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1 Brevard County Public Schools 2/18/05 Online GradeBook Teacher Manual Table of Contents Setting Up Your Grade Book Installing GradeBook Client p. 1 GradeBook Setup No Weighting p. 2 GradeBook Setup Weighting Categories p. 3 GradeBook Setup Weighting Assignments p. 4 Entering Assignment Information Entering Assignment Information p.

2 5 Changing Assignment Information p. 6 Assignment Page Full p. 6 Copying Assignment Information From One Class to Another p. 7 Grades/Grading Entering Assignment Grades p. 8 Entering A Default Assignment Grade p. 9 FA s and Overwriting Grades p.

3 10 Fixed Grading Symbols p. 11 Extra Credit p. 12 Dropping Low Scores p. 13 Recalculating Term Grades p. 14 New Students/Withdrawn Students Viewing Active/Withdrawn Students p. 15 End of Grading Period End of Cycle Procedures p.

4 16 Enter Exam Grades (Secondary) p. 17 End of Cycle Conduct p. 18 End of Cycle Comments (Elementary) p. 19 End of Cycle Comments (Secondary) p. 20 Content Specific Skills O, S, N, U (Elementary) p. 21 Skills of Cooperation & Independence (Elementary) p. 22 Objectives and Standards Objectives and Standards p. 23 Notes Assignment/Student Notes p.

5 24 Creating A Column of Teacher Defined Information p. 25 Printing Printing Your Assignments p. 26 Printing Your Objectives/Standards p. 27 Printing Your Comments p. 28 Printing Your End-Of-Cycle Grades p. 29 Printing Assignment by Date p.

6 30 Printing Grade Sheets for a Range of Dates p. 31 Printing One Student s Class Grades p. 32 Printing Daily Grades for every Student in Class-1 student per page p. 33 Printing From Your Print Queue p. 34 Deleting Files in Queue p. 35 References Icons & Key Descriptions p. 36 Grade Reporting Cycle and Slot (Elementary) p.

7 37 Grade Reporting Cycle and Slot (Secondary) p. 38 Grade Reporting Cycle and Slot (Block) p. 39 Sample picture from page 7 p. 40 Sample picture from page 33 p. 41 Installing GradeBook Client In order to access the online GradeBook, you must have a program installed on your computer.

8 This program will be downloaded over the Internet. To begin, open Internet Explorer and enter the address shown in Figure 1 for PCs or Figure 2 for Macs.(Mac access not available). The download may take several minutes. You will be prompted with the message shown in Figure 3. Click in the little white box and then select Yes. Enter your AS400 User ID and Password on the spaces provided (Figure 4). Click the Log In button to continue. Click Student and HR/PR Systems (Figure 5). Click on the Student Information button located on the right side of the screen (Figure 6). You are officially in the Student Systems Interface. From this screen, you can use the menu (Figure 7) to access attendance records, GradeBook records, student contact information, etc. GradeBook Requirements: User must have a minimum of power user rights on the local machine. Screen resolution should be set to 1024 x 768, and colors must be greater than 256.

9 Shortcut to the weblink on the desktop. not a shortcut to the program. Proxy settings: * and Your local network * (Tools-Internet Options-Connections-LAN Settings-Advanced) Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 GradeBook Teacher Manual 1 GradeBook Setup-No Weighing GradeBook will allow you to setup your classes in a variety of ways. In the following example, all classes are set up the same way for all 9 week sessions using all assignment categories and NOT weighting On the left navigation bar, click GradeBook Controls GradeBook Setup. (Figure 1) When GradeBook Setup opens, your Teacher ID and name should already be there (Figure 2). Leave the Course, Section, and Grading Cycle areas blank. Press the Enter key. This will enter all default values and areas needing completion will turn red. Uncheck the box next to Weighted (Figure 3) and press the Enter key.

10 The Use column will turn red. Type a Y in the Use Box for all assignment categories and press the Enter key (Figure 4). Leaving the Course, Section and Grading Cycle areas blank created a GradeBook setup that is the same for all of your classes. To individualize a setup for a specific class, enter the course. Leave the Section blank if all classes for that course are going to have the same setup. If you want to create a specific setup for a specific class for a specific 9-week session, enter course, section and grading cycle information. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 GradeBook Teacher Manual 2 GradeBook Setup-Weighing Categories If you choose to do so, you may set up your GradeBook so that you can weight categories. There are 14 categories, thirteen of which have fixed titles and the fourteenth can be teacher defined. You can weigh categories by percent and you can also have the total of a specific category averaged in as an assignment in another category.