Category

1. Click the Plus (+) button in the categories pane.

2. Enter the required information. (Give the category a name, abbreviation, color,

points possible, score type, and description is optional.) For possible points, it is recommended to use 100 with the Score Type set to Points.

3. Click Close to save changes.

At this point, you should enter any categories you’d like to use this year. You may wish to create a category for Major Tests, for example.

Deleting a Category

1. Select the category you want to delete in the categories pane.

2. Click the Minus (-) button.

If category has assignments or is used in weighting, the Alert window appears, displaying the message, "Unable to delete category because it has associated assignments."

3. Click OK to close the window.


Selecting your Categories

Now that you have the categories set-up, you can go into each class and activate which categories you’d like to use:

Using our first class again, in Grade Setup, click on Q1

And then choose category weights

Now click on add category


Selecting your Categories

All of our created categories appear. Select the ones you’d like to use for Quarter 1

And click OK


Weighting Categories

They all show up. Now you’ll type in their weight (very similar to when you typed in the term weights!) They will have to equal 100 by the end.

An elementary Q1 setup may look like this: (Handbook guidelines say Major tests must be weighted 25% and Homework cannot be more than 10%.)

The “Drop Low” column refers to the number of low scores to discard from the

final grade. It is strongly recommended you wait until close to the end of term if

you choose to drop a specific number of low scores from the final grade

calculation.

You can select to drop the lowest score (by typing in a 1, it will drop the lowest grade, by typing in a 2 it will drop the 2 lowest grades, etc.)

Hit SAVE.

Complete these step for all Quarters and all classes. **If you want to use the same categories and weights for another class/quarter, you can use the copy function.**


Adding Assignments

Click 1st 9-weeks and the ASSIGNMENTS tab , and then the “+” sign

Assignments are date controlled—please be aware of the date you enter for each assignment. The date you enter will determine which nine weeks the assignment will be located.


Adding Assignments

Here you can enter an assignment name (the abbreviation will happen automatically).

Select the category for the assignment.

Score type (remember to use what you selected when you came up with your categories)

Possible points, you can change this. The “100” shows up automatically.

Enter a Due date, and a Check to include in final grade. Assignments are date controlled. Please be aware of the date you enter for each assignment. The date you enter will determine which nine weeks the assignment will be located.

Use the Publish tab to modify when it’s published. (This publishes the assignment to the parent portal.) From the Publish Assignment pop-up menu, choose when to publish the assignment: Immediately, On Specific Date, Days Before Due, or On Due Date.

Description: Here is a neat place where you can describe the assignment for parents to see. This is helpful for projects and such that have a detailed assignment sheet. You can just copy and paste it into the box.

(Be careful—the “-” button deletes an assignment. HIT SAVE

NOTE: If you give a semester exam, you will create an assignment called semester exam. To do this you will need to choose E1 or E2 from the Reporting Terms dropdown, then add the assignment Semester 1 (or 2) Test. (The Exam Assignment can only be scheduled for a specific date*. If the date is incorrect, it will not show up on the E1 /E2 Assignment page.)

*(The specific dates are the last two days of each semester)


Scoresheet—Viewing Assignments & Entering Scores

Select Scoresheet and the term you need. Your assignments will be listed here.

You can enter the grades for each student in the cell under the assignment you create. You can right-click in the cell to choose options, such as exempt, for example if you didn’t want the assignment to count as “0” in averaging.

If you want to use this assignment for other classes, you can copy the assignment to them by:

Click Tools, and select: Copy Assignment

(outlined on next page)


Scoresheet—Copying assignments from one class to another

Select the assignment you wish to copy and hit Next.

Select the classes you want it to go to and hit OK

MAKE SURE all of your categories are set up first!!!

There you go! Your gradebook should be all set-up.

The next section of this guide will show you some of the other things you can do in PowerTeacher . . .

Section 1—Progress Reports

Printing Progress Reports

Teachers will print progress reports for their students.

Elementary teachers will probably use Student Multi-Section

Report—This includes all the sections that student has with the teacher.

High School teachers will probably use Individual Student Report—This will create a separate progress report for each student, for each class.

Save Paper To save paper: Print 2 progress reports on one page

Click Windows Start—Choose Devices & Printers

Right Click on your printer-Choose Printer Preferences

Change Pages per sheet from 1 to 2

Section 1 – Citizenship and Final Grades

Citizenship

To enter Citizenship in Final Grade Mode

1. Select a class from the Classes pane.

2. Click the Scoresheet tab. The Scoresheet window appears.

3. Click on the Final Grades button in the mode.

4. Manually add the appropriate Citizenship Grade in each cell, or right-click within the cell

to fill scores for all students

Final Grade Completion

Using the Final Grades Completion Status dialog, marks final grades as complete for the

selected reporting period. This gives the PowerTeacher Administrator the ability to know

when teachers are ready to store grades. In addition, you can add comments to the system

administrator regarding the status of the final grades.

To Mark Grades Complete for the term:

1. Click on the Term in Progress Button on the scoresheet.

2. Check the box “Final grades Complete”

3. You may enter a comment if you wish, but this is optional.

4. Click save.

• This indicates to the PT Administrator that grades are ready to be stored!

SECTION 2

POWERTEACHER FEATURES

Section 2 – PowerTeacher Features

The PowerTeacher Start Page

Navigation Bar – located at the top of the screen. The Navigation Bar provides

access to the Start Page (via the PowerTeacher logo), the Report Queue, Online

Help, and the Logout Button.

Main Menu – located at the left side of the screen. The Main Menu provides

access to the Start Page, the Daily Bulletin, and a display of your Meal Balance, the

Staff Directory, the Gradebook, and Reports.

Current Classes – located in the center of the Start Page screen. The Current

Classes area provides information regarding the students in the classes you teach,

as well as to the tools for attendance, lunch count, and reports.


Using the Student Screens in PowerTeacher

Using Student Screens in PowerTeacher

The Power Teacher Student Information pages provide information about each

student enrolled in your classes. All of the student pages are accessed in a similar

manner.

1. On the PowerTeacher Start Page; click the backpack on the row of the class

whose information you would like to view.

2. Click a student’s name in the list on the left side of the page. Your default

student page appears for the student you selected. At the bottom of the list of

students, your other classes will be listed. You can switch class lists by clicking a

different class name.

3. To view other student information, choose a page from the Select screens

menu.


Entering Teacher Comments

You can enter comments on the student’s overall performance in your course.

Parents or guardians and students in PowerSchool Parent Access and on report

cards can view these comments. Each teacher will have access to edit comments

for the student enrolled in his or her class and view the other teachers’ comments.

1. Click the backpack on the PowerTeacher Start Page, and click the student’s last

name.

2. From the Select screens menu, choose Teacher Comments.

3. On the row for your class, click Edit.

4. Choose a comment or hold down the Control key (Windows), Command key

(Mac) and choose multiple comments.

5. Click the arrow between the information fields to move the selected comment to the Comment field.

6. Additionally, enter comments by typing in the Comment field directly. To delete a comment, highlight and press the delete key.

7. Click Submit.

8. In order to get back to the home page of PowerTeacher, click on the words PowerTeacher at the top.


Viewing the Main PowerTeacher Gradebook Window

When you launch PowerTeacher gradebook, the main PowerTeacher Gradebook

window appears. This window serves as the central point from which you begin

your gradebook session.

The PowerTeacher Gradebook window consists of the following main areas:

Menu Bar

ID Bar

Classes

Student Groups

Navigation Bar

The PowerTeacher Gradebook window has four panes, Classes, Student

Groups, the selected tab from the navigation bar, and its details. Each pane

is adjustable, both horizontally and vertically. To adjust the width of a pane, click

and hold the vertical three- line icon and drag right or left. To adjust the height of a pane, click and hold the horizontal three-line icon and drag up and down.


Viewing the Main PowerTeacher Gradebook Window

MENU BAR:

The menu bar appears at the top of your display and provides access to menus PowerTeacher Gradebook, File, Edit, View, Tools, Window, and Help.

CLASSES:

The Classes pane appears in the upper-left corner of the PowerTeacher Gradebook window and includes the Term Selector and Class List.

STUDENT GROUPS:

The Student Groups pane appears in the lower-left corner of the PowerTeacher Gradebook window and displays student groups for a selected class.

NAVIGATION BAR:

The navigation bar appears at the top of the PowerTeacher Gradebook window and provides a quick way to access the Scoresheet, Assignments, Students, Grade Setup, Class Content, and Reports.

Scoresheet - displays the assignments and scores you have entered for the students.

Assignments - displays the details of the assignments you have created.

Students - contains demographic data for each of your students

Grade Setup - displays the final grade setup for each term.

Class Info - contains the basic information about the selected course.

Reports - provides an easy-to-use interface through which you can designate how you

want a report to run.


Viewing Student Information:

The Students window displays a list of students enrolled in a class and basic information

about each student.

How to View Students

1. Select a class from the Classes pane.

2. Click the Student Info tab. The Students window displays the class roster, which

includes basic information for each student by selecting the student name in the window.

View Alerts

If an alert icon appears for a student, click the icon to view the specific text for the alert. A

student may have one or more of the following alerts:

• A discipline alert indicates any discipline information for the student that

administrators want to bring to the teacher’s attention.

• A guardian alert indicates any guardian information for the student that

administrators want to bring to the teacher’s attention.

• A medical alert indicates any medical information for the student that administrators

want to bring to the teacher’s attention.

• An other alert indicates any other information for the student that administrators

want to bring to the teacher’s attention.

Locking the PowerTeacher Gradebook

Lock PowerTeacher gradebook to keep your information secure.

How to Lock PowerTeacher Gradebook

1. From the gradebook menu bar, choose File > Lock Gradebook.

The lock screen appears, covering the entire gradebook. If you attempt to launch

another gradebook session, the system detects that a gradebook session is already open and locked and will not launch a second instance.

2. To unlock the gradebook, enter your password

and click Unlock.


PowerTeacher Start Page Items

Recording Lunch Counts (JONES COUNTY DOES NOT USE THIS FUNCTION)

Teachers record lunch counts by clicking the “fork & Knife” icon for the

appropriate class and entering the count numbers.

1. Click the “fork & knife” icon next to one of your classes.

2. Enter the numbers of your lunch totals.

3. Click Submit.

**The count is included in the PowerLunch Class Counts report. *

Printing Reports for a section you teach

Teachers can run a report for all students within a class by clicking on the “Printer”

icon to the right of the class they would like to run the report for.

1. From the start page, click on the printer icon to the right of the class you’re

running the repot for.

2. Select which report you’d like to run.

3. Click Submit.

* NOTE – “For which students” option will say - The __ students in this class.

Printing Reports for ALL students you teach

Teachers can run a report for all students in all sections by selecting the

reports bar in the main menu of the start page.

1. From the start page, click on the printer icon to the right of the class you’re

running the report for.

2. Select which report you’d like to run.

3. Click Submit.

* NOTE – “For which students” option will say - ALL __ students in my classes.


Statistics To view the mean/median/mode for a class, select the Summary tab

in the lower left-hand corner when on the Scoresheet tab.

Student Groups PowerTeacher Gradebook provides tools for creating sets and groups and choosing students to include in the groups so that teachers can adapt instruction to the needs of the subgroups of the students. These groups can be modified at any time.

Definitions:

• Entire Class- default PowerTeacher Gradebook group.

• Set- a collection of groups, i.e. Math or Reading. You must create a Set before you can create a Group.

Group- a small collection of students, i.e. Math1 and Math2

The first step to creating student groups is to create a set. Remember that the class

for which you are creating student groups must be selected. After you have created

the sets you want, you can create groups for those sets.

Creating a Set 1. Select a class from the Classes pane.

2. In the Student Groups pane, do one of the following:

• Click the Plus (+) button and select Add Group Set.

• If using a two-button mouse, right-click and select Add Group Set.

3. Give the group set a name and click OK to save.

Creating a Group 1. In the Student Groups pane, select the set

2. Do one of the following:

Click the Plus (+) button and choose Add Group.

If using a two-button mouse, right-click and select Add Group.

Adding Students to a Group 1. Click the Students tab, and click on a student’s name.

2. Drag the name of the student to the appropriate group. Use Ctrl-click to add multiple students.

3. Add students to each of the groups you created. Notice that you cannot add a student to more than one group of a set, but that you can add them to more than one group if the groups are in different sets.

4. When you click on the name of a group, the names of the students in the group are highlighted in the main window.

Highlight vs. Filter

Student groups operates in two modes: highlight and filter. By default, the student groups pane operates in highlight mode where selected students appear highlighted on the Scoresheet and Students windows in addition to the other students within a class. To only view selected students on the Scoresheet and Students windows, use the filter mode. Whether operating in highlight or filter mode, your selection can include one or more sets, groups, students, or combination of.


Class Content

The Class Info tab contains basic information about the course you selected in the Classes Pane. You can enter text in the Description field to communicate with parents about class rules and your expectations of students, give an overview or a web link.

1. Click the Class Info tab at the top of the screen.

2. In the Description box, type the information you would like parents to be able to view.

3. Click the Add Web Link to add a link to informational websites.

My Content

My content is where teachers can add/modify links to the Class Content page in My Content mode. This information is available to parents and students both. Before creating content it’s a good idea to organize and plan the type of content you’d like to share and create groups before adding the content.


Using the Score Inspector

The Score Inspector provides the ability to add notes to yourself about a

student’s performance in class such as, late, exempt, or missing. You can

also use the Score Inspector to enter a public comment.

1. Click the Tools Menu and click Score Inspector.

2. On the Scoresheet, click in the assignment column in the

first empty cell next to the appropriate student you want to

score. In the Score Inspector, you can select: Collected, Late,

Exempt, Missing, input the score and/or type in a comment.

3. To add a comment you can type in the field or use the Comment Bank.

4. Toggle between students by using the down/up arrows or go between assignments.

5. The Clear button clears the score, comment or a check.

6. Click Close when finished. Then click Save.

Note: You can use the Score Inspector to enter a comment on the term grade also.

Manually Override a Final Grade

Occasionally, teachers will want to modify a student’s final grade in a course based on effort, participation, or other classroom factors. The Score Inspector allows you to change a final grade with the Manual Override tool.

1. Highlight the Student’s Name or the Final Grade cell to the right of the student’s name.

2. Click the Tools menu, and click Score Inspector.

3. Place a checkmark in the box next to Manual Override.

4. Once you check the Manual Override box, the Grade and Percent boxes become available. Change the contents of each of these boxes as desired.

5. Add a comment manually, or from the comment bank.

6. Final Score comments appear in PowerSchool Parent Access when a user clicks on the Grades and Attendance tab, then on a final term grade. The Final Score Comment displays as the Teacher Comments on the Class Score Detail Page.

Note: This is the only comment that can be printed on a report card.

7. Close the Score Inspector window. Once the grade is changed manually, it is displayed in italics on the Scoresheet. Also, a red exclamation point (!) is placed in the Final Grade cell indicating that you made a manual change to the student’s final grade.

8. Click Save in the lower right corner of the Scoresheet to save your changes.


Using the Student Screens in PowerTeacher


The Parent Portal

The Parents' View of PowerSchool

When parents log in to PowerSchool Parent Portal, the start page appears.

The MAIN MENU consists of the following: Grades and Attendance, Grades History, Attendance History,

Email Notification, Teacher comments, School bulletin, Class Registration, Balance (this section not configured

yet), and My Calendars.


The Parent Portal

Grades and Attendance

Parents will use this page to view the grades and attendance for the student in the current term. The legend at

the bottom of the page displays the attendance and citizenship codes and their meanings.

Current or historical grades for each course in which the student is enrolled are listed next to the course name on

the Grades and Attendance page. Clicking the grade displays assignment information. This feature helps parents

know how the student is performing throughout the term and helps prevent their getting a surprise when report

cards come home. Parents can see when assignments are due and whether students are falling behind in their

work. Clicking the name of the assignment will provide the parent with a description of the assignment. If

assignment scores display in blue, clicking the score will shows parents the score comment. There is a note to

parents indicating that the student’s final grade may include assignments you have created but not yet published.

Grade History displays students’ grades from previous semesters in their courses for the current school year.

Attendance History

Parents will use this page to view the attendance record for

the student in the current term. The legend at the bottom

of the page displays the attendance codes and their

meanings.

• The Attendance History page displays past grade and

attendance information.


The Parent Portal

Email Notifications

Parents who wish to receive information about their student's grades, attendance, and assignment scores use

this page to set up their e-mail preferences. They can specify which information they’d like to receive, how

often they’d like to receive the information, and how often they’d like to receive e-mail.

Viewing Teacher Comments

Parents will see teacher comments you enter in the teacher comments section of PowerTeacher.

My Calendars

My Calendar, a personal calendar application, is a tool to help parents and students stay on top of daily events and

better manage their time. Using My Calendar, you can subscribe to and receive homework and school event

information in the form of a calendar on your desktop computer. With My Calendar, parents can:

Subscribe to calendars to keep up with homework assignments, grades, school events, and more.

Teachers,

We are so pleased to provide you with the “ultimate” in student software, PowerSchool/PowerTeacher. It is our sincere hope you will utilize its features to enhance your teaching methods and encourage your students’ parents to become involved in the educational progress of their children. Please be mindful that this system displays real-time data; therefore, please keep your grades updated regularly in order for parents to become effective in helping their children maintain progress.

We believe a quality education system is vital to our students, our community, and beyond. We invite the community to join the district as it empowers and inspires students to reach their fullest potential.

I look forward to a great start to a successful school year!

Sincerely,

Thomas Parker

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