Tired of erasing those "bubbles" in the password section that aren't right?

Teachers,

For those of you that orginally said "yes" to remember this password and are frustrated by how you now have to try at least twice to enter PowerTeacher, here is a way to fix that issue if you have Internet Explorer 6, possibly 7. Go to Tools at the top of your page, click on Internet Options. It should be open to have a General Tab as the first tab. On that page click on Passwords to delete saved passwords. Then click OK at the bottom. This should take the passwords out. When you type in your password again and the dialog box comes up, Do you want to remember this password, before you say NO, click in the box that says do not ask this question again, then say NO. This will stop that problem of having the encrypted password saved incorrectly.

Adele

Attendance Issues

Teachers,

At present if you look at the attendance of a child and it lists more days than you know the child was actually absent, look further into the details of the number for correct info. For example, the Quick Lookup may say that the child is absent 4 times when you know the child was absent 2 times and was early dismissed 2 times. If you click on the blue number 4, it will take you to a page that lists the 4 dates with the correct codes next to them - A for absent and ED for early dismissed. Computers "think" in two ways, either you're absent or you're not. Since the student was not in the full day, the system enters the data in the absent page. You don't have to worry about this, but if you have the circumstance of a parent concern, you can give them this information. Counting children toward perfect attendance is the discretion of the school.

NEW INFORMATION REGARDING REPORT CARDS

We have new information regarding report card issues:

For the standards on the elementary report cards the checkmark was coming out on the report card as *a with a tilde above the a. PowerSchool acknowledges that the system can not recognize a checkmark so it was changed to the "X". For those of you who submitted the checkmark already, you need to go back in the system and resubmit the "X" for the correction to be made for the report card. This step will not be needed for the future quarters, you will only need to chose the plus sign or the X once for those quarters.

Also, unfortunately, it has been discovered that comments for the report card can only come from using Score Inspector in the webbased gradebook. The comment section from PowerTeacher and the backpack section are viewable by parents but do not print to the report card. It is probably best to put all comments in through the Score Inspector. Please make sure you are viewing the correct quarter at the time you are posting the comments.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to provide this avenue of communication to our parents for the sake of our children,

Adele