Time to prepare for reporting 1st Quarter Grades

Teachers,

Report cards will be printed in November. For those schools who are printing report cards from the PowerSchool system for the first time, this post is important to you. For those of you who are new to the system, even though you aren't printing report cards from this system you need to make sure that prior to November 21st the grade that is listed for the quarter is the grade that you wrote on the report card.

THIS STEP NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AT LEAST THREE DAYS PRIOR TO REPORT CARD PRINTING:

For each class you teach make sure all grades for the quarter have been input in the system. Once you have all grades for each student, look at the Q1 final grade. If you wish to make any adjustments, right click on the score. The only choice you will have is "Score Inspector." Once the dialog box opens up, click in the box "Manually Override Grade" to make the adjustment. Remember to change the number grade as well as the letter grade. This is also the box in which you input comments that will print out on the back of the report card.

Once all grades are correct, let either the office staff or assignment PowerSchool coordinator in your school know that your classes have been verified. You can use the Final Grade Verification Report in PowerTeacher gradebook or the single page Progress Report available in PowerTeacher.

Need more information? E-mail me at aellis@diometuchen.org

PowerSchool was down for the morning - October 24th - has been back up before lunch

Teachers,

There was a major power outage in Piscataway that affected the diocese. There was no electrical power at all until shortly after 11 a.m. Many schools e-mailed me they could not access PowerSchool, however, due to the electrical problem I could not access my e-mail and my telephone and voicemail were not accessible either. I have sent an e-mail to your principals asking for at least one member of the school to call my cell phone in this type of situation in the future. If PowerSchool is not available for more than 1/2 hour, one person should call my cell - if I'm not available to talk to you, as the case was today, I will leave my voicemail message to let the caller know the status of PowerSchool. This will be helpful to get more people the information quickly.

Thanks for your patience in this uncontrollable situations.

How to Check if a Parent is Logging On to see the child's grades

Teachers,

Since many of our schools are "live" to the parents, its important to know if certain parents are logging on to the system to see grades. If there is a child who's grades are a concern, you might want to check and see if the parent is aware of the grades. You have the ability to check in PowerTeacher.

First, log on to PowerTeacher and click on the "backpack."


Once you are in the class, click on the child's name on the left side of the screen until the child's information appears toward the right side of the screen. A choice bar will appear in the right upper corner of that screen. Click on the arrow and choose "Net/Phone Access Summary."



You should see under the Parent Summary dates, times, and how long the parent was visiting the child's account. If you do not see those items then it would be a good time to contact the parent and remind them to visit the account.