Friday, October 16, 2009

PS Teachers - Entering Kindergarten Grades

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Note: Once you put out these grades, parents will be able to view them on their Powerschool screens.
Also, you should follow the same quarters as the rest of the school, so when you enter grades and comments for the first time in January, you should be entering them in the second quarter.

The procedure for entering report card grades for Kindergarten has changed. You must go into Gradebook to do this now. Once you are in Gradebook, click on the Tools tab, and select "Preferences". The box below will appear, and you should click on the Standards tab. Insure that the box next to Display Standards and other Measures in Final Score Mode is checked.




Next, select your homeroom from the list of classes, and hit the Scoresheet tab. Once you are on the Scoresheet, click on the Final Grades tab (big red arrow points to it), and all of the standards should appear in a way similar to the way assignments appear in Gradebook. Not seeing the Final Grades button?  Check your screen resolution.  It should be 1024 x 768 or higher.  The first standard is Citizenship, which you can skip, since we don't use it. The rest of the standards should appear in the order that they appear on the report cards.  To enter a grade, right click on the cell that corresponds to the student and standard, move the mouse pointer down to Grades, slide the mouse pointer over the grade you wish to assign, and left click.  Check below the next image for a time saving tip.





TIME SAVING TIP (Fill Scores)

If all or most of your students will be receiving the same grade for a standard, you can use the fill score function in Powerschool.  To do this, right click on the standard (blue or green box) at the top of each column.  After you do this, a selection box will open up.  Left Click on the selection "Fill Scores", and the Fill Scores box opens up.  Click on the down arrow next to "Grades" and the drop down box containing all possible letter grades opens up.  Left click on the Grade you want to assign to everyone in the class for the selected standard.  (In this case I selected "S")
 


You will see below that all students received an "S" for the selected standard.  If you need to go back and change any student's grade to anything other that the score you filled the column with, right click on the cell, and select a different grade.



If you are not sure which standard you are working on, you can see the full description of the standard by sliding the mouse pointer over the standard box (green or blue) at the top of each column, and the full description will appear in a yellow box.



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