eGrade Bingo

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eGrade Bingo

• 2008-2009

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1 New Attendance Codes
EOEarly Out (p. 7) CRTRequired Court
Appearance EO and CRT can only be entered by
attendance clerk or administrator. Remember to
enroll students with an E first day they are in
your class. (p. 6)
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2 Attendance Posting Time
Post attendance between 900-1000am (p. 6)
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3 Changing attendance
Teachers have five school days to modify
attendance. (p. 7)
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4 Checking for new students
Check to make sure new students are in all the
correct courses by viewing the student schedule.
(p. 13)
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5 Category weighting
Discuss the difference between multiple and
percent weighting. (p. 14-15)
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6 Review categories
Teachers should periodically review categories.
Reminder Unused categories appear empty in
Parent Connection. (p. 16-17)
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7 Parent Conference Report
Will show all grades for all courses for any
student you teach. Absences will not be reflected
here. (p. 44)
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8 Cumulative Grades
Teachers can view cycle averages, semester
averages, and overall averages without printing a
report card. Note Semester averages are not
reported on Parent Connection or Report Cards.
(p. 27)
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9 Student Profiles
Teacher may view detailed student information (p.
13)
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10 Parent Connection Information
From the student profile page teachers may track
when parents last logged into Parent Connection.
(p. 13)
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11 Spanish Documents
From the student profile page, teachers can
select to print progress reports and report cards
in Spanish. (p. 13)
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12 Student Schedule
From the student profile page, teachers can click
on the schedule button to view a students
schedule. Note teachers should check the
schedule when a new student is enrolled to
confirm they are in all the right courses. (p. 13)
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13 Walk in average
Teachers may view and/or use the walk-in
average for new students that transfer from other
Northside schools. (p. 26)
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14 Auto-fill grade
All teachers may use auto fill grade entry to
enter grades through the assignment editor.
Specialists may use auto fill feature to enter
behavior grades. (p. 37)
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15 Class Roster
This can be generated by clicking the Export
Roster link on the Main Gradebook page. This
roster can be imported into Excel. (p. 38)
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16 Timed-Out
Users will be logged out after 15 minutes of
inactivity. (p. 3)
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17 Sign out
Be sure to click on the Sign Out button when
exiting the Gradebook. Clicking on the X of the
browser window will not prompt you to save
changes. (p. 3)
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18 Verification
Teachers can unverify their own gradebook until
an administrator verifies the school. Review
school verification and report card procedures.
(p. 35-36)
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19 Update
Click the update button each time you enter
grades. After a few minutes of inactivity click
the update button before you continue entering
grades again to make sure your session is active.
(p. 24)
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20 Configure Progress Reports
Be sure to configure progress report options to
include teacher conference time and phone number
at the beginning of the year. This information
shows in Parent Connection. (p. 30)
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21 Report Cards
Report cards are static PDF documents and will
not reflect changes made in the gradebook until
the administrator regenerates report cards again
after changes have been made in the gradebook.
(p.34)
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22 Sort Key
On the student profile page, teachers may enter a
sort key to determine the order in which students
will be listed in the gradebook. (p. 13)
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23 E, S, N, U
Review E-S-N-U grading conversions. This only
applies to 1st, 2nd, and specialists. (p. 24)
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24 Custom Fields
Teachers can set up custom fields to keep track
of permission slips, parent last names, student
nicknames etc. (p. 12)