1. PowerTeacher Gradebook
PowerSchools Champion Training
August 2013
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2. Navigate to the district PowerTeacher website

3. 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 __________

5. PowerTeacher Homepage

6. 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

8. 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

10. PowerTeacher Gradebook

11. 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

14. 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.

16. 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.

18. 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

20. 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

22. 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 let us know.

23. 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)

24. Questions?????