If you wait to use PowerGrade until Thanksgiving, read this!
12.November.2007 10:15 Filed in: PowerSchool
If you have decided to wait to enter academic grades
in PowerGrade until Thanksgiving weekend, you may be
in for a big surprise that will unnecessarily scare
you! Read this to avoid just such a scare.
Back when it was warm and everyone was optimistic about the potential of the Bears (and the Cubs!), we set the Preferences in PowerGrade to only view assignments from this current trimester. We entered the last day of the trimester as November 20th. Any assignments entered after that point will not be visible (but will actually be in PowerGrade). So, obviously, if you are entering your "one assignment" for the trimester on Thanksgiving morning (November 22nd), it will not show up unless you change the Preference setting.
Resetting the visible assignments window
With one of your classes open, go to File > Preferences.
Now, in the Preferences window, click on the "Display" tab.
In the bottom half of this window, the date range appears that we entered during your initial PowerGrade workshop. Notice that the last day of visible assignments is November 20th. You can change this by just clicking in that date box and changing the date (see below).
Click "OK"!
***Now, the important part--Dating your assignment in the "Assignments" window!
For your assignment to count in your first trimester grade, it must have been assigned during first trimester! To ensure that this is the case, please be certain to date your assignment in the "Assignments" window, so it falls NO LATER THAN the last day of the trimester. (In the case of first tri of the 2007-2008 school year, the assignment must be dated on or before November 20, 2007!)
Back when it was warm and everyone was optimistic about the potential of the Bears (and the Cubs!), we set the Preferences in PowerGrade to only view assignments from this current trimester. We entered the last day of the trimester as November 20th. Any assignments entered after that point will not be visible (but will actually be in PowerGrade). So, obviously, if you are entering your "one assignment" for the trimester on Thanksgiving morning (November 22nd), it will not show up unless you change the Preference setting.
Resetting the visible assignments window
With one of your classes open, go to File > Preferences.
Now, in the Preferences window, click on the "Display" tab.
In the bottom half of this window, the date range appears that we entered during your initial PowerGrade workshop. Notice that the last day of visible assignments is November 20th. You can change this by just clicking in that date box and changing the date (see below).
Click "OK"!
***Now, the important part--Dating your assignment in the "Assignments" window!
For your assignment to count in your first trimester grade, it must have been assigned during first trimester! To ensure that this is the case, please be certain to date your assignment in the "Assignments" window, so it falls NO LATER THAN the last day of the trimester. (In the case of first tri of the 2007-2008 school year, the assignment must be dated on or before November 20, 2007!)
