GRADESPEED: The BeginningThe Basics including new district procedures and recommendations for 2010-2011 Grades 3-5

Updated Summer 2010

Reporting Student Progress to a World of Stakeholders

•Modules

GRADESPEED REFRESHER

Just In TimeThe Beginnings

Basics 2010

Progress ReportingReport Cards

Just In Time for Grades 3-5

•Agenda for Just In Time GRADESPEED BasicsIncluding district recommendations

Where to Find GradeSpeed, First Login, and profileOn campus and Off campus

Attendance and Home Access Center

AssignmentsCreating, Being descriptive of the TEKS, Assess All strands, Requirements, Timely

GradingCodes

Initial

Grades

Starting

Recording

Setting Up CategoriesGrade level team decisions, school or grade level policies, Language Arts Composite

New Progress Reports and Report CardsNew Information and Future Training

Daily

•Teacher Resources Page on School Website

Access to GRADESPEED from School

•Teacher Resources Page on School Website

•RRISD website access from employee site

Access to GRADESPEED from home

Work and Home•Ways to Access GRADESPEED

You can logon to GradeSpeed as soon as your campus registrar has your class scheduled and setup.•First Time Login

Leave the password field blank at the beginning of every school year!

•Edit Your Profile for Direct AccessNecessary for Direct Access to CMTools/ARRC

1)2) Click “Return Home”

3) 4)

• Consistent across grade level

• Which categories?• Weighting method?• Dropping Grades?

Grade Level Team Decisions

• Percent• Multiple

• Whichever you choose needs to stay

the same all year.

Weighting • “Students Advantage” should always be set to “Yes”

Student Advantage Always

•Grade Level Teams: Setting Up Categories including TAG specialists, Special Education, and others that support grade level

Schools will now have to report annually each team’s grading policy, including categories, weighting method,and number of grades that can be dropped (if any).

•Review of Weighting OptionsUsing the “Percent” method

Total of numbers in “weight”Column must equal 100

“Method of weighting grades”must be set to “Percent”

ALWAYS!

Dropping grades is not required but must be consistentacross your grade level.

•Review of Weighting OptionsUsing the “Multiple” method

Do not use numbers greaterthan 3

“Method of weighting grades”must be set to “Multiple”

ALWAYS!

Dropping grades is not required but must be consistentacross your grade level.

• This grade is now calculated 50% Reading and 50% Written Composition.

• Spelling is no longer listed as a subject on the report card.

• Spelling considerations are expected to be included with writing grades.

•A Note About “Language Arts Composite”

NameDescriptive of the TEKS

Examples

AssessAssess all strands

Each subject area

Timely

Weekly

Home Access Center

Teachers should strive to carefully name assignments and give feedback in a timely manner.•Creating Assignments

3rd Grade math: 3.12B Tells time on analog clock4th Grade LA: 4.6A Sequence the plot’s main events5th Grade Science: 5.10C Accurate Venn diagram of metamorphosis

• Number of grades • Per quarter• Per SubjectBeing

Consistent

• Annually review comment codes• Citizenship—want it on every

subject? Or only on first one listed?Reviewing

It is up to the schools to diligently work towards•Schools

What to Enter Description Shows up as Counts as

M Missing Msg Zero

E Excused Exc Ignored in average

I Incomplete Inc Ignored in average

Use “1st Retake” field

Re-test/Retake Ex. “80R” Regular grade

Use check box Late Late Regular grade

<blank> Field left blank Ignored in average

•Review of Letter Codes for Grading

If you use any of these letter markings in lieu of a standard grade, it is good practice to put a “Note” in to explain it. Remember that parents can see these notes.

•“Show Math” for Home Access CenterSelect Progress Report Tab.

Click on “options”.

For Home Access, specify “Show Math” and “Assignment Detail”

These settings directly determine what information parents can see in the HAC!

With “Show Math”

With Assignment Detail

Default Settings(without details)

Progress Report and HAC views with and without details

District IPRs• Are used only by secondary

campuses at this time.

Teacher Generated Progress Reports

• Teachers may at any time generate a progress report for a student

• They may use all five columns for this

• They can choose to use district/school codes or use the “my comment codes” tab to create their own (“my comment codes will not be translated into Spanish)

•Progress ReportsThere are district IPR and teacher requested progress reports

New Spanish comments are available

Spanish Progress ReportsAll of the steps need to be used to create Spanish Progress Reports

Click on “Grades” on the menu bar and then the student’s name to access his/her profile

Check the box next to “Print ProgressReports in Spanish” and then click“Update”

STEP 1

Spanish Progress Reports

STEP 2• All of the steps need to be used to create Spanish Progress Reports

Set “Hide Spanish Category Names” to Noand click Update

Enter Spanish version of categories in “Spanish Name” column

Enter Spanish version of assignmenttitles in “Spanish Name” field whencreating new assignments

Spanish Progress Reports

STEP 3• All of the steps need to be used to create Spanish Progress Reports

Select “Spanish” radio button undercomment codes column and then entercomments for each student in each subject,clicking “update” on each screen

Select students who need Spanish Progress Reports andthen click “Generate”

• Comments selected from district or school codes are to be posted in columns 1 or 2 only. (No “My comments” allowed)

• Teachers can select two comments per subject.• Teachers will be given a deadline for verifying grades.• Administrator will notify teachers when the GradeSpeed is

available again for them to use after verification • Teachers follow their school’s policy on “who” is responsible for

printing these report cards after notification of administrator

• New Guideline: Teachers should print a “progress report” in Spanish to attach to the traditional report card for Spanish-speaking parents.

These are created in the STuPlus system•Report Cards