Here's the notice on the teacher blog:
Teachers,
I spoke during the summer of an upgrade to PowerTeacher that would be available around the holiday time. The release is set to happen in mid December and here is what I have found so far that it will contain:
* The ability to import scores
*A "final grades mode" button for you to let the office know your grades are ready to be published to the report cards
*A "mouse over" for comments, which means if you put your mouse over the area where you added a comment you will be able to see the comment without needing to click and reopen Score Inspector
*The Categories box has now been moved to the same place as the other icons on top of the page so you will no longer have to go to "Tools" to open create categories
What is NOT in the upgrade is a Seating Chart, something that was mentioned originally. There is a seating chart program that I can obtain from another company so I will look into it after the upgrade.
I will keep you informed as I receive information.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Adele
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
How to Print Report cards
Prior to the printing of report cards the teachers (core and special subject areas) must have completed comments, pluses and checks, and grading. The steps the teachers need to follow are on the teacher blog, http://domps.blogspot.com/. Once all teachers confirm they have followed the directions, schools new to the system will need to call me to store the information. Report cards will not print with grades or comments until the grading is historically saved. Please note: once grades are stored, teachers can not change them. Please contact me if this is an issue.
Printing of the report cards takes no more than a day. Those schools who are "live" to parents will need to store grades as close as possible to print time. Once grades are stored parents can see them on line. It would be best to either email or text me on my cell phone to complete the storing process. The process for storing grades takes only minutes - the most time consuming part is the printing process.
How to print:
First, click on the grade level number on the opening page of PowerSchool. Once the list of students appear, click on the arrow in the empty box to choose a function - choose Print Report. On the next screen, click on the arrow next to the question, "Which report?" and choose "Metuchen 1" for first grade classes, "Metuchen 2" for second grade classes, "Metuchen 3" for third grade classes, etc. The grade level must match the report card. The Report Queue page will appear. Depending on the number of students you have in that grade level will determine the amount of time for the reports to be processed. I recommend running 3 grade levels at a time. Repeat the above step for each grade and let it run. Come back to it several minutes later. Once the word "running" turns into the word "completed" (if you are not sure what this means see previous blog entry regarding running attendance report) you can open the file for printing. Since our report cards are two sided and many of you have the two sided Ricoh printers follow the directions below:
Once the file is open and you click "File" then "Print" at the top of the page, you will need to select the correct printer. When choosing the duplex printer you must click on "Properties" before you click on Print. When the properties page is open you must choose to turn the duplex on as shown in the picture below:
Printing of the report cards takes no more than a day. Those schools who are "live" to parents will need to store grades as close as possible to print time. Once grades are stored parents can see them on line. It would be best to either email or text me on my cell phone to complete the storing process. The process for storing grades takes only minutes - the most time consuming part is the printing process.
How to print:
First, click on the grade level number on the opening page of PowerSchool. Once the list of students appear, click on the arrow in the empty box to choose a function - choose Print Report. On the next screen, click on the arrow next to the question, "Which report?" and choose "Metuchen 1" for first grade classes, "Metuchen 2" for second grade classes, "Metuchen 3" for third grade classes, etc. The grade level must match the report card. The Report Queue page will appear. Depending on the number of students you have in that grade level will determine the amount of time for the reports to be processed. I recommend running 3 grade levels at a time. Repeat the above step for each grade and let it run. Come back to it several minutes later. Once the word "running" turns into the word "completed" (if you are not sure what this means see previous blog entry regarding running attendance report) you can open the file for printing. Since our report cards are two sided and many of you have the two sided Ricoh printers follow the directions below:
Once the file is open and you click "File" then "Print" at the top of the page, you will need to select the correct printer. When choosing the duplex printer you must click on "Properties" before you click on Print. When the properties page is open you must choose to turn the duplex on as shown in the picture below:
Once the duplex is turned on you will need to make sure it prints from the left as shown in this picture:
PLEASE TEST A SINGLE REPORT CARD PRINTING PRIOR TO THE TRUE PRINTING PROCESS. You will want to make sure it works well before the printing date. Although grades and comments will not print, you will be able to see if the front and back print correctly.
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