PowerTeacher Gradebook PowerSchools Champion Training August 2013

Navigate to the district PowerTeacher website

Enter your username and password If you receive any security alerts after clicking enter please choose continue or ok Your username is _______ Your password is the same as the computer login. New teachers have a default password __________

PowerTeacher Homepage

Click the chair icon for attendance Note: Click submit at the bottom when finished Also Note: It will not allow you to take attendance for a class that isn’t in session that day

Opening the Gradebook Click the gradebook link on the left side of the screen, then click the launch button After clicking launch a box will open asking you to open this with Java. Click ok and the java applet will begin to open. If it asks if you trust the certificate choose trust

PowerTeacher Gradebook

To change existing or create new categories Go to Tools-->Categories Use the + sign to add new categories Use the - sign to delete You can modify the names of the categories as well

How to set up categories and final grades Click the grade setup tab at the top. Choose the reporting term you want to configure in the middle part of the screen. At the bottom you can now weight by percentage which categories you wish to include. When finished click save at the bottom.

How to create an assignment Click on the assignments tab at the top. Now click the “+” sign to add an assignment. Give the assignment a name, category, total points, due date and description. When finished click save.

How to enter grades for an assignment After creating the assignment, click the score sheet tab at the top. The assignment now appears along with the class roster. Enter scores by clicking the blank area matching up with the students and assignment. When finished entering scores click save at the bottom. Notice the S1 grade updates to display a letter grade and percentage

How to manually override a grade Double-click the grade you want to override on the score sheet Click the box that says “Manual Override” Enter the appropriate percentage and letter grade in the boxes Note – a little red mark now shows in the score sheet, this shows you that the grade has been overridden

Tips Whenever the final grades don’t look right go to tools  recalculate final scores to force a recalculation of grades For year long classes, S2 is set to the entire years term. This allows S2 progress reports to have a grade that is a running total for the year If you cannot get something in the gradebook to work feel free to call me x5221

Other gradebook functions Students tab - Contains demographic information on each student in the class including parent contact info and . Class info tab - contains info on the class (duh!) Reports tab - contains a multitude of printable reports regarding the class (report titles are self explanatory)

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