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PowerTeacher Gradebook: Overriding grades
November 4, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher, Report Cards
The Gradebook greatly enhances the efficiency of teachers and teams in collecting and organizing data, grouping and re-grouping students, and differentiating assessments and instruction. Additionally, when teachers use the Gradebook throughout the trimester, there are only a few tasks that remain to be completed at the end of the trimester or end of the year. […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Self-verifying before report cards
May 22, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
To allow teachers additional time to assess students and enter scores over the traditional verification process as well as to make the process significantly more efficient for school secretaries, teachers self-verify core academic grades, exploratory/special area grades, Learner Quality grades, Power Standards (end of the school year only), and comments. As pictured below, there are […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Report Card tasks
November 4, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher, Report Cards
At the end of each trimester as well as at the end of the school year, there are a number of tasks that teachers and teams need to complete in order to ensure that Trimester Report Cards and Year-End Power Standards Summary Reports can be successfully printed in school offices and sent home to parents. […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards-Odd or even assessments?
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Do students have to have an odd number of Power Standards assessments? No. The issue is that if there is an even number of assessments and the student has an even number of “Mastery” and “Progressing Toward Mastery” marks on those assessments, the student will not have a score automatically assigned because there is no […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards-How many assessments?
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How many assessments should each student have for each Power Standard? Statistics would suggest that it would be ideal for students to have approximately 7 assessments for each Power Standard over the course of the year, but there is no rule regarding how many assessments is the right amount for each Power Standard. The nature […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards–How to override
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How does a teacher override a Power Standard mark at the end of the year? First, near the top of the Gradebook window under the row of main navigation buttons, in the “Reporting Term” pull-down menu, select “Y1” as pictured below. Then, click on the “Final Grades” button, which is also highlighted below. Then, go […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards–Checking student performance
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How does our team check our students’ overall, final performance on each Power Standard for the year? When the team has been discussing the Power Standards and their assessment throughout the year through the routine instructional planning process, creating common Power Standards assessments as a team, and analyzing the performance of the students together as […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards assessments without grades
September 26, 2010
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Teachers can actually mark a Power Standard on an assignment without giving any score for the academic grade on that assignment.ย This is also exactly how Kindergarten teachers can and should collect and enter data on the performance of their students. First, create the assignment as you normally would. Then, assign the appropriate Power Standard(s) […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Entering Power Standards on specific assignments
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
First, it is important for teachers to remember the following points: Not all assignments in the Gradebook will have Power Standards Some assignments will have multiple Power Standards assessed for that particular assignment Entering Power Standards with a particular assignment simply requires an additional couple of steps beyond the regular entry of an assignment in […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Creating an assignment
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Creating an assignment to enter the scores from a particular assessment in the PowerTeacher Gradebook is fairly easy and offers lots of options to the teachers on a particular team. To create an assignment in the Gradebook, first be sure that the “Assignments” button has been clicked and is blue. (By default, the Assignments mode […]

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