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PSUG National Information Exchange

PSUG National Information Exchange. Users Helping Users. PowerTeacher Gradebook & Standards (focus on Elementary Schools). Bob Cornacchioli DERO Technical Services get2bobc@gmail.com www.derotechnical.com CEO. Agenda/Participants will be engaged in:. Introduce Web Gradebook /Log in

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PSUG National Information Exchange

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  1. PSUG National Information Exchange Users Helping Users

  2. PowerTeacher Gradebook & Standards (focus on Elementary Schools) Bob Cornacchioli DERO Technical Services get2bobc@gmail.com www.derotechnical.com CEO

  3. Agenda/Participants will be engaged in: • Introduce Web Gradebook/Log in • Short cuts to save keystrokes • Final Grade Entry • Creating Assignments & Associating Standards • Teacher Options • Some of Teachers and Some for PS Admin • Discussion regarding Comment Writing • Ask Questions- this is your time www.derotechnical.comfor more resources

  4. CEO - DERO Technical ServicesEvangelist/Process Assistant- Level DataMarketing - ParkBench SoftwareDirector of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs) Bob Cornacchioli

  5. GRADING PRACTICES ENTERING GRADES The “ENTERING” grades is the easier of the two!

  6. Gradebook can be used to: 1) Enter Standards Final Grades 2) Recording Evidence ( tests – quizzes – homework ) 3) Tie Standards to Graded Assignments 4) Auto Calculate Standard Grades from Assignment Grades

  7. Launch my Gradebook from school or home? Link to Launch PLUS

  8. If Gradebook doesn’t launch – use click here link to Java assessment

  9. Always Allow LITTLE TECH TALK The Web Gradebook is a JAVA application, if it is NOT OPENING on the computer, you may be running an older version of JAVA. Contact your tech department.

  10. Always improving the integration of standards! 2.8

  11. What’s on this screen < < TABS < < YEAR < < CURRENT COURSES << LINK TO DIFFERENT STANDARDS < < TERM- VIP

  12. Reports - usable teacher run reports

  13. NO COMMENTS

  14. Times out for added security

  15. Don’t walk away from your screen, but if you do….

  16. SBRC looks like this…How do I enter grades

  17. Are you using the Co-Teaching Function of PowerSchool?

  18. Teaching in Multiple Buildings Teachers will see two pull downs under Classes. After logging in they can pick the different schools they may be assigned to!

  19. Optional - Creating Assignments

  20. Tying Assignments to Standards Only those standards associated with this class appear!

  21. Cross Curricular Project or Problem Based Learning using Standards from different courses “PBL” Science ELA Project Informational Processing Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Modeling with tables, graphs and formulas Supports claims with evidence Understands punctuation and spelling Math Today, teachers have to create three assignments, and tie subject matter standards to each of them Assignments Teachers will grade each assignment and push grades to the content specific standards. Final Grades

  22. PBL Cross Curricular Grading Options 3 S / 3 A TEACHER creates one assignment and copies it to all three subjects that he or she has, associates standards to each of them. NORMALLY standards are associated to a single course. District who promote PBL are creating some standards and associating them to multiple courses. This has to be done in advance! 5 S / 5 A TEACHER creates two more assignments and assess the same standard again. If the standard has the same identifier, under which Subject on the SBRC does it appear? When is a standard score a Project Assessment?

  23. Standards > Traditional Final Grades Since GB 2.7 users can  calculate a Final OVERALL Course grade from STANDARDS Final Grades!  When you open the Grade Setup > Calculations page the Second calculation option has changed from Term Weights to Term Weight / Standard Weights.

  24. Standards > Traditional Final Grades If you click on Add Standards you can then select the Standard Grades that you want to include in the “Averaging” of the final grade and then identify the “weight of each standard”

  25. Standards > Traditional Final Grades Even further you can use a combination of Terms weights AND Standard Weights.  So if you are setting up Term weights for a term with lower Terms (Y1, S1) you can include both Terms (Q1, Q2, T1, T2 as well as individual standards)

  26. Assignments - Standards 8 Character Limit

  27. Visual Cues-What does it all mean?auto-calculating standard grades from scored assignments

  28. Set-up can save teacher keystrokes Standard ELA.5.12: Presentation (overall appearance is legible and visually appealing) Assessed 3 times in a term : 4,4,3 What should go on the report card:4 or 3? Based upon your district’s response – CUT OFF VALUES

  29. Grade Value of Conversions Scales When teachers assess a standard more than once associated to multiple assignments, PTG averages these scores. Grade Value can’t be ZERO as seen earlier in this presentation. 50 % of DELTA = ROUND UP

  30. Conversion Scales Match Grade Scales

  31. PT Admin – School Usage

  32. Customized Dictionary “Cornacchioli” Gradebook Preferences: Assignment Grades

  33. Allow Assignment Scores to Auto-Calculate Assignment Standards Scores Modified Screenshot

  34. Auto Calculate Higher Level Standards

  35. This allows sub-category standards to auto-calculate an average for a higher standard IF- IF the standards were imported with the proper List Parent correctly

  36. List Parent and Auto-Calculate So if you don’t want to fix your standards…what can I do?

  37. “PICK YOUR CLICK”LOCATION Click on a standards to access QUICK FILL or CLEAR ALL SCORES THEN Click on student cell to select an individual grade

  38. Control Click in the Box to access Grade choices

  39. Quick Fill – click on the standard header

  40. Fill Scores saves time! Selecting the Fill Scores option requires a strategy Opt 1- Give everyone a default grade first then change those who were UP or DOWN Opt 2 – Give those few students the exception and then fill all others… applying grade to those with none.

  41. Option for Enter Grades Individually - Score Inspector

  42. Fill Down Saves Time….YOUR TIME! • Strategy needed • Fill and Change • Enter “High and Lows” Fill Majority Fill Majority

  43. Summative comment can be associated with HR and scroll to the right! Fill down doesn’t really work for comments! The “C” implies comment saved. You can cut and paste. Beware of the gender or name mistake!!

  44. Comment space on your report card may be limited. Please ask! 4000 is a default setting so before you write a novel ask someone!

  45. PS V. 7.1 – Limit Comment Length

  46. If you or your teachers Copy and paste from Word to PowerSchool, deselect straight quotations to avoid special characters in advance of typing your comments

  47. PUBLISH PUBLISH ASSIGNMENT With or without score!

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