Good News! Checks and Plus marks can be input by the subject teachers

Thank you to Donna Haggerty of St. Augustine of Canterbury School for providing me data to help with a puzzling question: can we input our own check and plus marks?

In the past it could only be done by the homeroom teacher, however, one of the latest upgrades must have made it available to all teachers for the middle school grades. In order to input checks and plus marks go into PowerTeacher, click on the "backpack" and then choose one of the children. On the right side, click on the arrow and choose "Final Grade Entry (Standards). Input check and plus marks under Q1 by using the drop down arrows under your subject heading.

Adele

Checks and minuses on the report card

Teachers,

In order to add the checks and minuses to the report cards for the schools that will be printing this first quarter (that is at least 15 schools), you must do that through PowerTeacher, not the gradebook. ****THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE BY THE HOMEROOM TEACHER. Here are the steps:

Once you open PowerTeacher, click on the "backpack" of the class to get to the student information. Student names will appear on the left hand side of the screen. Click on the student name (doesn't matter whether its first or last) and then look on the right side of the screen for the drop down arrow. Click on the arrow and chose "Final Grade Entry (Standards). This should open a screen that allows you to see the standards that are listed under the grades along with comment lines. PLEASE DO NOT FILL IN THE COMMENT LINES. Only chose the plus or minus sign as needed. You do not need to chose one for every child for every standard. Chose only the ones the parents need to see, pluses should be used sparingly and minuses should have a comment added to the first quarter box on the back of the report card. Information regarding comments will be posted later today or tomorrow.

As always, if you have questions please send an email. Thanks! Adele