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Elementary Progress

Report Cards for

Elementary Schools

(Teachers)

Version 1.5 November 4, 2014

About This Document

This document was created by the San Diego Unified School District's IT Training and Support Team as a reference material for school and department PowerSchool users. It is updated periodically by the San Diego Unified School District's IT Training and Support Team. Names used in the documentation are fictitious. Instructions are explained with screenshots and numerical steps. Please follow the steps in numerical order. Note: Due to the nature of the implementation process, screen captures in this handbook may not accurately reflect the way they appear in training classes or production databases.

Step 1: PowerTeacher Gradebook: Standards Final Grades Entry

Use Final Grades mode in your gradebook to record student's final standards scores. Your PowerSchool administrator assigned standards and measures for the courses you teach, and those were synced to PowerTeacher Gradebook.

Launch the Gradebook

Please make sure to use the Firefox web browser when using PowerSchool. Login to PowerTeacher on the web and click the icon pictured below to launch the gradebook.

Select/Confirm the Reporting Term

Please make sure the Reporting Term is set to E1 and if not, click the drop down menu and select E1.

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Using Final Grades Mode: General Information

In Final Grades mode, standards are shown in columns. The standards columns are arranged in a hierarchical order, beginning with the highest-level standard, followed by the lower-level standards. Different standards strands are color coded, alternating between blue and green. The dark blue and green shades represent the highest-level standard in a strand, while the light blue and green shades represent the lower-level standards. To see the details for a standard, hover your cursor over it.

To find more information about that standard, either double-click on the standard column or click on the arrow as highlighted in the picture below.

On the Standard tab, you'll find the standard name, ID, the reporting term, description and grade scale.

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To review lower-level standards, click the Related Standards tab.

Entering Standards Scores

Use the standards columns in Final Grades mode to enter standards final grades. The score type for each standard is identified in the column header as "LTR" for a letter grade or "NUM" for a numerical grade. There are four ways to enter standards scores and one method may prove to work better (or faster) for you. Before you begin to enter standards scores, please peruse the four methods that follow to see which will work best for you. Method 1: To enter a grade manually: 1. Click the cell at the intersection of the student's name and the standard column.

2. Enter the letter or numerical grade (recall that if the standards is listed with LTR it requires a letter grade vs. NUM which requires a numerical score).

3. When you finish entering grades, click Save in the bottom right corner of the screen.

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Method 2: Enter a grade using the score menu: 1. Right-click at the intersection of the student's name and the standard column. 2. Select a grade from the score menu and repeat for each student. Note: Do not enter marks for the ELD

Expected OPL. Only enter marks for ELD Writing and ELD Oral Expression if the student is an English Learner, otherwise leave blank. For all other standards where the student was not assessed, please choose NA.

3. When you finish entering grades, click Save in the bottom right corner of the screen. Note: If you wish to see the value and cutoff for a grade, roll the cursor over the grade in the score menu to view.

Method 3: Enter scores using Fill Scores: This method can be used to speed up the grade entry as it can allow the teacher to enter grades for multiple students at one time. For example, if most or all scores were the same, the teacher could mass fill the grades and then go back and adjust individual scores as needed. 1. Right-click at the intersection of the student's name and the standard column. 2. Select Fill Scores.

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