Scoresheets Entering Scores 1. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Select a class from the Classes pane and, if necessary, click the Scoresheet icon and select Assignments mode. Click the assignment score field of the student for which you want to enter a score. The score field appears as an editable text field. Enter the numerical score or a score code in the score field. (See below for an explanation of Score Codes.) Press ENTER or RETURN. The score appears, the final grade automatically recalculates, and the cursor advances to the nest assignment field. (NOTE: The score field and the final grade field appear shaded until you click Save.) Click Save. The score appears on the Scoresheet window.
Using Score Inspector for Comments and Flags You can add a comment to a score as well as flags that an assignment is missing, late, etc. The flags are visible on your Scoresheet and also show up beside the score in the PowerSchool student and parent portals. To open the Score Inspector, RIGHT-click on a score box on your scoresheet and select Score Inspector.
Right-click on a score box to bring up options to set flags and show the Score Inspector.
In the Score Inspector’s Assignment Score box you can click on the boxes to set flags, adjust a score, add comments, etc. If you need to comment on several grades, the arrows beside the student name will take you up and down the class roster while the arrows by the assignment title take you through the assignments on the scoresheet. Collected Late Exempt Score Missing Comment
When the score is missing, the check mark shows to indicate that this assignment has been collected but a grade has not yet been assigned. The assignment is or was late. No score is assigned and the missing score will not affect the overall grade. The assignment is missing. The teacher has made a comment on the assignment.
Score Statistics To the view the mean (average), median (middle score), and mode (most common score) for the assignments and the overall class grades, hit the Summary button at the bottom of the Scoresheet window.
Editing Scores 1. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Select a class from the Classes pane and, if necessary, click the Scoresheet icon and select Assignments mode. Click the assignment score field of the student for which you want to edit a score. The score field appears as an editable text field. Enter the new score in the score field. Press ENTER or RETURN. The new score appears, the final grade automatically recalculates, and the cursor advances to the nest assignment field. Click Save.
Deleting Scores 1. 3. 4. 5.
Select a class from the Classes pane and, if necessary, click the Scoresheet icon and select Assignments mode. Click the assignment score field of the student for which you want to delete a score. The score field appears as an editable text field. Highlight the score and press the DELETE key on your keyboard. Press ENTER or RETURN. The score no longer appears on the Scoresheet window, the final grade automatically recalculates, and the cursor advances to the nest assignment field.
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Score Codes You can also enter Score Codes of your own devising and assign how the gradebook should score them. The one built-in score code is ABS for “absent”, which by default is set to be an exempt grade for which the student is held harmless. (You can change this.) First you have to create the Score Codes you plan to use: 1. From the gradebook menu bar, choose Tools > Preferences. The Preferences dialog appears. 2. Click the Score Codes tab, if not already selected. 3. Click Add. The Create a New Score Code dialog appears. 4. Enter a value in the Code field. Note: Maximum length is six characters. Numeric characters can be used, but single digits (such as "7") are not allowed. Do not use a value that already exists in a grade scale. 5. Enter a brief description of the code in the Description field. Note: Maximum length is 30 characters. 6. Select the Exempt checkbox to exclude this score from the final grade calculation. Note: If you deselect this checkbox, you must enter a value in the Percent field and assign a Numeric type. 7. If the score is NOT exempt, enter a value in the Percent field. This value is the percentage to be used when calculating the final grade for the assignment. This value can range from 0 to 200. 8. Select a Numeric Value from the pop-up menu: Select Minimum to use the minimum value of the applicable grade scale. Select Maximum to use the maximum value of the applicable grade scale. Select Custom to enter a specific value in the Value field. 9. Click OK to save your changes. The Score Codes Preferences dialog appears. 10. Create additional score codes if needed. 11. To edit existing score codes, select the applicable score code from the list and click Edit. The Edit Score Code dialog appears. Edit as needed. Note: If you edit existing score codes that you have already entered on the score sheet, you need to update the final scores by selecting Tools > Recalculate Final Scores. 12. To delete existing score codes, select the applicable score code from the list and click Delete. A confirmation dialog appears. Click Yes. 13. Click OK to close the Preferences dialog and save your changes.
Using Score Codes To enter a score code, you can just type the code for the grade, or you can RIGHT-click on a score box, select Grades, and select a code from the bottom of the possible scores list. For example, in my own classes a missing assignment is scored as a zero until it is submitted. So I created the score code MIS for missing and assigned it a numerical score of zero. But I left in the default ABS code for an exempt assignment which I can use if a student has been absent and scoring the assignment with MIS would cause him or her to be declared academically ineligible for competitions.
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Fill Scores On some assignments many students will have the same score. You can automate filling in those duplicate scores to save you time. Quick Fill On the Scoresheet in Assignments mode you can RIGHT-click on the title of an assignment and select Quick Fill and select the score or score code to apply to any of the blank scores on the assignment for that class or selected student group. So when several students have made a perfect score, put in any of the more unusual scores first, including score codes (not merely flags) for absences or missing work, and then use Quick Fill to rapidly fill in all of the rest. Fill Scores Dialog The more powerful Fill Scores dialog allows you to also fill in flags, comments, and replace all scores on an assignment. To activate it, RIGHT-click on the title of an assignment and select Fill Scores.
Student Groups You can create groups of students to help you create reports, track intervention groups, etc. You can modify the student groups you create at any time. Your student groups are listed in the left pane of the PowerTeacher Gradebook window, below the classes. For any selected student group, you can either set the group to Filter Selected so that only students in that group are shown in the Gradebook screens, or you can choose Highlight Selected to show all students while highlighting the ones in the group. Entire Class – the default PowerTeacher Gradebook group Active – students currently enrolled in a class Dropped – students no longer enrolled in a class Set – a collection of groups, i.e. Math or Reading or IEP; you MUST create the SET before you can create a Group Group – a small collection of students, i.e. Math1 and Math2 or Bluebirds and Redbirds 1. 2.
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Click on the large Student Info icon. Find the Student Groups listing under Classes in the left pane. If no groups are shown, try clicking the arrow next to Student Groups to expand the listing. Click the plus (+) button under Student Groups to add either a new Group Set or a new Group. Right-click on the name of a group or set and choose Edit to enter a meaningful name for it. Press ENTER. Click on a student’s name and drag it into the group. You can use CTRL-click to add multiple students. If you don’t see any student names, you probably have the group set to Filter Selected. You need to switch it to Highlight Selected so you can see all of the students and then drag some of them into the group.
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