Reminder - Clear out Progress Report comments before Report Card printing

Teachers,

Now that the 3rd marking period comments have been sent in Progress Reports, you will probably want to clear them out prior to the printing of report cards. Most of the time those comments will no longer apply. In the beginning of this school year you needed to go into each child's quarter grade and open the comment and delete it. Since we had the upgrade in December there is an easier way to mass delete comments for all the children. Open up Fill Final Grades by right clicking on the quarter final grade for any student in the class with a comment (little blue "c".) Once you have Fill Final Grades open,first click in "replace all", then click on the "Manual Override" box and last at the bottom click in "Comment." Delete the comment in the box and click "Ok." All comments will be deleted and you will see the little red "i" in the grade column. This just shows that an override took place. You are then able to use the Score Inspector to add any new comments needed for 3rd marking period or any marking period of the school year.

***My 100th Post!*** And, 3rd quarter Progress Reports are now available

Happy 100th Post!!!

Too bad I didn't have the forethought to have it coincide last week with 100 days of school! Anyway, for those of you who use the Progress Reports to send mid quarter reminders to parents, the 3rd quarter data is now available. To run the reports, click on the little printer icon on the right side of your screen in PowerTeacher (in Homeroom only) and then choose the report from the menu (it will have some version of Progress Report in the title.) The report will be created for all of the children in the homeroom, however you can print it for all or chose individual reports. This report contains up to date information so as the gradebook changes running this report again will change.

New Info Regarding JAVA updates

Teachers,

Pearson has sent a notice regarding updates for JAVA. Since some teachers have been experiencing an issue lately, please read the following and see if it pertains to you:

"An issue has been discovered with the recent release of Java 1.6.0_12, which prevents PowerTeacher 1.5 from launching on Windows clients. Teacher workstations should not be updated to this version of Java until this issue has been addressed. If a workstation has already been updated, reverting to Java 1.6.0_11 will restore PowerTeacher 1.5 functionality."

Adele

If you override the Final Quarter Grade

Teachers,

This is an issue especially with those teachers who teach specialized subjects - if you override the quarter grade you MUST give a corresponding number to validate the grade for printing on the report card. For instance, if you override the grade using the Score Inspector and give a student a VG, you must insert a numerical value as well or the system counts the grade as "0" and will not print the letter since it has a value of zero.

Schools need to have all grades verified prior to storing grades for printing. Please follow the above directive to ensure your grades are saved and printed correctly. This will save valuable time and paper for the school office.